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!

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.

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!

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.