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Inside this issue—President’s Message ..................................................................................................... 2Spring Cleaning Tips from Phil Davis................................................................. 3Member’s iPhone Photos Case Study ................................................................ 4Crypto Craze Part One: Overview ....................................................................... 8 Checking Questionable Links Without Clicking Them ............................ 9 D

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Mac mini Still on Apple’s Radar— from MacSales’ Rocket Yard Blog by Jarrod

Oct. 16, 2014 marked the last update seen for Apple’s Mac mini. That’s over three long years ago.

But the smallest Mac hasn’t been completely for-gotten. Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the mys-tery surrounding the Mac mini via email with a customer recently, saying the mini is “an important part of our product line going forward.” This tease might have led some to believe that a Mac mini refresh was near. However, that expecta-tion might need to be tempered after comments made by Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi. Federighi confirmed that there would be no Apple event in late year, saying “I think we’re all Keynoted out for the season! “ in response to

an email from a MacRumors.com reader. Last year, Apple featured a Mac-centric event in October. Considering this statement and how few days are left in 2017, Mac mini fans probably shouldn’t expect a refresh to come this year. However, they shouldn’t completely shut the door on the pos-sibility either. Apple will release the HomePod and anticipated iMac Pro in December, and it’s possible that a Mac mini could be released alongside them. It’s just not likely… a

Merry Christmas Everyone! Marilyn Kennedy

OMUG President

Apple Pay Cash will soon be available for us to send money to someone using iMessage or Siri. There are a few requirements that need to be be met: –Must have a credit card in Apple Wallet –Must be in the U.S. –Must have 2-factor authentication activated on your Apple ID –Must be using an iPhone 6 or newer –Both parties must be running iOS 11.2 or later. As of 11/17/2017, iOS 11.2 was in beta, so many of us will need to wait for the public update. Once we have everything in place, a new app will show up in the iMessage dock. Just tap on it and follow the instructions to send up to $3000. That’s almost enough to cover the cost of my new 27” iMac, so I hope Santa meets all the require-ments to use Apple Pay Cash. To learn more about Apple Pay Cash, go here! December is the shortest month of the year, but you can make it one of the best. My gift to you includes the following to make the season brighter for you and for others—

Will Santa be able to send money using Apple Pay Cash? —President’s Message

D o keep all your Apple devices running smoothly by updating whenever you can and backing up your data. This will make Phil Davis especially happy. E xperiment with new apps to keep your mind working to its full potential. C elebrate each new day by learning something new. Even David Freudenberg of the Freedom Li-brary mentioned this in his excellent presentation at our November meeting. E levate your knowledge about all things Apple. Read articles in the MUGSHOTS. Al Sypher works very hard to put together a high-quality news magazine for you. M eet new challenges with a positive attitude. When something goes awry, remember to breathe and either ask Siri what to do or check with Google. Be generous to those in need, not only during the Christmas season but all year long. E njoy each day. There are enough Scrooges in this world. R emember to do a Random Act of Kindness as often as possible. Star Banner’s Emory Schley will be thrilled.

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Say what? Don’t you know that this is the Fall season and Spring is not for another few months? Have you lost a few of your marbles

(and I probably have)? Bear with me a few minutes and all will come clear.——————————— Every so often it is useful to spend some time with our computers doing cache cleaning, reorganizing, old file elimination, and other boring things that we usually associate with the term “Spring Clean-ing.” The trouble is that, while these don’t need to be done often, they should be done more than once a year. So, when we had our semi-annual changing of the clocks recently, it occurred to me that this would not only be a good signal to change smoke detector batteries, but a reminder to take care of computer maintenance chores. If you are still with me, let me suggest a few steps you can take.Take Stock of What You Have1 Look at your documents folder and list any thing that you don’t immediately recognize. Do the same thing with your Dropbox folder. Delete or archive unneeded documents.2 Sort your folders by modification date and identify files that you haven’t touched for the last year. Use the Finder’s Smart Folder tool to simplify the process. Archive these on an external drive.3 Create a Finder Smart Folder to identify applications that you haven’t used in the last year. Delete applications that are no longer needed.File and Folder Actions1 Archive your stale documents. These are documents that have no expected value for the next year or more. Save these archives on an external drive in folders sorted by year of document creation.

