Web Developers to Meet

         Here's an announcement from John Carter:  "The Prescott Web Developers has scheduled a meeting on July 13 from 10 AM to noon at the Prescott Library. This is a general membership meeting for web developers. No specific topic has been established. All are welcome.

        "The PCS Developer's SIG meeting will be July 6 from 1-3 PM at the Library. The topic of that meeting is HTML and CSS for web developers. All are welcome." 

Gmail's New Inbox

        "If you use Gmail as your email client -- as I do --" Jim Hamm begins, " here is an article explaining the details of Gmail's new inbox, should you decide to try it. I've been aware of this new feature for some time, but haven't tried it yet -- but I think I'll give it a try now to see what I think about it. It would be nice , for example, to get the offers for coupons from, say, Red Lobster, all to appear in one inbox, Promotions, instead of being intermingled with my other emails. Plus, if you don't like this new feature you can always change back to the format you're accustomed to.

        "Just click the gear icon in the upper right of your screen and select 'Configure Inbox.' Good luck...(grin)...Now, if you don't use Gmail, you're missing a very good email client," Jim says in closing. 

Collecting for Doce Fire Relief

        The Internet provider Commspeed has emailed customers to inform about their appreciation for the firefighters on the Doce Fire.  They're taking up a collection of useful stuff to donate to the firefighters, such as T-shirts, underwear, deodorant, toothbrushes, combs, soles for boots, snacks and nuts, and homemade sweets.  Donations are being taken at the Prescott High School.  For info about the fire call 928-445-1089 or 928-777-5682.

Mayo Clinic Using iPhone, iPad

        A recent posting at www.apple.com/hotnews brings up an interesting article about Mayo Clinic.  www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/mayo-clinic/   Using custom apps for physicians and patients on iPhone, iPad and iPad mini Mayo is "transforming the capabilities of individualized patient care."  It describes the app Synthesis Mobile that gives physicians instant access, and iOS provides security for patients using their password for personal information.  
        You can get Hot News info updated via RSS to NetNewsWire. 

More Info for You

      Webmaster Mary Ann Clark has posted an informative piece on cookies by John Clark on the www.pmug.us site.  Go to Benefits >  Tips 'N Tricks to find this new article and nine other helpful pieces.    
        To keep up to date, click on RSS on the PMUG home page menu.  It will set you up with PMUG listing on NetNewsWire.  When that opens click to Refresh All, so the latest comes up. On this blog you scroll down to Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) and click. 

PMUG Officers for 2013-2014

        Well, what do you know?  Last week's PMUG meeting was the annual election of officers, and the "old" officers were willing to work another year!  So, the "old" is now "new."   Art Gorski, president!  David Rothgery, vice president!  Bobbie Pastor, secretary!  David Passell, treasurer!  Congratulations and thanks to all those who attend PMUG and help make it a friendly, helpful, interesting group!  

iPhone Emergency Alerts

       Jim Hamm found this helpful article, "Are You 'In The Know,'"  detailing the Wireless Emergency Alert system.  "Following is an article from the Small Dogs Newsletter with information that could come in handy sometime. I've got the alerts turned on, although I only found two to turn on -- not three as mentioned in the article."  See it here. 

iPad at Work

The three seminars that were previously mentioned by this post are no longer available. David Sparks at Macsparky.com talks about his book iPad At Work. The book is available at Amazon.com. There are 24 chapters that cover everything possible for using an iPad in a working environment. This book is a derivative of his earlier book Mac At Work.

Apple often provides online seminars for similar products. The iPad at Work seminar by Apple can be found here.

Short & Simple, Of Course, Mac Helps You!

        Using your Mac is easy to do.  Here are some shortcuts.  How many are you already using?  Which ones will you try later today?  

        To write anything:  click to open Pages.  Up comes a blank document, ready for your report, a birthday blessing for one of your 45 closest relatives, an anniversary poem to send to some family member, or the first chapter of your fiction piece that’s been brewing in your head. 

        Jot down some key ideas.  Do Command + S to save it, giving it a short title. 

        Off the page where you’re writing do a click with the right side of the mouse which brings up a short list.  Choose New Folder and drag this latest writing into it.  Type a name for the folder.

        When you’re ready to add to that first version of the new writing do Command + D to duplicate what you have and add to it.  Keep Version 1 as is; work on Version 2.  As you think of other bright ideas during the day you make a new version and keep it in the same folder.  

        Your busy brain has thought of some important details to add, or some colorful adjectives, or . . . .   That first idea may present possibilities.  A “I remember when…” piece may have poetic notions.  Now you’ve got a document of prose and a document of delightful rhyme.  Keep these in the same folder.  

        As the deadline approaches you put the finishing touches on the one that fills the bill.  Name the final version  “June handout BEST.”  Those other ideas may lend themselves to some other use, so hold on to them for now.  

