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I just fixed a problem with the iCal calendar feed (the Subscribe to Calendar in iCal link in the sidebar) that was preventing it from including future meetings in some cases. If you use iCal to handle your scheduling needs it is worth subscribing the ACAMUG feed to keep up to date with upcoming meeting topics:

(1) Click on the Subscribe to calendar in iCal link in the sidebar, iCal should open and display a Subscribe to Calendar dialog. Click the Subscribe button.

(2) The ACAMUG Info dialog should now appear. Change the Auto-refresh pop-up menu from No to Every week to automatically update the calendar once a week. Leave the other settings unchanged. Click the OK button to complete the subscription.

You should now have an ACAMUG calendar in the left column of the iCal window and you should see entries for past and future meetings on the second Friday of each month.

The old Email and Download Hygiene Tips link has been moved into a brand new section that will serve as a repository for “how to” guides to perform useful tasks in Mac OS X itself or in specific applications. So far the repository just has the aforementioned hygiene article and a brand new Guide that covers three different methods of checking your Mac’s hard drive for problems and hopefully repairing them.

If you want to take a look click on the How To Guides link in the top section of the right sidebar.

And if you’ve got a Guide you want to share just contact the web site admin. Remember it can be on any Mac related topic that you think would be useful to other members.

I’ve made more significant changes to the appearance of the site. A little less ornamentation, less clutter in the sidebar, hopefully a bit easier to read, and it is no longer fixed width. The site content now fills the entire width of your browser window.

I’ll probably still be making minor tweaks for a while but if you spot any problems please let me know as soon as possible by emailing me at webmaster@acamug.org

I’m still on the hunt for two or three ACAMUG members who would be interested in posting news items to the site. It’s very quick and easy to do, and everything can be done from any web browser. No special web coding skills required, its about as complicated as writing an email. Post news, opinion, reviews, whatever you want as long as it’s relevant to ACAMUG. We’ve got a great resource here but we need more diversity, different voices.

If you want to give it a try send me a message at webmaster@acamug.org and feel free to ask questions.

Dave

Just an FYI: I’ve made a few changes to the site to reduce the amount of behind-the-scenes effort needed to keep spam from appearing in the post comments. In addition to several hidden mechanisms you are now required to solve a simple math addition problem when posting a comment. One digit numbers only so I don’t think it will pose a particularly taxing effort on your part but it should be sufficient to foil spam-bots.

Please let me know if you bump into any strange behavior on the site after this change.