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Mini’app’les Meeting, Tuesday June 19 Meeting Notes & Links

June 19, 2018 by Pete Bockenhauer

News

  • macOS Mojave
  • iOS 12

Safari Extensions

  • Safari Extensions Gallery
  • Install and manage Safari extensions on your Mac
  • 1Password – password manager
  • Disconnect – lets you visualize & block the invisible websites that track you
  • Adblock Plus – Blocks banners, pop-ups, tracking, malware and more
  • Safari Keyword Search – change the default Safari search engine and enables keyword searching from the address bar
  • JS Blocker – An open source, indie developed, Safari extension that protects your privacy on the web
  • Evernote Web Clipper – Searchable website screenshots, saved from the web and available anywhere
  • AdBlock – Block ads. Browse faster.
  • The Camelizer – makes it easy to view the price history of any product sold by our supported retailers
  • Fakespot – analyze the reviews of a product
  • Honey – automatically applies the best coupon code at checkout
  • LastPass – password manager
  • 1Blocker X – Make Safari browsing fast, safe and productive
Category: Meeting Notes & Links

Mini’app’les Meeting, Tuesday June 19 at 6:30 p.m.

June 5, 2018 by Pete Bockenhauer

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

DATE:
Tuesday, June 19

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 – Safari Extensions & iOS Share Sheets

Safari Extensions are a powerful way to enhance and customize the browsing experience. These can include ad blockers, search tools, or for social networking.

iOS Share Sheets let you initiate content-specific tasks, such as adding a bookmark, copying a link, or saving an image.

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Category: Meeting Announcements, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Meeting, Tuesday May 15 Meeting Notes & Links

May 15, 2018 by Pete Bockenhauer

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
Category: Meeting Notes & Links

Mini’app’les Meeting, Tuesday May 15 at 6:30 p.m.

May 1, 2018 by Pete Bockenhauer

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!

Category: Meeting Announcements, Topic Meetings

Mini’app’les Meeting, Tuesday April 17 Meeting Notes & Links

April 17, 2018 by Pete Bockenhauer

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
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Welcome to the Minnesota Apple Computer Users’ Group based in the Twin Cities of metropolitan Minneapolis—St. Paul.

We’re a group of Apple users interested in sharing knowledge and experience with other Apple users and owners. Members vary from beginners to every day users to consultants. All ages are welcome. What we have in common is an interest and a desire to learn more about the Apple experience, regardless of focus. Within the group you’re bound to find someone with similar interests.

Come join us! There’s no obligation or cost to attend. Annual dues are very reasonable if you decide to join us.

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