MacSTAC Member Meeting: Thursday, Sept. 21st

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, September 21st at the Vestal Library starting a 6:30 pm. Our meeting agenda is as follows:
1.     Welcome
2.     Questions and Answers
3.     Roy Frost will demonstrate Firefox and Thunderbird. Here's what the company, Mozilla, has to say about each program:

Firefox 1.5: The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.  Firefox 1.5 for the Mac has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It delivers Web pages faster than ever. And it's easy to install and import your favorites. Packed with useful features like tabbed browsing, Live Bookmarks, and an integrated Search bar, Firefox will change the way you experience the Web, for the better.

Thunderbird 1.5: delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better. Thunderbird is simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set.

Roy  will cover all the new features that are not found in other web browsers and mail programs, plus talk about extensions, plug-ins, bookmarks (both importing and exporting), Address Book importing and exporting, and several little known short cuts that are really cool.

4. Chris Buffington will present a talk about the integration of iPhoto and IDVD within the iLife '06 suite. Chris says “If you are not sure what to do with those digital photos from your last vacation or memorable family event then come to the September 21 MacStac meeting. No, we're not going to give timely tips on how to organize the albums and shoeboxes of those photos, but rather investigate and demonstrate the integration of iPhoto and iDVD that exists within iLife '06. You'll find out how easy it is to export your selection of photos from iLife and burn a DVD slide show complete with background music, chapters and themes if you so desire.”

5. Brief news from Apple about two new Macs just released plus the latest release of iPods.

6. Our raffle for a USB hub.

7.Drinks, cookies, and social gathering.

8. Please try to come and bring a friend.