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Our monthly meetings and workshops will keep you covered on the latest developments in the Macintosh world. We've had many interesting past meetings too—take a look!

Current meeting details may be found on the main page.

Meetings

  • Jan 10, 2012 – Organizing Your (Digital) Life, Phil Davis, OMUG Webmaster. Learn how to use of programs like MacJournal to organize the bits and pieces of information that float around us constantly.
  • Feb 14, 2012 – Using a Mac to Trace Your Family History, Bobby Adams, OMUG Member
  • Mar 13, 2012 – Digital Infrared Photography, Tim Rankin, OMUG Past President
  • Apr 10, 2012 – Features of iPhoto, Selwyn Julien, OMUG Member
  • May 08, 2012 – iCloud, Phil Davis, OMUG Webmaster
  • Jun 12, 2012 – Features of iMovie, Roberto Putzys, OMUG Member
  • Jul 10, 2012 – Batteries for Your Laptop and Mobile Devices, Burt Stephens, OMUG Member
  • Aug 13, 2012 – TBD
  • Sep 10, 2012 – TBD
  • Oct 09, 2012 – TBD
  • Nov 13, 2012 – TBD
  • Dec 10, 2012 – Christmas Party

Workshops

  • Jan 21, 2012 Keep It Simple
  • Feb 18, 2012 Finding Stuff
  • Mar 17, 2012 TBD
  • Apr 21, 2012 TBD
  • May 19, 2012 TBD
  • Jun – Aug No Workshops
  • Sep 15, 2012 TBD
  • Oct 20, 2012 TBD
  • Nov 17, 2012 TBD
  • Dec – No Workshop

Past Meetings

  • Healthy Ocala, Bob Holloran
  • iPad vs Macbook Pro, Bob Adams, OMUG Member
  • Running Windows programs on a Mac, Jon Parshal, Codeweavers; Phil Davis, OMUG Webmaster
  • Using Macs in Public Education: Experimental Use of the iPad, Don Raymond, Dr. NH Jones Elementary School
  • Using Facebook, NC Sizemore; iPad1 vs iPad2, Bob Adams
  • June 14, 2011 – Going Paperless, Katie Floyd, President MacPeople
  • July 12, 2011 – Overview of Garageband and Creative Writing on the Mac, Jim Rietz, President VMUG
  • August 9, 2011 – Intro to Lion, Phil Davis, OMUG Webmaster
  • September 13, 2011 – Speech Recognition and Synthesis; Integrating Keynote and iLife Components, Burt Stephens, OMUG Member
  • October 11, 2011 – Taming the Lion, Phil Davis
  • Nov 08, 2011 – Bogus E-mails and Scams, NC Sizemore, OMUG Member, and others
  • Dec 13, 2011 – Christmas Party

Past Workshops

  • Mac Basics
  • Mac Essentials
  • Files, Mail, Address Book
  • iCal, google calendar, google phone
  • Mac Maintenance; Mac Backup
  • Cloud Computing: using Dropbox, Evernote, GoogleDocs, and other on-line applications
  • Using iWork Pages
  • Using iPhoto 11
  • Sep 17, 2011 – Basics, Q&A, Organize Your Mac (Phil Davis)
  • Oct 15, 2011 -Basics, Q&A, Photoshop Elements (Tim Rankin)
  • Nov 19, 2011- Basics, Q&A, Mac Essentials: Using OS X Tools (Phil Davis)
  • Dec – no workshop
 

Typical Monthly Meeting Agenda
  • Introduction of guests, new members
  • Main Speaker
  • Break with refreshments
  • Tech Tips, Demonstrations
  • Q&A

Mac Workshops

These two-hour sessions provide in-depth tutorials on Mac basics, and Mac software. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops, but this is not required.

Starting in September 2011, The first part of each workshop will be geared toward new or beginning Mac users. The second part will cover intermediate and more advanced topics.

Also, starting in September 2011, non-OMUG members will be charged $5 per workshop. $5 will be deducted from OMUG dues, if the non-member decides to join OMUG.