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St. Augustine Mac Users Group
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Meeting Information:Date: Nov. 19th - 6:30 PMiPad and iPhone Special Interest Group Meets at 5:30The Center in the Record Building
Election of Officers for 2016
The SAMUG Board nominates:President - Sam Schlegel
Vice President - Fred HathornTreas/Memb - Tina Van Ghent
Secretary - Karen Lewis
Directors - 2016-2017 Kai Long
2016-2017 Judy Frick2016-2017 Linda Oakley
All additional nominations will be taken from the floor!
PROGRAMFRE D H AT H OR N PRESENTS “PHOTOS”WITH YOSEMITE CAME PHOTOS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES? WHAT’S NEW? WHAT’S A HOLDOVER FROM T H E P R E V I O U S iPHOTO? COME OUT T O T H E N E X T M E E T I N G A N D YOU’LL HAVE THE ANSWERS.
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Apple Sauce - The Mac User Group Newsletter - Charles Reich - [email protected] - Dana Birch | [email protected]
OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Update for Mac Available with Bug FixesNews from
Apple has released the final version of OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 to Mac users. The update includes a variety of important bug fixes, including resolutions to issues found with the original El Capitan installer, compatibility with Microsoft Office 2016, resolutions to various Mail issues, and the inclusion of over 150 new Emoji character icons, like a burrito, a taco, a middle finger gesture, and a unicorn head.Mac users can go to the Apple menu and choose App Store. Under the Updates tab, locate “OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 Update” and choose to installRelease notes for OS X 10.11.1The brief release notes accompanying the first update to El Capitan are as follows: This update:– Improves installer reliability when upgrading to OS X El Capitan.– Improves compatibility with Microsoft Office 2016.– Fixes an issue where outgoing server information may be missing from Mail.– Resolves an issue that prevented display of messages and mailboxes in Mail.– Resolves an issue that prevents certain Audio Unit plug-ins from functioning properly.– Improves VoiceOver reliability.– Adds over 150 new emoji characters with full Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 support, which are also in the latest iOS and WatchOS updates:– Resolves an issue that caused JPEG images to appear as a gray or green box in Preview.Here are rare issues that may occur:• OS X 10.11.1 installed, but still offers the version as available in Updates – just ignore it, you can verify that OS X 10.11.1 has successfully updated by going to About This Mac• The Mac reboots after updating, but the update seems stuck at 70%, 80% or 100% – if you see this, just let it sit, it can take a while to complete.• The Mac freezes on boot, or refuses to boot – boot into Recovery Mode, you may need to install OS X again or restore from a backup.
What is a Hashtag?A hashtag is a label for content. It helps others who are interested in a certain topic, quickly find content on that same topic.
A hashtag looks something like this: #StanleyCup and #StAugustineNightsofLights. The rules are no punctuation, no spaces.
Hashtags are used mostly on social media sites. They rocketed to fame on Twitter. But now you can use hashtags on other social platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Google+.Anyone sharing content on a relevant topic can add the hashtag label to their message. Others searching for that topic, can search for that label to find other messages on that same social media platform.
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Written in Pages on a MAC Just in time for Christmas giving, this book by local author, Charles Lee Wilson, is the perfect gift for anyone on your Christmas list. It’s available locally at the Visitor’s Center, Castillo de San Marcos, Tom’s Seashells (on A1A), Fountain of Youth, LYMI Gifts, Anastasia Books and The Ximenex-Fatio House. In Ponte Vedra Beach at Village Arts Framing and also available on Amazon.com. It’s full of interesting facts and information. At the upcoming meeting ask me why I put this in the newsletter!!!
http://www.shadetreepress.com
CD’s, or Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, which is the reverse of how records work.
The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.
The first ever VCR, which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
The television took 13 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.The iPod took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
The Apple Lisa was released in June 1983 and was the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse.
The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was launched.
