SSMUG NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2016 South Suburban Macintosh User Group Walter Palmer, Editor Meetings: 7:00 Second Tuesday of each month, Flossmoor Station Pub. Special Announcement Interest Groups meet at the Grand Prairie Public Library TBA Page !1 of !7 future so when China stumbles, Apple Macstock stumbles with it. There will be a Macintosh convention on The Super Bowl was held in San July 16 and 17 in Woodstock, IL. Instead Francisco. Silicon Valley is part of the of trying re-typer the announcement, I region and many IT companies, Apple have included a screen cap it. If you included, are doing the municipal booster cannot read it, the URL of the thing. Apple is not asking for a mention announcement the I saw is from anyone and is not letting its “www.appleusergroupresources.com”. trademark be used. The way Apple tells It is not a bargain, but they do seem to it, they should make the NFL pay them. give quite a bit for the money. Hardware ****************************************** The big news here it the iPhone 7. It is predicted to be waterproof, but in order to This is going to be mostly tech news do this the 3.5mm earphone plug will because Apple has been very quiet. have to go because it needs a hole in the phone that water can use to enter the Security remains a hot issue. States, phone. There has been a lot of emphasis California among them, are starting to on Bluetooth earphones, but what about pass laws banning devices that the the remote microphone that dangles from manufacturer cannot unlock. Apples’ earbuds? Since I first wrote this it is becoming more ‘certain’ that the When I talk to people about this they say iPhone 7 will not have a place to plug a that they have nothing to hide and that hearing device - headphones, earbuds, their lives would bore “snoopers”. The etc, into. It would use Bluetooth instead. requirement that police get search warrants was not put in the Constitution Also rumored are flush fitting cameras to use up a glut of ink. lenses - yes, lenses. The second is rumored to be for close ups. Many of us graduated from college between 1965 and 1975. Please There are rumors about an iPad three, remember what happened to even but they are very non-specific. Sales of “insignificant” people who said something the iPad are very low - with the MacBook that irritated the powers that be. We have Airs on one side and larger telephones on seen what can happen when police feel the other the iPad is being squeezed out. that they operate under no restraints. Your editor is thinking that his new phone Also, if someone decides they don’t like will be a “+” model. There are few iPad you they can twist something innocent specific apps and if text is large enough into something entirely different. to read, that should do it. I use my iPad much more than my phone, but Financial consolidation seems to be in order. Oh, Apple Stock has fallen below $100 per one more thing the new iPad is rumored share for the first time in many years. Tim to have four speakers for stereo. Cook keeps saying that China is Apple’s Page !2 of !7 New screen protector service Software (Predictions) In partnership with Belkin, Apple is Mac OSX 10.11.3 and iOS 9.3 are launching a service at Apple Stores supposed to be big updates with whereby screen protectors can be NightShift coming to both - science has installed on iPhones. They are using a discovered that blue light frequencies just gadget that takes the fuss out of the before bedtime upsets our circadian process. Apple Stores did this one time, rhythm and causes sleeplessness. but stopped because doing it by hand NighShift will dim the blue frequencies was such a horrible process it was using based on local time, so as not to keep too much Genius time. Now, using people awake late at night. This is Belikn’s gadget, this has been much available right now in an app for the Mac improved. called Flux, which does what night shift will do. There was an iOS version of flux, Apple is also laughing a new upgrade but it has been removed from the Apple program that will include damaged Store - no doubt because Apple will soon iPhones, as a larger discount, of course. be coming out with its own version. (You will know when f.lux thinks that it is “Streaming” Apple TV bedtime because the screen turns orange.) Remember when all TV was streaming? In some backward households it still is. iOS 9.3 will also have upgraded security Anyway it may be coming to the Apple TV focusing on adding optional