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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Whether you are new to the Mac, or have been using it for years, one of the best ways to be more productive with your Mac is to get more comfortable using Finder. Out of the box, Finder is lacking in it’s easy of use, however with these six tips that I present below, you’ll find Finder far more useful and user friendly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There are a number of awesome hidden features that exist within the Finder window. In this blog, I’ve highlighted six of my favorite Finder tips and tricks to help you work more efficiently with your files and folders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Column view is my favorite ways of working with files, and here are two column adjustment tips to make it work better for you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you open a new Finder window and the column width is too small to view the names of your files, double-click the bottom of the column divider and the width will automatically expand to fit the longest filename, so you can easily view your the files. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Another useful trick is to hold down the Option (</span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">⌥</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">) key when adjusting the column width manually (by click-dragging the divider). This adjusts all of the columns in the same window at the same time, and also sets the chosen size as the default column width for all Finder windows going forward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Now, when I’m working with a client for the first time, I will set the default view to Recent. You may wish to change the view and here’s how to do it. If you often work with files in a specific folder, then it's worth setting it as the default folder that every new Finder window opens with automatically. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Click <b>Preferences</b> in the Finder menu bar, and under the <b>General</b> tab you'll see a dropdown menu under "New Finder windows show:". Select one of the options in the list, or click <b>Other...</b> to choose a custom location. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This is also one of the first things I do when either setting up a new Mac, or working with a client for the first time. You can put so many more options at your fingertips when working with files and folders by adding more action buttons to your Finder window's toolbar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">All you need to do is, right-click (or Control-click) the Finder window's toolbar and select <b>Customize Toolbar...</b>. You'll see a dropdown menu of buttons any of which you can drag up to the toolbar with your mouse cursor, as well a default set that you can drag up to replace any you've previously added. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As you can see in the screen capture above, I’ve got three different views using the tabs. The Pictures Folder, Music folder and Documents folder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As you can see above, In the Finder Window above, The <b>Music Favorite</b> has been clicked on the left, then on the bottom of the window you see <b>Macintosh HD > Users > Geoff > Music</b>, revealing the location of the folder you’ve highlighted. </span></div>
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After months of delay, Apple finally released the wireless/Bluetooth Air Pods in late December. Thanks to my good friends at Apple, I was able to get my hands on them about a week after their release, even though I wasn't too sure if, or how much use I would put them through. Initially, I was ambivalent to the wireless headphones. In the eight plus years that I've been an iPhone user, I never really used the air buds that came with the device, short of to listen to music. The Air Pods represented an opportunity, though. That opportunity is to truly have your iPhone (or other smartphone) be hands free in the car and beyond. <br />
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The Air Pods come housed in a sleek white case, that doubles as a charging device for the Pods when you slide them in. The case comes equipped with a lightning charger (same as all the new iOS devices) that you can plug in anywhere you'd plug in your iPhone or iPad. The Air Pods connect to an iPhone 7 seamlessly (also connects very easily to any iPhone). You simply open the case near your iPhone and the iPhone recognizes the new Air Pods and connects instantly. It's really that easy. On a side note, the Air Pods will work with any Bluetooth enabled smartphone or tablet device, not just those from Apple. The Air Pods can also be connected to any Mac.<br />
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Once connected to your iPhone, you'll get a message similar to the one below on your iPhone.<br />
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The Air Pods are super ease to use, once placed in your ear, you'll hear a quick hum, letting you know they are connected and ready to go. Then you simply double tap either bud (near the top of the bud) and Siri is enabled. Then you give it commands like "call mom", or "text dad", or "I need directions to Whole Foods", without having to say "Hey Siri". If you place a call, to end it, simply double tap one of the Air Pods and your call ends. It literally couldn't be easier (and safer). If you need to know how much charge is left in the Air Pods, you can simply place them in their case, leave it open near your iPhone and you'll get a window (like the one above) providing you with them amount of charge not only in the Air Pods, but also in the case.</div>
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The cost of other Bluetooth headphones range anywhere from $38, to well over $200. The Air Pods come in towards the higher end price range, at $159. After the first month, I am happy to say they are well worth the price. </div>
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I hear your pain, all valid arguments. One of the reasons we love our devices is that we know how to use them. When Apple, or some other developer decides to shake things up and tell us how to use our devices better, WTF? Right? Well, we can sit around and complain about the new features and functionality, or, we can adjust and learn the new ways of our devices. I recommend the later! <br />
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Thankfully I have fixes for a few of these changes. <br />
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First there is no way to bring back the "Swipe to Open" feature. You can however make the opening of your iPhone a little easier. Here's what to do: 1. Make sure you have enabled Touch ID (setting up 1 or more fingerprints to use as a Passcode). 2. In Settings, go to General > Accessibility> Home Button > enable the Rest Finger to Open setting. This will make opening your iPhone a bit less "painful."<br />
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Next, has anyone in your family been hit with crazy data overages since iOS 10 came out? Here's why! Somehow Apple sneaked a new setting into the "Agreement" we all have to agree to when we update. That unknown agreement is in the Cellular setting of your iPhone and is called Wi-Fi Assist. Here's what it does (and it doesn't assist your Wi-Fi!). The setting is defaulted to On. What it does is this. When you are in a Wi-Fi environment, and the Wi-Fi is "weak", it flips you off of Wi-Fi and onto Cellular! That is the assist! It's a sneaky horrible feature needs to be turned off! It should be called Carrier assist, as it does nothing but put money into the Carrier's pockets by taking you off of Wi-Fi.<br />
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This should help you "deal" with these frustrating new "features". Hopefully you've found some of the great new features in Messages, Maps and Photos, useful. As well as the new Widgets, which present data from your apps in a quick and useful way.<br />
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For many of iPhone users, Siri has been nothing more than a nuisance since it's arrival in iOS 5, way back in 2011. Perhaps it never understood what you were asking, perhaps you never understood how best to speak to it. Whatever the reason most iPhone users have never really got the full benefit of Siri. </div>
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I've witnessed Siri work and I've gotten quite a laugh when Siri doesn't understand what it's been asked. The key to it's use though simple, is not easy. It requires a good deal of inflection in your voice, and some patience.</div>
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This past summer, Apple introduced a SiriKit SDK (system development kit) in iOS 10, which allows Siri to be integrated into third-party apps for the first time. What does that mean for you? Well, with third-party app support, Siri can now do more than ever before. For Uber users, speak a command such as "Get me an Uber to Wrigley Field" or "Send John $100 with Square Cash" or "Call dad with Skype" are now all possible. Siri's new functionality is long over-due and a feature that makes the personal assistant much more useful in our everyday lives.</div>
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Siri's new integration is available for six different kinds of functions: ride booking, messaging, photo search, payments, VoIP calling (for apps like Skype and WhatsApp), and workouts. What this means for us, is that Siri can now send messages, book rides, search photo apps for videos and images, make and request payments, place calls in apps like Skype, and initiate workouts. If your car has Apple's CarPlay, there's also specific functions for accessing climate controls as well as adjusting radio settings. </div>
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For you LinkedIn users, you'll now be able to use Siri to send a message by simply saying "Hey Siri, send a message to Bill that says, Thanks for the great referral today."</div>
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Another great new feature gives You the ability to ask Siri to locate pictures from a trip by saying, "Hey Siri, show me pictures from Italy in 2016."</div>
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Siri is now also available on your Mac with the update to macOS Sierra. After you've upgraded your Mac, Siri will live on the Menu bar, between Spotlight Search and Notifications. </div>
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Similar to how you use Siri on an iPhone or iPad, you can now use Siri for tasks like searching for movie times, calling and messaging people, even toggling settings like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off! One of my favorite features in Siri for Mac is being able to search for files using Siri by saying "Show me the document I was working on last night" or "Find photos I took last month at Wrigley Field." You can even use Siri to search for information and pin the search right into a document you are currently working on! </div>
