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Description: The simple way to bring more power to your organization. Introducing Snow Leopard Server.

Snow Leopard Server makes it easier than ever for people to collaborate, communicate, and share information. Before you know it, your organization will be exchanging files with each other, collaborating on projects, accessing information remotely, creating and distributing podcasts, and more. In one afternoon, you’ll learn about exciting new features and enhancements and see how Snow Leopard Server is transforming organizations like yours using Macs, PCs, and iPhone devices. Space is limited, so reserve your seat today.

Seminar Agenda

Hardware and Software Overview: A top-level introduction to Apple’s server hardware and software solutions, this overview will bring attendees up to speed on each product’s key features and capabilities.

Setup, Administration and Integration: With Snow Leopard Server, Apple extends its legendary ease of use to the configuration, management, and monitoring of a server. This session will focus on the setup and configuration of servers and demonstrate how you can deploy powerful network services to your organization.

Collaboration and Communication with Snow Leopard Server: Snow Leopard Server offers a rich and full set of services that make it easy for users in your organization to collaborate efficiently. This session will discuss how you can use Mac OS X Server’s built-in services to: share calendars, schedule meetings, and coordinate events; access and synchronize contacts across multiple computers and devices; collaborate and communicate through their own wiki-powered intranet website; securely send instant messages to communicate between users and groups.

Podcast Producer 2: An end-to-end content delivery solution: Podcast Producer takes the complexity out of capturing and publishing professional- quality podcasts – enabling your organization to produce more podcasts with less work. In this session you’ll learn how easy it is to setup and use Podcast Producer to deliver corporate communication, employee training and integration with iTunes U.

Scripting for System Administrators: Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server deliver the widest array of scripting technologies in a single box. And with Snow Leopard, the dramatically redesigned Services architecture lets you put management tools at the “point-of-need” where staff and managers require them the most. In this session you will learn about how to use services to automate repetitive tasks for system setup, configuration, and other management duties.

iPhone Integration: Whether you use an iPhone or iPod touch in your organization, learn how Snow Leopard Server can not only assist with automatically configuring these mobile devices, but also provide access to key services such as Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Wiki and Remote Access.

Who should attend: This seminar is ideal for business and K-12 or HiEd education IT managers, IT administrators, IS managers, IS directors, server architects, technology coordinators and production managers, as well as chairpersons, faculty, deans, and administrators of technology for educational institutions.

Space for seminar is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

LOCATION: World Trade Center Auditorium 121 SW Salmon 2WTCBR01 Portland, Oregon 97204

Here’s the link to the presentation on Slideshare:

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Hi,

When I presented TopXNotes to the MUG a while back some of your members bought copies. I wanted each TopXNotes owner to know they should have received an email on how to obtain the discounted price on the upgrade they are entitled to receive.

This is the first paid update we have ever done in over three years of working on TopXNotes. Our apologies if you were not notified of the upgrade. We are trying to notify out thousands of customers as fast as possible, process stale and mistyped, email addresses, and get the word out as fast as possible.

You should have received an email on upgrading. If anyone has not received the information, please use our contact form on the website (www.topxnotes.com) to let us know you need upgrade information. Direct link to the contact page follows:

http://www.tropic4.com/support/index.html#contact

All the download buttons, from anywhere on our site, download 1.5.

We hope you enjoy TopXNotes1.5.

Again, out sincere apologies for the notice delay.

Cheers, James H. Lee, Jr. President Tropical Software, Inc.

jim@tropic4.com

Tropical Software, Inc. Home of TopXNotes, the ultimate personal note manager

www.tropic4.com

Viewing the site on an iPhone is much better now!

by Gary Pool

I used an original blue & white G3 Macintosh running Photoshop 5.0 to create these digital compositions. This work, which ultimately became two individual images by printing at various stages of creation, began as many images scanned into Photoshop at 300 ppi and then inserted into individual layers. Then the images were cleaned up and strategically placed for best visual effect. Next, I used Photoshop Layer Blending Options to compose the “Man in harmony with Nature” image.

Using the “Man in harmony with Nature” image I added a black color over-lay, once again using Layer Blending Options. Next I applied the Twirl and Spherize filters (both resident in Photoshop) to specific layers, creating “man and what he has done to Nature.”

This is a good illustration how one idea can become two entirely different compositions.