iMovie '09

If you have an iPhone or any phone that takes still pictures or movies, a digital camera or a camcorder, you  can make movies.  Like your other pictures, they often land up in the to-do box.  Why not make videos of them and send them to iTunes, YouTube or share by email?

Kepano Kekuewa, Apple Higher Education Account Executive will show you how.
On July 22, 2010, Thursday from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. he will present a free public talk for Pacific New Media on iMovie in Krauss 012 at U.H. Manoa.  He’ll show you how to import video clips and still images, organize, trim and remove some of the shakiness, add titles and effects and export in a number of ways.  It’s easier than it sounds, but easier yet when someone like Kepano shows you how.

Ample parking for $5 for the evening. Enter EW Center Road, turn left at the kiosk and drive to the end of the road.  Turn left and you will see Krauss Hall under the big banyan tree.  Take the left driveway to park near the building.

Web 1.0 was the information web. Web 2.0 is the “interactive web”.  The user has became the creator of content, and interaction is prime.  They’re set up for folks who do not have specialized web skills – they’re user friendly.  Several cool Web 2.0 apps and sites were shared at our June 24th M2M session. Here are some of them.

Delicious.com, a social bookmarking site.  Create yourself a free account, then use it to save and access your bookmarks anytime you are on the internet, or find the bookmarks of other delicious.com users based on tags or keywords they give their finds.  Your bookmarks are shared unless you choose to make them private.  Jody Yamamoto, who teaches at KCC showed us how to create tag bundles for grouping your tags, sending your finds to another user’s inbox, and creating a network or Subscribing so links automatically come to your delicious account.   Download a handout from drop.io/hmaus_maclearn.

Jing  www.jingproject.com answered Marcy Katz’s need to see videos of her grandchildren without bloating her email account.  Jing is the answer – it captures either stills that can be labeled and marked, or up to 5 min high quality videos of an area of your screen you draw out.  Click Share and it automatically uploads to Screencast.com.  You are given a URL which you save and share to view your image or movie.  You can immediately paste it into a chat or email, sharing it instantly.  Cool!  Watch their intro tutorial, very easy.

Dropbox and ZumoDrive are file storage and sharing services.  They work similarly in many respects – both give you up to 2 GB of space, place a button on your Desktop toolbar once installed, allow you to drag and drop files and folders into your cloud account either right on your computer or via their website.  You can then set your other computers and devices to access documents you uploaded to your cloud, and with the hybrid feature, docs on your computer.

Though primarily to access your own files, you can also share a folder or file with others. ZumoDrive has a mobile app, Supersize Me. You can stream your iTunes library from your computer, saving iPhone/iPad space.  Reviews put these two apps pretty much neck and neck with DropBox being a little more stable and ZumoDrive conserving your storage space better and streaming music.  Your choice.  As an alternative to email attachments, thumb drives and CDs/DVDs, these hybrid cloud storage is a good alternative. Of course each has a “premium” for money version but try the freebies first. Not everything worked the way these tutorials said they would, but check them out and see how they work.  Tutorials  Zumodrive Tutorials: Dropbox

Drop.io.com is another fire storage/sharing site that can be expanded to a community with live chat, an email address, RSS feed and customizable layouts for each user.  Go to dropio.com and type a name for your site.  Create an administrator account if you want to customize it and you’re set. You set your guests privileges – add, delete or view and download only.

Click the Add button, locate a file on your computer and click Upload.  As administrator you can also delete items.  That’s it.  Anyone who goes to the site can download, or your can set access by document.  Each “drop” can only hold 100 MB of stuff, but you can have as many free drops as you like.   Visit http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn page and download any of the handouts we’ve posted for you.  Create yourself a free drop.io site and try it out!  Tutorial

Shortcut Tips of the day: While on any web page, to enter a URL (web address) to go to a new page, just press Cmd-L and start typing.  The web address box is automatically highlighted and what you type replaces what was there.  Just press return and off you go.