2 Organize your folders in Documents and Dropbox. Prune, merge and create sub-folders as needed.3 Evernote and Google Drive users — prune un- important documents not used in the last year.

Computer Maintenance Actions1 Reboot your computer. This forces some of the background maintenance routines to run.2 Use Disk Utility’s First Aid to test all drives.3 Make sure automated backups are running as planned and that the backups are current.4 Test your backups. Try booting from your clone backups. Make sure you know how to access off-site backups (like Backblaze).5 Replace backup drives that are older than 3 years. Backup drives CAN fail (personal experience).6 Update any local offsite backups stored at a friend’s house, or in a safe deposit box.7 Run CleanMyMac 3 or Onyx to remove the cruft that builds up over time.8 Run Monolingual to remove unnecessary language files.9 Make sure your OS and your applications are all up to date.10 Run Malwarebytes to find any unwanted guests.Update Your Documentation1 Use the MachineProfile app to collect system, storage, and backup information. Save this information in a folder called System Documentation.2 Make screen shots of the account configura- tion windows in Apple Mail and save them in the System Documentation folder.

3 Update your Digital Inventory, the file contain- ing all the critical account information needed by your family and heirs in case of your incapacity or death.4 If you use a password manager (and you should) review the accounts and prune those no longer used. Use 1Password’s Security Audit tools to flag weak and duplicate pass- words that need to be changed.So, now it is time to do Spring Cleaning in the Fall! The time you spend may help your computer to run a little faster and you to do your work more effectively. Happy computing! a

Spring Cleaning by Santa Phil Davis

How to Download a Webpage Archive with Safari for Mac— as featured in OSXDaily.com

Have you ever wanted to download and save a particular web page as an archive for whatever reason? Maybe it’s an old simple personal home page you want to keep, or perhaps you want an archive of a particular website or collection of web pages for some other offline use. Safari for Mac OS offers a simple way to download and save web-pages as something called a Web Archive, which are self-contained little archive files of any given web page that can be accessed locally. When you save a web page as a web archive in Safari to a local Mac, all of the webpage text, article content, images, style sheets, and other web content will be kept in that web archive file. That file can be opened locally on the Mac even if is not online, however the links included in the web page will still reference the original source URLs and thus following those links would still re-quire online access, as would posting to forms and performing other functions... more —click here a

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MEMBER’S iPhone Photos case studyI’m in love! No, not with anyone you know— it’s with my newly acquired iPhone 7 Plus. Yes, I finally tossed my flip phone and joined the 21st Century. For the first month I did nothing but make/receive calls, texts, check email, etc. Then on Oct. 22, I became an iPhone shooter on a late afternoon visit to Sholom Park.

My objective, as a longtime DSLR cam-era user, was to see what the iPhone was capable of and what its limitations are. To say I was pleasantly surprised is definitely an understatement. I wan-dered the park for about an hour, using the camera to take shots at random. There were no set-ups, everything was hand-held, nature’s lighting was partly to mostly cloudy, but with an occasional sunbeam popping through. Basically, I used the rule-of-thumb of “that view might make a nice photo.” I tried using the “Portrait” setting to get a single bloom in sharp focus but with the background soft (far right). Not always easy. I kept getting the message

“move farther away.” Solu-tion, take the shot in 2x and crop to bloom. There are other ways but I had not done any homework before hand. —see next pg.

