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August 2014

ApplePickers Main Meeting

We usually meet the second Wednesday of each

month, 6:30-7:00 p.m. social time, main meeting

7:00-8:45 p.m. at the Fishers Library, 5 Municipal Dr.

just north of 116th St. in Fishers. Visitors are always

welcome to come and join us. Please check our web-

site calendar for meeting dates.

ApplePickers Business Meeting

The business meeting is held via the ApplePickers

“Virtual Business Meeting” forum topic. Any member

is welcome to post in that topic stating their opinions

on what the club should be doing.

Mac ProSIG

Each month, Apple Representative Greg Willmore

hosts the Mac Programmer’s SIG. You should email

Greg at willmore@apple.com for specic information.

Location varies.

Final Cut Pro User Group

The INDYFCPUG meets the fourth Thursday of each

month from 7:00-9:30 p.m. Since the location may

vary, please be sure to check their website.

August

Wednesday

6th

Business Meetings are now

Virtual (See Forums)

Main Meeting

Wednesday, August 6th

Upcoming Meetings

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Boogie Board

Review: Page MeUp

Six Useful Apple Accessories

Buy iTunes Credit with Passbook

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August 2014 ApplePickers Main Meeting August We usually meet the second Wednesday of each month, 6:30-7:00 p.m. social time, main meeting 7:00-8:45 p.m. at the Fishers Library, 5 Municipal Dr. just north of 116th St. in Fishers. Visitors are always welcome to come and join us. Please check our website calendar for meeting dates.
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ApplePickers Officers President Bob van Lier president@applepickers.org Vice President Jim Borse vp@applepickers.org Public Relations Gareth Souders pr@applepickers.org Past President Bob Carpenter bobc@applepickers.org Secretary Nancy Dwyer secretary@applepickers.org Treasurer Ron Beechler ronb@applepickers.org Newsletter Production Editor this month Editor next month The Review Guru Bob van Lier Randy Marcy Irv Haas About the ApplePickers bobv@applepickers.
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REVIEW: Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet By Irv Haas The Review Guru I f you have been looking for that replacement for paper and pen to take simple notes, look no further than the Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet.
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Review: Page MeUp By Bob van Lier F rom time to time, the mailbox at info@applepickers.org receives some potentially interesting offers. An offer a few weeks ago was from the publisher of Kinematic, the 2D and 3D animation tool. The publisher, SoftoBe is piloting a new tool called PageMeUp. The software is a simple tool for mocking up e-books or websites. The user creates a series of text or image boxes, and populates them with text or pictures and arranges them on one or multiple pages.
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Six Useful Apple Accessories by Josh Centers T here are endless mountains of accessories for your Apple products, and, let’s be honest, most are junk. If you’ve been in the Apple world for any length of time, you’ve probably accumulated a closet full of iPhone cases, adapter cables, keyboards, screen protectors, and other bric-a-brac.
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The MOS retails for $19.95 for the plastic versions and $39.95 for aluminum. A set of three extra cable ties sells for $5.00. Nimblstand – Do you struggle with finding a place for your iPad and/or iPhone on your desk? The Nimblstand is an innovative solution. It’s a plastic stand ber on one side. The idea is that you wrap it around your iPad’s case, then take it off to clean your screen. That sounded lame, until I figured out a better way to use it.
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iTunes Pass: How to Buy iTunes Store Credit via Passbook by Josh Centers W e previously reported that Apple was testing the new iTunes Pass service in Japan (see “Apple Testing iTunes Pass in Japan,” 15 July 2014). The service, which lets you purchase iTunes Store credit in a retail Apple Store via Passbook, is now available in the United States. With it you’ll be able to load up an iTunes account with funds you can use to buy iOS and Mac apps, iTunes music and videos, and books from the iBooks Store.
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A Powerful Research Tool For Those Needing Arrest Information And Mugshots Posted by: InfoManager L eading the way for arrests and mugshots online, JailBase has released the iPhone version of their well-liked mobile app. Helping you find information about family members. Researching past arrests. Seeing who’s been arrested in your neighborhood. JailBase’s free mobile app fills this need for many counties in the United States.
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Mac Thunderbolt Docks: Belkin Versus the Clones F by Julio Ojeda-Zapata or many of us, I might paraphrase Wallis Simpson’s saying as “You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many ports.” As such, using a port-poor Apple portable can be a pain in the posterior. MacBook Air users have it particularly bad with just one Thunderbolt port (compared to two on MacBook Pro models) and no HDMI port (there’s one on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display). No Macintosh laptop has more than two USB ports.
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my monitor) or smaller Mini DisplayPort variations. As it happens, the Thunderbolt ports on the Belkin dock and all other Thunderbolt ports double as Mini DisplayPort ports. So, to hook my monitor to the dock, I scrounged up a DisplayPort-to-Mini DisplayPort cable, with the big end going into the display, and the smaller prong plugging into the dock. no FireWire 800 ports.
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Elgato told me it “has fixed a nuisance bug of the reference design by eliminating the irritating buzzing noise that the hardware makes when the Mac is no longer connected to the Dock.” The company tosses in an Elgato Thunderbolt Dock software utility that ejects all connected storage devices at once with a click in the menu bar “so you can immediately see when it’s safe to unplug your Thunderbolt Dock and avoid potential data loss.
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Thunderbolt Docks (continued) USB 3.0 Adapter may be exactly what you need. As its name suggests, the compact gadget incorporates a Thunderbolt cord along with an eSATA port for plugging in an eSATA drive. It also has a single USB 3.0 port. Kanex also offers a Thunderbolt-to-gigabit-Ethernet adapter (shown in the image below). Akitio’s Thunder Dock is another compact Thunderbolt dock, though apparently based on a design different from the one used by CalDigit, Elgato, and StarTech.