The month of May winds down with a wide variety of presentations on the “MUG Event Calendar.”
Apple will present the iPad to a Florida group, while an Australian group will host a double header with MacMan Garry Barker and Matthew JC. Powell of Australian Macworld. Three Final Cut Pro User Groups will hold meetings this week in California, Indiana and Illinois, with their usual diverse set of presenters.
Read MoreIn-Poculis Mahjong (http://www.in-poculis.com), a Mahjong solitaire game for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 3.1 The game comes with 120 levels and six themes: Christmas, Halloween, Asian, Easter, Wonderland and Future.
Here’s how the game is described: “How to play: find matching mahjong pieces amongst the plethora and click them to get them off the screen. All of the mahjong pieces can be cleared, but it takes some discipline, strategy, and a little bit of luck to win the five medals of each theme.”
Read MoreSandy, Utah, will be getting its own authorized Apple store this month. Expercom (http://www.expercom.com), one of Utah’s oldest Apple Specialists, will be moving to a new location in Sandy, Utah on Monday, May 24.
The new store at 80 E 10600 South will offer a showroom allowing customers to try out all of the latest in Apple products. The Expercom dealerships and expercom.com, owned and operated in Utah, have been specializing in Apple products for 13 years. The new Sandy, Utah, location will precede the opening of a new flagship store scheduled to open in Logan, Utah, this July.
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Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs on Monday, June 7, at 10 a.m. This year’s WWDC sold out in a record eight days to over 5,000 developers.
The five-day event running from June 7 to June 11, is focused on providing advanced content for skilled developers across five key technology tracks: Application Frameworks; Internet & Web; Graphics & Media; Developer Tools; and Core OS. Apple engineers will deliver over 100 solutions-oriented technical sessions and labs.
Read MoreIn what may indicate new iPhones at the upcoming Apple Worldwide Developer Conference is that Apple has has stopped shipping iPhone 3G 8GB units to AT&T stores and orders aren’t being placed for the device, according to the “Boy Genius Report” (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/05/24/apple-discontinuing-apple-iphone-3g-8gb/).
“Could this mean we might see the iPhone 3GS drop to $99 and make way for a new model?” “BGR” ponders. “Or maybe the 3GS would disappear altogether?”
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