Sholom Park photos by Al Sypher

by Al Sypher

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happy accidents! What would I do different-ly? In the absence of an Apple manual on the iPhone’s camera features, I’d spend some time reading what I could find on the web. Thanks to Phil Davis, web links that he forwarded have opened me to many iPhone Plus features that I did not know existed. Shooting with an iPhone can be a snapshot experience or a whole differ-ent world of photo capture ability. My iPhone 7 Plus gives me a great walking around camera capability for those casual shots and enough “chops” to also use it in my business or to make wall prints, and you can too.Here are some helpful hotlinks:iphonephotographyschool.com (Very compre-hensive and worth checking out but be aware that while the site has lots of great free tips, they will push hard to get you to sign-up for a course.)Master Portrait Mode— Mac ObserverHow To Use iPhone 7 Plus cameraiPhone 7 Plus photography guideHow To Use iPhone 8 and 8 Plus cameraPhotographer’s guide to iPhone 8 Plus

I also asked Phil Davis and NC Sizemore to contribute their experiences as well. Both are us-ing iPhone 8 Plus models that they just received. At the moment, their experience with their units is very limited but already positive. NC, with his volunteer work with organizations has had to take hundreds of club-activity photos using a DSLR set-up. Now with iPhone’s camera he is free to easily move about and get the job done with professional results and not all that burdensome equipment. Also, posting the im-ages to club or social media is a breeze. Shown at top right is Kiwanis member Gaye Street, Principal of Sparr Elem. School. At left is

Previous page, iPhone 7 Plus photo comments—I found the yellow mums along a pathway and with the standard “Photo” setting using the 2x zoom setting, positioned the focus window on a particular bloom and easily took the shot from a standing position. The vertical shot of magenta “Ti Plant” leaves was taken in deep shade. The iPhone did the rest and preserved the brilliant color. The row of colorful red-green-white accent plants in dappled shade is an example of the iPhone HDR capability. Without the HDR fea-ture the photo would have been dull. The HDR held the whites without them being “blown out” while brightening the colors. The sidewalk adds interest to the composition. The rose shot (bottom right) used “Portrait” mode and when viewed in larger scale one can readily see the crisp focus of the blooms, yet with soft background. “Rule of Thirds” compo-sition was used. I shot the image of trees heavily moss laden to challenge the iPhone’s exposure metering. It not only excelled in its accuracy but the shut-ter was fast enough to keep sharp focus on the moss being stirred by a breeze. Except for the scenic image, what you see in the images is what I got without post-process-ing. I was able to transfer all the images to my Mac wirelessly using AirDrop in just moments (see iPhone to Mac). Photoshop was used to batch downsize and rename the images. In the scenic image, the iPhone had a lot of contrast-ing elements to deal with and the sky became washed out. Using the “highlights” slider in the Photoshop Camera Raw filter, I was able to bring back all of the cloud detail the iPhone had actually recorded but just wasn’t showing. I got lucky with my images this time— yes,

photo by NC

photo by NC Sizemore— iPhone Photo Mode

Angie Negron. Louise Werner and Shelley Size-more, tending the donation table at a Kiwanis fundraiser. —concluded on next page

Member’s iPhone Case Study— continued from page 4

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Member’s iPhone Case Study— continued from page 5

Each of the two mono-images were shot in natural indoor light with lighting coming from a nearby window. The geode/vase image above was created using the Stage Light Mono Portrait mode. The Wild Turkey image at right was cap-tured in color in Natural Portrait mode and con-verted to mono with the Photos app. aEditor’s comment— we all knew smart phone photos were getting better all the time. The results on these pages certainly confirm that. Unfortunately, along with getting better, the iPhones are getting more complex to achieve that image quality. The result— NC, Phil and myself have barely touched the surface. For now though, I’ll call Phil the “Master of Still Life.” We, and anyone with a recent model iPhone, will have to do a lot of how-to studying to get the most out of these devices.

Phil Davis captured the iPhone image above using the iPhone’s Live Image feature. The feature takes a series of shots and gives its user several choices such as video playback, or in this case merges multiple frames together to a single frame giving the long exposure motion look on the water seen here. Great for those soft flowing waterfall shots. In the elegant “fine art” shots shown at right, Phil was probing a feature set exclusive to the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, Portrait Lighting ef-fects. There are currently five different types of Portrait lighting in the set: Natural, Studio, Con-tour, Stage Light, or Stage Light Mono.

photo by Phil Davis

photo by Phil Davis photo by Phil Davis

“Old Friends”A touch of nostalgia for what once was.

