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Users ConferenceJanuary 16 - 17, 2008
Find your digital muse at the Users Conference, renowned for its broad array of Mac subject matter and lively in-depth sessions, with experts from diverse fields providing inspiration and new computing ideas for both new Mac users and skilled masters alike.
Sessions cover:- Making the most of your iLife content
- How to use your Mac to create stunning graphic masterpieces
- The facts, features and exciting new improvements of OS X
- Interesting uses of the Mac, troubleshooting basics and cool Mac-only technologies
Tracks
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Magic
What are the skills needed to be a Power User - more than a Power User - a true Mac OS X 'Magician'? Sessions in this track reveal the tools, tips, and techniques that will help you master Mac OS X and make you more productive, more efficient and more 'magical' in all of your Mac computing endeavors. Features, trouble shooting tips, and helpful hints are revealed in these informative sessions.
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Speaker:
- Ted Landau–Author/Columnist (The Mac Observer),Mac Publishing, LLC
Ted Landau is the person behind the monthly Bugs & Fixes column in Macworld magazine. Drawing from the items published in his column, this session showcases the most intriguing and significant of recently reported bugs and fixes.
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Speaker:
- Dave Hamilton–President,The Mac Observer, Inc
Do you envy those people who seem to know what steps to take to keep their Mac running smooth -- and how to quickly fix it when they're not? On the road to becoming a well-respected Mac geek but aren't quite sure what turns to take? This session is for you. -
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- Dan Frakes–Senior Editor,Macworld
There are the Mac OS X features you use regularly, and then there are those you didn't even know existed. In this session, we take a look at Mac OS X's lesser-known (and unknown) features -- the ones that don't make it into TV commercials or keynotes, but are just as useful. -
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Speaker:
- Peter Cohen–Senior Editor,Macworld Magazine
Are you an aspiring game designer, or do you have a great idea for a game? Don't let the technology intimidate you -- there are loads of tools you can use to bring your ideas to life, and some of them don't require any programming skills at all.
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Inspire
Macworld Conference and Expo is all about seeing what is possible and inspiring you to expand your skills and try new things. Attend these sessions to see technical and creative masters demonstrate the state of the art and then explain how they create their astonishing works. You're certain to walk away motivated to attack your next project!
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Speaker:
- Jim Heid–Contributing Editor and "Digital Hub" columnist,Macworld
Think creative: Apple's iLife makes it easy. Whether you work with photos, video, music, or all three, iLife enables you to manage and combine your media to create beautiful slide shows, videos, DVDs, podcasts, Web sites, and much more. -
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- Cris Ippolite–President,iSolutions, Inc
For the database designer looking to create state of the art dynamic solutions for his customers, the combination of Flash and Filemaker offers a compelling combination. -
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- Russell Brown–Sr. Creative Director,Adobe Systems, Inc
Get the inside track on Photoshop CS3's new Timeline Animation feature. In this class Mr. Brown will cover some of the amazing new ways to work with video and animation inside of Photoshop CS3 Extended. -
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- Bert Monroy–Artist/ Author/ Teacher,Digital Photo-Realistpainter/Illustrator
If there has ever been a time when you needed an image that could not be photographed, this session is for you. He will introduce you to techniques for image enhancement, a creation that will stimulate your creative drive and send you into a world limited only by your imagination.
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Speaker:
- Andy Ihnatko–Columnist (The Mac Observer),The Chicago Sun-Times & Macworld
Whether you have a 1-gig iPod Shuffle, a 4-gigabyte Nano, or a 160-gig iPod Classic, your responsibility is the same: if there's even a half a megabyte of unused space, you just aren't trying hard enough. Especially when you consider the fact that nearly everything in your personal and professional life can be transmogrified into a format that you can sync and use on your iPod. Details will be revealed at this session!
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Vision
Macworld has always been a place for progressive thinkers and early technology adopters. This collection of sessions provides you with an opportunity to sit back and absorb the perspective of technical visionaries and cutting edge practitioners as they share their views on how technology will evolve and affect our workplace, home life and culture in the near future. Where is technology - software, media, the Internet, consumer electronics - going? Peek into the future by attending these fascinating presentations.
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Speaker:
- Nick Floro–CEO,Sealworks Interactive Studios
Join us for this look at what is Web 2.0 and how it will effect the future of the web today and tomorrow. -
Speaker:This session will cover the roles developers can play in creating more sustainable solutions and introduce several, integral frameworks, metrics, and approaches to sustainability.
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Speaker:
- Rob Curley–Vice President, Product Development,Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
The Washington Post produces one of the most sophisticated and visited news sites on the Internet. In this session, get a behind-the-scenes look at this operation and find out what washingtonpost.com has in store for the future!
