Despite the hype about how Apple’s iPad is going to kill the traditional paper based book and other e-book readers like Amazon’s Kindle, it is interesting to note that the much publicized iBooks application for the iPad is NOT actually installed on the iPad by default. Like the iTunes Remote App, it is a free, yet optional, download from the iTunes App Store. Continue Reading
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On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, Nicholas Pyers, Founder & Publisher of AppleUsers.org, presented “Apple User Group Trends” to iMUG. He also used this opportunity to launch the AppleUsers Spotlight, a new, free, PDF based magazine. Continue Reading
On Monday, April 6, 2009, Nicholas Pyers presented “Introducing iWork ’09” to AUMG. Continue Reading
To help the Apple Macintosh Users’ Group of Sydney (AMUG) celebrate their 30th Anniversary, Nicholas Pyers presented “AMUG Celebrates their 30th Anniversary… Through the Advertisements of Apple Inc”
The presentation included various advertisements covering some of the products available from Apple Inc as well as highlighting the milestones of AMUG over the last 30 years. Continue Reading
Nicholas Pyers will present ‘iPhoto Print Services’ to iMug on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, where he’ll discuss the various options now available in iPhoto for producing high quality;
- prints,
- greeting cards,
- postcards,
- calendars and
- books;
all from your own photos. Continue Reading
Apple Store George Street Sydney Opening
The first person in the queue had been in line since just before 9:00am that morning (that’s THIRTY hours before the store opening!!!). Continue Reading
On Saturday, May 3, 2008 Nicholas will perform a live demonstration of the Bravo SE Disc Publisher unit recently purchased by AUSOM for producing the Disc of the Month titles.
Nicholas will discuss how he comes up with the concept behind the various disc titles and their content. Then he’ll show how he designs and creates the labels and the various marketing materials like the flyers and movies. Finally, Nicholas will demonstrate how he uses the Bravo Disc Publisher to physically burn and print the final disc ready for sale. Continue Reading
On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 7:30pm, Nicholas Pyers will introduce “iPhoto Books” to the Macintosh Multimedia Group [3MG], a joint venture between AUSOM Incorporated and iMug.
Nicholas will discuss the various options now available in iPhoto for producing high quality;
- prints,
- greeting cards,
- postcards,
- calendars and
- books;
all from your own photos. Continue Reading
On Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 7:30pm, Nicholas Pyers, in conjunction with Perry Liebe, will present their “Favourite Podcasts” to the Macintosh Multimedia Group [3MG], a joint venture between AUSOM Incorporated and iMug.
Nicholas and Perry will discuss their favourite podcasts and explain why they like those particular podcasts. Then they’ll show people how to find podcasts of their own. Continue Reading
On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 7:30pm, Nicholas Pyers will present “Video for iPods” to the Macintosh Multimedia Group [3MG], a joint ventre between AUSOM Incorporated and iMug.
With the introduction of the new 3rd Generation iPod Nano that supports playback of video for under AUD$200, more and more people are interested in how to get video in a format suitable for use on these and other iPods.
So, Nicholas will demonstrate various tools used to convert existing video sources and how to obtain new sources. Continue Reading