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| 2014 | |
| August | Rick Matteson took us down memory lane as he covered the history of Apple's word procesors from MacWrite, through ClarisWorks, AppleWorks and Pages |
| July | Christopher Sutch, from the Microsoft store in Huntington Station demoed Word, Excel & Powerpoint for the iPad |
| June | Remote presentation by Shawn King on WWDC announcements of OS X 10.10, iOS 8 and photography tips |
| May | Scott Randell demonstrated Microsoft Word 2011with help from David Ross who mentioned free alternatives like Apache OpenOffice |
| April | Savannah Peterson from Shapeways talked about their 3D printing service |
| March | Peter Scheer talked about his past and present work including the Fantasy Faerie project |
| February | Adam & Tonya Engst talked about the history of TidBITS and the evolution of the Take Control Ebooks and finally talked about passwords |
| January | Eric Newman from Video Guys talked about Adobe Creative Cloud |
| 2013 | |
| December | Gift ideas from Victor Susman, Rick Matteson and Geoff Broadhurst and year end party |
| November | Bradley Dichter talked about new MacBook Pros, Mac Pros, iPad Air and iPad mini w/Retina display and demoed OS X 10.9 Mavericks |
| October | Photography apps for iOS demos by Rick Matteson and Geoff Broadhurst |
| September | Bradley Dichter talked about iOS7, iPhone 5s and 5c |
| August | LIMac bulletin board and Facebook group sites demo by Bradley Dichter and Gary Book |
| July | Gordon Bell from Prosoft Engineering talked about the Data Rescue Center recovery service, Drive Genius 3 and Data Rescue 3 |
| June | Dave Marra talked about Pages, Keynote and Numbers for OS X and iOS and iCloud documents. Also briefly talked about upcoming OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7 |
| May | "There's an app for that" multi-presentation by various members of their favorite iOS apps |
| April | Jean MacDonald from Smile Software presented the new PDFpen and PDFpen Pro for Mac as well as PDFpen for iPad |
| March | Bradley Dichter covers Mountain Lion applications emphasising what's new since Snow Leopard. |
| February | Canceled due to snow storm Nemo (about two feet of snow) |
| January | Bradley Dichter covers part two of his Mountain Lion - What's Hot, What's Not presentation: System Preferences in depth. Martin Vogel, long-time member, dies at 87 |
| 2012 | |
| December | Board members show of Tech. gift ideas. Annual year-end party. |
| November | Cancelled due to Super Storm Sandy aftermath |
| October | Paul Slapikas of Woodside Software presented “Birth of an iPhone App.” |
| September | Bradley Dichter presents part 1 of Mountain Lion - What's Hot, What's Not presentation: System Preferences in depths. Photoshop SIG leader Brian Revere dies. |
| August | David Ross, Richard Hickerson, Donald Hennessy & Gary Book demonstrated various iOS and Mac apps |
| July | Justin Esgar of Autrìv Software Development talked about developing and promoting iOS apps |
| June | Dave Marra demonstrates on the iPad photo manipulation apps and music creation apps and hardware interfaces |
| May | Bradley demonstrated Skype and iChat for use with remote presenters, with remote help from Al Zygier and Donald Van Holt |
| April | Geoff Broadhurst, George Canellis, Scott Randell talked about backing up and external hard drives |
| March | Long Island District representative Brett Belair of Simpson Strong-Tie demonstrated his use of the iPad for his business |
| February | Bradley Dichter talked about and demonstrated Apple's iCloud on the iPad 2 running iOS 5.1 and MacBook Pro now running Mac OS X 10.7.4 Lion |
| January | Ed Sullivan of ims Pro A/V demo of audio hardware and software, both low and high-end. Including audio for video projects. |
| 2011 | |
| December | A few Mac OS X and iOS game demonstrations and annual year-end party. Sheet cake had edible frosting of a montage of Apple products in the form of Steve Jobs' face. |
