Next Meeting, January 12th, 2016:7:00 PM Member’s Night— Burt Stephens, Moderator

Key articles..... registration process for the workshops has been confusing to some of you, but be patient, we will try to simplify it in the future. What Are Your For those of you that missed our Must-Have Apps?— Christmas party, you missed a good one. page 2 I would like to especially thank J. P. Leemans and Don Boyd for their work in putting it all together. We had a good turnout and from the comments I’ve received, everyone enjoyed the catered meal, prizes, and the Gert The Inside-Story company of fellow members and family. On The Detail of Apple Turning for a moment to things Apple, Refinements — page 4 I hope Santa was good to you. I was fortu- nate enough to receive an Apple iPad Pro, Pencil, and Apple TV: I must have been a good boy this year. Unfortunately, I expect OMUG’s Christmas Party it will take the rest of the year to use them effectively. As I work my way through these Happening In Photos — new tools/toys, I will share my experiences page 9 with you. While it is still too early to say much about them, I am really impressed with the iPad Dawn of the New Ye a r Pro for reading books in . By the way, if you like to use your iPad for reading books in iBooks, I’ve found two ways to get PDF material into iBooks that might be of value to you. Download the PDF in Safari on the iPad, when the download is complete you will briefly be given an opportunity to open the file in iBooks. Second, it you have a PDF on your Mac, open iTunes and connect your iPad. When the iPad icon appears in iTunes, A message from the prez— of our club. Without those efforts, our club on the 12th of January and Phil Davis will open it and click on the Books in the left January - a month named after Janus, the would not be what it is today. Similarly, be presenting his Workshop on Mac Basics column in the On My Device area. Then go Roman god of beginnings and transitions. Mentoring will continue to be a major part of on the 28th of January. All in all, a very nice to the location of the PDF and drag and drop Also, we observe the month of January as our efforts. We will continue to help Apple beginning to our club’s 25th year! For all of it into the Book area. I’ve described these National Thank You Month, National Mentor- product and services users in the greater our members attending Phil’s workshop, two tips briefly, so if you have any problems ing Month, and Weight Loss Awareness Ocala area to learn, understand, and use I want to remind you again— the workshops using them, just contact me. Month... Well two out of three isn’t bad. their devices more effectively. will be held in the College of Central Florida’s Hope to see you at our meeting… In keeping with this month, it is appropriate Consistent with these objectives, Burt University Center, Room 112 and they are to thank all of you for your efforts on behalf Stephens will lead us in a Member’s Night “free” to our members. I know the SLI —Bobby Adams

Best viewed in Adobe Reader January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 1 What are Your Must-Have Apps?— by Phil Davis CyberShopping Rules by Steve Weisman, Special for USA TODAY

Cybercriminals are lurking as a constant threat 3. Use strong, unique passwords for each of to people who don’t take some basic precau- your accounts so if one retailer that you use is hacked, identity thieves won’t have access ’ve been doing some cleanup on my part of the OS release such as Mail, Calendar, tions to protect themselves while shopping extensive list of apps, most of which go Contacts, Preview, Safari, Photos, , Num- online. Here is a list of a few rules for safe to all of your other accounts. Having so many Iunused most of the time. It is going to take a bers, and Keynote. online shopping. passwords may appear to be difficult to re- while to trim this list down to the ones that are Then, I supplement these with my top 20 1. While your new smart credit card with a member, but it doesn’t have to be. A strong really necessary and useful. It’s amazing how including some that you may not have heard computer chip will provide greater protec- password will combine capital letters, small many apps in the list I couldn’t identify without of but are vital to my workflow. These include tion at brick and mortar stores, you can’t letters and symbols. Start with an easy to looking them up on Google. I clearly need to be nvALT (my short-term brain), TextExpander, use the chip for online purchases. As in the remember phrase such as “I don’t like pass- more selective. Marked, Reeder, SpamSieve, FoldingText, past, you will need to input your credit card words” and make that the base for all of your It got me thinking also about which of these and Voila. Finally, I add Dropbox, 1Password, number into the websites you use for online passwords so it reads IDon’tLikePasswords. are really my “must-have” apps – the ones that I DevonThink Pro (my long-term brain), PDF- purchases. Before you type in your credit card This long password combines capital use daily and don’t want to do without. Pen Pro, Evernote, Postbox, Pocket, Alfred, information, make sure that the URL begins letters and small letters as well as a symbol. I start by classifying my apps into three cat- egories. TextWrangler, Carbon Copy Cloner, Drop- with “https” rather than merely “http.” The “s” Then make the password even stronger by zone, LibreOffice, and Chrome to the bundle. means that your data is being encrypted and adding a few easy to remember symbols at 1 Core Apps: These are the ones that I install first when I do a clean installation of a new OS, So there you have it. Of course, there are is more difficult for an identity thief to inter- the end of the password such as “$$$.” Now or buy a new computer (a very rare occurrence, many other apps that I use occasionally – utili- cept. you have your basic password which reads unfortunately). It’s interesting to think about ties, troubleshooting tools, apps to create and Resist the temptation to leave your credit IDon’tLikePasswords$$$. This is a strong what you do on a daily basis and which apps manipulate images and videos – the list could card number on file with online retailers from password. The next step is to personalize get very long. But, the bulk of my time is spent you use. which you regularly make purchases because this basic password for each of your accounts with my must-have core. If you are interested 2 Essential Apps: These are apps that I use I used the following while writing this article: leaving your credit card number on file with a with a few letters at the end of the pass- often for specific purposes, but are not need- nvALT, TextExpander, Marked, FoldingText, Sa- company just leaves you in greater danger of word to identify the particular account. For ed on a daily basis. Even though I don’t need fari, and DevonThink Pro. identity theft in the event that the company example, your Amazon password could be these every day, I still consider this group as So, what do you consider as your “must- is hacked and becomes the victim of a data IDon’tLikePasswords$$$ama. This is both a “essential” to my work. have” apps? It never hurts to occasionally take breach, which is quite possible. strong password and easy to remember. (Ed’s 3 Useful Apps: These are the utilities, tools, an inventory of what is in your Applications 2. Use your credit card for purchases rather note– Maybe, but I still prefer 1Password.) and other apps that are rarely needed, but are folder and do some culling of the ones that you than your debit card. Your credit card comes In addition, many companies, such as vital when called upon. don’t need. Not only will this force you to think with greater protection by law from fraudu- Amazon offer dual factor authentication Another way to classify your apps is by their about how you work, but it can make it easier lent purchases and even if your debit card is- when you are shopping so that when you log function. Categories like create, organize, auto- to stay on top of upgrades. This is particularly mate, develop, utilities, cloud services, backup, important prior to any major OS upgrades. suer offers zero liability, as some do, you still on to your account, the company will send a connectivity, security, and tech support. If you are willing to share your lists and pref- lose access to the bank account to which the one-time code to your smartphone for you For what it’s worth here is a list of my “must- erences, send them to me at omug42@gmail. card is attached while the bank investigates to input in order to access your account. This have Core Apps.” They start with the usual com and I’ll post them on our blog site (anony- any fraudulent purchases you may discover. significantly enhances your security. For con- suite of the programs that Apple provides as mously, if desired). a This can cause automatic payments that you venience, you can provide that the dual fac- may make for car loans, mortgages or other tor authentication does not have to be used recurring bills to bounce while the bank com- if you are logging in from your own computer pletes its investigation. or smartphone. Continued on page 3—