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As this generation learns to integrate with the new communication tools at their disposal, they are quickly becoming cybernetic. Explore the rapidly changing nature of computer and human interaction amongst teens and the effect this has on what and how they learn.
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Work
Increasingly Macs are taking their place in the workplace and with powerful tools and unprecedented ease of use, empowering workers to be more productive. Learn how you can use iLife, iWork and other features of Mac OS X to its greatest potential in all-Mac and mixed Mac-Windows environments.
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Attend this session to learn tips and tricks on how to use iWork and iLife applications together to make your content look its very best.
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Speaker:
- Adam Engst–Publisher,TidBITS
We supposedly live in an era of networked participation, where multiple people can contribute to written works in a meaningful way. So why are our collaborative writing and editing tools so awful? And more to the point, why are so many publishing groups still using the same approaches we used ten years ago? In this talk, Adam Engst will look at the real-world tools and techniques he and his team have developed over the years for collaborating on the weekly TidBITS newsletter and the Take Control ebook series. -
Speaker:
- David Micoff–CPA,Digital Guidance
Attend this session and learn all the cool things that only Mac accounting programs can do! -
Speaker:
- Hadley Stern–Publisher/Author,AppleMatters
In this session you will learn how .Mac can allow you to share your digital photos with slick galleries, sync your iPhoto libraries with other peoples libraries, and even allow your friends and family to contribute to your albums via the web or email. -
Speakers:
- Alan Oppenheimer–Founder & President,Open Door Networks, Inc
- Marshall Clow–Idio Software
This session will review and provide details of the "top 10" Macintosh Internet security measures users can undertake to better secure their Macs and Macintosh networks.
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Create
Since its inception the Mac has been the trusted tool for enabling creativity. From design for print and the web to enabled photo and video production, Mac OS-based tools continue to break new ground in terms of ease of use and innovative features that bring basic creativity to everyone's reach, and enable the experienced creative professional to extend their art. Attend these sessions to learn how to use the essential products in the creative professionals' tool arsenal.
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Learn to create pristine-quality output for a wide range of delivery formats - including the web, iPod, iPhone and Apple TV.
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Speaker:
- Les Posen–Clinical Psychologist,Affective Presentations
Apple's Keynote presentation software has developed a following with those who understand its ability to elicit creative presentations which break the traditional rules for use established by other presentation software. In a world full of rote bullet points and boring talking heads, Keynote's features offers the ability to augment the presentation process and facilitate effective communication. -
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- Jim Heid–Contributing Editor and "Digital Hub" columnist,Macworld
The Mac is the hippest personal computer, and Flickr is the hippest photo-sharing site. Put them together, and you have the best way to share your photos and explore others. -
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- Jay Nelson–Editor & Publisher,Design Tools Monthly
The most powerful new tools in QuarkXPress 7 let you collaborate with others in real time, enjoy truly automatic color management, and synchronize content across documents. -
Speaker:
- Will Eisley–Group Product Manager,Adobe Systems, Inc
In the past, page layouts, websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content all required separate workflows, and designers specialized in one area or another. But today, designers must create a cross-media workflow that spans across many different areas. This session explains the details of how times have changed in the role of a designer.
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Leopard
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard offers a host of features and improvements that can make you more productive. Attend these dynamic sessions to go deep inside Leopard and learn how to put these features to work.
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Speaker:
- Ben Waldie–President,Automated Workflows, LLC
With Automator in Leopard, there is now more reason than ever before to begin automating those time consuming and repetitive tasks on your Mac. In this session, we will explore Automator's potential, discuss its benefits, and learn how to use Automator to automate tasks in your own unique workflow, giving you more time to focus on being creative.
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Click
Sessions in this track will incite your senses to enjoy the art and science of Digital Photography. Stimulate creativitiy, get organized, and share your photo's with the world - all you have to do is.....CLICK!
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If you use iPhoto and want to take your photography to the next level, this seminar is a must.
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Speaker:
- Derrick Story–Author, Photographer, Technology Evangelist, Story Photography,O'Reilly Media
Regardless if you use iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, or Bridge, taking great pictures makes processing them a snap. And you don't even need an even an expensive camera to record images that look better than everyone else's. -
As your personal library of digital photos grows, managing thousands and thousands of photos can start to drive you crazy. In this in-depth seminar, Apple’s experts will show you how to tap into the real power of Aperture’s photo management features to create an impeccably organized, easily-searchable library.
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This session will tell you what you need to know about working with RAW files, including how to use Apple's own tools such as Aperture and iPhoto to produce the highest quality images that your camera can deliver.
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This seminar will show you the fastest and easiest techniques for turning a set of photos into a standalone audio slideshow that can be shown on screen, broadcast on Apple TV, synced to your iPhone or distributed on disk or via the internet.
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In this session students will learn what types of images are considered as "Killer Sports Images" and the common "must-have" elements in these photos.
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