Since the November 2007 BBMUG meeting we’ve done our best to document any discussion, demonstration or question that’s cropped-up. For those unable to attend that meeting, these documents are a great way to find out what was missed, whilst for those who could get along, they should prove to be great a great resource, featuring links to applications, sites and topics discussed that month.

Below, you’ll find a quick summary of the topics covered at each meeting. Minutes are available (unless otherwise stated), but will only be sent to BBMUG members who have paid their subscription fees.

2009 MEETINGS

November 2009
More info to follow.

October 2009
Held at the Bristol Apple Store on Monday the 19th, this session included a basic introduction to Snow Leopard, and a beginners session to Apple’s iWork package (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers)

September 2009
More info to follow.

August 2009
More info to follow.

July 2009
This meeting was held at The Apple Store, Cabot Circus, Bristol. The staff were on hand to give us a speedy and thorough demo of iMovie and iDVD 2009, which come as part of the iLife 2009 suite of utilities.

June 2009
With the planned Apple Store visit moved to July, this month’s meeting was quickly arranged, and held at our usual venue – The Cadbury Heath Social Memorial Club.

The evening started off with a welcome from Vice Chairman Martin, as Jeremy was away, and then proceeded with a Screencast covering the new Keynote ’09 package. Following that, secretary Rob gave a short demo on Quick Look, before we paused for a 15 minute break.

The session concluded with a 30/40 minute talk from Jen, covering the basics of Final Cut Pro.

May 2009
Another busy meeting. This month we covered transforming your Mac Mini into a media centre, Safari 4 Beta, and Screencasts Online.

April 2009
An extremely busy and productive meeting. Here we appointed our admin team, decided on subscription prices and meeting fees, and almost managed to get everyone to approve the group constitution.

Once the important business matters had been taken care of, Rob gave a Keynote presentation on Open Source Software, and Adrian gave another Mac ScreenCast, this time covering working with large and small monitors.

March 2009
This month’s meeting was held at the Apple Store, Cabot Circus, Bristol, where the staff gave us a fantastic demonstration on Aperture, a powerful application that enables the user to edit, organise and display photos easily.

February 2009
With Martin putting in so much time and effort on the new BBMUG web site, we thought it was time he demonstrated to the rest of us what he’d been up to. So, after the welcome speeches and notices had been done and dusted we were all treated to a complete lowdown of the new all-singing, all-dancing web site.

Following that, Rob ran a segment devoted to gaming on the Macintosh, and showed-off puzzler, World of Goo, platformer, Archibald’s Adventures, puzzler, Big Kahuna Reef, and point and click title A Vampyre Story.

The meeting concluded with a number of Mac ScreenCasts, thanks to Adrian, including one on Automator, and another on WebClips.

January 2009
Our first meeting of 2009 was the best attended BBMUG meeting we’d ever had. This was no doubt down to the quality of our speakers, who were Ken Bell and Kevin from Quad Logic Systems, based in Bristol.

Ken and Kevin explained how they got into the Macintosh side of computing, and Kevin presented a detailed overview of Final Cut Pro and CatDVPro, an app which works by analysing the metadata within a file, and using that to aid your searches through audio, video, image and text files.

This evening also saw the first break between sessions, where members of the group swapped tips, tricks, and generally helped fellow users out of problems they’d got themselves into.

2008 MEETINGS

December 2008
No meeting held due to Christmas break. The BBMUG don’t hold a meeting in December due to people having busy calendars

November 17th 2008
After months of planning the November 2008 meeting saw us meet in Bristol’s new Apple store for the first time. After a quick prizewinning quiz, we had a tour around the store, were given an overview of the workshops on offer, what Apple can do to help businesses, and to finish off we were given a half hour long iWeb tutorial.

October 20th 2008
With chairman Jeremy off on more holidays the meeting was chaired by Secretary Rob. Subjects covered at tonight’s meeting were The Bristol Apple Store opening / Possible BBMUG T-Shirts / Basic iMovie Overview / App Stop system process killer / iFooty iPhone App / Launchbar and Quicksilver Screencasts / Menu Meters and iStat Pro System Stat / Mobile Me Demo / Google Calendar SMS reminders.

September 15th 2008
The September meeting started off with a general question and answer session so that MUG members encountering problems with their Macs could obtain help and advice from others present.

Topics covered in tonight’s meeting were The BBMUG logo / Overview of the Admin meeting minutes / Creative Labs and Mac Game Store Discounts / Photography and Adobe Photoshop / OSX Tips Montage Screencast.

August 2008
No minutes available.

July 21st 2008
Chairman Jeremy was back in the country, but unable to attend this meeting. As that was the case secretary Rob H chaired the evening. Non tutorial discussion covered the minimum amount we should aim to keep in club funds / What should funds be put towards / The possibility of setting up a PayPal account / Toast 9 Raffle.

Tutorials this meeting were Google tips from Screencasts Online / Flux web page designer / Flagfox Firefox plugin / Soocial Address Book Syncing / The Forthcoming Bristol Apple Store

June 16th 2008
With chairman Jeremy off on his holidays, Ash took over and chaired this month’s meeting. Topics covered were Mobile Me / The BBMUG Logo / Possible Revamp of the BBMUG web site / Teamviewer / Toast / Google / 1Passwd.

May 12th 2008
Topics covered at the meeting were Google Calendar and iCal sycning / An Introduction to Amazon’s Jungle Disk / Leopard Secrets / Recommended Podcasts / RemeberTheMilk / FastMail / Caffeine / Delicious / Media Central. We had so much to cover at this meeting that it didn’t end until 22:45.

April 21st 2008
A landmark meeting in which it was announced that the user group now had access to a mobile internet connection.

Mart and Ash had spent the previous four weeks speaking to companies in an effort to obtain either free or discounted software, and were now able to reel off a list of what the group had been donated.

This month we covered Delicious Library and Quicksilver, as well as a selection of Mac tricks and tips from Terence. The highlight of the evening was when Fred Smedley showed off his Photoshop skills on a picture of a Royal Mail coach he’d taken.

March 17th 2008
An extremely busy meeting, where the following items were covered: Multiple desktop usage / Expression Media / Disk Order 3.0 / Quickscale / Imagewell / Graphic Convertor / GIMP / Direct Mail / Reduced Price Office 2008 / Clean-up Drives / Erase Those Discs / Retrieve Those Deleted Files / Can Combine Icons / The BBMUG Logo / Daylight.

February 18th 2008
Despite freezing our cobblers off in our unheated meeting room, the meeting proved to be extremely informative, and covered the following: Should we form a committee? / A brief Office 2008 overview / Adobe Bridge and Photoshop CS2 Demo / FotoSpeed.com / DPreview.com / Graphic Convertor / How to pick up cheap Photoshop books / YouTube Photoshop tutorials.

January 21st 2008
Our first meeting of 2008, and the first one to take place at the Cadbury Heath Social Club.

This initial rendezvous of BBMUG members saw the following discussed: Setting-up committees / Promotion of BBMUG / Increasing Membership / BBMUG web site / US Applecare / Purchasing US iTunes vouchers.

2007 MEETINGS

November 12th 2007
The final meeting of 2007 was kicked into being by a number of BBMUG members hoping to breathe new life into the group.

Topics of discussion at this meeting were: Proposal of a new venue / the BBMUG logo / the BBMUG web site / BBMUG promotion / A selection of recommended links.

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