March 10th Meeting Highlights By Kathy Holton User Group Meeting Saturday, March 10, 2001 This meeting started out with no direction, I completely forgot about the meeting. Earl reminded me, thank goodness, the meeting was this Saturday. Needless to say I did not plan anything special. The night before I hadn't been feeling up to par and almost did not show up at all. Lesley made chicken soup, now how did she know I didn't feel well? Thanks Lesley! I am very glad I did show up...We had not only one new member show up, but FOUR new members. Gene Carr from Elmira, Pismo WallStreet; Herbert and Rose Sass from Rock Stream, G4; and Tom Bidwell from Hammondsport, 8500. Also at the meeting was Don Holton, Gene Nolan, Earl and Lesley Barfoot and myself. We talked about virus' and why PC's are more prone to getting them; basically because more people write damaging programs to effect the most people. In this case I'm glad we are in the minority. Along the lines of PC's, we wondered why people don't fall in love with their PC's? Well have you ever had to work on a PC? I have and can give you a number of reasons why.... There was an interest in how to upload pictures for storage to be used on eBay. My suggestion was to open a free apple account at http://itools.mac.com and click on iDisk, sign-up and Apple will give you 20MB of storage space for your website or photos or movies, etc. The only catch is you must be using OS 9 or later. We also quickly explained using Fetch for FTP'ing to your ISP. There has been some special pricing at the Apple Store... PowerPC G4 733MHz 256K L2 & 1MB L3 256MB SDRAM memory 60GB Ultra ATA hard drive CD-RW drive NVIDIA GeForce2 MX Gigabit Ethernet 56K internal modem $2,999.00 Apple Cinema Display (22" flat panel) The 22-inch (diagonal) Apple Cinema Display offers a panoramic view — enough to see as much as two full A4-size pages of text, with room left over for menus, video clips, tool bars and palettes. With a resolution of 1600 by 1024 pixels, the Apple Cinema Display delivers twice the brightness, twice the sharpness, and three times the contrast of ordinary displays. The largest LCD ever brought to market, the Apple Cinema Display is ideal for the demanding professional user. $2,999.00 Apple is targeting a young crowd with the new FlowerPower and Dalmatian iMacs. See photo below if you have not seen one yet. There are new Apple Commercials on the Apple site. You can get to them by clicking on http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/ I think I might like one of the FlowerPower ones for my kitchen. ; ) Also for the young crowd (and young at heart) is the cool program iTunes. Again you need OS 9.0.4 or later, You can get it at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/index.html This is also free. OS X is scheduled to be released as a final product March 24th. Did you order your copy yet? http://www.apple.com/macosx/ This a completely new operating system, I have been using the Developer Preview and then upgraded to the Public Beta, I am sure the final version will be great. I can't wait for my copy to arrive. I'll be posting my thoughts and opinions as soon as I get a chance to play with it. Hopefully we will have it at the April meeting to demonstrate. Some mention of last years meeting at Elmira College was brought up. I will try and set something up again this year if I can. More information to follow on that. At the end of the meeting we decided on the next meeting date. It will be Saturday, April 21, 2001 @ 12:00 pm, Bethany. Have a Happy Easter/Passover! See you in April, and bring your lunch. Kathy Holton

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