Cool Products from Macworld/iWorld 2014

April 2014
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Cool Products from Macworld/iWorld 2014: Part 1
by TidBITS Staff
Our travel schedule for Macworld/iWorld
was particularly rough this year, with Josh
getting home on Sunday night and Adam
taking the red-eye in on Monday morning.
So while we have even more product
descriptions from the show that we want
to share with you, we’re going to split our
coverage into parts so we can get some out
right away and finish off once we’ve caught
up on sleep. Without further ado, then, here are some of the
most compelling products we saw on the Macworld show floor.
BusyContacts — Finally! For years now we’ve been asking
BusyMac for an app that will do for Apple’s Contacts what
BusyCal does for Calendar
— that is, replace it. (Can
you tell we’ve never liked
Contacts?) At Macworld/
iWorld, BusyMac announced
BusyContacts,
which
promises to provide a multiaccount solution for syncing,
sharing, and maintaining address books via
iCloud, Google Contacts, Exchange, and
any other CardDAV-compatible service.
BusyContacts will offer customizable
views, tagging, smart filters, social network
integration, and more. It’s slated to enter
public beta within a few months and will
cost $49.99 when it ships later in 2014, so if
there are any contact-management feature
you want to suggest to BusyMac (label printing à la Now
Contact was a common suggestion at the show), let BusyMac
know soon. [ACE]
Ring — Probably the most talked about product on the
Macworld show floor, Logbar’s
$185 Ring is — or will be — a
wearable input device for iOS.
The concept is straight out of
Tony Stark’s lab: put Ring on,
and wave your finger around
to control the iPad in a variety
of app context-sensitive ways,
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Apple User Group Discounts ..................... 2
Mac 911 ................................................. 3
Cool Products from Macworld/
iWorld 2014: Part 1 (con’t) ...................... 4
Software Review: MacBreakZ .................... 5
CMC 2014 Elections................................. 5
FunBITS: Macworld/iWorld Roundup ... 6-7
InfoManager Digest ............................. 8-9
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Two backup options for three computers
Reader Pete Barr asks an age-old question. He writes:
My wife and I recently purchased Apple laptops. We
use an AirPort Extreme base station as our router and
I’ve configured a Mac mini as a media server. I keep
thinking that with the addition of an external hard
drive I could put together some kind of backup server
for us but I’m not sure how to go about it. What do
you suggest?
You have many options (as I’m sure the comments below will
suggest) but let me address two. If you have Apple’s latest
802.11ac AirPort Extreme base station, format a USB drive
as an Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume, connect it to the
base station, and Time Machine on each of your laptops will
recognize it as a backup destination.
“Hold on!” some shout quietly through the medium of online
print, “This is an unsupported feature!”
To which I reply, “Nuh uh.”
As TidBITS’ Adam Engst discovered, this feature was brought
to these AirPort Base Stations in the 7.7.2 firmware update.
Specifically, the note that accompanies that update states:
Addresses an issue that prevents a USB hard drive connected
to an AirPort Extreme from appearing as an available disk in
Time Machine.
I will, however, throw a bone to those who claim it’s
unsupported. Apple tells us so in regard to earlier models in
this support article:
Time Machine can only back up to a external drive connected
to an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac base station. Time Machine
cannot back up data to external drives connected to other
AirPort Extreme base station models.
Far be it for me to argue with Apple, but while it’s not
supported it does work for some people (though, personally,
I’ve found it unreliable).
And because reliability isn’t something I care to fool around
with when backing up my data, I’ve thrown $60 at the problem
in the form of Econ Technologies’ $40 ChronoSync and two
copies of the company’s $10 ChronoAgent.
Without getting into too much detail, the setup works this
way: On the Mac mini I’ve connected a 3TB external hard
drive for backup and installed ChronoSync. On the two
laptops I use routinely I’ve installed copies of ChronoAgent.
I’ve created schedules so that ChronoSync not only backs up
the mini’s files, but also both the laptops over the network
via the ChronoAgent clients--which serve to establish a direct
connection to ChronoSync on the host computer. Backups are
speedier than I’ve experienced with other wireless options,
you can back up all your data or just those folders of your
choosing, and ChronoSync offers scads of options for those
who really want to dig into them. I give it two thumbs and a
big toe up.
Using a flash drive with an iPad
Reader Gerry Prescott has a question about flash drives and
iPads. He writes:
In a recent article you said that you couldn’t play
movies stored on a flash drive on your iPad. Is there
any way at all to use other kinds of files on a flash
drive with an iPad?
