Were You at the Meeting Last Night?

If you weren’t, darn!

The Meeting after the Meeting was another gobsmacking happening! iOS 17 compatibility, iPadOS 17 compatibility, Sonoma compatibility, 3D-printed Apple Watch parts, low battery rates, DMUG (Desert Macintosh Users Group) newsletter, iPhones & water damage, don’t put iDevices that got wet in rice, various rapid charge issues, Sonic app vibrates water out of iPhones, washing AirPods, and Apple rumors kept us pretty busy.

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July 17th General Meeting

Apple News and Widgets & Lock Screens

More news and cool here’s-how-you-do-it info!

Regular Features

Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby.

Apple News & Updates

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing.

Be on the lookout, on the Web site, for the Zooming, (Re)Joining, Drawing post, which will have the all gory details on how the drawing (among other things) should work.

The meeting will be conducted on Zoom. The gory details have arrived: Tech Check!

The Meeting after the Meeting is back with us. Hang on in Zoom, after the General meeting, and chat with everyone!

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Were You at the Meeting Last Night?

You really shoulda been! We heard about lots and lots of cool new Apple, and other, stuff.

The Meeting after the Meeting was pretty much the same! We heard about restrooms at new Metro stations?; software recommendations; Russian hacking; printer issues, both laser and inkjet.

That’s my story; I’m sticking to it!

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June 19th General Meeting

WWDC & CES

Have you seen any reports from WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference)? We’re gonna have all of it, and more!

WWDC – WWDC palooza!  iOS 17, iPad OS 17, Watch OS 10, Mac OS Sonoma, and even Apple TV update!

We will also be getting a CES (Consumer Electronics Show) report.

Dang! All that info…

Regular Features

Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby.

Apple News & Updates

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing.

Be on the lookout, on the Web site, for the Zooming, (Re)Joining, Drawing post, which will have the all gory details on how the drawing (among other things) should work.

The meeting will be conducted on Zoom. The gory details have arrived: Tech Check!

The Meeting after the Meeting is back with us. Hang on in Zoom, after the General meeting, and chat with everyone!

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Were You at the Meeting Last Night?

You’re gonna have to try REALLY hard to get as organized as we are, if you weren’t.

The Meeting after the Meeting didn’t quite convene; next month!

That’s my story; I’m sticking to it!

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May 15th General Meeting

Mail and Messaging

Communication! You gotta do it!!

We might also be getting a CES report.

Regular Features

Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby.

Apple News & Updates

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing.

Be on the lookout, on the Web site, for the Zooming, (Re)Joining, Drawing post, which will have the all gory details on how the drawing (among other things) should work.

The meeting will be conducted on Zoom. The gory details have arrived: Tech Check!

The Meeting after the Meeting is back with us. Hang on in Zoom, after the General meeting, and chat with everyone!

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Were You at the Meeting Last Night?

We’ll get a lot farther in our next upgrade!

The Meeting after the Meeting covered Twillio device enrollment; buying your Mac/iDevice from private parties; Apple Watch as glucose monitor; what restaurant(s) is/are around for in-person Meeting after the Meeting; rescuing an iPhone that got soaked; traveling with, or without, computers; and Concorde fuel consumption and noise.

That’s my story; I’m sticking to it!

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April 17th General Meeting

Migration Techniques:  Problems and Solutions

Upgrading your Mac or iDevice? We’ll have what you need know!

Among other things, the following will be touched on:

Old software that needed to be upgraded
–  finding the installers for some of the applications that had been retained on my M1-MacBook Pro and importing these to the MacStudio (the biggest one of these was MS Office)
–  initial inability to do a direct transfer from one computer to another (Command-K) and having to resort to “sneaker-net” transfers via SD cards
–  finding and resolving aliases that no longer were linked to their original files
–  finding and resolving duplicate applications, folders, and files when the transfers were made from the Time Machine backup drive
–  learning where all the “hidden menu items” were in the new OS
–  etc.  etc.  etc.

Regular Features

Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby.

Apple News & Updates

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing.

Be on the lookout, on the Web site, for the Zooming, (Re)Joining, Drawing post, which will have the all gory details on how the drawing (among other things) should work.

The meeting will be conducted on Zoom. The gory details have arrived: Tech Check!

The Meeting after the Meeting is back with us. Hang on in Zoom, after the General meeting, and chat with everyone!

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Were You at the Meeting Last Night?

If not, your Mac may get its revenge at some point in the not-too-distant future…

The Meeting after the Meeting involved SafeBoot; Apple TV; accessing the recovery partition; Apple monitor update(s); non-Apple monitors for Mac users; Microsoft VP appearance on 60 Minutes; chatbots; Verizon wants you to upgrade!; Saving Mary Poppins rescue; data backup issues; modern decompressor for old StuffIt files; “GUI” Windows, early on; lots of other ancient history; ApplePay launches in South Korea; and various battery technologies. Whew!

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March 20th General Meeting

Spring Cleaning:  Clean My Mac, etc.

Regular Features

Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby.

Apple News & Updates

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing includes a $25.00 Apple Gift Card, a Mystery Apple Gift Card, a Westinghouse Rotating USB wall Charger, an atomi Power Station Pro, an Apple Water Bottle, and either a Watch Band or Bill Board Ear Buds.

Be on the lookout, on the Web site, for the Zooming, (Re)Joining, Drawing post, which will have the all gory details on how the drawing (among other things) should work.

The meeting will be conducted on Zoom. The gory details have arrived: Tech Check!

The Meeting after the Meeting is back with us. Hang on in Zoom, after the General meeting, and chat with everyone!

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