Northwest MacPro Meeting Minutes February 22, 2013

In-Attendance

Steve Sorbo, Mike Ross, Tim Hannon, Noah Patton, Nathan Finch, John Newhoff, Mike Brogan, Jeff Widmer

Remotely In Attendance

Alicia Pollock, Portland and Shelley Watson

Self-Introductions

ACN Update from Noah Patton

• Apple Referral Program – ACN’s can register customer on Apple’s web site and when the client makes a purchase, Apple will send you a 3% referral bonus to ACN Members.

• Business Affiliate Program – use Apple’s logo and banner ads to sell products on your own web site.

• MacTech Boot Camp Wed March 6 – Bell Harbor Pier 66, on Tues 2-6, MS certification for Office365

Primary Discussion

MacWorld | iWorld Recap

Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Desktop Scanner for PC and Mac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HsIby7svOvM

  • No more separate platforms, Unified hardware
  • 25ppm color scanning
  • Built in WiFi radio
  • 50-page Automatic Document Feederobile scanning is enabled and you’ve got it on your network, you can scan to your iPad, iPhone, or Android device by setting in the paper and pushing the button
  • Upgraded software w/support for Dropbox, Evernote, Google docs, and SugarSync etc.

Lantronix xPrintServer

  • Use Case: Allowing an iPhone or iPad to print to a non AirPrint savvy printer
  • Auto recognizes printers on the network, Over 4K+ printers currently

Corning Optical Cables:

• Data transfers up to 10Gbps

• Thunderbolt: 5.5m, 10m, 15m and 30m

• USB 3: 5.5m, 10m, 15m and 30m

Smile Software

PDFPen Pro

PDFPen for iPad/iPhone

TextExpander

Double Robotics remote presence device

http://vimeo.com/47000322

Printopia Pro from eCamm

Enterprise solution

Cloak 1.0 wins Mac Observer Editors Choice Award getcloak.com

Transporter:

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/transporter-lets-you-take-control-of-shared-storage

From Tim Pritchard:Also a quandary that I’d put to the assembled masses – after cloning an existing 10.8.2 build for mass deployment, how do you quickly and easily create the Recovery partition after the cloning? The clone only deals with the active partition and there doesn’t seem to be a simple way to create the Recovery partition on multiple machines after the fact. Anyone have a solution?

The item I’d planned to share at show & tell is the Logitech K810 Bluetooth keyboard – can be paired = with up to (3) devices simultaneously and then switch between them at the push of a function button on the keyboard – very cool.

More info here: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/bluetooth-illuminated-keyboard-k810 <– about $75 online

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