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10. In fact, I stopped buying Microsoft products with Windows 7. I thought that it somehow might help balance the account if I got Windows 10 free. I had several copies of Windows 7 so the upgrading to Windows 10 would be free, and it would give me the op-portunity to compare it with a MacOS installation. In the first two installations of Windows 10, I didn’t run into any big problems, but with the third… The download and installation process

kept hanging up, in fact, in one case overnight and it finally aborted, with an error code. I won’t bore you with all of the details, but I did spend the bet-ter part of two days without success. In the case of the two installations that were working, I made a couple of observations. One, there is an over-whelming effort to market the user from the Microsoft Store and share your data with Microsoft. Luckily, you can turn most of it off. The second

A message from the prez—As a confirmed Apple user you might be surprised to read about a recent experience I had with Microsoft Windows 10, but… Over many years, I have bought more Microsoft prod-ucts than I am proud of, none the less… For me, downloading and installing Windows 10 had more to do with getting something free from Microsoft than interest in Windows

observation is there are a lot of fea-tures that we have enjoyed with Apple for some time now making their way in Microsoft Windows. I believe that will be good for the Windows 10 users, but they shouldn’t have had to wait so long to get them. For me, some things haven’t changed, namely security. You still need to buy additional virus/malware protection software. Over the years, Microsoft has gotten better when it comes to security, but… As Apple us-ers, we haven’t had that problem. Hav-ing not used Windows 10 much, I can’t say anything about its reliability yet. The bottom line for me is I didn’t see anything that would make me change to Windows 10, free or not. Enough of Microsoft, we are wait-ing for the release of macOS Sierra and all of the products and services announced in this year’s WWDC. Don’t miss the articles in this month’s Mug-shot about Sierra and other Apple stuff. One feature, I am particularly interested in is Siri coming to the Mac. As you know Siri is one of my favorite features in iOS and now it is coming to the Mac. Speaking of this month’s Mugshot, I think you will also enjoy the article and photos from Marilyn’s tour of the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens. Don’t forget our regular meeting, this month Burt has arranged for Mr. Jim Sloan from Verizon to make a presentation on Mobile Communica-tions. That will be 7:00PM on the 9th. of August at the Discovery Center. I’ll be looking forward to seeing you then. —Bobby Adams

Next Meeting, August 9th, 2016: 7:00 PM Mobile Communications

Jim Sloan, Verizon

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Member’s Showcase Spotlights Marilyn Kennedy— page 3

Coming Soon To A Mac Near You! macOS Sierra — page 3

10 Fantastic Features Of iOS Coming This Fall!— page 6

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Editor’s Note— Phil Davis’ regular TechNotes column will resume again in a future issue.

O ne of the of the most frequent tech support calls I receive, next to data transfer and backup

questions, is how to remove an iDevice (iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc.) from iCloud. If you’re trading-in or otherwise dispos-ing of an iPhone or iPad, then you abso-lutely must remove it from iCloud and disable your Apple ID from it.

Anyone receiving the iDevice still connected to your Apple ID and/or iCloud, there is nothing they can do with it. When it comes to Apple IDs, there is nothing anyone can do except you, the Apple ID owner and Apple themselves. Conversely, if you got a used iDevice that’s still attached to someone else’s

Apple ID— there is nothing you can do. Apple is very strict about everything around iCloud and Apple ID, which is exactly the right thing to do for the ben-efit and safety of you, the customer. • The Apple ID is all-powerful! • With your Apple ID, you buy apps, music, movies, and TV shows. • With your Apple ID, you can find your friends with Find My Friends.• With your Apple ID, you can lock and erase a device remotely if lost or stolen.• With your Apple ID, you can even display a message on the lost/stolen device with instructions.• With your Apple ID, you can find your device with Find My iPhone/ iPad/Mac. The last one is super cool. I once had my iPhone stolen, so I got on my hus-band’s iPhone, opened Find My iPhone, put in the information, and had a GPS mapped location of exactly where the thief was with my phone. The police, who had wanted to dis-miss it and deem it not worth their time, couldn’t even argue with that one, since they literally had a map directing them to the criminal. The culprit wasn’t ar-rested, of course, but I got my iPhone back. That’s all I wanted.