January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 2 CyberShopping: continued from page 2— website at a URL that you know is accurate 4. Trust me, you can’t trust anyone. A Google where you will be able to find any legitimate Wi-fi Connections Vs. Wired Connections By Ben Ryan, Smalldog.com or other search engine search for low prices advertisement offered elsewhere. for popular items will not necessarily turn up Also, websites such as Amazon’s www. Wireless internet is very convenient. It’s Wi-fi signals also cannot pene- legitimate websites. Adept cybercriminals camelcamelcamel and www.pricegrabber. much easier to simply connect your com- trate objects or walls that are thicker than are able to manipulate the algorithms used com can help you safely find the lowest prices puter or phone to a wireless network instead a certain amount, depending on the exact to make their well-designed counterfeit web- for popular items. of dealing with the network cables. Since frequency the signal uses. In addition, wi-fi sites appear high on a search engine inquiry. 5. Make sure that your anti-virus and anti- wireless internet is a recent technology, it is signals are much less secure than wired con- As always, if the price for the product looks malware software on the computer, smart- often assumed that wi-fi is superior in every nections, since they can be potentially con- too good to be true, it probably is a scam. Be phone or other device you use for shopping way to wired connections. It is true that wi-fi nected to by anyone in range of the signal. particularly wary of emails or social media is kept up to date with the latest security is easier to use than wired connections, but All of these are things to consider the postings you get purporting to be from retail- patches. Too many people neglect to keep wired technology does have numerous next time you are setting up a home net- ers with amazing discounts. their security software on their smartphones advantages over wireless. work, or if you notice your wi-fi connected Scammers lure you to click on links in these current. Wired connections are much faster than device being slow or acting strange. It could advertisements that will result in your either 6. Never use public WiFi for shopping. You wi-fi. They also are not vulnerable to wire- be that your wi-fi signal is being interfered downloading keystroke logging malware can’t be sure when using public WiFi whether less interference. Some electric devices like with or having trouble transmitting through that will steal personal information from your you are using the authorized WiFi of the cof- microwaves can emit wireless signals and something. a computer or other device and use it to make fee shop or other company providing public radiation that can interfere with wi-fi signals. you a victim of identity theft or lure you into WiFi or whether it is WiFi that appears to be providing your credit card information to the public WiFi, but is actually the WiFi of the identity thief. For many reasons, you are bet- identity thief sitting a few tables away from ter off doing business with well-established you. You also may wish to consider using companies. If you receive an email or see an a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which will enticing advertisement online that appears encrypt and protect your communications to come from a legitimate retailer, ignore the whenever you use the Internet away from ad or email and go directly to the company’s home on a portable device. a

