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1512 NL December 4.Pages VOLUME 26, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2015 FOUNDED MAY 1989 MEETINGS - SECOND EDITOR COMMENTS SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Online backup services WWW.MLMUG.ORG continue to increase in popularity even though the c o s t o f h a r d d r i v e s ENCRYPTION, FORCE TOUCH, & APPLE TV ISSUE continues to fall. For a comprehensive review of 34 online backup services, ATTEND ALL THREE SIGS!! take a look at Tim Fisher's At the moment our temporary meeting room doesn’t have room for separate SIG meetings. So for article in about.com at December we are presenting the SIGs sequentially. You will, therefore, have the opportunity to tinyurl.com/gqxoy9p. attend all three SIGs. For those of us who have often wanted to attend two or three SIGs, but couldn't because they were held at the same time, this format give us the chance to see what’s going on in all SIGs. We will go back to our usual formats in January when we will also have our traditional Christmas DECEMBER LOCATION meeting. NOT OUR USUAL!! We will meet at Ludington New Users. - 9 to 10. Bob Barton. A discussion of iOS 9 and Q&A. Library in Bryn Mawr. It’s Multimedia SIG. - 10 to 11. at the corner of Lancaster Nick Iacona. - Make, Manage & Move Multimedia. and Bryn Mawr Avenues, OS. - 11 to 12 near the Bryn Mawr train Adam Rice.. Troubleshooting Your Mac OS and iOS. station. REMEMBER - OUR MEETING LOCATION HAS CHANGED BECAUSE OF CONSTRUCTION AT GOOD SAM. WE ARE MEETING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AT LUDINGTON LIBRARY IN BRYN MAWR. !1 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2015 CONTENTS Newsletter Editor Meeting & Editor Comments……………..…….…………1 Mark Bazrod MLMUG And Newsletter Info.…..……….…………..…2-4 Contributors & Authors Graphics Editor Mark Bazrod Bookmarks: Listening To Podcasts…………………….…5 Sally Bazrod Understanding Encryption……………………….………6-7 Jane E. Brody Copy Editor Apple Is Right To Stand Firm On Encryption……….….7-9 Jeff Gamet Deane Lappin Apple's ‘Force Touch’ & Taptic Engine Explained……9-10 Kathy Garges MLMUG Journal 13 Force Touch Trackpad Tricks & Shortcuts…………..11 David Gewitz Masthead 5 Force Touch Extras……………………………….…12-13 Nancy Gravley Designed by Dale Fletcher Change 3D Touch Pressure Sensitivity……………..14-15 Melissa Holt Based on prior designs by Apple TV: a Mixture of Good, Bad and Ugly,,,,,,,..…16-19 Jennifer Jolly Marc Robinson, Steve Apple TV Review: A Diamond In The Rough……..…20-23 James Kendrick Evans & Bobby Foster How To Connect An iPhone Or iPad To A TV……….24-25 Mark Kyrnin Needed……………………………………………….……..25 M L M U G J o u r n a l i s Bob LeVitus A Tale Of Three iPhone Cases………………………..26-27 published monthly by the Daniel Nations App Shows Which Stores Accept Apple Pay………….28 Main Line Macintosh Users OSX Daily Group and is available 5 Ways Your Smartphone Can Help Your Health.…29-30 Oscar Raymundo online. It is produced using How to Enable Wi-Fi Calling on Your iPhone………30-31 A p p l e P a g e s , w i t h a Mark Wassmandorf 7 Tips For iOS 9 On iPhone………………………..…32-34 Helvetica Neue font (Same iOS 9 On iPad: How To Use Multitasking..……35-36 as Yosemite). 10 Benefits Of An iPad Over A PC…………….37-38 Hard Drive Failures………………………………39-41 Mac Startup Modifiers: What They Do………..41-42 Permission is granted to nonprofit groups and other Macintosh 2015 Speaker Roster………………………………………42 User Groups to reproduce items in this newsletter. Please include the author’s or artist’s name, the MLMUG Journal title, Assessing the Fitness of Wearable Tech………43-44 and our copyright notice. A copy should also be mailed to: ConceptDraw Office 3…………………..……….45-46 Editor, MLMUG Journal, P.O. Box 1374, Southeastern, PA 19399 November Meeting Minutes………………….………47-48 or emailed to [email protected]. AI: Beyond Seven Mountains…………………………49-50 © 2015 Journal content not written by members is included courtesy of the sources or the fair use doctrine. Product names & images are trademarks or copyrights of the respective owners. !2 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2015 Typical Meeting Agenda " New Users SIG You don’t have to wait a whole month to 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting get answers to your basic Mac questions! room. MLMUG Email list Get together with other members on the The Main Line Macintosh Users fourth Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each 9:05 - 10:05: Three Concurrent Special Group has its own email list. regular meeting) for the Startup Folder Lite. Interest Groups (SIGs) convene in Compose your letter and email it to separate rooms. The three current [email protected] and Many new users have said that they can SIGs are: your message will be sent to learn much more from face-to-face everyone on the mailing