As the world counts down the days to the iPad launch, the MUG Event Calendar is quiet, but not silent.

Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will present to a group in New Jersey, a group in New Zealand will demonstrate Skype, and a Colorado group will talk about Facebook. A Connecticut group will discuss archiving web pages, an Ohio group will help increase the performance of their members’ Macs, and a Pennsylvania group will discuss both QuickBooks and Stuffit Deluxe 2010.

“The MUG Event Calendar” can be found at The MUG Center (http://www.mugcenter.com), an online resource for Mac User Groups, Mac User Groups are starting to officially celebrate the holiday season.

MUGs are good places for making new friends in the Mac community, imProving your computing skills, finding solutions to technical Problems, and perhaps locating a good deal on used hardware. For more info on MUGs, and to find the location of the one nearest you, go to Apple’s MUG page (http://www.apple.com/usergroups/).