In a very limited way, yes. It’s like this.
You can attach some flash drives to Apple’s $29 iPad Camera
Connection Kit. (If you have an iPad with a Lightning
connector you’ll additionally need Apple’s $29 Lightning
to USB Camera Adapter.) Let me underscore some. Some
flash drives require more power than the iPad can provide
and won’t work. For example, I had luck with a low-capacity
(64MB) flash drive but a 4GB drive was deemed incompatible
by the iPad.
The flash drive must be formatted as a FAT volume. These
drives are formatted this way by default, but to be sure, plug
the flash drive into your Mac, launch Disk Utility (found in
/Applications/Utilities), select the drive, click the Erase tab,
choose MS-DOS (FAT) from the Format pop-up menu, and
click the Erase button. In the sheet that appears confirm that
you want to erase the drive by clicking Erase.
Now that you’ve formatted the drive correctly, create a new
folder on it and name that folder DCIM. Copy into it any images
and compatible videos that you want to copy to the iPad.
Plug the flash drive into the Camera Connection Kit’s USB
port. When you do this, the iPad’s Photos app should launch
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including by drawing characters in mid-air to type them (albeit
very slowly). Although Ring blew through its Kickstarter goal
of $250,000 to raise over $840,000 from nearly 5,000 backers
and delivery is estimated for August 2014, the company was
showing only a prototype attached to a large battery and
wouldn’t let anyone else try it. It remains to be seen if it will
prove easy to manufacture in quantity and if a single finger’s
movements allow for sufficiently complex vocabularies to be
useful. [JJDC]
K-Tor Human-Powered Generators — Need to go off the grid
and still use your iPad? Or perhaps you just want your kid
to work for his iPhone usage? K-Tor was showing the pedalpowered Power Box ($195), which generates up to 20 watts and
can be used while sitting in a chair (or incorporated into other
devices), and the hand-cranked Pocket Socket 2 ($64.95),
which can generate up
to 10 watts and is more
portable. Both offer a
standard electric socket,
so you can run anything
you can plug in that’s
within the 10–20 watt
output range. [ACE]
WritePro — If you yearn for the bygone days when you could
handwrite “egg freckles” on your Newton, PhatWare may have
the app for you: WritePro, a $9.99 word processing, note-taking,
and sketching app for iOS. The app provides handwriting
recognition that seems to rival the Newton’s handwriting
recognition capabilities, and it provides a robust set of word
processing features: multiple fonts and sizes, paragraph
indents, bulleted and numbered lists, text and background
coloring, and more. You can also make drawings within the
app using an integrated sketchpad and embed those sketches
in your documents. The app provides a number of features to
make handwriting entry easy, with gestures for backspacing,
entering carriage returns, undoing, and expanding your
own custom text shortcuts. Documents can be synced with
a number of cloud services,
including iCloud, Dropbox,
Google Drive, Evernote,
and Microsoft OneDrive.
Instead of a proprietary
file
format,
WritePro
documents are stored as
HTML, making it easy to
get your stuff out of the
app and into any word
processing program. [MEC]
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Hider 2 — Typically, when someone needs to secure
confidential documents on a Mac, the advice is to create an
encrypted disk image in Disk Utility. It’s free and easy, but
the downside is that you’re always working on that separate
volume. For a friendlier alternative, look into MacPaw’s Hider
2 ($19.99, shipping on
2 April 2014). With the
press of a button, you can
move files and folders
from the Finder into
Hider 2’s secure vault,
which is guarded by AES256 encryption that the
Ukrainian
developers
assured us was Putinproof. [JJDC]
EverWeb — Still angry that Apple ended iWeb’s iLife back
in 2011? Although both Sandvox and RapidWeaver have
long offered alternatives to iWeb orphans, there’s a new Web
development tool in town to bring drag-and-drop Web site
creation back to the Mac. Rage Soft ware’s EverWeb lets you
publish to your own site, but also offers one-click publishing
and Web hosting. EverWeb by itself costs $79.95 for a year of
updates and support ($49.95 per year after that), although a
Web hosting account with 2 GB of space and 5 email accounts
is only $99.95 per year and includes the software. Niceties
include master pages, asset organization, support for Google
Fonts, automatic drop-down menu creation, and a wide
variety of widgets. Although it creates optimized HTML5 and
CSS3 code, EverWeb intentionally doesn’t make responsive
sites that adapt to any
screen
size
(which
can be problematic
for graphics), instead
preferring to help you
create mobile-optimized
sites for smartphones
and tablets. [ACE] 
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Software Review: MacBreakZ
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by David Greenbaum aka DoctorDave™
Like many computer users, I tend to sit
for hours at a time working on projects
without taking healthy breaks. If an
interruption occurs, that’s about the
only time I remember to stop typing,
look away or simply take a break.
