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THE PULP! DECEMBER 2016 The PNewsletter of ULthe Hartford User Group Exchange P http://www.huge.org! Volume 35 Issue -- 12 December 20th General Meeting: (Geeky) Gift Suggestions Rev. Fleming Hall 2533 Main Street, Glastonbury, CT Q&A Session: 7 PM–7:15PM Meeting starts at: 7:15PM Contents Page From the Editor 2 Stu’s Quiz Page 3 Bookmarks, Top Sites, and 4 More: Finding Your Way Back in Safari How to Migrate to a New 7 Mac Calendar 13 Page 1 THE PULP! DECEMBER 2016 The PULP is published monthly by and for members of the Hartford User Group MEETING LOCATIONS Exchange, Inc. (HUGE). HUGE is a nonprofit organization whose aim is to pro- vide an exchange of information between users of personal computers. The PULP is Rev. Fleming Hall not in any way affiliated with any computer manufacturer or software company. Original, uncopyrighted articles appearing in the PULP may be reproduced without 2533 Main Street, prior permission by other nonprofit groups. Please give credit to the author and the Glastonbury, CT PULP, and send a copy to HUGE. The opinions and views herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of HUGE. Damages caused by use or abuse of information appearing in the PULP are the sole responsibility of the user of the in- formation. We reserve the right to edit or reject any articles submitted for publica- tion in the PULP. Trademarks used in this publication belong to the respective own- ers of those trademarks. From The Editor by Stuart Rabinowitz It’s time to find that perfect gift for the ‘Geek’ in your Western Digital has released a series of Raspberry Pi life (& that includes yourself). I have a few suggestions. disk drives. For next month, I thought we might take a look at The AV-TEST's 2016 report was recently released and Fedora 25, which has developed a new (and simpler) shows some interesting trends. As expected Windows method for installation. I just installed a version in was the subject of the most threats, but the trend was about an hour, and that included: download, burning downward. Android on the other hand was trending up- installation media, formatting drive, installation, and ward. You can view the report here: configuration on the new machine. Mac OS installs https://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/current-risk-sc takes longer. and I won’t mention a Windows install. enario-av-test-security-report-facts-at-a-glance/ In the news: Apple has announced some good and bad Send your comments to [email protected] news for customers; If you have an iPhone 6* and it randomly shuts down, Apple will fix it for free. Also, if Until next month…Happy computing!! you had to fix the hinge on your 27” iMac, Apple will Stuart Rabinowitz, Editor reimburse you the cost. Here is the appropriate copyright citation and a link to the Time is running out for NTP (Network Time Protocol) full text. articles from “Tidbits” in terms of support personnel and money. How impor- tant is this? It is used to synchronize clocks on servers http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ and devices to make sure they all have the same time. Researchers have reportedly found a way to bypass the iOS activation lock. 2016 will be a double (sort of) leap year. In addition to having an extra day, it will be 1 second longer. Have a smart home? Have you thought about what hap- pens if/when you sell? You might want to start with documenting what you have and how you connect to them. Also, document how they connect to your router. You may want to figure out how to reset them. This may include your garage door opener. Page 2 THE PULP! DECEMBER 2016 A Little Computer Quiz Nov. Quiz Answers 1 Can you name the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers and the November is an anniversary month for tech company he co-found? HUGE, so a few trivia questions -- 2 You know how when you mistype your 1 This month marks the the founding of what password on a Mac the login window shakes nationally known computer user group? or when you wait you see a spinning color A the Hartford User Group Exchange -- wheel, who came up with those features? HUGE. and the original dues were $10. 3 This former pre-med student began build- 2 Where was the first meeting held? ing computers in his dorm room. Can you A Computer City near Sears in West Hart- name him and his company? ford. 4 Can you name this 2 time winner of the 3 Who was the first President? Americas Cup and the tech company he A Richard Johnston started? 