Macworld HELP DESK 03.14.2014

Need to do tricky filtering between your e-mails and your Address Book/Contacts? Outlook may be your answer, as Prof Breen describes in Filter your email like a pro.

And speaking of addresses, our man continues with Mail merge and Office 2011 revisited.

Bad AppleScript: Safari and curling URLs. Be afraid. Be very afraid.     :::running away:::

For the whole shooting match, PYBT: Macworld HELP DESK 03.14.2014

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Macworld HELP DESK 03.14.2014

Need to do a lot of filtering of your e-mail? Take a look at Filter your email like a pro, Chris Breen’s routine for handling tons and tons, in Outlook.

Next, Prof Breen goes into detail about mail merge in Office 2011: Mail merge and Office 2011 revisited.

And if that weren’t enough, the star has a tail, er, um, I meant, Jason Snell, in Bad AppleScript: Safari and curling URLs is doing his best to protect us from ourselves.

For the whole shooting match, PYBT: Macworld HELP DESK 03.14.2014

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Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!

Oh, it’s also Pi Day; rather appropriate, don’t you think?

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TextEdit and Preview in iOS?

Bigger iPhone??

We shall see…

Questionable screenshots from China claim to show TextEdit, Preview, Healthbook apps in iOS 8, on AppleInsider, features a graphic originally posted on a Chinese Web site, purportedly showing Preview and TextEdit icons on an iPhone screen. There’s also a refutation.

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InfoManager for Monday, March 10, 2014

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

What’s Here:
01 UGNN Facebook Update: Facebook good and bad for March 2014
02 Safenetting: Phishing, Report for March 10 2014
03 Creat beautiful Word Clouds from your selection of
04 Folx GO+
05 Textbooks replaced by iTunes U download
06 NationSwell
07 iBank 5 Delivers Over 120 Enhancements
08 My Media Collection App
09 Quotes: Words Continue reading

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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No

Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Navigating the Interface class at Di-No Computers.

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

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March 17th General Meeting

3D Printing

Yep! Really!!

3D Printing Flyer

Click the graphic or here for a full-sized PDF.

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.

Apple News & Updates

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing includes Tropical Software’s Top X Notes for OS X and iOS; a Paper Nomad MacBook Pro sleeve with a one-of-a-kind design printed on it; a Nokia Extra Boost 950 mA USB charger; a VAULT Skin for iPhone 5 and a copy of Make: 3D Printing: The Essential Guide to 3D Printers, by Anna Kaziunas France (ed.). 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 Colorado Blvd. and Holly St.).

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Macworld HELP DESK 03.07.2014

Know how Do Not Disturb works? Heard of it, even? Working with Do Not Disturb in OS X Mavericks tells all.

Black and white photographs are alive and well and still with us. How to create beautiful B&W images with Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 goes step-by-step to convert color images.

For the whole shooting match, PYBT: Macworld HELP DESK 03.07.2014

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Important Announcement!!!

This Sunday, 9 March, is the first day of Daylight Saving Time, if you can believe it! Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead Saturday night (at least the ones that don’t do it automatically).

Interesting DST links:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/daylightsaving.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php
http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html

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InfoManager for Monday, March 3, 2014

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

What’s Here:
01 MarginNote Reader Annotates Documents and Syncs to Evernote
02 Random Access
03 Opt out of Dropbox’s Arbitration Clause
04 Mac OS X Automation
05 UppyPix… Share Life As It Happens
06 Mac Data Recovery Guru 2.5
07 Apple’s Security Issues Slide Under the Radar
08 TimeLock: The World’s First Unique Security App for iOS
09 Have you made your final arrangements? Will Crafter Lite 1.0 for iOS might help
10 Let Messages Catch Fire With FireScribe for iOS
11 New application gives users two options to block the Internet
12 Tim Cook: Apple TV did over $1B in 2013 revenue
13 Quotes: March, wealth, and luck Continue reading

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