Our November MacLearn features two Mac 101 must haves – iPhoto and your operating system.

10:30 – 12 p.m. iPhoto – Gifts from the Heart with Gregg Kamei. Learn to import photos from your camera or device, organize and edit them, and create books or cards to give for Christmas. This is a hands-on session so bring photos to create with.

12:30 – 2:30 pm Your operating system basics -
OS 10.7 Lion for iMacs and Macbooks boasts 250 new features. iOS5 for iPad, iPhone and iPod boasts 200. Which ones might you want to take advantage of right off? Should you or even can can you update? Ross Rasmussen and Jerome Koehler present.

Come to this unique session and find out. We will first have a shotgun lecture presentation of the top features of Lion and iOS5. Then you can choose to go to a hands-on session to use the features of either Lion for laptop or iMac, or iOS 5 for mobile devices.

Register and pick your operating system, Lion or iOS 5 by clicking here.

Cost: $5 including a beverage and handouts. HMAUS member get a frequent flyer stamp for this workshop or may use 3 frequent flyer stamps to come to a hands-on workshop for free!

Numbers ‘09 is Apple’s latest edition of a truly great spreadsheet application. Today Ross Rasmussen, in his low-key style led us through the Numbers interface and key features. Here are some of them.

• Spreadsheets are files with a single or multiple related Sheets.  “Sheets” are blank slates onto which you drop tables, graphs, graphics and text.
• Sheets and their contents – their tables, graphs and graphics, are listed in the left panel where you can easily click to navigate to them, or drag and drop to reorganize them.
• To add columns and rows drag  the corner tab at the end of a the header column or row or drag the right lower corner to increase both at once.
• Move the entire table by clicking and draggling it.  Remember, each sheet is a blank slate you add things to.  You can even copy and paste a table with formulas into Pages and the formulas will still work.  Edit the data in Pages and the calculation updates the data!
• Add photos or other graphics by dragging them from your iPhoto library. Drop them into an image placeholder to maintain the layout of your sheet.
• Drag and drop comma separated files or open an Excel file right into Numbers.  Export files to Number ‘09, 08, PDF, CSV or Excel.
• Speed inputting data with drop down menus with options you choose, increasing or decreasing the value with set increments or a slider or changing it to checkboxes.
• Copy a cell’s contents down or to the right by clicking the lower right corner and dragging.
  Copy two adjacent cells and drag the lower right corner to create an incremental series.  This works not only for numbers but also for letters, days of the week or months of the year!
• Create formulas by typing “=” to tell Numbers here’s a formula, then click in the cells building the formulas.  Instead of just the cell addresses, C1 + D1 Number color codes and displays the headers (labels) instead of cell addresses, for example (2009 Enrollees) – (2009 Withdrawals).

It was very cool!  But wait, there’s more.  Ross will offer Number 101.1 to go through other features we didn’t even get to.  The date and time are to be announced, but if you are interested in that workshop OR iWeb 2, complete the response form and let us know.  Please make sure you specify which workshop(s) you are interested in.

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

You can download a trial copy of iWork ’09 if you don’t have it so you can try it yourself! Hopefully iWork 10 will be out soon.

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Coming up next:  iWeb 2 on April 10!

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 get the most out of the class.  Registration:  $5 for members, $10 for non-members with registration priority to members. Limit 12.   Click here to register:   MacLearn Registration Form.  Please be SURE to specify it’s for the iWeb Hands-on workshop.  You will be prompted with a payment screen but you can ignore it and pay on the day of the workshop if you prefer.  Submitting the registration from reserves you a seat in the workshop.

For this hands-on session at 12 p.m. bring your computer with iWeb installed. If people want to share computers while they learn, that is okay and could be fun. You should bring photos with you (preferably in iPhoto) and movie clips if you have some. Both can be incorporated into your website.   Requirement:  Attendance at the morning session or previous experience using iWeb for this session.

While Ross will be teaching iWeb ‘09, you can do some of the same things with earlier versions.   Above all, be prepared to have a good time and learn more about your Mac.

Location:  ING Direct Cafe 1958 Kalakaua Avenue.  Driving and parking directions here.  http://www.hmaus.org/meetings-workshops/maclearn/

Ross Rasmussen is a HMAUS member and has taught many classes in OS X, iLife and iWork at Kalaheo Adult School. This year he was selected as the Windward Adult Education Teacher of the Year!   Congratulations Ross and mahalo for helping us over the years!

Registration. $5 for members and $10 for non-members payable on that day.  Priority to members.   12 pm – 2 pm

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 22^nd 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?!

He then demonstrated how easy it is to create a DVD with your movies or photo slideshows made with zoom and pan Ken Burns effects.  You start with one of about 100 free templates. Then you drag in movies and photos from your media browser. They become links to your media. You format these links as buttons,  framed pictures or video clips to create a menu, just like the DVDs you buy at the video store.  Add music and  just click the Burn button and you have a DVD.

Missed it or want handouts?  Go to http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn to download the iMovie and iDVD handouts. Check out the Apple video tutorials at http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie The handouts are designed to work with the these tutorials.

Mahalo to Ross who not only gave us a great presentation last Saturday, but also provided a very enjoyable hands-on iPhoto workshop two weeks ago for 11 lucky HMAUSers.  Mahalo also to Jeff Kang who again provided yet another tech rescue for us, and took these pictures.  Finally, thank you to ING Direct for providing us with a super venue.

What’s next? Join us at the September 26th MacLearn from 10-12 at ING Direct Café. Colin Murphy, Apple Solutions Consultant based at Best Buy Pearl City presents iWork ’09, a great wordprocessing, spreadsheet and presentation suite.  Tip:  right now there are the BEST prices I’ve ever seen for  iWork -  Amazon.com has it for $46.99 with free shipping, the University of Hawaii Bookstores have it for $49 for students/staff, and it’s $79 at Best Buy with shopping points! (Note:  iWork requires 10.4 or higher). Click here for driving/parking directions to ING Direct Cafe. Hope to see you.

Other upcoming MacLearn activities:   iMovie, iDVD hands-on session by Joe Zaret on Sept. 5th and a iPhoto hands-on session by Gregg Kamei on Sept. 12th.  Sorry, both are filled, but watch your HMAUS email member announcements for last minute openings and the next workshop.

iDVD iMovie

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.

Ross Rasmussen

Join us August 22, Saturday from 10-12 at ING Direct Cafe for 2 hours of iMovie and iDVD by Ross Rasmussen, Windward Adult School instructor. Ross just completed a great iPhoto handson workshop and  now he focuses on two amazing products you get for free with your new Mac.   Take those cellular phone and digital camera movies, still pictures and actually do something  with them. You know what I mean 8-).

iMovie lets you import movies, clip them,  drop them into a project window, then drag to reorder them, add text, special effects and transitions.  Finish them off with music and even rolling credits.  Save them out as a Quicktime movie or export to YouTube or iTunes.  Then comes iDVD.  Take 2, 3 or more movies and put them together in a self-playing DVD with cool templates you drag and drop your stuff into.  Way cool!

ING Direct Cafe 1958 Kalakaua Avenue.  Please click to see driving/parking directions.  Parking available in the employee lot on Niu St. (preferred). If you do park behind the cafe please leave some spaces behind the Cafe for their regular customers.   We want to continue to be welcome guests.  This is the best venue we’ve had yet 8-)  Mahalo.

Join us!