On June 9th, 2009, Australian Time, Apple Inc launched their World Wide Developers Conference for 2009 with a Keynote Address, lead by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.

The video of the WWDC 2009 Keynote address is now available as a QuickTime Stream, in both standard and High Definition formats, plus it can be downloaded as a Podcast.

Australian Apple Macintosh User Groups may wish to consider downloading the Podcast version, which weighs in at a hefty 1.3GB file and showing excerpts at a forthcoming meeting. Continue reading »

Starting in June 2009, Apple Retail Stores in Australia will conduct free workshops, during school holidays, called “Apple Camp” for children aged 8 years to 12 years old. Continue reading »

O’Reilly have created a number of different posters over the years for a variety of events and groups and now they would like to share them with the wider community, including Apple User Groups. Continue reading »

Episode #63 of The Mac Roundtable featured a discussion of Mac User Groups.

“If you’re wondering how new Mac users might perceive your group and what you need to do to overcome their perceptions,” Chuck Joiner says, “you need to listen to this show.” Continue reading »

CreativeTech now have a free, 10-week Flash Course starting in July. This class will be taught by Erik Fadiman. Erik is faculty at Seattle Central Community College Graphic Design and now teaches at our Seattle-area training partner, Luminous Works. Continue reading »

On June 8th, after many requests, CreativeTech are delighted to offer a free, 10-week, worldwide, Illustrator course. This class will be taught by Steve Laskevitch, founder and lead instructor at Seattle’s Luminous Works Training Center. Continue reading »

O’Reilly are looking for user groups to display their discount banners on your group’s web site. If you send Marsee at O’Reilly’s your group’s site, saying where one or more banners are published, she’ll send you the O’Reilly book(s) of your choice. Continue reading »

Hamrick Software is offering Apple User Groups a free copy of VueScan for demonstration and review. Continue reading »

Tropical Software are offering Apple User Groups the chance to request one free license of TopXNotes to demo and raffle at meetings, write reviews, and make presentations. Continue reading »

Your Mac Life, the Internet’s #1 Mac Broadcast, was also the first Mac broadcast available on Audible.com over six years ago and it has been a wonderful partnership that Shawn King and his team have been proud to have taken part in and helped pioneer.

And now, thanks to the nice folks at Audible.com, the archives of Your Mac Life will be available as full downloads, free of charge! Continue reading »

It’s springtime in the US, and Chronos thought it was the perfect time to refresh your look. So they have put together a special bundle of products, at a massive saving of 55% off compared to purchasing the products separately, to help you create new business card, labels, envelopes, letterhead, name tags, identity badges and lots more. Continue reading »

Peachpit have long been a supporter of User Groups around the world and unfortunately the current economic crisis has forced them to re-evaluate the way they can support User Groups outside of the United States… but don’t worry, they have come up with a very attractive offer. Continue reading »

Starting May 14 (US date), CreativeTechs is offering a free, 10-week, worldwide, InDesign course. To make this happen, they need at least 1,000 people signed up to participate, so help spread the word by informing your members!

I know a few Australian’s who got up (or stayed up) for the 2am, 4am or 5am starts on the recent free 10-week Photoshop course and they found the session most informative and beneficial. Continue reading »

Remember Matthew J.C. Powell? He now has a new venture – ‘MacTheMag’

Its mission is to maximise the value of each different medium to deliver timely and useful information to readers, so we’ll be able to continue to enjoy Matthew’s views and opinions, in a variety of formats.

Over time, the ‘MacTheMag ‘ project will have many features, but four aspects have already been launched; Continue reading »