The next Daytime meeting will be held on Tuesday 16 April at Sally Hill's home, 73 Otipua Rd, starting at 10:30.  Any members who wish to attend please notify either
Barry or Elizabeth prior to the meeting.

AMUG WEBSITE

Lea continues to update our website - visit  http://dworld.co.nz/mac.users/  to see the latest changes, including a report of the February Daytime meeting.

ARTWORK AT TIMARU HERALD

Following Wayne Doyle's interesting talk on the use of Macintosh (and other) computers at the Timaru Herald, Ray Bransgrove will tell us more about Herald graphic design work at the AMUG April meeting (Friday 26 April).

A.U.G.C. INVITATION

Members were notified of the Apple Users Group of Canterbury (Christchurch)  invitation to attend their meeting on 27 March, at which Paul Johnson (General Manager, Apple NZ) would be speaking.

NZ MAC EXPO & CONFERENCE

Members have an open invitation to the 3-day NZ Mac Expo & Conference during Queens Birthday Weekend this year. This will be held in Wellington, and is hosted by the Wellington Macintosh Society.

Expo Solutions Ltd (a company set up by the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc.) and three Wellington Mac dealers are planning a Digital Solutions Expo at Te Papa on Friday 31 May and Saturday 1 June. The Expo will highlight the innovations in digital technologies in many areas of daily life.

The Conference will be held at the Johnsonville Commumity Centre on Sunday 2 June, including a main meeting and various seminar groups.  Further details of both the Expo and Conference are on the New Zealand Macintosh User Groups webpage:
 http://nzmac.netfirms.com/

SESSIONS

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

A general discussion was held, including various topics such as Jetstream, Jetstart, virus protection, MSM Messenger (a good way to load viruses and unwanted software!).
Firewall software Doorstep (shareware), Netbarrier and Spyware were also mentioned.

WORD PROCESSING BASICS


Tony led a session which covered a number of aspects of using AppleWorks (ClarisWorks) as a word processor.  Included were 'how to' tips on setting up a document,  using margins, columns, alignment, justification, inserting graphics and wrapping text around them, using the mouse to select text, line spacing, etc. etc.  With machines as complex as computers, it's easy to take for granted the basic aspects that some of us deal with routinely, forgetting that others may not be aware of them!

Happy MacComputing.....   Regards to all....

Tony Climo
Secretary, Aoraki MacIntosh Users Group