Apple User Group for Plano, Frisco, Allen, McKinney,
and all towns east, west and north.

Next Meeting is Wed. February 20th at 7:00pm

Meeting Spots & Times

uncle sam For the most of the last year and the beginning of 2006 we've been meeting at the Bavarian Grill in one of their 'Banket' Rooms taking advantage of the excellent service, great beer, good food, projector screens and FREE wireless access. And since our meetings vary in size (who shows up) from as little as 6 people to as many as (well 24 so far) the Bavarian Grill is able to accomodate that and even more if we need to expand even more.

We leave open the possiblity of meeting elsewhere and are always looking for new places to try (if you happen to have or know of one please contact us and let us know) - the "must have" bottom line is there must be FREE wireless access.

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December 20, 2007

Turn Leopards Screen Sharing into a better “Apple Remote Desktop lite”

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We brought you early coverage and the first news of Leopards Screen Sharing capabilities back in August but Apple legal made us take it down.
Today, Macworlds Rob Grifiths shows us how to turn Leopards built-in Screen Sharing into a full-fledged screen sharing application - with a lot of he features that are sold in Apple Remote Desktop.  It only takes a few lines of code in the terminal.

Read this GREAT article!!


December 17, 2007

Your Encryption Key Is Protected By The Constitution?

From Tech Dirt

In an interesting case up in Vermont, a federal judge has ruled that someone accused of a crime cannot be forced to reveal his or her encryption key, as it would be a violation of the Constitutions 5th Amendment, saying that an individual cannot be forced to self-incriminate. In an age where encryption is becoming increasingly popular, expect to see other cases of this nature. It seems likely that a case like this one if not this one itself will eventually wind up before the Supreme Court to determine whether or not someone can be forced to give up his own encryption key. Where it gets tricky is the question of whether or not the key itself incriminates the person. As the article notes, a person can be forced to give up a key to a safe that contains incriminating evidence, which many say is analogous to this situation. In the meantime, though, weve already seen cases where people are presumed guilty just because their computers have encryption software installed — so, it may not matter whether or not the key is provided when the presence of PGP alone is viewed as incriminating.


December 4, 2007

Leopard Help: Take Control of Customizing Leopard - Worth Every Penny!

cover_upgrading_leopard_small.gifApple boasts of 300 new features in Leopard, but to make the most of those features, turn to Matt Neuburg for a road map on how to customize Leopard so its right for you. Matt shows you how to protect your data with Time Machine, including instructions for searching through previous files with Spotlight. Youll also learn how to peek at files with Quick Look and Cover Flow, customize Leopards updated sidebar, and use Spaces effectively.

Leopard Help: Take Control of Customizing Leopard


November 23, 2007

I’d watch more commercials if the were All this engaging

Baynham & Tyers offers an advertising service using a new type of advertising technique: Marketing Virals. In short, these are small creative videos which can be easily downloaded and emailed and therefore reach a very large global audience incredibly quickly.
For more information see Marketing Virals

check out this EXCELLENT ‘Rube Goldberg’ device!


November 6, 2007

Macworld: Auto-accept chats in iChat

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Here’s a quick-and-easy OS X 10.5 iChat tip with a bonus OS X 10.4 variant thrown in, along with a little iTunes/iChat tip for your Thursday morning. iChat, being the good citizen that it is, pops up a dialog box whenever someone initiates a chat with you; you can use the dialog to accept or reject the chat request. But what if your’e a sociable sort, and you always accept your chat invitations? In that case, the dialog box is nothing but a waste of time and energy that you’d rather do without. But how can you get rid of it without actually clicking on the accept button each time?

Read on….



HOW-To: Switch to a Mac

From: Tao of Mac

...Quasi-religious beliefs that any platform is better than another are not just irrelevant but plain childish...

Introduction:
A lot of people have been moving to the Mac lately, so I thought I'd jot down a few notes about my experience over the last four years or so. The motives for anyone switching are pretty much irrelevant, and will not be discussed here - discussing relative merits of computer platforms is very much like discussing cars, and therefore largely unimportant if you are getting what you want.

Quasi-religious beliefs that any platform is better than another are not just irrelevant, but plain childish and stupid. Before maligning the Mac, Windows or Linux, make sure you know what you are talking about - most people in the IT business have "pet hatreds" towards one platform or another out of sheer ignorance, and more than a decade in the business has shown me that anyone who only has bad things to say about any given platform probably doesn't know what (s)he's talking about.

So if you know you want a Mac, you've come to the right place for a few basic hints that might just save you a lot of time.
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