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TMUG 11 April 2016

!Trilogy Macintosh User Group Since 2005

Agenda• Welcome to new members

• Anyone get a new Apple "toy" since we last met?

• What's New in the Wonderful World of Apple?

• What is Ransomware... should you worry?

• A few Tips & Tricks and other useful things to know

What's New in the Wonderful World of Apple?

• There are rumors that the Apple Watch 2 could debut much sooner than originally anticipated.

!• Instead of releasing in the fall, the next-generation

Apple Watch could be announced as early as June. !

• Sources also believe the Apple Watch 2 will be 20-40 percent thinner than the original.

!• Earlier rumors also suggest that the smartwatch will get

a FaceTime camera, upgraded Wi-Fi capabilities, and gesture prompts.


• One of the more interesting iPhone 7 predictions involves a move away from the physical home button.

!• Recent iPhone innovations -- specifically the pressure-sensitive 3D

Touch screen and increasing always-on hands-free functionality of Siri -- have diminished the need for a home button

!• A buttonless iPhone would allow the large top and bottom bezels

to shrink, effectively allowing Apple to squeeze a larger screen into the same size body.

!• Apple engineers are also working on new security

measures to prevent iPhone-hacking.


• A Force Touch keyboard for the Mac could be in the works, too – as a supplement to the Magic Trackpad 2 !• The switchless design would allow Apple to produce

even thinner MacBooks, and also to take into account the force with which a key is pressed

!• In the opposite direction it should allow for haptic

feedback, which could possibly be used to signify to vision-impaired users that they’re correctly striking a particular key.

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What's New in the Wonderful World of Apple?!

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• Speaking of keyboards, Apple has applied for a patent on a keyboard without keys

!• If the pressure-sensitive keyboard makes it to Apple's

laptops, it could prevent damage caused by debris and liquids that normally pass through the spaces between keys

!• The keyboard would replace individual keys with a touchpad-

like apparatus that could also detect how much force is being used, similar to Apple's Force Touch technology

!• Keyboard users also may be able to re-map the keyboard in

order to create their own hotkeys and shortcuts, according to the filing.

!!!• Walmart is offering a $100 discount on all iPhones, including the

4-inch iPhone SE. Apple's latest phone can be purchased for $299, which is a fabulous deal considering you get an A9 chipset, 12MP iSIght camera, NFC, and Apple Pay with the handset.

!• The caveat here is that you'll have to purchase the device in-

store on a monthly installment plan from Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint. The $100 discount will be reflected as bill credit in your monthly invoice !

• The promotion is valid until the end of June.


What's New in the Wonderful World of Apple?!

!!• To mark the beginning of the Major League Baseball season,

Siri has seen a major improvement to its baseball knowledge base. While the virtual assistant has long been able to rattle off schedules and records, it can now provide much more detail on statistics and baseball history.

!• With this update, you can check on a diverse array of

information, from who is currently injured on your favorite team to how many home runs Babe Ruth hit during the 1919 season. As noted by The Verge, this update packs information about 28 baseball leagues, including Minor League Baseball

Ransomware

• "Ransomware" is malicious software that cyber criminals use to hold your computer or computer files for ransom, demanding payment from you to get them back.

• Sadly, ransomware is becoming an increasingly popular way for malware authors to extort money from companies and consumers alike.

• There is a variety of ransomware can get onto a person’s machine, but as always, those techniques either boil down to social engineering tactics or using software vulnerabilities to silently install on a victim’s machine.

Ransomware (continued)

• Those people that have been affected have had a large number of their files encrypted through ransomeware hacking.

• These files are primarily popular data formats, files you would open with a program (like Microsoft Office, Adobe programs, music players, or photo viewers).

• On the one hand, ransomware can be very scary – the encrypted files can essentially be considered damaged beyond repair.

• But if you have properly prepared your system, it is really nothing more than a nuisance.


What can you do about it?!

• Back up your data

• The single biggest thing that will defeat ransomware is having a regularly updated backup.

• If you are attacked with ransomware you may lose that document you started earlier this morning, but if you can restore your system to an earlier snapshot or clean up your machine and restore your other lost documents from backup, you can rest easy.

• So, what you need is a regular backup app, such as Time Machine (already available on every Mac) and an external drive or backup service


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• Yes, Macs can technically get ransomware, but it relies on a unique set of circumstances far beyond opening a bad incoming file

• The chances of ransomware affecting a home Mac user is far more unlikely than a business which may have lax routines in protecting files and backing up

• In other words: don’t freak out, just back up your files using Time Machine or another backup app of your choosing; all you need is an external hard drive connected to your Mac (the backup hard drive must be dedicated to this function; if you want to back up photos, use a second hard drive)

External Hard DrivesHard Drives... what are the differences?!

• Before we start: What's the difference between an external hard drive and a portable hard drive?