list. meetings than they do from manuals or Newer Users- We cover the most Posting to this list is restricted to other sources. That’s what this meeting is basic questions you may have about MLMUG members. Contact Bob all about. Go to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html your Mac/iDevices and how to use Barton if you are a member and for details. them. you are not on the list. Macintosh Programming SIG/ Please observe rules of etiquette. Multimedia - We discuss using your See the Yahoo Groups Terms of Philly Mac Programming Group Mac/iDevices and applications for Service. The MLMUG list may be The objective of this group is to help photo, video, audio, and print media. used to post Apple/Macintosh- members become more familiar with the related items for sale, but any c o n c e p t s o f M a c i n t o s h a n d i O S OS - We go beyond basics to solicitation of members through programming, i.e., the elements of the discuss Apple’s current operating the list is forbidden without the Macintosh GUI, user interaction, file systems, using your Macs & written consent of a MLMUG system, etc., and the main Mac iDevices, & various applications, & officer. The list is hosted at Yahoo programming tools: AppleScript, Java, C, have Q&A. Groups. and Objective C. The Philly Mac Programming SIG meets at 10:05 - 10:15: Continuation of Q&A for all 10:30 AM on the first Saturday of each attendees. month, but usually skips January and July. 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. Contact Deivy Petrescu, Chair, for venue information. www.phillymacprog.org. The 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a next meeting will probably be at Ludington member or guest) Library in Bryn Mawr. 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. Come join some fellow MLMUG members for lunch after the meeting at a nearby restaurant. !3 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2015 President, Program Director & Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Membership Information Vendor Liaison Dale Fletcher Membership dues are $25 for individuals and $35 for Maria O. Arguello [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary t date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- [email protected] Newer Users SIG Co-Chair mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Vice President & Promotion & Deputy Webmaster Director Bob Barton If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve Susan Czarnecki [email protected] been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, [email protected] Newer Users SIG Co-Chair consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Treasurer, Membership & & Apple User Group Facilities Coordinator Ambassador • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, Elliott Cobin Michael Inskeep and meet everyone from working Mac [email protected] [email protected] professionals to new Mac users from all Secretary & Newsletter Editor backgrounds. Mark Bazrod Newsletter Graphics Editor Sally Bazrod [email protected] • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Member-at-Large [email protected] Mac news, tips, and information. OS SIG Co-Chair Jo Cobin • Useful free items at the monthly Ra$es. [email protected] Ben Romney Multimedia SIG Co-Chair & [email protected] • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Educational Liaison OS SIG Co-Chair Group members. Linda McNeil Adam Rice • Web Site with 12 months of MLMUG [email protected] [email protected] newsletters, meeting information, a member Librarian Social Secretary directory, directions to our meetings, and much Helge Gunther Gail Montgomery more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. [email protected] [email protected] • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical List Mom & Newsletter Copy Webmaster questions or comments to each other and the Editor Deivy Petrescu experts within the group. Deane Lappin [email protected] [email protected] • Reviewers keep items reviewed. Are you ready to join? Please make a check payable to MLMUG and bring it to a monthly meeting or mail it to: Treasurer, MLMUG P.O. Box 1374 Southeastern, PA 19399 !4 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2015 Bookmarks Additionally, listening to a podcast can make beneficial use what of what would otherwise be idle or wasted time. Prime examples are Listening To Podcasts when you are doing mindless or repetitive work that doesn't require much thought (such as cleaning the house or mowing the grass). You could listen when you are getting dressed in the morning, By Mark Bazrod when you're commuting to and from work, or when you are traveling. You can use this time to be entertained or as one way to keep up with the information overload to which we are all subjected.
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