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October 20th General Meeting
Apple News and Updates Follow-Up
This time, it’s hands on!
Regular Features
Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby, by whom I am reliably informed that there will an abundance of iOS 8 details.
Apple News & Updates – see above
Q&A
Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing includes a Limefuel LITE LP150X, a Belkin WeMo Switch + Motion, and a Brookstone Tech-Weave Three-Way Case for iPad Mini. Don’t forget: members receive one free ticket for our drawing. Bring a guest and get another free ticket! Support our group and increase your chances of winning some goodies – drawing tickets are $1.00 each or six for $5.00. The odds are great that you can be a winner!
The meeting will be held at the Pasadena Public Library Main Branch Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Following the general meeting, we have our informal Meeting after the Meeting at Coco’s Restaurant, 77 N. Lake Ave. (between Union St. and Colorado Blvd., at the southwest corner of Union and Lake).
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Did You Know?
Andrew Cunningham brought up a very interesting point on Ars Technica today: if you’re in the market for a used iDevice (I imagine you can get a really good deal on an iPhone 5(s) these days…), make sure you don’t acquire one that you can’t unlock… By the same token, if you are planning to sell an iDevice of your own, make sure you don’t make it a pain-in-the-neck process for your buyer.
Here’s what you need to know: Avoid buying locked iPhones with Apple’s Activation Lock status page.
Caveat emptor (and seller)!
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Tagged Activation Lock, Andrew Cunningham, Apple, Ars Technica, Did You Know?, Find My iPad, Find My iPhone, Find My iPod Touch, iCloud, Infinite Loop, iOS 7, security
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There’s an App for That
Trying to remember whether you ever tried that particular wine? Need to know what wine would be perfect for dinner? There’s an app for that!
Jonathan Cristaldi posted a great little collection of apps for iDevices on liquor.com that do all kinds of interesting wine-related things. PYBT: The 7 Essential Wine Apps.
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InfoManager for Monday, September 29th, 2014
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 UGNN Facebook Update: October rumors, news and views
02 Apps for getting out on the water – boating and yachting
03 More Apps for boating
04 Cool applications for iPad and iPhone for type and fonts
05 Find out about iOS 8
06 Move content from your Android phone to iPhone
07 Thirteen Gems in iOS 8
08 Debt Snowball
09 ABBYY Business Card Reader
10 World’s First 3D-Printed Castle
11 Did you get the FREE U2 Album?
12 Quotes: Emerson, Johnson, Frisch Continue reading
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Tagged Fred Showker, InfoManager, Lynn Wegley
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Who are you and what do you do?
At The Sweet Setup:
Every week we try to post a new interview with someone about what software they use on their Mac, iPhone, or iPad. We do these interviews because not only are they fun, but a glimpse into what tools someone uses and how they use those tools can spark our imagination and give us an idea or insight into how we can do things better.
Today’s victim, er, interviewee:
I’m Andrew Franciosa, an Upstate New York based photographer. I recently left a large studio in the area where I was the production manager and went independent to start my own studio. I mainly do wedding photography and commerical work.
With Andrew Franciosa Studio, I now have control over every piece of the process, which is important for me. I was initially introduced to the idea of considering the entire customer experience from working for Apple retail for four years, and I have been obsessed with it since. Items like contracts and payments are handled via the web. This makes things easier (Marco brand voice: eliminates onboarding friction), which is an important thing for clients who are already stressed about planning their wedding. And for commercial clients, it’s great because I can get paid faster and online contracts are easy to review, read and archive.
The studio is currently in the north-facing side of my apartment, a converted upholstry warehouse and factory from the early 1900s.
You can catch Andrew’s complete story here: Andrew Franciosa’s sweet Mac setup.
“Back issues” can be found here: Sweet Setup Interviews.
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Tech Hits the Kitchen
(but in a good way!!)
For those of us whose recipe collections are digitized, Matt Smith posted a wonderful collection (on MakeUseOf, this morning) of stands, protectors, and other nifty gadgets to help integrate iPads into the kitchen and cooking routine. Here’s his conclusion:
These devices won’t make you a great chef, of course, but they will help you on your journey towards culinary perfection – or acceptance – as the case may be. With your iPad in the kitchen, and these accessories, you’ll have no shortage of access to the Web’s finest cooking resources, all accessible without worry that you’ll damage your tablet.
PYBT: Use Your iPad As A Recipe Book? 10 Accessories For Kitchen Tablet Users, and get cooking!
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Tagged accessories, iPad, MakeUseOf, Matt Smith, productivity, technology
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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No
Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Mac Play class, subject TBA, at Di-No Computers.
Di-No Computers
2817 E. Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91107
(626) 795-6674
iOS 7 Security Flaw
It lives in MobileSafari and affects, among other things, how PDF files are handled; this was fixed in iOS 8.
Robert Lemos posted on ArsTechnica this morning: Can’t upgrade to iOS 8? Beware bugs in the system.
However, it’s probably not a total disaster, as one of the security experts quoted in the article states:
…“So it might be that this vulnerability alone, may not be enough to infect the phone with malware, unless you combine it with other exploits,” Hirvonen said.…
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Tagged Apple, Ars Technica, iOS 7, iOS 8, Risk Assessment, Robert Lemos, security
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Don’t Upgrade to iOS 8 from iOS 7…
…until you’re sure it’s time; you won’t be able to get back.
From AppleInsider this afternoon:
After rolling out two point updates for iOS 8 earlier this week, Apple on Friday stopped signing iOS 7.1.2 firmware, meaning users who migrated to the new mobile operating system no longer have the option of downgrading.
For the whole story, PYBT: Apple stops iOS 7.1.2 code signing, restricts downgrading from iOS 8
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