| November | Deb Shadovitz talked about making good choices of equipment when traveling around the world |
| October | More favorite iOS Apps by LIMac board members |
| September | Canon EOS Digital SLR and advanced point-and-shoot cameras presentation by Diana Bowe, Canon Sales Engineer |
| August | Bradley Dichter introduces Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with a quick review of Snow Leopard for comparison |
| July | Smile Software's PDFpen and PDFpenPro presented by Scott Randell |
| June | Dave Marra showcases the iPad 2 and iOS 4 with iMovie & GarageBand for iPad and Photoshop Express for iOS and some accessories |
| May | Bradley Dichter's 5th Mac 101 presentation: Safari 5 |
| April | LIMac gets a iPad 2, Various members show iPad apps |
| March | Scott Randell demos Apple's iWeb and Micromat's TechTool Protogo |
| February | Geometer's Sketchpad demo by Herbert Friedman and Smile Software's TextExpander demo by Scott Randell |
| January | Bradley Dichter did the fourth of his Mac 101 presentations: Apple's Mail, continued featuring Signatures and Stationary and URLs |
| 2010 | |
| December | Holiday gift ideas with Bill Medlow, Rick Matteson, and Geoff Broadhurst and annual year-end party |
| November | Bradley Dichter did the third of his Mac 101 presentations: Apple's Mail |
| October | Creston home and business automation systems by Ken Vanemon of Sapphire Marketing |
| September | Bradley Dichter's Mac 101 continued: TextEdit and Preview in-depth |
| August | Rick Matteson and Jared Gordon demonstrated watermarking software and copyright protection |
| July | Bradley Dichter did the first of his Mac 101 presentations: The Finder |
| June | Dave Marra showed off the iPhone 4, iPad and iOS 4, Safari 5. LIMac's new Mid-2010 17" MacBook Pro finally drives the projector to HDTV specs. |
| May | Things demo by Michael Simmons of Cultured Code |
| April | High Dynamic Range Imaging demo by LIMac member Leonard Provenzano |
| March | Jason Panucci from SoundTree, the education division of Korg, showcased various USB music controllers |
| February | Avery DesignPro demonstrated by Rick Matteson |
| January | Shareware showcase by various LIMac members |
| 2009 | |
| December | Holiday gift ideas with Bill Medlow, Geoff Broadhurst and Rick Matteson and annual year-end party |
| November | Scott Citron demonstrated an engaging project using Adobe InDesign, Lightroom and Flash |
| October | Bradley Dichter gave us the pros and serious cons about the upgrade to Snow Leopard |
| September | Barbara Mehlman showcases more valuable Internet resources like Wordle and Wolfram Alpha |
| August | Part one of Internet search resources presentation by Barbara Mehlman |
| July | CleanApp 3 demo and more questions fielded by Bradley Dichter |
| June | Dave Marra talked about the new Mac notebooks, iLife '09, iWork '09, iPhone OS 3.0 and upcoming Mac OS 10.6 |
| May | Photoshop CS4 demo by Lesa Snider author of Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual |
| April | iWork '09 demo by Tom Abruzzo from Walt Whitman Apple Store |
| March | LIMac and Apple 25 year retrospective with old literature and Macs |
| February | Welcome to Macintosh documentary film |
| January | Macworld Expo review by Bradley Dichter (featuring iLife '09, iWork '09 and revised 17" MacBook Pro) |
| 2008 | |
| December | Holiday gift guide for Mac users with Bill, Bradley and Rick and year end party |
| November | George Canellis, Bradley Dichter and Richard Hickerson showcased iPhone Apps |
| October | Katrin Eismann, The Photoshop Diva will demo Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS4 |
| September | Ian Schray of Softpress Systems demonstrated Freeway Pro and Freeway Express |
| August | Victor Susman demonstrated Apple Remote Desktop 3 |