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Apple has done a great job integrating its virtual assistant into the Apple TV. You can use Siri for things as mundane as asking Siri to play your most recent iTunes playlist, to asking Siri to search for movies staring Marlon Brando. If you are not sure what the source for a movie or TV show is, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime, you can simply ask Siri to search for a title like "I want to watch Field of Dreams", and Siri will show you the Apps that have that particular movie and you can choose the source to play it! If you are not sure what you'd like to watch, say something like this: "Show me something Funny", or "Show me the new releases", and Siri will create a list of Comedies and new releases for you to choose from. And hows this for cool? You can say things like "Turn on Closed Captioning", or "Fast Forward 3 minutes" and Siri can do those for you as well! Siri can search YouTube for videos, search the App Store for games, and if you have HomeKit running through your Apple TV, you can tell Siri to set the home temperature by saying "Set home temperature to 70 degrees".</div>
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Wow, Siri sure has come a long way since it's inception. Yes it's not perfect, and yes it can and still is getting better, but Apple has given you a wonderful tool in Siri, and I highly recommend you take advantage of all it has to offer. </div>
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Those are just a few of the ways that Siri can assist you. I hope you found this blog helpful, if so, please share. Until next time, best to you and your devices!</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There are some tremendously useful, cool and fun new changes coming soon in iOS 10. In this blog, I'm going to cover some great new features coming to the Lock Screen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In iOS 10, the Lock Screen has been given a major overhaul, with </span>the removal of the iconic "Slide to Unlock" feature, <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">a new Widgets side panel, </span>a redesigned Control Center, as well as<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> new and revamped notifications. The Lock screen also has a crisp new look and feel, as notifications no longer dim the wallpaper. W</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">ith the availability of Touch ID in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, many users were skipping their Lock screens and ended up missing their notifications, so Apple happily implemented some changes to help prevent you from missing them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">A new feature called "Raise to Wake" activates the Lock screen of the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, and SE when picked up, displaying all information on the screen without the need to put a finger on the Touch ID home button.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The famous "Slide to Unlock," the feature that let you swipe right to access the passcode screen, has happily been eliminated. The Lock screen now informs users to "Press home to unlock" on a device that has yet to be unlocked with a finger registered to Touch ID or "Press home to open" on a device that has been unlocked but not opened to the Home screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">On pre-iOS 10 devices, Touch ID used to simultaneously unlock a device and open it to the Home screen (when a finger was placed on the Touch ID button), but now a physical press is required as an extra step. This way, your notifications can be read in full before a device is unlocked, preventing them from being missed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Apple has replaced the old "Slide to Unlock" screen is a new Widgets panel, activated with a simple right swipe. The Widgets panel displays all of the widgets that were previously available in the Today section of the Notification Center. iOS 10 brings some welcome "new" built-in widgets, including Mail, Maps (Destination, Nearby, and Transit), favorite contacts, Music, Notes, and Photos (Memories). </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Widgets are not available in the Notification Center when on the Home screen, but when in an app and accessing the Notification Center, widgets continue to be available through a right swipe on the screen. My favorite new feature on the lock screen is the new Left s</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">wipe, which brings up the camera, making it so much simpler to quickly take a photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Another great feature has Apple adding 3D touch capabilities to Notifications on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus (and the coming 7 and 7Plus), allowing you to do more without having to leaving the Lock screen, like viewing photos and videos and responding to incoming text Messages. Notifications have also been streamlined across watchOS, tvOS, and iOS. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Notification Center no longer has the "Today" view, now offering up a simple list of all incoming Notifications and a search bar for quick access to Spotlight search. 3D Touch in the Notification Center now offers up an option to clear all notifications at once, a nice change for faster management of your notifications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Well those are some of the great new features coming soon to the Lock screen in iOS 10. Thanks for reading, and come back next week for some additional great iOS 10 features.</span></div>
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The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-46464070030376832922016-06-15T13:43:00.000-05:002016-06-15T13:43:25.490-05:00Coming soon in iOS 10With every June, comes the Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference), which brings us news of the great things to come for all our Apple devices. This past Monday, the WWDC kicked off with a 2 hour Keynote presentation about all the cool new features coming for our iPhones, Macs, Apple Watches and iPads. Today I'm going to focus on some great new features coming this fall in iOS 10.<br />
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For starters, theres some great new functionality coming to SIRI. You'll be able to use SIRI to book a ride with your favorite ride service, like Uber or Lyft. You'll be able to use SIRI to search through your photos, make payments through apps like Cash, PayPal and Square. You'll be able to have SIRI check your calendar availability and it will even support multi-lingual questions! And that's just a small list of new Siri features coming later this fall.<br />
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One of our favorite things to do with our iPhone is take amazing pictures and videos. For iOS 10, Apple is making the Photos App better and easier to use! Some of the great new features include facial recognition, object and scene recognition. Photos will be able to sort your pictures by trips, date and even the people who took trips with you, a super cool new feature!<br />
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Also updated for iOS 10 is Maps. Maps has been totally rewritten and now provides better navigation, with the ability to zoom in and zoom out for traffic. Maps will be able to proactively provide you with better and alternative routes if the one you are taking has say an accident, or tons of traffic. How about being able to book a ride with Uber directly from Maps? Well that feature has been added as well, to allow you to do so much more without ever leaving the Maps app.<br />
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Apple Music has also been redesigned with some subtle changes, starting with a fresh new design to show your Library and the items in it; Playlists, Artists, Albums, etc. I will focus more on these design changes in a blog later this summer, but you'll love the new look and feel of the Music App.<br />
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The Phone app has a handful of great new features, the biggest being you can get your voicemails translated to text, so you don't have to press the play button to listen, a great addition to the Phone app.<br />
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The biggest update from an App perspective comes to Messages. I'm going to point out some of the highlights, but will also create a blog later this summer dedicated solely to Messages. To start, for those of us that can't see so well, you'll get emojis that are 3X larger! You'll also be able to easily add emojis to your text, once you've typed, tap the emoji button, and words in your text that can be replaced by emojis will be highlighted. Next you tap those words and they'll get replaced by an emoji! It's super cool and will make more sense when you see it. You'll be able to add cool new effects to emojis, created invisible ink text that the receiver can swipe to show what you've sent them, that's an awesome new feature. You'll be able to hand write texts, create full screen texts and more. Those are just some of the great new features coming.<br />
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I hope you are excited, look for more blogs to come on the new macOS features, watchOS features and tvOS features.<br />
<br />The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-86440048602177095412016-03-24T08:11:00.002-05:002016-04-07T15:14:44.477-05:00The brilliance of iCloud Photo Sharing<span style="font-size: large;">How often do you find yourself running low on space on your iPhone or iPad? When that happens, do you know what to do? Do you end up deleting apps you don't frequently use, or even worse, do you end up deleting things you do often use, but have no choice because you are constantly running out of space thanks to the great pictures and video that your new iPhone/iPad take? Fear not, you are not alone! Ok, you say, what are my options outside of buying a device with more internal storage? You have options, or at least AN option. That option is a great one, and believe it or not, it's a free option at that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few years back, Apple quietly introduced something called iCloud Photo Sharing. Perhaps you've experienced this (if you are a client of mine, you most certainly have). On your iPhone or iPad, you get a notification that someone has invited you to their shared photo stream. If you are in the know, you quickly accept the invitation to view the photos that have been shared with you. No emailing, texting involved, someone simply creating a shared stream, and inviting you to join and view their photos (and even videos). Wait you say. Sharing pictures and videos without emailing or texting (or using Dropbox, or Shutterfly)? Sound to good to be true? Well it is! Apple has given you free space in the cloud to share, are you ready for this? Up to 500,000 pictures and videos, and wait, it gets better, FOR FREE! Whoaaaaaaaaaa. This can't be...Well yes it can be, and it is! Apple has provided free space for you to create 100 shared streams (or albums), each containing up to 5000 pictures and or videos (the videos can be up to 4:59 in length, anything over will not get uploaded). If you calculate this folks, Apple has given you space for 500,000 pictures and or videos to store and share in iCloud, FOR FREE! I can't stress the last part enough, IT'S TOTALLY FREE! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why haven't you heard about this? I wish I knew. Short of the fact that it's never been advertised, I quietly found out about it and decided it should be shared with the masses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So how does one go about creating a shared stream? It's quite easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next, head to the Photos App. You can choose pictures either from an Album, or the Photos tab (they are the same pics, under the Photos tab, they are sorted). Click Select (top right), then choose your photos and or videos (remember, if you want to upload a video, it MUST be under 5 minutes in </span><span style="font-size: large;">length). This next part is crucial to remember. You can upload up to 1000 pictures an hour, and no more than 10,000 a day. If you go over 1000 in an hour, the uploads simply stop. So please remember to keep that in mind. Ok, now that you've selected your pictures and videos, tap the Do-More icon (on your iPad it's on the top left, on your iPhone it's on the bottom left, it looks like a square with an arrow out of the top). Next, tap iCloud Photo Sharing,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next few steps are critical. If you have either never created a shared stream, or never been invited to a shared stream, when you do create one, you simply give that stream a name. However if you've created or been invited and joined one, the next step is important. What happens is that when you click iCloud Photo sharing, it wants to put those newly chosen pictures into the last Shared Album you either created or were invited to. So you MUST then tap where it says Shared Album. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From here you can either click the + to create a New Shared Album, </span><span style="font-size: large;">or add the pictures you've recently selected to an existing Shared Album. If you choose to create a New Shared Album, you'll give it a name, then tap next. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here you have the option to share your newly created stream with other Apple device users, or not. If you choose not to share, the stream is still shared, with any devices you own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So let's review a few things here: Apple has given you free space in the iCloud for 500,000 pictures! You can create 100 shared streams, each containing 5000 pictures and videos (videos can be up to 4:59 in length). Crazy. What's even better is that even though you are allowed to only create 100 shared streams, there is no limit to how many streams your friends and family can share with you. If you have 5 people in your immediate family, each of you can have and share 100 shared streams with 5,000 pictures and videos. That's more pictures and videos than you'll ever be able to view! Let's not forget your friends with Apple devices, so theoretically there's endless free space for pics and videos in iCloud for you, your friends and your family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what are you waiting for? Start sharing your pictures with friends, family and loved ones around the globe! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you found this blog useful, if so, please share with others who may find it helpful. Come back shortly for part II.</span></div>
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If you like your privacy, you better think twice about which browser you use to to access the internet. Web browsing can be a very scary thing. Websites track your surfing session. Social networks, search engines, your Internet provider, even the government may be tracking you online as well! They may be collecting what they consider valuable marketing data, or trying to prevent potentially dangerous criminal activity, regardless, what you do online, in the so called privacy and comforts of your home, sadly folks, is anything but private! For this post, I've gathered some tips and tricks to help you browse anonymously, should you care to.</div>
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Do you ever wonder about the ads you get on your Facebook page, or other sites you visit? How they are seemingly tailored just for you? Well, THEY ARE! Your searches, and the sites you visit get captured (via cookies and other browser tools) to help the sites you visit to understand your online “tendencies”, which is for nothing more that their benefit. To help avoid sites knowing "who you are", or better, who your computer is, one thing you can do is use anonymous proxy software. What is proxy software? Anonymous proxy software is a great way to mask, or hide your IP address online. However, even using this type of software, there is still plenty of information about your Web-surfing habits stored on your computer — which could also be viewed over a network, say, at the office or by your IT department (that's right folks)</div>
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Thankfully, its very easy to manage your privacy settings right in your Web browser, unless the company you work for does not give you admin privileges, which you need to make changes to your browsers settings.</div>
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A great thing to do is to disable the cookies in your browser. A browser cookie is a tiny text file that gets stored on your computer. It has information about where you've been online, your passwords, and other information as well. You should also delete your browser history to make certain to cover your tracks! Every major browser, from IE, Chrome, Safari or Firefox allows you to delete your browsing history. All you need to do is go into the Options or Settings on your favorite browser and you'll see how this is done. In Safari, Apple makes it very easy. Click the History Menu option and you'll see a menu like the one below pop up.</div>
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From there, you can decided if you’d like to clear the last hour, today, today and yesterday, or all history. I recommend doing this weekly, and choosing the all history option. </div>
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Another tip...Turn off Auto-complete functionality on your browser. If Auto-complete is turned on, someone could jump on your computer, type in a few letters of a Web Address (URL) bar, or in a search engine and any recent places you've visited could be automatically filled in! And NEVER click "Remember my password" for any private or financial institutions (or anything else for that matter, see my blog/post about 1Password). Doing so could grant a hacker access to your most precious information.</div>
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Ok, there is another, very easy thing you can do. Most browsers allow for private surfing. If you are a Safari user, click on the File menu option, and choose New Private Window. Enabling this feature will stop your browser from saving any history, search queries, cookies or passwords. </div>
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Ok, now let's discuss search engines. If you think the web is a great place to search for things, you are correct! I don’t believe what you search for should become the property of the search engine you use! So what are your choices? Try using the DuckDuckGo search engine. DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that protects searchers' privacy. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term. DuckDuckGo emphasizes getting information from the best sources rather than the most sources, generating its search results from key crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia and from partnerships with other search engines like Yandex, Yahoo!, Bing, and Yummly (taken directly from their web page!).</div>
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Finally and sadly, you may (or may not) have heard that Facebook shares your Web-browsing history it collects with advertisers to display more targeted ads — yes, even on non-Facebook sites you visit. Thankfully you can opt out of this within Facebook's Privacy settings.</div>
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Speaking of Facebook, how on earth does Facebook know to show you ads for your local gym or supermarket? In part it's because your computer's unique Internet Protocol (IP) address, assigned by your Internet provider, which reveals your geographical location. Unfortunately, even if your computer generates a different IP address every time you boot up or log online, this number (e.g. 220.165.119.12) still tells your general location. There are a slew of solutions that allow you to hide your Internet connection, allowing you to remain anonymous while online. One solution is to use a free "online proxy servers" to conceal your identity. Simply point the Web address (URL) to the proxy server and surf right from its website (for help with this, check out proxy.org for a list of great options).<br />
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Or, you may wish to download Virtual Private Network (VPN) software that encrypts your browsing sessions. The browser-independent Hotspot Shield from AnchorFree (anchor free.com), for example is available for Windows, Macs, iPhone and Android channels all Web activities through a personal VPN and secures Internet communications by turning all HTTP traffic into the safer HTTPS (which is what your bank uses for a safe connection). You can purchase an ad-supported free version and a beefier "elite" option ($72/year) with more bells and whistles. Another great VPN option is ExpressVPN (my choice), you can choose a monthly plan, or pay yearly (a smarter option) for $99.84 a year. ExpressVPN allows 3 devices to connect at the same time, which is great for families. If you have a larger family, you can purchase additional subscriptions for additional devices. Additionally I'd like to share a link from the ExpressVPN site (shared so kindly by Constantina White, who does web research at the site TechWarn.com. Here's a link to the article <a href="https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/6-search-engines-abuse-your-privacy/">https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/6-search-engines-abuse-your-privacy/</a></div>
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Another VPN to check out is SurfEasy, (there are 3 payment options: free, $3.99 a month and $6.49/month; <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(25, 144, 229); color: #1990e5;">surfeasy.com</span>), the best most secure option is the $6.49/mo, which allows up to 5 devices connected at once, plus torrent protection (for those who use it), as well as connection to 12 additional countries. Your browsing session is handled through SurfEasy's fast and secure private proxy network. Your IP address will be masked throughout your browsing session. Similar to ExpressVPN, the SurfEasy VPN that can protect not only computers, but your iPhones, iPads and even Android devices as well! You may also wish to check out Tails (<a href="http://tails.boum.org/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(25, 144, 229); color: #1990e5;">tails.boum.org</span></a>), which can be downloaded and installed onto a USB stick to run independently of the computer's original operating system. Similar to SurfEasy, it allows you browse the Web anonymously, on virtually any computer as all connections are channeled through the earlier mentioned TOR network.<br />
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It is crazy how much information gets collected about us online, and if you didn’t realize how unsafe your browsing was, hopefully this blog clued you in. You may choose to do nothing, just be aware that you are being "followed" and "watched". There are things you can do, and things I hope you do to help protect yourself. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to me for assistance! </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As our reliance on our devices has grown, so to has grown, our devices need, to know our location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are like me, you want to know when your Location data is being used by your Mac. If you enable the Location Services menu bar, you’ll be able to see when any app is accessing your private location data, making it possible to lock down any apps you don’t want using it. The following is a quick “how to” to get the Location menu bar notice working. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Phone number lookup</b><span style="font-size: large;"> - Don't you wish your phone could identify everyone that calls you, even those people NOT in your contacts? Well now it can! If you make or receive a call and that phone number is not in your contacts, but happens to be in an email sent to you, your Phone can label it with the contacts name! Simply turn the "Contacts Found in Mail" setting on (found in the Mail, Contacts, Calendar Setting, see directly below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Until next time, best to you and your devices!</span>The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-89899725834281810842015-09-10T22:55:00.000-05:002015-09-10T22:55:30.467-05:00The best way to purchase your new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus is...<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">