Steps To Remove iDevice From iCloud— By Christine at PowerMax— edited

Perhaps it’s now understandable why Apple is so strict with the Apple ID. Consequently, it’s extremely important you remove your iDevice from iCloud and from your Apple ID. This is how you do that on an iOS device, like an iPhone or iPad: 1 Erase all content: Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Set tings. Ensure Activation Lock and Find My iPhone are turned off as well. 2 To turn off Find My iPhone in iCloud (Find My iPad, etc.): Settings > iCloud, then turn off Find My iPhone3 Take it off of the iCloud all together. > Turn off device, or at least take it offline > Go to iCloud.com > Enter your Apple ID and its pass word > Click on Find My iPhone > Click on All Devices (top center of page) > Choose the device you want to remove, and then click Remove from Account. You can find similar instructions (as well as how to remove your Mac from iCloud and remotely erase a device) on this Apple Support Page. a

25On the internet, anyone can claim to be anyone. People employ many different methods of deception in order to trick you into signing up for a service you don’t need, joining a mailing list, or providing the routing number to your bank account. Given that there are many pop-up messages that are legitimate, it can be hard to tell what is real. The easiest thing to do is to not trust any of them. Instead of clicking that link in an email or pop-up, navigate to that place yourself. If it is a software update pop-up, for example, close it and open the App Store app and see if there is in fact a pending software update. If it is an email about your bank account, then navigate to the bank’s web-site yourself, or even better call them us-ing a known good phone number (the one on the back of your debit card is a good option); if it is truly urgent this will be the best way for you to be sure that you are actually talking to your bank and also makes it easier for your bank to verify that you are actually who you say you are. Another good tip for staying safe on the internet is make sure that full URLs are displayed in the address bar in Safari. In the newer operating systems, a short-ened form of the URL displays by default, and this can make it easier for scammers to make it look like you are on a different site than the one you think you are on. To turn this off, go to Safari > Preferences > Advanced and check the box that says

“Show full website address.”Safe surfing everyone! a

Safe Surfing— by Mike, smalldog.com

It’s easy to fall behind on email and let unread messages build up over time, but the iOS Mail app offers an excellent solution to this problem by allowing users to enable a hidden optional “Unread” only email message inbox on their device. Just as it sounds, the Unread message mailbox will display only the unread email messages..... Go here for the rest of the story! a

View Unread Email Only in Mail on iPhone & iPad from OSXDaily.com

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News from the Mothership— by Tom Nelson, Macs Expert on macs.about.com Along with the new operating system nomenclature, we learned that the major versions of macOS will continue to use names based on locations in California.The name change appears to be strictly a branding change, and not an indication of any merging (current or future) of OS X and iOS into a single monolithic operat-ing system. The Sierras take in a much broader view than the closeup of El Capitan or Yosemite, and so it is with macOS Sierra, which will include a broad range of new features, including a new file system.Apple File System (APFS)It’s been 30 plus years since Apple un-veiled HFS+, the file system currently in use by your Mac. Apple has toyed with new file systems from time to time dur-ing those 30 years, but it appears the changes brought about by moving from rotational-based storage media (hard drives) to SSDs (Solid State Drives), as well as new security concerns for a device’s file system, have pushed Apple into making the change to a new, faster, smarter, and more secure file system. Details are just now coming out as developer information has only now be-come available, but APFS is a 64-bit based file system optimized for use on SSD and other flash-based storage systems. As a