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Pages Version 5.6 update released October 15, 2015
New Features
• Multitask while editing using new Split View in El Capitan• Open Pages '08 and '06 documents• Shared Pages documents can now be previewed on iOS and Android browsers• Force click images and get haptic feedback as you edit using Force Touch trackpad• New Apple-designed templates: ePub, Kids Certificate, Classic Certificate, School Newsletter• Easily access recently used fonts in the Fonts menu• Enhanced support for OpenType font features like small caps, contextual fractions, alternative glyphs and more• View Collections, Moments. Favorites and Shared Albums from Photos in the Media Browser• Add reference lines to charts• Create table, chart and shape styles from an image• Add and review comments with VoiceOver• Track changes with VoiceOver• Edit chart data and chart elements with VoiceOver• Additional AppleScript options for PDF export• Additional AppleScript options for ePub export• Improved Word compatibility for charts, text overflows and non-rectangular masks• Improved Word export• Improved ePub export• Improved EndNote support
El Capitan Mail Sounds
Q: I just installed El Capitan and the first thing that I have noticed is that the normal sounds that apple mail puts out do not come out of the speakers. It works on sending but not on received mail. iTunes works fine but not the mail sounds. Any help would be appreciatedA: Lots of discussion on this topic in the web. Try this: System Preferences> Notifications > Uncheck all the boxes under Turn on Do Not Disturb in Notification Center. If this doesn’t work El Capitan update v10.11.2 will be available soon and should take care of the problem.
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Why am I getting spam from myself?
Q: I’m getting spam from myself, but I did not send it. How do I stop these emails from coming into my box? It’s usually for drugs or financial services that I don’t need or would never be interested in. How can they use my own email? I can’t block mail received as sent by me to me...I can’t block my own email.
A: Getting spam from yourself? We all do. I’ll start with the bad news: there’s almost nothing you can do. This is spam, pure and simple. Abusing your email address is only one of many techniques spammers use to throw their garbage into our mail boxes.What you’re seeing is called “spoofing” (or more correctly “From: spoofing”): sending email that appears as if it’s coming From: someone that it isn’t. Spammers hide where their emails originate, and do so very effectively. Spoofing is used in just about every bit of spam you see today. And it’s actually quite easy.The From: address is meaningless on spam – it tells you absolutely nothing. There’s nothing in email protocol that actually requires or checks that what appears on the From: line of a message actually has anything to do with the message’s true origin. To discover the true origin requires more detailed analysis of the email headers, and even then, the best you might be able to do is get the IP address of the computer sending the email. And the IP address is pretty much useless to you and me.The fact that you’re seeing your email address used in the From: field shouldn’t alarm you. It might be annoying, but there’s no need to worry about it. You’re already on spammer’s lists to get spam, and they’re using that same list, or variations of it, to select which addresses to use when spoofing. Currently, there is no effective way to stop them.When you see your own address spoofed in the From: field of spam, it’s happening for one of two reasons: 1. They’re trying to spam you, and know that it’s unlikely you’ll block email from yourself. In fact, as you’ve seen, it’s not even always possible – but I’d consider it a bad idea, even if you could do it. It would prevent certain types of legitimate email from reaching you.2. They’re trying to spam someone else, and what you’re seeing is a bounce message indicating that the original spam was rejected by its intended recipient. Since the email looks like it came From: you, you get the bounce message.
What to do about itFirst, realize there’s nothing you can do to prevent From: spoofing. Spammers can put whatever they like in the From: line. If they want to put your email address there, they can.Eventually, your email address is going to show up in the From: field of spam you had nothing to do with. In fact, as you’ve seen, it probably already has. The good news is that most automated spam filters realize the uselessness of the From: line, and probably won’t start blocking the email you send because some spammer happens to be using your address. Naturally, some people might not realize this, and they could try blocking you, but given that spammers spam everyone, the chances that it’s someone you know or care about is actually pretty slim.The only thing you can do is to keep doing whatever it is you do to control spam. Typically that means marking spam as Junk Mail and moving on with your life.
