iWork/AppleWorks SIG
First Wed
6:30 usually at Penn Lake Library

MacOSX
First Wed
7pm usually at The Foundation

MS Word SIG
Second Wed
7pm usually at Eagles Lodge
Haitus May-Aug 08

Vector Works SIG
Second Wed
7pm usually at
Charles Radloff Office

TC Photoshop User Group
See TCPUG
7pm MCAD auditorium 150

Mac Consultants SIG
Third Thursday
7am usually at
Perkins Restaurant,
Golden Valley

FileMaker Pro SIG
Forth Thursday
7pm usually at Partners

Mac Q&A SIG
Forth Monday
7pm usually at
Merriam Park Library

Apple Hall of Fame

Original iMac
1998-1999
Sparked Mac's Resurgence
after the Dark Years

MacOS 10.5 Leopard is Cutting Edge Legions of Mac users swear by the Mac Operating System Version 10. "Beautiful, elegant, and a solid performer. Leopard (Macos10.5) It's on the street. Apple Hardware Apple Switch Campaign and Apple Press Releases 12000 OSX Applications and OSX Tips Apple Downloads- Check out bushels of Apple compatible software. Mac Gaming Boot Camp- If you must, find out how the new Intel Macs run Windows. Includes PC gaming on your Mac

• Miniapples July Notes-
  • MacOSX SIG Meets July 1.
    Main Topics- iPhone, Developer Conference, E-Mail Part 3.
    Meeting Location (New as of December 2007)-The Foundation, 615 3rd St N, Minneapolis, MN 55401
    
  • John Pruski, outgoing Publications Director- If you bump into John, please thank him for many years of outstanding service publishing the Miniapples Newsletter. Thanks John!
  • Bert Persson, outgoing Miniapples Vice President- Please thank Bert Persson for many years of valuable Miniapples service as Vice President. Thanks Burt!
    
    
    
    
• Apple Hot News:
  • MacBook Pro “The best notebook screen in the world”
    Belongs to the 17-in MacBook Pro, proclaims Ryan Faas (computerworld.com). “The brightness and color brilliance is out of this world,” he says. What’s more, the system “delivers all of the processing power, RAM options and storage capacity of an iMac — along with approximately the same screen real estate,” making it “a desktop replacement in virtually every sense of the word.” Filed under: Mac. Read more: computerworld.com [May 23, 2008]
    
  • Apple introduces MacBook Air—the world’s thinnest notebook
    Apple today introduced the world’s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. It measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. In addition to a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, MacBook Air offers a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, letting users pinch, rotate and swipe. The new notebook is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and it includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1. Starting at just $1,799, MacBook Air begins shipping in two weeks. [Jan 15, 2008]
    
    
    
    
• Info World.com: The Mac in business: it's easier than you think (4/21/08)
  More users are demanding Macs in the enterprise. Thanks to key computing shifts, supporting their appetite for Apple is now a straightforward option for IT. Once confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling over into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience. Read more at InfoWorld.com.

• The Miniapples Newsletter has gone electronic! Note the new Newsletter link top left of this page to view the June edition PDF. Or if you prefer, see a summary of Miniapples Newsletter editions at our Home Page. Thanks much to Harry & Pam Leinke for this month's edition!
• Read about changes at Miniapples.
• How to Deal with the iCal Link (left side of this page).
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Windows Gaming on Mac Report
The new Mac Book Pros run Windows games acceptably under both Windows XP and Vista with frame rates from the teens up to 50fps depending on the game. Names such as Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2, Elder Scrolls 4:Oblivion, Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis, and Tabula Rasa. For more game performance info along with other Windows gaming issues see the Windows Gaming on a Mac FAQ at Inside Mac Games.

Free Recycling of Electronic Equipment!
It is not unusual for recyclers to want $25 to recycle a monitor. JR's Advanced Recyclers is advertising free recycling of electronic gear. Check it out! Appliance Depot, 8980 Highway149 (Dodd Road), Inver Grove Heights, Mn; M-F 8-4:30; Sat 10-3 is offering free recycling of electronic equipment. Ph: 651-454-9215. This link has been added to our Links Page under Twin Cities Libraries and Other Resources.