MacBreakZ is a welcome product to
make sure I don’t suffer injury.
First, MacBreakZ watches your
computer usage via keyboard and
mouse/trackpad usage and suggests
microbreaks after a certain amount
of activity (this can be adjusted).
It also gives you a timer and a color
code in the menu bar to know when
your next break is needed and how
excessive your usage is. Typing really
fast for a long period of time? Take
a microbreak. If you are staring and
watching a video, it’s more likely to
leave you alone (it will bother you
though, so best to turn it off during a
presentation or a video).
Let me say this: the product is terribly
annoying, but that’s a good thing. I’ll
be working right along at a project and
“in the zone” and that stupid window
pops up asking me to take a deep
breath and look away. I’m way too
busy for that–but in reality, that’s the
point. I don’t want to feel exhausted,
I need to take breaks so that way my
hands don’t cramp up or my eyes
start bothering me. Once I accept the
importance of taking breaks I really do
feel more productive. The microbreak
shows up as a transparent window
so it can be ignored if you want to,
but I warn you it will start annoying
you more the more you ignore it. It’s
bothersome without being intrusive.
It nags but doesn’t pester.
Besides the microbreaks, MacBreakZ
also offers tips for stretches throughout
the day for various body parts that
tend to get fatigued after extended
computer usage.
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Initially I balked at the price of $25
for a program that simply told me
to take a break, but this is really so
much more as it adapts to your usage
and offers direct suggestions of how
to take a break to prevent repetitive
stress injury.
If you use your computer for an
extended period of time and don’t
have the discipline to take a break and
stretch, this program is a lifesaver.
The final call for nominations will be
at the May 28th general meeting and
a vote will take place at that time. If
you have any nominations, please send
to Linas Venclauskas at treasurer@
ctmac.org. The candidates can include
incumbents who have chosen to run
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We are also looking for board
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Pros: tells you how and when to take
a break.
Cons: pricing is a bit high.
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FunBITS: Macworld/iWorld 2014 Roundup
by Josh Centers
I came to Macworld/iWorld 2014 hoping
to see the latest and greatest in the Mac
and iOS gaming worlds, perhaps even
apps that I hadn’t previously heard of
before. But oddly, there were essentially
no games to be found, even for iOS,
where games are tremendously popular.
Luckily, we want FunBITS to look well
beyond games to apps and products that
support all sorts of hobbies, pastimes,
and sports. With that in mind, here
are a few products I ran across on the
Macworld show floor that aim to make
your life a little more interesting.
Chore-inator — It may not be the first
attempt to gamify household chores, but
the iOS app Chore-inator ($2.99) might
be the best so far. Chore-inator focuses
around helping parents encourage
children to do their chores, though you
can use it to manage your entire family.
What sets it apart is that you can take
a picture of what you expect a finished
chore to look like. Want proof that a
chore was done while you’re at work?
You can have your child take a picture
of the accomplished chore and send it to
you in the app.
PencilCase — One of the coolest apps I
saw for the entire show was PencilCase
for the Mac from Robots & Pencils, which
seeks to fill the long-empty shoes of
Apple’s HyperCard. Without requiring
you to write any code, PencilCase enables
you to develop iOS games, animations,
and simple apps, then share them with
friends or even sell them in the App
Store. And if you want to go beyond what
PencilCase can do on its own, you can
write your own code in JavaScript. I tried
a few PencilCase apps, including a clone
of Flappy Bird, a bouncing ball physics
demo, and an animation of one of Mad
Magazine’s spies (Robots & Pencils
adapted the classic 1984 game for iOS).
The animation speed seemed a touch
too fast, but PencilCase isn’t expected to
launch until late 2014, so there’s plenty of
time to smooth things out.
For each chore you assign, you determine
how many stars are earned for the chore.
When a task is completed to satisfaction,
those stars are doled out, and can be
used to redeem rewards that you set, like
ice cream, a trip to the park, or a portion
of an allowance.
