March – April 2005 — Vol 27 No 2
Source
Open PDF • Mar–Apr 2005 • Vol 27 No 2 • 36 pages
Overview
New venue alert: March 19 General Meeting at Bethesda Services Center (4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda — corner of Old Georgetown + Woodmont). Speakers: Steve Sheets (Midnight Mage's Roll Call software) + Dan Kerner (Civilized Software's MLAB for Mac OS X).
President's Corner (John Barnes, 3). Our Week at Macworld SF 2005 (4). January General Meeting (10). Burn, Burn, Baby Burn! (14) — CD/DVD burning tutorial. Prosoft Data Safety Suite (18). Roku SoundBridge (20) — early home-audio-streaming product. iPod for Scary Medical Procedures (22) — clever iPod use case. Computer Diagnostics (23).
Upcoming: March 19 Specialty Software at Bethesda Services Center; April 23 iPod meeting at NVCC; Open House May 1.
Highlights
New Bethesda Venue
Pi tries a new meeting venue — Bethesda Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane. Public parking free on weekends. The NOVA Annandale Cultural Center remains the home venue but Pi experiments with Bethesda for Mar 19.
Macworld SF 2005 — Week-long
Pi attends Macworld San Francisco 2005 (Jan 10-14, 2005) — Mac mini debut (Jan 11), iPod shuffle, iWork '05 (Keynote 2 + Pages 1). "Our Week at Macworld" frames the trip.
Roku SoundBridge
Roku SoundBridge — Roku's first product (Apr 2004 launch), an audio-streaming network player. Pre-Roku-video-streaming-box era (Roku DVP launched 2008).
iPod for Scary Medical Procedures
Creative iPod use case — distracting yourself during medical procedures. Anecdotal piece.
Civilized Software / MLAB
MLAB for Mac OS X — Civilized Software's curve-fitting and statistical-computation tool, Dan Kerner presenting.
Entities
People: John Barnes, Steve Sheets, Dan Kerner Topics: Bethesda Services Center, Macworld SF 2005, Roku SoundBridge, Burn Baby Burn CDs References: Roku SoundBridge, Roll Call software, MLAB Mac OS X, Prosoft Data Safety Suite
Connections to other issues
- Bethesda Services Center = Pi experiments with second venue alongside NOVA Community College Venue
- Macworld SF 2005 = Pi tradition continues — see 2004-03 — V26 N02 Notes from Macworld and 2001-03 — V23 N02 et al.
- Roku SoundBridge = Apple-adjacent home-audio era