Photo by Phil Davis shot on iPhone 8 Plus

dering what is next on your Calendar agenda? Maybe you forgot when that appointment is tomorrow? Or perhaps you’re wondering if you’re free next Tuesday for a meeting at a specific time? You can ask Siri to tell you, utilizing the virtual assistant as a little personal assistant—more, link 7

In Case You Missed It— from Phil Davis

Here is a link to the databases on the Marion County Library system. In general, it is often better to get your information from a tested data-base rather than a general search engine—more, link 8

iPhone Restore from iTunes Backup Taking For-ever? Here’s the Fix— Tom Nelson on Rocket Yard blog Whether you’re setting up a new iPhone, migrating to an iPhone X from an old iPhone, or just restoring an iPhone through iTunes for trou-bleshooting or some other reason, the process of restoring an iTunes backup to an iPhone should not take an excessively long amount of time. But sometimes a peculiar situation can happen—more, link 9

Can You Use iPhone X

Without Face ID? Yes!

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The 100 Best iPhone Photos of 2016— from iPhone Photography SchoolIf you’re in need of inspiration for your iPhone photography, there’s nothing more inspiring than looking at other people’s beautiful images from photographers around the world — link 1How to Add More Apps (Up to 15) to Dock on iPad— from OSXDaily.comIf you’re an iPad owner who fre-quently uses many different apps, you’ll appreciate the ability to add more apps than ever before into the Dock of iOS on the iPad. Now, any iPad running iOS 11 or later can place up to 15 apps in the Dock on the de-vice. This is more of a —more, link 2

How to Add New Cards to iPhone— from OSXDaily.com Most iPhone users setup Apple Pay once with a single card, but you can add multiple credit cards and debit cards to the iPhone for use with Apple Pay if desired. This is nice if you want both a credit and debit card on the iPhone, or if you have multiple rewards cards you use— and more, link 3How to Disable True Tone on iPhone Displays— from OSXDaily.comThe latest iPhone models include a feature called True Tone, which auto-matically adjusts the iPhone display

Face ID Questions, Answered—from OSXDaily.com There are a lot of questions out there about using iPhone X and the new Face ID feature, which scans your face to unlock your iPhone X. Some people want to know if they can use iPhone X without Face ID, and with-out the iPhone X ever using facial recognition for unlocking the iPhone and—more, link 10

How to Quit Apps on iPhone X— by OSXDaily.com

Want to quit apps on iPhone X? May-be an app is misbehaving or draining your battery, or maybe you don’t want it to do updating or things in the background. If you need to quit running apps on iPhone X, you may have noticed that the traditional swipe up gesture does not work to close the —more, link 11

Use Emergency SOS on your iPhone— support@apple.com

With Emergency SOS in iOS 11, you can quickly and easily call for help and alert your emergency contacts. After an emergency call ends, your iPhone alerts your emergency con-tacts with a text message, unless you choose to cancel. —more, link 12Also, thanks to Marilyn, view a video on the topic— last linkfrom MacMost

THIS AND THAT HOT L I NKSwhite balance to better match the ambient lighting surrounding you. In practice this means the screen gets warmer in warm lighting, and cooler in cool lighting, sort of like how Night Shift works but not quite as dramatic and—more, link 4

How to Print Webpage Articles Without Ads from iPhone or iPad, and Safari— by OSXDaily.comIf you like to print out articles from the web via an iPhone or iPad you may appreciate this tip, which allows you to strip down a webpage or any web article so that the primary focus is on the article text content and photos. Essentially this lets you print out webpage articles without any—more, link 5