4 Who was the guest speaker at the tenth 5 This individual worked on the first 3 ver- anniversary meeting of that group? sions of Windows, then went on to start Valve A Guy Kawasaki and Steam. Can you name him? 5 Before there was a monthly quiz the PULP had another long running column. What was Quiz by it called? A Vaporware written by Murphy Sewall. The Stuart Rabinowitz earliest version I have is 10/84 running through 5/93. 6 What was the first computer user group? (No it was not Homebrew) A It was called SHARE and was formed by 17 IBM 701 users (actually that was all of them) in August of 1955 Page 3 THE PULP! DECEMBER 2016 Bookmarks, Top Sites, and More: Finding Your Way Back mon this hierarchical list of bookmarks and folders from in Safari the Bookmarks menu or display it in Safari’s sidebar. by Michael E. Cohen: <[email protected]>, @lymond <http://tidbits.com/resources/2016-08/safari-bookmarks-m article link: <http://tidbits.com/e/16711> enu-and-sidebar.png> 2 comments There are several ways to add bookmarks in Safari. The When Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web 25 most traditional is by choosing Bookmarks > Add Book- years ago this month, the complete list of available Web mark (Command-D), which presents a dialog with which sites could have fit on a single sheet of paper. Today, no you can name and store the bookmark. The Bookmarks one even knows the exact number of Web sites on the menu also contains an additional command for making Internet, but estimates place the number at roughly 1 bil- bookmarks from the currently open tabs. lion, and the number of individual Web pages is at least 10 times larger. Heck, a sheet of paper probably wouldn’t <http://tidbits.com/resources/2016-08/safari-add-bookmar even hold all the Web sites many of us visit in a single day. k-dialog.png> But if you’re like many people, you head back to the many of the same pages, day after day, to see what’s new. However, you can also use a menu hidden behind the + button at the left of the Smart Search field: click and hold <http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+many+websi the + until the menu appears, and then you can add the tes+are+there+in+the+world> current page to Top Sites, Favorites, or anywhere in your collection of bookmarks. (A single quick click on that + Back in 2003, when Apple introduced Safari, the most button adds the page to your Reading List — more on popular way of keeping track of Web pages you wanted to that in a moment.) be able to revisit was _bookmarks_, a list of such pages you created in your browser. Apple even touted the just- <http://tidbits.com/resources/2016-08/safari-add-page-sma born Safari’s capability to import bookmarks from the two rt-search-field.png> most popular Web browsers of the time, Microsoft Inter- net Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Since then, subse- Safari provides a bookmark editor accessible from quent releases of Safari have added ever more ways for you Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks (Command-Option-B) so to find your way back to Web pages that you use regularly. you can rearrange, rename, and search your list of book- Today, in El Capitan’s Safari 9, the number and variety of marks. With it, if you are assiduous, you can create a pow- Web page tracking features have begun to tax the memory erful, personalized, and comprehensive set of bookmarks of the typical user. (Sierra’s Safari 10 doesn’t change any of to guide you through your Web perambulations. these options significantly.) <http://tidbits.com/resources/2016-08/safari-edit-bookmar Let’s take a quick look at Safari’s page tracking features ks.png> so you can get a better idea of what each one is, how it works, and which might work best for your needs. They (Not me, though: I have bookmarks and folders that include Bookmarks, Top Sites, Favorites, Reading List, have accreted over more than a decade, so my bookmarks and Pinned Tabs. Plus, Safari includes several automatic look more like the warehouse shown at the end of “Raid- ways to help you get to a particular page: History, which ers of the Lost Ark” — only not as well organized. I sus- tracks pages you’ve visited, and Shared Links and Feeds, pect many others share my organizational predicament.) which display possibly interesting pages acquired from outside sources. <http://tidbits.com/resources/2016-08/Government_Ware house.jpg> **Bookmarks** -- The concept of using bookmarks for recording a Web page’s location dates back to the first few **Top Sites** -- Apple introduced the Top Sites feature to years of the Web’s existence.