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January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 3 “Yeah,” agreed Bergeron, on the extended by Steven Levy as written on InsideStory–New Apple Refinements BACKCHANNEL Mac team since 2002. “Not right. Kate You just don’t like it.” Bergeron cently, when I became the first reporter to But as with all of Apple’s products, the atten- There are many reasons why Apple is the venture into the Input Design Lab. The occa- tion to detail has bordered on fanatical. world’s most valuable company. is sion for my visit was the release of a new family The suspect mouse sound stirred conster- celebrated as a supply chain Master who has of . As usual, this iteration — something nation and late nights in the maze of work- internalized the focus on innovation that his more than a “bump” and a lot less than a clean- spaces located in a nondescript office building predecessor inculcated in the culture. slate reinvention — has a number of features a few miles away from Apple’s Infinite Loop has drawn global raves for making Apple a de- designed to jar current owners, dissatisfied headquarters. This is the Input Design Lab, sign icon. Its marketing and branding practices Editor’s comment— The word “new” in the Windows users, and undecided first-time buy- though employees refer to the venue as Vallco title is misleading as this lengthy article set industry standards. But a visit to the lab ers into action. The most visible is the introduc- Parkway, the street where it’s sited. Behind covers Apple devices released over the past where its legacy products — computers — are tion of Retina screens into the whole product doors that outsiders rarely venture past are an few months. It is however, a great insight made suggests another reason. line: one option for the smaller, 21.5-inch iMac array of exotic machines, many custom-tuned, into Apple’s rejection of the “it’s good Sweating the details. now sports a 4K Retina display, and all 27-inch that measure and test the latest Apple wares. enough” standard and their unyielding A less-than-perfect noise isn’t a product models use the state-of-the-art 5K display. The These were put to use to fix the problem. drive to “make it right”.— killer, or even an official bug. Nonetheless, Ap- monitors also use an exotic new technology The culprit appeared to be the little poly- ple’s engineers were determined to make sure Early this year, the top-secret laboratory that shows more colors than previously, allow- carbonate runners on the bottom of the the new iMac’s made a better where Apple designs its acces- ing for startlingly detailed photos and scalpel- mouse. “We changed the foot architecture,” sound as it glided across the desktop. sories was bedeviled by a crisis on tiny feet. sharp text display. says Bergeron, Apple’s VP for Ecosystem Of course, as far as iMacs are concerned, a It had to do with the reinvented mouse the The other big advance is a new set of ac- Products and Technologies. (Translation: you larger question lingers: Why even bother with team was designing to accompany a new cessories: wireless keyboard, trackpad, and pound on her keyboards.) “And it changed the a desktop computer? After all, only a month set of iMac computers. The input device, mouse. Unlike their immediate Bluetooth an- friction characteristics of the sound.” ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook, showing off the dubbed the Magic Mouse 2, would look to cestors, these wireless input devices eschew “When we did the previous mouse we new and humongous iPad Pro and its new users exactly like the previous model. But the removable batteries that always seem to spent so much time dialing those feet, the keyboard, proclaimed, “iPad is the clearest ex- on the inside and underneath, everything be going dim, and instead use lithium batter- material, the geometry, everything, so that it pression of our vision of the future of personal would be different, mainly because Apple ies that charge exactly like and sounds good and feels good when you move computing.” Does that make iMacs relics of a was switching to a rechargeable lithium through a cable that connects to the slim port it on the table,” says Ternus, whose title is VP for fading past? himself foreshadowed battery instead of the previous replaceable that Apple has labeled “.” The Magic Mac, iPad, Ecosystem and Audio Engineering. the question in 2010. “PCs are going to be like alkaline ones. Trackpad 2 also integrates the Force Touch “But then you change the mass of the product trucks,” he said at the D Conference that May. Late in the process, everything seemed function that was first introduced in the Apple and you change the resonant frequency of “They are still going to be around [but only] to be going fine. The internal lithium battery Watch and now appears on the Macbook and the product and all of a sudden the feet that one out of x people will need them.” Could it was custom-engineered to fit the cavity. The iPhone 6s. (Force Touch is a technology that we loved weren’t great anymore. They weren’t be that in the mobile age, iMacs, even shiny redesigned antenna — necessary to deal with lets you press down harder than you would what we wanted.” new ones, are dull engines of computational the potential interference from an internal bat- with a click, triggering a different set of reac- What exactly was wrong with it? load bearing? tery — was working well. tions from the software.) I wanted to know. “It’s not that simple,” says Phil Schiller, Ap- But one thing was totally unacceptable. The prices of these new improved “It had just changed…kind of… the sound,” ple’s senior VP of Worldwide Product Market- The mouse didn’t sound right. iMacs — which also have the expected up- says Ternus, who has worked for Apple since ing. “We are in an amazing time where there That’s what Apple engineering leaders grades in microprocessor and graphics 2001. “They all make a noise – the question is are different ideas competing for your com- Kate Bergeron and John Ternus told me re- chips — are the same as the previous models. getting a noise we like. It sounded… not right.” puting life. Continued on page 5—

