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LAPUG Monthly Meeting July 2015
July 15, 2015 16:05 - 2 hours - 94.2 MBApple Music is here! Apple has made an about-face from over a decade ago when Steve Jobs said that people want to own their music. With Spotify, Pandora and other apps sharing their part of the streaming music market, Apple has now added an all-you-can-eat feature to the iTunes Music Store. We'll spend some time going over how it works and what's different than the competition. We'll also talk about how it compares to Apple's other music service, iTunes Match, and how they can work together....
LAPUG Monthly Meeting June 2015
June 12, 2015 14:53 - 2 hours - 87.2 MBWWDC! The annual Apple Worldwide Developer Conference is the week of June 8 and, luckily for us, we’re meeting the evening of first day. That means we’ll have a wrap up report of the keynote that will have taken place earlier that morning. Traditionally, this is the time of year Apple makes announcments about new versions of OS X, iOS and any new technologies they plan to introduce soon. Perhaps there will be a few hardware announcements, too. There have been a ton of rumors about what’s to ...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting May 2015
May 14, 2015 14:48 - 2 hours - 76.8 MBThe Apple Watch is real and it’s finally here! But, is it all it’s reported to be? We’ll have a few watches on hand to show and talk about. We’ll review what the Apple Watch is and, equally important, what it’s not. There are many features of the watch that make it an extension of an iPhone and we’ll review what those are. We’ll also talk about how popular apps from the App Store have added functionality to the Apple Watch to make it even more useful. Come on by and let’s enjoy some Watch ti...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting April 2015
April 16, 2015 15:07 - 2 hours - 79.2 MBRIP iPhoto & Aperture. Apple has just release Yosemite 10.10.3 which not only includes the usual set of bug fixes and optimizations, it includes a brand new application, Photos. Photos is the new application that replaces both iPhoto and Aperture. Although both of those applications will no longer be updated, they will continue to work for the foreseeable future. We’ll review some of the features and requirements of Photos and we’ll discuss the consequence of moving to the new program. If...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting March 2015
March 16, 2015 18:57 - 2 hours - 77.9 MBApple is planning an announcement from Cupertino the morning of our meeting. Being a Monday, it is a rare occurrence for us to discuss announcements just made rather than speculate on a presentation that might happen the next day or later in the week. We’ll have a full rundown on what Apple talks about! Yosemite is pretty solid since it came out in the fall and it brings with it lots of new and hidden features. We’ve talked about the main “tentpole” features of Yosemite, but now we’ve ha...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting Feb 2015
February 11, 2015 02:53 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBIn 2014, Apple announced a few new products coming in early 2015. Well, it’s now early 2015 and these products are getting closer to being released. The Apple Watch is reportedly in production and the upcoming Photos application for OS X (replacing iPhoto and Aperture) hsa been reported to be in the next update to Yosemite. We’ll talk about these upcoming releases and show you what we know (including some videos of Photos). Since there are a lot of utilties to help you clean up your iPhoto...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting Jan 2015
January 16, 2015 18:06 - 2 hours - 82.8 MBJanuary is CES month! Ben, Phil and other LAPUG members that attended will review what was shown in the iLounge area as well as the coming trends in consumer electronics for 2015. We’ll also focus on Sandvox. This is a really easy to use web site development tool. We’ll show you how to create a web site and how to upload it to a web server. We’ll also how you how easy it is to post updates and we’ll do it live with our own LAPUG web site. And one more thing….Are you a slow typist? Are you...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting December 2014
December 10, 2014 16:51 - 2 hours - 88 MBOS X Yosemite has been out for a while and we’re discovering new things it can do every day. This is a great release and it promises to be the best version of OS X yet. Join us at our next meeting as we review not only some great new features in Yosemite but also some must-have Yosemite add-ons you can use to supercharge your Mac. Bring your Yosemite questions and we’ll enjoy some Q&A to cap off a great 2014 in the Apple world. And, of course, we'll go over some other current events in the...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting November 2014