| July | Scott Randall, Brian Revere, and Rick Matteson talked about backup programs |
| June | Tom Abruzzo from the Apple Store at Walt Whitman demonstrated iMovie '08 |
| May | Dave Marra showcases all 300 new features of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (almost) |
| April | MacSpeech Dictate demo by Donald MacCormick |
| March | Olympus digital cameras and Berger Brothers with Dino Thomas and Mark Farb |
| February | Filemaker Bento personal database demo by Jason Fiske, Business Account Manager |
| January | Tom Abruzzo and Rick Johnson from Walt Whitman Apple Store demo Leopard |
| 2007 | |
| December | MacSpeech's iListen canceled due to snow, year-end party |
| November | Shawn and Lesa King at Salten Hall talk about photography and Photoshop Elements 4 |
| October | SmileOnMyMac various software titles by Jean MacDonald |
| September | SIG Intro night |
| August | The LIMac documentary video is presented by SIG leader Albert Zygier |
| July | BeLight Software's Printfolio print oriented suite by Rick Matteson |
| June | It's the 2007 Dave Marra Experience, rapid-fire talk about everything from Apple |
| May | Tropical Software's TopXNotes & TopXNotes iPod by President James Lee, Jr. |
| April | Freeverse Lineform by Creative Director Steve Tze and Producer Justin D’Onofrio |
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| 2006 | |
| December | Albert Zygier presents LIMac documentary video and year end party |
| November | Ilene Stizver of The Type Studio talked about the basics of Typography |
| October | Adam Engst showcased the new features of iPhoto and Tonya Engst talked about the various Take Control eBooks |
| September | Macintosh astronomy software by Professor Sam Storch |
| August | Podcasts and finding them with iTunes by Rick Matteson |
| July | LIMac Bulletin Board and Frappr pages by Bradley Dichter and George Canellis |
| June | Christopher Vozzo demonstrates QuarkXpress 7. The online Forum reaches a record 7 pages. |
| May | Dino Thomas returns again with a great Olympus digital camera presentation with Marc Farb from Neptune Photo in Garden City. |
| April | Dave Marra presented iLife '06 and iWork '06 |
| March | Al Zygier gave a presentation on the art of making a first class home movie (Quark was scheduled) |
| February | Starry Night astronomy software by Imaginova by David Brody. First of monthly iPod in raffle. |
| January | Macworld Expo report presentation by Bradley Dichter with content by George Canellis |
| 2005 | |
| December | Tropical Software's TopXNotes by company President Lames H. Lee, Jr. and Year-end Party |
| November | Special Interest Group intro night |
| October | MacSpeech's iListen by company CEO & CTO Andrew Taylor |
| September | Use GarageBand to add music to iMovie or Final Cut Pro by Scott Randell and Albert Zygier |
| August | Shareware and freeware Mac OS X Utilities TinkerTool, Cocktail and OnyX plus www.versiontracker.com usage by Bradley Dichter |
| July | Apple and 3rd party Dashboard Widgets (part of Mac OS 10.4) by Bradley Dichter, Google tips by Al Choy, Jonathan Levy demo of LIMac alternate web site. |
| June | Apple Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger by Dave Marra |
| May | Circus Ponies' NoteBook 2.0 by Elizabeth Statmore |
| April | Non-musical uses of the Apple iPod by Jonathan Levy |
| March | Jon Levy: Mail & Address Book, Harold Silvers: iPhoto, Geoff Broadhurst: iMovie, Scott Randall: AppleWorks |
| February | Wireless Internet access via cell phone networks by Brian Jepson |
| January | 1960's and '70s Rock and Roll stars' photography and anecdotes by Don Paulson |
| 2004 | |
| December | Microsoft Entourage 2004 and Year-end Party |
| November | Olympus digital cameras by Dino Thomas |
| October | Apple GarageBand by Rich Scillia and Scott Randell |
| September | Digital cameras by Bill Mueller from Neptune Photography |
| August | Flea market |
