Member resources are facilities and references available as part of PMUG membership. These resources, which are all available between and during monthly meetings, include:

• Other members
• The DIALOG newsletter
• Monthly Meetings and DIALOGcast Podcasts
• The PMUG Hotline
• Disk Utility Software
• The Members' Area

Discussion around the buffet table at our annual holiday party.

Our year-end party provides members not only with bites, but also bytes (the computer kind.) Members most often contact other members at monthly membership meetings. Our Beginners SIG (Special Interest Group) provides a more intimate forum for new users. As you meet your fellow members, you will find others with similar interests and those with expertise who can help or suggest avenues towards solutions. To directly contact a member, a list of members' e-mail addresses are published in the monthly club DIALOG newsletter.

Cover from the August / September 2009 PMUG newsletter.

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The DIALOG also provides an easily accessible voice to the membership. Figure out a bug? Hate a piece of hardware? Love a piece of software? Found an awesome service? Aching to tell someone? Tell PMUG! The editor is always looking for fresh articles about anything Mac related. Furthermore, many of the articles written by PMUG members have been printed in other publications.

The DIALOG is an electronic-only publication in .pdf (Acrobat) format and can be downloaded from the members' area, and it's a fine example of the extraordinary participation of the PMUG membership. Most of the articles are written by PMUG members. Layout, editing, and mailing are done by PMUG members. And, duplication servicess are donated by a PMUG member for limited hardcopy distribution at meeting.

Members may also have the DIALOG automatically downloaded to their computer whenever a new edition is released by subscribing to our DIALOGcast.

Members can automatically recieve our Podcasts. The Monthly Meetings Podcast presents general meetings and other special events. Members may also receive the latest DIALOG newsletter whenever it comes it with our DIALOGcast Podcast.

PMUG maintains a telephone voice hotline which plays a prerecorded message relaying critical club information. Notices, such as last-minute meeting changes, may be found here. No messages may be received by the PMUG Hotline. The hotline phone number is (609) 924-7140.

PMUG has setup a special utility software lending binder at Creative Computing for use by members. Any current member may borrow either DiskWarrior 2 & 3, TechTool Pro 4 or Drive Genius for 3 days. These are powerful utilities designed to repair disk damage on your systems, so if you are having difficulties with your computer, try them out!

After logging into the members' area, members-only content can be accessed as explained below. This Website area is exclusively for members of the Princeton Macintosh Users Group. All members in good standing can access this site's contents:

• DIALOG Newsletter: Full DIALOG newsletters are available for download in Acrobat (pdf) format. The newsletter is archived back to 1999.
• Monthly Meetings Podcast Archive: Listen to Podcast episodes older than one year from the archive page.
• Photo Galleries: See photo galleries from general monthly meetings. Also see galleries taken by PMUG members who have attended the Macworld Expo and Trenton Computer Festivals.
• Help List: Members can a private e-mail list. The help list gives members a way to ask and solve Mac-related problems they have.
• PMUG Member Forum: Members may read and post questions in PMUG's member forum.
• PMUG Officers: This handy list provides contact information.