64-bit file system, APFS allows for over 9 quintillion files to occupy a single vol-ume. The new file system appears to use encryption as the default, encrypting an entire volume much like the current FileVault 2 system does. It also allows developers and users to set the level of encryption needed, from none to single key or multiple key encryp-tion. APFS may very well be used on all of Apple’s operating systems, as one of the developer notes indicates the file system scales quite well from watchOS to macOS.Siri Comes to the MacThere was never a real reason to keep Siri away from the Mac; in fact, the Mac could easily be a more powerful home for Siri than any current iOS device. So, I’m happy to see Siri will be making its way to the Mac with macOS Sierra. During the Siri demonstration, the re-sults from a Siri question could be pinned to the Notifications Center, allowing you to easily return to the results at anytime, without having to ask Siri the same ques-tion over and over. And since Siri can do much more than just check the web, such as searching the Mac file system, those re-sults can be quite useful. Siri results can be dragged and dropped onto the desktop, or into open apps, making Siri quite versatile. The ability to perform many of the

advanced Siri tasks natively on the Mac’s powerful processors is a win-win, and could lead to development of new apps taking advantage of Siri. That’s because Siri itself is being opened up to develop-ers, allowing them to use the Siri API with-in their own software to create powerful apps leveraging Siri’s capabilities.Optimized StorageA new feature called Optimized Storage is designed to make better use of avail-able storage space on your Mac. In com-bination with your iCloud account and your iCloud Drive, the Optimized Storage feature can move older files that haven’t been used in a while to your iCloud Drive. This can be thought of as part of a tiered storage system, somewhat like the way a Fusion drive now works, moving files you don’t use often from the faster SSD to a larger hard drive, while moving recently used files to the SSD for quicker access. Adding the iCloud Drive is just another tier in the storage system. Of course, you’ll be able choose whether to use the service, as well as make adjustments to the preferences for which types of files should be moved to the cloud and which should stay. Not mentioned was any additional storage cost for using the iCloud Drive in this fash-ion. I’m not sure I’ll be making use of this new service, at least not until I can find out more about it.Apple PayDuring the keynote address, Apple Pay was touted as coming to the Mac. That’s an interesting idea, but how could it pos-sibly work? The answer is: it doesn’t. Ap-

ple Pay on the Mac is really Apple Pay on the web. Essentially, you’ll find an Apple Pay button as an option for making a pur-chase at websites that support Apple Pay. To actually make a purchase using Apple Pay on the Mac, you need your iPhone to complete the transaction. Apple says you just need to use the fingerprint sen-sor in the iPhone to validate the purchase, but really, what’s the point? You can just complete the web purchase as you’ve always done in the past, and not have to find your iPhone first. One of Apple Pay’s features is the convenience of using your iPhone at a pay terminal; I don’t see any convenience in Apple Pay for the Mac.Universal ClipboardThis is such a simple idea, but like many simple ideas, you’ll probably find yourself wondering how you got along without it. Assuming you have multiple Apple devices, say a Mac, an iPhone, or an iPad, you’ll now be able to copy/paste between all of your Apple devices. If you’re on your phone and just copied a file, a bit of text, or an image to the phone clipboard, that same item will be loaded into the clip-board on all of your devices. Sit down at your Mac, and you can paste the item into an app, onto your desktop, whatever. It’s a marvelously simple way to share infor-mation between devices.Even More New FeaturesNew macOS Sierra has a long list of new features we haven’t even touched on yet. As I read through the documentation and work with the beta of the new operating system, I’ll keep you posted about new features and how they work. a

Coming Soon To A Mac Near You!

