With the holidays here and things getting busy, we have moved our meeting to the second Wednesday this month. This will be our last meeting of 2011. Join us a we recap the year of everything going on in the Apple world. To share our time together, we will be having a potluck. So bring some food to share and enjoy. We will also have some great door prizes for the meeting.
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.
Topic: iCloud and iOS 5
Join us this month as we introduce and discuss Apple’s new iCloud service along with a review of the new iOS 5 operating system for your mobile devices. We will discuss setup, migration and requirements to the new services along with tips and tricks to make sure it all works for you. As always bring your Apple questions with you.
Trusteer Rapport was recommended to me by several major online Banks. Click on the link below for more information, and notice the list of major international banks and financial institutions using Trusteer Rapport. Easy installation on my MAC, and seems like a very efficient program worth having.
Defends against phishing and malware activity
Helps safeguard your identity
Shows when you’re on an unprotected website
Download Trusteer Rapport1 for free continuous protection
Works with all major web browsers
Secures communication between keyboard and sensitive websites
Protects online banking username, password and other sensitive sign on information
Prevents malware from tampering with your online transaction
Works with your current antivirus software by providing another level of online security
Protects your information on up to 100 participating retail, social networking & email browser websites.
Simple protection indicator: green = protected; gray = unprotected
Removes malicious malware from your computer and notifies you that it has done so
Periodic reports sent to show malware and phishing attempts
Does not require any configuration or maintenance—just install and you’re protected
For more information and to Download software – you can go here.
Do your Apple devices have a foreign accent?
Have you wondered how to type character marks over the vowels of foreign words? Well, thanks to the Small Dog Electronics newsletter, Kibbles & Bytes, you can learn how to add those sexy little accent marks over vowels, if your Mac uses Lion OSX 10.7, and your handheld devices use their new iOS.
For those of you using Lion, the same steps you take on your iPhone (or the like) are now applicable.
To produce an accent on your Mac using 10.7, press and (briefly) hold the letter that needs the accent mark.
Your accent character choices will then appear, and you can navigate to the one you need
Thanks to David Watersun for this tip.
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Written By Walter Isaacson, and published just this week, Audible is offering a free audiobook when you sign up for a free 14-day trial of the service. Among thousands of available picks: “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson.
To put that in some perspective, the audio CD version of “Steve Jobs” has a list price of $49.95, and sells for around $34.95 at Audible. For fans of spoken books, Audible is an unbeatable deal.
You can cancel within 14 days from starting a trial subscription, and you may keep the free Jobs audiobook on your Apple devices without a subscription …
E-Cycling accepts old, broken computers and broken cell phones. They will attempt to refurbish them, or they will be turned into scrap for recycling and kept out of the landfill.
Open Tues and Sat for drop off 9am-1pm.
You can find them at 901 Lower Main St,Wailuku
And / or call them at 573-4018.
[If you have a large load pick up, call: 280-6460]
No need to send all of your apps to the ICloud, using up your data, when apps are already saved in your ITunes.
We are of course concentrating on iCloud and IOS5 at next months meetings. Meanwhile a number of questions arose at our September meeting regarding single households with multiple iTunes IDs and the issue with synching ….