John Ternus January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 4 Apple Refinements— Continued from page 4 “Because if all it’s doing is competing with the line became an inevitability from the moment the team had to find the suppliers that would That’s great — we love that. And we have notebook and being thinner and lighter, then that technology was introduced on the iPhone implement the scheme. One alternative was a thought long and deep about what choices it doesn’t need to be.” in 2010. It migrated to the Macbook in 2012 and technology called quantum dot, but Apple re- we want to offer customers. One is iPad — it Which brings us to the new iMac product then to the iPad and even the . jected it because it required cadmium, a toxic can do many things you want to do on a PC, line. Despite the fact that Apple revenues and “We really, really wanted to get Retina to the element. “Eventually we found this path with so many that people choose to make it their profits are dominated by its iPhone success, it iMac,” says Ternus. “It was screaming for it.” our LED suppliers that got us everything we primary computing device, and it can do that. still considers Macintosh as a serious part of its As Apple’s Senior Director for Mac Hard- wanted without the environmental downside.” That’s more true with the iPad Pro than it’s ever business, and according to Schiller, this iMac is ware Tom Boger explained to me, the iMac’s One question is how much it will transform Phil been. But that’s not everybody. There are other a significant part of that. (Apple does not break display incorporates not just a denser screen Shiller the experience for regular users. In A/B tests people who will decide that nothing does the out iMac sales from the Macintosh , resolution but a wider color palette that re- for certain photos Apple showed me, I could things they need in their lives as well as a Mac.” which lately have been a bit below five million quires a new technology. Even compared to indeed see a difference, not only in the color Schiller, in fact, has a grand philosophical per quarter. It sells about ten times as many the Retina screen on the current $2,500 iMac, popping, but in additional detail that the ex- theory of the Apple product line that puts all iPhones than .) “We care about it the new ones are improved, he says. “We’ve panded palette revealed. But don’t expect to products on a continuum. Ideally, you should deeply,” says Apple’s VP of Macintosh Product given these a wider color gamut. Basically see dramatic difference in your iPhone shots: be using the smallest possible gadget to do Marketing Brian Croll, who has been with the meaning they have a bigger palette of colors the P3 effects will really explode only with as much as possible before going to the next company since 2001. they can display,” he says. All high-end displays dense-pixel images like raw data from DSLR largest gizmo in line. The importance goes beyond the num- aspire to represent the full range of colors that cameras and other high resolution pictures. “They are all computers,” he says. “Each bers: History will mark the iMac as a critical the human eye can possibly see, which is a Movies are another issue; currently, you can’t one is offering computers something unique product in Apple’s revival after the return of giant technological challenge. The previous download a 4K movie from the iTunes store. and each is made with a simple form that is its co-founder. It is no accident that the recent industry standard was called sRGB (Standard Apple acknowledges that the P3 is really an of- pretty eternal. The job of the watch is to do Steve Jobs movie ends with the launch event of Red Green Blue), which captured a pretty good fering for the pro market. more and more things on your wrist so that the first iMac in 1998. Though, as with almost chunk of the color spectrum. Currently, Apple’s “The pros are so tuned to [color palettes], you don’t need to pick up your phone as often. everything in the movie, screenwriter Aaron Retina displays deliver 100 percent sRGB. “We they will see it immediately,” says Croll. “The The job of the phone is to do more and more Sorkin plays fast and loose with the facts– but are very proud of that — a lot of monitors don’t consumer will look at it and say, Gee, I don’t things such that maybe you don’t need your the iMac did symbolize a new approach for do a hundred percent of sRGB. So that was really know why, but it looks better.’” iPad, and it should be always trying and striv- Apple that would characterize its subsequent really good,” says Boger. “But about ten years There’s one thing, however, that is conspic- ing to do that. The job of the iPad should be revitalization. I spent a couple of days hang- ago the film industry got together and said uously not in the new iMacs — a touch screen. to be so powerful and capable that you never ing out with Jobs in the run-up to that release we could do better than that, they said there While Microsoft and others now believe that need a notebook. Like, Why do I need a note- and he made it clear that he believed it was were more colors in the world that we could multi-touch should extend to the desktop dis- book? I can add a keyboard! I can do all these absolutely necessary to make a great desktop be showing in our films. So they created a new play, Apple believes this is dead wrong. “From things! The job of the notebook is to make it computer for the consumer. “This is our soul,” color standard, called P3. It’s actually twenty- the ergonomic standpoint we have studied so you never need a desktop, right? It’s been he told me. five percent larger than sRGB.” By supporting this pretty extensively and we believe that on doing this for a decade. So that leaves the poor In a sense, the eye-popping display of the P3, these iMacs deliver richer color. a desktop scenario where you have a fixed key- desktop at the end of the line, What’s its job?” new Retina iMacs are a continuation of that tra- “Color is a big deal, but [previously] we board, having to reach up to do touch interfac- Good question. And the answer?.... dition. “The display is the theater for the soft- didn’t have the pieces to do it,” says Ternus. Ap- es is uncomfortable,” says Schiller. “iOS from its “Its job is to challenge what we think a ware,” Jobs told me just before that first iMac ple had come up with a solution that involved a start has been designed as a multi-touch expe- computer can do and do things that no com- launched, and with the new models, Apple has new way of coding the LED (Light Emitting Di- rience — you don’t have the things you have in puter has ever done before, be more and more built a proscenium that could host The Lion odes) that would generate high-intensity reds a mouse-driven interface, like a cursor to move powerful and capable so that we need a desk- King. and greens that, passed through a color filter, around, or teeny little ‘close’ boxes that you top because of its capabilities,” says Schiller. Of course, Retina displays on the whole iMac would create the entire gamut of colors. Then can’t hit with your finger. Cont’d. on pg 6—