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Note— images cropped by editor to fit available layout space. Minor tweaking of highlights and shadows done in Photoshop CC5.5

25 Equipment & Software used:Canon Power Shot ELPH, 340 HS w/4.5-54.0 mm lens, MacBook Pro w/Retina Display , Apple Photos softwareMEMBER’S SHOWCASE Marilyn Kennedy

K anapaha Botanical Gardens, of Gainesville, FL is comprised of 24

major collections visually accessible from a 1½ mile paved walkway. These include the state’s largest public display of bamboos and the largest herb garden in the South-east. They host a number of special events throughout the year, and the gardens are used for many weddings. The beautiful main building has rooms available for wedding receptions and other gatherings. Marilyn, her husband and friends recently toured the gardens. “My favorite photos were taken in the Children’s Garden where unexpected objects were embedded into the stone walls and placed among many of the plantings. Other areas I especially liked were the Bamboo Garden, Meditation Area, and Rose Garden.” Marilyn stated, “I used the zoom feature on my camera for some of the shots. I uploaded them to Photos on my MacBook Pro and used the Photos app to tweak the photos as needed. I mostly use the enhance, crop, brightness, sharpening, and definition features of the software.” a

How to Copy Files From iPad to a PC (And Vice Versa)— by Daniel Nations reporting on About.comUnless the iPad is your first computer device you probably have files on your other computer(s). How can you get those files to your iPad so you can start using them?..... Link 2—

Take Control of Your Email— by Tom Nelson, macs.about.com Apple Mail is one of the most popular email apps for the Mac, but if you have just been using Mail in its default con-figuration, you have been missing out on one of the best features of Apple Mail; Apple Mail rules. Setting up rules inside of the app can make dealing with email a less annoying chore..... Link 3—

Can Your iPhone Damage Your Hearing?— 7 Tips to Avoid iPhone & iPod Hearing Loss by Sam Costello, iPhone expert writing on About.com Like the Walkman before it, the iPhone (and any device with a headphone jack) can damage your hearing. With some easy tweaks to iOS, you can limit how loud your iPhone can get.... Link 4

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THIS AND THAT HOT L I NKSRemove Unwanted Email Suggestions from Mail on iPhone & iPad —OSXDaily.comThe iOS Mail app will automatically sug-gest recently used email addresses in the recipient field when compiling a new email message or forwarding an email. While this is often accurate and helpful, sometimes an unwanted email address can pop-up in the automatic suggestion list, as can email addresses no longer in use by people. See how

How to Password Lock Notes on iPhone & iPad —

OSXDaily.com The latest versions of the Notes app for iOS allow users to password protect particular

notes within the app, making it an excellent place to store personal informa-tion and private snippets that you’d like to keep away from prying eyes. In addi-tion to password protection, Notes in iOS also allows users to lock and unlock with Touch ID as well. For the full story

How to Open Winmail.dat Attachment Files on Mac OS X— OSXDaily.com Many Mac Mail users who send and re-ceive emails with their Windows counter-parts using a mail client like Outlook or Microsoft Exchange will discover a “win-mail.dat” file attached to those emails. If you try to open a winmail.dat file on Mac OS X, you’ll usually find there is nothing available to open the attachment, or it

often contains gibberish and is illegible. Go here for helpful info!

Boost Game Performance on Retina Macs with a Simple Trick— from OSXDaily.comMac users with Retina displays may have noticed that gaming performance is sometimes reduced on these machines. The reason is quite simple; if you’re running the game at native resolution, then the Mac has to drive the game at full resolution of the display (2880 x 1440 or greater). A common solution to this is to go into a game’s individual Display settings and manually adjust them so the games resolution is lower, but another approach to this is available for Retina Macs like the iMac and MacBook Pro. How-To...

Use Safari’s Tab Muting to Quiet Things Down— by Tom Nelson, writing on About.com With the introduction of OS X El Capitan, Apple brought a few new features to Safari, including the ability to mute audio from those annoying auto-start ads and site videos. Of course, being able to mute sound in a tab is nothing new; Chrome has had this functionality in one form or another for quite a while. Apple’s implementation is a bit more straightforward; it doesn’t require you to find a GUI setting and turn the feature on; instead, the mutable tab feature is on by default. All that’s required for the tab muting function to work is to have a web page..... Link 1—

