April 13th Meeting Recap
Greetings Members,
Wednesday night we held the April Boise Mac User Group Meeting. Of those in attendance many brought their iPad. As such the meeting moved in that direction.
As a presidency we decided it would be a good idea to purchase an iPad dock connector for future presentations. The cost was $39.99 plus tax. The connection worked great with only one of the iPad Apps on my iPad not want to work, which was the MLB At-Bat 2011 App. This was disappointing to me, but not so much to the group.
We talk a bit about Air Play and the new features to iOS. I provided my experience of the iPad launch at the Boise Towne Square Mall Apple Store. You can find my write up and video at http://jtsblog.com/boise-town-square-mall-ipad-2-launch-experience if you wish read more.
Ira had a few questions one was regarding the Auto-Click question I had previously addressed and the other was regarding his Safari Browser running a little slow. I talked to him about clearing the cache and deleting cookies. I also mentioned OnyX to him also mentioned by Kevin Cache Out X
Here are the links to each
OnyX
Download: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx
Review: http://youtu.be/VV0HxsZOQAc?hd=1
Cache Out X
Download: http://www.trilateralsystems.com/cacheoutx/
Review: http://youtu.be/aVJZ6qdEsnc?hd=1
I think it may be worth a few moments to demo this Application. As I am no longer in possession of a MacBook I would need a volunteer.
There were many iPad App favorites mentioned during the meeting, unfortunately my memory 2 days later is not that great. I do know that I have looked at quite a few since the meeting, but have yet to have time to download them.
Also I gave a cool stuff found item, which is from the most recent edition of MacLife that shows how to run other browsers within Safari.
If you only want Windows for surfing IE-only sites, Safari’s got you covered.
If your only reason for running Windows is access to Internet Explorer–only websites, back away from that VM! Safari can handle the job for you quickly and easily. First, go to Safari > Preferences, then click the Advanced tab and check the box for “Show Develop menu in menu bar.” With that menu activated, go to Develop > User Agent and pick which browser you want Safari to pose as when loading a webpage. Voilà!
Finally we talked about the Mac App store and the fact it is not available on other versions of OS X besides Snow Leopard. Gary pointed my to the http://appbodega.com/ which requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later and an internet connection to use Bodega. I know that does not help Tiger people, but it does not require you to update to Snow Leopard if you do not wish to do so.
See you all next month.