December 01, 2014 05:10 - 2 hours - 89.5 MBOS X Yosemite is here! Not only that, we’ve got an update to iOS 8 that enables the collaborative functions of Yosemite and iOS working together even more closely. New iMacs and Mac Minis have been released, too! We’ll review all this news and we’ll spend the most of our meeting going over lots of new Yosemite features and how they work in conjuction with iOS. This will be the Mac meeting of the season as we all dive into two new operating systems! Don’t miss this meeting! And, of cour...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting October 2014
October 17, 2014 20:19 - 2 hours - 91.9 MBWow! Lots of cool new stuff this month. iOS 8 has finally been released and we’ve got a pair of gorgeous new iPhones. Apple promises that Apple Pay will replace our credit cards and be the future of digital payments. Also, the mythical Apple Watch has been announced and we’ll talk about what features we can expect from it. We’ll spend a good portion of our meeting going over a bunch of new features found in iOS 8 and how you can take advantage of them! We'll also talk about why some gra...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting Sept 2014
September 09, 2014 15:43 - 1 hour - 63 MBApple must be teasing as, once again, they’ve chosen the morning after our September LAPUG meeting to make some big announcements. They’ll be doing the big show from the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino and this is only the 4th time Apple has made an announcement from this location (with the first being the introduction of the Mac in 1984). The Flint Center seats 2,300 -- over seven times the capacity of Apple’s on-Campus theater and over three times the capacity of the Yerb...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting August 2014
August 19, 2014 02:05 - 2 hours - 82.3 MBAt our last meeting, we took a little survey of topics members would like us to cover at future meetings. One of those topics had to do with networking and the explanation of IP numbers, how they’re given out, gateways, DNS, switches, routers, bridges, IP port numbers, port forwarding and all the mysterious stuff that Internet companies make you go through. It’s important you understand what all these things are so that you’ll be better equipped to troubleshoot networking issues with your co...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting July 2014
July 16, 2014 03:19 - 2 hours - 82.1 MBWe're going to look at a few applications to help you get a little more productive in your personal and work lives. Apple provides some apps like Reminders to help you make lists of things to do. But, if you need to keep track of more things than simple to-do lists can handle, or if you need to manage multiple projects, there are lots of apps that can do that sort of thing. This month, we'll look at OmniFocus and how its ecosystem works between OS X and iOS devices. We'll also look at strea...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting June 2014
June 11, 2014 14:29 - 2 hours - 87 MBApple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) announcements brought lots of new stuff for the Apple world. Announcements for OS X Yosemite, iOS 8 and more! Join us for a recap and discussion of what we will be looking forward to playing with in the coming months. Bring your questions about the new stuff and how it all might affect you and we’ll put it all in perspective. This stuff is cool!!!! And, of course, we'll go over some other current events in the OS X world as well as review some ...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting May 2014
May 16, 2014 15:12 - 2 hours - 75.3 MBMoving forward with new releases of OS X sometimes means leaving things behind. With the introduction of Lion, Rosetta went away and we lost the ability to run old PowerPC apps (some of which never got updated to Intel). With the introduction of Leopard, we lost the ability to run Classic (OS 9) apps. Of course, pretty much everything is available to us in modern versions of OS X. But, what if you have data that needs to be read from some old app in an unsupported operating system or you nee...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting April 2014
April 25, 2014 17:06 - 2 hours - 84.1 MBFor those of you who have finished your taxes and won’t be up all night, come on over and join us. We’ll review the events from Macworld | iWorld and we’ll talk about new products from the show. This is one of our highlights of the year as our week in San Francisco gives us an idea of what 2014 will bring us for third party products in the OS X and iOS worlds. And, of course, we'll go over some other current events in the OS X world as well as review some cool Mac & iOS apps and leave some ...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting March 2014
March 20, 2014 05:41 - 2 hours - 83.5 MBHaving an issue with your Mac or iPad? It happens sometimes and, generally speaking, it’s not your fault. We’ll go over some tips and tricks the troubleshooters use to help keep your devices in good working order. This is also an opportunity for your to come on by and ask some questions that have been stumping you so that you can get over that nagging OS X or iOS issue that’s been hounding you for a while. And, of course, we'll go over some other current events in the OS X world as well as ...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting February 2014