You can also type search words into the URL box and press return instead of clicking back  into the Google or Bin box to search.    Neat!  Mahalo Gregg Kamei for the tip!

Hawaii’s Science, Technology and New Media Community, is having their annual conference this Saturday at the Art Auditorium at UH Manoa from 9 am  – 5:30 pm.  They invite any interested persons to…

Join us to learn about projects ranging from nanotech and game design to a new electric car sharing network being launched in Hawaii. This conference is a deep dive – by science and technology people, for science and technology people. The keynotes and panels will operate on these assumptions. http://www.techhui.com/page/techhui-conference-2010-1

Very informative and very cutting edge.  One of the presentations is on HTML 5 and presented by someone from Google.  Another is on renewable energy, yet another on inventors.     Register now if you are interested, space is limited.  $25 for members, and membership is free at their site.  While there check out the diverse and active TechHui Groups.  Last fall they were over 70, more by today for sure. All interested folks are invited to join TechHui and any group they’re interested in.

Join us this Saturday from 10 am – 12 pm for a Web 2.0 M2M #2, a Member-to-Member session.  Web 2.0 spawned a huge number of websites that allowed the user to interact, create things, and post them on the web…without understanding what’s happening under the hood.

Flickr, Picnik, Craig’s List, YouTube and all the Google and Zoho apps are examples.   They were so successful there are far too many sites out there to explore yourself.  So, have you found a good site?  Interested in what others have found?  Come and share and listen.

Here are the apps shared at the iPad session.

This Saturday from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.  ING Direct Cafe, 2nd floor Ali’i Room.

Important Notice:  The afternoon from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.  Kelby Online Videos session is cancelled in lieu of the TechHui conference.  However, if anyone is interested in watching the Aperature or Dreamweaver videos please fill out the Contact Form below and we will be more than happy to arrange another time and day.   Already on the schedule are Photoshop Elements 8 on 6/30 and 7/7 from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m..  Everyone invited.   Mahalo.

Contact form:

http://www.hmaus.org/meetings-workshops/maclearn/maclearn-registration/

We had an unplanned but totally fun inaugural M2M, or Member-2-Member session on June 12.  Our scheduled speaker unfortunately was unable to come and regrettably called to cancel.  We called those who had signed up, but others came, so we stayed and they shared their favorite iPad apps – M2M style!

Mahalo to Everett Youg for starting the ball rolling, Miles, Gregg Kamei, PJ Jergensen, Capsun Poe, Kate Paine, Terrence Young and Mike Perlman who we kidnapped from the Cafe for sharing the pile of apps you see here plus tips and cool accessories. Details here (no password needed)  http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn.

Also there is a  summary of Christopher’s Breen’s “…Life Changing” Macworld article about great stuff to get to work your iPad into your life!

Now, Jerome’s presentation and expertise were greatly missed by everyone, including those who were turned around in their tracks.  Everyone will be happy when we reschedule it in the future!  We did confirm by circumstance, though, that M2M is also a great way to go!    There’s interest in doing it again – so stay tuned via the hmaus.org blog and your member announcements.

Mahalo to all who came and shared! It really was fun.

P.S. just out – Apple is releasing the iBooks app soon to make PDF document reading pleasurable. Hmmmm Kindle ooosh over?

In the May “I’ve Got Photos!” MacLearn session on May 22 we went on a wild ride through 5 different free programs you can use to organize, edit and share your 1000s of photos.  It was fun but a mental challenge to remember everything.  So, here are some tutorials to help you!  Handout at http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn

iPhoto - Jerome Koehler, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy Aiea stepped us through the interface, keywording, faces, places, albums and web galleries. He also demo’d the cool editing tools you have for free in your iPhoto app.   The very best tutorials for this are at the Apple site.  http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iphoto

Flickr is for storing, tagging, organizing and sharing pictures.  The free version works find but the paid version is very inexpensive and gives you unlimited space and uploading bandwidth.  Here is a YouTube tutorials to get you started. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaS56QCkoU

