It was settled to have the annual meeting at Joe Cotton's BBQ on Saturday, January 8th 2005. There will be no regular meeting in January
Epson has just updated their scanner software with a whole bunch of goodies to reduce dust and scratches and other nifty features. Download an updated driver at epson.com
Microtech updated their drivers to work with Panther
There is now an Apple store in austin @ Barhn Creek Mall. If you want to see the latest goodies in person, there is now a place ONLY 3 hours away!
.mac accounts now have 256 MB of free space instead of 100mb
A game from Freeverse software is available for free called "Wingnuts"
A Wacom Tablet Graphire 2 Mouse & Pen was demonstrated. If you have a paint program that supports it, you can apply different pressure to the tablet and have the brush on the screen reflect the difference. A mouse is also included and works wirelessly on the pad. You can get one at Amazon or read one review or another Review
Megatrack which can be downloaded here or here is a nifty program for tracking the current hurricanes of the season.
Konfabulator is a program that puts little applets on the desktop. Apple took this program and copied it and it will be the biggest noticable change in Tiger. The program is Shareware, but it is worth looking at. There are over 700 widgets you can use with konfabulator
Firefox 1.0 PR (preview release) has come out. It is part of the Mozilla familty. It has the ability to handle RSS "live" bookmarks, and has updating built in. My favorite feature is the find capability. If your were looking for something on this web page with IE or Safari, you would bring up a find dialog, type in what you were looking for, and hit the find button. With Firefox, just start typing and it will find the first occurance of what you were typing on the page! Firefox is not completely Aqua, so if you like the OSX spit and polish Camino is a better choice (or Safari of course).
If your confused about what Mozilla or firefox is all about.
Mozilla: the open source version of netscape. Web Browser and Mail in one program. It's codename is "seamonkey"
Firefox: Just the browser ripped out of Mozilla, it launches faster, run faster than mozilla. It was first called Phoniex, then firebird, then flaming water fowl, then it's new name of firefox.
Thunderbird: The mail part of mozilla. It runs faster than Mozilla, but if you want both E-mail and Web in one program, download Mozilla instead.