LAMALUG

At the February 21 meeting, Win an iPod Shuffle, win free shareware and see a demo of iWork ’08.

John Fauver will demonstrate iWork, Apple’s amazing productivity suite for the Mac. It includes Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets, and Keynote for presentations.

Visit the mother ship for more information about iWork.

Mac Guru’s
This is the second month where we feature a session we call MacGurus where paid up members can get one-on-one help for a few minutes with knowledgeable members of our group. MacGurus will start at 6:00. Your turn will be on a first-come, first-served basis, so get there early. Get organized with your question because if others are waiting, we will limit your session to 10 minutes. (You may be able to arrange an outside meeting if you need more time.) We’re limiting MacGurus to a half hour (three 10-minutes sessions) since we don’t want our gurus to miss the main meeting. And besides, we need them to answer questions during the Q & A.

6:30 Q & A – This is our regular session open to everybody.

Big Time Raffle – WOW!
David Smith from Capitol Macintosh has generously donated an iPod Shuffle to be included in our raffle this month!

You must be a paid up member to pick up your free ticket at the door. What a value for your $20 membership!

We also have a second copy of software bundle we raffled off last month from Mac Heist . The bundle includes 12 software applications which we will raffle as one package. (Pay your dues.) The specific items and their value are listed below and a short description of each app is below that. For more complete information go to their website. They’ll even let you download a demo.

Because a couple slips of paper blew off the desk, we also have a couple other programs left over from the bundle we raffled off at the last meeting.

See you there!

Wow, what a meeting. Everyone got a chance to see, feel and touch the new iPod Touch and the iPhone. A big “thanks” to Shawn Neal and Tim Mulbrandt from the Apple store inside Best Buy in Okemos. In addition, folks had questions answered by the “guru’s”. Plus there was a raffle for free software secured from the latest Macheist. Congratulations to the winners of the January raffle.

We’ll have details on the next raffle for the February meeting, and it will be a nice surprise…

If you miss a meeting, you miss a lot! Make plans to join our next meeting in February.

NOTICE: Our usual room is not available this week, so we have moved to room 006 of the Arts and Sciences building (located in the basement).

For our January 17 meeting we will have a hands on demo of iPhone and iPod Touch with Shawn Neal and Tim Mulbrandt who work at the Apple store inside Best Buy in Okemos. Jonathan Stars said he saw the online demos of these products and was impressed. But going to the Apple Store and actually trying them out gave him a whole new perspective on “cool!” If you haven’t put your hands on one of these, make sure you get to this meeting.

Also at the meeting this week:

MacGuru’s

We are starting a feature we call MacGurus where paid up members can get one-on-one help for a few minutes with knowledgeable members of our group. MacGurus will start at 6:00. Your turn will be on a first-come, first-served basis, so get there early. Get organized with your question because if others are waiting, we will limit your session to 10 minutes. (You may be able to arrange an outside meeting if you need more time.) We’re limiting MacGurus to a half hour since we don’t want them to miss the main meeting. And besides, we need them to answer questions during our Q & A.

Raffle

This month marks the beginning of the LAMALUG Raffle! You must be a paid up member to pick up your free ticket at the door. Based on attendance for the last few meetings, your chance to win is about 50/50. What a value for your $20 membership!

We’re breaking apart a software bundle from Mac Heist. The bundle includes 11 software applications which we will raffle individually during our meeting. (Pay your dues.) The specific items and their value are listed below and a short description of each app is below that. For more complete information go to their website. They’ll even let you download a demo.