You can pre-order PencilCase now. There
are three pricing structures: Community
for $199, Professional for $299, and
Corporate for $999. Community and
Professional have identical features, but
the former is limited to 10 slots in App
Drop, a private storefront for apps outside
the App Store. Corporate adds more
features, like importing PowerPoint,
Keynote, and Flash files; iBeacon support;
and built-in internationalization, along
with email and telephone support. Check
out the demo video.
While our seven-month-old is a bit
young to set the table or vacuum, I
could see Chor-inator being handy for
my wife and I, since we struggle to keep
up with household chores. We might
even use it control how often we go out
to eat with a rule that we have to earn a
certain number of stars before hitting a
restaurant for dinner.
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Kamino — I wish I had more time to
try out the free iOS app Kamino while
in San Francisco. Kamino is an “urban
discovery app” that debuted at the show.
Essentially, Kamino lets you create and
share custom walking tours, called
hikes.
For instance, you could use Kamino to
take a hike of Louisville’s Urban Bourbon
Trail, Boston’s historical sites, or notable
spots in West Hollywood. Or just set
out and create your own hike in your
hometown. The demo video gives you an
idea of what it does. Unfortunately, for
those of us living in rural areas, it’s a bit
of a tease.
Contact Patch — Finally, an actual
gaming product! There have been
numerous attempts at creating physical
“stick on” gaming pads for iOS devices
to make playing a game more tactile,
but Contact Patch is notable for its
versatility. While previous attempts have
tried to emulate standard game controls
like d-pads, Contact Patch is unique in
its lack of imposed structure. Contact
Patches are rimmed silicon pads that you
apply to your device’s screen over an ingame control graphic, where it transmits
your taps to the screen. They’re easy to
put on and remove, and come in circle,
square, and triangle shapes in several
sizes.
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I haven’t had much time to play with
the Contact Patch pads yet, but the
most useful one for my large thumbs
is the large circle, which is perfect for
the onscreen d-pads used by so many
games. The triangles seem to be an
awkward size for adult fingers — too
small to fit thumb tips comfortably,
but too big to rest them on. But they
might be better suited for children, and
the squares are a nice compromise for
any size fingers. Regardless of fit, the
material adds some much-appreciated
tactile feedback, without being sticky
or getting in the way, and makes it
easier to find controls by feel.
side, the Petcube contains an HDcapable video camera, a microphone,
and speakers, so you can see, hear, and
speak to your pet via an iOS app. Even
better, there’s also a low-power laser
inside that you can use to run a red dot
around the room to play with your pet.
Petcube will be shipping in May 2014
for $199, and if you’re worried about
what an aluminum box will do to your
decorating scheme, don’t worry, there
will be “skins” (animal prints, natch)
to cover the bare metal. 
On the downside, they’ll be easy to
lose, despite coming with a handy
drawstring carrying bag, and they
must be kept away from babies and
toddlers, since they’re a choking
hazard. Unfortunately, the company’s
Web site is still under construction, so
you can’t yet order a Contact Patch set,
but they retail for $24.99.
Petcube — My wife Hannah and
infant son Harris accompanied me to
San Francisco for Macworld, leaving
our cat Peanut to hold down the fort
at home. She’s already punishing us
for leaving her by ignoring us (bad
people!), but if we’d had a Petcube,
perhaps we wouldn’t be getting the
silent treatment.
and display an Import button at
the bottom of the screen. Tap on
Import and a thumbnail image of
every importable items within the
DCIM folder will appear. Choose
those you want to copy to the iPad
and tap Import.
And this is what I mean by limited.
You can’t import other kinds of files
to an iPad via a flash drive. For this
reason--as I suggested in the article
you cited--you’re better off syncing
files via a cloud service or directly
from your Mac via iTunes. 
Macworld Senior Editor
Christopher Breen is the author
of “Secrets of the iPod and iTunes
(6th edition),” and “The iPod
and iTunes Pocket Guide (4th
edition)” both from Peachpit
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InfoManager Digest
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
Apple did NOT move to the Czech Republic!
Today, we trapped some rather interesting incoming email,
which looks like some new attempts at separating our readers
from their identity. Post this graphic to your user group site,
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UGNN Facebook Update: Facebook good and bad
for April 2014
UGNN InfoManager news all about social media and
Facebook news and reviews ... good and bad reports–can you
believe Zuckerberb is chasing the same dream failed by Gates
so many years ago? Can you believe a “post it later” button?