How to Search Safari Browser History on iPhone & iPad— by OSXDaily.comDid you know you can search through web browsing history in Safari on an iPhone or iPad? With the excellent Safari History search feature you can easily retrieve and find previously visited sites, webpages, and videos, whether from earlier in the day or even well over a year ago – assuming the searchable Safari history—more, link 6Have Siri Show Your Calendar & Appointments on iPhone, iPad, or Mac—from OSXDaily.com Are you having a busy day, and won-

choose who (if anyone) you want to receive auto-matic replies while driving5. Next go to “Auto-Reply” and customize the au-tomatic response to messages, if desired. That’s it, now that you have configured Do Not Disturb While Driving you can use it immediately when driving so that it hides messages and notifi-cations as to not distract you. The feature is obvious on your iPhone lock screen when it is activated, with a message stat-ing “You will not receive Notifications while you are driving” – you can 3D Touch and tap on that message to tem- porarily turn off the feature if desired however. —Go here for option details

white paper, Nakamoto describes and details the methods of using a peer-to-peer network to gen-erate what was described as “a system for elec-tronic transactions without relying on trust”. By the following January, Nakamoto implemented the Bitcoin software as open source code and re-leased it to the public. The Bitcoin network was born after Nakamoto ‘mined’ the first ever ‘block’ on the ‘chain’, known as the “genesis block”, for a reward of 50 Bitcoin***. Embedded in this first block was the following text:“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of the second bailout for banks.”

But wait, block? Mine? Chain? What do these mean, you may be asking yourself? And we will certainly go down that rabbit hole! But I think it’s better left for The Crypto Craze Part Two: Party On The Blockchain.

*** Fun fact: 50 Bitcoin would be worth $275,497.50 at the time of this writing.

(Last documented number of cryptocurrencies was clocked at over 900 and still growing!) For the sake of these guides, I’ll be referring specifi-cally to Bitcoin. And another warning: this stuff is dense, but throughout this series, I’ll do my best to make it palatable.

While the boom of cryptocurrency (hence-forth called simply ‘crypto’ in these guides) is not new, it only truly took off within the last ten years. Throughout the early 2000’s, there were a num-ber of attempts to create a digital currency sys-tem (see: Digicash) that ultimately failed. It wasn’t until late 2008 that the concept of crypto became more than just a failed pipe-dream.

In October 2008, an individual, (or individu-als, the identity is still debated) using the name Satoshi Nakamoto, published a paper on a cryp-tography mailing list titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. This has come to be known as the Bitcoin “White Paper”. Within the

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Feature Article—

by Connor McGinnis, smalldog.com

The Crypto Craze Part One: Overview

I’ve been spending a solid chunk of time familiarizing myself and delving into the science and application behind the digital currency craze known as Crypto-currency..Unless you haven’t been on the internet in the last 5 years, you’ve no doubt heard

of Bitcoin, the first and still most important cryp-tocurrency out there. But while a lot of us have heard of it, some may find themselves asking…

What is Cryptocurrency?You’ll get a different answer from each person you ask, and some may give a lengthy response that still leaves you scratching your head. But the simplest definition of cryptocurrency is that it’s a form of digital money that is designed to be se-cure and anonymous. Full disclosure: the theories, protocols, applica-tions, and sciences behind cryptocurrencies vary between the various types of cryptocurrency

How to Use Do Not Disturb While Driving on iPhone— from OSXDaily.com

Do Not Disturb While Driving is an iPhone specific safety feature available in modern iOS releases. As the name implies, when Do Not Disturb While Driving is activated on iPhone, no calls, messages, notifications, or alerts will come through to the iPhone, much like when the general Do Not Dis-turb mode feature is enabled. You can even en-able automated replies to incoming messages, informing the sender you are driving and will contact them again when you’re done. You will need an iPhone and a modern version of iOS (11.0 or newer).1. Open the “Settings” app and go to “Do Not Disturb”

