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1502 NL Febuary 2.Pages VOLUME 26, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2015 CONTENTS Meeting…………………………………………....1 FOUNDED MAY 1989 Mac Tips #55……………………………..….…...1 MLMUG And Newsletter Info.…..……….……2-3 MEETINGS - SECOND Bookmarks: The Decreasing Quality Of….…4-5 SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Apple Software…… WWW.MLMUG.ORG Apple Has Lost The Functional High Ground…6 What It’s Like To Be Way Too Popular……….6-7 Apple Serious Problem With Software Quality.8 Software & Services Apple Needs To Fix….9-11 APPLE SOFTWARE QUALITY & YOSEMITE Perception Of Apple's Software Getting…11-12 Worse Revisiting The Alleged Decline……….……13-14 LIGHTROOM In Apple Software Quality A Member’s Locket……………………….…….14 Our main presenter at Saturday’s meeting will be long-time member, Bill Perceived Decline In Apple’s Software.…..15-17 Achuff. Bill is extremely proficient with photo editing applications—some of Quality which you've probably never heard of nor will you have occasion to use, Apple Rolls Out OS X 10.10.2 Update………..17 but Bill spends roughly 80-90 percent of his time cataloging, editing, and January Meeting Minutes…………….….…18-19 posting his photos from Adobe Lightroom. With Apple's decision to cease 7 Tips For Getting Most Of Yosemite……..20-22 development of Aperture—a program similar to Lightroom in many ways, Muting Messages Conversations………………23 and with many Mac users finding iPhoto a bit too lightweight for their Fixing Bluetooth Discovery Problems………..…..24 needs and not cross-platform, along with Adobe's decision to make Library & New Books…………………….……..24 Lightroom available along with a subscription to Adobe's CC, Lightroom has become very popular. Bill will give us an overview of Lightroom's Hide The Update From The App Store.…..25-26 capabilities and then show us the basics of two program modules—Library 4 Finder Tips for Yosemite…………….……26-27 and Develop, the only two which most of us will have occasion to use. Top 10 Troubleshooting Tips for……….…..28-29 Covering just those two modules will fill the time allotted. Mac Startup Problems Members in the Snow…………………….….…29 Bill is an honorary member of dozens of user groups, including MLMUG. At its peak, User Group Alliance, which Bill founded in 1990, had membership exceeding 1,800 user groups, including the 6 Things About Apple's Best Quarter…….30-32 largest and the smallest. Bill occasionally wrote for several Mac magazines, including Digital Photographer, Mac Today, Review: How to google……………….….…33-34 Mac Design, Layers, and Photoshop User. Avoid Hefty Phone Fees…………..……………35 Avoiding Botnets With A Mac…………….……36 iPad Custom Keyboards……………….…..36-37 2015 Speaker Roster……………………………37 MAC TIPS #55 - FEBUARY 2015 Getting The Most Out Of Apple iOS 8…….38-39 Can’t Remember Apple ID Or Password……..40 Look Inside Apple’s Spaceship Headquarters With 24 All-New Renderings. Wired.com has AI: Deep Listening…………………………..41-42 posted 24 pictures of Apple’s proposed new headquarters — a 2.8-million-square-foot MLMUG Photo Of The Month…………….……43 spaceship parked in a verdant man-made forest in the northeast corner of Cupertino. From FEBUARY LOCATION Cupertino’s municipal archives. Magnificent. tinyurl.com/pdyptdc. MB Good Samaritan Church, 212 West Lancaster Ave, Paoli, PA 19301. Go to www.mlmug.org/ GoodSam.html for location map & directions. !1 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2015 Typical Meeting Agenda Second Saturday of each month MLMUG Email list See www.mlmug.org for the meeting’s topic. The Main Line Macintosh Users Group has its own email list. Compose your letter and New Users SIG 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. email it to [email protected] and You don’t have to wait a whole month to get Welcome extended to new visitors. your message will be sent to everyone on answers to your basic Mac questions! Get the mailing list. Posting to this list is together with other members on the fourth 9:05 - 10:05: Three Concurrent Special Interest restricted to MLMUG members. Contact Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each regular Groups (SIGs) convene in separate Bob Barton if you are a member and you are meeting) for the Startup Folder Lite. rooms. The three current SIGs are: not on the list. Many new users have said that they can Newer Users- We cover the most basic Please observe rules of etiquette. See the learn much more from face-to-face meetings questions you may have about your Yahoo Groups Terms of Service. The than they do from manuals or other sources. Mac/iDevices and how to use them. MLMUG list may be used to post Apple/ That’s what this meeting is all about. Go to Macintosh-related items for sale, but any www.mlmug.org/sfl.html for details. Multimedia - We discuss using your