Earlier this week, Apple announced a slew of new products, including their latest iPhones, the 6S and 6S Plus. The iPhones can be preordered starting September 12th, and they will be widely available on September 25th. With the same storage options as the iPhone 6, the 16GB iPhone 6S starts at $199 on-contract, and 64GB and 128GB versions can be yours for $299 and $399, respectively. The larger iPhone 6S Plus will run you a bit more, starting at $299, and is also available in 64GB and 128GB flavors ($399 and $499, respectively) as well.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7;">But Apple wants these prices to be a thing of the past, as the major carriers have done away (for the most part) with traditional two-year contracts and are moving toward 24-month payment plans. This way, instead of paying a large chunk of the cost of the phone up front when you sign a new contract, the carriers (AT&T and Verizon etc.) spread that cost over the life of your plan. So earlier this week, Apple jumped into the fray with <b><u>The iPhone Upgrade Program</u></b>.</span></div>
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The program is down right fantastic! First and foremost, you'll be able to get a new iPhone every year, that's right, every year! Second, the iPhone is <b>unlocked</b> — allowing you can choose which carrier you'd like to use! That's right folks, unhappy with your carrier, leave-em! Third, you'll pay for the phone with low monthly payments, instead of paying the subsidized cost of the phone up front. And finally, the Upgrade Program comes with AppleCare+.</div>
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Not sure if you agree, but this is an <b>AWESOME</b> plan, and something that's long overdue! That <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">sounds</em> like a decent deal, especially with the inclusion of AppleCare+. Too compare and show you just how good this plan is, I'm going to break it down and see how it stacks up against the major carriers, using the base iPhone 6S and all the 24-month plans as my reference.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7;">The iPhone Upgrade Program is nothing more than a 24-month installment plan. Once you've paid 12 monthly installments as part of that agreement, you'll be able to swap your phone for a new one. Just remember — this essentially resets the clock on the 24 months, meaning that you're now starting another two-year agreement. Apple has yet to share information on whether (or how it will be done) you can opt out of that 24 month agreement.</span></div>
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The major carriers offer the option of paying the remaining balance of the value of the phone if you want out of their agreements early, and each has its own structure for when you can upgrade. For instance, AT&T will let you upgrade your phone after 18 months, Sprint will let you upgrade whenever the latest iPhone is released, and T-Mobile will let you upgrade after 12 months. Verizon's payment plan is, far and away, the worst here — allowing you to upgrade only after your iPhone has been paid off in full.</div>
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Buying an iPhone through any of the carriers, however, removes this luxury. Only Verizon sells unlocked iPhones and when they do, the installment plans they offer are most certainly not applicable.</div>
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The picture above shows Apple's new program, and where the value truly comes from. A 16GB iPhone 6S will cost you $32.41 per month, and prices scale up accordingly with bigger storage options as well as the iPhone 6S Plus. A fantastic part of this plan, is that it includes the $129 cost of AppleCare+, which gives you a two-year warranty and allows for two full replacements of the phone if you accidentally damage it (at a $100 per replacement fee). The installment plan is financed by a loan from Citizens Bank, which means you'll likely have to pass a credit check before you get your phone. You also have to schedule an appointment to buy your iPhone in-store — the iPhone Upgrade program will not be offered online. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px;">Here is where you need to be careful...the carriers are all advertising monthly payments lower than what Apple tells you up front for the 16GB iPhone 6S. Verizon's 24-month payment program and AT&T's "Next 18" 24-month plan each cost $27.09 per month. T-Mobile’s standard 24-month program costs $27.08 per month, while its "Jump on Demand" option, which lets you upgrade up to three times per year, costs $27.00 per month. And Sprint's "iPhone Forever" program is quoted at $22.00 per month. But these prices </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px;"><b>Do Not</b></em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px;"> include insurance, and this is the key. When the carriers insurance gets added in, each of the carriers' payment plans — except for Sprint's — winds up being $2 or more a month </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px;"><b>MORE</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px;"> than Apple's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 30px;">To me, </span></span><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7;">the ultimate attraction of the new iPhone Upgrade Program is that it includes the AppleCare+, which outside of the program costs $129 for the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. AppleCare+ extends the iPhones hardware warranty to two full years, but the real value comes from accidental damage coverage. The AppleCare+ coverage allows for two instances of accidental damage, but the replacement fee is $99. That's far better than paying the full cost of a new screen or an entirely iPhone if you drop (or bend) your phone, but it's not necessarily cheap.</span></h2>
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The carriers offer an numerous insurance options, but even the lowest levels all bump the monthly price of their installment plans up over the price of Apple's new iPhone Upgrade plan. Buying the carriers insurance will not only allow you to replace your phone if it's damaged, similar Apple Care+, but <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">also</em> if it's stolen or lost. You pay a lot more for this, though — the deductibles are usually $175 or $200, considerable higher than Apple's $99 replacement fee.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">My final thoughts here...</span></span><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7;">Apple's plan is cheaper than the comparable option offered by the major carriers, and you get an unlocked iPhone out of it as well. AppleCare+ does not cover your iPhone if its lost or is stolen, and you won't pay as much to replace your iPhone, should you happen drop and break it. If you're not concerned with insurance at all, it's probably worth your time to seek the payment plans from the carrier of your choice. But, if you want the new iPhone, a decent level of insurance, and don't want to sign a traditional two-year contract, Apple's new iPhone Upgrade Program is the best option around. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any of this sound familiar? All to familiar to me. When I come upon a client that still stores their passwords in a location I mentioned above (or something similar), my heart aches for them. G-d forbid someone breaks into your home, or steals your device(s), the first place they will look is one of the places I mentioned above! So what is there to do, you ask? How on earth can I remember all these passwords, there is too many. There are numerous options for password storage, the one I'm going to discuss is the 1Password service and app. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been using 1Password for about a year now (you can click the link to take you to their site). </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://agilebits.com/onepassword">https://agilebits.com/onepassword</a> I have the app on both my iPhone and iPad. 1Password uses the concept of a "vault" to store all your passwords (it can even be used to store credit cards, drivers license, passport numbers and other important personal information). One of my favorite features is that it can sync your "vault(s)" using iCloud. That way, if you have multiple devices (like me), you use one master password and can access your "vault" on any of your devices. The following is straight from the agilebits web site "</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">1Password uses the best available encryption from well-trusted and scrutinized cryptographic libraries. It is designed in accordance with the recommendations of the cryptographic research community. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">It is designed so that if anyone (including us) were to get a hold of your 1Password data, there is no feasible way for them to decrypt your secrets without knowing your Master Password. We’ve even designed 1Password to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">make things extra difficult for automated tools that might try guessing your Master Password." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Roboto, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">In terms the rest of us will understand, it's pretty darn secure! Another of the features I truly adore is that it will create passwords for you if you are having trouble coming up with a good one. It's a fabulous feature, and the best part is, you won't have to remember the crazy password it creates for you, as its stored within the app for you! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">When you enter an existing password that you use, 1Password will scrutinize it for you and let you know if it's weak, ok, or strong, another great feature. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">So, how much is this tool you ask? The app itself comes in a free version, and a $9.99 version. If you are just looking to store passwords, the free version will be more than suitable for you. The $9.99 version let's you create multiple vaults and even share those vaults amongst your family, should you choose to do so. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">So don't wait another moment folks, if you aren't using a tool like 1Password, and you're still using the same password for multiple sites, or storing them in really insecure places, it's time to step up and lock those passwords down! Go to the App Store on your iPhone or iPad (you can even download 1Password for Mac, that is more intricate and does cost $49.99), download 1Password and start securing your present and future!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">Once you've downloaded, if you need assistance with 1Password, please do not hesitate to reach out to me, via email (geoff@themacmentor.com).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>If you use the iCloud Photo Library feature, which syncs all your photos across all your devices — you'll almost certainly need to buy more iCloud storage to take advantage of it.</div>
