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Agenda

• Using iMovie- iMovie’08 introduced a new paradigm for managing your video assets and putting together a production. Come along and have a chat about the advantages and disadvantages of the new system, continued in the recent release of iMovie’09. If you’re already a seasoned pro, come along and help demo the system!.
• Troubleshooting and Housekeeping - keeping your Mac running during the Credit Crunch!

The venue is Windsor Lawn Tennis Club which is located on Windsor Avenue in Belfast. There’s plenty of parking.
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I’ve just upgraded NiMUG.org to the latest version of Wordpress so I’d appreciate it if everyone could keep an eye on it and make sure that everything is working okay.

Thanks.

Theres heaps of ways to use your Mac as a TV. I personally use a SlingPlayer to watch live TV but I have in the past used eyeTV sticks to get live TV and record TV for my kids.

Equinux have their Tubestick which plugs into your Mac and runs with their ‘Tube’ software which recently has gained a new feature.

Placeshifting — Share a digital TV show via iChat. If you’re running Leopard, just drag The Tube icon to an active chat. Your chat buddies can view or record the show, and you can talk about the show while watching it.

Finally - a use-case for iChat theater that isn’t ‘playing battleships on an insanely expensive computer’ and perfect for MST3King episodes of your favourite soaps.

Here’s the link for Equinux

• $1.05 billion in profit, up from $770 million.
• Just under 2.3 million Macs sold — representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth. This is incredible. I remember being pleased when over 750 000 Macs were sold in a quarter. Now it’s three times that. If Apple were selling 750K Macs and had 5% of the market….and the PC market has actually shrunk….but Apple’s shipments have grown…what percentage do they have now?
• 10.6 million iPods sold, up 1 percent (but 6 percent revenue-wise). How many of these are shuffles? How many are iPod touch? That’s the important breakdown!
• 1.7 million iPhones sold. That’s not bad for this quarter and they have three more quarters before the end of the year. Apple reckons they will hit 10 million iPhones by year end.

It’s all very interesting. Still no official news on the Apple Store for Belfast, however!