“The MUG Event Calendar” closes out October with a wide variety of presentations and demos.

Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will be the featured speaker at a New Jersey group, while three Final Cut Pro User Groups, one in San Francisco, other in Los Angeles and one in Indianapolis, will feature presenters talking about a range of video-related topics and products.

Other topics on the week’s agenda include 1Password, Snow Leopard, Mac holiday gifts and crafts, Skype, iChat, the Verizon MiFi and the iPad, landscape photography, and more.

“The MUG Event Calendar” can be found at “The MUG Center” (http://www.mugcenter.com), an online resource for Mac User Groups. 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/).