passwords to through the side door - “Channels, an app apps such as Notes. There will also be for watching live television through the improved Podcast and Health apps. new Apple TV, has received a substantial update with timeshifting support. iOS 9.3 will also have several school- The app works in conjunction with centric and CarPlay upgrades. SiliconDust HDHomeRun networked TV tuners. Users plug an antenna into the (Big) Hardware tuner, then connect the tuner to a Wi-Fi Apple has acquired domain names router. This setup allows for streaming having to do with Apple Car, Auto, etc. live channels to other devices around the Since the last newsletter it has been house, using companion apps such as mentioned that Apple is thinking in terms Channels for Apple TV. “ (Jared Newman, of an SUV. Macworld) Elon Musk has begun a war of words The iPhone 6s and 6s+ do not update the over the “Titan”. He says that Apple is not battery charge level indicator properly. A going to drop a project for which it has fix is being sought. hired 1,000 engineers, according to him far to many from Tesla. He says he is not Rumor has it that Apple will not introduce worried - ‘If they can’t cut it at Tesla, a free, smaller, iPhone 6 this time around. Apple can have s many as they want.’ Of Instead, it will introduce a iPhone 5CS, course if I was one of the engineers in which is a 4 inch phone with some extra question, that remark would inspire me to features. do my very best work. He said later that Page !3 of !7 he was sure that the car would be a good 14 111111 (Up 1) one. Poor guy - getting completion from 15 1qaz2wsx (New) Apple in Cars and Jeff Bezos in space. 16 dragon (Down 7) 17 master (Up 2) Volkswagon has recently entered the self- 18 monkey (Down 6) driving car ‘race’. They predict that theirs 19 letmein (Down 6) will be on the market by 2030. I predict 20 login (New) that if that happens they will have missed 21 princess (New) the boat. Google is talking about modular 22 qwertyuiop (New) cars, which is close to what I foresee. You 23 solo (New) can do that with electrics. 24 passw0rd (New) 25 starwars (New) Apple’s car may have hit a snag - the head of the project has left the company, Save yourself there is a hiring freeze in Project Titan, There’s no doubt about it, managing and Johnny Ive is reported to be less passwords is a pain, but they're the best than happy with something related to the security measure available right now. project. Tech companies are working to change that, but at the moment there’s no getting around the need for good, strong passwords. Security The best thing to do is create long, These are the 25 worst passwords of random passwords that are hard to 2015 guess. Your passwords should use a Some people will never learn. combination of letters (including different cases), numbers, and symbols if Ian Paul | @ianpaul possible. Also make sure you use a Contributor, PCWorld unique password for every major account • Jan 19, 2016 7:53 AM you have including banking, email, Here’s Splashdata's complete list of the Paypal, social networks, and any website 25 worst passwords for 2015, with their that has your credit card data, such as ranking from 2014 in brackets: Amazon. 1 123456 (Unchanged) 2 password (Unchanged) If you have trouble remembering those 3 12345678 (Up 1) new passwords then use a password 4 qwerty (Up 1) manager such as KeePass, LastPass, 5 12345 (Down 2) Dashlane, or SplashID. 6 123456789 (Unchanged) 7 football (Up 3) You should also use multi-factor 8 1234 (Down 1) authentication whenever it’s offered to 9 1234567 (Up 2) keep your accounts extra safe. That way 10 baseball (Down 2) if you ever lose control of your password 11 welcome (New) malicious hackers won’t be able to break 12 1234567890 (New) into your account without the numeric 13 abc123 (Up 1) code generated on your smartphone. Page !4 of !7 Most major services support multi-factor shattered glass authentication, including Amazon, pain Facebook, Gmail, Microsoft, and Twitter. the ocean Keeping your accounts secure isn’t space simple, but if you stick to the basics it’s silence not that hard—and sticking to best practices will save you from headaches should your account credentials end up in BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU TRY THIS!! the hands of hackers. I tried this and Siri did not seem to know what I was talking about. She went to a Using a tool like 1Password is a great Web site called FX and started playing idea, but most if not all of us have been sounds.