Are you a victim of your own success as a photographer? Are your grandchildren, children, girlfriend/boyfriend too darned cute not to photograph every day? Did you go on a trip and take 1000+ great photos? Perhaps you’ve taken movies with your iPhone or still or digital camera and they’re still in your device. Read More…
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This post was written by jomats on February 24, 2010
You’ve seen it there on the dock, maybe even opened it up and thought “maybe later”. Well, here’s your chance to learn how to “master” iWeb, one of the free iLife applications on your Apple, in a single day. Ross Rasmussen, in his usual low-key style, will present an introduction on February 13, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at ING Direct Cafe. In this class he will guide you through the program, showing you how to choose a template, use add and format text, drop in images and movies, add links and more pages, then publish it to as your first web page. View the Apple iWeb video tutorial for an overview of this free Mac program. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iweb No registration needed for this session.Everyone welcome to this free morning session.
Here’s my URL – iWeb! Hands-on Session:
Ross Rasmussen
Then grab some lunch at the Cafe and at noon the same day Ross will take those who are brave to the next step; creating the each part of your website and publishing it to the Internet. He will lead you through making navigation menus, customizing your pages, publishing to your MobileMe account, and what to do if you don’t have a MobileMe account. Of course, as with all of Ross’s classes, the students will help direct the direction the class takes. He promises to help keep everyone on track so that everyone can Read More…
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This post was written by jomats on February 2, 2010
Today Marie Albu, a graphics arts student and daughter of Ron Albu of our HMAUS Board gave an interesting talk on the many things you can do with MobileMe. She demonstrated how to install and activate MobileMe and use it to synch your iCal calendars and addressbooks on your iPhone and computers, both Mac and Windows. She created and uploaded photo galleries either from iPhoto or directly in MobileMe on the road. On the three displays in the front of the room were the iPhone via digital camera on one, Marie’s Keynote show on her Mac on another, and Ron’s Windows machine on the third! Gears crank, wheels turn. Perhaps in a future MacLearn we’ll have a live video chat with Marie, from San Francisco! Mahalo to Marie and Ron for a fun presentation. Do use the excellent Apple MobileMe tutorials at http://www.apple.com/mobileme/tutorials/
The next scheduled MacLearn offering is “Here’s my URL - iWeb” by Ross Rasmussen on February 13. Put up a website quickly with MobileMe, GoDaddy or your favorite webhost. More information to come!
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This post was written by jomats on January 24, 2010
This free MacLearn workshop provides an overview of MobileMe, including many advantages of this service and how it works with several Mac applications that you already have to keep you up-to-date seamlessly.
It syncs with both Mac and Windows machines.
Learn how to find your missing iPhone, create a web photo gallery, share and access large files securely the world over, create email accounts, publish your own website and much more.…Mobilize Me!
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This post was written by jomats on January 12, 2010
November 21st was a sampler day for MacLearn. Norman and Dorothy Hallett, Robbie Gee, Joan Larcom, Marcy Katz, Richard Sato, Lorie Goodman and Terrence Young had fun with all kinds of great apps for making things with images.
Terrence first shot a clip of each person in front of ING Direct’s green wall using the video feature of his regular Canon camera. The clips were brought into iMovie using the green screen effect and voila! folks were transported to Branson, the grandchildren’s house, Chicago or Europe.
Next was Photo Booth. Lorie took a video ride on a moving roller coaster and others tried the 4-up, sepia tone and miscellaneous effects. The computer’s built-in camera captured a still or a video clip which could be sent to iPhoto with one click.
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This post was written by jomats on November 30, 2009
Join our November MacLearn session to learn how to make cards and calendars with iPhoto; edit a picture with Picnik, a free online photo editing service; create a Christmas newsletter with Pages and record a little movie against a green screen — then add it to a new background. Fun photo stuff!
