January – February 2008 — Vol 30 No 1
Source
Open PDF • Jan–Feb 2008 • Vol 30 No 1 • 51 pages
Overview
Volume 30 opens. Cover photo: Mac OS X Leopard by Lawrence I. Charters; cover design Nora Korc.
Articles: Leopard Screen Saver Mosaic (Lawrence I. Charters, 10). Building a Check Register in REALbasic: Part 4 (Brent Malcolm, 12). Useful Things To Do With Your iPhone (Lawrence I. Charters + Kevin M., 18). iChat Extreme (Travis Good, 20). Living the iLife: iLife '08, A Review (Hal Cauthen, 22). Washington Apple Pi: A New Logo (Lawrence I. Charters, 26). Book Review: iPhone: The Missing Manual (Richard Orlin, 30).
Club Stuff: Pi Journal Cover Photo Contest (4). Letters to the Editor revived (4). President's Page: Getting It Done! (Bob Jarecke, 5). Pledge by the Board of Directors (6). Survey IV: Non-Member Impressed with Apple Pi Offerings, While Members Want Tutorials Back (Tom Carlson, 7). The Best of the TCS — Winter 2008 (Bob Jarecke + Richard Rucker, 32). October 2007 General Meeting: Using Your Mac in the Stock Investing Process and an iPhone Update (Richard Allen, 36). November 2007 General Meeting: Cat Toys (Lawrence I. Charters, 38). Alternatives to the Pony Express: Pi Offers First Class Option (40). Highlights of WAP Board Activities, October-November 2007 (Gordon Nord, 41). Summary of Retired SIG's November 15th Meeting (Len Adler, 42). Comic Pi Volume 30 No. 1 (44).
Upcoming meetings: - January 26, 2008: Aaron Davis, Apple Sr. Systems Engineer — Apple Corporate update + Macworld 2008 review + Leopard / iWork '08 / iLife '08 demos. Q&A + unConferences + raffle (copy of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard). Bylaws change vote. - February 23, 2008: ★ Walt Mossberg returns — second WSJ-columnist Pi visit (first was 2007-03 — V29 N02).
Highlights
★ New Pi Logo — Lawrence I. Charters
Pi rebranding — "Washington Apple Pi: A New Logo" formally introduced. Pi's identity refresh, ~30 years after founding.
Pledge by the Board of Directors
Formal BOD pledge — governance statement of obligations to the membership.
Walt Mossberg Returns
Mossberg's second Pi visit (Feb 23, 2008) — Pi inviting other Mac user groups; expected overflow crowd.
Survey IV Results
Member preferences: Survey IV reveals non-members impressed, but members want tutorials back. Drives the Travis Good + Pat Fauquet online tutorial service push from 2007-11 — V29 N06.
Cat Toys General Meeting
November 2007 General Meeting humorously titled "Cat Toys" — Charters covers (likely a "shiny gadgets for cat-people" theme, or a literal pet-Mac angle).
Letters to the Editor Revived
Pi Journal revives Letters to the Editor section — letters@wap.org. "We want to hear the good, the bad and the ugly!"
iPhone Already a Topic
Multiple iPhone pieces this issue — Useful Things With Your iPhone (Charters + Kevin M.), iPhone: The Missing Manual review, October GM iPhone update. iPhone now well-rooted at Pi.
REALbasic Series Continues
Brent Malcolm's Check Register Part 4 — running multi-part REALbasic tutorial.
Entities
People: Bob Jarecke (President), Gabriel Roth, Mike Schneible, Pat Fauquet, Thomas Carlson, Jonathan Bernstein, Gordon Nord, Lawrence I. Charters, Nora Korc, Richard Sanderson, Patsy Chick, William (Bill) Bailey, Brent Malcolm, Travis Good, Hal Cauthen, Richard Orlin, Kevin M., Richard Rucker, Richard Allen, Len Adler, Aaron Davis (Apple), Walt Mossberg Topics: New Pi Logo 2008, BOD Pledge 2008, Survey IV, Letters to the Editor Revived, Pi Journal Cover Photo Contest, Mossberg Returns References: iLife 08, iWork 08, iPhone Missing Manual, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Connections to other issues
- ★ New Pi Logo 2008 = Pi rebranding 30 years on
- Mossberg Returns = 2nd visit after 2007-03 — V29 N02 Mossberg evening
- Survey IV = continues Pi survey series (2007-01 — V29 N01+)
- Travis Good now active contributor (iChat Extreme) — building toward 2009-2016 prominence
- Opens Vol 30 — last full pre-eJournal year