WWDC 20073am, June 12th, Melbourne time, the center of the Mac universe will be at Moscone West in downtown San Francisco California as developers and IT professionals from around the globe come together for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.

For those who can’t make it San Francisco, the Macintosh Multimedia Group will host, that evening, a presentation and discussion about the various announcements from the Keynote given by Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO earlier in the day. Continue Reading

Introducing & Understanding VoIPOn Saturday, May 5, 2007 Nicholas Pyers will present “Introducing & Understanding VoIP” at AUSOM Incorporated.

Nicholas will explain what VOIP, otherwise known as “Voice over IP” actually is and how simple it is to setup and use. He’ll explain how VOIP can save you hundred’s of dollars, each year, off your telephone bill. Continue Reading

Essential, Useful & Interesting Free Software for Mac OS XOn Saturday, October 13, 2006 at 4:00pm, Nicholas Pyers will present “Essential, Useful & Interesting Free Software for Mac OS X” at the AUSOM Computer Market & Swap Meet.

Nicholas will highlight a number of freely downloadable applications including;

  • Anti-Virus
  • Audio Tools
  • Communications Packages
  • Games
  • Graphic Tools
  • Office Suites
  • Text Editors
  • Utilities
  • Video Players
  • Voice over IP (VoiP) software
  • Web Browsers

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CD Spin Doctor LogoOn Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 7:30pm, Nicholas Pyers, in conjunction with Perry Liebe, will present “Using CD Spin Doctor” to the Macintosh Multimedia Group [3MG], a joint ventre between AUSOM Incorporated and iMug.

Nicholas and Perry will discuss how to use CD Spin Doctor, one of the “bonus” applications bundled with Roxio’s Toast Titanium, to convert your old”vinyl” LP records and audio cassettes into digital audio files. Continue Reading

DVD ConversionOn Saturday, September 2, 2006 at 9:30am, Nicholas Pyers will present to the Digital Video Special Interest Group of AUSOM Incorporated”DVD Conversion” where he’ll discuss how to extract information from DVDs for use in iMovie, Final Cut and iPods with Video. Continue Reading

Design Applications ShootoutOn Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 10:00am, at the Retiree & Others, a Special Interest Group of AUSOM Incorporated, Nicholas Pyers will participate in a “shoot out” showing how three different Design Applications can be used to produce a promotional flyer.

Nicholas will be using Apple’s Pages, a part of iWork ’06, while Barbara Gibson will use Adobe Photoshop. A third person will also use a yet-to-be-determined application as a comparison. Continue Reading