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The Portland Macintosh User’s Group is pleased to host MacCamp, a biannual, weekend-long experience focusing on in-depth instruction and hands-on training opportunities far beyond the General Meeting presentations. The friendly social atmosphere provides additional learning opportunities and the frequent occurrences of new friendships.
MacCamps currently alternate between virtual Zoom camps in the spring and live in-person camps in the fall. The upcoming Virtual Spring MacCamp via Zoom is Friday, April 19th- Sunday, April 21st. See below for more information.
MacCamp will be held via Zoom. This means that we can be flexible about the session times. Because of this, we have not set session times yet but will post that after April 1st.
By the time we gather for the Spring MacCamp, Apple will probably have announced or released some new hardware. As often happens, we expect to have a roundtable discussion to discuss their features.
Steve Riggins will talk about “Use Focus for a 20/20 experience” We receive a lot of notifications and other interruptions during the day. Some of them even arrive while we are sleeping. The Focus feature allows us to manage these interruptions. Come learn the prescription to using Focus on your Mac, iPhone and iPad!
The Freeform app was released by Apple about a year ago. It encourages users to lay out their ideas on an ever expanding workspace (whiteboard). You can enter text, photos, draw your own graphics, and more. This space can also be shared live with other Freeform users. Chris Kent has been using this and will share her experiences.
Have you heard about Geo-Caching? It is a fun way to explore your town, countryside, or even somewhere far away while on vacation. Bill Tomison is going to introduce us to the basics, showing what hardware and software are needed for this.
Loren Leed will be working on another of his Live Music video projects shot with iPhones, and invites people to “drop in” to watch the editing process. This is not a class to teach you the basics of Final Cut Pro, rather a demo with Q&A.
Another part of MacCamp that is easy to do in person but needs some structured time in a Virtual Camp is discussing what individual problems or solutions we have encountered. It may be reviewing old techniques (how can you open OLD files), refresh ongoing practices (how to format a new hard drive), or learning to backup your calendar data. It is important to learn about maintaining your Operating System. It can be cheaper to use an app that is included for free (like Pages or Photos), but you might still need help. How can you find the best program for using your Mac or iOS device to help with other things you want to do or organize?
If you have an idea for any other topics, please send an email to info@pmug.org.
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