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How to Disable Shake to Find Cursor in OS X El Capitan for MacOne of the new feature additions to El Capitan OS X 10.11 and later is the ability to quickly locate a mouse cursor on screen by shaking the mouse or trackpad cursor around, which causes the cursor to enlarge briefly, making it very easy to find on single or multiple display setups.This is a useful feature, particularly if you find yourself losing the cursor from time to time, but some users may not appreciate the cursor growing anytime the mouse or trackpad is shaken around or moved quickly. Thus, some Mac users may wish to disable the shake to find cursor feature in OS X.You can disable or re-enable the shake pointer to local feature at any time. Obviouslyyou’ll need OS X 10.11 or later to have this option:1. Go to the Apple menu and choose “System Preferences”2. Select “Accessibility” and go to “Display”3. Uncheck the box next to “Shake mouse pointer to locate” (or check it if you wish toenable the cursor enlargement feature)4. Shake the mouse cursor to see the change, then leave System Preferences asusual
The adjustment is immediate, if you have the feature turned off, shaking the cursor around all you want does not make the pointer larger, it’s exactly the same as it was in all prior releases of OS X. Of course, if you turn it back on, a quick shake makes the cursor bigger again.If you have gone looking for this preference toggle before and not found it, it’s likely because the location of this setting is a little out of place, residing within Display, despite there being are multiple settings locations for Mouse and Trackpad. Perhaps that will change in a future update, but for now this is where the shake-to-locate cursor feature is found. While you’re in there, you can also choose to increase the size of the cursor without having to shake it, disable general transparency effects, or increase contrast if those appeal to you.Some like this feature and leave it enabled, but other users who are less than happy with the growing cursor, often with those who frequently draw or game on the Mac.
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New Apple Magic Keyboard reviewBy Susie Ochs ~ Executive Editor, Macworld
Apple’s Magic Keyboard is a nice Bluetooth keyboard that’s compact and pleasant to type on. My Magic Keyboard arrived fully charged, and it comes with a Lightning cable, which you’ll use to charge it from a USB port on your Mac. A switch
on the back turns the keyboard on or off—so you can easily power it down before you shove it in your laptop bag. At 11 by 4.5 by 0.4 inches (lower) and 0.5 pounds, the Magic Keyboard is highly portable.Now you can charge your keyboard, iPad, iPhone, mouse and trackpad all with one cable. (Soon your Apple TV remote and Apple Pencil too.) I connected the keyboard to my MacBook Air with the Lightning cable, just to make sure it was charged all the way, and that had the bonus effect of auto-pairing the keyboard with the Mac over Bluetooth. I didn’t have to go to the Bluetooth preferences to set the keyboard up, and when I disconnected the Lightning cable, the keyboard stayed paired. Charging with a Lightning cable instead of using AA batteries seems like a small thing—pretty much every Bluetooth keyboard has a built-in battery these days, mostly charging with a micro-USB cable. But I love having the extra Lightning cable that came with the Magic Keyboard. I already tend to keep a Lightning cable in every workspace and laptop bag for topping off my iPhone and iPad anyway, so it’s nice to not have to worry about toting spare AA batteries or a micro-USB cable.The Magic Keyboard uses scissor-switch keys, like its predecessors the wired Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad and Apple Wireless Keyboard, which Apple has discontinued. The keyboard is a little bit shorter top to bottom, and the travel of the keys is shortened as a result, but I didn’t feel much of a difference between it and my laptop, a late 2013 MacBook Air.The Magic Keyboard (bottom) is nearly the same size as the wireless Apple Keyboard it replaces. Going back and forth, I started to feel like I was hitting the laptop keys harder, while typing on the Magic Keyboard felt like it took slightly less effort. But the difference didn’t seem striking to me (if you’ll excuse the terrible pun). The keys on the Magic Keyboard are large and flat and stark white; they don’t wobble at all; and they’re generally pleasing to type on.If you’re purchasing a new iMac that comes with the Magic Keyboard, the smaller size and slightly reduced key travel shouldn’t be too jarring a change from previous Apple keyboards. If your old keyboard is on its last legs and you want to replace it with an Apple model that matches the rest of your gear and never needs AA batteries, the Magic Keyboard is a decent purchase.
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OS X El Capitan: Check spelling
Q: There is some program on my iMac’s El Capitan that completes the spelling of words as I’m typing. Can you please advise how to stop it?
