Agenda
Seminars
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Kerio MailServer. Designed for small business. Designed for Mac.
Kerio MailServer is the industry's best messaging, groupware and collaboration solution for 100% Mac and mixed environments.
In this session learn how Kerio MailServer
- Is the most comprehensive mobile messaging solution for Mac and iPhone users
- Has the broadest Mac client support available with native support for Apple Mail, iCal, Address Book and Microsoft Entourage
- Has native iPhone integration with wireless AtiveSync over-the-air synchronization and server side search enabled in iPhone 3.0 software
- Is the best business productivity companion for your Mac and iPhone
Apple OS X Leopard Tips & Tricks !
If you've worked with the Macintosh for a while, you will have realized that with Mac OS X Leopard many of your tried and true classic troubleshooting techniques no longer apply. Join Loop Enterprise Inc. for a free seminar chock full of tips and tricks to help you troubleshoot problems and keep your Mac OS X Leopard workstations running smoothly. We'll show you the tools and techniques you'll need to optimize your systems, repair problems, and find answers.
Adobe® InDesign® CS4
To help you unleash your creativity using this award-winning professional page layout software, we've put together a special event for you. Whether you're an avid InDesign user and are upgrading to CS4 now that you have Leopard installed on your new dual-core Apple computer, or are simply considering a better way to work, this free event will expand your creative horizons. Our experts will also show you how to improve your productivity by automating repetitive design and production tasks in your workflow.
What's New in Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium: Time Savers
Learn how to apply the skills you already have to create rich, compelling content for print and online with Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium. In this seminar Adobe product experts will show you how to take advantage of simplified workflows – from everyday tasks made simpler to streamlined delivery across media. You’ll discover new ways of working that let you do more in less time and use existing skills to deliver high-quality cross-media campaigns. You’ll also hear about the innovative online services* for collaborating and mastering your design tools.
What's New in Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Web Premium - More expressive design tools
Learn about the updated versions of the creative tools you rely on. You’ll discover how to bring your creativity to life with technology advances of Creative Suite 4 Web Premium. Join Adobe product experts as they showcase the powerful new animation tools, and faster, more expressive design tools – see how to use Live View in Dreamweaver® Now to design web pages under real browser conditions with direct access to code, or animate quickly with new object-based animation in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional. Explore the multitrack recording capabilities and professional audio editing features in Adobe Soundbooth® CS4. Plus find out how to fuel your creativity and optimize collaborations with the new online communication options accessible from within Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium.
Polish Your Ideas - Developing Effective Presentations using Keynote
It is not just the words that will make your presentation. Effective, concise and compelling visuals can make the difference in the way your audience receives, understands and commits your information to memory.
In this seminar you will pick up tips on effectively taking better advantage of what Keynote has to offer.
What will be covered:
1. Taking better advantage of templates
2. Animating individual objects and slides
3. Saving for more than just Keynote
Focus Your Work - Managing Screen Clutter in OSX
Organization is not just a state of mind, it is a state of fact. The fact is that if you are not organized on your computer, you will spend more unproductive time looking for the documents or assets that you want to work with than productive time actually working with them.
In this seminar you will pick up tip on creating a pristinely organized Macintosh
What will be covered:
1. Automations and how they can work for us
2. Better use of smart folders
3. why the desktop is not the best place to save to
Create Your Ring - Using Garageband to customize your ringtones for iPhone
You have one, he has one, she has one. iPhone's are everywhere. We love them, we revere them and we can truly customize them. Garageband offers you the opportunity to create a personal addition to our iLife... The ringtone...
In this seminar you will learn what it takes to become an ringtone officinato.
What will be covered:
1. DRM music and your ringtone
2. How to build it and how long can it be
3. What makes it work
Control Your Image - Producing professional looking documents using Numbers and Pages
Presentation is everything. Even the biggest spreadsheet with the most mind numbing calculations can be made to be more exciting. Apple's iWork 09 offers some of the most sophisticated layout tools to enable you to make your documents more dynamic.
In this seminar you will learn how to use the powerful tools in both Numbers and Pages in iWork 09.
What will be covered
1. Choosing the right template
2. Converting a spreadsheet to a 3D chart
3. Laying out a document like a book
Faces, Places & Embraces - Exciting features in iPhoto 09
You've taken "a million" digital photos. You have them in a million places. iPhoto 09 lets you consolidate all of your images into one location. Think of iPhoto like iTunes for your pictures. You have a powerful set of tools for organization, manipulation and presentation all in one handy location.
