What? Two user group meetings in the same week? Turns out there was more to cover in iPhoto ’09 and iMovie ’09 than time allowed for at CoMUG last month, so I’ll be back to pick up where I left off. That means more iPhoto action, some iMovie action, and probably a few jokes about iPhoto’s face recognition confusing animals with my family.
I’m stepping out from behind my desk again, and this time it’s to get all chatty with the CapMac Mac User Group in Austin, Texas. That’s going to be on Tuesday, March 10 at 7PM — and get this: They meet at a pub. A pub!
I’ll be opening my big mouth in public instead of on the Internet on Thursday, February 12, at the Mac User Group in Boulder, Colorado. That’s CoMUG for those in the know. I’m going to be showing off what’s new and cool in iPhoto and iMovie ’09, and I promise to do my best to be a little more compelling than Phil Schiller was when he demoed iLife ’09 during Macworld Expo in January.
Friends have been hounding me for years — actually, two seasons, but who’s counting — to watch The Big Bang Theory. Everyone kept telling me how amazingly funny the show is, how I’d be able to see my world played out in the characters, and how the geek and nerd factor would be right up my alley. Yes, they were all right, but it still took no end of cajoling on the part of my friend Lesa Snider King and the gifting of season one from the iTunes Store before I started watching.
It’s true: The Big Bang Theory totally rocks and I should have started watching it sooner. But that’s not the point. The point is that those guys at Apple are frakking smart and anyone that’s worried the little Cupertino-company-that-could will lose relevance now that Steve Jobs is on a medical leave of absence needs to take a big step back and look at the bigger picture. Continue reading
An informal survey of the stuff I use in my day-to-day life has led me to an interesting, yet wholly unsurprising, conclusion. I am a tech junkie. Really.
I sit in front of a MacBook Pro with a 23-inch Cinema Display all day, I always have the latest version of Mac OS X installed, my iPhone is always close at hand, and there is usually an iPod or two sitting on my desk.