2. Locate the “Do Not Disturb While Driving” sec-tion and tap on “Activate”3. Select one of the three Do Not Disturb While Driving activation settings:Automatically – Do Not Disturb While Driving will attempt to determine when you are in motion and enable automaticallyWhen Connected to Car Bluetooth – activates Do Not Disturb While Driving when the iPhone is connected to a car bluetooth system, this is ar-guably the most useful option if you have a Blue-tooth car stereoManually – you will have to turn on the DNDWD feature yourself when you want to use it.4. Return to the Do Not Disturb While Driving set-tings and locate the “Auto-Reply To” section and

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that will further check if your link is safe.Beware of Phishing EmailsGetting an unsolicited email from your bank or another financial institution that’s asking you to verify information should set off warning bells in your head, as it’s probably a phishing attack. I received a phishing email recently. These emails will usually warn you of dire consequences if you do not respond to the email by logging into the service. In this case, it’s supposedly Stripe, which I use to receive payments for my business, and they’re trying to get my attention by telling me that I’m about to get a payment of $4600 and should check it out. This is actually a pretty well-done phishing at-tack since a) I do have a Stripe account, b) it’s not full of the grammatical and spelling errors usually found in phishing emails, and c) it was a nicely done HTML email with a border, the Stripe logo, and even the correct address for Stripe. It set off the alarms in my brain because I never get pay-ments that large through Stripe. Fortunately there are a few ways to check out phishing emails without clicking any of the links contained in them. It’s possible to check the source of the email in macOS by hovering your cursor over the From address, then clicking the disclosure triangle ( ˇ ) that appears next to it. The screenshot below shows that the email address this was sent from was “strp33@sealcoatingand-more.com”, not an address at stripe.com.

There’s nothing that can set off a feeling of un-ease in a person more than wondering whether the link you just clicked on a website or in an email is going to load malware onto your Mac or direct you to a malicious page.First, let’s say you get an email that appears to be from your bank, asking you to log in and verify some account information. Don’t do it! This is most likely a phishing attack, where a malicious party is attempting to direct you to a website that very often looks nearly identical to the one you wanted to visit. You log in…and that party now has your user ID and password, and in many cases can just log in and clear out your ac-counts. In other cases, you may be directed to a site where malware will be installed surreptitious-ly on your Mac without you knowing.What are some warning signs of malware or phishing links that you should look for?Watch Out For Shortened LinksIf you’ve been around the Internet for any length of time, you’re familiar with link shortening ser-vices like Bitly and TinyUrl. They take a long web address like “https://blog.macsales.com/42686-a-complete-guide-to-universal-clipboard-in-macos-high-sierra” and shorten it to something like “http://bit.ly/2zTnIoT”. This used to be quite handy in the days when every character in a web address counted against the 140-character limit on Twitter, and now it’s a favorite of hackers since that “bit.ly” domain name can mask a malicious URL that’s masquerading as the site of a financial institution. How can you tell where a shortened link is try-ing to point you? There are two handy ways: First, use a link expansion service like CheckShortURL.com. Paste in the short URL and it will display a page of information about the destination (see screenshot below). There are even a set of links

That same disclosure triangle appears in otherplaces when the cursor is placed above a link. For example, I hovered my cursor above the pay-ment amount — which is a link — and clicked the disclosure triangle to show a preview of the web page (see screenshot below). Sure enough, it looks just like the Stripe login page, but it shows an “hippls.com” domain name at the top (out-lined in red). That’s my second indication that this isn’t a valid email.

The disclosure triangle in macOS works well on the “View in Stripe Dashboard” link, too. Just hov-ering over the address shows a link to a “1stripe.com” domain, which is close, but NOT Stripe.com Many browsers including Safari also display a warning if a site is dangerous. For example, a click on the “support website” link displays a bright red web page in Safari with the following message—

All of these methods are for macOS, but what about iOS? Fortunately, you can do similar things to check out a potential phishing email on your iPhone or iPad. —continued on page 10