What Happens to Your Online Accounts When You Die?— by Elise Moreau on webtrends.about.com We use social media accounts to share our lives with family and friends, but what happens when that life comes to an end? Figuring out what to do with all the online accounts and social profiles of a deceased loved one is becoming more of a common situation that families are needing to face these days. Here’s some good info on what to do.–Editor— Link 5

An Early Look At Siri For Mac— from MacMost.com Here’s a preview of what Siri on the Mac will look like. The latest beta of macOS Sierra lets you use Siri for most things that you can do on iOS. In addition, you can search your files, photos, the Web and System Preferences. You can send messages and post to social media. You can save Siri answers to Notifications Center and multitask while Siri is on the screen. Watch video. Excellent!–Editor—Link 6

Pokewhat? What is Everyone Talking About?— from About.com It seems like everyone is talking about and playing Pokemon GO. If you don’t know what they’re talk ing about, read this now. —Link 7

25 photo by Al Sypher at The Villages monthly car show

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The announcement of every new version of the iOS brings with it a set of exciting new features that expand and transform what the iPhone and iPod touch can do. That’s certainly true of iOS 10.1.  Smarter SiriWhen Siri debuted back in 2011, it seemed pretty revolutionary. Since then, Siri has lagged behind competitors that came later, like Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, and Amazon’s Alexa. That’s about to change, thanks to the new and improved Siri coming in iOS 10. Siri is smarter and more powerful in iOS 10, thanks to being aware of your location, calendar, recent addresses, contacts, and much more. Because it’s aware of that information, Siri can make suggestions that help you accomplish tasks faster. For Mac users, Siri is debuting on macOS and brings even cooler features there.2.  Siri For Every AppOne of the major ways that Siri is get-ting smarter is that it’s no longer so lim-ited. In the past, Siri only worked with Apple apps and limited parts of the iOS itself. Third-party apps that users get at the App Store couldn’t use Siri. Not any-more. Now, any developer can add sup-port for Siri to their apps. That means you’ll be able to ask Siri to get you on Uber, send a message in a chat app by using your voice rather than typing, or send money to a friend using Square whenever you say so. While this may sound a little unimpressive, it should actually change the iPhone pretty pro-foundly if enough developers adopt it.3.  Improved LockscreenThe functionality of the iPhone’s lockscreen

has lagged behind Android in recent years. Not anymore, thanks to the new lockscreen options in iOS 10. There are too many to cover here, but a few of the highlights in-clude: light up your lockscreen when you raise the iPhone; respond to notifications directly from the lockscreen using 3D Touch without even unlocking the phone; easier access to the Camera app and Noti-fication Center; Control Center gains a sec-ond screen for music playback.4.  iMessage AppsPrior to iOS 10, iMessage was simply Ap-ple’s platform for text messaging. Now, it’s a platform that can run its own apps. That’s a pretty big change. iMessage apps are just like iPhone apps: they have their own app store (accessible from within the Messages app), you install them on your phone, and then you use them within Messages. Examples of iMessage apps in-clude ways to send money to friends, to place group food orders, and more. This is very similar to the apps available in Slack, and chat-as-platform is becoming increasing popular thanks to bots. Apple and its users are staying abreast of the lat-est communication techniques with apps.5.  Universal ClipboardThis is another feature that sounds a little minor, but should actually turn out to be super useful (it’s only really useful if you have multiple Apple devices, but still). When you use copy and paste, whatever you copy is saved to a “clipboard” on your device. Previously, you could only paste that on the same device you were using. But with Universal Clipboard, which is based in the cloud, you can copy some-thing on your Mac and paste it into an