| July | Apple iPod and iTunes by Rick Matteson |
| June | What's new from Apple by Dave Marra |
| May | Effective Web design by Daniel East |
| April | Microsoft Office 2004 by Dennis T. Cheung |
| March | SIG Intro night |
| February | Mac OS 10.3 by Bradley Dichter |
| January | Reason by Justin Randell |
| 2003 | |
| December | Freeverse Software by Steven Cento & Year-end Party |
| November | Canon digital cameras by David Sparer |
| October | Apple's Keynote by Dr. Evan Blonder |
| September | Thinkfree Office by Ira Feigelman |
| August | Flea market |
| July | Applescript by Benjamin Waldie of Automated Workflows, LLC 2003's East coast summer Macworld Conference & Expo was from July 16 to July 18. The expo was smaller than the previous year, just the left half of the floor. Unlike past years, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs did not give the keynote presentation and no major Apple products were intoduced. LIMac again hosted the User Group Booth. We again got a 40 by 20 foot booth. We were booth #156 in the corner opposite the main entrance, near the Internet Cafe. See the floor plan and look for the rectangle in yellow. The Multimedia SIG is working on a video with footage of the setup day and during the Expo itself. |
| June | Audible online books by Foy C. Sperring |
| May | iLife by Tafari and staff of Apple Store - Walt Whitman May 10, 2003 was the grand opening of the new Apple Store in the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington Station. It's where the FYE record shop used to be. It's in section "G" a few stores north of Bloomingdales. You should check out their free scheduled presentations and workshops. |
| April | Assorted shareware for OS 10 by Scott Randell |
| March | G4 CPU upgrades by Bradley Dichter and Bill Medlow |
| February | Wireless networking by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS publisher |
| January | MacWorld Expo review by Bradley Dichter and Rick Matteson |
| 2002 | |
| December | Year-end Party |
| November | Bob LeVitus talked and showed home movies |
| October | Mac OS 10.2 by Dave Marra, Apple Senior Systems Engineer |
| September | Canon digital cameras by David Sparer |
| August | Flea market LIMac again hosted MacWorld Expo NY 2002 - Northeast Macintosh User Group Booth. We did an exceptional job selling introductory memberships for the balance of this year. We were not able to do this at 2001's Expo NY. The very first team of booth staffers, with only 3.5 hours on Wednesday morning, garnered an amazing 19 new members. Congratulations to Kathy & Paul Ellis and Angel DeCastro. Thank-you also to all the other Booth Volunteers. |
| July | Olympus digital cameras by Dino Thomas The Apple Store on the upper level in Roosevelt Field Mall in Nassau County opened on Saturday July 20th, 2002. It's across from Panino Cafe where FAO Schwarz used to be. Click here for pictures from the Grand Opening and more details from Sarah Friedlander of O'Grady's PowerPage. Here is a time lapse movie the store staff made of them setting up the store before it opened. The view is from the rear corner looking forward towards the front. |
| June | Adobe's Photoshop Elements by Rich Scillia |
| May | Appgen's MyBooks by Mark André |
| April | Nikon digital cameras |
| March | Mac OS 10 by Bradley Dichter |
| February | Audio capture hardware and software by Geoff Broadhurst |
| January | Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 by Al Choy |
| 2001 | |
| December | Dave Marra showed cool Mac OS X stuff on his PowerBook G4 including the new iPod and OS 9 stuff on his iBook plus year end party |
| November | Olympus digital cameras by Dino Thomas |
| October | Epson Stylus inkjet printers and scanners by Linden Harding |
| September | Extensis Suitcase 10 by Chris Meyer |
