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Archives for May 2016

Mini’app’les Meeting, Tuesday May 17 Meeting Notes & Links

May 17, 2016 by Pete Bockenhauer

News

  • Word Flow Keyboard [English] with custom backgrounds and one-handed Arc mode
  • Retina MacBook 2016 Teardown
  • The Power of Preview: Advanced Editing Techniques
  • Android Towelroot Exploit Used to Deliver “Dogspectus” Ransomware
  • Every iPad Speed Test Comparison 2016!
  • Every iPhone Speed Test Comparison 2016!
  • A Comcastic miracle: Data caps will go from 300GB to a terabyte
  • Stop Opera’s New VPN from Leaking Your IP Address
  • Opera’s launched an iOS app to expand its free, unlimited, ad-blocking VPN
  • Opera offers iPhone users free VPN, with strings attached
  • 10 worst-named smartphones of all time
  • Apple updates iTunes with a ‘simpler’ design that doesn’t really help
  • Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time
  • 30 must-know secrets and shortcuts for your Apple TV
  • How to remove Apple Music entirely from iTunes
  • Gunfight at the iOS corral as Apple releases 9.3.2 but bans jailbreak detector app

Topic: Storage Options

  • OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual
  • Wikipedia: RAID
  • Drobo
  • Western Digital Green vs. Red Hard Drives
  • S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
  • SoftRAID
  • Difference Between Hardware RAID and Software RAID
  • DriveDX – The most advanced drive health diagnostic & monitoring tool
  • MCE OptiBay Drive Kit – Add a second internal hard drive or SSD to your MacBook Pro, MacBook, iMac, or Mac mini
  • Lexar JumpDrive S75 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
  • The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
  • NeoFinder – CD/DVD/Drive inventory app
  • HooToo travel routers
  • FileBrowser – Access files on remote computers
  • Review: SanDisk’s new Lightning to USB drive for iPhone adds USB 3 & a wraparound design
  • CrashPlan – online backup
  • Backblaze – online backup
  • SuperDuper! – full disk cloning
  • Carbon Copy Cloner – full disk cloning
  • ChronoSync – sync/backup files, cloning
Category: Meeting Notes & Links, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Meeting, Tuesday May 17 at 7:00 p.m., Q&A at 6:30 p.m.

May 16, 2016 by Tim Drenk

The next Mini’app’les meeting is Tuesday, May 17th, the third Tuesday of the month, at the Hackfactory (3119 E. 26th Street Minneapolis, MN 55406). At 6:30 p.m., members of the board and other knowledgable people will be available if you have specific questions you would like answered. We will do our best to address your question and help you troubleshoot the issue.

At 7:00 p.m., we will cover some current news and then we will look at storage options for your Mac and iOS devices. As we take more pictures or expand our music library or save more files, we need to store them somewhere. And eventually, the space we currently have will not be enough. So we will consider the pros and cons of different expansion options, for both primary storage and backups. Factors such as storage space available, physical size and portability, type of connections, and even the type of storage will help determine the best choice for you.

Come and share the storage options you have chosen and see how you might improve your setup. We look forward to seeing you there.

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