Meeting Announcements

Spring Cleaning

*** Please note: This meeting will be both in-person and online. ***

Spring is finally here!… although this week it’s feeling more like Summer. Spring time is the time for cleaning. Clean up around the house, clean your car and yes, it’s a good time to clean out old tech that is lying around the house. If you’ve got an old iPhone, iPad or Mac lying around gathering dust, you might as well sell it, donate it or trash it (or rather recycle it).

It’s also a good time to audit your current devices and do a little “Spring Cleaning Audit”. Make sure your device settings are correct concerning privacy, backups, passcodes etc.

Let’s review what you should do to your devices before getting rid of them and do a quick checkup on our current ones to ensure you are secure, private and running smooth.

Please join us at the next Mini’app’les meeting!

DATE

Tuesday, May 17

TIME

6:00 PM Social and Q&A
6:30 PM Topic discussion

LOCATION (both in-person and online options):

Southdale Library (Helen Young Room)
7001 York Ave S, Edina, MN 55435
Google Maps / Apple Maps

Hennepin County libraries recommend wearing face coverings.

Zoom online conference room
Please email [email protected] to request the access link.

You can also RSVP on Meetup and get the meeting link.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Browser Extensions

NOTE: This month’s Zoom-only social meeting will be a little different. We are going to start covering advanced topics. This will range from deep dives into more complex apps, automation, scripting, and Hackintosh. All are still welcome to join.

Extensions allow you to add simple or advanced features and functionality to your web browser. They can change the way tabs work, integrate your favorite note-taking service, get Gmail notifications, grammar-check your writing, and even play games.

Several group members will share some interesting and useful browser extensions they are using.

Please join us at the next Mini’app’les meeting!

DATE

Tuesday, May 3

TIME

7:00 PM Social and Q&A
7:30 PM Topic discussion

LOCATION

Zoom online conference room
Please email [email protected] to request the access link.

You can also RSVP on Meetup and get the meeting link.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mac Menu Bar Apps

*** Please note: This meeting will be both in-person and online. ***

The Mac Menu Bar is always up at the top of your screen and is a very quick way to view information, change settings, execute commands, or launch apps and files. There are several helpful built-in Menu Bar icons, but you can go even further by enabling menu bar icons for apps you already have installed. There are also lots of dedicated apps that only run in the Menu Bar.

Several group members will share some of their favorite Mac Menu Bar apps. If you’ve always wondered what that particular icon was in our Menu Bar’s, this the meeting for you!

Please join us at the next Mini’app’les meeting!

DATE

Tuesday, April 19

TIME

6:00 PM Social and Q&A
6:30 PM Topic discussion

LOCATION (both in-person and online options):

Southdale Library (Helen Young Room)
7001 York Ave S, Edina, MN 55435
Google Maps / Apple Maps

Hennepin County libraries recommend wearing face coverings.

Zoom online conference room
Please email [email protected] to request the access link.

You can also RSVP on Meetup and get the meeting link.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Craft & Note Taking Apps

NOTE: This month’s Zoom-only social meeting will be a little different. We are going to start covering advanced topics. This will range from deep dives into more complex apps, automation, scripting, and Hackintosh. All are still welcome to join.

We will start by covering Craft. Heralded as “Taking notes to the next level.” One of our group members just started using Craft and will share their experience and how it compares to Apple Notes. We will also compare it to other note-taking apps like Evernote and DEVONthink.

Please join us at the next Mini’app’les meeting!

DATE

Tuesday, April 5

TIME

7:00 PM Social and Q&A
7:30 PM Topic discussion

LOCATION

Zoom online conference room
Please email [email protected] to request the access link.

You can also RSVP on Meetup and get the meeting link.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mac Maintenance Apps

*** Please note: This meeting will be both in-person and online. ***

A good general rule of routine Mac maintenance: First, do nothing!

Modern Mac’s seldom require regular maintenance to operate at their best. Gone are the days of “rebuilding your desktop file”, “defragging” and “zapping your PRAM”. For most users, Mac’s can go for years without having to do much extra work to keep them running at their best.

That being said, there are special cases and considerations where you may need a maintenance app or utilities to either fix something or have more insight into. That may be freeing up disk space, deleting old disk images, or seeing what is using up system resources.

Let’s first discuss what maintenance macOS does automatically on its own, then review some good recommendations for maintenance apps.

Please join us at the next Mini’app’les meeting!

DATE

Tuesday, March 15

TIME

6:00 PM Social and Q&A
6:30 PM Topic discussion

LOCATION (both in-person and online options):

Southdale Library (Helen Young Room)
7001 York Ave S, Edina, MN 55435
Google Maps / Apple Maps

All visitors to Hennepin County libraries are required to wear face coverings.

Zoom online conference room
Please email [email protected] to request the access link.

You can also RSVP on Meetup and get the meeting link.

We look forward to seeing you there!