| August | Flea market The Long Island Macintosh User Group hosted the Northeast Macintosh User Group booth at the 2001 MacWorld Expo - New York. (Jacob Javits Center) We had one quarter of a big 20 by 40 foot booth all three days of the exhibit. Click here for photos from the setup day. There were other user groups presenting themselves at the booth each day. See The MUG Center's page for details about the other groups and the raffle prizes. We had a very nice raffle drawing. We constructed a box for business cards that looked like a big Power Mac G4 Cube. Click here for scenes during the expo. |
| July | Stuffit Deluxe 6 and Aladdin Transporter by Peter Thomas |
| June | Mac OS X by Apple Senior Systems Engineer Kevin Boland at C.W. Post |
| May | SIG intro night |
| April | Web design with AppleWorks by Rick Matteson and Al Choy |
| March | Adobe Type Manager Deluxe by Bradley Dichter |
| February | Andy Ihnatko talked about geeky stuff |
| January | Chronos Personal Organizer by Rick Matteson |
| 2000 | |
| December | Games and Year-end Party |
| November | Olympus digital cameras by Desmond Lee |
| October | Altimira Group's Genuine Fractals 2.0 by Dan Owen |
| September | Microsoft Office 2001 preview by Scott Travers |
| August | MacWorld Expo review and Flea market |
| July | Mystery meeting - lost to history. If you remember, e-mail us. |
| June | Internet protection issues by Steve Baumann and Charles Bibas of ABT Internet |
| May | Microsoft Excel 98 by Al Choy |
| April | Digital music compression (.mp3 and MIDI) by Donald Hennessy |
| March | Video editing by Peter Mormoris and William Heyman of Alliance Computer Systems |
| February | Print Explosion by Nova Development by Bernie Flicker |
| January | Delorme's Street Atlas by Bill Medlow and Intuit's Quicken 98 by Max Rechtman |
| 1999 | |
| December | Year-end "Millennium" Party, Adobe Golive, & Infowave PowerPrint 5 |
| November | LIMac's first SIG Showcase Intro Night - MacHelp Inauguration |
| October | Broadband Internet access including DSL |
| September | Nikon digital cameras by Michael Rubin |
| August | Flea Market and silent auction |
| July | Dantz's Retrospect by Rich Goon |
| June | MetaCreations' Canoma and Headline Studio by Kimberly Warnick |
| May | Optimum Online presentation at Cablevision's theater in Bethpage by Stephanie Quintin & Elizabeth Hansen. Also QuarkXpress 4 by Dave Dombrowski |
| April | Adobe Acrobat 4 and preview of InDesign by Mark Middleton |
| March | LaCie and APS hard drives and optical drives by Tim Sprau |
| February | Networking via PhoneNet and Ethernet and File Sharing by Bradley Dichter |
| January | Cancelled due to bad weather (6 inches of snow Wednesday before) |
| 1998 | |
| December | Year-end Party, Quake by Steven Rechtman, & Riven by Geoff Broadhurst |
| November | Mac OS 8.5 and music by David Pogue |
| October | MetaCreations Poser 3 and Painter 5.5 Web Edition and SHOW by Tom Rzonca |
| September | GoLive's CyberStudio web site design software by Nick Hippe - now in NYIT room 408 |
| August | Flea market |
| July | Bob LeVitus, author, talked about the iMac about to ship in August and other topics |
| June | Adobe Photoshop 5.0 |
| May | Macromedia FreeHand 8 by Sandee Cohen |
| April | ALPS Electric's MD-4000 printer/scanner by Michelle McNaught |
| March | Microsoft Office 98 by Danielle Tiedt at C.W. Post Humanities Building |
| February | CE Software’s Web Arranger/Web Whacker by Alan Gordon/Al Choy/Rick Matteson |
| January | Power Macintosh G3 introduction by Kirk Kronk |
| 1997 | |
| December | Year-end Party, Polaroid products by Jim Merrikin and Sol Zalk of Visual Consultants |
| November | CorelDRAW 6 Suite for Power Mac (included Corel WordPerfect) by Tom Vair |
| October | Phase One's Powerphase for Hasselblad digital camera back by David Dentry |
| September | Apple System 8 by Bill Hall, Apple System Engineer. Apple eMate 300 by Kirk Kronk |
| August | Flea market |