• An external hard drive requires an external power source (plug it into the wall)

• A portable hard drive can be powered just by the USB port on your computer

• Portable hard drives are usually smaller and thinner and are easy to carry around

External Hard Drive for Backup When Using "Time Machine"

Tips for Buying a Portable or External Hard !

Tip 1: Figure out how much storage memory you need and then bump it up to the next level of storage... in most cases for home users, 250GB should be sufficient to backup using Time Machine

• NOTE: You will need to have your backup hard drive connected at all times while using your Mac if you want Time Machine to provide a continuous backup of all of your files... you can use your Mac without the hard drive connected if need be, but nothing you do while it is disconned will be saved

Tip 2: If you want to backup your photo files, you will need a second hard drive just for your photos since Time Machine does not backup photos; it only backs up your files (your photos will also back up to iCloud if you have iCloud activated)

• So how much capacity should you have to store your photos?

External Hard Drive for Backup When Using Time Machine (continued)

So how much capacity should you have to store your photos?!

• A 250GB hard drive will easily be able to store up to 80,000 images (depending on resolution), so a terabyte (1 TB) will provide room for around 320,000 – much more than many will need

• Bottom line: you don't need to spend much to buy a hard drive that will store a lifetime of photographic memories

• You don't necessarily need to have your photos hard drive connected all of the time since you will most likely be using it during those times that you are working on a photo project

• This is especially true for those who use laptop Macs since you have a limited number of USB ports available to you


Saving Photos in iCloud!

• Before we leave the subject of backing up photos to iCloud on your Mac, open System Preferences and select "iCloud"

• And click on Photos and then on "Options"


Saving Photos in iCloud!

• And on your iPhone and/or iPad, go to Settings and click on iCloud and then turn on "Photos"

iCloud Photo Library: Explained

iCloud Photo Library was designed to keep all your personal photos and videos safe, synced, and available on all of your devices. !Online backup: !With iCloud Photo Library, every picture or video you take with your iPhone or iPad, or load into Photos for OS X, will be uploaded to Apple's servers. What's more, they'll be preserved in their original format, including any RAW files you may have imported.

iCloud Photo Library: Explained (continued)

• That means all your pictures and videos are effectively backed up online, and if anything ever happens to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, those pictures and videos won't be lost. • They'll still be there, in your iCloud Photo Library,

available and accessible for any replacement device you get.

• You can even access them from any web browser via iCloud.com.

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http://iCloud.com


• iCloud Photo Library will also preserve any edits you make to your pictures and videos. • Any adjustments are stored separately from the picture

and video itself but synced along with it, so if your brighten or saturate or crop a photo on your iPad, those changes will also show up on your iPhone or Mac.


iCloud plans • iCloud Photo Library counts towards your iCloud storage

pool. • Everyone with an Apple device gets 5 GB of storage for

free. For most people, part of that space will be taken up by device backups, mail, and other data. How much that leaves for pictures and videos can vary.

!• You can, however, buy more iCloud storage whenever

you like. Apple doesn't show ads against your pictures and videos, doesn't use them in ads or otherwise monetize your or your content.

iCloud Photo Library: Explained• iCloud Plans (cost):

Current monthly iCloud plan options include: !

20 GB: $0.99 200 GB: $3.99 500 GB: $9.99 1 TB: $19.99

!Note: You will receive an online receipt from Apple each month showing the 99¢, or whatever amount for the plan you choose... most of us can get by with the 20 GB plan

How to Use Faces in Photos for OS X Want to quickly find pictures of yourself, your friends, and your family members within your Photos for OS X library? Check out the Faces album. !• Face detection is nothing new when it comes to digital

photography: Photos for OS X carries on that proud tradition with an updated version of Faces in the app.

How to Use Faces in Photos for OS X

• When you first launch Faces, it automatically detects and finds faces from your photographs for you to tag, then lines them up along the bottom of the screen under the Suggested Faces category. • If Faces has recognized a face you don't want to tag (or an

object that happens to look like a face), just select it and press the delete key to remove the tag.


Adding Faces

When you double-click on a Suggested Face, you're prompted to enter in the name of the person in question. When you double-click on a Suggested Face, you're prompted to enter in the name of the person in question. .


Adding Faces

Photos will then try to find other unmatched faces that look similar to your new Faces profile; they're auto-selected as correct by default, though you can click any wrong face identifications to remove it. When you're finished, press Add and Continue.


Adding Faces

Afterwards, Faces will let you know how many other pictures of the person it was able to find. Faces's recognition is on par for standard facial expressions, but you may have to go through this process several times if you have photos of the person making strange faces, wearing glasses, and the like. !


Viewing Faces• Once you're finished identifying people, you'll have a series

of Faces profiles in bubble form above the Suggested Faces drop-down. Double-click a face to see all the images that Photos has found of that person.

