Author: dsellers

‘MUG Event Calendar’: two anniversary celebrations, security, more

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | |

March opens with a full “MUG Event Calendar” for the week.

Macworld 2010 is still making waves at more than one Mac User Group, Alan Oppenheimer will visit a California group to talk about security, a Final Cut Pro User Group will celebrate three years together in Louisiana, while an Australian group will celebrate 30 years of Australian Macworld with Anthony Caruana. Other topics on this week’s agenda include home theater, iPhoto, backup, the Mac mini as media center, iDisk, troubleshooting network connections, and more.

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EFI, Xerox ship Fiery Network Controller for the Xerox WorkCentre 7700 series

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | , |

EFI (http://www.efi.com) and Xerox Corp. is shipping the Fiery Network Controller for the Xerox WorkCentre 7700 series of color multifunction printers (MFPs) for office environments. Fiery controllers are easily deployed in Mac and Windows environments and support all industry standard networking protocols.

The WorkCentre 7700 Series MFPs are one of the first to support Fiery VUE, the desktop application that makes publishing of professional-looking finished documents fast and simple for all office workers, according to Leah Quesada, vice president of office marketing, Xerox.

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Macsimum review: Adobe Director 11.5 is pretty slick but pricey

Macsimum review: Adobe Director 11.5 is pretty slick but pricey

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | , |

By Tamara Fry-Pietsch

Adobe Director 11.5 (http://www.adobe.com) will be familiar to users of previous versions but some additions improve productivity, for example: multiple undos/redos, stage docking, enhanced user interface, Sprite, channel naming, and a new Help System. But the hot addition in audio is 5.1-channel surround sound that, along with real-time mixing ability, means you can add a mixer to your movie to import audio files and cast members.

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‘MacVoices’ looks at Voyager astronomy software

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | |

On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Tim Debenedictis of Carinia Software talks about the history of their astronomy software, Voyager, and how it has gone mobile as an iPhone app.

“MacVoices” is an Internet show and podcast that delivers in-depth discussions with the most influential people in the Mac industry, as well as “the individuals who are out there making it happen on the front lines of the global Apple community,” according to host Chuck Joiner.

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