Events: Fall 2005

These are the archived events for the Fall 2005 semester.

Apple Information Tent in the North Residential Village

Dates: Tuesday August 23rd and Thursday August 25th
Location: Technology information tent near Wade in the NRV
Who: Samer Karim and Bradley Farnsworth

Do you have questions about having a Mac on campus? Would you like to pick the brains of a couple of Mac experts? Come visit Samer and Brad in the NRV around between 10 AM and 2 or 3 PM on the Tuesday and Thursday before classes begin. They will be available to answer all your Mac questions. They will also be joined by representative from other technology groups on campus, so come and get all the computer information you need!

Apple Tech Update: WWDC

Date: 9/14/05, 6:30 PM
Location: DeGrace 312
Presenters: Jeff Feeman, Samer Karim, Brian Zupko, WWDC Students

Learn about new Apple products announced at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference and some more recently! Students who attended WWDC this summer on an Apple Student Developer Connection scholarship will talk about their experiences at the conference. Apple Systems Engineer Brian Zupko and Apple Account Executive Jeff Feeman will be on hand to demonstrate and discuss new products like Apple's exciting new iPod nano! We will be serving pizza and soda, and will be holding a raffle at the end of the event.

 

Everything iPod

Date: 9/28/05, 6:30 PM
Location: DeGrace 312
Presenters: Brad Farnsworth, Samer Karim, et al.

The iPod is not just an MP3 player!   Learn about the new trend in Podcasting, automatic weather and news, iPod accessories and more! SIGMAC members will be encouraged to demonstrate their favorite iPod hack or utility.

Mac OS X Tiger Tech

Date: 10/12/05, 6:30 PM
Location: TBA
Presenters: Apple Campus Rep, Jeff Feeman, Apple Systems Engineers

Learn about the new features of Mac OS X Tiger including Automator, Spotlight, Dashboard, RSS integration, VoiceOver, and QuickTime 7.   Also, SIGMAC members may contribute any useful tricks they have learned with Tiger.

Share Your Shareware

Date: 11/2/05, 6:30 PM
Location: DeGrace 312
Presenters: SIGMAC Members

Our most popular event!   Case Mac users get together and share their new shareware finds from the 'net.   Topics include utilities, games, productivity, widgets, and more.   We expect a special emphasis on Dashboard widgets to go with the new Mac OS X Tiger.

Windows to Macintosh Migration and Integration

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 6:30 PM
Location: DeGrace 312
Presenters: Case Microsoft Rep, Robert Klayman; SIGMAC Officers

Learn about Mac OS X's new Windows integration utilities allowing Tiger to be a Windows domain controller among many other things.   Also learn everything you want to know about switching from Windows to Mac.   SIGMAC officers and Case Microsoft Rep will field questions as well to make this a very informative event.

SIGMAC also keeps an archive of events from previous semesters with the corresponding presentation slides and/or documents. Select the semester below for the events held during that semester.

Last Modified: 11/7/04