Meeting Notes & Links

News

• The ultimate Apple I/O death chart
• A roundup of original iPhone reviews that got everything completely wrong
• Flashback: Here’s what reviewers said about the original iPhone
• What You Need to Know About Mac Malware 'Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor'
• MacKeeper threatens 14-year-old YouTube video maker with harassment suit
• Malwarebytes - remove adware and malware
• How to skip the airport's US Customs line with your iPhone
• Search Smarter: 30+ Google Search Tricks You Might Not Already Know
• iPhone SE Estimated to Grab 16% of U.S. iPhone Market in Launch Quarter
• Apple begins rolling out iTunes Match with audio fingerprint to Apple Music subscribers

Our Favorite Apps

• Joel
  • Presence: Free smart home motion detector webcam for security, care, and energy.
  • Swift Playgrounds: Makes learning Swift interactive and fun.
  • Parallels Access: The fastest, simplest, most reliable remote access to your computer from anywhere.
• Jeff
  • Workflow: Powerful automation made simple.
  • Copied: A Full Featured Clipboard Manager for iOS and OS X.
• Peter
  • Aware: A simple menubar app for OSX that tracks how long you've been actively using your computer.
  • BreakTime: A simple Mac utility that's designed to help you remember to take breaks away from your computer.
  • Road Trip: The fastest and easiest way to keep track of your car’s fuel economy, maintenance schedule, and expenses.
  • Key Ring: Say goodbye to loyalty card clutter.
  • iShows TV Shows & Movies: Keep track of all your watched movies and TV shows.

News

• Microsoft gives up on consumer phones, claims Windows Phones down but not out
• End of the road for MacNN: 21 years of changes for Apple, and for us
• Apple’s 10 most important WWDC announcements of all-time
• Apple Pay rival CurrentC ends beta test, may finally be dead
• iPhone 6S vs. Galaxy S7 Drop Test!
• Amazon sues sellers for buying fake reviews
• Information for 2016 Apple eBooks Antitrust Settlement
• How LinkedIn’s password sloppiness hurts us all
• New settings for Google 2-Step Verification

Topic: WWDC 2016

• iOS 10 FAQ: Everything you need to know
• Hands-on: 75 new features in iOS 10 [Video]
• macOS Sierra FAQ: Everything you need to know!
• APFS in Detail: Overview
• watchOS 3 FAQ: Everything you need to know
• tvOS 10 FAQ: Everything you need to know!
• WWDC 2016 Mac app

Mac Clean Up Tools & Maintenance

• OnyX - verify the disk and system, perform system maintenance, clean the system
• Cocktail - clean, repair and optimize
• Malwarebytes - malware scanner

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

News

• Scam warning: Extremely convincing fake Apple ID sign-in site
• Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside but dangerous inside
• Fakespot | Analyze and identify fake reviews
• Past TextExpander customers get lifetime subscription discount following backlash
• Average iPhone user unlocks device 80 times per day, 89% use Touch ID, Apple says
• 6 ways to transfer files from your Mac to your iOS device
• Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People
• 5 hidden Galaxy S7 features I wish my iPhone had
• Netflix prices are increasing next month – here’s what you need to know
• Valossa Video Search

Topic: Productivity

• Alfred - boosts your efficiency with hotkeys and keywords. Search your Mac and the web effortlessly, and control your Mac using customised actions with the Powerpack.
• Alfred Workflows Forum
• Packal - Alfred Workflows and themes
• Use iOS Text Replacement to type faster
• Workflow - Powerful automation made simple

The annual Mini’app’les meeting will be held at the Washburn Library’s meeting room (map) on Saturday, February 15th at 1:00 pm. Thanks to those that attended and braved the heavy snow and cold weather.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Mac, we talked about different members’ first Macintosh computer and other memories from the first years of Macintosh computing.

We had a contest to see who can bring in the oldest Mac related item in three categories. The first was for oldest Macintosh computer. Dave Lundin brought in a Macintosh 128k. The second was for the oldest Macintosh software on factory media. Joel Gerdeen brought in Multiplan, developed by Microsoft. The third was for the oldest Macintosh periphery or accessory. Tom Ostertag brought in a Mac Cracker Tool, a long torx screw driver to remove the case on a the first few Macintosh computers. Each received a $25 Apple gift card.

Using an iOS app, NameSelector, Randy Hilden was selected as our lucky winner of an AppleTV.