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They are a little later than i would have liked, but here are the notes from our gathering at the Nation Youth Ministry Conference:

Questions you would like answers to:

What would i need to do some basic video work?
iMovie is an easy great way to easily edit videos, comes with your mac
I would recommend the middle MacBook, with as much ram as you can afford.
refurbished products from apple a good way to save some money
CDW for non-profits,

iPhoto great way to organize you pictures, make albums, slideshows

Mac will integrate into a PC network pretty easily. Also run windows on your mac can be on it,
Wireless networking makes it even easier
For printers, if it doesn’t find it, use the IP address
Shelby alternatives: fellowshipone.com (online app works with the mac), youth tracker, tuggle

Cool and easy software

iWork / office alternatives:
openoffice, neo office, Google apps

Best tools you’ve found for ministry:
Quicksilver (app launcher),
learn keystrokes

Presentation Software:
live worship
Propresenter
iWorship

Video Tools:
handbrake (rip dvd to video file)
visual hub / isquint
Perian (video plugins for quicktime) / flip for mac (windows media)
Quicktime Pro (worth the upgrade)

Productivity:
backpack from 37 signals

MacNews:
macforums.com, macrumors.com, maccentral.com, tuaw.com, maccast.com,

Free training: screencastsonline.com
Paid training: totaltraining.com, lynda.com
search for podcasts on finalcut, photoshop, any app

smcfancontrol.com – control fan of computer to keep it cool

FTP:
cyberduck, transmit

Web: sandvox

In addition to these also check out my resource page with lots of other software links.

Wow, the NYMC was much busier than I thought it would be, I haven’t had much to time keep up on the blog.  I did want to thank everyone who came out to our Mac users forum on Saturday night.  It was so much fun spending time with everyone.  I know that I own you all the notes from our gathering, and I’m still trying to track down all the links.  I’m on my way home now (actually I’m writing this from the terminal in the Chicago airport), so I should be able to post that for everyone tomorrow.  In the mean time, you can find a lot of the things we talked about and then some on my resource page.

Thanks again for everyone that stopped in for it.

Here are my notes from the Mac Users forum at the National Youth Workers Convention in St Louis. Ian and I would like to thank everyone for coming out. Don’t forget to check out the Resource page for links to a lot of the software we talked about.

If you have any further questions post them in the comments and I’m sure someone will have an answer. One question we didn’t really get a good answer for was where someone can find accompaniment tracks so he can play guitar and play the rest of the band from his computer. If you know of anywhere, post it below.

Questions you would like answered:

Will my Mac integrate well into the PC world?

• Use virtualization software, boot camp
• Most file formats now are interchangeable, watch out for office 07 you need a converter
• Leopard makes this especially easy

Why do musicians and graphics specialists use them?

• base software is great for those uses
• great platform, graphic handling better, quicktime is great for video
• NativeInstruments.com for music tracks and instruments
• Live

bible software?

• Oaksoft.com
• biblegateway.com
• Laridan for iPhone

Why go from Keynote to ProPresenter?

• Keynote does fun things with the words and layers (problem, you lose control of everything else on the computer)
• ProPresenter allows for changing on the fly
• Live Worship a great option for presentation, closest thing to a mac version of Media Shout

Advice for newbies:

• No security software needed
• Screencastonline
• embrace the community – podcasts, user groups

Software you can’t live without:

• Comiclife – use for flyers, promo
• Photobooth -
• iPhoto – slideshows,
• iMovie – quick and easy movies
• ProPresenter
• iWeb
• Rapidweaver for websites
• Free web apps (google cal, box.net, blogger,
• iStockphoto.com
• lineform — vector art like illustrator
• pixelmator, acorn for image editing like photoshop

Fun Ideas:

LT from general sessions will be available online after Atlanta convention