solicitation of members through the list is Mac/iDevices and applications for forbidden without the written consent of a Macintosh Programming SIG/ photo, video, audio, and print media. MLMUG officer. The list is hosted at Yahoo Philly Mac Programming Group Groups. The objective of this group is to help OS - We go beyond basics to discuss members become more familiar with the Apple’s current operating systems, using 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 your Macs and iDevices, and various programming, i.e., the elements of the applications. We also have Q&A. LOCATION Macintosh GUI, user interaction, file system, Good Samaritan Church, 212 West etc., and the main Mac programming tools: 10:05 - 10:30: Continuation of Q&A for all attendees. Lancaster Ave, Paoli, PA 19301, about 3 AppleScript, Java, C, and Objective C. blocks west of Paoli train station. Go to The Philly Mac Programming SIG meets at 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a member or www.mlmug.org/GoodSam.html for 10:30 AM on the first Saturday of each guest) location map & detailed directions. month, but usually skips January and July. Contact John Ashmead or Deivy Petrescu, 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. c o - c h a i r s , f o r v e n u e i n f o r m a t i o n . www.phillymacprog.org. The next meeting Come join some fellow MLMUG members will probably be at Ludington Library in Bryn for lunch after the meeting at a nearby Mawr. restaurant. !2 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 2 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 2015 President, Program Director & List Mom & Newsletter Copy Membership Information Vendor Liaison Editor Membership dues are $25 for individuals Maria O. Arguello Deane Lappin and $35 for families. Memberships are [email protected] [email protected] based on your anniversary date, which is Newsletter Editor Vice President & Promotion Multimedia SIG Co-Chair the month you joined. You will be e-mailed Mark Bazrod Director Dale Fletcher reminders when your membership fee is Susan Czarnecki Graphics Editor [email protected] [email protected] due. Sally Bazrod Treasurer, Membership & Facilities Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & Deputy Webmaster If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if Copy Editor Coordinator Bob Barton you’ve been visiting for some time, but Deane Lappin Elliott Cobin [email protected] barton@bee,net haven’t joined, consider these BENEFITS Contributors & Authors Secretary & Newsletter Editor Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & OF MEMBERSHIP: Apple Video Tutorials Mark Bazrod Apple User Group Ambassador Marco Arment [email protected] Michael Inskeep • Monthly meetings, where you can Mark Bazrod Member-at-Large & Badges [email protected] learn, share, and meet everyone from J. D. Biersdorfer Coordinator Newsletter Graphics Editor working Mac professionals to new Kit Eaton Jo Cobin Sally Bazrod Mac users from all backgrounds. [email protected] [email protected] Glenn Fleishman • Monthly newsletter, which is full of Multimedia SIG Co-Chair & OS SIG Chair Kathy Garges Educational Liaison interesting Mac news, tips, and Jeff Gamet Linda McNeil Ben Romney information. Melissa Holt [email protected] [email protected] Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Social Secretary • Useful free items at the monthly Librarian Raffles. Discounts from Third Party. Deane Lappin Helge Gunther Gail Montgomery Riccardo Mori [email protected] [email protected] • Web Site with 12 months of Tom Nelson Webmaster MLMUG newsletters, meeting Susie Ochs Deivy Petrescu information, a member directory, OSX Daily [email protected] directions to our meetings, and Gene Steinberg much more! Our web site is Kaitlyn Wells www.mlmug.org. Molly Wood • MLMUG Mailing List, to post MLMUG Journal Masthead technical questions or comments to Designed by Dale Fletcher each other and the experts within Based on prior designs by Marc the group. Robinson, Steve Evans & Bobby Foster Permission is granted to nonprofit groups and other Macintosh User Groups to • Reviewers keep items reviewed. reproduce items in this newsletter. Please include the author’s or artist’s name, the Are you ready to join? Please make a MLMUG Journal is published MLMUG Journal title, and our copyright notice. A copy should also be mailed to: monthly by the Main Line Macintosh Editor, MLMUG Journal, P.O. Box 1374, Southeastern, PA 19399 or emailed to check payable to MLMUG and bring it to Users Group and is available online. It [email protected]. a monthly meeting or mail it to: is produced using Apple Pages, with © 2014 Journal content not written by members is included courtesy of the sources or a Helvetica Neue font (Same as the fair use doctrine. 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