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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.Download the Users Conference @ a Glance
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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Speaker:
- Brian Hoffman–Apple
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:
- 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:
- Rob Griffiths–Senior Editor,Macworld
This session will include the best of macosxhints.com's tips for Apple's recently released OS X 10.5, as well as some general OS X tips, troubleshooting advice, and a selection of useful third-party add-ons.
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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:
- Chris Orwig–Photographer
Why do certain photographs fall flat, while others take your breath away? Come to this session to find out and to learn state of the art digital photography techniqes that will take your photography to the next level.
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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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Speaker:
- 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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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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Speaker:
- 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:
- 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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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.
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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:
- Merlin Mann–Mann, Merlin
Our "always on" habits (and the technologies that enable them) have left most of us feeling stressed-out, anxious, and perpetually behind on _everything_ we do. We've ceded full-time access to anyone who wants it - we drink from a fire hose all day long, then wonder why our lips feel so chapped.
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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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Speaker:
- Jason Cranford Teague–Director of Web Design, AOL Global Programming,America Online, Inc.
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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Speakers:
- Alex Lindsay–Chief Architect,Pixel Corp.
- Leo Laporte–Host-Producer,this WEEK in TECH
Whether you're producing for the iPod, AppleTV, iPhone, YouTube, or even Digital Cable...the opportunities for the independent producer have never been more pronounced.
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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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Speaker:
- Jim Heiser–Sr. Marketing Manager, Business Markets,Apple
iWork has always made it easy to add style to your business with professional-quality themes to create newsletters, brochures, flyers and more. Now, iWork '08 offers Numbers, an innovative spreadsheet application, to help you effortlessly balance your budget or even create detailed financial documents.
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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.
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Speaker:
- David Micoff–CPA,Digital Guidance
Attend this session and learn all the cool things that only Mac accounting programs can do!
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Speaker:
- Sheridan Jones–Lead Marketing Manager,Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Group Manager and pixel pusher Sheridan Jones will help turn on your left and right brain with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. From the streamlined user interface to the powerful new features in this suite of familiar favorites, you’ll get insider tips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage you won’t see on the show floor.
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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.
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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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Speaker:
- Andrew Shalat–Designer, Writer, Author, Illustrator & Instructor,ShalatDesign
This seminar will teach you how to economically and efficiently pull together all the apps a Designer goes through in a day to create a unified project (Logo/brochure/Web Page/Broadcast).
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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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Speaker:
- 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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Speaker:
- 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.
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Speaker:
- Adam Pratt–Senior Systems Engineer,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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Speaker:
- Kevin O'Connor–Consultant,MakeColorBehave
Getting color right is a constant challenge. In this entertaining and informative session, Kevin O'Connor will show you the basics of what to do to get your monitor and printer to match from various applications, including iPhoto, Preview, QuarkXpress, Adobe's Creative Suite, and Aperture.
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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:
- Tonya Engst–Editor in Chief of Take Control Books,TidBITS Publishing, Inc.
Is your Mac Desktop too cluttered? Are you in a rut with the techniques you use to navigate around on your Mac? Are you interested in the latest Leopard-based strategies for organizing and finding files in the Finder? If you answered yes to any of these questions, get help and learn how to get more out of your Mac with this talk, which will get you out of your rut (if you're in one) and help you work more effectively in the Leopard Finder.
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Speakers:
- Benjamin Levy–Owner,Solutions Consulting
- Phil Goodman–Owner,Goodman Consulting
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Speakers:
- Benjamin Levy–Owner,Solutions Consulting
- Phil Goodman–Owner,Goodman Consulting
- Pam Lefkowitz–Core Computing Technologies, Inc.
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Speakers:
- Benjamin Levy–Owner,Solutions Consulting
- Phil Goodman–Owner,Goodman Consulting
- Steve Leebove–President,MacRescue, LLC
So you're a power user and you've gone through lots of operating system upgrades over the years. But remember that time you upgraded and you lost your email settings? Or remember that time your Internet VPN blew up after installing the latest OS? Well, you may not have access to an IT department to handle the upgrade for you but you do have three seasoned members of Apple's Consultant Network, who handle hundreds of upgrades each year, leading this session for you.
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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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Speaker:
- Joe Schorr–Senior Product Manager,Apple
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.
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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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Speaker:
- Ben Long–Freelance Writer, Photographer and Videographer, Czar,completedigitalphotography.com
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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Speaker:
- Martin Gisborne–Apple
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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Speaker:
- Ben Chen–Photographer,So Cal Pixels
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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