Meeting Announcements

All of us like pictures of family and friends, whether we take the pictures or the pictures are sent to us. We are going to talk about how we organize, catalog, edit, and store our pictures at this month’s Mini’app’les meeting (Tuesday, May 19th, the third Tuesday of the month, at the Hackfactory 3119 E. 26th Street Minneapolis, MN 55406). Several people have volunteered to talk about how they handle pictures. If you use an app or apps to help you catalog and/or edit your photos, we hope you will share your workflow with the group.

And I have no doubt we will have some new Apple Watch users who can share their experiences of using their new devices.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Meeting Notes & Links

• The Feature Thief: Apple taketh away, sometimes giveth back
• The Feature Thief, part one: Pages
• The Feature Thief, part two: Final Cut Pro, iMovie, iDVD
  
• The Feature Thief, part three: iWeb
• The Feature Thief, part four: iPhoto and Aperture
  
• The Feature Thief, conclusion: AppleWorks and the lessons learned
• What is my Screen Resolution
• Intel’s Gordon Moore talks about the genesis, legacy, and end of Moore’s law
• Duet: the first app that allows you to use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac using the Lightning or 30-pin cable.
• The Evolution of the Web
• Google World Wonders
• Tim Cook on the fight for equality
• Truth Facts: Photography Now and Then
• iPhone Lightning Dock
• New MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad
• How to create good queries in Yosemite’s Spotlight

Imagine you are traveling for work or for a specific task that you need to accomplish and your Mac laptop is damaged or lost. You get a new Mac, but you only have time to install 8 apps to complete your work. What apps would you install?

At the next Mini’app’les meeting (Tuesday, April 21st, the third Tuesday of the month, at the Hackfactory 3119 E. 26th Street Minneapolis, MN 55406) several people have volunteered to answer that question. We will hear what task they need to finish, what 8 apps they choose, and a brief reason why they picked those 8. The list doesn’t include apps that come with OS X, such as Mail and Pages. And suites of apps, such as Office and Adobe CC, need to be counted as individual apps, such as Word and Photoshop.

There will be time for anyone who wants to share what apps they would pick so you can come and share what apps would be important to you.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Meeting Notes & Links

• Your Stuff Really Is Breaking Faster Than It Used To
• Relive the 1990’s World Wide Web
• Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern Web
• Amazon Cloud Drive offers Unlimited Photos or Unlimited Everything
• 16 Smartphones That Were Deemed ‘iPhone Killer,’ 2008-2011
• A fantastic hidden iPhone design detail you’ll be shocked you never noticed
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC
• Increase Interface Contrast in OS X Yosemite to Improve Usability
• Photos app floods broadband while seeding the cloud
• iPhoto Library Manager
  • Allows you to organize your photos among multiple iPhoto libraries, rather than having to store all of your photos in one giant library.
• PowerPhotos
  • When using the Photos app to organize photos on your Mac, PowerPhotos allows you to break your photos up among multiple Photos libraries, rather than having to store all of your photos in one giant library.
• The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto
  • An explanation on how the new Photos app links all your photos from iPhoto without duplicating everything.
• How to use Photos for OS X with multiple Macs
• Microsoft PowerPoint for iOS
  • Control your slide show on iPhone with PowerPoint Remote for Apple Watch
• OneDrive for iOS
  • If you have a new Apple Watch, you can enjoy your OneDrive photos right from your wrist!
• 1,500 iOS apps have HTTPS-crippling bug. Is one of them on your device?

The next Mini’app’les meeting is Tuesday, March 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.

Apple released the public beta of 10.10.3 which includes a beta of the new Photos app, which replaces iPhoto and Aperture. At 7:00 p.m., we will look through this new app. You can download and install 10.10.3 yourself by going to http://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ and signing in with your AppleID. Be aware, that this is beta software and I strongly recommend backing up before you install this update. Or you can wait till the update is fully released and come and check it out tomorrow.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Meeting Notes & Links

• SHOOTOUT: Fastest 2015 rMBP 13in versus Fastest 2013 rMBP 15in
• The new MacBook
• Apple Watch
• mix your watch
• WatchApps
• Apple releases iOS 8.2 w/ Apple Watch support & Health app improvements
• Apple to launch Android device trade-in program to encourage iPhone upgrades
• How to manage cellular data usage on your iPhone and iPad with iOS 8
• MacID for iOS
• iCloud users report Gmail “too many rejections” errors, extended delivery delays
• Secret Apple TV controls: Fifteen button combos to power up your viewing!
• Office for Mac Preview
• Adobe Document Cloud

The annual meeting is coming up in February on the 28th at 1:00 PM at the Edina Library.
Edina Library, 5280 Grandview Square, Edina, MN 55436 (map)

We will have an Apple Quiz Bowl. Whether you think you know the entire history of Apple forwards and backwards or if you just know that Apple is in California because it’s on the back of your iPhone, we will have a great time. We will also have time for Q&A for problems and issues you might be having. Bring your questions and whatever devices you want.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The next Mini’app’les meeting is Tuesday, February 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.

Just when you think you have iCloud figured out, Apple adds iCloud Drive. At 7:00 p.m., after looking at some recent news and articles, we will talk about what iCloud Drive, if you should use it, and how it compares to other similar cloud file storage services. We hope you can join us to see if this service is valuable to you or not.

We look forward to seeing you there.