Events: Fall 2006

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Apple Tech Update

Date: September 13th, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Clapp 108
Presenters: Bradley Farnsworth, Kyle Niemeyer

Learn about new Apple products announced at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference including the Mac Pro and the next-gen Mac OS X Leopard! We'll demo the Leopard Preview that Steve Jobs showed off at the WWDC Keynote. Students who attended WWDC this summer on an Apple Student Developer Connection scholarship will talk about their experiences at the conference. Topics include Time Machine, Spaces, Notes in Mail.app, Text-to-Speech, Spotlight Help, Objective-C 2.0 and more!

Windows on a Mac

Date: September 27th, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Nord 400
Presenters: Bradley Farnsworth

Come explore the possibility of running Windows on an Intel-based Mac! We'll look into setting up and comparing Apple's free Boot Camp, the Parallels virtualization environment, and the CrossOver environment. Pizza and soda will be provided, and we'll have a raffle after the meeting.

Info:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
http://www.parallels.com/
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

Share Your Shareware

Date: October 18th, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Nord 400
Presenters: SIGMAC Members

This is SIGMAC's most popular event! Case Mac users get together and share their new shareware finds from the 'net. Topics include utilities, games, productivity, widgets, Automator scripts and more.

Note! ACM is holding a Google Talk at 6:00 PM in Schmitt. We've pushed back our meeting so you can attend both! They'll be serving pizza and handing out Google goodies.

 

Software Development on Mac OS X
*Cancelled until next semester*

Date: November 1st, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Nord 400
Presenters: TBA

SIGMAC officers and representatives from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) will demonstrate and discuss Apple's Development Environment, Xcode.

Share Your Podcasts

Date: November 15th, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Nord 400
Presenters: Aaron Shaffer, TBA

Do you have a favorite podcast or perhaps a podcast of your own? Come share your podcasts with other iPod users.

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