Here is the movie, made in under 20 minutes then cut, copied, pasted, colour corrected, soundtracked and contorted to destruction at the August meeting.

Covent Garden (8MB)

or Everything you wanted to know about the Internet but was afraid to ask. Find here Dorian's final LMUG presentation.

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A very informative and illuminating discussion of Open Source and Free software was led by out Technical Officer Andy Leigh, this January.

Here's the Keynote presentation he gave, and find below links to the featured applications. As mentioned in the talk, a few of these are still in development, so read the readme, and use at your own risk.

Internet
Adium (instant messaging across all networks)
Firefox (the alternative web browser)
Thunderbird (mail)
Vienna (RSS/Atom news reader)

Media
GimpShop (free Photoshop-like image editor)
Miro (Internet TV and video player, including HD video)
Songbird (Internet and digital music player - an iTunes alternative)
VLC (video player that plays most types of video)

Office
OpenOffice and Neo Office (free and closely related Microsoft Office alternatives)
Sunbird (open-standards based calendar)
Lightning (like Sunbird, but inside Thunderbird - Entourage alternative)
Nvu (a 'complete web authoring system')
OpenProj (free project manager - MS Project alternative)

Tools
Chicken of the VNC (see the screen of another computer and control it)
ClamAV (free anti-virus)
FileZilla (free FTP program)

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How about a fireplace in your pocket - iYule!

A swirling tour through Leopard was led by Dorian Sherman this month. Here are the key links from his talk:

Before upgrading, check that your applications are Leopard-ready:
http://dommy.media-backup.de/site/blog/index_files/leopard_compatible_applications.php

Sit back, and enjoy a guided tour from John:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/guidedtour/

Meditate on the new Leopard dock and change it if you don't like it:
http://www.leoparddocks.com/

and then jazz up Mail.app with some extra stationary!
http://www.equinux.com/us/products/stationery/index.html

Extras: This months Newsbyte and the Leopard Presentation

Here is the information from Dorian's presentation on Front Row on PowerPC Machines:

• Setup information in word processor format with link
• Setup information as a pdf
• The Script needed to launch Front Row automatically when you log-in

Download here

Here are a couple of informative and well-balanced (according to your webmaster) iPhone reviews:

Straightforward review from the US:


This review is from a UK/Euro point of view, and compares IPhone against the W950 walkman phone, and the Nokia E61i

This Windows Vista user liked it...eventually - it is the details that matter, but as Mac users we knew that already!

Time Machine is the automatic backup tool coming in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard this October. These guys have made an Apple History film that presents through the same interface that Time Machine will use, have a look: