Thumb Macintosh Users Group

by Del Conkright

I like to paint but I am not good at it. It’s messy. I have to round up all the materials etc. Oh, but what about on the computer? Any time I wanted to paint, I would open Appleworks and use it’s Paint program. If you wanted to use that program, you would have to buy it and it’s expensive. It so happens I found out today that there are three free paint programs. (I am sure there are more but I found these three.)

Our very own Sandra McLean (a founding TMUG member) is performing with Beau the Crow and Friends in Port Austin and Bad Axe this summer.

Don and Sandra McLean have returned from Dallas Texas and visiting for the summer. For more information or to contact Sandra, please visit her website at http://www.sanddpuppetry.com/

BEAU THE CROW’S LOCAL PUPPET SHOWS

Saturday, June 28, 2008 “Goldilocks with an Attitude” Civic Center Port Austin 1 p.m.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 “Don’t Bug Me” Port Austin Township Library 10:30 a.m.

Hello TMUG Members,

I wanted to thank all of you once again in helping us win the FOX 66 Teen Alcohol Awareness Contest.
Read about the contest here: http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/newsnow/2008/04/ubly_pulls_an_upset_d...

We had a great time at Cedar Point and hope to be in the competition once again this year.

Stewart Kieliszewski (Mr. K)
Media, Computer, Science Teacher

Note: Stewart is a founding member of the Thumb Macintosh Users Group in 2007. The student videos were made on Ubly High School Macintosh computers.

Our June meeting will be about the future.

We'll explore some of the features of the Macintosh that are futuristic, strange and wonderful.

Star Trek like features on the Mac you can use today
WWDC: the mirror into the future. We discuss what's new and how it affects you?
Outspring Mail: a replacement for Apple Mail?
Giveways: Visual Quickstart Guide to Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard ($25.00 value and 700 pages!)

About the Giveaway (available to members and their guests)

TMUG is having it's first "live" iChat meeting with Ryan Ritchey who is the founder of the The Digital Lifestyle.tv, a website that hosts Mac media 24 hours a day.

TDL's crew of former Apple employees brings a unique look at Apple news, rumors, and lifestyle, through our video channel, and on-demand shows.

Our new friend Ryan from The Digital Lifestyle.tv has invited us to check out "the only 24-hour video network for Apple news, rumors, and lifestyle."

http://www.thedigitallifestyle.tv/The_Digital_Lifestyle.html

This new site looks great and has lots of great video clips. Check it out!

Member Del recommends this new site!

http://www.macdownloadaday.com/Mac_Download_A_Day/Home/Home.html

This month we're talking "talking"--either by chat, VoIP, Video Conferencing and twittering. Don't know what these things are? Come and find out as we "demo" these technologies in our meeting.

Using your Mac to communicate is one of the best and exciting ways

by Del Conkright

Are you getting the most out of your mouse? I certainly haven’t. I have been just clicking away on my mouse wondering why things keep popping up like the Dashboard. Good thing I read my MacWorld and MacLife Journals. Now I find out (I did know but never took the time to look into it.) that I can make the mouse truly mighty by going to System Preferences, clicking on Mouse at the top and making the numerous buttons on my mouse do something.

Now the left button does the clicking, the right button brings up Spotlight, (which I seem to use all the time-trying to find my files that I have forgotten where I put them), the side buttons show me all applications I have open on my desktop (so I can select the one I want to work on next), and the top scroll button to scroll through pages of a document or by using the Control key along with the scroll button to zoom in and out of web site’s documents when the print is too small for me to read.