email on your iPhone. That’s pretty cool.6.  Delete Pre-Installed AppsMore good news for people who want more control over their apps: with iOS 10 you can delete the pre-installed apps. Ap-ple has always required that users keep all apps that come with the iOS installed on their devices and taking up precious stor-age space. The best users could do was put all of those apps into a folder. In iOS 10, you’ll be able to actually delete them and free up space. Almost every app that comes as part of the iOS can be deleted, including things like Find My Friends, Ap-ple Watch, iBooks, iCloud Drive, and Tips. 7.  Revamped Apple MusicThe Music app that comes with iOS, and the Apple Music streaming platform, are major long-term successes for Apple (es-pecially Apple Music. It’s racked up over 15 million paying customers in less than 2 years). That success has been in spite of many complaints about the app’s overly complex and confusing interface. Users of iOS 10 unhappy with that interface will be happy to learn that it’s been overhauled. Not only is there a generally attractive new design and bigger art, it also adds song lyrics and removes the superfluous Connect feature that let users follow art-ists. Using Apple Music looks like it’s go-ing to be a lot nicer.8.  New Ways to Communicate in iMessageYour options for communicating in the Messages app have been a little limited. Sure, you could send texts and photos and video, and then audio clips, but Mes-sages didn’t have the kind of fun features

found in other chat apps—until iOS 10. With this release, Messages gains all kinds of cool ways to communicate more clear-ly and with more verve. There are stickers that can be added to texts. You can add visual effects to messages to make them look louder, to require the recipient to swipe them for a dramatic reveal, and you’ll even get suggestions for words that can be replaced by emoji (which are now three times bigger). That’s a lot of ways to get your point across.9.  HomeKit AppMost iPhone users have never heard of HomeKit. It’s not a surprise, since it’s not used in many products. However, it could change their lives. HomeKit is Apple’s platform for smart homes that connect appliances, HVAC, and more to a single network and allows them to be controlled from an app. Until now, there hadn’t been a good app to manage all HomeKit-compatible devices. Now there is. This app won’t be totally useful un-til there are more HomeKit-compatible devices and more people have them in their homes, but this is a big start towards making your home smarter.10.  Voicemail TranscriptionsThis gives new meaning to the Visual Voicemail feature. When Apple intro-duced the iPhone, Visual Voicemail meant you could see who all of your messages were from and play them out of order. In iOS 10, you can not only do that, but ev-ery voicemail is also transcribed into text so you don’t have to listen to it at all if you don’t want to. Not a major feature, but a really helpful one for the people who will use it. a

25More Apple News— by Sam Costello, iOS Expert on ipod.about.com

10 Fantastic Features of iOS Coming This Fall !Feature story 2

WiFi Menu Trick By Don mayer at Smalldog.com

For the real scoop on what’s going on behind the scenes, press the Option key as you click the Wi-Fi menu. In addition to several commands to run diagnostics, the menuprovides tons of details about the current Wi-Fi network. You’ll find info on your Mac’s IP address, your router’s IP address, whether or not your Mac is reachable from the Internet, what form of security is in play, the rout-er’s BSSID identifier (helpful if you’re not sure what you’re connected to in a com-plex network), which channel you’re using, how strong the signal strength is (RSSI—the closer to zero, the better), and the transmit rate of the network. This infor-mation is most useful when troubleshoot-ing problems , so take a look if something isn’t working right with your connectivity. You can also run a diagnostic of your net-work and generate a diagnostics report that you can send to someone helping you with your network. a

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App badging is finally coming to Ap-ple TV, but what is it? Those little red dots that appear next to your apps on your iPad or iPhone letting you know there is something is new about the app will now appear next to the app. Additionally automatic app downloads are also go-ing to be available with the new tvOS. When you download a universal app or game on your iPhone or iPad, it will auto-matically send it to your Apple TV. Single sign-on is another new feature in the upcoming tvOS. For those with supported cable or satellite providers you’ll now just need to enter your pro-vider’s information once and you’ll have automatic access to any supported apps. Currently you have to enter your informa-tion for each individual app you wish to use, so this feature is going to save users a lot of time and allow for faster access to content. As a bonus, this feature will also be available in iOS 10 so you’ll only have to sign on once for each of your devices. Light or dark will be a new feature to tvOS and one that I admit I think I need to see and use to gain an appreciation for it. Similar to features you can turn on in iBooks and Night Shift in iOS, you’ll be able to set your Apple TV background to light or dark depending on your viewing environment. This will allow you to opti-mize your view of different apps within Apple TV. This flexibility is great when us-ing my iOS devices but I admit I can’t just yet wrap my head around the advantages when I am watching TV.

