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Allowing the summary of a previous meeting to be detailed so that people who didn’t attend can catch up
Miss our July Meeting Presentation on Apple Travel Tips? Click here and review our meeting presentation.
Miss our June Meeting? Click here to check out our meeting presentation.
We also discussed some of the upcoming features of iCloud in the iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite upgrades coming this Fall.
http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/
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You can find the May Meeting Presentation “3-2-1 Backup” here
A recap of online backup services can be found here.
Here is our meeting recap for April.
Here is the iCloud weblink to our keynote presentation on Digital Media and your Apple Devices.
The Heartbleed subject was discussed. Here are two sites that let you test a website to see if it is vulnerable and a site that list an ongoing list of websites that you access that recommend changing your passwords.
Test a website for heart bleed vulnerability- Agilebits (1Password creator)
Running list of sites exposed to this vulnerability- Mashable
Did you miss our March Meeting? Rick Lantz did a great presentation on overall safety, privacy, and security in regard to the internet and your Mac. Now thanks to the great features of iCloud, you can view the meeting Keynote presentation by clicking HERE.
October 2 Special Meeting:
Joe Kissel presented on Passwords and Privacy.
Some Links that were shared:
Password Strength Test- zxcvbn password strength test
Internet Tracker blocker- Ghostery
Online Private web surfing via a VPN- WiTopia
Here are some of the web links we discussed during our August Meeting.
Online Learning:
creativelive.com – webinars
lynda.com
coursera.com
kahnacademy.com
http://kelbytraining.com
edX
Cool Mac Tools:
Airsquirrels– iOS AirPlay screen Sharing to and from your Mac
Rogue Amoeba– Audio tools for your Mac. Audio Capture and edit software
eCamm Networks– PhoneView: Access to your iOS device data, texts, voicemails, and data.
Here are some links in regard to our topic on dicatation and the your Apple Products:
–What’s New in Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac
-Dragon Dictate 3- How To Demos
Great turn out and a free form open discussion lead by rick on IOS5 and iCloud. Tips, tricks and questions answered. Too many to go into here. But I hope everyone learned something. I certainly did !
If there are specific questions bubbling up – please pint email to john@mauimac.org – and we will answer them for you through the blog posts.
The question of whether people are using QR codes in their business was raised.
There was debate on what they were and how they are being used.
My personal view (stated on the evening) is that their current application is gimmicky rather than real – and arguably ahead of being ‘ready for prime time’.
I have seen them used on business cards for easy sharing of contact information. Others have observed them in newspapers like Maui Time – but real returns as yet unknown.
I did share this URL on the evening as a truly CREATIVE application of using QR codes, but this is not to be taken as a business case – but does serve to demonstrate that such technology like this can be used in VERY interesting ways – and like so much is really limited by the imagination of the application of the use – rather than the technology.
For raw technology, this article popped into my sphere of interest just this morning. Enjoy.
To Quote Sean Cummings:
People will not adopt a technical solution that serves to replace a manual task, if that solution is less efficient than the manual task it replaces. How could we think that QR codes for marketing would work any better than CueCat? Did we not learn the first time?
To Quote John Gruber:
QR codes are built for machines, not humans.