VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JANUARY 2015 CONTENTS FOUNDED MAY 1989 Meeting…………………………………………....1 MEETINGS - SECOND Mac Tips #54……………………………..….…...1 SATURDAY OF THE MONTH MLMUG And Newsletter Info.…..……….……2-3 WWW.MLMUG.ORG BookMarks: Control Your Mac With………….4-5 Your Voice 2015 Speaker Roster………………………….…5 Speech Recognition & Yosemite December Meeting Minutes……………..……6-7 Smart TVS…………………………………..…8-10 Connect Your IPad To Your TV…………….11-12 iTUNES UNIVERSITY Mac Basics: Dictation………………………13-15 Members On New Years Eve…………………..15 Our main presenter at Saturday’s meeting will be our own Ben Romneywho will tell us about Dragon Dictate 4.0 – The Best……………16-17 iTune University, a tool for life long learning—an educational resource anytime/anywhere on Speech Recognition App your compute, tablet or smartphone and it’s all free. Learn how to utilize this rich resource Hello, Computer: Speak Your Text……..…18-20 for learning. iTunes U has more than 800,000 free courses, lectures, videos, films, and other Review Dragon Dictate For Mac 4.0……..21-22 resources from more than 1,000 universities around the world. There are featured sections How I Control My iMac With.………………22-23 for courses about Shakespeare, ethics, playwriting, American history, algorithms, foreign Speech Recognition languages, and animal physiology. Pretty much anything you’d find in a college course Members In Photobooth……………………….23 catalog shows up on iTunes U. Solving A Yosemite Post-Install…………..24-25 Ben Romney is an attorney practicing Elder Family and Estates Law. Ben began his career Disaster in the technology field as a systems engineer with a time-share company providing services 13 Tips to Optimize Your Mac…………..26-27 to the U.S., Congress and Federal Agencies. After Yosemite Installation He later worked as a Systems Integration Manager managing a team for a Washington DC software firm providing U.S. 5 Useful Tools For YouTube……………….28-30 Attorney’s offices throughout the country with customized case tracking software and training. As a systems analyst for Choosing The Right Airport……………..…30-31 NCR he performed systems needs analysis and designed customer inventory management software for manufacturing Airdrop And Maildrop Make Sharing Easy…..31 companies in the Northeast. Ben also served as the district manager for the WordPerfect Mid-Atlantic region and later Using iMessage A Step-By-Step Guide….32-33 Director of the Novell Philadelphia office. Scan To Evernote (On A Mac)………………..33-34 Ben also participates as a co-leader of several local Apple User Groups and is Chair of MLMUG’s OS SIG. Back Up Using Disk Utility……………………34-36 Understanding Compressed Memory……….36-37 Bonus: MLMUG website update. MLMUG Webmaster Deivy Petrescu will show us the updated MLMUG website which The iPad Air 2 Vs The iPhone 6 Plus…..…38-39 will be going live soon. AI:Fifteen Minutes Of Fame……………………40 MLMUG Photo Of The Month…………………41 MAC TIPS #54 - JANUARY 2015 JANUARY LOCATION Good Samaritan Church, 212 West Lancaster SCREENSHOTS TO THE CLIPBOARD. if you add Control to your usual commands for capturing screenshots Ave, Paoli, PA 19301. Go to www.mlmug.org/ (Command-Shift-3 and 4), the copy will go direct to the clipboard rather than to the desktop. You can paste the GoodSam.html for location map & directions. screenshot without any additional steps. MB !1 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JANUARY 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 Beginners - 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 1 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JANUARY 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 [email protected] Graphics Editor [email protected] due. Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & Sally Bazrod Treasurer, Membership & Facilities 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 barton@bee,net [email protected] haven’t joined, consider these benefits of Contributors & Authors Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & membership: Alvin Alexander Secretary & Newsletter Editor Apple User Group Ambassador Apple Inc. Mark Bazrod Michael Inskeep [email protected] • Monthly meetings, where you can Mark Bazrod [email protected] learn, share, and meet everyone from Member-at-Large & Badges Chuck Bittner Newsletter Graphics Editor Coordinator working Mac professionals to new Kathy Garges Sally Bazrod Jo Cobin Mac users from all backgrounds. George J Harris [email protected] [email protected] Jordan Kahn OS SIG Chair • Monthly newsletter, which is full of Multimedia SIG Co-Chair & Ted Landau Ben Romney interesting Mac news, tips, and John Martellaro Educational Liaison Linda McNeil [email protected] information. Don Mayer Social Secretary Daniel Nations [email protected] • Useful free items at the monthly Librarian Gail Montgomery Raffles. Auctions at much less than Tom Nelson [email protected] Mark O’Neill Helge Gunther retail prices. Alex Pachikov [email protected] Webmaster • Web Site with 12 months of Deivy Petrescu David Pogue [email protected] MLMUG newsletters, meeting John R. 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