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Mini’app’les Topic Meeting – August 15 – Notes & Links

August 16, 2023 by Pete Bockenhauer
Several circles with iOS/macOS icons like Photos, Numbers, Messages, and Calendar. A Memoji of a man and woman.

iCloud Features and Alternatives

  • Apple – Support – System Status
  • Freeform on the App Store
  • Use Custom Email Domain with iCloud Mail – Apple Support
  • Advanced Data Protection for iCloud – Apple Support
  • Manage web access to your iCloud data – Apple Support
  • Manage your photo and video storage – Apple Support
  • Apple Books – Apple
  • EPUB 3.3
  • calibre – E-book management
  • Kindle Paperwhite, Oasis, Scribe & More E Readers | Amazon
  • Send To Kindle Landing Email Page
  • Kindle Store
  • Take Control Books – Expert Advice from Leading Tech Authors
  • Kobo eReaders
  • Libby App: Free ebooks & audiobooks from your library | by OverDrive
  • hoopla | streaming audiobooks, music, video & ebooks
  • Set up iCloud Drive – Apple Support
  • Access and manage your files in iCloud Drive – Apple Support
  • Google Drive – Personal Cloud Storage & File Sharing Platform
  • Microsoft OneDrive – Personal Cloud Storage
  • Dropbox.com
  • Box — Secure Cloud Content Management, Workflow, and Collaboration
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • SmugMug: Protect, Share, Store, and Sell Your Photos
  • Backblaze – The Best Unlimited Online Backup and Cloud Storage Services
  • Use iCloud to share and collaborate on files and folders – Apple Support
  • Use Notes on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch – Apple Support
  • Evernote – Note Taking App
  • Notesnook | Open source & zero knowledge private note taking app
  • Craft – Note Taking App
  • Set up iCloud Keychain – Apple Support
  • 1Password – Password Manager for Families, Businesses, Teams
  • What is Hide My Email? – Apple Support
  • Fastmail Masked Email
  • About iCloud Private Relay – Apple Support
  • AirTag – Apple
  • Chipolo – Find Your Everything
  • Why is my AirTag beeping? What each chime means | Tom’s Guide
  • iCloud+
  • Apple One
Category: Meeting Notes & Links, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Topic Meeting – July 18 – Notes & Links

July 19, 2023 by Pete Bockenhauer
The Fediverse logo showing 5 dots colored red, purple, blue, green and yellow forming a pentagon. Each dot is connected to one another via lines that are colored with the mixture of the two dot colors. For example the yellow dot is connected via a green line to the blue dot.

Fediverse: What is it and how can I use it?

  • What is the Fediverse? – Framatube
  • Fediverse – Wikipedia
  • ActivityPub – Wikipedia
  • What is Mastodon? – YouTube
  • Mastodon – Decentralized social media
  • Mastodon Servers (official)
  • Mastodon Servers
  • To the Fediverse!
  • Mastodon apps
  • Ivory for iOS Mastodon app
  • Mona for Mastodon app
  • fediverse.info | The bespoke fediverse guide.
  • Fedi.Directory
  • Pixelfed – Decentralized social media
  • Vernissage for Pixelfed app
  • Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
  • Lemmy.ml
  • kbin.social
  • Lemmy Explorer
  • Bluesky
  • Threads
  • Micro.blog
Category: Meeting Notes & Links, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Topic Meeting – June 20 – Notes & Links

June 20, 2023 by Pete Bockenhauer
An iMac running Windows 11 under Parallels Desktop

Virtualization & Emulation

  • Apple has a Proton-like Game Porting Toolkit for getting Windows games on Mac | Ars Technica
  • WineHQ – Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
  • CrossOver – Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac, Linux and ChromeOS
  • Andrew Tsai – YouTube
  • Parallels Desktop 18 Virtual Machine for Mac – Run Windows on Mac
  • Add, delete, or erase APFS volumes in Disk Utility on Mac – Apple Support
  • VirtualBuddy – Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon
  • UTM
  • E-Maculation: All About Macintosh Emulation
  • SheepShaver – An Open Source PowerMac Emulator
  • Basilisk II – An Open Source 68k Macintosh Emulator
  • Mini vMac – early Macintosh emulator
  • Macintosh Repository – Old Mac Software Archive
  • Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware!
  • Mac GUI
  • System 7 Today
  • Disk Jockey
  • PlayOnMac – Run your Windows applications on Mac easily!
  • Boxer – The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac.
  • OpenEmu – Multiple Video Game System
Category: Meeting Notes & Links, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Topic Meeting – May 16 – Notes & Links

May 16, 2023 by Pete Bockenhauer
OpenCore Legacy Patcher icon

OpenCore Legacy Patcher

  • OpenCore Install Guide
  • OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Category: Meeting Notes & Links, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Topic Meeting – April 18 – Notes & Links

April 19, 2023 by Pete Bockenhauer
A bunch of Apple Watches arranged in a circle.

Apple Watch

  • Apple Watch
  • Track your AFib History with Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Take an ECG with the ECG app on Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Use Fall Detection with Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Add an alarm on Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • How to Manage Background Refresh for Apps on Apple Watch
  • Answer phone calls on Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Use the Workout app on your Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • How to Stop Apple Watch from Automatically Launching Audio Apps
  • Customize workouts on Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • BasicAppleGuy: “Lesser known Apple Watch Workouts” – Mastodon
  • Use Accessibility features on your Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • How to change your Apple Watch app view
  • Use Siri on your Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Apple Watch Flashlight: How to Turn It On, Turn It Off & Adjust It (watchOS 8 Update)
  • Apple Pay on Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Use Control Center on Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Turn on and wake Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Clicker 2.0
  • Control your home with Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • TripIt: Travel Planner on the App Store
  • Domino’s Pizza USA on the App Store
  • watchOS 10 Described as Apple Watch’s Biggest Software Update Since 2015
  • CARROT Weather: Alerts & Radar on the App Store
  • Control Apple TV with Apple Watch – Apple Support
  • Leatherman – Tread® Multi-Tool Bracelet​​
  • Use the Always On feature with your Apple Watch – Apple Support

News

  • Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY
  • WWDC23
  • If sideloading is allowed in iOS 17, someone will pay for it–and it won’t be Apple | Macworld
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