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As simple as the new Photos App is, the devil is in the details, and there are quite a few details here. Some familiar features have moved or changed, and in classic Apple fashion, some have also been completely removed. Here are some things to be aware of.</div>
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If you’ve been using the iCloud Photo Library beta for your iDevices (it came out with iOS 8), you’ll be familiar with how Photos for the Mac works. Rather than the "My Photo Stream" feature, which pushed 1,000 photos across your Mac and iOS devices, everything you shoot on your iPhone will be uploaded to your iCloud. Now, when you open up Photos on your Mac, you’ll see everything you've shot on your iPhone in a manner that’s almost identical to what you see in the Photos app on your iDevice — all your pics are organized by date and location. You can zoom out to a year overview or zoom in and see any particular photo or video. </div>
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Potentially the most noteworthy feature about the new Photos app is that Apple no longer is using iCloud to simply share your photos across devices — should you choose, you can now store every image and video you shoot on your iDevice in your iCloud. To assist you without taking up a ton of storage, Apple is also giving users the option to optimize storage on their devices. Rather than locally storing every image in full resolution or high resolution, you can choose to have the full images live in your iCloud; smaller sized, optimized images that take up less storage space will instead be displayed on your iDevices and on your Mac as well. You can of course download the full size image at any time, if you feel so inclined. Now, if you decide on this setup, you’ll be trusting Apple to keep all the originals safe in iCloud. Thankfully, you can have it set so that the Photos app on your Mac keeps all the original, full-size images stored locally should you so choose. </div>
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Beyond providing a much better way of organizing your photos and videos across your devices, the new Photos app for does much of what iPhoto did — allowing you can make a variety of edits, create calendars and books, use facial recognition to sort photos by the people that are in them, share them with iCloud or across some third-party services, and much much more. Almost every feature in iPhoto is available in Photos, and Apple has, thank g-d, finally fixed its very confusing cloud-syncing solutions in favor of a much simpler and smarter solution.</div>
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As I mentioned above, this is a completely new app with changes to both its look and feel, and how you edit photos. But there are a few new features as well.</div>
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<b>What’s not in the new Photos App that we are used to in iPhoto?</b></div>
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Almost everything that exists iPhoto exists in Photos, but some features did in fact not make it. Please note, I was using a pre-release version of the Photos App, and things may be added in future releases.</div>
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Either you decide to keep your pics on your Mac, or sync up everything in your Photos library with your iCloud Photo Library. Simply put, that means no selecting certain photos of events to sync up. Power users might hate that, but the feature’s been designed so you don’t have to remember to flag items. It is absolutely worth noting that even if you choose to sync your photos with iCloud Photo Library, you are still able to keep the original files stored locally on your Mac while having your library mirrored across multiple devices.</div>
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The new Photos App can be used without iCloud Photo Library, and thus not take up your iCloud storage. You can keep both photos and videos in the Photos app, similar to how you could with iPhoto and Aperture. You can also continue using iCloud’s Photo Stream feature, though it does not store full quality versions of your photos and won't transfer videos. Once you've upgraded to the iCloud Photo Library, your Photo Stream as you've known it is replaced by All Photos.</div>
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If you do want to turn on iCloud Photo Library, the Photos App will provide an estimation of how much storage it will take. If that amount goes over the 5GB of free free storage, you can purchase additional storage, similar to how it's done from your iDevice. Though Apple gives you 5GB for free, you’re sharing that space with your iCloud backups, as well as files you have<span style="font-size: 17px;"> stored in </span>iCloud Drive. Photos you’ve taken on your iPhone count separately from those backups. </div>
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My sincere hope, now that Amazon has severely changed their cloud pricing, is that Apple, shortly follows suit. In the meantime, Apple offers four choices of additional iCloud storage (which have vary in price depending on what country you’re in). In the US, at least, it’s 99 cents a month for 20GB, $3.99 a month for 200GB, $9.99 a month for 500GB, and $19.99 a month to jump to 1TB. Amazon offers unlimited file storage for $60/month! </div>
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Both iPhoto and aperture will live on, for now, though there will be no further developments for either. The Photos App replaces iPhoto, so your library is transferred over. Aperture users, can continue to use Aperture if they want to make more advanced edits. But those edits WILL NOT sync over to the new Photos App, and vice versa.</div>
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Quite simply, no. Apple has made it very easy for you to move your iPhoto or Aperture library into Photos and preserve your edits. However, because Apple changed some of its organizational tools, some things do get lost or changed from your iPhoto or Aperture library. Star ratings get turned into hearts (or favorites), and projects are turned into albums. Some other metadata is retained but will only show up in search. You will need to search for things like color labels and flags if you used them. If not no worries there. Also, if you’ve added any custom metadata fields to any photos in Aperture, those fields DO NOT carry over. For iOS users, there’s nothing to do. If you’ve turned on iCloud Photo Library, all your photos and albums will show up in Photos.</div>
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Phew! That's a basic overview of the new Photos App. I look forward to hearing about your trials once you've made the move...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To begin, let's start with why we need a "Master" storage option, and why that should be iCloud (for iPhone, iPad and Mac users especially, iCloud only recently opened up to non Apple users). In the not to distant past, those of you with multiple devices probably used your computer as the "Master". In order to get content from the computer to your device(s), you plugged the device in, and synced content through iTunes (and iPhoto). A very manual, very un-sexy way to share content. Fast forward to today, now we have a sleek, sexy way for all our iDevices to share content, iCloud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">iCloud requires a user id and password. In some cases, it will be the Apple ID you use for iTunes. In some cases, it will be a separate account. On your iPhone or iPad, to get to iCloud, you'll go into the Settings App, and click on the iCloud setting. On your Mac, you'll go into System Preferences, and click the iCloud preference. On a PC, you'll have to download the iCloud Control panel to access your iCloud content.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On your iPhone and iPad, the Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Notes and Reminder settings are quite simple. You either switch them on (green) or leave them off (grey). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If it's not immediately obvious, you need to be signed into iCloud with the same account information across your devices. That may seem like a no brainer, but believe me, it has happened on way more occasions than you might want to believe where people have been signed in under one account on one device, and another account on a second device. Needless to say, those folks had an impossible time sharing their content! By signing into iCloud with the same account information, across your devices, you have made sharing your content a breeze. Example: Enter a contact on your iPhone, and it will appear on all other iCloud devices. Similarly, enter a calendar event on your Mac and it will be shared across your devices. </span></div>
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<br />The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-24099392718888778482015-02-17T21:26:00.002-06:002015-02-17T21:26:52.450-06:00Apple Id Two Step VerificationHow secure, are our devices? Really? If the "bad guys" can hack into the likes of big box retailers like Home Depot and Target, just to name a few, how safe is the information in our iPhone(s), or iPad(s) or iCloud? Don't think for a minute that we all haven't asked ourselves this question. I certainly have. Simply put, it's only as safe as we make it. Ok, show of hands here, how many of you save your passwords in either the Notes App, or perhaps in contacts, or some other insecure location? It's ok, you're not alone. That doesn't make it ok though! Recently Apple took steps to help make our content more secure if our devices happen to get lost or stolen, implementing what is called Two-Step Verification.<br />
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Two-Step Verification is quite easy to set up, and I recommend it for everyone who raised there hand regarding where your passwords are saved...:). As well as everyone else! Ok, how does one go about setting up Two-Step verification? Start by opening your browser of choice and navigating to the following web site: <a href="http://id.apple.com/">http://id.apple.com</a>. Once there, you'll click the Manage your Apple ID button, and sign in with the Apple ID you use for iCloud.<br />
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After signing in, you'll be brought to the following screen. On the left, under "Edit your Apple ID", the second option is Password and Security. Click on that, then on the right side, you'll see "Manage your security settings." Just below that, Two Step Verification Setup (mine says enabled). </div>
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Follow the steps to set up Two-Step Verification and you'll be adding a huge security blanket for your personal iCloud content. You choose a trusted device that a text can be sent to, so if someone steals your account info, they still can't get into your content without having your trusted device. And if they happen to steal your trusted device, they won't be able to access the code sent to the device, without the iPhone or iPads security code.</div>
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All in all, its a great way to further lock down your devices and make them as safe as currently possible. The setup only takes a few minutes, but it will give you piece of mind that will be worth a million dollars!</div>
