Candidates for Board Members

February 15, 2012

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 8:25 pm

March 14, 2012, General Business Meeting and Club Elections

Candidates for Board Members:

Officers:

  • President: George Fekete
  • Vice President Publicity: Dave Boyer
  • Vice President Programming: Rick Harrison
  • Secretary: Open
  • Treasurer: Steve Rea

Directors:

  • Carol Arieno
  • James Bastone
  • Carol Gac
  • Skip Meetze
  • Rufo Sanchez
  • Bob Taylor
  • Vicky Thayer
  • Irwin Wagman
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General Meeting – February 8, 2012

February 1, 2012

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 12:00 am

7:00 pm CIDER Club IntroductionDennis Wurster (5 min)

7:05 pm Apple News – Steve Rea, Dennis Wurster, Todd Bernhard (10 min)

7:15 pm Know Your Software: CrashPLAN – free computer backup software that backs up personal files. Easily back up your photos, videos, financial records and more with just a few clicks. CrashPlan is free onsite backup, allowing you to back up to other computers and attached external hard drives.  presented by Dennis Wurster

7:30 pm Know Your IOS: GoodReader has earned its accolades by the way it handles huge PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file. presented by Rick Harrison (15 min)

7:45 pm Election Preview: Discussion of the need for officers and board members for the coming election.  Volunteers needed by Keith Jackson of the nominating committee   (10 min)

8:00 pm  BREAK  -    (20 min)

8:20 pm     Dash with CASH! – Five minute auction with cash only - Lyle Tague

8:30 pm Keynote: Reports from CES and MacWorld An in-depth look at all the announcements and new products that showed up at both CES and MacWorld for our Apple expert Todd Berhnard who attended both shows.  He will have plenty of visuals & samples.  (45 min)

9:15 pm Question & Answer Session - Steve Rea, Dennis Wurster, Todd Berhnard (15 min)

9:30 pm Wrap Up announcement, promote next month – Dennis Wurster

9:35 pm Meeting Ends

NOTE: Please bring small computer items that you are willing to donate to Apple CIDER for the Dash With CASH auction

Apple CIDER officers needed: The new year for officers is coming up.  Apple CIDER is looking for board members, a VP of Programming, Secretary, VP of Public Relations and Website coordinator.  We need your help in keeping CIDER vital.  You do not need to be a computer expert to help the organization function.  Please consider volunteering.  Contact kjackso1@rochester.rr.com.

 

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Election Time!

January 21, 2012

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 6:57 pm

The March general meeting of the CIDER membership on March 14 will coincide with  CIDER’s Annual Business Meeting. All currently-held positions as CIDER Officer or Director will expire, and new individuals will be elected to these positions at that meeting. The Nominating Committee is currently looking for candidates for these positions, and you can help.

Apple CIDER is looking for individuals to serve on the board and to assist with such important functions as maintaining our program of presentations to members, handling public relations, coordinating our web site, and serving as Secretary.  We need your help in keeping CIDER vital.  You do not need to be a computer expert to help the organization function.  Please consider volunteering.  Contact kjackso1@rochester.rr.com.

 

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January 11th General Meeting

January 7, 2012

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 1:44 pm

Wednesday, January 11th @ 7:00 pm at East High School

7:00 pm CIDER Club IntroductionDennis Wurster (5 min)

7:05 pm Apple News - Steve Rea, Dennis Wurster, Kevin Kondo (10 min)

7:15 pm Know Your Software: How to share one Mac with your family & How to manage multiple Macs at home by Steve Rea (15 min)

7:30 pm Know Your Hardware: Three different phone numbers: Frontier land-line, AT&T iPhone and Google Voice. I want to keep my iPhone number. I don’t want to merge the numbers. The process is to port my landline number to my Google Voice account via a cheap mobile phone.  George Fekete explains (15 min)

7:45 pm Know Your Internet: Avoid public Wi-Fi pitfalls by Dennis Wurster (15 min)