January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 5 Apple Refinements— Continued from page 5 Fixing the battery inside the devices results with the same degree of force. It uses sound that just wasn’t right, that meant find- The Mac OS has been designed from day one though, forced the Mac team to do some high-performance glass, tested to withstand a ing a harmonic solution. for an indirect pointing mechanism. These two considerable redesigning. Until now both the drop. And perhaps most important, the track- Fortunately, Apple has a vast array of ma- worlds are different on purpose, and that’s a standard wireless keyboard and trackpad were pad now supports Force Touch — one more chinery at Vallco Parkway to help in just these good thing — we can optimize around the best characterized by a small bedroll at the top that step towards the inexorable mesh between instances. One machine, for instance, is dedi- experience for each and not try to mesh them held the batteries. It determined the entire the desktop and mobile experience. In fact, cated to testing a mouse on different surfaces together into a least-common-denominator user experience, creating what Apple’s people porting Force Touch to the desktop illustrates and measuring the friction. Another machine experience.” call a “diving board” effect. Schiller’s vision of how features can percolate setup involves putting a mouse or typewriter (Speaking of Microsoft, Schiller says he has For the keyboard, removing the battery throughout Apple’s product line. Remember, keyboard in an anechoic (ultra-soundproof) read about but not tested its new products, chamber meant that Apple could shrink the Apple first came up with the idea for its watch- chamber and measuring precisely — really pre- as recently announced to surprising acclaim. device while actually making the keys larger. es, and this year it has moved to the iPhone, cisely — where a noise is coming from. In this He does note that Microsoft’s full-blown entry “We have been trying to improve our input and now to iMac. “We’re actually a combined case, it was the way that the new mouse feet into computer hardware is tacitly a belated ad- technology for a long time and earlier this year, team,” says Croll. “The people developing iOS interacted with the surface. The original Magic mission from Redmond that Apple had it right as we saw in the MacBook, we finally got to a are the same people developing OSX. So they Mouse maximized the surface contact from its all along. “It’s amazing that one event validat- point where we broke through and said preci- are carrying both models in their heads.” runners. But that approach didn’t work with the ed so much of what Apple does, and held us sion in keys and typing is something that we The iMac may be a truck [compared to mo- new version. “It was a little bit sticky — not in an up as the gold standard. And that’s flattering.”) really want to do quite well,” says Bergeron. bile Apple devices], but Apple is making sure that adhesive sense but it didn’t glide the perfect Apple is still committed to multi-touch con- Though the key caps on the Magic Key- it has all the bells and whistles of its sports cars. way we wanted it to glide across the table,” says trol across the product line — it just believes board are larger than on the previous version, My visit to the Input Design Lab dispelled Bergeron. That resulted in the not-right noise. that on the desktop, touch control should be Bergeron also revealed that one prototype some of the mystery of how Apple plans vari- “The solution was to reshape the high den- a hands-down experience. Apple has been had even bigger keys. “We did a lot of devel- ous iterations of its product line. Though from sity polyethylene (HDPE) feet. “By actually rid- methodically introducing the multi-touch opment early on and probably went down a the outside it appears that the company fol- ing more on the edge this time it was a better gestures from its mobile operating system into path that was more extreme than it needed lows a strict schedule — and a cottage industry experience,” says Bergeron. “Geometry turned desktop accessories like the Magic Mouse and to be, so we backed up a little bit.” The result, devotes itself to creating unofficial calendars out to be the variable that dominated the ex- the Magic Trackpad. But this iMac iteration she says, is very minimalist. “We made the sur- of product releases — executives insist on the perience.” After creating runners made of sev- may well be remembered for the new input face area as much of the keys as you can, and Orson Wellesian principle of no launch before eral new mixes, the team organized a bake-off devices with internal rechargeable batteries. minimized the border around that keyboard its time. In the case of the new iMac, features to choose the best one. Ternus explains that “The driver was environmental,” says Schil- to take up as little space on the desktop as pos- came from a combination of factors. The fea- the process “involves getting a core group of ler, referring to the notion that Apple’s toxic sible. It weighs less than the one before, and it sibility of the always inevitable Retina screen. people from engineering and design together footprints would be considerably lessened by maintains rigidity.” The necessity to include Force Touch on the and looking at different samples and saying, eliminating the need for constant discarding The is most drastically desktop. An eco-urge to jettison repleaceable ‘Yeah, this is the one, this sounds right!’ And of AA batteries. A two-hour charge lasts over redesigned. Its surface area is 29 percent big- batteries. And the usual Moore’s Law bonan- then we go for it.” a month. But if you lose track of how low the ger, wide enough to accommodate the fre- za of cheaper chips and components. (One And then they go for it again. “Even after charge is, plugging the input device into the quent swipes imported into the Macintosh bonus I haven’t mentioned: the Fusion Drive all these years with Mac, there’s so much to USB port for just a minute gives you a half a experience from the iOS multitouch world. option, which combines a hard disk and flash do,” says Croll. “It’s almost like a roller coaster, day’s worth of work. Also, those who have “The whole touch experience requires a track- memory for speed and ample storage, is now where you get off, and then run to the front previously fumbled to make a Bluetooth con- pad that’s larger,” says Croll. “Our belief is that much cheaper.) to do it again. There’s so much more to do.” nection will be happy to learn that plugging [iMacs] are insane multitouch devices — when Still, once a deadline is set, the team has to As you’d expect, work is well underway for the the mouse or keyboard into the Mac instantly your hands are down.” Because it can lie flat, concentrate on getting the product out the next iMac iteration. pairs the devices. no matter where users click on it, they can get door. And in the case of the mouse with the But they didn’t show that one to me. a