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So what are you waiting for, get moving...:). If you have any questions, please email or text me. Until next time, have fun doing the Two-Step!</div>
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<br />The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-75259455592056991842015-02-08T13:20:00.003-06:002015-02-08T13:20:25.608-06:00iCloud Basics<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">
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Todays blog highlights the many features of iCloud. In the coming days and weeks, I will expand on each highlighted section to provide more in-depth information to iCloud. <br />
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To start, iCloud allows device back up, restore, updating to your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch as well as managing your iTunes apps, books, music, TV shows, movies, Match, and Photo Stream in the cloud. If you don’t already know, iCloud is Apple's online content service built to make managing your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV, and your iTunes content easier and more efficient. iCloud is based in the “cloud”, which is merely a way of saying giant data centers filled with servers that you can access from your device over Wi-Fi or Cellular internet, wherever you may be, and whenever you want your content. It consists of several services that work with the apps on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, and with iTunes and a handful of desktop apps on your Mac and yes, even Windows machines. Most iCloud services are free, like other “cloud” services, additional storage and services are available for purchase.<br />
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Because the vast majority of iCloud services are free, and because they work automatically and transparently in the background to backup your data and give you access to your content, no questions asked, you should absolutely use it!</div>
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<b>Setup, backup, restore, and update your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iCloud</b></div>
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Thanks to iCloud, you no longer need to plug your iDevice your Mac or Windows PC, then go into iTunes to set it up your iDevice the first time, to keep it backed up, or to upgrade the software. All of that is done faster and more easily, over-the-air (OTA) while on a Wi-Fi network. Because routine tasks, like backups, happen automatically, there is no need to worry about forgetting them and then finding out you don't have a backup when you need it most.</div>
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iCloud includes push email, calendaring, and contact services. Push service simply means whenever you receive an email, it's immediately made available on all your iDevices. Whenever you make or modify an appointment it shows up in your calendar on all your iDevices. Whenever you add or change contact information, that change is reflected in the contacts on all of your iDevices. You access these services via the Mail, Contacts, and Calendar apps on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, as well as via the iCloud.com website from any desktop browser, or through popular mail, calendar, and contacts apps on your Mac or Windows PC.</div>
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iTunes part of iCloud lets you access content you've bought from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore, re-download it to your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, and to iTunes on your Mac or Windows PC, and stream your music, movies, and TV shows to your Apple TV.</div>
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iTunes Match is Apple's iCloud-based "music locker" service that allows you to store copies of all your music on Apple's servers and re-download it from any of your devices, at any time. iTunes Match isn't free, however. It comes at a price -- $24.99 a year (in the U.S.).</div>
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Thanks to iCloud you no longer have to fuss with traditional files and folders or worry about forgetting where you stored a document when you go back to look for it later. For apps that support Documents in the Cloud, all you have to remember is which app (or apps) opens the type of file you want to work on. From then on, iCloud manages everything, storing any changes you make back up to the server, and pushing down those updates to every device you have logged into your account. Create a Keynote presentation on your iPad at home, get to work and it's ready and waiting for you on your iPhone, Mac or via iCloud.com.</div>
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Find my iPhone -- or Find my iPod or Find my iPad -- keeps track of your iCloud-enabled devices so you can track them down if they're lost or stolen, and even remotely message, lock, and erase it to keep your data secure.</div>
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Keep a look out for more detailed information about each of these iCloud headings in the coming weeks. In the meantime if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out and contact me at <a href="mailto:geoff@themacmentor.com">geoff@themacmentor.com</a>.</div>
The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-58978685000602105652014-12-06T14:50:00.000-06:002014-12-06T14:52:10.088-06:00Apple Watch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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According to Apple's initial video, it appears as if the apps will either be limited to what's called a hierarchical tap-to-go-forward-or-back view or a horizontal swipe-per-page-based interface. </div>
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There will still be plenty to tap, pan, and zoom around on, as the Apple Watch supports buttons, switches, labels, sliders, and images. In addition, developers will be able to add a dynamic-updating date and time widget that either displays the current date and/or time, or shows a timer that counts up or down from a specific point in time.</div>
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Apple Watch developers using a bit of creativity should be able to push miniature versions of their apps to the Apple Watch. Currently the main emphasis will be on tapping, notifications, and easily-available information.</div>
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The Maps app, as well as Maps data is one area that Apple highlighted in the Apple Watch's introductory video: Developers will be able to insert snapshots of a map interface based on coordinates, however that interface will be non-interactive — you will not be able to pan or zoom unless you tap on it and enter the Maps app on Apple Watch. Could this mean no Google Maps app on the watch? Not sure — Google could push snapshots as you travel, for instance — but it does mean that developers will need to be more creative about how they will display certain mapping information.</div>
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In the initial iteration, there will be no GPS on the Apple Watch, so updating location is one of the things it will have to call back to the iPhone for. It's highly likely, that Apple's going to want to carefully manage that activity so they can prevent excessive battery drain.</div>
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Your interaction with the Apple Watch will occur via tapping and swiping similar to how you interact with all iOS apps. There are a few new swipe gestures available on the watch, including a left edge swipe (to return to the previous screen) and a swipe up from the bottom (which activates Glances). The pinch-to-zoom and a few other multi-finger gestures don't exist on the Apple Watch; instead, you're expected to use the device's Digital Crown to zoom in and out. There's also Force Touch, a long-press action that activates the menu or important contextual buttons within an app.</div>
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Glances are a new addition to iOS, exclusive to the Apple Watch, though they resemble Notification Center's Today view widgets. Glances let you see a single page of specific app information; you'll be able to swipe left or right to see Glances from other apps connected to your Apple Watch.</div>
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When you tap on a Glance, you'll launch that specific app; developers can even specify where in the app you land using Handoff. (Example, if you're viewing a to-do Glance that states you have items left to do on a Grocery list, tapping that Glance could send you directly to that list.)</div>
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Not every app needs or will have a Glance, and you'll be able to turn them off if you'd rather not see use them.</div>
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Notifications are divided into two categories: Short Look Notifications and Long Look Notifications. Short Look notifications contain minimal information, in part to preserve your privacy: All that displays will be the app icon, a quick title such as "New Message" or "New Photo", and the title of the app in the program's primary color.</div>
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If the user raises their wrist or taps on the Short Look notification, a Long Look notification appears. Long Looks are more detailed: You'll see the app icon and title at the top (in what Apple is calling the "sash"), followed by custom-designed content that displays the notification itself, along with up to four actions you can take (like replying or commenting) and a button for dismissing the notification.</div>
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Although Apple doesn't have much publicly available yet on how WatchKit and accessibility work together, given it uses iOS code as a backbone, it's more than likely that developers can use the same frameworks to provide hearing and vision-impaired users access to the Apple Watch.</div>
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Unfortunately not much aside from how apps themselves will work. Apple's public documentation says simply that the Apple Watch's official screen sizes: the 42mm watch is 312-by-390 pixels, while the 38mm watch is 272-by-340 pixels. In addition, it looks as though the Apple Watch is using the font San Francisco as its default.</div>
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I'm excited about the Watch. Pretty cool stuff, right? After this blog, I hope you are even more excited for the Apple Watch's debut next year.</div>
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The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-45104527348411223632014-10-22T20:59:00.003-05:002014-10-22T21:00:43.233-05:00OSX 10.10, Yosemite. Wow, Apple keeps inching OS X and iOS closer and closer together, and they keep incrementally making OS X (and iOS) better as well. Where Microsoft failed at completely revamping Windows (8), Apple has hit a home-run with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Now don't get to frightened, though the look of Yosemite is slightly different than Mavericks (it's a flatter look and feel, akin to iOS 8), the emphasizes translucency, more streamlined dock and toolbars, as well as smarter controls.<br />
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Yosemite brings improvements to most of the major Apple Apps. From a new streamlined Safari toolbar and "Favorites" view, to numerous upgrades to the Mail app. The Messages app now has the ability to send SMS messages (a first), which will allow you to keep track of all your messages from you iPhone (not just iMessages). <br />
