Members of our Club benefit from attending and participating in our monthly meetings:

• Opportunities to seek answers to worrying computing problems;
• Provide constructive support for the growth of the Club;
• Participating in direction-determining member surveys;
• Tuition through the monthly presentations in topics ranging over a broad area. (Past recent presentations included: Computer Maintenance, Fonts, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iPods, GarageBand, Converting vinyl records to digital, Troubleshooting);
• Members can also volunteer to make long or short presentations on computing topics of their choosing;
• Members are given access to a members Area website (http://taamug.pixilation.id.au/share/), where they may access official documents such as minutes of meetings, and financial reports. Informational resources such as publications, hints-and-tips and presentation notes may also be found here. Work is under way to enable members to upload contributions;
• Members receive, by email, a link to the monthly edition of The President’s Notes. Previous editions are archived on the Members Area website;
• Members are advised, by email, when the Apple-Bug electronic magazine (from the Brisbane-based Apple-Q User Group) may be accessed at the Members Area website;
• Other Apple computing information is available from time to time, for example, on how to take better digital photographs, and useful links to websites;
• Assistance is also provided to members through our TAAMUG website;
• Members can also benefit from our moving to form closer productive links with other Macintosh User Groups close by and in other areas and from the Australian Mac User group;
• Over recent times we have also established an email network enabling members to seek information between meetings and interact with others over issues that concern them now;
• Members are also able to advertise hardware for sale or seek to buy used computers or equipment;
• From time to time there are free give-aways of old Apple computers and other hardware;
• Members can also borrow magazines and books from the Club and we also hold a Christmas BBQ and are placing greater emphasis on social interaction and friendship.