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FREE INFO SESSIONS EVERY SATURDAY

at 11 am and 2 pm

Subjects are on rotation and occur regularly. Watch our Home page for this week's and next week's events.

APPLE TV - Apple TV lets you enjoy all your favourite digital content — movies, music, TV shows, podcasts, YouTube videos, photos — on your widescreen TV, making every seat in your living room the best seat in the house. You’ll see how you can sync your iTunes library to Apple TV and how you can view content direct from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. And we’ll show you how easy it is to rent movies directly from your TV.

BEYOND THE BOX - Now you have a new Mac, iPad, iPod or iPhone it's time to find out about the latest products available to work with them. We'll take you through some of the amazing new devices and accessories that are available to complement your Apple experience.

GAMING ON MAC - The ultimate gaming experience is right at your fingertips. The Mac delivers powerful hardware, stunning graphics, and an amazing variety of great games. See for yourself how much more of an experience it can be when gaming on a Mac.

GARAGEBAND - With an entire recording studio right on your Mac, you can create your own music, using GarageBand to record, edit, and mix a song exactly how you want it. We’ll show you how to compose a song with loops, beats and vocals.

iLIFE - Apple’s impressive collection of digital lifestyle applications has everyone talking about how easy it is to organise and edit photos, create amazing home movies and play and record your own music. See for yourself how it’s done and then stay a while and try it for yourself.

iMOVIE - iMovie lets you make a great movie. We’ll show you how to give your movies a professional look in seconds and how to use the new Precision Editor to refine every shot. You’ll see how iMovie offers new ways to organise and browse your videos and how it lets you share your movies on the internet or by burning to DVD.

iPAD BASICS - You’ll see why iPad is the best way to experience the web, email, and photos. Discover how extraordinary your videos look on iPad, learn about the iBooks app - a great new way to buy and read books - and so much more. We’ll also show you tips and tricks, like organising and displaying your photos in a slideshow, navigating Safari and discovering new ways to see and touch your email like never before.

iPHOTO - Find out how easy it is to organise, enhance and share your entire digital photo library using iPhoto. Learn new ways to make your photos look their best with professional-quality image adjustment tools. See how to create impressive prints, books, calendars and cards – all with your own photos.

iPOD & iTUNES - iTunes is the best digital jukebox for Mac and Windows. We’ll show you how to use iTunes to import and organise your music, find a song or artist instantly, create playlists, burn them to CDs, and sync your music to an iPod, iPad, iPhone or Apple TV. On the iTunes Store, you can buy music, music videos, TV shows, movies, or audiobooks — even rent movies. And with iPod, you can take it all with you wherever you go.

iWEB - iWeb makes it easy to create impressive websites and blogs — complete with podcasts, photos, and movies. With iWeb you have everything you need to create and manage your own space on the web. Publish your site with one click to MobileMe. Or use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to publish to a different hosting service. iWeb even sends automatic notifications to your Facebook friends when you update your site.

iWORK - Apple’s office productivity suite is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. See how easy writing and page layout is with Pages and how Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. Learn how to captivate your audience with the sophisticated features of Keynote.

KEYNOTE - Thanks to Keynote, everyone can now create cinema-quality presentations. We’ll show you how to pick a theme to get your presentation off to a great start. Keynote provides all the tools you need to create impressive tables and charts, and to add razor-sharp text to photos. You’ll also learn how to add show-stopping transitions and professional animations and effects.

MAC BASICS - We’ll show you how to set up a Mac, connect it to the internet and send mail. You’ll also see how easy it is to import and share photos, transfer your music into iTunes and then from iTunes to your iPod, iPad or iPhone. See how simple it is to customise a Mac to suit you, and how easy it can be to search for illusive files.

MAC OS X LION - Find out how easy it is to use the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X. The latest version – 10.7 Lion – enhances your entire Mac experience. In ways big and small, it is faster, more reliable and easier to use. Including next-generation technologies, Mac OS X Lion unleashes the power of today’s advanced hardware.

SWITCHING FROM PC TO MAC - We’ll familiarise you with the Mac operating system and show you how you can accomplish on a Mac what you used to do on a Windows PC. We’ll dispel some myths and show you how common applications like Microsoft Excel and Word work on a Mac. You’ll find out just how easy it is to move your files from a PC to Mac and how you’ll become a Mac fan in just days.

WHICH MAC IS BEST FOR YOU? - MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro? How do you decide which is the best Mac for what you want to do? Be guided through the pros and cons of each model and find out what options are available either at purchase time or after-market for the complete Apple computer range.