Can you believe the police are watching? Well if it’s happening,
the Facebook Infomanager is chasing the rumors and news . . .
• Facebook “I drank” post not best idea for woman
on DUI probation
• Facebook testing “Save” read-it-later button
for Web interface
• Facebook, Oculus, And Businesses’ Thirst
For Virtual Reality
• Facebook Paper: The Inside Story Is Not
What You’d Expect
• Facebook launches lab to bring Internet everywhere
• Facebook “Friend” Burglarizes Vacationers: Police
• Facebook’s Drone Plans Sound Hilariously Ominous
• Facebook Suddenly Cares If You’re Oversharing
• How Facebook and Twitter Undermine Religion
. . . and more
CAUTION: Careful, we’ve found a pop-up ad splash screen,
other stalker links and screen-spam on all of these pages.
Seems the news industry has now resorted to heavy screenspam to make revenue! Be very careful what you click.
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UGNN Cyber Security Report for MARCH, 2014
If you remember my “Cyber Security” post in January–
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BEFORE THE OLYMPICS–you’ll remember I said: “They’re
telling us that the NSA has something to do with cyber
security but hey ... who would you rather have spying on
you: NSA or the Russian Mob?” Now, in light of the Putin
iinvasion of Ukraine, they’re saying Snowden was working
ffor Putin all along! So, start reading the Cyber Security
IInfomanager at Safenetting a little closer:
• Pentagon plans three-fold cybersecurity staff
increase to counter attacks
• Damage done by Edward Snowden will take
decades to repair
• Malicious advertisements are a plight to mobile
marketing
• Cyber Aces’ test their skills at fending off
marauders
• McCain says “no doubt” Snowden is working
for Russia
• Telecom Consolidation in a Post-Snowden World
• Target Security Assessor Denies Bank Claims
. . . and more
www.ugnn.com/2014/03/cyber_security_march/
Safenetting: Phishing, Malware, Security Report
for APRIL — UGNN
Okay folks, it’s tax time again! Repeat: “Do not click, do not
click, do not click”– but there’s a lot more coming at you from
the sleeze of the Internet–stay tuned and we’ll bring you the
latest and most important online risks updates.
• IRS warns of phishing emails claiming to be
from its Taxpayer Advocate Service
• Cloud Security Viewed as Vital, but Effective
Solutions Are Lacking
• Cybersecurity breaches to cost APAC countries
$240-M in 2014
• BBB Tip of the Week: Fake court summons
• Warns of New Email Phishing Scheme
• No headline — GOOGLE_SCAM —
• Hackers Cash In On ATMs
. . . and more
www.ugnn.com/2014/03/safenetting_phishing_april/
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Microsoft Office — iPad Version
This past week Microsoft released Office for the iPad. It
reportedly was completed two years ago, but was kept from
market by the desire to distinguish the Microsoft Surface as a
“business” or “productivity” machine compared to the iPad as
a “consumption” machine.
www.ugnn.com/2014/03/microsoft-office-ipad-version/
Quotes: Franklin, Disney
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue
happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
— Benjamin Franklin
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not
an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
Adobe Muse Templates With Parallax Scroll Effects
Muse Templates Pro Company has presented new Adobe Muse
Templates with parallax scroll effects. Adobe Muse templates
provide the unique design for websites that are created with
Adobe Muse soft ware.
http://tinyurl.com/pg6ug2t
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage
to pursue them.
— Walt Disney
1000 OpenType Fonts
MacAppware, a division of 128bit Technologies, has
announced the addition of two new fonts to its commercial use
1000 OpenType Fonts collection for creative Mac users. For a
limited time, the updated font collection is also available for
only $29.99, a discount of 70% from the regular price of $99.
www.ugnn.com/2014/03/1000-opentype-fonts/
RIP — MacFixIt, Long Live MacIssues!
For many years, MacFixIt was the place to go for those needing
help in troubleshooting their Macs. Originally founded in
1996 by Ted Landau who published several books about Mac
trouble shooting. The first was call “Sad Macs, Bombs and
Other Disasters.”
www.ugnn.com/2014/03/rip-macfi xit-long-live-macissues/
F.lux
I recently came across an article on Tuts+ titled “5 Simple
Solutions to Common Mac Problems by Harry Guinnes.” The
fift h problem on the list is the fact that research has shown that
exposure to screens late at night can interfere with your sleep.
www.ugnn.com/2014/03/f-lux/
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ABOUT THE INFO MANAGER
A weekly column from the mice of Lynn Wegley and Fred
Showker.