Feature Article—

by Steve Sande— edited Rocket Yard MacSales blog

Checking Questionable Links Without Clicking Them

Set Up Two-Factor AuthenticationEven if you fall prey to a phishing attack like this one, there’s a way to ensure that the bad guys aren’t going to get into your account: set up two-factor authentication at your financial institutions. This usually works by sending an authentication code to something only you have — an email address or an iPhone — that you then enter into a field on the website for verification. If the hackers don’t have your iPhone or Mac at hand, there’s no way they’re going to be able to receive that code and enter it into the website. This is the beauty of two-factor authentication – even if they have been successful in getting your user name and password, there’s no way they can log into the site.Watch For Strange Characters in LinksHackers and malware distributors often try to conceal the destination of their mali-cious websites by using URL encoding. In URL encoding, the letters and symbols that make up the website name are encoded as a percent sign ( % ) followed by a number. For example, MacSales.com might be encoded as %6D%61%63%73%61%6C%65%73%2E%63%6F%6D (an encoding table can be found here). Long story short? Watch out for long URLs full of “%” symbols and avoid them at all cost.Check a Suspicious URL with a Link ScannerFinally, there are ways to test those web addresses that may look “OK”, but are still making you feel uneasy. Enter the web address into a known link scanner and see if it’s a valid address. Three sites that work well are Norton SafeWeb, URLVoid, and ScanURL. Enter an address into one of these sites, and they will provide a rating or response. For an unedited article version with additional screen grabs— Go to page

Oh... and one last thing —Like last month we had a goose appear in lieu of a turkey in the art space to the right; this month our cover features a beautiful snowy winterscape instead of a sub-tropical image. There is a reason. I chose the image because it spoke to me with one word, “Peace.” May we enjoy “peace to all” this holiday season.

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Apple Users Helping Apple Users—OMUG’s Help Team will try to help you with your Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and software problems. Please speak to any of the following member volunteers: Bob Adams Don Boyd Philip Davis Marilyn Kennedy Dr. Roberto Putzeys Al Sypher Brian Voge Lorraine Wieskamp

OMUG Assignments—Door Prizes– Tom LeeMembership– Dan PopeMUGSHOT Newsletter– Al SypherProgram Coordinator– Burt StephensOnline Services Coordinator and Apple Ambassador– Philip DavisSunshine Ambassador– Don Morrison

OMUG Meeting Information—

The Ocala Mac User Group meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 3 PM: Freedom Public Library— 5870 SW 95th Street, Ocala

Member Help sessions, time permitting, are selectively held in conjunction with regular meetings.

OMUG Board of Directors—

President– Marilyn Kennedy marilynkennedy2@mac.com • 854-1021 Vice President– N.C. Sizemore ncsizemore@gmail.com • 291-8778Secretary–Lorraine Wieskamp wieskamp37@gmail.com • 351-3533Treasurer– Dan Pope browntruck@me.com • 817-0705Director– Tom Lee twleeper@embarqmail.com Director– Philip Davis davistech@gmail.com • 369-8432Director– Burt Stephens burtstephens@gmail.com • 509-4407 Director– Al Sypher aes@imageocala.com • 237-9501Past President– Bobby Adams badams0993@gmail.com • 274-0177

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Lorraine’s Highlights!— OMUG Meeting, November 8th, 2017

President Marilyn Kennedy welcomed 25 members including two new members, James Delfraisse and Brian Rowland. • Minutes from the October meeting were approved. The traditional Christmas Party in lieu of December meeting has been cancelled. A Christmas donation has been made to the Salvation Army. Program: David Freudenburg, from Freedom Library Branch/M.C. Public Library gave a very well received presentation of the extensive online services available through the Library to card holders. He discussed the axis360 app that can be used to check out ebooks • After break, Phil’s Tech Help focused on several different ways to find and launch applications and files, how to enable Right Click, and how to designate a default outgoing mail account in Mail. He again stressed the impor-tance of updating your Digital Asset Inventory and ways to accomplish the task.Door Prizes: Take Control e-Book – iCloud: Ruth Fraser • $25 iTunes Gift Card: Lynne Stephens