Learn to Make Interactive Video with your Mac!

Free. Reserve your space on Yahoo Upcoming http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2776974/

We are very lucky to have Surya Buchwald (also known as Momo the Monster) teaching a Quartz Composer workshop.

Quartz Composer (QC) is a free, powerful easy-to-use visual programming language for the Apple Macintosh. This workshop will take you from starting the program for the first time to building your own Interactive scene controlled with a gamepad. You’ll learn how to teach yourself QC, and meet others with whom you can collaborate and troubleshoot. No programming experience necessary.

For more information about QC, see: http://developer.apple.com/mac/articles/graphicsmedia/quartzcomposerinleopard.html To play with an interactive video piece (written by Surya), go to http://momopro.com/stage/qc/ — click and hold your mouse on the video and move it around to control the video.

Immediately following the QC workshop, from 3-6pm, we will have a meeting of the NorthWest AudioVisualists, a new group of artists, musicians, animators, and video jockeys, which will include live performances using QC. See http://nwav.org for more information.

Required:

Macintosh computer running 10.5 (Leopard). Anything from a G4 iBook to a Mac Pro tower will work.

Gamepad (Mac-compatible). We recommend the Logitech Dual Action (either Apple Only or USB), which looks like a Playstation controller and can be purchased for $20 (from GameStop, Fred Meyer, Fry’s, Best Buy, etc.). You can use any USB controller or joystick, but this one will be the easiest with which to follow along.

XCode - This can be installed from your System DVD that came with your computer - it used to be called ‘Developer Tools’. It will install the components needed to develop software on your machine, including our Quartz Composer program. After installing, do a system update.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us for a graphics/video meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Question and answers on Macintosh computers. Visit with rep from Wacom for their products.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

Join us every other Tuesday for a fun and informal meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.

After a good holiday weekend – now it’s Tuesday Clinic time. Come to The Mac Store on Cedar Hills Blvd in Beaverton 6:00pm to 7:30pm with your Macintosh questions.

PMUG Volunteers will be at The Mac Store, 3205 Southwest Cedar Hills Boulevard, Beaverton

Volunteers from The Portland Macintosh Users Group meet to answer Macintosh computer questions.

Come join us June 14th for the PMUG General Meeting as Rob Griffiths, from “Many Tricks” software, demonstrates useful tools for the Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

http://manytricks.com

Monday, June 14, 6:30pm – 9:00pm Where: Ecotrust Center, 2nd Floor, 721 NW 9th Avenue, Portland, OR (map) Description: General Q&A 6:30 to 7:30; announcements 7:30 to 8:00; main speaker 8:00 to 9:00 PM.

Come join us Monday, July 12th for the monthly General Meeting of the Portland Macintosh Users Group.

Please Note: There is a change of location only for the July 12th General Meeting.

Where: The Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue , Portland, OR 97209 This is also home of the American Institute of Architects. It is about 4 blocks south of the Ecotrust building where we normally meet, on the corner of NW 11th and Flanders. There is not food or onsite parking at this location, but you should find both within a few blocks.

Paul Garay from “Mac Video Training” will demonstrate useful videos for learning how to use your Mac. http://www.macvideotraining.com/

General Q&A 6:30 to 7:30; announcements 7:30 to 8:00; main speaker 8:00 to 9:00 PM.

Come join us August 9th for the PMUG General Meeting as Mark Ezell presents BENTO by FileMaker. This is a database application that is very easy to use. It is good for organizing your personal information.

Monday, August 9th, 6:30pm - 9:00pm Where: Ecotrust Center, 2nd Floor, 721 NW 9th Avenue, Portland, OR (map) Description: General Q&A 6:30 to 7:30; announcements 7:30 to 8:00; main speaker 8:00 to 9:00 PM.

Come see what the new features are in Microsoft's "Office for Mac 2011". Our meeting starts with a Macintosh question-and-answer session. Open to everyone.

PMUG General Meeting starts with Q&A on Macintosh and iOS topics.

FEATURED PRESENTATION: Online Marketing for Small Business: You Are The Expert

Among all the challenges of running your small business, marketing is one of the most daunting. It’s easy to waste time and money on strategies that don’t grow your business. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of expert advice available, and you may even be tempted to hire an expert. In fact, no one has more expertise than you when it comes to marketing your business.

This session will cover the basics of getting started in online marketing with a focus on finding a mix of online marketing activities that will be most most beneficial to your business–and won’t waste your scarce time and resources. We’ll look at search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, email marketing and social media campaigns. You’ll get an overview of the basics and be able to ask questions specific to your business during the Q&A.

Macintosh and iOS tips and information. Guest speaker will be Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist of Apple, co-founder of Alltop.com, The New York Times best seller author of “Enchantment”, “Reality Check”, and “The Macintosh Way”, and many others.

We start with questions-and-answer from the audience about Macintosh and iOS hardware and software. The featured presentation this month is about protecting your computer from malware like "MacDefender". This meeting is open to the public - join us!

You’ve been told to backup, backup, backup. Apple promised that Time Machine would take care of all your worries back in Leopard, but is it really taking care of all your backup needs? PMUG members talk all the time about cloning a drive, but what does that mean? And how do you protect yourself if a wolf comes and huffs, puffs, and blows your house down?

Find out about how to do a ‘belt & suspenders’ backup strategy that will protect you as best as possible. And you might even win a copy of a backup program at a raffle.

Come join us at the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center (Ecotrust Center), 721 NW Ninth Avenue. Question and answer hour starts at 6:30pm, with the main discussion starting around 7:30 pm and ending at 9 pm. This meeting is open to the public.

If you find that you want to divest yourself of your old Apple hardware to make way for something new and shiny then you can bring up to 5 items to swap at the meeting.