Microsoft Office / Outlook We reviewed Microsoft’s current offering of Office apps on iOS (iPads and iPhones). Microsoft first dipped its toe into iOS when it offered the free OneNote app, a rich text, drawing, and rich media note taking app, back in 2011. Then about a year ago, in spring 2014, … [Read more...]
Apple SIG Notes January 2015 – Back up your iOS device
We reviewed the ways to sync and back up an iPhone or iPad to be prepared in case you should ever lose your device. Before getting into that, we went into iCloud settings and enabled Find My iPhone. This enables your lost or misplaced device to be located from another iOS device using the Find My … [Read more...]
Apple SIG Notes – December 2014
One of our members was still planning his upgrade from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Yosemite. Since he was skipping a few releases (Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks) I suggested it would be a good idea to do a clean install rather than upgrade his existing Snow Leopard installation. A search on “OS X … [Read more...]
Upcoming Apple SIG – December 9th
Now that iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite have been out for a little while we can take a look at some tips and tricks for using the new operating systems on our Apple devices. If you've encountered any issues we can talk about those. For anyone that hasn't made the jump yet, we can answer questions about … [Read more...]
OS X Yosemite, Apple SIG November 2014
We took OS X Yosemite for a spin at the November meeting. It’s a free upgrade from OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks). It looks quite nice with new fonts and a flatter, more streamlined look similar to iOS 7 and 8 including translucency effects. There have been … [Read more...]
Apple SIG Notes, October 2014
iOS 8 has been released so we explored it on my iPhone and iPad. We took a look at the new iPhone Health app which is designed to centralize health data from other apps you have installed. My iPhone 5s has an M7 coprocessor that monitors my steps during the day without having an app open, so that … [Read more...]
iPhone 6 – Apple SIG, September 2014
Turnout for the September 9th meeting was high, with keen interest in discussing Apple’s announcements. As predicted, two iPhones were announced, an iPhone 6 with a 4.7” screen and an iPhone 6 Plus with a 5.5” screen. The starting configuration for either one is the usual 16GB of storage, but then … [Read more...]
Apple SIG Notes, August 2014
In August we had a one-on-one session with a new Mac user to set up his recently acquired MacBook Air. He had reported some trouble running Skype, so we took a look and found three copies of Skype on his machine, one on the Mac desktop and a Skype and Skype 2 in his Applications folder. We … [Read more...]
Recovery Partition, iOS Notifications – Apple SIG July 2014
In order to do maintenance on your main Mac hard drive, you may need to boot into the Recovery partition. This partition is hidden from view in Disk Utility, but you can boot into it by restarting your Mac and holding down the Option key. This will show you a list of bootable disks on your machine. … [Read more...]
iOS 8 / OS X Yosemite Preview – Apple SIG June ’14
In early June Apple holds its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. This year they announced the new features of iOS 8, which will run on the iPhone and iPad, and OS X Yosemite, which succeeds OS X Mavericks as the next operating system to run on Macs. Both will arrive in the fall. The common … [Read more...]
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