Black Swamp Macintosh User Group of North West Ohio

Tuesday November 6, 2007

Guest presenter Chris Hamady went over the installation steps for Leopard from start to finish. Using a couple of Mac Books he was able to show the recommended way to install (Archive and Install) and once installed he demoed the new and cool features of Leopard such as Time Machine and spaces.

There was also a discussion about the new transperent dock and how to hack it to make it more like it was in Tiger.

The meeting was lightly attended but we enjoyed the new venue at Books-A-Million and a good time was had by all.

Tuesday March 28, 2006

Tuesday March 28, 2006

Guest Presenter: Shane Pransky presented video design, shooting, and editing using iMovie and Final Cut Pro. Shane took us through a very detailed and comprehensive workshop on planning video production. He started out with video basics such as camera shots and angles, and took us all the way through iMovie tips and Final Cut Pro.
Great job Shane!

Chris Hamady brought his Intel Core Duo Mac Mini to the meeting and demonstrated his Media Center Macintosh Project. Using an Intel Mac Mini, Chris has created a media center for his home that can play music, movies, DVDs, and schedule television shows, record them, and export them for his iPod. You can see more of that project here.

Tuesday January 24, 2006 at 8:00 PM

Tuesday January 24th at 8:00 PM

Topics: MacWorld Expo, Intel-based Macs, iLife 06, video iPods, podcasting and the future of on demand video.

Guests: Jeff Shaffer, Shane Pranksy, Tim Burns, Rob Garber, Chad Rex

Listen to the Podcast!

Episode 2

Tuesday November 15th at 6:30 PM
Wood County ESC

Chris brought along a friend, G5 iMac , and demonstrated PhotoBooth and FrontRow!

He explained how to use MacTheRipper and HandBrake to enhance the DVD creation process.

Finally he demo'd some tricks and tips for MacAdmins, to setup and use Mac OS X Server to proxy updates.

Even though weather threatened, we had a follow-up session across the bridge...

Is it my imagination or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?

Meeting October 18th, 2005

Macs4U Podcast

Topics: Video iPods, Podcasting, Palm Devices, iSync

Guests: Jeff Shaffer, Shane Pranksy, Chris Hamady, Tim Burns

Listen to the Podcast!

Episode 1

Meeting September 20th, 2005
Wood County ESC

John Mansel-Pleydell and Chris Hamady demonstrated various back-up and hard drive cloning solutions for Mac OS X. Applications included NetRestore, Carbon Copy Cloner, Disk Utility and Apple BackUp. Some of these applications can be found at:

http://www.bombich.com

The group also discussed OS and application troubleshooting. It was suggested that many problems in Mac OS X can be alleviated by removing the cache files found at:

/Library/Caches
/System/Library/Caches
~/Library/Caches

If problems still persist, removing plist files found in ~/Library/Preferences can sometimes be the answer.
(~/ refers to a user's home directory)

A special thank you to Ed Helmlinger of the Wood County Educational Service Center for allowing us to use the ESC facility.

Meeting May 10th, 2005
Wood County ESC

Chris Hamady presented iLife '05 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Chris started off with demo's of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD. He then moved on to Tiger. He demonstrated Spotlight, Automator and Dashboard. Several attendees added a great deal to the presentation. It was an excellent learning experience for all involved.

Chris was doing his demonstration on a 17 inch Powerbook booting from a Tiger installation that was on his iPod. Here is the procedure that he used to install Tiger onto his iPod:

1. Computer and iPod are both turned on.
2. Put the Tiger installer CD into the computer and shutdown the computer.
3. Connect the iPod to the computer and make sure that the iPod is turned on.
4. Turn on the computer and IMMEDIATELY hold down the "C" key on the keyboard. (This will force the computer to boot into the Tiger installer on the CD)
5. Go through the installation process until you come to the place where you choose the disk to install Tiger onto. Choose the iPod as the destination for the new Tiger install.
6. Follow the directions for the installer and begin the installation. (if you want to keep your music or any pre-existing files on the iPod, I would advise against choosing "Erase and Install."
7. Once the installation is complete, the computer will reboot from the iPod into Tiger.
8. Open up the /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, click on the iPod in the list on the left and run "Repair Disk Permissions."
9. Once that is done you can close the Disk Utility and use Tiger.
10. When you want to boot from another volume, you can use the Startup Disk control panel (found in System Preferences) to decide which disk to boot from. Should you remove the iPod and want to boot into Tiger again, you can simply connect the iPod to the computer, turn them both on. If the computer boots into 10.3.9, use the Startup Disk control panel to choose the iPod as your boot volume.

Meeting April 12th, 2005
Channel #blackswampmug on the irc.aohell.org IRC server

Thank you to all of you that attended our first IRC MUG meeting! For those of you that were unable to attend, you can view a transcript of the meeting here:

http://homepage.mac.com/chamady/bsmug4-12-05.html

Topics discussed were:
1. OS upgrade procedures
2. Disk repair and troubleshooting
3. Tiger features
4. iPhoto tips, tricks and features
4. Our next meeting location

Once again, a big "thank you" goes out to the members who attended the meeting. Our success depends entirely upon your participation.

The next meeting time and place will be announced shortly.