Lynn is a UGN veteran (AOL User Groups Forum)
and User Group Network. He’s been a supporter and
volunteer on many, many UGNet and User Group
Academy projects. As a long time user group member,
he’s been a volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and
beyond. Currently working primarily the with the
Cowtown MUG of Fort Worth, but also with the Apple
Corp of Dallas and is a lifetime member of TUMS, the
Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society).
Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the
AOL UG Forum days, then out onto the web.
User Group Network
April 2014
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2014 Connecticut Macintosh Connection
OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS
New Members Wanted! Have your friends and
co-workers join us for fun and learning about OS X and
the Mac. Please give them this application form.
CMC Benefits: Monthly meetings, newsletter, special
events, discounted books, free Mac support, networking,
make business contacts, User Group discounts, and more.
President
P
id
Chris Hart
[email protected]
Vice President/Ambassador
Jerry Esposito
[email protected]
Yes, I want to join CMC!
Date ___________________ (please print)
Name _____________________________________
Address ____________________________________
City _______________________________________
State __________
Secretary
Neil Bernier
[email protected]
Treasurer
Linas Venclauskas
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Web Master
Reggie Dionne
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Phone (Home) ______________________________
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Editor
Deena Quilty
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Public Relations
Mark Maglio
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Design
George Maciel
[email protected]
Occupation _________________________________
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Special Events
Jack Bass
[email protected]
Parliamentarian/Historian
Connie Scott
[email protected]
Photographer
John Scott
[email protected]
___________________________________________
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25.00
ILLUSTRATIONS
CARICATURES
Mail this form and check payable to CMC to:
Connecticut Macintosh Connection
P.O. Box 7061, Plainville, CT 06062
– or –
Register and pay online with PayPal at:
www.ctmac.org
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Available for
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Connecticut Macintosh Connection
a user group since 1986
CMC Monthly Meeting
CMC Meeting
UConn Health Center
Wednesday, April 30th
Tips for OS X Mavericks
presented by Adam Christianson,
Our April 30 presentation will feature
Adam Christianson, host of The MacCast
podcast, via Skype from California.
He’ll be talking to us about tips for OS X
Mavericks, with a Q&A to follow.
Adam’s story:
My love affair with Apple began in the
early 80’s when I wrote my first BASIC
programs on the Apple IIe. My first
Apple was a IIGS which I acquired by
successfully talking my Dad out of
purchasing a Mac Plus (Ahh, to be young
and naive again). A steady stream of Macs
followed. I made it through college using
my trusty Mac Plus and after graduation
migrated to a Performa 575. The Performa
sustained me while working in pre-press
for a successful Portland, OR advertising
agency. In Portland, with the help of the
local Mac User Group (PMUG), I quickly
made friends with other Mac Geeks and
officially joined the Cult of Macintosh.
My career quickly moved from pre-press
to IT services, while all along doing
freelance web design and development
under the name Terraform Creative.
After a brief stint on the PMUG board of
directors, I purchased a shiny new B&W
G3, packed up my stuff and moved to San
Diego to dry out. I began a new life as a
Software Engineer and sought out new
Mac Geeks in the San Diego Macintosh
Users Group (SDMUG). I currently serve
on the Board of Directors for SDMUG,
as well as the Board of the San Diego
Computer Society (SDCS). In August
2004, I discovered Podcasting and became
instantly addicted. In early December
2004 I put out the first MacCast and I
haven’t stopped since. I currently produce
and publish the MacCast each week and
I am having a great time doing it. The
Macintosh and the Mac community
continue to amaze and inspire me and I
am happy to be one of the crazy ones.
CMC Meeting Info
Monthly CMC meetings are generally
held on the last Wednesday of the month,
except November and December, or
when the meetings are held earlier due to
holidays. And occasionally, scheduling
difficulties require our meetings to be on
other dates; please remember to check
our web site at www.ctmac.org to confirm
date and location. Meetings start at 6:30
p.m. as we discuss the latest Apple news,
answer members’ technical questions, and
then segue into our main presentation.
Do you have an idea for a topic we should
present? Perhaps there’s a topic that you
would like to present yourself? Email your
suggestions to: [email protected].
