New Jersey Macintosh Users Group

This Month's General Meeting:

Meeting Date: March 17, 2026 aty 6:30PM

What’s Happling, NJMUG Trustee Candidates Announced, Option Key Secrets, Using Ai to Create Comics, Highlights of CES 2026, LiDAR Scanner: 3D Room Measure and Magic School.com

Food again at March meeting!

Good news! We’re planning on bringing food to the March 17, 2026 meeting again. Not sure if it will be pizza or pastries, but should have this nailed down in the next few days. Come back to the NJMUG.org to see what we’re bringing a day or two before the meeting. You’ll need to bring your own drinks or use the water fountain in the hallway outside the meeting room. We will hold our Q&A session while we are eating.

March 2nd, 3rd and 4th saw Apple releasing the iPhone 17e with the A19 chip, iPad Air with M4 chip, high end M5 MacBook Pro’s, new versions of their Studio Displays and the brand-new MacBook Neo that squeezes into Apple’s laptop lineup just below the MacBook Air. In our latest What’s hAppling section, we’ll dive into all these devices and who they’re perfect for.

Candidates for NJMUG trustee’s will be officially announced at our March meeting! However there is still time and places open on the board for more trustees. If you want to help keep this club going and can spare the time please reach out to Mark as soon as you can. Voting for the new board is open to all members of the NJMUG who have paid their annual dues and attend the April meeting. After the new board is elected at our April meeting, the newly selected board will select the club’s new officers. According to our club’s by-laws, only board members (trustees) can be club officers. We’re looking for a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, fundraiser and webmaster. If you’re willing to serve in any of these positions, please let Mark know as soon as you can. Contact Agnes if you have questions about your dues.

Mark Astmann will show us how we can get more from our Mac’s using the Option key with 10 great tips.

Alan Walter will show us how he used Ai to create a comic strip.

Scott Alenick will show us how to build 3D floor plans using LiDAR Scanner: 3D Room Measure on your iPhone.

Louis Perez will present Interesting and Unusual Websites.

Catherine Mascis will show us some things from Magic School which bills itself as “The #1 Ai Platform for Students, Schools and Education.

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New Jersey Macintosh Users Group

Founded in 1984, NJMUG is the Garden State's flagship Macintosh Users Group with members throughout New Jersey. Our community of members are dedicated to sharing their knowledge, insights and experience on the Macintosh computer platform.

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NJMUG's 30th Anniversary Video

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Letters to NJMUG

Date: 2/9/2022

To the New Jersey Macintosh Users Group,

I'm now a 51-year-old professional in New York City, but I grew up in New Jersey at a time when Apple was first rolling out the Macintosh. I now have two teenage sons myself, and after I was discussing what I did for extracurricular activities in high school, on a lark I looked up the New Jersey Macintosh Users Group, which I was involved in starting up. I was absolutely delighted to find the web page below referencing my participation, and I wanted to say thank you so much for memorializing the group's history. I'm glad it continues, and I'm writing to say how much I appreciate the costless but meaningful gesture of remembering the group's history. I'm only sorry I wasn't on a mailing list to be able to commemorate the 20th anniversary! Wishing best of luck, and another 35 years of success, to the New Jersey Macintosh Users Group!

Very truly yours,

Michael ("Mike") Waldorf

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