February 16, 2014 16:07 - 2 hours - 84.3 MBIf Internet Companies were Countries http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Internet-1-0-427143215 North Korea’s Red Star OS http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/north-korea-imitates-apple-os-x-latest-red-152414963.html iOS Tips (forwarded by Dave Whitby) http://overbidme.com/questions_and_answers/amazing-tricks-every-iphone-and-ipad-user-should-know Skybell Doorbell http://www.skybell.com Haiku Premium Themes free (2/day Mon-Sat) In-app purchase Olymp...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting Jan 2014
January 15, 2014 21:26 - 2 hours - 79.5 MBIt’s a brand new year and, with it, comes brand new stuff. Of course, the new MacPro is now shipping and some LAPUG users may have already received theirs. Within hours of it going on sale in late December, shipping dates were showing delivery in February so it may be some time before we get some real hands-on experience with it. Nevertheless, we’ll discuss what it offers and if it’s good time to get one. The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the week right before our mee...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting December 2013
December 19, 2013 16:59 - 2 hours - 72.6 MBThe dust is settling with OS X Mavericks and new things are upon us. One of those things is a whole new set of iWork applications. We’ll go over the apps along with the changes they bring. We’ll also show you how to get so much more out of templates with iWork apps that can be used with both OS X and iOS versions of iWork. iWork apps on OS X and iOS also share their data over iCloud and we’ll go over how that works as well as reviewing other apps that use cloud syncing as well. And, of cour...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting November 2013
November 12, 2013 21:58 - 2 hours - 62.9 MBNew OS, New MacBooks, New iPads, Oh My! As expected, October brought us new stuff and we’re pretty excited. OS X Mavericks is out and it’s been a pretty good upgrade. Not only does it introduce several new features but it’s free! New iLife and iWork apps are out and we’ll go over those, too. If you haven’t upgraded to Mavericks yet, we’ll give you some tips for best practices of what to do before upgrading. If you have upgraded and you’ve upgraded iWork and iLife, too, we’ll give you some t...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting October 2013
October 15, 2013 14:19 - 2 hours - 91.7 MBOS 7 is finally here along with new iPhones! You may have already upgraded to iOS 7 on your iPhone or you may be one of the lucky ones to have purchased a new iPhone 5C or iPhone 5s. We'll spend our evening talking about all the new features in iOS 7 along with a bunch of hidden new features and tips. Of course, we'll also discuss and show the new phones including the new iPhone 5s with it's new Touch ID sensor and new camera features. This will be one of our must attend meetings of the yea...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting September 2013
September 11, 2013 01:31 - 2 hours - 79.8 MBKeynote-Eve! As has happened a few times, we're meeting the night before new Apple announcements. We're expecting new iPhones and iOS 7 announcements for September 10. Could there be anything else? AppleTV Update? iPads? OS X Mavericks. Some of these rumors are more likely than others and we'll try to debunk some of the crazy ones out there. Come on by and we'll review what we know about what we expect will be announced. In addition to all this, presenting from an iPad and iPhone is very ...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting August 2013
August 14, 2013 05:47 - 2 hours - 89.2 MBSince people are using iOS devices more and more and they want to store documents on them for reference or need to edit them as they would on a notebook while on the road, it's really important to know how to get documents onto your iPad and iPhone. There are many apps that allow you to manage your documents (word processing, spreadsheets, PDFs, graphics, etc.) and it's important to know how to get them onto your iPhone or iPad in many different ways -- it's a lot easier than you thought and...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting July 2013
July 11, 2013 00:58 - 2 hours - 82.5 MBWell, WWDC is behind us and we'll discuss a few follow-up tidbits that we didn't get a chance to cover last month. One of things that a has come up a few times is the topic of Apple IDs -- what they are and how to best manage them. We'll spend some time going over that in detail so if this has been an issue for you, please make it a point to come to this meeting. In addition, well talk about a few other things affecting Mac and iOS users including the demise of Google Reader. We'll talk a...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting June 2013