!• Each individual Faces profile can be viewed as full photos

or face bubbles; if Photos thinks it has additional photos of this person, you'll also see the "[Person] may be in additional photos" message in the top right corner along with an Add button. You can exit an individual Faces profile by pressing the back button at any time.

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How to View Your Pictures and Videos on a Map in Photos for OS X

While Photos for OS X lets you easily navigate between moments, collections, and years, it also lets you see all the photos and videos you took all laid out on a map. !


How to view picture and video locations on a map !1. Launch the Photos app on your Mac. 2. Click on the name of the location above a moment or

collection. 3. Click on the thumbnail stack on the map to expand the

individual thumbnails for all the photos taken at that location.

4. Use two fingers to pan around and pinch to zoom in or out.

5. Click on the back arrow button to return to the map view.


How to view picture and video locations on a map

Photo Collage app for iPhone/iPadMoldiv!

• There are several photo collage apps available for free in the iTunes App Store, Moldiv is just one of them

• Moldiv is more than just a collage app, it is also a photo editor. You can combine groups of up to 16 pics with more than 300 filter styles or 135 magazine layouts and use a variety of editing tools for each picture.

Available in App Store on your iOS device

Photo Collage app for iPhone/iPad

Moldiv is great for detailed collage creation. It is practically like having a real-life scrapbook on your iPhone.

A Great Scanner App for iPhone• Scanner Pro adds text recognition, distortion correction, and

more !

• Feature: (latest version is 7.0) !

• Text Recognition (OCR): Convert any scan into a text that can be selected and copied; supports 12 languages

• Distortion Correction: Scan open books, magazines or any other paperdocuments and get distortion-free images

• Workflows: Send an email with a defined recipient, upload to Dropbox and save document to the required folder

• Color Processing: Color scans look natural • Easy to Use Available in App Store on

your iOS device

Tultorials for Using Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

• The Apple productivity applications Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are available on OS X, iOS, and iCloud

• Currently these applications have differing levels of features depending on the platform.

• The Mac versions are the most feature rich, followed by iOS.

• All versions seem to be heading for a convergence where there may come a day when the applications are identical.

Tultorials for Using Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

(continued)

Here are some good tips and tutorials for using Pages, Numbers and Keynote

Pages:! • https://www.apple.com/support/mac-apps/pages/

• http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-to-use-apple-pages-3605031/

!Numbers:!

• http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-to-use-apple-numbers-speadsheet-3609483/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3sNrjO7QsE

!Keynote:! !

• http://www.macforbeginners.com/mac-apps/keynote-basics/

https://www.apple.com/support/mac-apps/pages/

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-to-use-apple-pages-3605031/

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-to-use-apple-numbers-speadsheet-3609483/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3sNrjO7QsE

http://www.macforbeginners.com/mac-apps/keynote-basics/

How to Discover Health Apps for iPhone!

!When you want add information about specific health data, like blood glucose or your nutritional intake, you can search through a list of recommended apps that will track the data you want. !• Open the Health app on your • Tap Health Data at the bottom right side of the screen. • Tap a category, like Body Measurements, Reproductive Health,

or Sleep. • Tap a subcategory like Active Energy, Resting Energy, or Steps. • Scroll down to find the list of suggested third-party apps for that

category. • Tap a third-party app to open it in the App Store and download

it.

How to Discover Health Apps for iPhone!

!!• Open the Health app on your

(continued)

Turn your iPhone & iPad Keyboard into a Trackpad

• One of the coolest keyboard features on your iPhone and iPad is "trackpad mode"

!• With it, you can quickly and easily switch from text entry

to cursor movement, so you can put the insertion or selection point exactly where you want it

!• Using "trackpad mode" is a little different on the

iPhone ... it only works on the iPhones 6s • On the new iPhones you don't need to use two

fingers to switch from keyboard to trackpad, you only need to use one. And that's thanks to 3D Touch.

Turn your iPhone & iPad Keyboard into a Trackpad (continued)

How to use trackpad mode on iPhone 6s with 3D Touch!!You can also use 3D Touch to switch between moving the cursor and selecting text: !1. Launch the app you want to use and bring up the keyboard. 2. Press firmly on the keyboard. 3. Press deeper to select text. (It's almost like relaxing slightly and

pressing again—the equivalent of "clicking" on a laptop trackpad.) 4. Let go to finish. !You can continue to "click" with 3D Touch to toggle between cursor movement and text selection. So, if you select the wrong text, just press again to go right back to moving around.

