December: No meeting. Enjoy your holiday and bring that holiday gift computer, pad or phone to our January meeting.

November: OSX Mavricks: Power to the Desktop

Ward Stanke, one of our one in-house gurus, will introduce us to Mavericks, the new Macintosh operating system (Mac OS X 10.9). He’ll also be showing us all the newest features. You can’t afford to miss this meeting!

October 19, 2013: Introduction to iOS 7

Ward Stanke will do a presentation on iOS 7. The presentation will concentrate on what is new or different in Apple’s latest operating system for iPhone, iPads and iPod touches.

September 28, 2013 Joint PCS/PMUG SIG

Are you getting your money’s worth out of your iPad? If not, then you haven’t discovered the many tips and tricks that the iPad has to offer. Not only that, a new version of iOS comes out on 9/18/2013 with some new features that you’re sure to want to know about. Maybe you don’t have an iPad, but you’re thinking about it. Come to the Joint PCS/PMUG SIG and find out what you’re missing!

September 21, 2013 Passwords and Password Protection

Jim Hamm will do a presentation on Passwords and Password Managers. During this session you will learn more about passwords, how hackers crack passwords, and how to protect your passwords by creating strong ones. Jim will also review several Password Managers, including two that he has selected for his own use, and the criteria he used in his selection. If you use the internet for shopping, banking, etc., you use passwords. Come to the meeting to learn more about this subject.

Joint PCS/PMUG Meeting September 28, 2013

August 17, 2013

July: Digital Photos with John Carter

John Carter has been an avid Mac user since 2002. He has recently discovered photography and astrophotography. To this end, John started the Digital Mac SIG (Special Interest Group). The purpose of the SIG is to introduce digital photography using a Mac and any camera of your choice, which may even be an iPhone or iPad. This presentation is not about how to take photos, but how to get them off the camera and into the computer, organize them, edit them, and share them.

July 20

Mac Utilities

Art Gorski will take you on a tour of the mysterious applications in your Mac’s Utilities folder.

July PCS Developer’s SIG

The PCS Developer’s SIG meeting will be July 6 from 1-3 PM at the Library. The topic of that meeting is HTML and CSS for web developers. All are welcome.

July Prescott Web Developers

The Prescott Web Developers has scheduled a meeting on July 13 from 10 AM to noon at the Prescott Library. This is a general membership meeting for web developers. No specific topic has been established. All are welcome.

June Joint PMUG/PCS Meeting

June 22, 1 to 3 pm, Prescott Public Library, Founders Suite, Leader: John Carter

Chris Maxwell will discuss tips and techniques to securely use Facebook and control access to both your personal information and information you share.

Chris holds a degree in elementary education and a Master’s degree in Computer Science. She retired from Bell Labs to volunteer in schools, serve on the local school district’s Board of Education, and advise a high school robotics team. She and her husband moved to Prescott Valley in 2009. Shortly after that, Chris succumbed to social pressure and joined Facebook. She now serves on the OLLI governing council and is active in AAUW.

PMUG June 15, 2013

Genius Bar, Art Gorski, John Carter, Ward Stanke

PCS Developer’s SIG, June 1, 2013

The PCS club is starting a Developer’s SIG. The topics and tools used may often cross over to what Mac users can use, and even if the tools are not available on a Mac, the concepts will be the same for any Mac application.

First Hour: Ray DeCosta will discuss current free applications that streamline the work flow for coding and website design.

Second Hour: Rich Knapfel will discuss forming a new SIG. If enough people are interested, it will deal with computer and website programming at an introductory level.

PMUG, May 15, 2013

Using Dropbox to Simplify Your Life.

Art Gorski, our very knowledgable President, will talk about the advantages of using Dropbox. He will show us how to install and use the application. He has created a Dropbox-CheatSheet that you are free to download.

We also have nominations for PMUG Officers this month.

Give Away: 16 GB ThumbDrives with:

Take Control of Safari 6 (1.0)
Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal (1.1)

PMUG, Saturday, April 20

Topic: Assistive Technology, Ward Stanke.

Apple has been providing assistive technology in their devices for over 20 years. This talk will cover some of the current solutions Apple has provided, not only in OS X on the Mac but also on iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad, for assisting people with various disabilities. We will cover some of the options you can set to help people with visual, hearing, and/or motor skills impairment on Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad.

iPad Overview from John Carter