June 14, 2013 16:54 - 2 hours - 84.5 MBWWDC! Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is on the same day as our June meeting. That's great since it will give us some time to discuss all the announcements to be made that day. What will they talk about? OS X 10.9? iOS 7? New MacBooks? New MacPro? New iPhones or iPads? What about personal computing devices like a watch that the press has been talking about so much? What about a TV? Well….. We won't know what they'll actually announce until that morning but you can be sure that we'l...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting May 2013
May 18, 2013 17:24 - 2 hours - 83 MBRumors…rumors…rumors!!! Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is next month and you know what that means. New Mac OS X to be announced. New iOS to be announced. But, what features will they include? What have you heard? What would you like to see in the new operating systems? Think there might be new hardware announcements? What about new product categories for Apple? Bring your favorite rumors and let's talk about what would make the ultimate Apple announcements. Next month, we'l...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting April 2013
April 10, 2013 00:08 - 2 hours - 91.3 MBPiggy-backing on last month's meeting, we'll talk about sharing data using the Cloud between iOS and your Mac. We'll talk about which apps are the most popular for sharing your data and your files and how you can leverage the strengths of various Cloud-based services. You shouldn't rely on just one on service and we'll show you how to integrate the Cloud into your daily work. And, of course, we'll go over some current events in the OS X world as well as review some cool Mac & iOS apps and l...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting March 2013
March 20, 2013 17:07 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBLiving in the Cloud! No, we're no becoming space cadets…we (and a lot of the industry) are moving the center of the computing world to cloud computing. At our next meeting, we'll talk about what cloud computing is all about and we'll talk about the different ways your Mac can participate. In fact, you might not realize it but many of the things you already do are based on Cloud technologies. It's not as terrifying as you might think it is and we'll discuss all the advantages of working wit...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting February 2013
March 05, 2013 18:07 - 2 hours - 80.8 MBMacworld | iWorld & MacIT have now come and gone and we'll spend some time at our February meeting reviewing some of the cool things we saw -- conferences and products. We'll have a nice wrap-up of the events from a bunch of us who spent some time in San Francisco at the end of January and beginning of February. And, of course, we'll go over some current events in the OS X world as well as review some cool Mac & iOS apps and leave some time for Q&A.
LAPUG Monthly Meeting January 2013
January 27, 2013 02:57 - 2 hours - 72.8 MBWe're caught between two large conferences this week. CES just ended and Macworld | iWorld comes at the end of the month. At our next meeting, we'll have a little recap of some of the activities that might have interested Mac and iOS users at CES in Las Vegas. The iLounge pavilion was fairly large and lots of iOS-related stuff was on display. In addition, many other companies announced products with a Mac or iOS tie-in and we'll go over some of the highlights. And, of course, we'll go over ...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting December 2012
December 26, 2012 15:01 - 2 hours - 70.6 MBIt's Been How Long? Can you believe it's been 20 years since LAPUG was created? The group was originally created in 1992 as a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the old Los Angeles Macintosh User Group (LAMG) -- one of the largest user groups in the world with a membership of over 5,000 at its peak. Monthly meetings back in the early 1990s peaked at over 600-700 attendees per meeting!! For those of you who were with us back then (and there are quite a few!), remember our meetings at the ...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting November 2012
December 01, 2012 06:11 - 2 hours - 77.8 MBThe new iPads are here! The hit is the new iPad Mini and we'll have a few to show. It's incredibly light yet powerful and it's just as powerful as its big brother. The iPad 4th Generation (full size) was also released and we'll talk about what's new. We'll also review some of the hit apps on the App Store -- productivity, social networking and some really cool games that will exercise your mind. And, of course, we'll go over some current events in the OS X world as well as review some cool...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting October 2012