CMC Board meetings are held on the first
Thursday of the month. If you wish to
attend a Board meeting, contact an officer
for time and location.
Free Mac Support
Did you know that CMC tech
support is just a click away?
You don’t have to wait for a monthly
meeting to get answers your Apple
related questions. CMC hosts a Mac
support mailing list for our members.
You can join at www.ctmac.org.
You can also post to this group by
sending an email to ctmac-support@
yahoogroups.com
Treasurer’s Report
Current Membership: 72
CMC Account Balance:
$2512.02
(balance as of April 4, 2014)
Free Classified Ads
CMC members can advertise items
for sale, swap, trade, giveaway, or
want-to-buy. Advertise items which
you no longer need! This is a free
service provided to our members. Send
information to: [email protected].
Display Ad Rates
Any item or service can be advertised at
these low monthly rates:
Business Card
Quarter Page
Half Page
Full Page
(3.5” w. x 2” h.) .............$10.00
(3.625” w. x 4.75” h.)... $20.00
(7.5” w. x 4.75” h. or
3.625” w. x 9.5” h.). ..... $30.00
(7.5” w. x 9.5” h.) ......... $50.00
Email ad copy to [email protected] by
the 20th of the month for insertion in
the following issue. Display ads must be
submitted in eps or pdf format with all
fonts and graphics embedded. Specify how
many issues you would like your ad to
run, and make check payable to “CMC.”
Free Raffle!
Every CMC member who attends our
monthly meetings gets a raffle ticket that
will give you a chance for one of our free
prizes every month! Win toys, t-shirts,
CDs, mugs, software – there’s always
something we’re giving away! And don’t
forget the “free table” at the back of the
room where everything is… free!
Easy Web Addresses
Remember that you can easily access
web sites referenced in your CMC
newsletters by viewing the full color
PDF version available on our web site
at: www.ctmac.org . Simply click on the
URL to go right to that site!
Another Way to Pay Your CMC Dues
CMC Treasurer Linas Venclauskas
wants you to know that we are using
the Square Card Reader service. This
means members can now pay their dues
at a meeting using a credit card. Simply
see the treasurer and ask him to update
your dues using your credit card.
Of course you can still pay by check via
mail or by using PayPal on the CMC
website. If you have any questions or
concerns, see Linas at the next meeting
or email him at:
[email protected].
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In Other News...
CMC Meeting
Directions to UConn
Health Center
submitted by Jerry Esposito
Our March meetin
g had a two-course
offering.
Google was demys
tified at our Mar
ch 26
meeting thanks
to CMC member
M
Maglio. He review
ed why no one shou ark
ld use
i ages directly dow
im
nloaded from the in
ternet
without paying, wh
y you should mak
e sure
a l images that are
al
used on your webs
ite have
b en legally purcha
be
sed and what the re
sults can
be if they were not.
Mark also showed
us some
hidden features of
Google such as tran
slations
and flight tracking.
As a wrap-up to the
evening, our CMC
president
C
Chris Hart reviewed
navigation apps avai
lable for
tthe iPhone. He stres
sed the importance
of safety
when using navigatio
n while driving, show
ed us
the use of Siri with
the Apple Maps ap
p,
compared traffic on
maps using a map
vs,
the Waze app, and
reviewed the Motio
nX
aand Inrix traffic apps
.
C C sends a than
CM
k
you to both Mark an
d
C ris for anothe
Ch
r
grrea
e t MUG meeting.
Monthly CMC meetings are held
at the UConn Health Center in
Farmington.
A PDF document containing
a visual direction guide to the
location of our meeting in the
UConn Health Center is available
on our website: www.ctmac.org
From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if
coming from I-84 West, Exit 39
is after 39A). Turn right at first
traffic light onto Route 4 East
(Farmington Avenue). At third
traffic light, turn right to enter
the Health Center campus. Go
around the main building to
the right (at the Y in road), then
take a left when you get to the
Academic Entrance. (The road
becomes two-way there so you
should be able to tell where to
turn; do not go straight to the
two-way part). Then take the
second right into parking lot
A&B. Go past the police station
entrance on your left (small sign).
You will see a continuation of the
building with its own entrance
area. This is the research
building. Enter on the ground
floor, turn right and enter room
EG-013 on your right. This is the
first room on your right. The
rest rooms are on your left as
you enter.
photos by John Scott
April 2014
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Connecticut Macintosh Connection
a user group since 1986