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Apple is touting what they call "Continuity" as one of Yosemite's major breakthrough features. The Handoff feature of Continuity allows you to begin something on one device and pick it up and complete it on another. Another awesome feature of Continuity is the ability to answer phone calls on your Mac! That's right, you can answer a call made to your iPhone right on your Mac. All you need to do is make sure your Mac and iPhone are signed into the same iCloud account. Then your Mac is able to grab the call (through iCloud). Now your iPhone doesn't have to be tied to your hip, or glued to your hand...:).<br />
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Spotlight has been improved. For starters, it looks and acts much more like a search engine now. When you click the Magnifying glass icon (top right of your Mac), Spotlight Search now appears like this. You get a search window in the middle of your Mac, start searching for something and the window expands nicely to show items that match your search. <br />
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Another fantastic new feature in Yosemite is iCloud drive. Apple finally has successfully joined Google, Dropbox and other cloud vendors, vying to be your cloud drive of choice. With iCloud drive Apple has a winner on its hands. </div>
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Sure the internals all were upgraded, new processor, better camera, better wi-fi antenna, better battery etc, etc, etc. The thinness and size are two of the things that make this iPhone the best yet. To be fair, I have not tested or tried the 6 Plus, so I can't speak to it just yet. </div>
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With each iPhone release comes a new operating system. When I began testing iOS 8 since early June, there didn't seem to be a great difference from iOS 7. Once I started using the iPhone 6, the new features seem to come to life. From the new Speak Screen setting, to the new Handoff feature, to the ability to enlarge your whole screen using the new Zoomed Feature (and those and just 3 of the hundreds of new features), everything just worked better on the new iPhone.</div>
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Speak Screen let's your iPhone talk and tell you exactly what's on your screen (whatever app you may be in).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Along with two new iPhones, Apple has ambitiously made the way you pay for things so very easy by creating Apple Pay! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">With Apple Pay, you'll be able to pay for things in any physical or online </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">retail store using a contact-less touch system. When you make a</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">purchase the retailer does not see your name or card </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">number and even better, Apple collects no purchase history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">I apologize if this gets to tech speak here, but here's how this works; Apple Pay uses NFC (Near Field Communication), the Secure Element and Touch ID. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">You enter your credit card details into the system which confirms</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">your card with your bank, and creates a unique Device </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Account Number (aka </span>a token<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">), this is held in the Secure Element </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">on your device. Your transactions are authorized using the token </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">and a one-time dynamic security code.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Apple Pay will be available on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. It will </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">also works with iPhone 5, 5C and 5S devices but will require</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> an Apple Watch.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Now I'm not certain just how secure this process is, but you </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">can pre-load your credit card into your iPhone using your</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">camera. Once approved the card appears in the Passbook app.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Coming early next year, Apple Pay will work with your Apple Watch once you enter your </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">passcode. Now this part is very cool, if you remove your watch payments are</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">suspended until you put it on again and re-enter the watch code. Nice!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">If you loose your iPhone, the Find My iPhone app will suspend payments from your device once it is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">placed in Lost Mode. You will not need to replace your</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">card, just create a new token on the device.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: museo-sans, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Very secure!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Because transactions are validated using dynamic codes it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">impairs or blocks hackers from scanning and stealing account details</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">during a wireless transaction. According to Morgan Reed, of the App Association, "Consumers can be</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">confident their Apple Pay transactions will be private, safe,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">and secure." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">The essential credit card data is not held in the iCloud, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">making it extremely secure. Google Wallet's failure was due to the fact that it</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">held this highly sensitive data in an insecure cloud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">At first, Apple Pay will be available in the US, where American Express, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Visa and MasterCard and most of the biggest banks support it at over</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">200,000 shops. Mastercard says such payment services</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">will be widely available in </span>12-18 months<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Apple will be taking a processing fee from banks. The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">amounts are large, and Apple may gain close to $30-$50 million in</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> added income on existing iTunes purchases, and the best part, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">it costs you nothing!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Apple Pay will be awesome when you are price comparing </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">sites; look at an item in a store and if you find it cheaper somewhere else, order it there</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Both PayPal and Square have said they will support Apple </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Pay within their services. Apple Pay is expected to launch</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">in the US in October, and internationally in the very near</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">future.</span></span><br />
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The Apple iPhone press conference, held this week was a great showcase for the latest addition to the iPhone family, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Like previous releases, these iPhones themselves don't offer any real groundbreaking changes, rather they offer subtle incremental changes. As come to be expected, there are two new speedier processors, the A8, and M8 motion processor. With the larger iPhones, Apple has also given us new Retina HD displays, which give us better clearer resolution than previous iPhones. As also has come to be expected, the camera gets some incremental updates. The camera has a new sensor with something Apple calls Focus Pixels(?), and we now get 1080p video at 60 fps (or frames per second). The new iPhones also give us faster downloading via LTE as well as better, faster wi-fi. Now comes what in my opinion, is the best feature of the new iPhones, Apple Pay! Apple Pay, using technology called NFC (near field communication), your iPhone can now be used to easily pay for things you purchase at retailers around the country. Simply hold your iPhone 6 near the new contactless reader with your finger on the finger scanner of your iPhone and just like that you can pay for your items! Your iPhone does not hold or store your credit card, that information is held safely within your iTunes account, all you do is use your finger to verify who you are, and your iPhone does the rest! Awesome...</div>
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Another interesting factoid about these new iPhones, they come in three storage capacities: 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB. I'm not sure why they choose to get rid of the 32GB option instead of getting rid of the 16GB option, but I'm sure they have their reasons. Best guess, the iPhone 7 will start at 64GB and go from there.</div>
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The iPhone 6 is available for pre-order starting this Friday, and available at retail outlets next Friday, 9.19.14. For those of you who didn't know, they iPhone can and should be purchased at the Apple Store. If you'd like to know why, please reach out to me via this blog, or feel free to email me at Geoff@themacmentor.com.</div>
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I'll have more towards the end of next week, on iOS 8 after it gets released. </div>
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<br />The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-29357419268227654092014-08-11T17:11:00.002-05:002014-08-11T17:11:36.194-05:00iMessage updates in iOS 8.<span style="font-size: large;">iMessage in iOS 8, a better way to message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the screen capture above, you'll notice the microphone just above the word "I'm" (That's the predictive keyboard at work, predicting what I'll type!). Now take a look at the screen capture below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you press the microphone icon, a 3 quarter circle appears with an X (left), an Arrow (Top) and a circle with a red square inside (middle). The X cancels the recorded message. The Arrow pushes the voice message into the body of the message (see below). The red square stops the recording.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, if you need to be discreet, and don't want to type out a message, the voice recording is a fantastic way to go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look for my next iOS 8 update towards the end of the week, it will be covering the new iCloud drive!</span></div>