In this seminar go beyond being a shutterbug and become a camera king or queen.
What will be covered
1. Events, Photos, Faces and Places. What are they and what they do for you
2. Make it more your own. The basics of photo manipulation
3. Facebook and iPhoto
Digital Scrapbooking 101 - Using iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD
Lights, camera, action!!! You have photos. You have movies. You have memories. iLife 09 allows you to take all of your beloved memories and put them together in a way that you can share with everyone.
In this seminar you will get the tips and tricks necessary to create a professional quality presentation to share with family and friends.
What will be covered
1. Assembling a timeline
2. Adding the flair... Music and the ever popular star wipe...
3. Making a DVD or sending it to my iPhone.
Getting Started With FileMaker, Part I
Join programmer, consultant, author and all-around-Mac-guy, Kristin Green for a 30 minute discovery of FileMaker Pro. What is FileMaker? What can it do? How can you use it in your business? See how easy it is to create a simple database and share it with others! This session will cover the very basics and begin with an overview of the program's interface while showing, by example, how to get started with this powerful business tool.
Getting Started With FileMaker, Part II
Continuing with the skills presented in Part I, Kristin will expand on them to include more advanced topics such as relational tables and scripting. Watch as he links tables together to create a simple invoicing system for your business, complete with dynamic drop down menus and calculating fields. Finally, learn how to tie it all together with scripted reports that can be printed or emailed.
Accelerate Your Business With LightSpeed
LightSpeed is a ground-breaking inventory management and point of sale solution made exclusively for Mac OS X. Join Kristin Green, the author of 'The Book On LightSpeed' , as he demonstrates how to Quote customers and take special Orders. Then watch as he steps through the purchasing and sales workflow from Purchase Order to Invoice. Over the counter, over the phone or over the internet, if you sell products and you want to use a Mac to do it, LightSpeed can help you run your business from purchase to sale.
Xsan for the Server Room
Xsan, Apple's SAN file system, is most commonly known for it's use in a video editing environment, but it can also be used as a high-performance SAN solution in your server room. Learn what services work best when using Xsan as a storage back-end, and which ones to avoid. We'll discuss frequently asked questions about using Xsan in the server room, and present some real-world examples.
Open Directory & Active Directory Integration
In this session we're looking to provide a general understanding of how directory services work, how directory services are implemented on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, and how to configure Mac OS X to integrate into an Active Directory setup. Also covered will be an overview on leveraging both Open Directory and Active Directory in a "Magic Triangle" method to allow authentication against Active Directory while retaining management of your OS X workstations from Open Directory's managed client settings.
Snow Leopard for Business
Mac OS X 10.6 will be released in September and this is your chance to get to see some of the new features before it ships. This session will give you an overview of Snow Leopard Server and how it fits into any business environment, including small businesses. We'll cover the basic features, as well as the new Mail Server, which features Server-side rules and Out-of-Office notifications, the Mobile Access Server, iCal Server 2, Wiki Server 2, and Podcast Producer 2. Presented by Bruce Hough.
Bruce is a National Consulting Engineer with Apple Canada, focusing on Apple's server platform and the integration of Apple's technologies into mixed platform environments. With over 20 years of Apple expertise, Bruce helps customers in the educational and business markets in Canada understand the role of Apple products and their position within heterogeneous environments.
Making the Switch to Macs in Business
What strategies do you need to support the idea that Macs be considered first-class citizens in your IT environment? What about a switch to the Mac platform from Windows? Learn how to create a migration plan, prepare your users for the transition, and handle technical integration issues from Apple Engineers that have been involved in both targeted and wholesale Mac transitions.
Ian is a Systems Engineer with Apple Canada covering Ontario and focusing on the broadcast, media and print industries to name but a few. His specialties lie in Xsan, Directory Services and media workflow deployments, and he has previously been a speaker at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.
iPhone in Business
While it's a revolutionary mobile phone that puts desktop-class corporate email, calendar & contacts in your pocket, iPhone is also a powerful mobile computing platform for business managers, IT & mobile workers. You will learn about the potential of the most advanced web browser available today on a portable device. We will discuss custom mobile solutions as well as the every growing list of applications for virtually every business need available today through the Apps Store. We will also discuss the possibilities for learning content and media access through the iPhone that enables richer corporate communication and knowledge sharing.
Responsible for iPhone Enterprise Accounts, Canada. Previous positions at Apple include National SE Manager & National Education Inside Sales Manager. Bruce has more that 15 years experience in enterprise technology sales & has previously held technical, sales & management positions with other major multi national vendors.
