Written and produced by members

 

Each month members receive AUSOM News, our 44–52 page magazine packed with original feature articles, tips, news, member experiences and reviews concerning Apple Macintosh computing. Authoring, cover design, page layout and editing are all the work of AUSOM members.

Download past issues here

 

All AUSOM News issues since February 2003 may be downloaded in PDF format. Just click the Download link nearest to the issue of interest, below. Note that issues less than 3 months old are not available for download.

If clicking a link displays the PDF in your browser and you'd rather download it to your desktop, simply Option-click the link.

AUSOM News archive DVD

 

A DVD containing all issues from Feb 1998–Dec 2008, in PDF format, may be purchased at monthly meetings, or here online. This DVD also includes the searchable index described below.

AUSOM News searchable index

 

A complete index of all articles published since February 1996 is available for download as a self-running FileMaker database (i.e.you don't need to own the FileMaker software to use it). If you have downloaded PDF copies of past AUSOM News issues from these pages to your hard disk, or have purchased them from AUSOM on a CD or DVD, the index can take you directly to the articles of interest

Download version for Mac OS X 10.4.8 and later (29.7MB)

Download earlier Mac OS X version (5.8MB); Mar 09 update required also.
 

Download version for Windows XP/SP2 or Vista (20.5MB)

Download Mac OS Classic version (4.7MB); Mar 09 update required also
 

Download Mar 09 Update only - all versions (408KB)

July cover: Gary BiramSnow Leopard

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June 2009, Damian Vuleta
AUSOM Soup


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May 2009, Gary Biram
iWork SIG


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April 2009, Gary Biram
Bushfires

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March 2009
AUSOM Members Shine

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February 2009, Pam Doughty
10 years
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December 2008, Luke Jackson
Daisy
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November 2008,
Coins
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October 2008,
Spring Flowers
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September 2008, Gary Biram
Photoshop SIG
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August 2008, Damian Vuleta
Old Mosaic
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July 2008, Kel Day
Winter Moon
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June 2008, Geoff Wallace
Knot
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May 2008, Barbara Gibson
Autumn
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April 2008, Pam Doughty
Comic Life
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These are the AUSOM News member-designed covers for the past year's issues.

View the archive of cover designs dating back to November 1999, and downloadable PDFs back to February 2003.

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