Brian Croll January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 6 THIS AND THAT HOT LI NKS

Apple chooses Affinity Photo CleanMyMac now supports good idea to encrypt them. You don’t need How to Use iPhone 6s as a Scale as the best Mac App of 2015— Photos for OS X— any special software to do this; your Mac to Weigh Items— OSXDaily.com There are great new features and it now from OSXDaily.com already contains the app you need. The 3D Touch display on iPhone 6s and includes SIX extensions for Apple’s Photos Clean Photos app with CleanMyMac 3. Apple’s Disk Utility lets you create an iPhone 6s Plus is able to detect pressure ap- app. This means you can access some of the Its Photo Junk module cleans up the cache encrypted disk image that you can use to plied to the screen in power of Affinity to do some quick edits on that Photos app generates (and that cache store sensitive files that no one, not even the order to serve the 3D your images without having to leave Photos. can add up to gigabytes). Make sure you NSA, can get at.— Link 3 Touch pop and peek functions, but with the Extensions included are: update to version 3.2 to remove photo junk help of a little third Develop that’s taking up actual photo space. iCloud Drive: Features and party web app you can Haze Removal Costs— from Tom Nelson– About.com How to Disable “Shake to Find iCloud Drive, part of Apple’s iCloud service, transform the iPhone Liquify Cursor” in OS X El Capitan for and 3D Touch display Miniature allows you to store files in the cloud for easy Mac— from OSXDaily.com into a fairly precise Monochrome access from multiple devices. iCloud itself One of the new feature additions to OS X scale ... Link 6 Retouch Watch Video... lets you easily sync app documents, such 10.11 and later is the ability to quickly locate as those created by Pages, Mail, Contacts, a mouse cursor on screen by shaking the How to Save eMail Attachments How to Burn Disc Images in and Calendar, but with iCloud Drive, you can on iPhone & iPad Mail to iCloud OS X El Capitan Without Disk mouse or trackpad cursor around, which store and sync documents from any source causes the cursor to enlarge briefly, making it Drive— OSXDaily.com Utility— from OSXDaily.com at any time. very easy to find on single or multiple display The iOS Mail app allows users to save various Apple removed the ability to burn disc imag- iCloud Drive has been available since the setups. But what if you don’t want ... Link 1— release of OS X Yosemite last year. Since then, types of attachments directly to the iPhone, es from Disk Utility in OS X 10.11 and newer. iPad, or iPod touch. This is a great feature Apple lowered the price for buying addition- While that makes sense for many Macs that Use “Delete Immediately” that is available in the latest versions of iOS, al storage, making it competitive with other no longer have SuperDrives, CDRW, and on Files to Bypass Trash in Mac and for most file attachment, you’ll be able cloud storage services...... Link 4 DVD burners, for those who use an external OS X— from OSXDaily.com to save whatever the file is directly to iCloud burner, use disc drive sharing, or who do The latest versions of OS X include a new Apple iOS 9.2 adds iPhone sup- Drive in iOS. — Link 7 have hardware with a built-in SuperDrive, ability to immediately delete a file or folder port for USB camera adapter To get the may ... more info link from the Mac, bypassing the Trash can. for direct photo transfer— answer to this Essentially how the “Delete Immediately” from dpdreview.com seemingly Charger/Expander from InfoGroup feature works is by circumventing the Trash Apple released a number of software up- normal pic, USB-C Cigarette Lighter Charger and Hub– and rather than waiting for user action to dates yesterday including iOS 9.2. In addition yet Photoshop QuickerTek, a leader in mobile power and remove the files, it just deletes the file(s) to a large number of bug fixes, the update goof-up, go to wireless networking products for Apple com- instantaneously.... Link 2— puters, has announced two new products, adds iPhone support for the company’s page 10. the USB Type-C Cigarette Lighter Charger How to Encrypt Disk Images Lightning to USB Camera Adapter, making it and USB Expander for the 2015 12-inch Mac- with Disk Utility to Protect possible now to transfer images directly from Book. Both products enhance the capabilities Sensitive Files— from apple.com a camera to your iPhone. Previously, only of the newest model MacBook. Charger is If you want to protect files on your Mac, on iPads were supported. $24.95; Expander is $19.95 Go here! an external drive, or even in the cloud, it’s a —Link 5

