The first ever
Regional Macintosh Gathering
for Southern California Mac users

Vendor Presentations & Exhibits

Once upon a time the Queen Mary's Exhibit Hall was the ship's #5 Boiler Room, Forward Engine Room, Hospital, and Main Galley’s Pantry. On April 5th & 6th it will be home to some of our favorite Macintosh vendors and host to a wide variety of valuable seminars.

Exhibitors

Unlike most trade shows, there is no open call for vendors to exhibit. More like a user group meeting, we have hand-picked a selection of Mac vendors and personally invited them to attend. (Which is not to say if a vendor is not here we don't like them.) Our goal is a diverse selection of helpful products that you can get to know well by attending. Setting up the Mac Gathering is a huge undertaking and I (Deb) am doing this vendor stuff alone, so bear with us as I contact each vendor and work out the details. Check back here from time to time to see who's signed on.

  • Adobe, makers of Acrobat, GoLive, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and more
  • Aladdin Systems, Inc., makers of the StuffIt line of compression products and more
  • Ambrosia Software.Ambrosia Software, Inc. is a small company dedicated to bringing you quality software, excellent support, and innovative ideas all at a reasonable cost. Ambrosia creates personal productivity tools that make using your computer a more enjoyable experience, as well as anti-productivity tools (games) that are just plain fun. We give you commercial-quality software at a fraction of the price, with the added convenience of being able to try out the software before you pay for it.
  • DiamondSoft, makers of Font Reserve
  • Di-No Computers of Pasadena, a friendly neighborhood reseller and authorized Macinstosh service center waiting to fill you in on the details of flat panel monitors and more. The Di-No booth will feature Formac and Apple large format flat screen monitors, Macintosh system packages, and other hardware and software.
  • eZedia Inc. has become a leader in digital-media software technology whose growing family of products currently include: eZediaMX, eZediaQTI and a series of plug-ins for iMovie.
  • Giga Designs, PowerMac G4 CPU Upgrades
  • Groundlevel Software, makers of the newest peer-to-peer file-sharing tool, Drumbeat. (We need to test the internet connection before we can invite them with assurance, but they're committed to be there if we can give them the go-ahead.)
  • Intosh, popular friendly neighborhood reseller and authorized Macinstosh service center for the Westlake Village area. The Intosh booth will feature a variety of hardware and software. Special features to be announced here soon.
  • Jenny Sutherland, custom, hand painted T-shirts. Jenny creates hand painted, permanent designs. When we learned she does Mac themes we asked her to show her wares. She'll have some designs to sell on the spot, but mostly takes orders for one-of-a-kind designs. If you want a pic of your own Mac at home, bring a printed picture and she'll paint from that. She does humourous, serious, cartoon or whatever you'd like. She can make up slogans, or paint your ideas... you name it. The average price is $35.00 which includes shipping.
  • Levelsofdetail.com. 3D textures, and stock footage for Final Cut Pro
  • MacAlly, maker of excellent hardware at very affordable prices.
  • Micromat, makes of TechTool Pro and Drive 10
  • Microtek, digital imaging equipment.
  • MYOB Small Business accounting software
  • MusicGroups.com. Free music, promotion and web sites for the music industry
  • PeachPit Press. Peachpit Press is a publisher of high quality easy-to-read how-to books on graphics, Web design, multimedia, and desktop publishing. We also publish New Riders, Macromedia Press, and Adobe Press books.
  • Prosoft Engineering, Inc, makers of Data Rescue and several new disk utilities
  • Provue Development, maker of Panorama - an easy, powerful database program
  • SecureMac.com, Inc., maker of MacScan X
  • Stone Design Corp. Stone Studio consists of Create ®, PhotoToWeb ®, PStill ™, GIFfun ™, SliceAndDice ™, PackUp&Go ™ and TimeEqualsMoney ™. These apps work together to build beautiful web sites quickly, handle digital photos, produce PDFs, and track and bill clients. Create alone ($149) has the key features in: Illustrator/Freehand, QUARK/PageMaker, and GoLive/DreamWeaver
  • ThinkFree Corp, makers of ThinkFree Office, the $49 Office alternative
  • Word of Mouse Games, suppliers of Snood & Candy Crisis


Vendor Presentations

Software & hardware vendors have a lot to teach us about their products and each product's raison d'être. In these 2 hour presentations, you'll learn about the Mac issues that create the need for these products and how each product fulfills the need. You'll learn about background, issues, features, and such. For example, you will have the opportunity to learn all about file compression from the experts at Aladdin Systems, about font issues and management from the folks at Font Reserve.

There will be from 1 - 3 presentations in each time slot. For the most-part, each vendor will present on both Saturday & Sunday to make it easier for you to make it there. There is no charge for these presentations. We strongly encourage you to attend as they are a terrific opportunity to learn more about things you know or discover new solutions.

Presentation Times:

We won't be posting the exact schedule until it's all set, but presentation times are:
10:00am - 12:00pm
12:15pm -  2:15pm
 2:30pm -  4:30pm
 4:45pm -  6:45pm

Other Presentations

We've got a lot of room, so after a day of vendor presentations we'll have some other educational sessions. We want to be sure to give you some great advice on things like making the move to OS X or customizing your OS X system and perhaps even an intro to the Terminal. Maybe we'll have a word processing tips session. And we'll definately have a session about keeping your Mac secure. We honestly have more ideas and instructors than time slots and spaces so we're still working it all out.

Here's one Free Seminar we'll have for you on Saturday or Sunday

The reality of Mac Security; everything you should know about your Mac's security.

Taught by: Nicholas Raba, founder and author of SecureMac.com.

Mac OS X has many built-in security features to enhance both the desktop security (physical access when you or others are in front of your Mac) and to protect against Internet intruders. Do you know all of them and how to best use each one? Learn what Mac OS X has to offer to ensure your Mac stays secure. Learn about things OS X cannot do on its own, and what you can do to enhance the security features already present in the operating system.

This one hour presentation will include question and answer and Nick will be available in the MacScan Exhibit Booth area afterwards to continue discussion on the topic and answer your questions.

This page was last updated on Friday, March 5, 2004 at 9:01 PM.

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This is an independent event and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Computer, Inc.