A: Autocorrect seems to be enabled by default in OSX 10.11 El Capitan which can be a painespecially in Mail, Skype or any application which you are typing a lot and simply don’t need it.
Use autocorrectionWhen your spelling is checked, misspelled words are underlined in red, and suggested corrections are shown.Accept suggestions: If there’s only one suggestion, just keep typing to have the word autocorrected. If two or more suggestions are shown, choose one.Ignore suggestions: Press the Escape key, then continue typing.Undo autocorrections: An automatically corrected word is briefly underlined in blue. To revert to your original spelling, put the insertion point after the word to show your original spelling, then choose your spelling. You can also Control-click the word to show your spelling, then choose it.
Turn off autocorrectionFor a specific app: In the app, choose Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Correct Spelling Automatically (it’s off when a checkmark isn’t shown).
For all apps: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, click Text, then deselect the “Correct spelling automatically” checkbox.
Check spelling and grammarCheck spelling: Choose Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Document Now. The first error is highlighted. To show the next error, press Command-semicolon (;). To see suggested spellings for a word, Control-click it.Ignore misspellings: Control-click a word, then choose Ignore Spelling. The word is ignored if it occurs again in the document (it will be highlighted in other documents).Add words to the spelling dictionary: Control-click a word, then choose Learn Spelling. The word won’t be flagged as misspelled in any document. To have the word flagged as misspelled again, Control-click it in a document, then choose Unlearn Spelling.If you’re checking a long document, it may be easier to use the Spelling and Grammar window. Choose Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar.If an app’s Edit menu doesn’t include a spelling or grammar command, check its preferences or menus to see if it has its own spell checker.
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iOS 9: Save Data By Turning Off Wi-Fi Assist
Now that you’ve spent some quality time with Apple’s latest mobile OS and have become acquainted with some of the best features, here’s one feature that might not win over even the biggest iOS 9 fans.Buried at the bottom of Settings > Cellular (see image below), you’ll find a feature called “Wi-Fi Assist”. Sounds great, right? Who doesn’t want a nice little boost to their iDevice’s Wi-Fi performance?The answer to that question: anyone who pays for his or her data.The feature is enabled by default and works by switching your device to cellular data “when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor.” And, of course, switching to cellular data when not absolutely necessary means you’ll burn through more data. And unless you have an unlimited data plan, you’ll likely be feeling the price of that burn.A word of advice: If you can deal with “poor” Wi-Fi and want to save data, switch this feature off – permanently.
A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – so the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox!
Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!
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Compass 2 by Twelve South $39.00 prepaid. Compass 2 is a clever, multi-use stand that works with any iPad Air, iPad mini or iPad. This compact stand serves as a stable easel that holds your iPad in portrait or wide-screen mode. Use it for hands-free viewing and interacting with iPad. Flip down the secondary leg and Compass 2 becomes a comfortable typing stand. Machined from heavy gauge steel, Compass 2 folds flat and includes a soft travel sleeve so you can take it everywhere your iPad roams.The ultra portable iPad stand includes a soft travel carry sleeve. Keep Compass 2 in your backpack, computer bag or purse and take it everywhere your iPad goes.
Belkin MIXIT↑™ Metallic Lightning™ to USB Cable $29.95. Belkin’s 2.4 Amp MIXIT range of cables are 4-foot (longer than Apples). Premium Metallic Cables are available in Gold, Silver Gray and Black to match your iPhones, iPads and iPods.
Matias Tactile Pro Keyboards Matias Products (not wireless) Offer several variations of keyboards, in rather noisy, but so, oh so good using the same key switches as the original Apple Extended Keyboard from way back, nothing feels as satisfying to type on.
They also offer a Quiet Pro keyboard that offers all of the enhanced tactile feedback, greater comfort and faster typing speeds of the Tactile Pro... but QUIET. Computer users who crave the feel of Apple and IBM's high-quality "clicky" keyboards of years past, but don't miss their noise, will love the all-new Quiet Pro.
Tactile Pro Quiet Tactile Pro
Mini Tactile Pro Mini Tactile Quiet Pro
S O M E I D E A S F R O M CHARLIE FOR UNDER THE TREE THIS YEAR
