Category: MacMAD

Virtual Zoom Meeting Oct 20, 2020

MacMAD will hold a virtual presentation meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at 7:00 PM. This is our usual Tuesday night meeting date.

Eric Emerick will present on recent system changes and announcement from Apple.

The meeting will be via Zoom. You can participate via your iPhone, iPad or Macintosh.

We will send out an email to all members before the meeting with a link and Meeting ID you will need to join the meeting.

If you haven’t used Zoom before, it is a popular video conferencing App and platform. It would be best if you downloaded, installed, and tested the app before meeting time.

To get started, visit https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting

Zoom is popular because it is easy to use. They have good instruction videos on the Zoom web site.

However, If you need help getting Zoom set up on your device, please contact me well in advance (days) of the meeting and I will help you get started.

For help, email [email protected]

or, call Jamie Cox
321-432-0878 (leave a voice message)

Or, you can download the free book, Take Control of Zoom Essentials.

https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/zoom-essentials/

Still no Meetings

Although some things have open up, we still feel that the risk of in-person meetings outweighs the benefits.

At this writing (July 20, 2020), COVID-19 is more prevalent in our community than ever, and our members are mostly in the age group most at risk.

MacMAD is extending the paid membership of all members month-to-month until we begin to have in-person meetings again.

May Meeting Notes: Contacts and Calendars

Here’s some useful information from this month’s meeting on Contacts and Calendars.

The contacts and calendars apps exist on both the Mac (computers) and iOS (iPad & iPhone). The different versions can cooperate and share data via iCloud, but they are not the same. The Mac version can do some things, such as edit contact groups that the iOS version cannot do.

Here is Apple’s Support Article on Contacts for the Mac.� It is an overview of Contacts and how to use them.

And, similarly, here is Apple’s Support Article on Calendars on the Mac.

Besides Apple’s pre-defined Holiday calendar and your own calendars, you may find public calendars for various topics and groups on-line which you can subscribe to. For example, here is the MacMAD meeting calendar. �If you subscribe to that, you will see our monthly meetings. If any changes are made, you will see the changes automatically.

Meeting Topic: iTunes 12.7 September 2017

Our MacMAD meeting topic this month is iTunes. There are some interesting changes in the latest version. In particular, Apple has removed the purchase and management of iOS Apps from iTunes. This is a good step in the right direction to make iTunes less complicated and more focused.

Here is tonight’s Keynote presentation.

 

Twenty Years Ago – 1996 Mac Setup

I just found this photo of my computer desk from 1996.

Computer Equipment on Desk
Laserwriter, Power Mac 7200, Modem, Optical Drive & Heavy CRT.

Here’s my reasonably well-equipped computer setup from 1996. From left to right:

  • The miracle piano. My wife was using that. It connected to the Mac via MIDI. I don’t know of a modern piano teaching system comprable to it
  • Apple LaserWriter NT printer. Apple’s last LaserWriter came out in 1996. My new printer is about the same size and speed. It’s� cheaper, more reliable, and has WiFi, though.
  • A microphone. That was a rarely used accessory. Who knows what was going on that day.
  • Yellow Touch-Tone desk phone
  • 9600 baud modem
  • Removable media optical drive — I think 100 Mbyte capacity
  • Power Macintosh 7200 – 90 MHz Power PC 601, 500 MB hard drive, CD-ROM, floppy drive
  • A big, heavy CRT – probably a Bill Bernett after-the-meeting special
  • A joystick, probably for the�game F/A-18 Hornet
  • Blue mousepad. Hey, I still have that mousepad. I should probably get a new one occasionally
  • Another telephone, Model 500 black dial phone. This phone stayed in use longer than the yellow one. It was still working when my landline was disconnected entirely about 2015.