        With cursor in the background screen do Command + I to bring up Get Info on the left hand side, a nifty box for you to add info.  Keywords you put in can help you find this new writing later.  

        Command + R  when looking at a list from the Inspector you view a tiny picture of the various files.  Put your cursor on the one you want to find.  Command + R then brings it up in the files so you can see where it’s located. (When you see the one you want in Inspector you can just click on the title you want and it will open, but you won’t know what folder it’s in.)  

        To cut, highlight what you want to remove and do  Command + X.  Paste what you’ve then highlighted with Command + V.  To copy, highlight what you want and do Command + C.

        Find it on your desktop or a file list: On the Menu at top of page that lists Finder first, go to File > Label and choose a color.  Your folder will show up in a list with that color bar around the title. 

        Want to enlarge the type under the folders on the desktop? On the main menu bar on the top go to View > Show View Options.  Experiment with enlarging icon size, spacing, text. 

        On the Internet, Command + D  at the URL line of the website lets you add that site to a folder in Bookmarks. Scroll through the little box to find the suitable home for that URL. 

        Command + Shift + 4 brings up the screen shot that you stretch around the picture or text that you want to copy and saves the screen shot as a file on desktop. 

        Command + B makes what you’ve highlighted turn into a bold font.  Do it again over the bold and it toggles to go back to not-bold. 

        Command and + on a highlighted word lets you enlarge it by repeatedly tapping the +.  The opposite, Command and the - will shrink the highlighted word. 

        On Mountain Lion you can do some of this an easier way.  Highlight the word or paragraphs, etc. Then right click with your mouse on that document.  It lists choices, such as spelling, speech, etc.  Look under Writing Tools and it brings up look up in dictionary, thesaurus, search in Spotlight, Google, Wikipedia, and show statistics. 

        If you’ve set Pages to show word count at the bottom of the page:  click on Words and it gives the total number of pages, lines, paragraphs, characters and characters not counting spaces.  

        If you accidentally delete something -- and before you type in something else -- go to Edit on the menu across the top of Pages and click to Undo Typing.  It will replace what you took out. 

        Here’s 8 pages of shortcuts if you’re REALLY into shortcut info for every possible idea: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343  Keyboard by category

        Let’s Take a Look at Mail: When you’ve clicked to open a New Message and have written a first draft, then you can click on the last tiny icon on the top right.  Your Mac gives you choices of how to make your email more attention-getting with choices of colorful templates such as Birthday, Announcements, Photos, Stationery, and Sentiments.  You can drag in some photo to make this email personalized. 

        Shop on Amazon:  Go to amazon.com and click on Sign in to set up Your Account.  Must allow cookies! Command + ,  (the comma) then choose Privacy > Block cookies from 3^rd parties.   Go to Your account to see history, using gift cards,  settings,  etc.  Your balance never expires. (I go back afterwards and change Cookies setting to Never.) 

        Start your own FREE blog:  https://accounts.google.com/  Must allow cookies first.  Then sign in with email address and a password.  Set up your account.  Go to view Dashboard where you have choices to make about web albums, YouTube profile, etc.  Go to www.blogger.com to look at available templates.  Here’s links to info: https://support.google.com/blogger/ 

        Keep up to date:  If you subscribe to NetNewsWire you can be notified when there’s a new entry to the PMUG newsblog  http://pmugnews.blogspot.com and also to the PMUG website:  http://pmug.us/    Take a look here http://netnewswireapp.com/mac           

        (That’s all for now!)       This is the PMUG meeting handout for June 15, 2013

from Elaine Hardt 

How Hot is Too Hot? Why? How?

The laptop computer felt hot to touch.  How hot is too hot?  That basic information was not evident with a Google search.  Then, a bright idea.  Yesterday the MacMedia email had arrived with the clever heading, "Geek Goods for your Mac Daddy!"          We had purchased the MacBook Pro at the MacMedia store down in Peoria in September.  Who better to call?  A helpful guy, Rob, didn't seem in too big of a hurry to chat. I explained, relating some of the temperatures I'd noted from iStatPro widget.  He explained the range of temperatures, reassured me that mine were OK, "That's why we don't call it a 'laptop' anymore."         The helpful widget is here.

Comparing iOS7 to iOS6

        Sent from his iPad,  Jim Hamm sends this link:  "Here is a comparison of the icons in iOS 7 vs iOS 6, which we're using now. I'm not impressed with the change. The new icons seem washed out to me. I don't really see any improvement or any reason for the change. I guess Apple felt like they should do something if they are upgrading the iOS. What do you think of the new icons?"

Anticipating Mavericks

        With the latest from WWDC mentioned in earlier postings today we are looking to the next upgrade, and Jim Hamm sends this,  "Here is a tentative list of requirements to upgrade to Mavericks. I noticed that perhaps one can go directly from Snow Leopard to Mavericks."

