InfoManager for Monday, June 23rd, 2014

Posted on June 23, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker

What’s Here:
01 UGNN Facebook Update: Getting faster, charity, crime, and the World Cup
02 Local Carrot – Fresh Produce In Your Neighborhood
03 PDF to Flipbook Software for Mac
04 System Monitor Utility
05 Eighteen OS X Yosemite
06 MUGs Facebook: Maps, Safety, new iTunes Content, and more
07 Change MP3 audio format to Audiobook
08 New iPad mini & iPhone 5 Security Kits
09 UGNN Cyber Security Report for JUNE, 2014
10 MUGS Talk on Facebook
11 Quote: YouTube, Twitter are the eyes of the world Continue reading →

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Who are you and what do you do?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

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 Joe Caiati. By day I troubleshoot and repair Apple products, from iPhone displays all the way to main logic boards in the new Mac Pro.

I spend the remainder of my time posting interesting things to my blog, writing articles when inspiration strikes, and keeping up with all things technology via Twitter and podcasts.

You can catch Joe’s complete story here: Joe Caiati’s sweet iPhone setup.

“Back issues” can be found here: Sweet Setup Interview.

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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No

Posted on June 23, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

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

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Wired Ranks the Rumors

Posted on June 20, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

As Christina Bonnington reports in Wired:

Each week, there are dozens of rumors, reports, and patent filings that hint at what’s coming out of Cupertino next. Some are legit, but many are totally bogus. As always, we’ve parsed the rumors, ranking them in order from “utterly ridiculous” to “duh, of course”. First up…

DON’T COUNT ON IT: Photos Compare “iPhone 6” With 5s, HTC One

It, of course, gets better from there. PYBT: This Week’s Apple Rumors, Ranked From Dumbest to Most Plausible for all the juicy tidbits.

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You *Need* This on Your iDevice

Posted on June 19, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Find My iPhone

Andrew Cunningham reports on Ars Technica this morning:

One of the new features iOS 7 introduced was an upgrade to the Find My iPhone service called Activation Lock–in addition to tracking your phone, sending it messages, and wiping your data, any iOS device with Find My iPhone enabled now requires your Apple ID to reactivate it. Even if your phone is stolen, the thief can’t turn around and resell it as a new phone.

I LOVE this!! PYBT: iOS 7 Activation Lock cutting iPhone theft, damaging resale market for all of the gory details.

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Upcoming Mac and iPad Classes at Di-No

Posted on June 19, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Di-No LogoDi-No Computers, in Pasadena, hosts a rotating set of Mac classes on Tuesdays from 2:00p to 3:30p; and iPad classes on the first and third Mondays of each month, also from 2:00p to 3:30p. These classes are all no-cost; feel free to contribute to the tip jar, though, if you feel so moved! The schedule for the next five weeks is as follows:

24 June 2014 Mac Play TBA
1 July 2014 Intro to the Interface This class is an introduction to the Mac
7 July 2014 iPad basics This class will focus on the essentials of the iPad: gestures, settings, and using basic apps
8 July 2014 Navigating the Interface This class focuses mainly on organizing files and dealing with the Finder
15 July 2014 Mac Work TBA
21 July 2014 iPad Basics This class will focus on Mail, Contacts, and Calendar
22 July 2014 Mac Play TBA

Call Jordan at Di-No for further details, including what you should bring with you, etc. To subscribe to Di-No’s class-schedule calendar, click here.

Di-No Computers
2817 E. Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA  91107
(626) 795-6674

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What Did the Little Birdie Say…

Posted on June 18, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

June 2014 iMac

…when his cage fell apart?

Well, Andrew Cunningham said it, too, in Apple’s new $1,099 iMac is a MacBook Air in a desktop’s body, on Ars Technica: “The 2013 iMac isn’t getting an upgrade – there’s just a new cheaper, slower model in town.”

Apple isn’t upgrading the iMac family today, but it is making the family a little bigger. The company is now offering a new $1,099 entry-level model that includes most of the perks of the 21.5-inch model introduced last year–the same unibody aluminum enclosure, 1080p screen, port layout, 8GB of RAM, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter–but takes a significant step backward with CPU and GPU speed.

While the $1,299 model gets you a quad-core, 2.7GHz Core i5-4570R and Intel’s best integrated GPU (the Iris Pro 5200), the $1,099 model comes with a dual-core 1.4GHz Core i5-4260U and Intel’s third-best integrated GPU (the HD 5000). This is the exact same processor included in the speed-bumped MacBook Airs that Apple introduced in April.

For the whole shooting match, click the article link above.

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Were You at the Meeting Last Night?

Posted on June 17, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

If not, tsk, tsk, tsk!!! You missed a lot more interesting Apps & Traps and presentation stuff.

At Coco’s, we had cows mooing on the plate (would I kid you about a thing like that?), programming languages back to FORTRAN, and iOS 8 and Yosemite for dessert.

That’s my story; I’m sticking to it!

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InfoManager for Monday, June 16th, 2014

Posted on June 16, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker

What’s Here:
01 Here’s the one to watch
02 Note about Apple:
03 Apple 2014 WWDC Announces OS X Yosemite
04 Apple Unveils iOS 8, the Biggest Release Since the Launch of the App Store
05 Apple Releases iOS 8 SDK With Over 4,000 New APIs
06 Apple Announces OS X Yosemite
07 iPhone InfoManager: a new iPhone 6? Here we go!
08 QR Code & Barcode Reader/Generator Qrafter Pro
09 Take Polaroid selfies with Polaroid Instant 3.0
10 101 Useful Web Sites
11 Apple is slowly turning Macs into iPhones
12 The End of Photo365 Failure
13 Watch THIS: Mac 30 – Thirty years of innovation
14 Quotes: About failure Continue reading →

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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No

Posted on June 16, 2014 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Mac Work class, subject TBA, at Di-No Computers.

Di-No Computers
2817 E. Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA  91107
(626) 795-6674

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