HMAUS Signal 30 years of helping people with technology

Mike Perlman will demonstrate how you can network your iPhone, iPad and computer to the new MacMini Server.  It’s touted by Apple as inexpensive and easy as servers go, and it’s made to work with mobile devices. Use the MacMini Server to link to multiple cloud services for a small business or a family network.     http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/

May 27, 2010 Thursday 6  pm – 7:30 pm ING Direct Cafe Ali’i Room.  Directions are at hmaus.org/INGDirectCafe

Free, everyone welcome.

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Mac Mini Server

Apple’s MacMini Snow Leopard Server, aka MMSLS, sounds scary and technical, but Apple calls it “A whole new kind of server. The simple kind.”  Mike Perlman has worked with Apple servers for 20 years, but the latest MacMini server marks the first time Apple has produced a solution that is cheap, relatively easy to install and maintain and is accessible with mobile devices. http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/

Mike will show you how you can use your iPhone, iPad or computer with this server so your small business or family can access, read and interact with a slew of cloud services such as:

• iCal Server
• AddressBook Server
• FileServer
• WikiServer
• Blogs
• Group calendar, wikis and blogs
• Web mail
• Server monitoring

Do you know what all this means and want to see how it’s done?  Do you not know what this means, want to know if this is something you need?  Either way, join us on Thursday, May 27 from 6 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. at ING Direct Cafe in the Interactive Orange Room (first floor).  Parking in the adjoining employee lot on Niu Street.  Bring your iPad or iPhone to follow along if you wish.  Free.
Driving and Parking instructions hmaus.org/INGDirectCafe

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Rolf Nordahl, owner of MacMouse Club compares features of Mac OS X with the soon to be released Windows 7.  Mac OS X has 10 built-in apps for pictures, movies, music, calendar, address book and mail, and they are all superbly integrated.  Snow Leopard. the latest OS’s big sell is it’s speed.  BUT on the other side of the table is Jeff Litvinoff, owner or Personal Touch Computers and Windows 7 with it’s new bells in whistles, faster processing, greater stability, all the things you’ve been waiting to hear.   This you need to come for!

Free.  ING Direct Cafe 1958 Kalakaua Avenue.  Parking in back of the cafe or in Niu St. employee parking lot.  Come early to get a drink or food and get a seat!

This presentation is part of Geek Week and Mactoberfest 09.
For more information and other interesting presentations Geek Week and Mactoberfest workshops click here.

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Review by Frank Petrie

Product: Xslimmer 1.7
Author: LateNiteSoft <www.xslimmer.com>
Requirements: OS X 10.3.9 minimum
Price: $14.95
Test Rig: 13″ MacBook Pro; 5GB RAM; Mac OS X 10.6

Ahh, fall is here and Snow Leopard is in the air. But before you install/upgrade, you should really do a few things first. Naturally, perform a back up – RIGHT!? But then root around your virtual attic. Are there pieces of bric-a-brac just floating around in there? No longer used applications? Stray .plists? Toss ‘em.

Then you’re ready to use Xslimmer to finish up the job and get everything ready for Snowy.

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Amazon has Snow Leopard Mac OS X version 10.6 (the upgrade to Leopard) available for pre-order on its sites for $29. Their Free-Shipping option works even to Hawaii! Hey, it’s either this or Windows 7, which one are you going to choose!

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