Mini'app'les

Spring Cleaning – Notes & Links

May 17, 2022 by Pete Bockenhauer

Mini’app’les Topic Meeting – May 17, 2022

Spring Cleaning

Category: Meeting Notes & Links, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Topic Meeting, Tuesday May 17 at 6:00 p.m.

May 11, 2022 by Pete Bockenhauer

An iPad and iPhone displaying the Erase screen.

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!

Category: Meeting Announcements, Topic Meetings

Browser Extensions – Notes & Links

May 4, 2022 by Pete Bockenhauer

Completed puzzle with some of the pieces showing web browser icons

Mini’app’les Advanced Topic Meeting – May 3, 2022

Browser Extensions

Firefox Add-ons – Extensions

Get to know 1Password for Safari on your iPhone or iPad

Secrets – Password Manager for iOS

DEVONthink – professional document and information management for the Mac and iOS

Magic Lasso Adblock – Free ad block for iPhone, iPad and Mac

MarsEdit 4 – Powerful web publishing from your Mac.

NetNewsWire – Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

Feedbin – RSS Feed Aggregator

The Camelizer | camelcamelcamel.com

Facebook Container

Add custom search engine

Startpage – Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History.

ReviewMeta.com Review Helper

User-Agent Switcher

FireShot – Take Webpage Screenshots Entirely

Return YouTube Dislike

History Trends Unlimited

Take screenshots on Firefox | Firefox Help

Downie – YouTube Video Downloader for macOS

G App Launcher on the App Store

Tabs to Links on the Mac App Store

Vinegar – Tube Cleaner on the App Store

Grammarly: Free Online Writing Assistant

HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Unsmartifier on the App Store

StopTheMadness

MacStories Starter Pack: Clean Up URLs and Remove Tracking Parameters with URL Cleaner

Category: Meeting Notes & Links, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Advanced Topic Meeting, Tuesday May 3 at 7:00 p.m.

April 27, 2022 by Pete Bockenhauer

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!