October 08, 2012 07:00 - 2 hours - 88.9 MB(In the same voice as Steve Martin in "The Jerk") "The new iPhones are here! The new iPhones are here!". And so is iOS 6!! We'll review both of Apple's newest toys and we'll spend a lot of time going over all the new features in iOS. If you have an older iPhone, we'll tell you what features you'll have and what you won't so you'll know if it's time to upgrade or not. And, of course, we'll go over some current events in the OS X world as well as review some cool Mac & iOS apps and leave so...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting Sept 2012
September 18, 2012 05:47 - 2 hours - 84.3 MBSecurity! We'll talk a bit more about securing your Mac and, more importantly, your data and your online profiles. You might have heard about a major security breach that affected a writer for Wired magazine recently. We'll talk about what happened (he was using a Mac, iCloud, iPhone, iPad and more) and how he might have avoided some of the problems and how some of it was beyond his control. We'll also discuss some techniques and utilities that can help you not only remember your login info...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting August 2012
September 02, 2012 16:22 - 2 hours - 98.1 MBSo, the big news is that Mountain Lion is here!! Last month, we talked about getting prepared for Mountain Lion and making sure that you've not only got up-to-date software but whether your Mac would run Mountain Lion at all. This month, we'll dive in to Mountain Lion and show you all the ins and outs of this new cat! We'll also review some little known tips that we're uncovering that haven't been widely discussed. If you're about to jump on the Mountain Lion bandwagon, you'll definitely wan...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting May 2012
May 25, 2012 11:07 - 2 hours - 70.8 MBPortable Digital Photography!! There have been SO many advances in digital photography in the last few years, it's almost like a whole new medium compared to just three or four years ago. With the advent of much larger CCDs (charge coupled devices), greater Megapixels and more powerful lenses, the images we can capture are incredible with the newer cameras. Built-in hi-def video, HDR (high dynamic range), panorama features, and other concepts are things we'll go over and we'll have some ne...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting - April 2012
April 13, 2012 17:28 - 2 hours - 59.1 MBWith the new iPad here as well as some updated apps to take advantage of that gorgeous Retina Display, we'll have some more fun demonstrating cool uses of the iPad. We'll also talk about Mountain Lion coming out this summer and what implications it might have for you and your Macs. There's some Java malware out there and we'll review what it is, how it may affect you and what you can do to avoid it altogether. And, of course, we'll go over some current events in the OS X world as well as...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting March 2012
March 13, 2012 18:56 - 2 hours - 70.5 MBThere's lots of news this month! First and foremost, the new iPad has been announced and will start to arrive at the end of this week. If you haven't yet ordered yours or you're "on the fence", we'll discuss all the new features and we'll try to help you make a decision one way or the other. It looks really cool, though! A bunch of software updates have enhanced both the iPhone and iPad with iOS 5.1. We'll go over how to get this update (you don't need a computer!) and what it brings. We're...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting February 2012
March 10, 2012 00:59 - 2 hours - 65.9 MBMacworld | iWorld, Mac IT and CES have all come and gone and we'll report on what we thought of the shows and conferences along with some demos, photos and discussions of some new stuff we saw. We've also been seeing a lot of discussion about speech-to-text apps with iOS. Siri on the iPhone 4S is Apple's built-in tool for converting your spoken words into typed text. We'll spend a little time on some Siri tips and tricks but we'll also review some other programs that will save you some typi...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting Jan 2012
January 13, 2012 18:02 - 2 hours - 62.9 MBHappy New Year! Got a new iPad, iPod or iPhone for the holidays? You'll definitely want to come to our meeting this month as we're the group that talks about Apple's iOS products and how they integrate into your daily personal and business life. This month, we'll talk a bit about some alternative products to the built-in apps (Calendar, Music, Weather, Stocks, Notes, Reminders, Camera, etc). Although Apple provides some wonderful basic apps, there are many other applications available that...
LAPUG Monthly Meeting, October 2011
October 11, 2011 15:18 - 2 hours - 66.1 MBOf course we've all heard the sad news that the world has lost Steve Jobs. Many LAPUG members have expressed their feelings about what he has meant to them on our mailing list and in private emails. We'll spend some time talking about the impact he has made on our lives. If you have a special story you'd like to briefly share, feel free to come on by and let us know. But there's other news in Apple land and that, of course, is the new iPods, iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4S. We review the new ...