Picnik is a free online photoediting site.  Do adjustments, add Photoshop styles effects, add frames and text, resize and save.  Very intuitive but if you want to see an overview click the link below. The paid version gives you more effects, frames and clipart etc.  But try the free version first.  No storage – work on one image at a time and save it.   http://web.me.com/joanmats/HMAUS/Picnik/Entries/2008/12/16_What%CA%BBs_Picnik.html

Tabblo.com is a cool photosharing site with drag and drop layouts and one click uploading.  Owned by HP, it brings comments from all over the world.  Very cool.  http://screencast.com/t/NThhMWYyMmEt

Smilebox is an e-card site made for Macs.  Again, drag and drop photos and videos into hundreds of animated card, collage, album template.  http://screencast.com/t/OTc2ZmE3ZjUt View the videos and let us know if they’re helpful.  If so, we’ll make more.  If not we’ll do something else.  Make suggestion so we can all learn better and faster.  SMTLSLT   So much to learn, so little time!  Mahalo! http://www.hmaus.org/meetings-workshops/maclearn/maclearn-registration/

All event are at ING Direct Cafe, driving and free parking directions here..

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6/24 Saturday 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Web 2.0 M2M session. Come and share your favorite Web 2.0 website.  These are websites which are often free for basic services that let you create and share content, access information and otherwise interact with the web and others. Weʻll demonstrate de.li.cious for saving and sharing bookmarks on any computer, Jing for making and uploading screen shots or video tutorials,  Wix.com for creating a Flash website and Worlde for making..Wordles like this one.  Web 2.0 apps are made for folks who want to do cool things but donʻt want to have to do an programming.  Theyʻre pretty plug and play.  If you have a favorite 2.0 site to share, bring the URL.  Weʻll have a laptop and projector.  Free.  ING Direct Cafe, 2nd floor conference room.

Kelby Online Training

6/30 Wednesday 6 -7:30 pm and
7/7 Wednesday 6 – 7:30 pm Image Makers presents Hands-on Intro to Photoshop Elements by Joan Matsukawa followed by watch and do lessons with Lesa Snider’s Kelby Online videos $5 for members, $10 for non-members for both sessions.   Limit 10, members have priority.

Boot Camp #1  Mac 101. 7/24 (new date) This is our first full day hands-on boot camp to get you started with your Mac. Hear it, do it, master it! This is your base set of skills. We’ll cover Leopard/Snow Leopard tips; how to find, view and organize files efficiently, short cuts and an introduction to the suite of iapps that come with your Mac.  Come and immerse yourself for a day and walk away with real skill. New Date:  Saturday, July 24,  2010 9 am – 3 pm $15 for members, $25 for non-members including b/w handouts and a beverage. Space limited.

Shooting for the Web Saturday July 10  3 p.m. to 7 p.m. This session starts out at ING Cafe for a photography workshop on using your camera and editing your photos. Then we move to Magic Island for a sunset photoshoo. Cost TBA, priority to members.

Everyone Welcome!  Please fill out the Contact Form for a rough headcount and be  indicate which workshop(s) you want to attend.    Contact Form. Note: please use this form and not the hmaus.org Registration link. Please check the HMAUS calendar for updates.

********* And after that – more?  Oh, yes!

Apple Automator premade “macros” or scripts that help you do things you do over and over again on your Mac with a couple of keystrokes.  One example is Duplicator Annihilator which searches your computer and brings up duplicate images you have stored here there and everywhere.  Gregg Kamei presenting, tentative date July 14 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Boot Camp #2 – iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD date TBA. Organize, edit and share your photos and movies in fun, easy and good looking ways!

If the Boot Camp format works, we will continue with…
Boot Camp #3 - iChat, Mobileme, Itunes, iWeb Connect mobile devices, at home and away .
Boot Camp #4 iWork. Learn the core skills of the iWork trio – Pages, Numbers and Keynote.

