MacPeople Meeting:
June 14, 2007 6:00 - 9:00
The next meeting of the MacPeople Gainesville Area Macintosh Users Group will be on Thursday, June 14, 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 - 7:00 Announcements
- Check out the new MacPeople CafePress store where you can order MacPeople themed apparel and other items. http://www.cafepress.com/macpeoplemug
- New Take Control eBook features "Troubleshooting your Mac"
7:00 - 7:10 Break
7:10 - 7:20 Visual Hub- Katie
Easily convert video files to play on your Apple TV, iPod, TiVo, DVD, and other popular formats.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
7:20 - 7:40 Airport Express and Airfoil -Katie/Corey
AirPort Express with AirTunes allows you to play iTunes music over your wireless network to your home stereo or powered speakers, share a broadband Internet connection, wirelessly print to a USB printer, and extend the range of your current wireless network easily and inexpensively. Add Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba Software and you can also send any audio source thought the AirPort express.
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/
7:40- 7:50 MacLinkPlus - Katie
Gives Mac users with the ability to better communicate and exchange files with the Windows world by converting dozens of previously incompatible file types into something that can be opened on your Mac. Includes translators for the new .dox and .xlsx formats currently being used with Microsoft Office 2007.
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/index.html
7:50 - 8:10 NeoOffice- Corey
NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice incorporates dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
8:10 - 8:20 ScreenSteps- Corey
ScreenSteps is a program that allows you to create easy, visual, step-by-step tutorials to teach others how to use software programs. You can use the application to create screencasts, output to webpages, or create PDF instruction manuals.
http://www.screensteps.com/
8:20-8:30 Prize Drawing
- Airport Express ($99.99 value)
- MacLinkPlus (2 copies) ($79.99 value each)
- ScreenSteps ($39.95 value)
- Air Foil ($25.00 value)
- Disco ($29.95 value)
- Visual Hub (2 copies) ($23.32 value each)
- WebNoteHappy ($24.95 value)
- Fremzic ($14.95 value)
- Take Control eBook (value varies)
- Apple Hat and Pens (Priceless!)
8:30 - 9:00 WWDC Wrap-up - Dan, Corey, and Katie
We'll cover all the announcements and new Apple products featured at the World Wide Developer Conference, which takes place June 11 - 15. Apple doesn't disclose what products we can expect to see at WWDC, but we do know that we'll finally get a peak at those "Top Secret" features of OS 10.5 Leopard and we'll possibly see new Apple Hardware and Software products announced, and as always, that special "one more thing..." announcement. We don't know what to expect, but we do know that it's going to be big!

Special offer for all members- Save 20% off the price of a ScreenSteps by typing in the code GAINESVILLEMUG at checkout.

Leopard

Apple unveiled a near final version of Mac OS X Leopard, which is scheduled to ship in October for $129. According to Apple, Leopard will introduce over 300 new features. Leopard includes a new Dock featuring Stacks, which can help manage a user’s desktop clutter by allowing users to instantly fan out the contents of a stack to see each item. Leopard’s Finder has been redesigned, adding with a similar look to iTunes, including the integration of Cover Flow to quickly browse and locate files and applications. Subscribers to .Mac can use the “Back to my Mac" feature to browse and access files on their remote Macs over the Internet. Also new in Leopard is Quick Look, way for users to instantly preview almost any file, and play media files, without opening an application.

Leopard also includes three new technologies that take full advantage of the latest developments in processor hardware: full native 64-bit support to enable applications to take complete advantage of 64-bit processing while still running side by side with existing 32-bit Mac OS X applications and drivers; easy multi-core optimization and scheduling to take advantage of the latest Intel hardware; and Core Animation, helping developers easily create animated user experiences.

Safari 3.0 Beta for Mac and Windows

Apple has released a public beta of the new Safari 3.0, and in a surprise announcement, is also expanding Safari over to the PC. Apple claims Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.
The free public beta of Safari 3 is available immediately as a download at www.apple.com/safari, and is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. The final version of Safari 3 will be available as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard, and will be available as a free download to Mac OS X Tiger and Windows users in October.

iPhone to Support 3rd Party Applications using Web 2.0 Standard

While probably not the SDK kit that developers were looking for, Apple announced that its iPhone will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards when it begins shipping on June 29. Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone’s services, including making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps. Third-party applications created using Web 2.0 standards can extend iPhone’s capabilities without compromising its reliability or security.

Apple today updated its MacBook Pro line of notebooks with the new Intel Santa Rosa chipset. The new MacBook Pros features speeds of 2.2 and 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duos, 4MB of shared L2 cache, an 800 MHz frontside bus, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (upgradable to 4GB) and the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT. The new 15-inch models feature a mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display while the 17-inch model has an optional 1920-by-1200 high-resolution display. Apple claims these machines are more than 50 percent faster than the original MacBook Pro Core Duo.

The MacBook Pros are available today in three standard configurations:
15" 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo. 2GB RAM, 120GB HD, LED display GeForce 8600M GT 128MB - $1999
15" 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo. 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, LED display GeForce 8600M GT 256MB - $2499
17" 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo. 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, GeForce 8600M GT 256MB - $2799

Apple and AT&T tonight have released three new iPhone ads that state June 29th will be the release date for the iPhone. The ads are available on the Apple website. The three ads demonstrate the different iPod, Phone, and Google Maps functionality of the device. There doesn't appear to be any additional information released regarding the iPhone's features or price other than those previously advertised. The ad does state that the iPhone does require a minimum 2-year activation. As of this posting the AT&T webpage has yet to be updated.