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Greetings!
BMUG News
The BMUG Committee has worked hard this year to provide a range of interesting meeting activities despite some pretty challenging conditions.
First, the Committee members perhaps deserve some thanks for their work. Then they need some empathy - it has fallen to a very few people to develop the activities and this is, in fact, quite a demanding exercise. With not enough Committee members, it has been an extra difficult task.
So what is happening?
The Committee is planning to drop the arrangements we have worked with in the past and see how revamped BMUG member meetings can benefit members.
We will continue producing a monthly newsletter.
That will contain more of the things we might have gained from our monthly meetings - contributions will always be welcome (and the Committee hopes that some of you will send us some things for the newsletter - it is not easy to produce all the content, month after month).
The monthly meetings will not be presentations, as such, prepared by the Committee, but they will be based on what is distributed in our newsletter, a week before the monthly meeting. These newsletters will contain suggestions for members' consideration and these will be discussed during the monthly meeting. That is, the newsletter may have suggestions for members to try, and expect those who have taken up the ideas to share their experiences during the next online meeting.
We will continue our meeting event on the second Tuesday of each month from 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm.
These meetings will be online Zoom meetings and take the form of meetings, exchanging ideas and experiences, more than presentations for a single speaker (although these will continue on occasions).
Tell us what you think, please
We have used Zoom a number of times now, for Committee meetings and for member meetings. We would really like some feedback from you about your experience - including hearing from those of you who chose not to join us online.
Send us a few notes please at info@bellarinemac.org.au
2020-07 July Meeting
The next meeting, July 14th, will be an online meeting. Close to the mission of BMUG, this meeting will be an opportunity for members to share interests, achievements and problems, and some fun. The Committee cannot continue to offer two hours of activities but is very willing to work with members to make use of the technology more satisfying and hopefully easy.
If you have found a clever solution to a problem, or have a problem that others might be able to help you solve, please join the meeting.
If you have watched or interacted with an interesting online activity, perhaps you could share it? We are not asking for formal presentations but let us know if you have something to share so we can be sure to include your offering.
For those of you still not finding it easy to use Zoom, again we encourage you to give it a try - if you cannot get through using the link, you can send an email or call and we will help you.
One topic we will cover in this meeting is the experience of recovering lost funds. Many of us have sometime in our lives lost connection with some of our money. Examples will be considered. For instance, a deceased member of the family has left some money to a younger named person but that person's address is not known by the time of distribution of the funds. The funds might still be available but how does the 'recipient' come to know of these funds? And how do they recover them?
And there are still more stories of people being 'ripped off' - phishing stories. Thinking about checking both phone calls and emails is very important these days.
Join us for our meetings
So, the relevant ways to join us. All on our email newsletter list will receive a Zoom invitation before the meeting. You will also be sent a phone number you can use to join by phone if you don't have access to an Internet connection at the time. And you will get a personal phone number to contact if you need help at the time. If you have any queries, you can always contact us at info@bellarinemac.org.au
To join as a BMUG member and/or to receive our newsletter, please visit our website https://www.bellarinemac.org.au
Can you help? do you need help?
BMUG participants have noted the shift to almost everything being online but not forgotten that lots of people are left out, in such circumstances.
If you know of someone who needs help, perhaps some equipment, or even just some encouragement, perhaps you can make it a mission for this month?
BMUG could very well help - if you have some equipment you really don't need, or you need something for a person you know, perhaps yourself, we can sit behind your being kind and helpful!
Send us a note and the Committee will see what we can, as a group, do to help those less fortunate. Send your message to info@bellarinemac.org.au
Thank you again for a new review!
Peter Baldwin has been wonderful over the years keeping BMUG members informed about things he finds useful - giving us a critical view of their potential and use.
This time it is about an updated DVD copy application - a small but powerful MacOS application that offers you the possibility to quickly rip the content of your DVDs to your computer.
Check out it and the other reviews at https://www.bellarinemac.org.au/our-activities/product-reviews
iMovie, iMovie, iMovie!!!
Calling all who are interested in exploring iMovie!
David Dixon says:
"I’m not sure how this will work completely but the object of the exercise is to do an online iMovie class using Zoom.
We will start from the basics and work our way up to being able to confidently handle video editing of clips off the iPhone or a series of stills.
At this stage I envisage that we would follow along with hands on tutorials. All participants would have the same materials for the tutorials so when we cut a clip we are all doing exactly the same thing at the same time. There are some issues that have to be sorted like licence fees for use of the training material.
I would like to get an idea of how many people would be interested in doing this together. Once I have numbers I can start to work on pulling a program together.
Please email me or phone me on 0427952995 if you need to speak to me first. That will help me gauge the level of interest. Personally I think iMovie is one of the most interesting and fun things you can do on the Mac. It is what got me to buy my first iMac in 2001."
What's Mac-interesting? Ideas to follow up
Our Secretary has again looked for interesting articles to offer for your consideration. In particular, we suggest you watch the video about the possibilities for Apple's future, which we hope to use to start the conversation for our next online meeting (July 14).
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Membership Renewal
Shortly we will send out reminders asking you to pay your subscription. Some people have had problems doing this on the website but we are not sure why.
Some of you have told us you cannot do it because you have forgotten your password but like more pass-worded systems, the password is there for your protection. If you have forgotten it, there is a link to allow you to create a new one. That link activates a security system so it is definitely worth having and getting a new password is not hard.
We still have expenses despite not having face-to-face meetings so your support is much appreciated.
For membership go to: https://www.bellarinemac.org.au/join-us
For renewal go to: https://www.bellarinemac.org.au/join-us/renew-m-ship
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