*The Hervey Bay Mac Users Group is not affiliated to or associated with any of it’s sponsors or any commercial computer business.*

The next EVENING meeting will be held on Thursday 5th August 2010 at 7pm at the Hervey Bay RSL Club Pialba.

Have a look at our proposed schedule of topics to see what our main theme will be. Other problems will be discussed in Q & A after the main topic. Members can request changes to the schedule if they have special needs.

You are encouraged to bring your laptop Mac, pencil and paper and a Memory Stick for possible sharing of Freeware Software programs.

Between meetings, help is always available.  I will forward requests for assistance to the other members as necessary.  Please see details on the Help Desk Page

The next DAYTIME meeting will be held on Tuesday  3rd August 2010 at 1pm at Dan Dinna House Torquay

They are held at the Sixty & Better Group at Dan Dinna House, Boat Harbour Drive, Torquay. These meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of the month from 1-3 pm. They will use the same facilities as the PC Computer Club use, kindly offered to us by the Dan Dinna Sixty & Better group: 459, Boat Harbour Drive, Torquay. *see map below These meetings are IN ADDITION to the normal evening Thursday meetings, NOT in place of them. Members can of course attend both if they wish.  They will be aimed at those who are unable to get out at night and will mainly be aimed at new users and beginners. Current Windows users are very welcome to attend these meetings. There will be no formal topics, members c

Training, minor repairs, software updates and fixes will be available.

For details of the VENUE, please contact    herveybay60@bigpond.com 07 4194 6781 07 4194 6782     There is a small joining and an attendance fee.

For information regarding MEETINGS, please contact Ken  info@hbmug.com 4125 4716  or  0417 319 758

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I think this meeting the most successful and enjoyable HBMUG meeting in our two year history.
I have had some really good feedback.
It also allowed better social interaction between members.
There was a good “buzz” in the room. Many people have told me how much they learned and  how good it was to have many people present
who could fix just about any problem presented. We will be repeating this format regularly, space permitting!

20 members attended, many bringing their Macs, including two Desktops, an iMac 20″ and a 2003  iMac G4 17″ (middle top photo )

Photos courtesy Jerry

We celebrated our 22nd meeting and 2nd Anniversary with wonderful cakes made by Marion.  Richard Neville kindly donated an iPod Shuffle to raffle, and it was won by Marion.  We now have 85 listed members and are still growing slowly. We get about 25% of the club attending meetings at the RSL

Left to right, Annette, Ken, Ben and Marion

Below, the cakes made by Marion

Twenty four members attended our 1st Anniversary meeting and were treated to a superb presentation and demonstration of iMovie 06 by Josef. An Apple video about iMovie 09 was also shown.  Richard Neville informed us of his new Apple Authorised Reseller business in Main Street. Attractive prices will be offered to members. We were presented with a chocolate 1st Birthday cake from a mystery “lady” who left it at reception.

The founding three members, left to right, Darren, Ken (founder) and Ben

If you’re interested in seeing where Apple started from, there is a great website that shows a photo history of Apple, the computers, the staff and more! There is also an amazing program called Mactracker which lists every Mac ever made.

http://www.mactracker.ca/

See also every model from the Apple II 1977

http://tinyurl.com/b8ooot

Click here to visit