This-a-way graphics by Wolfman Gass

SpringFest 2010 on May lst brought over 120 people through the doors at Kapiolani Community College for a full day of workshops, door prizes and a swapmeet!  Congratulations to iPad grand-prize winner and new HMAUS member Darrel Baluscang!

iPad Winner Darryl Baluscang and President Wolfman Gass photo courtesy of Kate Paine

Mae Kishimoto, another HMAUS member, won the MacSpeech Dictate software with a Bluetooth headset courtesy of Andy Taylor and Nuance Software.  Other lucky winners walked away with $20 Best Buy gift-cards, camera bags and other prizes.

Alex and Zac Ozawa

Mahalo to  Ryan Ozawa for the photos; more fun pics at his Hawaii Flickr stream.

The iPad was definitely the big star of the day;  but there were a couple of little ones too! (see photo)

Presentations began with  Jerome Koehler, Apple Solutions consultant from Best Buy Aiea, who highlighted the iPad and the new MacBooks.

Four Professional Photographers of Hawaii members shared how they capture their unique images: Dwight Okumoto, of Studio 3 presented panoramas; Claude Ayakawa of Claude’s Photos, portraiture; Jennifer Chung, dance, and Terry Takaki of TMC & Associates, lenses for close up and landscape.  Mick Isde of Lighthaus Camera gave a preview of SLRs with HDR video. HI Communications demoed the super fast Clear 4G system and provided everyone with Wi-Fi all day.

Ohia Auditorium presentations

There was a short HMAUS annual meeting to confirm the election of six Board directors – Rick “Wolfman” Gass, Ronald Albu, Kimo Sutton, plus new Board members Burt Lum, Claudia Nygard and Christian Ganne.

And there was more!  Chris Gagiulo of KCC’s New Media Arts program explained the development of  websites, from concept through wireframing using Adobe Creative Suite.  Brian Kerber of AppleMagic.net offered Mac 101; Ross Rasmussen, iApps that come free with everyone’s Mac; Greg Kamei took folks deeper into iTunes;  Ron Albu & Lois Cain showed how to have fun with Skype and iChat. There was something for everyone.

Enjoying the day - Jerome Koehler, Apple Consultant, flanked by HMAUS members Mark McMahon and Ron Albu; Linda Hijirida with her iPhone; Burt Lum and Terrence Young in his cool Bytemarks Cafe t-shirt!

People agreed the sessions could have been longer, but that was OK because one of the purposes of Springfest is to get folks interested in learning more by attending other events held throughout the year. A schedule is always available at the HMAUS Signal website http://www.hmaus.org. Lecture presentations are free, hands-on workshops are very inexpensive.  HMAUS members get priority seating and discounts.

Want to support the programs and take advantage of the learning opportunities?  Join HMAUS for just $24 per year. It’s a steal!

And if you missed Springfest, keep your eyes and ears open, and be ready for Mactoberfest, the next big HMAUS event, coming in the Fall.

Top to bottom row: Swapmeeters Dwight Okumoto and Studio 3, Tony Ing of HI Communications, Eugene Villaluz, Lyle Awakuni and Candace Fernander,

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Digital cameras, scanners and camera phones have made everyone a photographer.  That’s a good thing!  But now you have a ton of photos to keep track of, to fix and to make things with, and that’s … perplexing!  Join us for a demonstration of what you can do to organize, edit and share your photos with iPhoto, Picnik, Photoshop Elements and online photosharing services. You can’t learn HOW to use all of these products in 2 hours, but you can learn WHY you’d want one over the other.  We will followup with hands-on workshops for those who are interested in learning how.

Join us on Saturday May 22 from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at ING Direct Cafe in the Ali’i Room.  Free, but since space is limited please complete the Contact Form and indicate you are interested in this session. Join us!

Find out how your members can receive a discount to attend our Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, taking place in San Francisco this coming June.

Join Photoshop guru Matt Kloskowski for our next Peachpit Photo Club webcast on Tuesday, May 18.

Also, Logic 9 Pro author David Dvorin will be at the San Francisco Apple Store the end of this month, don’t miss his demo!

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