TMUG Meeting

I am attending the Tucson Macintosh User Group (tmug) tonight. It is being held in room 5403 of University Medical Center (UMC).

• Tonight is hosted by President Bob Wood. Bob Wood is a 50-something bear of a man with glasses and a gray beard. (Dangerous Bob - a younger Bob Wood ... during the Eisenhower administration) - the All Powerful OZ in the for sale forum (i.e. moderator) - bob@thinkbob.com 762.0447
  
  
  
• Co-Hosted by VP Ridge Prevost: another 50-something also with glasses. ridgep@aol.com, 298.7165
  
  
• Secretary: Curt Blanchard - crblanchard@cox.net, 290.3848
• Treasurer: Mark Jaffee - mjaffee.az@gmail.com, 299.9699
• Member Advocate: Joyce Hardin, jrhardin@mindspring.com, 624.9644
• Volunteer Programs: Tony Ewing, tce@ieee.org, 747.8283
• Volunteer Web Site: Jerry Cederquist, salsa@tmug.com, 529.6593
  
  
• Volunteer Training: John Nemerovski, john.nemo@gmail.com, 575.9596
• Volunteer Training: Mike Peterson, mikeguru@mac.com, 325.4885
• Membership: Marv Held, m122430@cox.net, 747.8547
• Library: Michael Prete, michaelprete@cox.net, 325.4885
• Publicity: Zack Williams, zdw@artisancomputer.com, 977.2973
• Newsletter: Tom McGorray, tom@xgboy.com, 297.7878
  
  
• Computer & Accessory Donations: Sara Matton, tmugsara@gmail.com
• Membership Cost: $30 annually
• ~17 people attending
• TMUG members can get their business web-sites posted.
• Review forum on the tmug site | Members Forum | Public Forum
• Forum powered by Gossamar Forums
• Learned how to import US Holidays to iCal by subscribing to site. Look HERE.
• Bob Finley showed me a neat trick for the mac: you start typing a word and when you hit F5 (or fn-F5 on macbook pro) it will provide a popup pick list of possible words to complete the word. Thank you Bob!
• TMUG luggage tags were handed out to all TMUG members.
• TMUG Meeting Survey was handed out.
• Michael
• $273.64 HOME-GUARD (part of U.A.) for full-house surge protection. Tracy 745.3333. Apparently they put a box behind the electric meter.
• A lady renting a VHS-to-Digital system
• Gretchen (Bob's wife) - newest game Plants vs. Zombies demo.
  
  She reminds me a little bit of Martha Stewart. Need beads? Great Presentation!
  
  
  
• Pages Presentation: pages is word processing an page layout. She showed us some of the neat alignment features within Pages. The Inspector has lots of settings to provide more fine-grained control.
• Gretchen: Ooh [yuck], I never use Microsoft tools on my machine.
• Below is a picture layout done in Pages. Pages Rocks!
  
  
• Red River Paper : Paper types, Paper Weights, Thickness
  
  
• Excitement and Suspense as door prizes are drawn!