| July | Camcorder video capture with Quadra 840AV by Don Hennessy. Simple web page creation by Bradley Dichter |
| June | Media 100 video editing system demo by PWR Systems |
| May | Adobe PageMaker 6.5 by Balan Nagraj |
| April | Apple System 7.6 by Richard Ford, AppleSoft Project Manager |
| March | Insignia Software Softwindows 95 by Leigh (last name unknown) |
| February | Adobe Acrobat 3 by Balan Nagraj (Adobe rep canceled at the last minute) |
| January | Tektronix color printers by Jennifer Poli |
| 1996 | |
| December | Year-end Party, Adobe Photoshop 4 by Brian Revere |
| November | PRIO eyesight testing system and lenses for computer-use eyeglasses |
| October | Fractal Design's Detailer and Poser, also Painter 4 and Expressions by Denis Flynn |
| September | Olympus Image Systems' CD recorders and 3.5" magneto-optical drive by Michael Rubin |
| August | ISDN Internet access by Mark Abolafia of Tribeca Technologies LLC, and Scott Naddell of Associated Telephone Design, Inc. and Annual LIMac Flea market |
| July | Specular Software by Chris Johnston (3D Web Workshop, Infini-D, Collage, TextureScape and LogoMotion) First meeting of Al Choy's Internet SIG |
| June | Educational Activities, Inc. software by Jerry Waters |
| May | Adobe Software by Anton Kovary (PageMill, PhotoDeluxe, Acrobat, Illustrator, & PageMaker 6) |
| April | Internet access and BBS offerings by LINet by John Theobold |
| March | Cancelled due to snow. |
| February | Eastman Kodak digital cameras and PhotoCDs by Vincent Meringolo |
| January | Games night: Deadly/Games' U-Boat, The Battle of Britain, Bomber and M-4 Sherman Tank Simulator |
| 1995 | |
| November | Encyclopedia Britannica CD-ROM version |
| October | Truevision Targa 2000 video capture card by Donald Hans (came from Matawan, NJ) Mo Lebowitz takes over as Editor of the LIMac Forum. |
| September | Multimedia Design Corp.'s mPOWER presentation/multimedia software by Peter Ramsdell |
| August | MacWorld Expo review and Annual LIMac Flea market (Windows 95 was in the news at the time) |
| July | Nikon E2 and E2c digital camera, and LS-10 Coolscan and LS-1000 Super Coolscan slide scanners by Robert Ozankan. Plus Rick Matteson demo of Connectix QuickCam and Alberta Scott demo of the Apple QuickTake 100 digital camera |
| June | Indigo E-Print 1000 Digital Offset Color Press by NY metro area Account Manager Chip Culley |
| May | Specular Int'l LogoMotion 1.5 and TexureScape 1.5 by Heather Sommerfield of United Digital Artists in NYC Also showed Infini-D and Collage 2 at the DTP SIG. |
| April | Newsday Direct demo by Paula Cohen, Jim Guthrie and Daisy Maxey at Newsday's Melville office. |
| March | Balan Nagraj demoed Acrobat Reader, Sy Bram showed The Virtual Store, Bradley Dichter demoed Rebel Assault, Donald Hennessy showed CD-ROM Today and Bill Medlow showed DeLorme's Street Atlas USA |
| February | Radius VideoVision Studio with Studio Array (NuBus video capture card) by Ron Ross of Advanced Technology Marketing Associates of Princeton, NJ |
| January | Tektronix Phaser series Color printers by Jennifer Poli (Forum got updated logo by Mo Lebowitz) |
| 1994 | |
| December | Claris Corp.'s ClarisDraw and ClarisOrganizer by Michele Stankowski |
| November | Fractal Design's Painter 3.0 and Dabbler by Mike Popolo |
| October | Apple's Sheila Beaumont and Dennis Dissick talking about System 7.5 and hinting at Mac OS 8 (LIMac's tenth anniversary party) |
| September | 4th Dimension and 4D First (relational databases) by Lori Ralph of ACI US (LIMac uses our new Quadra 840AV) |
| August | Annual LIMac Flea market |
| July | Large format color printing by Michael Shaw of Central Blue Print (Great Neck) |
| June | Adobe Acrobat by Jim Hisselrod |
| May | Mystery meeting - lost to history. If you remember, e-mail us |
| April | USiNTERACTIVE by Jim Upton (touch-screen kiosks) |
| March | Claris Impact by Michele Stanlowski |