Turn your iPhone & iPad Keyboard into a Trackpad (continued)

How to use trackpad mode on iPad!!Instead of tapping to move the cursor, you can swipe on the iPad keyboard to move the cursor, just like you would on a laptop trackpad. !1. Launch the app you want to use and bring up the keyboard. 2. Touch two fingers down on the keyboard to switch to the trackpad 3. Swipe your finger around to move the cursor

If You Forgot Your Apple ID Password

Before we review what to do if you "lost" your Apple ID, one question that confuses many user is what is the difference between Login Password and Apple ID Password !• Login Password: The password of your OS X user account is also

known as your login password. It's the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain changes, such as installing software. As explained on a following slide, you can easily change your Login Password

!• Apple ID Password: Your Apple ID password is the password

associated with our Apple ID (which is normally your email address) Your Apple ID is the account you use for everything you do with Apple, like shopping the iTunes Store, signing in to iCloud, buying an app, and more.

If You Forgot Your Apple ID Password (continued)!

!• Login Password: The password of your OS X user account, the one

you use to sign in to your Mac when you first turn the computer on

• it is important that you remember whether you use uppercase and lower case letters as appropriate

If You Forgot Your Apple ID Password (continued)

!!• Changing Login Password: !• If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account,

you can change your password in Users & Groups preferences: • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click

Users & Groups. • Select your user name from the list of users. • Click the Change Password button, then follow the onscreen

instructions. • If you're using a password hint, remember to update the hint

for your new password.


!!• Reset Your Login Password: !• If you don't remember your password, or it isn't working, you might

be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But first try these simpler solutions: • Make sure that you're typing the correct uppercase or lowercase

characters. • If the password field shows a question mark, click it to display a

password hint that might help you to remember. • Try to log in without a password. If that works, you can then add a

password by following the steps to change your password. • Try to log in with the Apple ID password that you use for iCloud. If

you just changed that password and the new password isn't working, try the old password first. If that works, you should be able to use the new password from then on.

• For more information, go to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860


!• Apple ID... Your Apple ID is the email addess that you were

assigned the first time you purchased any Apple device, whether a Mac, iPhone, or iPad ... it is the same for all of your Apple devices

!• If you are not sure of your Apple ID email address , you most likely

wrote it on your receipt from Apple; it may also be one that you chose from Apple that ends with something like @me.com [email protected]

!• Even though your Apple ID remains the same no matter how many

different devices you purchased, you might have changed the Apple password somewhere along the way... and that is where most people have problems

!• For more information, go to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201487

http://me.com

mailto:[email protected]

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201487


If you're having issues signing in with your Apple ID password, use these steps to reset it and regain access to your account:

• Reset your password • You can reset your password

when you go to your Apple ID account page (https://appleid.apple.com) and click "Forgot Apple ID or password".

https://appleid.apple.com


!

• After you click "Forgot Apple ID or password". Enter your Apple ID (that email address you got from Apple), then click Next.

!• After you enter your Apple ID, there are a few ways

you can change your password: !

1. Answer your security questions • If you know the answers to your security questions, select

"Answer security questions" and follow the steps to reset your password.

2. Use email authentication • If you select "Get an email," Apple will send an email to your

primary or rescue email address that you can use to reset your password

If You Forgot Your Apple ID Password!

!• After you reset your password • After you reset your password, you'll be prompted to

sign in again with your new password. • You also might need to update your password

in Apple services and on your devices. !

• If these steps didn't help you change your password, contact Apple Support at http://www.apple.com/support/

(continued)

http://www.apple.com/support/


!• By the way, that Apple ID email address Apple

offered the first day you purchased an Apple device, you can use as a secondary email address in addition to the one you might use everyday, such as @comcast, @yahoo.com, or @gmail • In fact, there is no reason to use, as an example, the

Comcast address you were assigned when you signed up with Comcast services; just use the Apple ID email address

• Or you can use the Apple address as a secondary address for other purposes, such as reserved for friends or for online shopping • You set up any additional email addresses in Mail

Preferences

http://yahoo.com

Quick Way to Get Directions Sent Via an Email

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!• If someone send you an email with their address, but you don't

really know how to find their home, here is an easy way to see it on a map and get directions: • Let's say you receive an email telling you about Bassetti's

Crooked Arbor Gardens, and the address in the email is 18512 N.E. 165th Street, 98072

!!!

• Highlight the address just by clicking on it (you will see a box of dots surrounding it)

Quick Way to Get Directions Sent Via an Email (continued)!

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• After highlighting the address, click on a small down-arrow at the far right of the address line; you will then see a small map pop up

• You can either click on "Directions" on the small map

• or, you have the opition to click on "Open in Maps" to see a full scale map and get directions from within the Maps app

This TMUG presentation will be posted this evening or tomorrow on our user group

Web site at !

https://trilogymug.wordpress.com

https://trilogymug.wordpress.com

Next TMUG Meeting13 June 2016

This will be one of our Tips & Tricks sessions The June meeting will be our last meeting

before our summer break !

No meetings during July or August

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