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May Meeting - May 11, 2012.
See the extended Calendar! The Q&A will start at 7:00 and run to 7:30 PM.

The meeting will begin, as always, with our Q&A session, followed by announcements.
The main presentation picks up at about 7:45. The general meeting will end with our ever popular raffle. Our SIGs meet immediately after until the close of their sessions at about 9:30.

Jean MacDonald in 2007 with the original and newly introduced iPhone

Learn how to work with PDFs on your iPad. With PDFpen for iPad from Smile, a “small” San Francisco based software company, you can sign documents, make changes, fix typos, and fill out an applications, and seamlessly sync with your Mac using iCloud.

Jean MacDonald, the Smile Software partner in charge of marketing and good friend of LIMac, will demonstrate how to edit and annotate PDF documents on your iPad and have the changes available on any of your iOS or Mac OS devices. Changes made on documents on your Mac using PDFpen or PDFpenPro, when stored on iCloud, will also be available for viewing or editing on your iOS devices providing the, “complete solution for full-featured PDF editing on iPad and Mac.”

Jean demonstrated a wide selection of Smile software titles here at LIMac, back in October of 2007, but at the time, the company was called SmileOnMyMac.

Back to the subject at hand, PDFpen for iPad won three awards when it was introduced at the Macword | iWorld 2012 Expo this January including Best of Show.

As always, the lead off players will be Bradley and Geoff & Rick, hosting our two Q&A sessions (Brad’s in the main room and MacBasics across the hall). Announcements and other business is next, followed by our main presentation by Jean from Smile. The general meeting winds up with our monthly raffle. Following that, our SIGs, MacBasics and iOS, will meet until “ten-ish.”

This is sure to be an evening chock-full of great information and you won't want to miss it! So bring all your Mac questions for Bradley
and the MacBasics guys and be ready to soak it all up.

This is going to be a worthwhile meeting for Mac users of all types, you'll be sorry if you miss it!

You can download here, a PDF with the links from Rick Matteson's Holiday Gift Guide 2010 presentation.
A PDF version of Bradley's first three Mac 101 handouts can be downloaded here: Finder and TextEdit and Preview and the
Mail. If you have any questions, use the LIMac bulletin board or the next month's Q&A session.
A PDF version of Barbara Mehlman's August 2009 slideshow presentation is available for download here.

Did you buy a iMac from May through July 2011 with a 1TB hard drive? I hope you have a backup as the Seagate drive may be defective.
Read this ASAP to get it replaced if you have one of the affected machines..

You’re Invited to the MacBasics SIG
In order to meet the needs of a wider range of members and not put off those with more than beginning skills, we’ve changed not only the name from Beginner SIG, but also the focus of our SIG. We will still cover applications like AppleWorks and simple procedures like setting up your first Mac, file systems and using utilities, but we’ve also matured, as much of Apple’s software and hardware has. We plan to delve into Apple’s iLife and iWork suites to give you, the users, some working knowledge of these two very important application sets. We will also continue to try to show you how to integrate your Mac and its software into your daily life. So come on down. We'll be where we’ve always been, doing what we’ve always done, but with a new slant and a new name. The MacBasics SIG is led by Geoff Broadhurst and Rick Matteson.

The SIG meeting is broken into two sessions. The first is from 7:00 to 7:30PM, during which we will have our own basic level question and answer session. We’ll break for the featured presentation and raffle and come back for the main portion of our SIG meeting from 8:30 to 10 o’clock.

For the May MacBasics SIG, the topic is as yet undisclosed. As always come with questions. The MacBasics SIG is not just for beginners, but we do discuss aspects of the Mac that may sometimes be overlooked.

Of course before our MacBasics main demonstration we'll have our own novice Q&A session across the hall, while Bradley's dealing with the more complicated problems in the main room.

The iOS SIG, is the latest SIG from LIMac. It's a peer-to-peer group where members share their knowledge and experience with the
operating system iOS 5 and their favorite apps for their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

While the AppleTV does run iOS, it doesn't run
user apps. Nevertheless, it can play an important role in the mobile OS realm with streaming video and photos and screen mirroring.
Lets help each other here.

Apple’s 2nd New York City area flagship store opened in Manhattan at 767 Fifth Ave. at E 59th Street.
Read about this site’s storied past. Also check out photos from our local Smith Haven Mall Apple Store Grand Opening.

Board meetings schedule The executive board meetings of LIMac are open to any interested member to attend in a non-voting manner.
There are no secrets here. There is an updated picture for the 2007 board.

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