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VOLUME 31, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2020 FOUNDED MAY 1989 MEETINGS - SECOND SOME WEBSITES SATURDAY OF THE MONTH The 10 Best Wireless Routers of 2019. A tough technical subject, but this article should help. bit.ly/30Op3v4. FOCUS - SOFTWARE & iPHONE What You Need to Know About 5G in 2020. It’s coming, but slowly - and there are 2 SELF-DRIVING CARS varieties. nyti.ms/2uwrgyW. Our main speaker will be me (Mark Bazrod). The topic will be self-driving cars. How to Use Your iPhone as a The presentation will answer a number of questions, such as - Why do we need Pedometer. No need to buy an self driving cars? What is a self driving car? What are the levels of self driving expensive fitness tracker when cars? What is their history? Who's working on self-driving cars? What about the iPhone tracks your steps for Tesla cars? What progress are auto makers making? How and where are self free. bit.ly/36lrhDn. driving cars being tested? What accidents have they been involved in? What are How to free up iCloud storage the technological obstacles to their widespread use? What are the other space. This article gives you obstacles? What are their advantages and disadvantages? And what are the tips to try to stay within the free ethical issues? 5GB given by Apple. However, Mark is currently MLMUG Secretary and has been Newsletter Editor since 2004. He also has been going to 50GB costs only $1 President and Treasurer and a Board member. He has many times been a presenter to both per month. bit.ly/2GnaNA0. MLMUG and Macs@PACS, and has written more than 175 monthly columns for our Newsletter. Best antivirus for Mac: Mark bought his first Apple computer in 1978 and currently uses a 2014 27" iMac as his main P r o t e c t y o u r s e l f f r o m computer (bought from McMobile so he could move to Mojave and now Catalina), but finds he malicious software. No matter uses his iPad almost as often. He has been involved in leasing computers since 1968 and has how you feel about the need for been active in the leasing industry associations. His company was one of the first to lease Mac antivirus software, it’s computer software back in 1992. He is sort of retired, but is busier than ever. w o r t h r e a d i n g G l e n n Fleishman’s article. bit.ly/ FEBRUARY LOCATION 2rN91ob. WE WILL MEET AT LUDINGTON LIBRARY IN BRYN MAWR. IT’S AT THE CORNER OF LANCASTER AND BRYN MAWR AVENUES, NEAR THE BRYN MAWR TRAIN STATION. GO TO MLMUG.ORG FOR MAPS. 1 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2020 CONTENTS Newsletter Editor Some Websites and Program Info 1 MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 Mark Bazrod Bookmarks: Cell Phone Reception 5-6 Graphics Editor Contributors and Authors January 2020 Meeting Minutes 7-8 Sally Bazrod Apple Speaker Roster 2020 8 Copy Editor Mark Bazrod 30 Free macOS Apps Every Mac User 9-17 Deane Lappin Brian X. Chen Should Have MLMUG Journal Some Speaker Roster Details 17 Sam Costello Masthead How To Use Apple Maps Street View 18-19 Electronic Frontier Designed by Dale Fletcher The 7 Best Mac Productivity Apps of 2019 20-23 Foundation Kathy Garges Based on prior designs by iPhone Owners, Here's 20 Tips To Make You Fall 23-26 Marc Robinson, Steve More In Love With Your Smartphone Patrick Shawn Hearn Evans & Bobby Foster How To Block a Number on iPhone 27 Rob LeFebvre M L M U G J o u r n a l i s Use Lost Mode in Find My iPhone on iCloud.com 28-29 OSX Daily published monthly by the Choosing the Best Smartphone Plan for You 30-32 Marc Saltzman Main Line Macintosh Users The 15 Best iPhone Hacks & Tips for 2020 33-36 Michael Simon Group and is available online. It is produced using How To Use AirPods as Hearing Aids 37-38 Lauren Stephen A p p l e P a g e s w i t h a How to Export Health Data from iPhone 38-39 Helvetica Neue font (Same 13 Tips To Extend The Lifespan Of Your Phone Battery 39-43 as Yosemite). How to: Delete Your Data Securely on macOS 44-46 AI and Humans: Servants Entrance 47-48 2 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2020 President, Program Director & Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Membership Information Vendor Liaison Nicholas Iacona Membership dues are $30 for individuals and $40 for Maria O. Arguello [email protected] [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- Vice President & Multimedia SIG Webmaster mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Co-Chair Bob Barton Larry Campbell [email protected] If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve [email protected] Newsletter Graphics Editor been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Treasurer, Membership & Sally Bazrod consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Facilities Coordinator Elliott Cobin [email protected] • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, [email protected] OS/iOS SIG Chair and meet everyone from working Mac professionals to new Mac users from all Secretary & Newsletter Editor Adam Rice Mark Bazrod [email protected] backgrounds. [email protected] Picnic Coordinator • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Educational Liaison Tony DiPiano Mac news, tips, and information. Linda McNeil [email protected] • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] Raffle Chair • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Member-at-Large, Newsletter Susan Czarnecki Group members. Copy Editor & Apple User Group [email protected] Ambassador • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Deane Lappin Social Secretary newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] Gail Montgomery directory, directions to our meetings, and much [email protected] more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical questions or comments to each other and the experts within the group. • 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 3 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2020 Typical Meeting Agenda MLMUG Email list 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. The Main Line Macintosh Users Group has its own email list, hosted at Groups.io. Compose 9:05 - 10:15: Q&A Panel - 3 or 4 expert your letter and email it to members will answer your questions [email protected] and your about anything relating to your Mac, message will be sent to everyone iPad, iPhone, iWatch, and any on the mailing list. Contact Bob attached peripherals. Barton ([email protected]) if you New Users SIG are a member and you are not on You don’t have to wait a whole Questions can relate to the most basic the list. items, equipment issues, Apple’s month to get answers to your basic o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m s , a n d a l l Please observe good email Mac questions! Get together with applications, including applications for etiquette. If your message is other members on the fourth photo, video, audio, and print media. humor or not Apple-related (off- Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each topic), please include "Humor" or regular meeting) for the Startup Answers are amazingly helpful and "OT" in the subject line. The Folder Lite. often in depth, exploring the subject Groups.io Terms of Service are at Many new users have said that they beyond the question. groups.io/static/tos. Look for the section on "Conditions of Use" can learn much more from face-to- face meetings than they do from 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. The MLMUG list may be used to manuals or other sources. That’s post Apple-related items for sale, what this meeting is all about. Go but any solicitation of members to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a through the list is forbidden details. member or guest) without the written consent of a MLMUG officer. Violation of the 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. Groups.io terms of service or Come join some fellow MLMUG members good email etiquette may result for lunch after the meeting at a nearby in removal from the list. restaurant. 4 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2020 Bookmarks By Mark Bazrod Cell Phone Reception Your Cell Phone Problem You know how it is when your cell phone reception sucks. You have the latest iPhone or Samsung model. You have subscribed to a top cellular service provider. And yet, the problems are many – dropped calls, missed calls, poor voice quality, poor connectivity, slow and unreliable internet, text messages and emails that don’t go through. So what do you do? SureCall Fusion4Home Cell Phone Signal Booster -$298 What's Causing Your Poor Signal? 2. Somewhat useful fixes. Cell phone signals are radio waves that span great distances, Identify the closest cell tower to you. The closeness and but can be interrupted by almost anything: position of the tower is the primary reason for reception problems.