GreerMUG November 2007 Meeting Highlights

Opening Moments
Mike opened with the sage observation that maybe fireplaces shouldn't be made out of wood. Really?
Also, big thanks to First Church of the Nazarene for allowing us to meet in their new youth building.

MemberDock
Matt updated us on some of the cool things that you can find on the MemberDock and some of the nifty stuff that you can find on OUR WEBSITE (greermug.com) like Classifieds.

iPhone Moment
Tim shared a great iPhone moment with us - always enjoyable, it's one of the benefits of being at the meeting.


Matt Chandler's Shareware Report
iClip
iClip allows you to hit Command-C over and over again and build up a composited clipboard. Wow! This could come in kinda handy! Matt does a demo. There's both a free version and a shareware version for $29. iClip appreciates your support of their work. Good for bloggers or anyone who is aggregating information.
http://inventive.us/iclip

Cyberduck
Cyberduck is an ftp browser. Easy to use interface. Matt gives us a demo.
Here's the web address: http://cyberduck.ch/

Once again Show Notes couldn't keep up with everything that was being said, so we decided to interview Cyberduck's Home Page for more information.

Show Notes: Home Page, tell us what exactly is Cyberduck?

Home Page: Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licensed under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

Show Notes: Are there localizations available?

Home Page: Localizations are available in English, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Slovak, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Russian, Swedish, Danish, Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Catalan, Welsh, Thai, Turkish and Hebrew. Many thanks to all contributors!

Show Notes: Yes, it sounds like you have a lot of them! We understand that Cyberduck is free, is there anything you'd like to add?

Home Page: Donations. Free software is a matter of the users freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. If you find this program useful, please consider making a donation. It will help to make Cyberduck even better!

Show Notes: Thanks, Home Page, for that informative interview!

NEW FEATURE!!! As part of Matt Chandler's Shareware Report, each month Matt will feature (drum roll please) The Website of the Month!!!!
This month's website is Mac OS X Hints. You can find it at
http://www.macosxhints.com/
All sorts of cool tips and tricks for Mac OS X at this website.


Core Presentation
Tonight's Core Presentation is on some of the cool new Spots in Leopard. Presented by Tim Godby.

CoverFlow
Tim observes that Apple has tweaked its icons so that they have a huge amount of detail that shows up in CoverFlow - the new way to look at your files in Finder.

QuickLook
QuickLook is available in CoverFlow and it is just what it says: a quick way to look at what is inside a file right in the Finder window. All without launching Preview or the file's parent application. Whoa!! What a time saver!

Spaces
How about the incredible ability to organize your desktop workspace by grouping together your different apps into different windows (up to 16). Switch easily between them. Tim gives us a demo.

New Features in Mail
How many of us have ever sent an email to ourselves? Now Mail lets you set To-Do's so that you don't have to email yourself anymore.

Also, a RSS Reader is now integrated right into Mail.

Tim also shows us iCal/Mail Integration,Data Detectors,and Stationery. How cool is all that?

Tonight's Core Presentation is on some of the cool new Spots in Leopard. Presented by Tim Godby.

CoverFlow
Tim observes that Apple has tweaked its icons so that they have a huge amount of detail that shows up in CoverFlow - the new way to look at your files in Finder.

QuickLook
QuickLook is available in CoverFlow and it is just what it says: a quick way to look at what is inside a file right in the Finder window. All without launching Preview or the file's parent application. Whoa!! What a time saver!

Spaces
How about the incredible ability to organize your desktop workspace by grouping together your different apps into different windows (up to 16). Switch easily between them. Tim gives us a demo.

New Features in Mail
How many of us have ever sent an email to ourselves? Now Mail lets you set To-Do's so that you don't have to email yourself anymore.

Also, a RSS Reader is now integrated right into Mail.

Tim also shows us iCal/Mail Integration,Data Detectors,and Stationery. How cool is all that?

Widgets
Bill asks about doing widgets. Now, in Safari, you can create portions of a webpage into a widget. Tim does a demonstration. WAIT!! He doesn't just do a demonstration - he starts a screen sharing with Bill's computer and shows Bill how to do that on Bill's computer!! This is too much power. Show Notes is starting to get mesmerized by all the Leopard's spots.

Scrolling
Now you can scroll inside windows that are not active. Subtle, and way cool, all at the same time!


Questions and Answers
Wayne noted that Apple has made Leopard fully UNIX compliant.

Member: Did Tim run into any glitches when he installed Leopard?
Tim: No, not a single one. Well, there was a Keychain issue, and Apple had a fix out for Keychain within 20 hours of Leopard's release.

The group proceeded to have a really good question and answer time. Great discussion. Just another benefit of being at the meetings.


Giveaway
Tonight's give-away is a copy of OS X Leopard!!!!
Our winner tonight is Mary Ellen Hill! Mary Ellen, enjoy!


SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!
Check out Tim's blog at TimothyGodby.com. A cool Mac blog - it coolness begs for your interaction. Tim has done a great job pulling together lots of news and stories of interest to the Mac community. Check out the latest today!

Also, check out Matt Chandler's site NewMacUser.com !

Preview for December
Next month is our annual food and fun fellowship month. It will be on Tuesday night, December 18th, right here at the Station (that's the name for the youth building at First Church of the Nazarene on Haywood Road.) See you then!