[WelMac] Introducing... Me

[Jo 'Mangee' Booth]

Welcome John!

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:18:42 +1300, John Crook <jmcrook at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> My name is John Crook.  You will be pleased to know that I am a human
> and not a spam robot.
;)
> Many of you will know me as I have been a member of Welmac and WAUG
> before it for about 20 years.

I probably know your face.. little slower with names...

> Primarily the PowerBook is my
> office, and the iBook is my personal machine for photography, and
> genealogy.  I run my business accounts and archiving on the desktop.
>
> I am a very keen amateur photographer and I've been into digital
> photography pretty much from the beginning of digital cameras.  I'm
> currently onto my third and fourth digital cameras.  My main camera is
> a Sony DSC F828 (8megapixels) and I also have a Canon IXUS
> (2megapixels) which is about the size of a pack of cigarettes that I
> use for a slip-in-the-pocket go-anywhere camera. Photoshop is my main
> tool for working on the pictures.

Nice,  I dabble I bit in photgraphy, with a Canon IXUS too (4 Mp one) - it's great to have a camera that you can take anywhere.
A few of my photos are online with flickr: <http://flickr.com/photos/mangee> I use the FLickr Uploaded plugin for iPhoto, and am hanging out for a iLife '06 so I can get iPhoto to handle my 30,000 odd photos.
I have a few Windows accaintances that do Genealogy on Windows (Legacy etc) - it'd be interesting to here a bit about the Mac equivalents, God knows they have enough Windows problesm to warrant a switch, if they could be convinved that learning a new piece of software was worth it..
> I also do a bit of video dabbling. My video camera is an analog
> machine, but being Hi8 I can get high-quality pictures out of it.  I
> use an external analog to digital converter to get my video into my
> Macs for processing with iMovie.  I haven't gone into the high-end
> stuff for video at the moment as I don't do enough to warrant the
> expense.  I'm quite pleased with the results I can get with this
> set-up.

Hrm.  I have a number of Hi8 tapes (MovieFest, Digital Expo, Parachute, Baby birth etc) i've been meaning to convert.. maybe we can hook up sometime ;)

> I'm very interested in broadband developments (in London I can get
> 8Mb/s DSL with 256k upload rate and unlimited use for about NZD27.00
> per month.)  I'm using a VOIP telephony service from Vonage (UK).

I've seen a few people with similiar setups -- i'd be good to get a cheap VOIP endpoint/number service in Wellington.. Slingshot offer their interpretation, and a number of comercial offering sare out there for businesses.  I'd love to take my "Landline" off line. ;)
>
> Anyway, that's enough rambling.  I look forward to sharing in the
> discussions on the list.
>
> All the best
>
> John
>

Good to have you on the list,

I'm Jo Booth - WelMac Vice President, and New Media group facilitator. I've got an iMac G5 or two, as well as a garage full of older Mac/Apple machines, and and thinking of putting http://nzmac.org to some use.. :)

-Jo.
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http://forums.welmac.org.nz
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Jo Booth
Mangee|net