COMMUNITY NEWS - MEMBERS _____________________________________________________________________
1] - It's a Great Day for Upgrading to Mac OS X
We know that user group members are some of Apple's most faithful, long-time customers, and that many of you are still hanging on to Mac OS 9. But now is a great time for making the upgrade to Mac OS X. You'll love the speed, stability, functionality and much more. Apple has some helpful web pages for those considering an upgrade to Mac OS X.
Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/reasons.html
Answers to Your Upgrade Questions http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/questions.html
Students on college campuses throughout the upper midwest have been forming teams and creating 2-5 minute iMovie films for the DVD Fest 2003 Intercollegiate Film Festival. On April 26 the top three films from each school will compete for prizes and accolades at DVD Fest 2003 Regional Premiere Night on the Carleton College campus. Barry Osborne, executive producer of The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, will preside as Master of Ceremonies.
The regional event grew out of last year's wildly successful DVD Fest at Carleton College, spearheaded by North Apple Field Mac User Group's Reed Martin. North Apple Field is a campus and community group that serves Carleton College, St. Olaf College and the community of Northfield, Minnesota.
More than 600 students, faculty and staff from eight North Carolina universities will come together April 26 to hear Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak speak at PacMUG, the North Carolina State University Macintosh User Group. All tickets to the event have been spoken for, but PacMUG plans to offer a live QuickTime web feed of the event.
AppleHeart AMUG Italia will be hosting i.M.a.c.s.i., an Italian nationwide Mac event, May 3-4 in Gallipoli, Italy. The two day meeting will include seminars, sessions and a digital photography exhibit, as well as a guided tour of historic Gallipoli.
Twenty years of milestones in Apple technology are on display this month at Technorama, the Swiss Science Center in Winterthur, Switzerland. "From the Lisa to the G4" includes the Lisa, the first Macintosh, the first portable and much more, as well as the latest Apple hardware and software. All the computers are in working order and can be used by visitors.
Computers on display were provided by members of Macintosh Users Switzerland (MUS). MUS members are also offering technical support for exhibit, which runs through April 27.
Mac Users Group of Singapore opened their first Digital Photography Exhibition on March 22 at the Apple Center@ Bukit Timah. Judges took a full month to decide which photos would be displayed. The exhibition is currently on display at Bukit Timah.
Finnish Macintosh User Group (fiMUG) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. According to board member Mirko Nieminen, the group currently has over 900 members. fiMUG offers member meetings, courses and a quarterly printed newsletter, as well as a bulletin board system and a daily news service that serves Finnish-speaking Mac users in Finland and abroad.
SPECIAL OFFERS - APPLE USER GROUP BULLETIN - April 2003 _____________________________________________________________________
These User Group discounts are brought to you by the Apple User Group Advisory Board. You must be a current MUG member to qualify for these savings. Not a member? Join a MUG today to take advantage of these special offers.
Tri-CATALOG is a powerful tool that catalogs all your media so you can browse...and find it FAST.
Ever-increasing amounts of data on our computers and on removable storage media have made it harder and harder to quickly find the files we need. Tri-CATALOG is able to manage hundreds of volumes, representing millions of files, so you can find and browse files and images quickly and easily. Even better, the cataloged images can be viewed as thumbnails, and you can label files and images using text of your choosing.
Tri-CATALOG is available for only $59.95 (U.S.) That's a $30.00 (U.S.) savings.
http://ug.casadyg.com
This is an ongoing worldwide offer with no expiration date.
The Stupendous Bundle iMovie plugin collection contains 11 iMovie plugin packs containing a total of over 270 effects. Stupendous Software is happy to provide Macintosh user group members with a 10% discount off the price of the bundle.
The plugin packs contained in the Stupendous Bundle are: Ascii & Art, Color Effects, Crops & Zooms, Glows & Blurs, Labels & Overlays, Levels & Balances, Scratch & Dirt, Smoke & Glass, SplitScreen & PiP, Time Effects and Time Effects 2.
Regular price: $200 (U.S.) MUG member price: $180 (U.S.)
http://www.stupendous-software.com
To obtain the discount, enter the following coupon number when ordering at our online store: CPN964897036
Asante Technologies is the leading provider of Mac networking solutions. The company's products are known for their ease of use.
Asante is offering great discounts to MUG members on wireless routers, switches, and more. For example, the FriendlyNET FR3004FLC DSL/cable modem router with built-in 4-port 10/100 switch, serial port, and LPT port is $59 (U.S.), regularly $99 (U.S.), and the AeroLAN 1211 802.11b Wireless pc Card for laptops is $49 (U.S.), regularly $95 (U.S.). To get the discount, MUG members should go to:
ArcaneWare builds and designs its applications specifically for Mac OS X. There's Fontage, a tool to view and manipulate fonts. Then there's Serial Storage, the complete data storage solution. And finally, ArcaneWare makes Dream, a slim, speedy, pure-Cocoa font viewer.
All three applications are available for 50% off the regular price for Mac User Group members:
Fontage $11.25 (U.S.), Serial Storage $10 (U.S.), Dream $5 (U.S.).
CodeTek Studios offers Mac user group members an exclusive 25% discount on its Mac OS X software products. Please visit our website at http://www.codetek.com.
Save now on CodeTek's productivity application software--CodeTek VirtualDesktop for $22.50 (U.S.) and DockExtender for $15 (U.S.)--and CodeTek's privacy protection software--SafeClean for $18.75 (U.S.), SafeShred Pro for $11.25 (U.S.) and SafeShred Xtreme for $18.75 (U.S.), and SafeFile (due June 2, $18.75 (U.S.)).
To buy at these applications at a 25% discount, go to:
Prosoft's Data Safety System offers a complete and powerful solution that protects you from losing data in three ways. Data Rescue, which specializes in data recovery, not disk repair, recovers data from a corrupt drive (even if it no longer mounts). Data Backup allows you to back up, synchronize or restore to and from any mounted volume. Data Recycler lets you undelete files after emptying the trash. Data Recycler includes E.W.S., which monitors your hard drive and warns you of impending problems before they affect you.
Mac User Group price: $99 (U.S.) for Data Safety System Bundle (all three products--Data Rescue X, Data Recycler X and Data Backup X). Data Safety System normally sells for $149 (U.S.). Please order at:
http://www.prosofteng.com
You will be prompted for a coupon code at checkout. Enter coupon code: DSS614
The MUG Store recently updated their site with four pages of special prices exclusively for User Group members. Specials include dozens of PowerBooks, both new and refurbished, along with inexpensive iMacs, eMacs and a very special offer on AppleCare.
Visit the MUG Store website or call 1-800-689-8191 to find out exactly what's available this month.
http://www.applemugstore.com
Don't forget that every dollar spent at the MUG Store creates points for your group to use for anything the MUG Store sells.
The password schedule to enter the site is as follows:
4/1/2003- 6/30/2003- User ID: yao / Password: ming
Elsa Travisano, Editor President, MUG ONE, Oneonta, NY Member, Apple User Group Advisory Board ugbeditor@mac.com
Jeff Mosqueda, Publisher Program Manager, Worldwide User Group Relations 3 Infinite Loop, Mailstop 303-3PR Cupertino, CA, USA 95014
Lorene S Romero, Vendor Relations Past President, North Coast Mac User Group (CA) Member, Apple User Group Advisory Board vendorqueen@mac.com
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