SmileOnMyMac Blog

I just got back Miami this week on a combination work/personal visit. I was born and raised here, and I never pass up a chance to come down to Florida during February.

I gave a presentation to the Gold Coast Mac Users Group, showing off PDFpen and DiscLabel primarily. Several members of the audience chimed in to share their happy SmileOnMyMac customer stories. What a fine and intelligent group!

I also gave a demo at the Apple Store at The Falls in South Miami. The demo coincided with the enormous power black-out that we had in Florida last week. The demo was postponed for the 45 minutes the power was out.

Apple Store customers are sure dedicated. Lots of people waited outside the store waiting for it to reopen. It was crowded almost before the computers had booted back up!

Last weekend, the Houston Area Apple Users Group held their annual day-long MacFest and SmileOnMyMac was one of the sponsors. I went down to demo our products at the MacFest and had a GREAT time. My first visit to Texas!

Lesa King, co-host of Your Mac Life and my pal, was one of the speakers, along with Andy Ihnatko, Bob LeVitus and Chris Breen. I learned a lot from listening in on their sessions. I also got to eat barbecue and Tex-Mex, of course. The HAAUG folks were really nice, and I especially loved meeting SmileOnMyMac customers who came up to me to tell me how much they loved our programs.

Lesa and I gave presentations at the Apple Store in the Houston Galleria, hers covering Digital Photography and mine about PDFpen. Since we were there at the store, I asked Lesa (who is a big fan of PDFpen) to pose for another entry in our gallery of Apple Store photos!

We were happy to be a sponsor of the annual Mac Computer Expo, a great event put on by the North Coast Mac Users Group (NCMUG). We did demos of our software, and got to talk to lots of Mac users.

Greg the intrepid demo guy

Lots of interest in SmileOnMyMac

Jean, Greg, Philip

A few weeks ago, I was perusing the North Coast Mac Users Group (NCMUG) website in advance of presentation Philip (SOMM co-founder) was scheduled to give. The site shows a great line-up of Mac luminaries speaking at their meetings, including fabulous photos of everyone – except Philip, who is at least as good-looking as any of the rest.

As the recently-hired marketing/PR person, I put “get publicity photos” on my to-do list, and asked Philip and Greg to send me some.

Here’s what I got: an excuse from Philip, and this from Greg:

Great publicity photo… if you’re auditioning for “Flipper 2: Return to Coral Key”.

I guess I’ll have to take my own photos. Watch this space….