HMAUS Signal 30 years of helping people with technology

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.

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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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Mactoberfest was, for the first time, combined with Leeward Community College’s new Geek Day on October 24th.  It was a great idea, but there was a major problem – it was too short! There were 17 presentations in 5 hours and each was worth participating in. The sessions should have been strung out sequentially so you could attend all of them. Seventeen hours later . . . you’d be done!

But choices had to be made and about 120 good folks did that! The HMAUS sponsored talks were standing room only!  Rolf Nordahl presented Mac 101 for newbies and switchers. Gregg Kamei presented iPhoto, and Mark McMahon handled iTunes, iPod and iPhone. Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa closed the day in the HMAUS track with Social Media 101.

LCC’s Digital Media faculty and students presented Illustrator, Flash, Alice a 3D modeling program, Ning for making a free website, Picnik for online photo editing, home security and iApp development. They were hands-on but aimed at the beginner.  Meanhile students and staff did demonstrations on Voice Thread, making a Hawaiian tattoo, drawing an anime character and Dreamweaver for artists and displayed their work.

As always we had door prizes and the top prizes were an 8 GB iPod Nano with video, a $65 backpack and a watercolor print donated by HMAUSer Candace Fernander. Mac Mouse Club and O’Reilly Books donated books and other prizes.

A big mahalo goes to our great presenters and volunteers, to LCC’s Kathleen Cabral and Cindy Martin who coordinated and marketed the day, to Christian, his faculty and the Digital Media student who set up, cleaned up, assisted and did presentations!  Good job!

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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.

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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?!

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