January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 7 Choosing the Right AirPort Device— by Don Mayer of smalldog.com

et’s say you just got that new iMac and lessly. It also has an audio output port (AKA All of these Apple AirPort base stations are you are finding that your network is run- headphone jack) to support wireless very easy to set-up. You plug it in, turn it on Lning slow. Your wireless signal drops out streaming. It has an Ethernet input and one and connect it to your cable or DSL modem a few times a day and you just can’t seem Ethernet output so it can be easily connected via the Ethernet WAN port. Your Mac or iOS to stay online. Well, it is probably time to to your DSL or Cable modem and to your device will recognize the AirPort, select the upgrade your wireless network. Fortunately, Ethernet network if you have that, too. The new AirPort base station and the built-in Apple offers several options with their Airport Express has an internal power supply, so no setup assistant provides step-by-step instruc- wireless routers. wall wart! tions and suggests the best network configu- When it comes to equipping your home ration. You select “Create a new network” cre- 5 Incredible Storm Photographers AirPort Extreme or office with a wireless network, Apple offers ate a password and you are surfing. & Their Best Images— by James Brandon The Apple AirPort Extreme is more powerful, on digital-photography-school.com (edited) three different options for Apple AirPort base Deciding which Apple AirPort base station features 802.11ac Wi-Fi and offers increased Nothing on earth can compare to the feeling stations: the Apple AirPort Express, Apple is right for you depends on where you are us- performance and extended range. This is the I get when standing in front of a mas- AirPort Extreme and the Apple AirPort Time ing it, i.e. the range you need and whether unit for you if you have a larger home, a small sive supercell with 40-50mph winds at my Capsule. With an AirPort base station you can you need the maximum speed. The latest business or in the . Its taller shape back, watching it twist and churn, as it tries easily create a Wi-Fi network with a Mac or an Apple Macs all support 802.11ac and that may increases the range due to better antenna to lower itself to the ground. It’s the most iOS device in just a few steps. You can also use push you towards the Extreme or Time Cap- performance and it features a USB port to intense and pure mixture of awe, fear and the AirPort base station to share a printer or sule. hard drive, stream iTunes to your stereo and enable wireless printing or to connect a hard respect for mother nature that I’ve been able It is somewhat of an undocumented fea- back-up your Mac. drive. It features three Ethernet LAN ports in to find to this day. In addition to my images, addition to the single Ethernet WAN port. The ture that you can, in fact, attach a USB drive to here’s a collection of four of the best chaser Let’s take a look at each of Apple’s offerings: AirPort Extreme’s power supply is also built-in. an AirPort Extreme and use that combination photographers out there (along with a few of AirPort Express with Time Machine for backups. It does take a their best images). See this amazing work. a The compact AirPort Express utilizes the Airport Time Capsule little bit more configuration time but I can say 802.11n Wi-Fi standard and supports AirPlay. The Airport Time Capsule looks identical to from personal experience that it works flaw- Voice Guided Navigation, Severe It is great for an apartment or smaller space. It the AirPort Extreme and has the same ports lessly. While there is an advantage to having Weather Alerts and more, now in allows you to use AirPlay to wirelessly stream and wireless specifications. It adds either a the all-in-one Time Capsule it can also be an inRoute­— The first voice guided naviga- music to your stereo or compatible speakers 2TB or 3TB internal hard drive for Time Ma- advantage having separate devices so that IF tion app to automatically check your route and has a USB port so that you can print wire- chine backups. one fails, the other is still functional. a for severe weather! inRoute’s route planner Editor’s note— While the latest Apple Macs support the faster 802.11ac standard, older Macs may only have the “n” standard and will function at its slower speed. – with automatic order optimization and custom routes based on elevation, weather, Check Store & Restaurant Business Hours with — curviness and more – has now been coupled If you’ve ever needed to know how late a particular store or restaurant is open, just pull out your iPhone and ask Siri. This should be handy when with a voice navigation upgrade that detects you’re out and about running errands or need to make a last minute shopping stop, but it’s clearly useful for many purposes. And if you have a severe weather ahead on the route plus many new iPhone with Hey Siri enabled for hands free queries, it works great in the car or when you’re out walking around too. • As usual with Siri, the more features. Featured by Apple as a Best secret is simply in asking the right question, but as long as the business, restaurant, or store is listed and can find it, the store hours New App in Navigation. Check the most likely will be able to be retrieved. For the full “how-to” story from OSXDaily, visit this webpage! a in the Navigation category. Free trial! a

January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 8 OMUG Christmas Party 2015—

Our new home, the Discovery Center was the venue this year and thanks to Phil, we were joined by our gracious hosts, Suzanne Shuffitt, Discovery Center Manager and our DC liaison, Stephanie Brown. Our OMUG membership and spouses all had a teriffic opportunity to socialize, converse one-on- one with each other, share stories, enjoy music of the season and... CHOW DOWN. J.P. Leemans got the party-down deals started by arranging for 2J’s Catering and an outstanding buffet fare of salad, Chicken Marsala, Fresh Thyme Beef Ten- derloin, Vegetable Lasagna, delicious sides, and a palate pleasing Coffee Flan dessert to top it all off. Meanwhile, Don Boyd, in ad- dition to all his advance organizing, along with Ruth Ingmire made sure all the tables looked “Christmas party” right. Santa Tom Lee arranged for the bounty of door prizes and congratulated the lucky winners— prizes: three $40 gift certificates for Chayote Latin American Cuisine, a 1T Western Digital hard drive, HP 60 Printer & inks, two $25 iTunes gift cards, two Take Control eBooks, and a Google Chromecast 2015 media streaming player. All in all, a wonderful way to close out our OMUG 2015 year with many fond memories. Now.....“party-on” into 2016– just look at J.P., Kimberly and Josette– they’ve already made it to the pool.....