Here Comes Mavericks and iOS 7

          John Carter's keeping up with the latest news!  "Apple announced the newest OS X (Mavericks) and iOS 7 to be available this fall. I expect both releases will be available by late October.

        "The changes in Mavericks and iOS 7 are enough to warrant a thorough review, and many reviews will be available online immediately after the release, if not before (from some developers). However, I will be upgrading as soon as they are released and putting together a presentation to be offered (hopefully) at the November PMUG meeting.

        "There is hope that iOS 7 can be Jailbroken to allow the iPhone to work as a Wi-Fi hotspot for an iPad, as well as allowing thousands of non-Apple approved apps to be installed. I will be working on this as well."

        Here, Prez Art Gorski jumps in with this piece of good news,  "You can already do this without jailbreaking on Verizon."
        But this is what John Carter has to say, "For a fee from Verizon.  I want to do it for FREE!"
        So, what will the outcome be?  Stay tuned for further information . . . 

What's in Your Wallet?

        "If you use Google's Gmail there's a new app coming: Google Wallet. Here is an article describing the features, which are primarily a way to move money around, somewhat similar to PayPal. 

        "When Google Wallet is available, let's set up a test -- let's see if you can use Google Wallet to send $100 to me. That way we'll be on the leading edge of testing a new app.....(grin)."  ...Jim Hamm

What's Up at WWDC 2013?

       The WWDC, worldwide developer conference being held in San Francisco captures our attention.  "There are several blogs describing what Apple introduced yesterday at the WWDC 2013.Here is one by TechCrunch that has lots of pictures as well as brief comments on what's happening. 

        "Looks like Apple fans can look forward to interesting times this fall. I was especially pleased to hear that apps will be automatically updated. This removes one minor irritation from life...(grin)" ...Jim Hamm

Tried Zinio at the Library Yet?

          Here's a helpful suggestion from Jim Hamm, "For your information, free downloads of magazines are now available at the Prescott Library using an app entitled 'Zinio.' Click here for more info and to get started."   Prez Art Gorski had first alerted us to this new feature.  See the earlier posting on May 9, "Zinio has arrived at PPL." 

Diving Into Dashboard

         Do you use dashboard? Do you like it? 
         Jim Hamm informs us, "I've sorta forgotten all about Dashboard on the Mac, and haven't used it in ages. However, reading this article from MacWorld got me interested (well, somewhat) in Dashboard again. Armed with the tips from Christopher Breen I may take another look and see if Dashboard can play a useful role when I'm using my Mac."

Opera's Next Rendition is Available

        Here's Jim Hamm's report on Opera, following up on the earlier posting on June 3.  "I've been using, for a couple of days, Opera's next rendition of a browser entitled, appropriately enough, Opera Next 15. It is still undergoing development but is available for download for either a Mac or PC. I have it installed on both, and it has been working fine. Here is an article with a brief review of Opera Next. And here is a video of the browser.

        "One aspect of the browser that I particularly like is the small amount of memory the browser uses. When first opened it uses roughly 54 MB of memory, and only moves up to about 75 MB after extensive usage. The other browsers I use can get to hundreds of MB of memory consumed, and a restart of the browser is necessary to free up memory." 

         So, what does Jim suggest?  "If you like to explore a bit, you might give Opera Next a try. Here is the download website."

National Donut Day

       You can picture Jim Hamm as he grins, "This may come as a surprise to you -- it did to me: today is National Donut Day, at least according to the Business Insider, which kinda seems like it is the National Enquirer for business folks. First time I've ever looked at this newsletter, and thought I'd share this exciting news with you.

        He shares some personal information, "Many years ago, when I was in the Army, I was stationed in Korea. Our platoon was stationed out in the 'boonies', and our highlight each week was when two gals, with an Army driver, would come to our location in a van and serve donuts to the guys. As I recall, this service was provided by the USO branch of the Army. We always looked forward to chatting with the gals and chomping on a couple of donuts."

        This sweet holiday was established by the Salvation Salvation Army in 1938 to raise funds and honor the “lassies” as they called the female volunteers, who supported the soldiers on the front lines during World War 1.  Here's more information in this article: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/06/national-doughnut-day-2013-where-to-get-free-doughnuts/   

        Jim signs off with, "Don't forget to rush out today and get a free donut, with a purchase of something else, of course."  

How to Securely Set Up Your New Mac

       Jim Hamm has found an article for you or your friend who's getting a new Mac.  He says, " Here's an article from Intego with some useful hints on setting up a new Mac. 
        One of the suggestions is to install an anti-virus program, which I think is a good idea. Naturally the article recommends VirusBarrier, which costs money. I use Avast, which is free and a decent anti-virus program. I realize Macs haven't been hit by malware frequently in the past, but I don't see a downside to using a free AV program such as Avast. Maybe it will help me someday.

      "Another tip mentioned — particularly for laptops — is install a program, such as GadgetTrak, to try and track your laptop should it be stolen. Here is a review of other such programs."