Wednesdays are Pro Days at Apple's Retail Stores--December Schedule

Every Wednesday the retail Apple Stores offer a free, one-hour presentation. The presentations for December are listed below but check your local Apple Store for the time:

Managing Your Data with the New FileMaker Pro 7--December 1. See what’s new with FileMaker. FileMaker Pro 7 is a highly customizable database that delivers ready-to-use templates to help you manage customer information, inventory, assets, expenses, products, time billing, and much more. With its easy-to-use, intuitive interface, FileMaker Pro 7 is the perfect database solution for beginners and experts alike.

Manage Your Small Business with .Mac--December 8. Make the Internet work for your small business with .Mac, Apple’s fully integrated, easy-to-use suite of Internet services. We’ll tell you all you need to know to get started—and we’ll show you how real-world businesses are using .Mac to create websites, share files, back up their data, share and sync company calendars, and access up to 100MB of key data from remote locations (anywhere in the world).

Managing Your Customers and Contacts on a Mac--December 15. Work doesn’t happen only in an office. Learn how to use the latest Apple technology to give your business flexibility while reliably connecting to colleagues, customers and critical information.

Increase Your Productivity Using Microsoft Office 2004--December 22. Yes, you can run Microsoft Office on your Mac. In fact, Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac has all the great standard features-and a whole lot more. We’ll show you the newest additions, Notebook Layout and Project Center, and all the powerful new features in Excel and PowerPoint.

Manage Your Finances with QuickBooks: Pro 2005 for Mac--December 29. QuickBooks provides fast and easy tools to manage business finances and boost efficiency and accuracy. Join us for a demonstration of QuickBooks: Pro 2005 for Mac and find out what it can do for your business.

[Bill Fox]