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The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-56573284426802091862014-08-07T20:43:00.002-05:002014-08-07T20:43:36.349-05:00Hey Siri! Handsfree Siri coming to iOS 8.It only took a few years, but Apple is giving iPhone and iPad users a great new (old) tool in iOS 8, handsfree Siri! There is a catch, your device needs to be plugged in, in order for Handsfree to work. First, turn it on. Go into Settings > General > Siri:<br />
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Turn the Voice Activation switch to On (or green), and your ready to go! This is awesome for those of us who haven't learned that we shouldn't hold our phones (or use them!) while driving. As long as your iPhone is charging, simply say "Hey Siri" and Siri is ready for your request. I've used it (not in Deerfield because you can't use handheld devices in Deerfield!) and it works famously. I've had it call ("Hey Siri, Call Erika"), I've had it text ("Hey Siri, text Eli"), I've had it check the price of Apple stock ("Hey Siri, what's Apple stock at today"). Now this isn't only for driving. Handsfree Siri works whenever and wherever your iPhone or iPad is plugged in, to a computer, outlet or other charging device. I'm quite pleasantly surprised at how well it's working in the beta software (currently beta version 5). </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you ever used an Android, or do you know anyone who owns one? If so, you've probably heard them speak about how great gesture typing is. Rather than tapping out words across a small keyboard, gesture typing allows you to coast across a screen, letter by letter, to send correspondence. Keyboard apps such as SwiftKey and Swype offer this functionality and also work quite well. With iOS 8, Apple is most certainly playing catch up, finally opening iOS devices to system-wide third-party keyboard apps. SwiftKey, Swype and many others are on the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Apple’s iOS keyboard may not get built-in gesture typing in the early iOS 8 releases, but it does have new predictive typing that learns from you. Apple calls it QuickType, and as you rattle off a sentence, it will suggest contextually appropriate words. QuickType guesses the words you might want based on what app you’re using (mail versus messages) and to whom you’re sending a note to—boss, friend, wife? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The keyboard will provide word choices that are appropriate for whom you are writing too. Your co-worker, friend, wife etc. iOS 8 also understands if you are responding to a question and will provide choices like "yes" or "no".</span><br />
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The MacMentorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547016002551245563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566932218214926943.post-51778878305207303112014-07-06T16:58:00.001-05:002014-07-20T20:02:01.129-05:00Browsing the web anonymously.<br />
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Happy Monday! Today's blog covers how to stay safe (or at least as best possible), while surfing the web! </div>
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Web browsing can be a very scary thing. Websites track your surfing session. Social networks, search engines, your Internet provider, even the government may be tracking you online as well! They may be collecting what they consider valuable marketing data, or trying to prevent potentially dangerous criminal activity, regardless, what you do online, in the so called privacy and comforts of your home, sadly folks, is anything but private!</div>
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Thankfully, The MacMentor is always looking out for his people! Below, are some tips I've gathered to help your browsing be done anonymously.</div>
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That said, there are a few ways to spend time online anonymously. The following are a few suggestions.</div>
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Do you ever wonder about the ads you get on your Facebook page, or other sites you visit? How they are seemingly tailored just for you? Well, THEY ARE! To help avoid site knowing "who you are", or better, who your computer is, one thing you can do is use anonymous proxy software. I know what you are saying, "English, please Mr. MacMentor!" Ok, anonymous proxy software is a great way to mask, or hide your IP address online. However, even using this type of software, there is still plenty of information about your Web-surfing habits stored on your computer — which could also be viewed over a network, say, at the office, by your IT department (that's right folks).</div>
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Thankfully, its very easy to manage your privacy settings right in your Web browser, unless the company you work for does not give you admin privileges, which you need to make changes to your browsers settings. </div>
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A great thing to do is to disable the cookies in your browser. A browser cookie is a tiny text file that gets stored on your computer. It has information about where you've been online, your passwords, and other information as well. You should also delete your browser history to make certain to cover your tracks! Every major browser, from IE, Chrome, Safari or Firefox allows you to delete your browsing history. All you need to do is go into the Options or Settings on your favorite browser and you'll see how this is done. In Safari, Apple makes it very easy. Click the History Menu option and you'll see a menu like the one below pop up.</div>
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From there, click the Clear button (highlighted in blue) and you'll clean out your browsers history. </div>
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Another tip...Turn off Auto-complete functionality on your browser. If Auto-complete is turned on, someone could jump on your computer, type in a few letters of a Web Address (URL) bar, or in a search engine and any recent places you've visited could be automatically filled in! Didn't I tell you it could be scary out there! And NEVER click "Remember my password" for any private or financial institutions. Doing so could grant a hacker access to your most precious information.</div>
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Ok, now that I've thoroughly scared the C#$@ out of you, there is another, very easy thing you can do. Most browsers allow for private surfing. If you are a Safari user, click on the Safari menu option, and choose Private Browsing. Enabling this feature will stop your browser from saving any history, search queries, cookies or passwords. </div>
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Ok, now let's discuss search engines. You could simply choose not to save your browsing history. For example, Google, recently was ordered to make this easier for users in Europe. You might also consider not logging into your Google account when you are using these services, or you may choose to install a free browser plug-in that tells Google and other advertisers to simply back-off. </div>
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Finally and sadly, you may (or may not) have heard that Facebook is going to start sharing Web-browsing history it collects with advertisers to display more targeted ads — yes, even on non-Facebook sites you visit. Thankfully you can opt out of this within Facebook's Privacy settings.</div>
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Speaking of Facebook, how on earth does Facebook know to show you ads for your local gym or supermarket? In part it's because your computer's unique Internet Protocol (IP) address, assigned by your Internet provider, which reveals your geographical location. Unfortunately, even if your computer generates a different IP address every time you boot up or log online, this number (e.g. 220.165.119.12) still tells your general location.</div>
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There are a slew of solutions that allow you to hide your Internet connection, allowing you to remain anonymous while online.</div>
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One solution si to use a free "online proxy servers" to conceal your identity. Simply point the Web address (URL) to the proxy server and surf right from its website (for help with this, check out proxy.org for a list of great options).</div>
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Or, you may wish to download Virtual Private Network (VPN) software that encrypts your browsing sessions.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The browser-independent Hotspot Shield from AnchorFree (anchor free.com), for example is available for Windows, Macs, iPhone and Android channels all Web activities through a personal VPN and secures Internet communications by turning all HTTP traffic into the safer HTTPS (which is what your bank uses for a safe connection). You can purchase an ad-supported free version and a beefier "elite" option ($29.95/year) with more bells and whistles.</span></span></div>
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Similarly, Tor is free software that protects you against Internet surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy. TOR is short for "The Onion Router" — which gets its name for its "layered" approach to the encryption process — TOR (torproject.org) provides online anonymity as the software routes Internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers to conceal your location as well as your online browsing patterns.</div>
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Lastly, this blog will cover USB sticks. In some cases, software to encrypt your connection is kept on a USB drive. These can be fantastic when you wish to remain safe and secure when using a public PC.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Check out the SurfEasy Private Browser ($69.99 one-time fee; </span></span><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">surfeasy.com</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">). Its a tiny USB key that fits into a credit card-shaped case to be kept in your wallet. When you plug it into a PC or Mac it immediately launches its own password-protected browser and you're good to go (no proxy or network settings to configure).</span></span></div>
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Your browsing session is handled through SurfEasy's fast and secure private proxy network. Your IP address will be masked throughout your browsing session.</div>
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SurfEasy also has a new downloadable product called SurfEasy VPN that can protect not only computers, but your iPhones, iPads and even Android devices as well!</div>
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Lastly, check out Tails (<a href="http://tails.boum.org/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://tails.boum.org/">tails.boum.org</a>), which can be downloaded and installed onto a USB stick to run independently of the computer's original operating system. Similar to SurfEasy, it allows you browse the Web anonymously, on virtually any computer as all connections are channeled through the earlier mentioned TOR network.</div>
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Didn't realize how unsafe your browsing was, did you? Well I hope this post helps. You may choose to do nothing, just be aware that you are being "followed" and "watched". There are things you can do, and things I hope you do to help protect yourself. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to me for assistance! </div>
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Have an awesome week, and until next time, best to you and your devices. And Safe Browsing to you all!</div>
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