| February | Alladin Systems Desktop Utilities canceled probably due to weather |
| January | WordPerfect 3.0 by Gary Gumanow of WordPerfect Corp. Larry Mansfield becomes LIMac President |
| 1993 | |
| December | Aldus Freehand 4.0 by Sarah Chambel (stayed for DTP SIG and showed Fetch and Aldus Additions for PageMaker) |
| November | Altsys' Fontographer 4.0 by Katherine Green (later versions was sold by Macromedia) |
| October | Claris ClarisWorks 2.0 (much later renamed AppleWorks) by Michele Stankowski |
| September | FileMaker Pro by Savas Kyprianides, plus Deneba Canvas 3.5 and Adobe Illustrator 5 |
| August | STORM Technology's PICTURE PRESS, MacWorld Expo NYC report (The Newton MessagePad was the big thing that year) and Annual Flea Market |
| July | Kodak's PhotoCD by John Richardson of Hi-Tech Photo in Plainview |
| June | Adobe Premiere and Apple QuickTime by Bill Medlow |
| May | Aldus Corp. PageMaker 5.0 by Elizabeth Ciapala and Kurta graphics tablets by Kevin Warner |
| April | No General or SIG Meetings because of Good Friday and the school was closed |
| March | Super ATM, Photoshop 2.5 and the Adobe Typeface Library by Sandra Glaser |
| February | Caere OmniPage Pro and Typist handheld scanner by Jennifer Poli and Microtek scanners by Robert Ozankan |
| January | Time Works' (now MicroFrontier's) Color It! and Aldus PageMaker 5 (now Adobe's PageMaker) at the DTP SIG (Intro of InFocus TVT-3000 projection panel and Eiki overhead projector) |
| 1992 | |
| December | Auction, Flea Market and year-end party |
| November | Michael Hanes, Market Development Executive from Apple Computer's NYC Office. Discussions included PowerBook 160 and 180, Duos with Docks, Mac IIvx, Newton MessagePad and Apple's advertising. |
| October | Aldus SuperPaint 3.0 and IntelliDraw by Elizabeth Ciapala and also Aldus Fetch at the DTP SIG meeting. (Fetch became Portfolio after it transfer to Extensis) |
| September | Fractal Design Painter by Michael Popolo (3 way color projector shoot-off with our SE-30) Painter was sold to MetaCreations and then to Corel |
| August | Microsoft Excel 4.0 demo by Bob Gelbman and MacWorld Expo report |
| July | Manager Peter Siegmann and Robert Blue, Peter Mormoris and Ed Carbon of Adwell Communications |
| June | Roland Sign Maker by Scott Manngard and Sara Ripley of BC Communications |
| May | Canon bubblejet printers by Laura Thomas |
| April | MIDI Music and the Macintosh by Emmett Hughes of Copiague High School |
| March | Symantec GreatWorks by Kathy Tunis, At the DTP SIG; Microtek 600ZS scanner by Robert Ozankan |
| February | ClarisWorks by Michelle Stankowski |
| January | Aldus Superpaint 3.0 by Elizabeth Ciapala |
| 1991 | |
| December | Changeling Software's Pax Imperia by Peter G. Sispoidis & Flea market |
| November | CoStar LabelWriter II & II Plus, AddressWriter printers and Stingray trackball by John Marowski |
| October | Portfolio Systems' Dynodex 2 and Dynopage by Rob Kinnin |
| September | Apple System 7 by Michael Hanes, 16 and 512 color projection plates by Ben Snider from Galante Audio/Video and HP DeskWriter C ($1095) and ScanJet 2c ($1995) by Paul Sorge |
| August | Public Domain Demos: SuperClock!, Depth Gauge, Layout, ScreenSaver, Set Clock and Compact Pro by Donald Hennessy. Alan Gordon showed MockWrite, Bootman, Mass Formatter, Pop Char, SCSI Probe, SFVol INIT and some very brief games demos; Klondike, 40 Thieves, Stunt Copter, Billiards and Triple Yatzee |
| July | ACIUS FileForce relational database demo by A. J. Cummings (ACIUS is better known for 4th Dimension database) |
| June | Bradley Dichter gave a System 7.0 introduction. (MacroMind Media Maker was scheduled) |
| May | Hewlett Packard DeskWriter, Laserjet III series and PaintWriter by Paul Sorge |
| April | Claris MacDraw Pro and FileMaker Pro |
| March | FoxBase+/Mac by Fox Software |
| February | CE Software's QuicKeys 2.0 by Kimberly Wilson |