You can just come to listen or if you want to actually do stuff:
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This post was written by jomats on November 18, 2009
September and October are good months for working our Macs and our brains. MacLearn had a series of workshops on iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD and iWork that did just that. Three excellent instructors made it happen! Here’s the run down.
iMovie and iDVD 09 Hands-on Workshop September 5, 2009
Joe Zaret, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy Iwilei presented iMovie and iDVD. He began with a bonus Snow Leopard sneak preview. Then he demonstrated how you can select movie clips, add transitions, create titles and rolling credits and add music with drag and drop ease. You can send your movie to iDVD to create a one click DVD or use one of many templates to easily add a menu, music and graphics.
iPhoto 09 Hands-on Workshop September 12, 2009
Gregg Kamei, one of our skilled and patient HMAUS members presented iPhoto. Participants created albums, edited photos with a palette full of tools, created slideshows, and added titles and keywords to images. If you store your photos in iPhoto you can easily grab them from any other iApp.
iWork 09 Presentation September 26, 2009
Colin Murphy, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy, Aiea presented iWork, Apple’s productivity suite of Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The interface is consistent across all three products, making it easy to know where to look for things. Controls for customizing text, objects and animations are tucked neatly into 10 Inspector palettes. Seven of the 10 Inspectors are the same in all three programs. You learn one, and the others are easy to navigate and use. Colin gave away a copy of iWork ‘09 to lucky Dorothy Hallet and Everett Young won a copy of Snow Leopard which he already had. He donated it to the upcoming Mactoberfest on October 24, 2009!
Pages 09 Hands-on Workshop October 3, 2009
Colin Murphy presented a second great workshop, this time a hands-on Pages session. Participants used one of Pages’ 44 templates to type or drag images into. They learned to easily put a border or picture frame around an image, make columns, and create charts and tables. Pages can open, save to and email files in Microsoft Office Word format.
Mahalo to Joe, Gregg and Colin for taking the time to prepare and present these excellent session! Thanks also to those of you who took the time to join us, and to our photographer Norm Hallett.
Here are Dwayne and Ellen Dorschu, Susan Saka, Junie Hayashi, Lisa Oi, Cliff Young and Barbara Lusch at Gregg’s iPhoto workshop. Kimo Sutton, Everett Young and Mike Brein are involved in Colin’s Pages workshop.
Handouts for these products can be downloaded from http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn. We recommend you print from the PDF file rather than directly from this website. These handouts link to Apple’s iLife and iWork video tutorials.
Watch the hmaus.org site for more HMAUS events!
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This post was written by jomats on October 5, 2009
Corny yes, but interesting! Join us on September 26th for our next MacLearn session. Colin Murphy, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy Pearl City is going to demonstrate iWork – a Mac only suite of three programs rivals Microsoft Office for $54 – $79!
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This post was written by jomats on September 16, 2009
Ross Rasmussen introduced two robust iApps, iMovie and iDVD ‘09 to save your memories in an entertaining and professional looking way. In a two hour MacLearn session on August 22nd he took the process from start to finish. He shot some video clips of traffic on Kalakaua Avenue and of Richard Sato dancing, well, gesturing, in front of the green wall upstairs at the ING Direct Café. He imported them as iMovie Events, and from those Events, selected and dragged clips into an iMovie project. Built-in templates, titles and effects made it easy to stitch the clips into a movie. He turned Richard upside and had traffic driving through him on Kalakaua. Howz that?!
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This post was written by jomats on August 30, 2009
Don’t forget to join us next Saturday from 10-12 noon at ING Direct Cafe. Ross Rasmussen is presenting iMovie and iDVD. If you have OS X on your Mac, you have iMovie and iDVD built in. ‘09 only works with OS 10.5 but it looks like ‘06 and has many features of ‘08. So whatever version you have, come see what it can do. You’ll be amazed how Mac easy it is. For details click 8/22 on the Event Calendar in the left sidebar. PLEASE check the Parking Directions if this is your first time at ING Direct. Free, everyone welcome. No registration necessary.
Coming next: September MacLearn iWork ‘09 with Colin Murphy, Apple Solutions Consultant at Best Buy Pearl City.
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This post was written by jomats on August 16, 2009
