We say goodbye to 2010

December 31, 2010

Apple Users Group North Queensland

Our new home

Say hello to the Apple Users Group North Queensland website. The site is now up and ready.

This site (NQMUG.org) will remain operational for the 2011 year in case anyone has bookmarks etc. An auto ‘re-direction’ to AUGNQ.org will be put in place in mid-January. By then our email list should have informed our members and visitors of our new home. All new ‘content’ will be contained on augnq.org

For some time the NQMUG email list will remain as is until we can organise its renaming, but any links sent out in any emails will be to the new URL. I look forward to any comments so please use the email list to send your thoughts and requests.

So all that is left is for you to click on the image above and hop over to the new site.

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iLife ’11

November 1, 2010

iLife '11 now available

Our next meeting on Tuesday November 9th, we will feature Apple’s just-released iLife ’11.

iPhoto ’11, Apple has enhanced its capabilities with full-screen mode, how you can email photos, new slideshow formats, interact with Facebook and build books and cards.

iMovie ’11 gives us a way to make new movie trailers, new audio editing tools, new special effects, people finder, sports and news themes, and “World Premiere” for simply distributing your movies. John Feltham will go a bit deeper into the features of iMovie, showcasing it’s Audio capabilities.

GarageBand ’11 delivers “flex time” for better rhythm matching, groove matching, guitar amps and effects, skill testing and more basic lessons.

There will also be a great Keynote presentation really showing off what is possible in Keynote.

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Regain the Timeline in iMovie ’11

October 23, 2010

by Jeff Carlson from TidBITS
When Apple radically changed iMovie between the ’06 and ’08 releases, one of the biggest criticisms was the abandonment of the traditional editing timeline. Instead of one horizontal succession of clips at the bottom of the screen, iMovie ’08 introduced an editing area at the top-left of the screen where [...]

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Free iWork Templates from iWork4School

July 26, 2010

iWorks for Schools
Apple has always had a great acceptance in schools. AppleWorks on the Apple II and later Hypercard and AppleWorks for the Mac. Of course, AppleWorks has now been supplanted by iWork. So of course, iWork needs templates for schools.
More than fifty free iWork templates are now available for education professionals, students and teachers [...]

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Google Docs now on the iPad

July 12, 2010

Accessing Google Docs on the iPad just became much easier with the release of DocsPortal 1.0 from Kabuki Vision. With its stunning interface, DocsPortal makes it easy to browse, search, and view files stored in a Google Docs account. Files can additionally be e-mailed, imported, and exported from within the app.

DocsPortal automatically downloads and stores [...]

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Grand Champion

June 30, 2010

Photography Grand Champion 2010 – Townsville Show
Congratulations to Cheryl Robertson for producing the Grand Champion entry in this year’s Townsville Show with her entry in the Portraiture section (shown above). Cherly has been a long-time photographer, Photoshop user and NQMUG member.
Cheryl’s photographs, entered in this year’s Townsville Show, have gained her well deserved recognition. [...]

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Take Control Ebooks

June 20, 2010

The answers you need now, from leading experts
Take Control publish a wonderful set of Ebooks on all things Apple – Applications, Hardware, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. They are highly practical and tightly focused, written by the same expert authors responsible for best-selling books but available much faster.
Take Control ebooks provide the [...]

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PopChar – all the special characters just a few clicks away.

June 18, 2010

All the special characters just a few clicks away.

Those members at the last meeting may recall me showing how to get ‘special’ characters – like ½ or M³ – into your documents, emails etc.
Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard.
If you want to get [...]

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AVG Linkscanner (Mac) 9.0

June 14, 2010

Scan the page behind any link you click on or any Web address you type into your browser.
This FREE software may be of use to those worried about getting ‘scammed’ or ‘phished’ by visiting some Web Sites. From the manufacturer’s Web Site:
AVG LinkScanner for Mac checks each Web page in real time before it [...]

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Definitely Growing:

June 9, 2010

Well it certainly looks like we’re still on the ‘radar’ for web visitors. I’ve left the other post for April here so that you can compare how the numbers have risen, and the changing distribution of visitors from overseas.

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