This Month at Hughes Baptist Church Hall Tuesday, 13 December 2011 Main Hall Christmas Auction!!! Mac stuff to buy! Games! Quizzes! Food and Drink! Tuesday, 20 Dec 2011 Committee Meeting – 7.
Contents ÑÑ COMMITTEE………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2 ÑÑ Rules for the Christmas Auction……………………………………………………………………………………… 3 ÑÑ 66+Remember+Your+Passwords+99………………………………………………………………………………… 5 ÑÑ Enabling Fraction Substitutions………………………………………………………………………………………… 7 ÑÑ The Mac at Nelson’s Place……………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 ÑÑ Amazon Beats Apple at Media Access………………………………………………………………………… 10 ÑÑ Australasian Heritage Software Database……………………………………………………………………… 12 ÑÑ Bits & Pieces………………………
The Mailing List ACTApple User Group conducts an Email List, the General Help and Information List. Any member may join and post messages seeking help for Mac problems, offer assistance to other members or provide news and views on the Mac world. To join the list send an email to the List Administrator: Peter Sealy . Our Meeting Venue Hughes Baptist Church Hall Groom Street, Hughes Please leave access to theEntrance free for those who are bringing equipment.
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66+Remember+Your+Passwords+99 By Trevor Drover Passwords are a necessary evil these days. Passwords help keep my iMac and portable devices safe, my data confidential, and my money away from the bad guys. But it frustrates me that every time I am required to come up with yet another password for a Web site, a user account, or any of a multitude of other purposes, I feel, as you probably do, that it’s too much mental effort to produce and remember all these passwords.
throw in some numerals, punctuation, symbols and upper-case letters and you get your huge haystack. The basic idea is that you’re better off making your passwords long and memorable than short and complex. In the simplified cartoon example above the password is simply made up of 4 common words, but Steve Gibson suggests you should add some padding around those words to make the passwords much harder to guess.
Enabling Fraction Substitutions By Trevor Drover Since version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Mac OS X provides support for system wide “Text and Symbol substitution” that can be configured in the “Language & Text” system preference pane.
you can also setup a new replacement rule that, for example, replaces “1/5” with “⅕” (see screenshot below). The “” fractions are included in Character Viewer and can be custom added as required. For typing the “¹” and “” and ”” characters, you can also use the Character Viewer. See the instructions at the end of this article. Click on the menu bar icon and select “Show Character Viewer”.
5th character in), then go back to “Numbers & Number Symbols” and select Subscript “1 and 6” ([6] above). Press return or enter to add your text substitution to Snow Leopard. [Editorial Note: If you are using Lion you may find that some of the instructions relating to the Character Viewer are a bit confusing because of changes to that beastie.
Amazon Beats Apple at Media Access by Glenn Fleishman The Amazon Kindle Fire is not an iPad killer or even precisely an iPad competitor. If it succeeds — and based on my first day with it, I believe it will — the Fire will create a new intermediate niche for those who want a device with a bigger screen than a phone for reading, gaming, and watching video, but don’t want the iPad bulk or price tag. (You can read my brief review at The Economist.
you haven’t enabled iTunes Wi-Fi Sync. Select the iOS device in the sidebar’s Devices list. Click the Movies tab. Unless you have an automatic sync option turned on, such as Automatically Include 3 Most Recent Unwatched, scroll through the Movies list to find the item you purchased, and check the box next to it. Click Sync. Wait for the synchronization to finish, at which point the movie is available to play. If you’re using USB, disconnect the device’s Dock connector to roam freely.
downloading versus streaming for playback. Amazon offers 5 GB of free storage in its Cloud Drive service that’s paired with your Amazon account, but music files aren’t currently counted against that total. You can store unlimited music at no cost, and access via the Web, dedicated apps, and the Kindle Fire. When you buy music from Amazon, you can automatically add those purchased items to your Cloud Drive, but any music that you didn’t purchase and add in that fashion has to be uploaded directly.
Bits & Pieces For a few months I have been putting aside this collection of snippets collected from Mac web pages thinking they may be of use to someone. No doubt some members already have seen the content but the rest of you may not have. Security Security of the Mac OS has been in the news quite a lot lately. Far moreso than in earlier times. Trojans have appeared and, so far, been identified and knocked down but only if you are fully protected.
Bluetooth signal strength. I do not know if this available in earlier OS versions. See here: Protection = do not leave your iPhone close to your computer. Security of Siri On iPhone 4S Apparently Siri on your iPhone 4S can be used to make calls and send emails and texts even though you have it passcode locked.
rearranging logs and removing out of date crud. These tasks ran automatically by the cron application daily, weekly and monthly. You may remember there were a number of third party applications which would run these tasks for you when you chose rather than relying on Apple’s internal timing. One of the best known of those applications was Macjanitor. Fast forward now to OS X 10.7 Lion.
iTunes 10.5.1 Unveils iTunes Match by Adam C. Engst Apple has released iTunes 10.5.1, which finally unveils the overdue iTunes Match (see “iCloud Rolls In, Extended Forecast Calls for Disruption,” 6 June 2011). The iTunes Match service, which costs $24.99 per year and is currently available only to U.S. customers, enables you to store your entire music library in the cloud and then play it from any of your computers or iOS devices.
Appcuity is the New, Better Appalicious by Matt Neuburg In “Appalicious Makes the Mac App Store Useful,” 1 September 2011, I described ProVUE’s clever application Appalicious, which presents information from the Mac App Store far more helpfully, neatly, and completely than Apple’s own App Store application. Now, in response to threatened legal action, Appalicious has changed its name to Appcuity, and its Web site has been renamed (and helpfully reorganized).
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