1 BILLION SERVED: Leveraging the World's Hottest Marketplace for Your Business
A look at how business is leveraging the flexibility and scale of the App Store to reach current and potential customers. A round-table discussion will include both representation from the iPhone Developer and business community with real examples, case studies, and success stories on iPhone App development for business
THE SELF-SERVICE TECH: Learning How to Avoid Calls to Tech Support
Advice on both preventing and troubleshooting everyday challenges and common issues with your Mac . Troubleshooting theory, general tools and tricks, and a hands-on question and answer session with AppleCare Desktop and Laptop Representatives. 60 Minutes
Data Protection for the Mobile Age
This 45-minute, leader-led session includes a summary of the risks facing professionals who carry portable computers, and how the strategies and tools typically employed in small business still leave them susceptible to data loss. We round off the session with a review of the features that you should be evaluating when looking that your options in the marketplace.
"I thought YOU were backing up!"
This 45-minute, leader-led session is tailored for owners and managers of smaller organizations (10 or fewer people on staff). Attendees typically agree that losing any of their current business data would cost them dearly, but very few have been able to effectively prioritize the prevention of such a loss. After a summary review of various technologies and methods, the presenter will delve into methods to grant you the peace of mind of automatic, secure and effective backups, with multiple file versions being retrievable from anywhere on the internet.
Background Backup for Workgroup Managers
Tailored specifically for business owners and IT managers using the online BackgroundBackup.ca service, this 45-minute briefing introduces attendees to the flexibility and strength of the Background Backup data protection platform. Regardless of where your staff work, what operating system they use or how many locations your encrypted archives are written to, every Background Backup client has access to a wide range of management and reporting options, including server-side (pushed) client settings and workstation-specific controls. Join us to see how Background Backup can be tailored to fit your organization's specific needs, taking into account such requirements as mandatory data retention policies, bandwidth throttling and QoS preferences and the tiered delegation of management and administration roles, across unlimited sub-groups.
How to turn your phones into Mac-based competitive weapons
Small business can now level the playing field with tools previously available only to large corporations. By combining Macs and phones you can look big, act bigger and gain a huge competitive edge. Kevin Ford, maker of PhoneValet, guides you through the choices that will make your business more profitable.
How to turn your iPhone App ideas into a lot of money
Insider tips will help you take your idea from concept to cash. Join Kevin Ford, president of Parliant Corporation and head of the www.iPhoneAuthors.com team. He'll show you how to design for success, select the right developer and maximize revenue as you strive to crack the Top 100 apps.
Managed Services in the Macintosh Environment - Going Green !
Managed Services relieves the stresses of many IT tasks that can take away from your company's business goals. Why invest in new hardware, software and training? If you have an IT team, why not allow them to focus on more important tasks that will advance your company and give you the leg up on the competition? If you don't have an IT department, why commit your team's precious time trying to manage back-end tasks while still fulfilling their primary job function? With managed services your team can concentrate on the things that you do well. As the economy has experienced a downturn and many businesses have felt the impact, capital expenses have been reduced, with companies looking to save anywhere they can, while investing as little resources as possible. Many of the managed services allow a nearly uninterrupted workflow, and in many cases proactively protect you from unforeseeable events.
You will take away the following from this seminar:
1. Apple's Green Intiatives in the workplace
2. How to avoid capital expenditures - cut down on IT costs
3. Have someone else maintain licenses, updates, patches - on their dime !
4. Technical liason to the vendors
5. Fixed bill month-to-month no surprises
6. Reduced overhead - cut down on IT resources - we are in a recession !
7. Remote services - its Green, its good !
Mac OS X Server: Spamkilling Power with no user taxes
You'll come away with a greater understanding and the ability to have your Mac OS X Server lift the burden and annoyance that Spam creates. We examine the benefits of stemming the flow of Spam and viruses on your users desktops by catching and defeating them at the door. Taking Mac OS X out of the box you'll learn how to tweak your server into dealing with thousands of spam messages per hour. Learn how to adjust the open source tools that come pre-installed to make effective use of Mac OS X's ultimate power.
Everyman's Comand Line Tweaks and Automation
In the beginning was the command line. Find out how to save time using the ancient secrets of users and power users. Peak inside the Mac so see what is really going on; learn to monitor, start, stop and troubleshoot processes. Amaze your friends by automating tasks with simple and not so simple scripts. See how you can manage accounts and services with a little preparation and without the heavy lifting.