New Jersey Macintosh Users Group

This Month's General Meeting:

Meeting Date: January 20, 2026 aty 6:30PM

Updates on NJMUG as a Corporation and Election Process, Tribute to NJMUG's Founding Member, Artistry, Interesting and Unusual Web Sites and Canva Affinity Studio Interface

Alert!

We have long known that our December meeting is our best attended meeting of the year. One of the reasons we believe is that we serve food at this meeting. To help keep up our attendance we will be serving pizza and soda for all members at our January meeting.

At the last meeting we talked about how NJMUG will continue and whether or not we still need to be a corporation. In the January meeting update everyone on what’s going on.

NJMUG will hold elections at the March meeting and we will talk about the process necessary to elect board members, a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer.

NJMUG has been meeting monthly for 40 years and at the January meeting Rich Wolfson, one our founding members will share a short video and story about Sharon Zardetto Aker, our club’s founder. TidBITS, the oldest continuing Mac newsletter said in May about Sharon;

“Sharon started writing professionally about the Macintosh at its inception in 1984, with articles in the earliest issues of Macworld and the premiere issue of MacUser. She contributed to The Macintosh Bible for its second edition in 1989, served as the lead author/editor for the third edition in 1991, and reprised that role for the 1,000-page seventh edition in 1998. In between, she also wrote The Macintosh Companion: The Basics and Beyond, collaborated on two editions of The PowerBook Companion with her husband Rich Wolfson, edited The Macintosh Dictionary, and penned The Mac Almanac. Throughout the 2000s, she continued as a columnist for Mac magazines, ultimately writing nearly a thousand articles, including one in the final print issue of Macworld.”

Re-visiting our roots will be very helpful in planning our future and we look forward to hearing from Rich.

Catherine Mascis has picked up the Ai ball and will walk us through Artistly which promises to "Produce Stunning Images, Logos and Art With Just A Keyword Using AI".

Mark will do an overview of Canva's all new Affinity Studio app which just may be the answer to your Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign needs.

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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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