Events: Fall 2004
These are the archived events for the Fall 2004 semester.
Apple Tech Update
Date: Wednesday, 9/1/04, 6:30 PM
Location: Legacy Village Apple Store
Presenters: Jeff Feeman, Brian Zupko, Bradley Farnsworth
Learn about the next version of Mac OS X announced at WWDC, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger as well as new hardware products. This meeting will be held at the Legacy Village Apple Store in Lyndhurst, OH. The store is about 15 minutes east of the Case campus on Cedar Rd., before Beachwood Mall in the new Legacy Village shopping center. If you need a ride, please subscribe to the sigmac-talk email list and then post a request to the list.
There will be free pizza and soda!
Unix Shell Scripting 101
Date: Wednesday, 9/15/04, 6:30 PM
Location: Millis Schmitt
Presenter: Amitai Schlair
Want to learn how to write scripts to perform common functions automatically? Then attend this interesting talk on UNIX shell scripting.
Amitai Schlair, contributor to the BSD pkgsrc project, will discuss the process of writing and executing shell scripts under Mac OS X.
There will be free pizza and soda!
Using Final Cut Express
Date: Wednesday, 9/29/04, 6:30 PM
Location: Clapp 108
Presenters: Bradley Farnsworth, Stuart Robbins, Dhruv Kalra
SIGMAC officers Bradley Farnsworth, Stuart Robbins, and Dhruv Kalra will demonstrate how to use Apple's mid-range video editing software, Final Cut Express.
Learn some of the basics of non-linear editing as well as some more advanced topics like chroma keying, titling, filtering, importing media, and
encoding and delivering your presentation in DivX, MPEG-4 or DVD. Also, Dhruv will talk about the differences between Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.
There will be free pizza and soda provided.
Share Your Shareware
Date: Wednesday, 10/13/04, 6:30 PM
Location: Millis Schmitt
Presenters: SIGMAC Members!
SIGMAC members will talk about their favorite shareware and freeware applications that improve their productivity, provide entertainment, or make their Mac OS X experience better. There will be free food and prizes!
Software demonstrated at this event:
iGlasses
Desktop Manager
Aleph One
Proteus
Fugu
WireTap
VoodooPad
iProfile
Using Adobe Photoshop
Date: Wednesday, 10/27/04, 6:30 PM
Location: Rockefeller 309
Presenter: Stuart Robbins
SIGMAC secretary, Stuart Robbins, will cover basic diagram creation, photograph restoration, photograph manipulation, panorama creation
from individual pictures, "pretty picture" creation from scientific data, and basic vector graphics using Adobe Photoshop. Basic vector tools
and filters will be introduced, as well as several of the advanced color manipulation and layering techniques.
There will be free pizza and soda as well as a prize raffle at this event.
Installing Unix Software
Date: Wednesday, 11/10/04, 6:30 PM
Location: Rockefeller 309
Presenter: Amitai Schlair
Would you like to tap into the vast amount of UNIX software available that will run on Mac OS X? Then this is the talk for you.
Amitai Schlair, contributor to the BSD pkgsrc project, will discuss how to use several popular package source programs that provide
an easy interface to obtaining thousands of great pieces of software.
There will be free pizza and soda as well as a prize raffle at this event.
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Last Modified: 11/7/04
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