Apple TV / MacBook / Apple Watch At the March meeting we discussed Apple’s March 9th “Spring Forward” announcement where the biggest news was pricing and availability details on the Apple Watch, but they also had some Mac and other news to share. The price of the Apple TV streaming box has … [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...]
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...]
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...]
iTunes Backup of iPhone or iPad – Apple SIG May ’14
By Richard Corzo In May I explained how a local iTunes backup of your iPhone or iPad can be used to restore your apps and data to a new iOS device. When you sync your iOS device with iTunes you have the option of setting it up to do a backup to iTunes every time you sync. If you elect to do just … [Read more...]
Android – Jeff Postolowski
Date: Tuesday, April 1st, 7 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium By Richard Corzo Apple came out with the iPhone in 2007. It was a phone, iPod music player, and mobile Internet browser in a single device, with a large touch screen but no numeric keypad or keyboard. Nokia and many other … [Read more...]
Unlocking an iPhone – Apple SIG Feb. ’14
By Richard Corzo February’s meeting was dedicated to unlocking an iPhone and switching to a different carrier. Unlocking a phone allows you to switch to a different carrier, or to buy a prepaid SIM to save money on phone calls when you are traveling overseas. To unlock a phone you need to have … [Read more...]
Apple Ecosystem—with Richard Corzo, Jan 2014
By Frank Kromer How appropriate the name for the January presentation. Apple Ecosystem, as presented by Richard Corzo, says it all. Richard began with the Apple TV ($99) and the Apple feature known as Airplay. This device, when connected to an HDTV, can share content through iTunes between a … [Read more...]