| January | Cancelled due to snow and ice storm (Hewlett Packard's Paul Sorge was scheduled) |
| 1990 | |
| December | Microsoft Word 4.0 by Joseph Migliore from Microsoft and Marianne Carroll, a independent consultant |
| November | The Typist handheld scanner (and OmniPage) by Caere Corp., demo by Jack Byrne. Also WriteNow 2.0 by Lia Cicuto of T/Maker Co. |
| October | Adobe Illustrator 3 was demonstrated by Bob Shanahan on a new $6250 InFocus color projection panel presented by Reise Jacob of Bytec. We didn't buy it. Also shown was the Outbound portable Mac clone. |
| September | Cancelled due to a power outage at NYIT (Scheduled was HP laser printers and HyperCard 2.0 by Mike Flickman from Apple.) |
| August | MockWrite desk accessory, CalendarMaker, MacBillboard, Klondike, Daleks, Moire Idle, Unstuffit, Artisto. MacWorld Expo/Boston Review |
| July | Kroy Kolor processor (for laser prints) demonstrated by G. Lawrence (Larry) Deluca |
| June | Adobe TypeAlign (desk accessory) with ATM and Adobe Type Reunion by Robert A. Shanahan |
| May | MacEnvelope and MacEnvelope Plus by Allen Lubow, President of SNYEX. QuarkXpress 3.0a shown at DTP SIG |
| April | NYIT closed |
| March | Kirk Scott and Lennie Sneiderman from ABC showed a Hypercard and videodisc interactive project |
| February | Aldus Freehand 2 by Melissa Trace |
| January | Larry Mansfield demonstrated his creation of the Forum using PageMaker. Ted Finkelstein demonstrated a beta version of the Logitech ScanMan. Donald Hennessy talked about our new Apple SCSI CD-ROM drive. |
| 1989 | |
| December | Farallon Computing's PhoneNet connectors, Timbuktu and MacRecorder (audio digitizer) by Tamara Howe. After member voting on Dec. 8, effective as of Dec. 22, LIMac severs ties with LICA. Dues are now $18. We buy a SE/30 w/40MB HD which eventually gets a color video card for an external projector. |
| November | Bitstream typefaces by Rita Witherly Muriel Feinman, board member and wife of Chairman Walter dies on Nov. 8 We sold our Mac SE. |
| October | Adobe Type Manager by Scott W. Frederickson and Prodigy online service by John J. McGahern |
| September | ACIUS' 4th Dimension relational database by Karen Sullivan |
| August | Helps & Hints and MockWrite by Donald Hennessy. CE Software's CalendarMaker 2 and MacBillboard by Alan Gordon. Mountains of Mayhem by Wallace Lepkin. |
| July | Qume CrystalPrint Publisher Postscript printer by Edward Dohnert. Walter Feinman takes over as Chairman from Donald Hennessy. |
| June | Claris MacWrite II |
| May | Aldus PageMaker 3.01 and Persuasion 1.0 by Melissa Trace |
| April | Informix Wingz (demo run on a rented Mac II) by Gerry DeHaven and Beth Ramme Premiere issue Vol.1 No. 1 of the LIMac Members' Forum and the start of the break with LICA. |
| March | WordPerfect for the Macintosh by Steve Call |
| 1988 | |
| October | DataDesk International's Mac-101 keyboard and 101-Keys macro program by Marcy Bloomstein, East Coast Sales Representative |
| September | Claris' MacDraw II by Diane Mills (NY Accounts Manager) |
| 1987 | |
| August | Apple's Hypercard demo by Dave Kliman (on a new Macintosh II which was introduced in March) and Microsoft Word 3.0.1 glossary usage by Larry Mansfield |
| May | Cricket Software's Cricket Draw by Technical Coordinator Doug Seward |
| February | Bob Forras' MacWorld Expo - San Francisco highlights and MegaScreen monitor and Stepping Out Alan Gordon demonstrated the shareware MacClone disk copy utility |
| 1986 | |
| October | Command Typographer beta by Alan Coopersmith and WriteNow beta v0.05 and Smash Hit Racquetball by Bob Forras |
| September | Microsoft Works by Craig Kempler (MS Rep.) |
| August | FullPaint, MacDraft and Ready Set Go demo by Al DiBlasi and Servant by Bob Forras |
We will be scanning archived printed newsletters to fill in 1989 to 1995. Look to the Forum page for them,
Founded by Donald Hennessy in 1984. (First Chairman)
