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Washington Apple Pi Events

Note that Washington Apple Pi follows the same closure schedule as local school districts.

• February 6, 2010 - Clubhouse Saturday featuring tech support and tutorial help - Canceled. See photo above.
• February 9-13, 2010 - Macworld Expo San Francisco
• February 13, 2010 - PhotoGraphix SIG
• February 18, 2010 - Afternoon Learners SIGs
• February 20, 2010 - Clubhouse Saturday featuring tech support and tutorial help
• February 27, 2010 - General Meeting: Bo's Great Macworld Adventure
• March 6, 2010 - Clubhouse Saturday featuring tech support and tutorial help

Pi News Briefs

• Fast, Faster, Fastest!
• January Edition of the Washington Apple Pi Journal Available
• A Plea: A Mac Centric Youth Group Needs Help
• 100,000th Posting to Pi Forums
• Using Apple's iWeb '09 to update Web sites

Of Interest

• Streaming coverage of September Cloud Computing presentation.
• Clubhouse Saturdays, a new way to aid members helping members.
• Clubhouse Open House, January 2009.
• Scam alert: Beware of "billing problems" with .Mac accounts.
• TCS User Guide (newest edition): a guide in Adobe Acrobat format (2.7 megabytes) on how to use the Pi's forums, the TCS.
• Pi Six Pack: A year's worth of Journals. Tastes great and more filling, now available from Pi Store.
• Apple /// DVD-ROM now available from Pi Store.
• Pi Mosaic: 172 square feet of Pi history.
• Washington Apple Pi Photo Contest 2009: Winners
• 2007 Washington Apple Pi Photo Contest winners!
• Video tutorials on Web publishing, iChat instant messaging.
• Pi Store. Don't overlook our online store. You can purchase Pi Fillings CDs, and join or renew your Washington Apple Pi membership.
• Stay in touch. Staying informed is easy: sign up for the Pi Announce list, with low carbs, no fat, and no added sugar.
• Need a Mac-friendly dial-up service? Subscribe to our 56K Explorer service, complete with your own Web space and IMAP-compatible E-mail. You can either read about it here or you can see how to configure your system.
• Instructions for member Web sites: basic instructions for managing your Pi member Web site.
• Tuesday Night Clinic: With the move of the Pi to its current upstairs location, the Tuesday Night Clinic is in search of a ground level location for its activities. Until further notice is posted here and an Announce list message goes out, the clinic, as such, has shuttered is operation. Clinic inquiries may be directed to clinic@wap.org or by leaving a message at the office at 301-984-0300. Equipment donations are still being accepted; just e-mail reclamation@wap.org or call the office and leave a message describing what you would like to donate. In either case one of our volunteers will respond to your message.
• Behind the scenes at Washington Apple Pi's famed Tuesday Night Clinic.
• What really happens at a Washington Apple Pi Board of Directors meeting.

How to use your Mac: from the Journal

• Preparing for the switch to Digital TV broadcasting.
• iPhone 2.0: It's the App Store, Not the Phone. In fact, the phone is optional.
• The $18 million iMac: Why your old Mac is too expensive. Much, much too expensive.
• Building a Check Register in REALbasic: an eight part journey.
• Living the iLife: iLife '08
• The Macness of Wii: Nintendo understands interfaces, too.
• Keeping Current with Mac OS 9: Mac OS 9 in the 21st century
• Encrypting Mac Laptops to Comply with Government Directives: Dealing with bureaucratic paranoia
• Mac Security: Physical, Mental and Spiritual - Part I: Physical Security, Part II: Mental Security, and Part III: Spiritual Security. Because the electronic world is dangerous.

Revised February 05, 2010
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