[AUSOM-Announcements] November Meetings @ AUSOM

[AUSOM Publicity]

AUSOM Incorporated
The Apple Users Society of Melbourne, is Australia's leading Apple  
Macintosh User Group and this AUSOM-Announcement is a brief summary  
of the various meetings we conduct during the month and in the  
immediate future. For more information about AUSOM please call our  
Administration Office on 1300 360 813, email us at  
office at ausom.net.au or visit out website at http://www.ausom.net.au/


MEETINGS DAY - Saturday, November 3, 2007
Members and visitors attend Box Hill Institute, Building 8 Elgar  
Campus on the corner of Whitehorse and Elgar Roads (Melway 47B9) on  
the first Saturday of each month (except January) between 9.30am and  
5.00pm for a wide variety of meetings on the use of the Apple  
Macintosh computer in digital photography, iPods, home movies,  
genealogy, finance, databases, the Internet, Excel, Word,  networking  
and many other topics. The location is convenient to tram and train  
and there is ample parking. Lunch may be purchased on site and  
vendors sell small computer items such as CDs, DVDs, ink jet  
cartridges, cables etc. We have a monthly raffle of valuable prizes  
such as iWork software, the iPod shuffle etc.

See http://www.ausom.net.au/meetings.html for a map and further details.


MAIN PRESENTATION - Saturday, November 3, 2007

TOPIC: Apple's Situation & Future
Garry Barker, the Mac Man from The Age newspaper, will talk about  
Apple's present situation and its possible future.

This is part of Meetings Day at the Box Hill Institute (see above)  
and will commence in Rooms 213-215 in Building 8 at 1pm.

For more information go to <http://www.ausom.net.au/nextmeeting.html>


MULTIMEDIA SIG - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Balwyn Baptist Church  
(cnr Whitehorse Road and Parring Rd  Melway 46F8) from 7.30pm to 10pm.

TOPIC:  Mac OS X Leopard
Now that Leopard has been released we'll briefly cover some of the 300 
+ new features included in this new release of the Mac OS.

TOPIC: iChat in Leopard
Nicholas Pyers & Perry Liebe will explore the many new features in  
iChat - in particular iChat Theatre; Back Drops; and Photo Booth  
Effects, but we'll also cover Invisibility Mode; Tabbed Chats,  
Multiple Logins and Animated Buddy Icons.

TOPIC: Video for your iPod
With the new iPod Nano and iPod touch now also sporting video  
capabilities, we'll cover some of the options on how to get video on  
your video capable iPod and then other ways you can use that video.

For more information go to <http://www.ausom.net.au/multimedia.html>


RETIREES AND OTHERS SIG - Wednesday, November 14,  2007
Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Balwyn Baptist Church  
(cnr Whitehorse Road and Parring Rd  Melway 46F8) from 10am to 12noon.

TOPIC: Making Cards with Pages
Steve Cooper will demonstrate how easy it is to use Apple's 'new'  
word processing and page layout application to make attractive cards  
from your photos or other graphics.


AUSOM COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT MEETINGS
The AUSOM Committee of Management (CoM) usually meets on the  
Wednesday night two weeks before the next Main Meeting (this is  
usually, but not always the the 2nd Wednesday of each month) at 247  
Flinders Lane Melbourne Victoria Australia.

If you'd like to submit information for the Committee's  
consideration, please email com at ausom.net.au or write to; AUSOM  
Committee, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000.  If the submission is  
received by the Monday evening prior to the Committee Meeting, it can  
be placed on the agenda for consideration at that next meeting,  
otherwise it may be held over until the meeting.

Next CoM Meeting: Wednesday November 14, 2007
Email to: com at ausom.net.au


DISC OF THE MONTH:
AUSOM regularly produces a Disc of the Month that goes on sale on the  
First Saturday of each month at our Main Meeting.

This month there are again TWO discs been released;

AUSOM Festive Fun contains a huge array of material to create your  
own Festive Fun times with
	1600+ pieces of Christmas Clip Art
		Colour + Black & White images, Animated Images & Borders
	200+ Christmas Activities
		Christmas Colouring Sheets, Recipes & Craft Activities
	160+ pieces of Christmas Music
		Vocal, Instrumental, MIDI & Audio Books
	150+ Christmas Card & Gift Tags
		Templates for Word, Pages Photoshop, GIF & PDF
	35+ Christmas Fonts
		TrueType, ready for use in virtually any application
	30+ Christmas Stories
		Supplied as PDF - some double as colouring Sheets.
	25+ Christmas Applications
		Games, Icons, Widgets, Screen Savers & Desktop Decorations


The second Disc for November is "Leopard Guided Tour" which contains  
the full Guided Tour of Leopard video, along with bonus excerpts from  
the five Take Control Books covering Leopard;
	* Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard
	* Take Control of Customising Leopard
	* Take Control of Users & Accounts in Leopard
	* Take Control of Sharing Files in Leopard
	* Take Control of Fonts in Leopard

Both Discs can be purchased for just $10 each from the Saturday  
Meeting, or by contacting the AUSOM Office on 1300 360 813.

For full details on these discs and past releases please visit
http://www.ausom.net.au/disc-of-month.html


MAJOR RAFFLE: 24" iMac
AUSOM is raffling a brand new 24" iMac and tickets are now available  
for purchase either by calling 1300 360 813 [If you get the answering  
machine, please leave your name, telephone no and say you are calling  
regarding the raffle] or from any of the above meetings.

Tickets are only $5.

For more information, please visit http://www.ausom.net.au/raffle.html


AUSOM ANNOUNCEMENTS
Invite others to join the AUSOM Announcements list by visiting  
<http://www.ausom.net.au/lists.html> or calling our office on 1300  
360 813. You can find further information about forthcoming meetings  
at our website <http://www.ausom.net.au/nextmeeting.html>




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