I had no intentions of buying an Apple TV for several reasons. First, I didn’t buy all that much video content from iTunes, second, I thought the $299 price tag was a bit steep, and third, I didn’t have a “compatible” TV according to Apple’s specifications page. Nevertheless, the device intrigued me, perhaps I was just caught up in Steve’s “Reality Distortion Field” but when the opportunity came to win one at our local MUG meeting I jumped on it. Now, 48 hours later, I must say I’m enjoying the device much more than I initially thought. Read More...

MacPeople Meeting:
April 12, 2007 6:00 - 9:00
The next meeting of the MacPeople Gainesville Area Macintosh Users Group will be on Thursday, April 12, 2007 from 6:00-9:00 pm in the University of Florida Entomology-Nematology Bldg, room 1031 (building in the woods just east of the Performing Arts Center). Need Directions?

6:00 - 6:50 Questions and Answers
6:50 - 7:05 Announcements and Break
7:00 - 7:20 Cocktail- Katie
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, gives access to hidden Mac OS X settings and let you easily maintain your system.
http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.html
7:15 - 7:35 Disco- Corey
Workflow based disc burning for real people, designed with the Mac user in mind. In addition to basic burning and copying, users can take advantage of disc spanning, indexing, full sessions support, and many other advanced features.
http://discoapp.com/
7:35- 7:50 WebNoteHappy - Corey
WebnoteHappy is a bookmark manager that helps you organize and remember the web pages that matter to you. Each web page can be personalized with notes and tags as you bookmark it, creating a "webnote". The fast integrated search makes it easy to find your webnotes again.
http://www.happyapps.com/webnotehappy/
7:50 - 8:20 Apple TV - Dan
Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, and photos from your computer on your TV? Apple TV brings iTunes to the big screen.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
8:20-8:30 Prize Drawing
- Apple TV ($299 value)
- iListen ($149.95 value)
- Parallels Desktop ($79.99 value)
- Disco ($29.95 value)
- WebNoteHappy ($24.95 value)
- Cocktail (2-copies) ($14.95value)
- Take Control eBook (value varies)
8:30 - 9:00 iListen - Special Presentation from MacSpeech
Get text into your applications in the simplest and easiest way possible with iListen. Just dictate anywhere you would type. iListen's exclusive TalkAnywhere technology allows you to dictate and correct directly into almost any application on Mac OS X.
http://www.macspeech.com