Infect a Mac Challenge

• OpenDNS – features such as phishing protection and optional content filtering in addition to DNS lookup.
• Bitdefender – anti-virus
• DetectX – a lightweight, on-demand dedicated search and troubleshooting tool, probably the fastest of its kind, that can identify malware, adware, keyloggers, potentially unwanted apps and potentially destabilizing apps on a mac.
• App Fixer – quickly gets apps like Safari, Photoshop, or any other app that’s misbehaving back up and running again when their preferences or window states have become corrupted or you just want to return to a defaults launch.
• Malwarebytes – malware/adware checker
• Avast Security – anti-virus
• AVG – anti-virus
• Trend Micro – anti-virus
• Objective-See – security tools
• SpamSieve – spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac.
• Google sets roadmap for phasing out and removing Adobe Flash from Chrome by 2020
• Little Snitch – monitor network connections
• Radio Silence – monitor network connections
• AV-TEST – anti-virus & security software reviews
• ClamAV – anti-virus

Tips & Tricks

• Resolutionator – makes it simple to use any of your display’s available resolutions.
• Path Finder – Finder replacement
• Synology – Network Attached Storage

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

DATE:
Tuesday, May 15

TIME:
6:30 – 9:00 PM

LOCATION:
Southdale Library (Helen Young Room)
7001 York Ave S, Edina, MN 55435 (https://goo.gl/maps/fdSRonjRG982)

TOPICS:
6:30 PM – Social/Q&A
7:00 PM – News
7:30 PM – Infect a Mac Challenge

Think Mac’s can’t get viruses and malware?? Think again! We will be infecting a Mac on purpose to see what happens and then testing some cleanup apps to see if they work. Then we will give some tips on avoiding these kinds of infections on your own Mac.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Catastrophic loss prevention

• Surge protection
• Backblaze – online backup
• ChronoSync – synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups to almost anything you can connect to your Mac
• ChronoSync $20 off coupon
• Carbon Copy Cloner – disk cloning and file backup
• SuperDuper! – disk cloning
• The Evolution of Data Storage
• Apple’s iOS through the years

Apple Pencil apps

• Apple iPad
• Apple Pencil
• Apple Notes
• Notability – Combine handwriting, photos and typing in a single note to bring your projects to life
• Evernote – Capture, organize, and share notes from anywhere
• PDF Editor – Read, annotate and edit PDFs
• PDFpen – Edit your PDFs anywhere you are
• Nebo – Take, edit and convert notes
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft OneNote
• Adobe Photoshop Fix – enables powerful, yet easy image retouching and restoration
• Adobe Photoshop Sketch – Draw with the power of the Photoshop painting engine and a variety of built-in brushes, pencils, pens and markers
• Astropad – turn your iPad into a drawing tablet
• Paper by FiftyThree – sketching app
• Linea Sketch
• Adobe Illustrator Draw
• Pigment – Adult Coloring Book
• Procreate – Sketch, paint, create
• Pixelmator
• Morpholio Trace
• Autodesk SketchBook

Q&A

• macOS High Sierra
• Apple File System (APFS)
• MacDrive – access Mac drives on Windows

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

DATE:
Tuesday, April 17

TIME:
6:30 – 9:00 PM

LOCATION:
Southdale Library (Second Floor Conference Room)
7001 York Ave S, Edina, MN 55435 (https://goo.gl/maps/fdSRonjRG982)

TOPICS:
6:30 PM – Social/Q&A
7:00 PM – News
7:30 PM – Catastrophic loss prevention & Apple Pencil Apps

• Catastrophic loss prevention: April 9-13 is Severe Weather Awareness Week. Let’s discuss preparing the best we can for those worst case scenarios like lightning strikes and flooding. We will overview some steps you can take to prevent hardware and data loss.
• Apple Pencil Apps: Last month, Apple announced that the new 9.7″ iPad will support the Apple Pencil. Let’s overview apps that support the Apple Pencil including the built-in ones, note-taking, document mark-up and graphics apps.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Privacy & Security

• Detailed VPN Comparison Chart
• macOS Firewall
• Little Snitch – outgoing firewall
• Objective-See – security/monitoring apps
• Adblock Plus – adblocker
• uBlock Origin – adblocker
• Ghostery – adblocker
• 1Blocker – iOS adblocker
• Malwarebytes – malware/adware scanner
• DetectX – malware/adware scanner
• 1Password – password manager
• PasswordWallet – password manager
• SplashID – password manager
• Onyx – run maintenance and cleaning tasks, configure system parameters

Tips & Tricks

• Semulov – drive eject menu
• Vanilla – Hide menu bar icons on your Mac
• Rocket – easily type emoji system-wide
• The Definitive Emoji-Sexting Glossary