Photo left: courtesy J.P. Leemans • Montage photos: credits— Larry Feller and Bobby Adams January 2016 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 9 OMUG Meeting Information— Apple Users Helping Apple Users— Beginner’s Guide to Photographing Horses— an excerpt from the full DPS article The Ocala Mac User Group meets the OMUG’s Help Team will try to help you 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7 PM: There are two main aspects to consider when beginning to attempt any equine photography, the with your computer, iPad, iPhone and Discovery Center of Ocala— software problems. Please go to the photographic side (technical and creative) and the dealing with horses side (sometimes unpredict- Tuscawilla Park website’s help-team for a list of help topics able and can be dangerous). 701 NE Sanchez Ave, Ocala and phone/email contacts for the Horses have distinct personalities which can range from extremes such as: a tendency gallop across Workshop sessions are held with following member volunteers: a paddock to attack you on one end of the scale, to willing to defend you at their own expense at the Senior Learners, Inc., using their CF Bob Adams other end. Their main instinct is flight, and they can be easily spooked by just about anything — meeting room on the 4th Thursday of Richard Bambridge the month from 1:30 to 3:30 PM. Don Boyd including cameras. Philip Davis (email ONLY) There is a whole horse language involving their ears, leg stance, and head movement. The horse OMUG Board of Directors— Marilyn Kennedy owners I have worked with prefer certain positioning of these things in photographs. For example, President– Bobby Adams Dr. Roberto Putzeys they really don’t like images where the horses ears are pinned back, which means the horse is not [email protected] • 274.0177 Tim Rankin Vice President– Marilyn Kennedy Al Sypher very happy. I would suggest spending some time googling horse body language before you set out [email protected] • 854.1021 Brian Voge on your first equine photo session – not only to know all the best positions, but to also know if a Secretary–Lorraine Wieskamp Lorraine Wieskamp horse is about to attempt to do you some serious damage. [email protected] • 351-3533 OMUG Assignments— Never stand behind a horse. Never catch a horse by surprise. Make sure the Treasurer– Don Boyd Fifty-Fifty Raffle– Tom Lee horse knows where you are. They don’t like people jumping out from behind [email protected] • 203-4059 Membership– Don Boyd bushes, or sudden movements. Never run up to a horse. One owner trainer Director– Tom Lee tells me that even wearing bright colors can startle some horses. [email protected] MUGSHOT Newsletter– Al Sypher Horses and cameras— Director– Philip Davis Program Coordinator– Burt Stephens [email protected] • 369-8432 Online Services Coordinator and Apple Unless you know that a horse is very used to flash, using one could endanger Director– Burt Stephens Ambassador– Philip Davis you, the horse, or the handler/rider. I would avoid it at all costs. The sight and [email protected] • 873-6177 Sunshine Ambassador– Don Morrison any sound of your camera can be enough to startle them, even just the slap of a DSLR’s mirror. Director– Al Sypher Next Workshop— (Chat with the handler about the horse’s personality.) It is often good to have the handler introduce [email protected] • 237-9501 you. Let the horse approach you, sniff the camera, and move slowly, talk softly and calmly, and if it’s Mac Basics– Phil Davis: 1/28/16 Past President– N.C. Sizemore all okay to do so, give it a pat. If you’re unsure how the horse will react to camera sounds do a few test Location: College of Central Florida [email protected] • 291-8778 shots while the horse is calm, and you are all in safe positions. I would recommend a zoom lens so you can get in close on detail, without getting too close to the horse. Oh... and one last thing— The Sunday before Christmas, Dec. 20th, The photography— the CBS television network featured Apple on its “60 Minutes” You’ll want a fairly fast shutter speed, even for portraits – those ears move fast. I’d recommend a programming. The segment was “Inside Apple” with Charlie Rose as minimum of 1/250th for general photography, faster if the horse is moving at speed. Generally you correspondent. A copy of the interview transcript plus video can be seen want good horse shapes where you can see all four legs, and the animal has its ears forward. Find a here. A very interesting topic was the anatomy of the iPhone camera. safe spot where the horse can see you from a distance, and don’t keep moving about. Reminder, do It can be seen here. Fascinating stuff! not use flash. Pg. 7 photo answer: Count her fingers— if you add her thumb, she has six! An image that involves horse and rider in mid-jump, with all legs off the ground and front legs tucked under, is generally preferred by riders and owners. You’ll need a fairly fast shutter speed, Disclaimer— The Apple logo is the property of Apple, Inc. All tradenames, trademarks, and registered trademarks used herein are somewhere around 1/650th – 1/800th is a good place to start. Set your camera to continuous release the property of their respective owners or companies. Content presented herein attributed to specific sources remains the property of the named sources. The information presented in this newsletter is for the personal enlightenment (burst) mode, and press the shutter just as the horse lifts off. Go here for the full DPS article! of OMUG members and friends, does not constitute an endorsement, and shall not to be used for commercial pur-

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