Each 3-hour meeting is different, but we always try to cover a range of topics that would be of interest to a broad variety of Mac users. Our members and presenters are among the most knowledgeable in the Macintosh world (no kidding!).

After most meetings, some of us also head down to Baker Street Pub & Grill (on 28th just north of Canyon) for some extra chat time.

Note: We almost always meet on the second Thursday of the month. But sometimes our meeting is NOT on the second Thursday. Please be sure to check our website for accurate dates. This usually happens once or twice a year.

Fair warning: Our Meetup.com account is an experiment. We hope that enough people will come to the meetings to justify the cost of Meetup.com. If not... we'll have to cancel the account, but our meetings will continue, of course.

Each 3-hour meeting is different, but we always try to cover a range of topics that would be of interest to a broad variety of Mac users. Our members and presenters are among the most knowledgeable in the Macintosh world (no kidding!).

After most meetings, some of us also head down to IHOP (on 28th just north of Arapahoe) for some extra chat time.

Note: We almost always meet on the second Thursday of the month. But sometimes our meeting is NOT on the second Thursday. Please be sure to check our website for accurate dates. This usually happens once or twice a year.

Fair warning: Our Meetup.com account is an experiment. We hope that enough people will come to the meetings to justify the cost of Meetup.com. If not... we'll have to cancel the account, but our meetings will continue, of course.

Each 3-hour meeting is different, but we always try to cover a range of topics that would be of interest to a broad variety of Mac users. Our members and presenters are among the most knowledgeable in the Macintosh world (no kidding!).

After most meetings, some of us also head down to IHOP (on 28th just north of Arapahoe) for some extra chat time.

Note: We almost always meet on the second Thursday of the month. But sometimes our meeting is NOT on the second Thursday. Please be sure to check our website for accurate dates. This usually happens once or twice a year.

Fair warning: Our Meetup.com account is an experiment. We hope that enough people will come to the meetings to justify the cost of Meetup.com. If not... we'll have to cancel the account, but our meetings will continue, of course.

Each 3-hour meeting is different, but we always try to cover a range of topics that would be of interest to a broad variety of Mac users. Our members and presenters are among the most knowledgeable in the Macintosh world (no kidding!).

After most meetings, some of us also head down to IHOP (on 28th just north of Arapahoe) for some extra chat time.

Note: We almost always meet on the second Thursday of the month. But sometimes our meeting is NOT on the second Thursday. Please be sure to check our website for accurate dates. This usually happens once or twice a year.

Fair warning: Our Meetup.com account is an experiment. We hope that enough people will come to the meetings to justify the cost of Meetup.com. If not... we'll have to cancel the account, but our meetings will continue, of course.

This month, we have a presentation on the impressive new features in iMovie '09, and a special visit from two Macintosh luminaries: Andy Ihnatko and Lesa Snider King.

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> Andy Ihnatko

Each April, Macintosh luminary Andy Ihnatko joins CoMUG (his "favorite Mac User Group") to share his unique perspective on all things techno-Mac. (Some real, some imagined, some he can't yet discuss.)

For a taste of his eloquence, have a look at:

His posts at MacUser:
http://www.macuser.com/ihnatko/

His columns at the Chicago Sun-Times:
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/

His Celestial Waste of Bandwidth:
http://ihnatko.com/

And his lesser, Colossal Waste of Bandwidth:
http://www.cwob.com/

For a peek into Andy's reality, have a look at his latest "bio", copied from the Conference on World Affairs <http://www.colorado.edu/cwa/>, where he is a speaker:

Andy Ihnatko received his first electrocution at age five. He recalls it as a "not at all unpleasant" experience and as it happens, this early combination of pleasure and pain laid the groundwork for a career writing about science and technology and documenting the Humans' up-and-down relationship with this stuff.

He's a longstanding tech columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Macworld magazine, makes regular appearances on the CBS Early Show, and writes tech books that occasionally do well enough to provoke his publisher to send over a basket of celebratory cheeses. He is also a regular panelist on the popular This Week In Tech and MacBreak Weekly podcasts. His writings have been licensed by NASA and pirated in a Brazilian videogaming magazine, demonstrating a very weird base of support.

All of this makes his mom very proud. But Ihnatko knows very well that when the ballgame's all over, he'll probably be remembered for writing an e-book explaining how to turn a classic Macintosh into a functioning aquarium and building an animatronic Darth Vader that can be controlled over the Internet via telepresence to keep cats from sleeping on his office laser printer while he's away.

Ihnatko donates blood regularly, is kind to his parents, comments his code, and switches his iPhone to "silent" mode before the start of a movie.

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> Lesa Snider King: From Snapshot to Graphic Art

Lesa's back, and ready to give us the demo that was mostly stolen from us by her brush with automotive disaster at our December meeting. In this presentation you'll learn where to get some of the most amazing (and affordable) stock imagery you've ever seen, and how to use it in conjunction with your own photos to create unique pieces of graphic art. You'll learn partial color effects, artistic edge treatments, creative collages, and more!

Lesa is the evangelist for iStockphoto and author of the upcoming book Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual, from O'Reilly.

For more about Lesa: <http://graphicreporter.com/aboutlesa/bio.html>
For more about her book: <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596522967>
For more about iStockphoto: <http://www.istockphoto.com>

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> After-meeting at iHop

After most meetings, some of us also head down to IHOP (on 28th just north of Arapahoe) for some extra chat time.