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June 24, 08

Nicholas Pyers is one of AUSOM's longest-standing members, with a 'career' reaching back to Apple II days. Nick has been Vice President and a member of Committee and at various times, and was instrumental in the administration of AUSOM's original Premium Access Internet service. Nick has convened numerous SIGs over the years, and has been the force behind the Swap Meet. His latest successful venture has been the Disc of the Month project.
• Finder columns too narrow or too wide? Ivan has the solution for you, and this trick works elsewhere, too.
 

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June 7, 08

Dick's interviewee this month is Bradley Bush, convenor of the FileMaker Forum — one of AUSOM's two FileMaker-centered SIGs. During a career in aircraft maintenance engineering (avionics), Bradley's computing interest started 1980 with a kit-built Microbee, progressed through a number of Apple IIs and Macs, and now exercises a family-friendly 20" iMac.
• Ivan explains how to use the Mac OS's Exposé feature to locate and switch between application windows.
 

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May 16, 08

Dick interviews new Committee member Colette Connolly who has been around AUSOM since 1992, having been one of our original raffle ticket sellers. After training in England and working in various countries including Iran as a nurse-midwife, Colette moved permanently to Australia to work in industrial health and safety, which lead her to her first Apple purchase and in turn to AUSOM.
• Ivan explains that "@-on-a-spring" dock icon, and how to restore it if it goes missing.

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Mar 30, 08

Des O'Brien can these days be found on the sales table at AUSOM meetings, but older hands will recall that for many years he convened the Macintosh Beginners' SIG. Des talks to Dick about those days, and about his introduction to the world of computing through an early manufacturing control system.
• Saving internet receipts as PDFs is easy if you follow Ivan's simple instructions.
 

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Feb 28, 08

Roger Threlfall is the coordinator of the Digital Video SIG. President Dick talks to Roger about his romance with gliding, with video and with the Mac. A gliding compatriot was also selling Macs at the time when Roger decided he should get on board the computer revolution, and a retirement gift of a video camera completed the picture.
• Ivan has a tip about wrapping text on a page in Text Edit.
 

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Dec 27, 07

Dick's interview this month is with Perry Liebe, member since 1995, when a search for Apple IIc software as a 12-year-old lead to AUSOM membership. Perry was instrumental in the formation of the Network Gaming SIG, and these days acts as Equipment Officer and as co-convenor of the Multimedia SIG.
• Need to retrieve a mistakenly sent email? AUSOM's tipster Ivan tells you how you can (if you're quick!)
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Nov 27, 07

Dick interviews Avril Mitchell, leader of the Genealogy SIG. Avril's interest in the subject was prompted by questions from her grandchildren about family history, and the results of her researches reach as far back as 1235. Lucky enough to have had a Mac in her pre-retirement office, Avril has been a Mac user 'for ever'.
• Ivan has a tip about getting better video quality when playing DVDs marked for an overseas 'region'.
 

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Oct 28, 07

Michael Page, a member for some 15 years and now AUSOM's Treasurer is interviewed by President Dick. A career in broking between banks and other financial institutions lead to Michael's experimenting with a Mac SE in the late '80s, and he hasn't looked back since.
• This month AUSOM tipster Ivan explains how to create an index of the CDs you've burned with Toast.
 

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Sep 28, 07

Alan Brown, MS Office SIG leader, talks to Dick about a computing career that started with a mainframe in 1962 and eventually influenced the shape of the national health insurance system.
• Ivan's tip this month concerns the resizing of QuickTime windows for fun and profit. Well....
 

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Aug 27, 07

Dick's interview with the late Peter Garwood - at 23 years, one of AUSOM's longest standing members when he passed away in November 2007. Having 'fallen into' a position in the Graphic Design department of Monash Uni, Peter soon became the resident Mac guru there, a position he then held for many years while contributing actively to AUSOM both on and off Committee.
• Resident tipster Ivan tells us how to add the date to the menu bar clock.
 

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Jul 25, 07

Steve Cooper tells Dick how Apple computing all started for him in Taiwan in 1982, and how his interest in photography goes back even further.
• Ivan's tip explores a useful collaboration between Address Book and Spotlight.

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Jun 21, 07

This month's interviewee is Finance SIG leader Max Holland – from programming mainframe computers in the 70s to the financial world on Macs today.
• Ivan's June tip is for the mousephobes among us.
 

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May 24, 07

Here Dick talks to Barb Moriarty about her involvement first with AUSOM's First Class SIG and more lately the new Garage Band SIG.
• This month Ivan has a tip about giving unique icons to your most-used folders
 

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Apr 23, 07

From Amiga-owning Swinburne student to a key member of AUSOM's adminstration team – Ivan talks to Dick about his personal Mac story.
• This month's tip from Ivan is about iChat and the announcements that herald the availability of your iChat buddies.
 

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Mar 13, 07

Vice-Pres. and graphic artist Damian Vuleta talks to Dick about his artistic endeavours outside AUSOM.
• Ivan tells how to reduce your consumption of coloured inks via an exploration of the Print dialog.
 

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Feb 19, 07

Long-time member Brian Ferguson tells President Dick about his experiences as an Apple user and AUSOM member.
• Ivan explains how to make the Get Info panel do some tricks you might not have known about.
 

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Dec 6, 06

Dick interviews former Committee member Susan Jensen, now resident temporarily in Pikeville, Kentucky.
• Ivan tells us how to look inside application 'packages' to find music and image files.
 

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