25Safely Ejecting Hardware— By Ben Ryan, Smalldog.com

Three More Pearls

Recently at WWDC a new version of tvOS was announced which is set to come out sometime this fall. Apple has been pro-moting the app experience heavily since the latest Apple TV hit the shelves last fall and many of the upgrades to tvOS make it even easier to enjoy those apps. Here are some of the many enhancements to

look forward to in the Fall. Siri will now specifically look for con-tent in a specific app. You have been able to search content generically using Siri and it automatically does a general search. I will say my one complaint is that it does seem to prefer pulling content from the iTunes store. I was excited to see that you can now specify, for example, Netflix or YouTube when you’re looking for content with Siri. I’ll be excited to see how well Siri will be able to search specific apps for the content that I am looking for. Overall I have found that the Siri function on the Apple TV works extremely well.

tvOS— concludedFailing to safely eject hardware from a computer is one of the most com-mon mistakes I see computer users

make. Most people do not realize that un-plugging a flash drive or an external hard drive without ejecting it first can damage the files stored on it, or even the hard-ware itself in some cases. If a storage device is unplugged from a computer while files are being written to it or read from it, there will most likely be some data corruption. If you were saving a file to the storage device, when it was unplugged, not all of the data had time to be copied there, and so the next time you try to open that file from that device, the file will most likely fail to open, or the data will be garbled or incomprehensible depending on what type of data it is. Unplugging a flash drive while files are not being written to it will typically not re-sult in problems, however it can be diffi-cult to tell when files are no longer being

written or accessed. Some programs will try to access files on the drive constantly, so unplugging the drive at any time with-out safely ejecting it first can cause prob-lems. Additionally, unplugging external hard drives without ejecting them can damage the drive. If the read/write head on the drive suddenly loses power, it can strike the data platters and kill data sec-tors, making the data on them unread-able and the hard drive more likely to fail completely in the future. To safely eject a storage device on a Mac, you can either click on the eject icon next to the device’s listing in the Finder sidebar, or drag and drop the device’s icon into the trash, which should turn into an eject icon when a storage device is dragged over it. Keep in mind that only storage devices need to be safely ejected, not keyboards, mice, or other peripheral devices that do not have internal storage. a

By Emily Doloff  writing on Smalldog.com

HomeKit makes its Apple TV debut in the new tvOS and continues to make it even easier to access and control Home-Kit compatible devices like your lights, the temperature in your house or lock the downstairs door before heading off to bed. Other improvements were also announced in Apple Music and in Photos allowing users to access their favorite me-dia in new ways and faster than before.Now if only fall was here so we can all try this out! OK, I won’t rush summer. Editor’s note— except perhaps in Florida! a