8:00 pm  Brief business meeting — call to order and vote on approval of proposed changes to CIDER bylaws; Bob Taylor presiding (10 min)

8:10 pm  BREAK  -    (15 min)

8:25 pm     Dash with CASH! – Five minute auction with cash only

8:30 pm Keynote: Killer news & information iPad apps. This is a demo of what you can do with an iPad including news aggregators like Flip and Pulse; TED (just released); Biblion – chronicling the 1939 World’s Fair; Beatles Yellow Submarine; Popular Science; latest weather apps (Weather Underground)  presented by Kevin Kondo (45 min)

9:15 pm Question & Answer Session - Steve Rea, Dennis Wurster, Kevin Kondo (15 min)

9:30 pm Wrap Up announcement, promote next month – Dennis Wurster

9:35 pm Meeting Ends

NOTE:  Please bring small computer items that you are willing to donate to Apple CIDER for the Dash With CASH auction

Note: All times are approximate.

 

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December 14, 2011 General Meeting

November 19, 2011

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 6:22 pm

Know Your Software: iPhone 4S features  Siri and AirPlay which lets you play games/movies/music wirelessly.  With Real Racing 2 HD your iPhone or iPad is the steering wheel and up to three more iOS devices can join in & the action is wirelessly shown on your TV via AirPlay by Todd Bernhard

Know Your Hardware: What can you do with an Apple TV linked to a home network by Keith Jackson

Know Your Internet: Really useful Websites like Dealmac, Tidbits, Version Tracker by Dennis Wurster

Keynote: Understanding iCloud: what it does and does not do; getting started by Steve Rea

NOTE:  Please bring small computer items that you are willing to donate to Apple CIDER for the Dash With CASH auction

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General Meeting – November 9 @ 7:00 PM

November 6, 2011

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 9:29 pm

East High School Forum Room.

Holiday Gifts for Mobile Devices: by Todd Bernhard

Holiday Gifts for Laptops:  by Rufo Sanchez

Holiday Gifts for iMacs, Towers & Offices  by Rick Harrison

IOS: iPod, iPad Hints & Applications: Free or Cheap applications for iPad by Keith Jackson

Laptops, MacPros & iMacs: Free, Cheap or Christmas Stuff by Steve Rea

Know Your Software:  Square.com – Credit Cards processed on your iPhone – Dennis Wurster

 

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CIDER @ DIGITAL ROCHESTER

September 21, 2011

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 8:10 pm

CIDER Members will be at the Tuesday October 4th meeting of Digital Rochester at 5:00 pm at Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St.

Stop on by!

DIGITAL ROCHESTER | Rochester New York.

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9/14/2011 General Meeting @ East High

August 19, 2011

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 3:50 pm

Keynote: IOS 5 features by Todd Bernhard

Know Your Hardware: Using green screen in movies – Rick Harrison

Know Your Software: MobileMe is going away. What replaces it? Steve Rea

Know Your Internet: Spotify – new music service – Rufo Sanchez

One Tip, One Deal:– Dennis Wurster

Dash for Cash

Questions & Answers

 

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July 13, 2011 – Picnic!

June 15, 2011

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 8:07 pm

Annual CIDER Picnic!

Buckland Park Lodge
Located at 1341 Westfall Road
Rochester, NY 14618

Meat and Drinks will be provided.

Please bring a place setting and a dish to pass.

Dinner is scheduled to start at 6 PM.

Bring the family and have fun!

http://www.townofbrighton.org/index.aspx?NID=261

 

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May 11, 2011 General Meeting

April 20, 2011

Filed under: Meetings — steverea @ 8:20 pm

Location: East High School Forum Room, 1801 East Main St @ Culver
Main Topic: eBay Buying and Selling w/David Lum from Rochester TechAge
Know Your iOS: FaceTime w/Rufo Sanchez
Know Your Hardware: iPad vs. MacBook Air vs. MacBook w/Kevin Kondo
Know Your Software: Safe Boot with Dennis Wurster
One Quick Tip: SquareUp w/Denis Wurster

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