The week crossing months is always short on quantity, but high on quality on “The MUG Event Calendar.”

Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will present to a Pennsylvania group, while a group in Australia will focus on the offerings of Google, and the ever popular topic of back-up will be covered in Florida. Other topics on this week’s agenda include art on the iPhone, issues with system upgrades, spreadsheets, highlights from Macworld | iWorld 2012, Windows emulation 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/).