iBooks Author on Steroids

Multimedia creator and Creative Director Eduardo Galvani will share his experiences with this new awesome application and give practical tips and tricks of how to overcome the technical limitations. Join us at at the Apple Ginza Store (May 11, 7pm) for a fun, quick one hour, talking about:

• Wow! This application will save me millions of yen in developer costs!
• It is not only for textbooks!  iBA not thought yet uses.
• How I miss Flash… interactivity solutions and how to don’t panic with HTML 5
• Presentation of Galvani’s ibook first chapters with how-to-make practical samples
• Q&A

Galvani‘s work can be found at his site <http://www.galvani.net>www.galvani.net>  – prepare your questions!

Speaker: Eduardo Galvani

Authoring an iBook

Become an iBooks Author!

Create your own interactive books (not just textbooks).

Speakers:  Jeri Foley, Lem Fugitt

Join us for an overview of the app’s functions and template-driven formats (including caveats and concerns) as well as a discussion on its marketing potential and educational uses.

How can you improve your clipboard?

Copy/Paste
Another multi clipboard accessory for Apple Computers!

Speaker: Mickey Chaplan

iPhone Apps: Pastebot and an explanation of sandboxing for Apple Apps
A similar app for the iPad?

Speaker: Bob Whittier

Further presentations are welcome; these are intended to be short.

Font Doctor: Problems with your fonts?  This (sometimes) works

Speaker: Mickey Chaplan

iPhone Apps: Skitch, Pastebot, Good Reader and Google App

Speakers: Bob Whittier and Mickey Chaplan

Further presentations are welcome!

The iPhone!
We will discuss iOS 5, apps and devices. Please bring your favourite app or trick/shortcut to present. Short presentations especially welcome.

Pop Char: How can I find that character? Character Palette doesn’t have my font!

Speaker: Mickey Chaplan

ScreenFlow: Record whatever happens on your screen! ProfCast no longer works in Lion!

Speaker: Bob Whittier.

Further presentations are welcome; these two are intended to be short.

Members with any experience with OS X 10.7 (Lion) will briefly talk about their favorite new features, and also cover “suggestions for fixes or improvements.”

Speakers:  Lem Fugitt, Robert Hancock and Bob Whittier.

Further presentations are welcome; these are intended to be short.

ZOTERO (reference/footnote managing software) For when you do research…

Speaker: Rab Paterson

Zotero offers online syncing between different computers (on Firefox), online storage (and Syncing) of metadata and actual files, and is very easy to use after it is set up. You can instantly create works cited lists / bibliographies and intext / footnote / endnotes in a  range of formats – eg APA, Chicago, MLA etc and to share them with others collaboratively on Firefox.  I will show how to import book meta data from Google Books and Amazon, media meta data from a range of major media sources, academic paper references from a range of online journals, blog entries, film as well as create entries from scratch.

Location:
Apple Store Ginza Theatre.

TOPICS

Part 1: Your questions

Speaker: the Ringo experts

Part 2: Dropbox: the new sync on the block

Speaker: Kilian Muster

Imagine you had a magic pocket in your trousers, and if you put things there they would be safe. Imagine you had such a pocket in each of your trousers and anything you put into either pocket would automagically appear in all other pockets as well.

Dropbox is the magic pocket for your Mac. And iPhone. And Linux machine. And if you really, really can’t help it even for your Windows machine (but don’t tell anyone).

Location:
Apple Store Ginza Theatre.

TOPICS

Living in the clouds

Speaker: Kilian Muster

Part 1: what browsers can do

You’re underusing your browser in most cases. Be it Safari, Firefox or Google Chrome it can do much more much cooler things for free than you might know. This is about to change, we are going to introduce you to (for all three major Mac browsers):

• Extensions, add-ons and some hacks to make your browser do more
• How to become more productive, find stuff faster
• must-haves for cloud dwellers (see below)

Part 2: living in the clouds

How to use free online services without completely selling your soul and how to maximise their synergy. Photo sharing, calendars, webmail, organisers, file sharing/synching and more. All for free. And of course your iPhone joins the party.

• the Datakraken’s offerings (Google)
• file synching, bookmark synching
• photo sharing
• on/offline reading
• free books on your iPhone, iPad and Mac