May – June 2006 — Vol 28 No 3
Source
Open PDF • May–Jun 2006 • Vol 28 No 3 • 28 pages
Overview
Election issue.
President's Corner (John Barnes, 4). Washington Apple Pi Elections 2006 (6). Best of the TCS (9). Securely Store Personal Files (11). Learning to Love Your Mac (14). February and March General Meetings (17). The Pi Journal Wants YOU!! (20) — recurring recruitment plea.
Upcoming events: - May 27: Macintosh Training Day at Microsoft Innovation & Technology Center (Reston). 8:30–12:00. Choose 4 of ~12 mini-sessions (30 min each). Topics: Email security, TCS, iWeb, iPods/iTunes, iPhoto, etc. General Meeting at 11:20 with next year's BOD candidates introduced. - June 24: iRemember with Doug Troxell (Mac scrapbook software). - July 15: Pi Picnic.
Highlights
Mac Training Day Format
Pi adopts the mini-meeting format at scale — choose 4 of ~12 30-minute sessions. Topics span the iLife suite + security + TCS. This is the Pi General Meeting reinvented — much more interactive than traditional single-speaker format.
iWeb Era
iWeb mentioned in Mac Training Day topics — iWeb launched Jan 2006 as part of iLife '06, Apple's WYSIWYG website builder.
Pi Elections 2006
Annual Pi election approaching — candidates to be introduced May 27 Mac Training Day.
Journal Wants YOU
Recurring recruitment plea — same call as 2002-03 — V24 N02 Harris piece et al. Journal getting thinner per issue; needs more writers.
Securely Store Personal Files
Disk-image-encryption tutorial — sparseimage / .dmg with password (cover-image style continues from 2003-09 — V25 N05).
Entities
People: John Barnes, Doug Troxell (iRemember) Topics: Pi Election 2006, Mac Training Day Format, Journal Recruitment, iRemember Scrapbook References: iWeb, iRemember
Connections to other issues
- Mac Training Day Format = scaled-up mini-meetings (begun 2006-01 — V28 N01)
- Pi Election 2006 = annual election cycle
- Journal Recruitment = continuing Journal-thinning era