Announcements: President Bobby Adams welcomed everyone to the meeting. There were 18 members present.Treasurer’s Report: We have an account balance of $1,539.00 l Deposits: $130.00 – Memberships Dues through April 2016; June 50/50 - $35.00. l Expenses: $100.00 Donation to the Discovery Center and $100.00 Donation to the PKD Foundation – Memorial to Anne Davis.Secretary’s Report: Minutes of the June meeting were accepted as published.Program: Burt introduced Diego J. Rivera-Guitierres and Stevie Carnell from the Virtual Experiences Research Group, at the University of Florida. They both presented us with a very interesting and informative program on the Virtual Reality immersive experience and demonstrated two typical VR Headsets (HMDs) used in conjunction with iPhones and Android phones. During the break, a few members got to have their own “hands-on” Virtual Reality experience. The VR presentation notes are posted on the OMUG website.After a refreshment break, Burt presented “Tips, Tricks & Timesavers” which included: Spotlight – for calculations and conversions; Talk & Listen to your Mac – how to dictate; Hide & Show the menu bar; Type Exotic Characters; Sign PDFs in e-mail; Quickly Import with Image Capture; Make a Keyboard Shortcut; View another users screen remotely; Record iPad & iPhone Screens; Store Everything in iCloud. Go Here for details.Raffle Results: l 50/50– $25.00 to Gary Johnson l Laptop Stand Universal Ergonomic Cooling for Notebook, PC, MacBook Air – Elaine Smith l Aukey PB-N15 20000 Dual-USB External Battery Charger – Bobby Adams l e-Book: Take Control of Dropbox: Gary Anderson l Take Control e-Book: Are your Bits Flipped – Brian Voge.Next Meeting: Tuesday, August 9th, 2016, 7:00 PM, The Discovery Center – Mobile Communications presented by Jim Sloan, from Verizon.As always, thank you to those who brought refreshments – they are always appreciated.

Respectively submitted by Lorraine Wieskamp, OMUG SecretaryOh... and one last thing —

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life   that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”      — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Apple Users Helping Apple Users—OMUG’s Help Team will try to help you with your computer, iPad, iPhone and software problems. Please go to the website’s help-team for a list of help topics and phone/email contacts for the following member volunteers: Bob Adams Richard Bambridge Don Boyd Philip Davis (email ONLY) Marilyn Kennedy Dr. Roberto Putzeys Tim Rankin Al Sypher Brian Voge Lorraine Wieskamp

OMUG Assignments—

Fifty-Fifty Raffle– Tom LeeMembership– Don Boyd MUGSHOT Newsletter– Al SypherProgram Coordinator– Burt StephensOnline Services Coordinator and Apple Ambassador– Philip DavisSunshine Ambassador– Don Morrison

Next Workshop—

Workshops will resume in September Location: College of Central Florida

OMUG Meeting Information—

The Ocala Mac User Group meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7 PM:

Discovery Center of Ocala— Tuscawilla Park 701 NE Sanchez Ave, Ocala

Workshop sessions are held with Senior Learners, Inc., using their CF meeting room on the 4th Thursday of the month from 1:30 to 3:30 PM.

OMUG Board of Directors—President– Bobby Adams badams0993@gmail.com • 274-0177 Vice President– Marilyn Kennedy marilynkennedy2@mac.com • 854-1021 Secretary–Lorraine Wieskamp wieskamp37@gmail.com • 351-3533Treasurer– Don Boyd trpdip7@gmail.com • 203-4059Director– Tom Lee twleeper@embarqmail.com Director– Philip Davis davistech@gmail.com • 369-8432Director– Burt Stephens burtstephens@gmail.com • 509-4407 Director– Al Sypher aes@imageocala.com • 237-9501Past President– N.C. Sizemore ncsizemore@gmail.com • 291-8778

Disclaimer— The Apple logo is the property of Apple, Inc. All tradenames, trademarks, and registered trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners or companies. Content presented herein attributed to specific sources remains the property of the named sources. The information presented in this newsletter is for the personal enlightenment of OMUG members and friends, does not constitute an endorsement, and shall not to be used for commercial pur-poses. Reproduction of any material herein is expressly prohibited unless prior written permission is given by OMUG.Ap

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About the cover photo—“This shot was one of a series taken early morning at Silver Springs while on the River Boardwalk. I was testing my new camera and was able to capture a number of interesting reflections off the still river waters. The Fuji is one of the new mirror-less single lens reflex cameras that is reminiscent of the old Leica rangefinder cameras.”— Phil DavisCamera Fuji X-ES2. ISO 800, f/4.0, 1/80, 35mm (50mm equivalent). Post-processing on a MacBook Pro in Photoshop CC 2015.5.