December 10, 2016 Double Feature: Making Address Labels and Cards
Followed by Roast & Toast

This month we have a special meeting. The presentation will be about making address labels and cards. Just in time for the holidays. John Carter will be our speaker. Meeting Notes.

The special part of this meeting will take place at 11:30. We will close our regular meeting early and have cake and coffee to wish John Carter best wishes and hopes for happiness in his new location.

Sondra will set aside time to Roast & Toast John, so if you would like to come prepared with some material, it would be a fun thing to do

November12, 2016 Double Feature: 2016 MacBook Pro and All About Personal Websites

Our own Art Gorski will be starting with a presentation on the new 2016 MacBook Pro just announced. Followed by a talk on why someone would want to have their own personal website, a short talk on the on-line tools for creating and hosting a website, and finally a short tutorial using one of the most popular free options, Weebly. Meeting Notes.

October 8, 2016 New Features of iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra

Our own Art Gorski will talk about the new Apple hardware announcements, iPhone 7 and Apple Watch, and an update on the latest version of Photos in Mac OS Sierra and iOS 10. Weebly will be the topic next month unless there are more Apple announcements, in which case we may do both. Meeting Notes.

September 10, 2016 Facebook

Does it feel like everyone you know is on Facebook? Do you want to join but aren’t sure how to start? In our first hour, John Carter will guide us through the fundamentals and you will be posting on your friends’ walls in no time.

Facebook is the larges online social networking site and currently has more than 1 billion users. Facebook allows people to interact, share photos and find people. In addition to using Facebook for social purposes, many people use it professionally for business networking. Presentation Slides.

In our second hour, we will have Tips & Tricks and our Favorite Apps segments. This will be your chance to share a fun or educational app with the membership.

August 13, 2016 1Password Password Manager

Art Gorski will demonstrate all the features of AgileBits’ 1Password on the Macintosh and iOS devices. This utility not only stores all your passwords but any kind of information you want to keep safe. Plus it will Autoave and fill passwords, credit cards, and addresses into webpages with a single click. Talk notes.

July 13, What’s was New at the Apple’s Developers Conference?

Art Gorski (our very own Apple developer) will present the topics covered at the June ’16 WWDC. Apple’s developer’s conference. Learn about all the new software that Apple is making available this fall. Meeting Notes.

June 8 Genius Bar

Our panel of geniuses, Art Gorski, Ward Stanke and John Carter, will answer all your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iWatch, iEverythingElse questions.

Now, what we need from you, are all those nagging little questions that never seem to get answered. Surely, you have come across situations where you haven’t been able to find answers. The guys need a challenge. It keeps their mind sharp.

Check out the meeting minutes for our genius’ answers.

May 7 Onyx Utility and Email

John Carter will demonstrate several pertinent and important features of Mail. In addition, John will spend a few minutes on the free app Onyx. Onyx (http://www.titanium.free.fr/onyx.html) is useful for cleaning out junk from a computer. It does many of the same functions as paid for apps, but requires a bit more interaction. Apple Mail Presentation. Onyx Presentation.

April 23 Backup Strategies

Art Gorski will discuss backing up the data on your Apple devices. For Macintosh computers: Time Machine, cloud backups, and backup programs for creating clones and incremental backups. For iOS devices: iCloud and local iTunes backups to your Macintosh. Here are the Talk Notes and More Backup Information from Ward.

Art Gorski is the Vice-President of PMUG and moved to Prescott in 2007. He has been a member of PMUG since 2008. Art’s background in computers started in the late 70’s where he learned to program the 6502 microprocessor in hexadecimal machine language. He bought his first Apple II computer in 1978 and still owns it. During his career he wrote programs in assembly language and FORTRAN for real-time flight simulators. Today he programs for fun and has an iOS app in the App Store and is working on another.

March 19 Tips and Tricks

John Carter will be demonstrating tricks and tips that you can do with the iPhone. He will also be covering the editing programs that you can get for your Mac, iPad and iPhone.

February 20 Most Useful 3rd Party Apps, Utilities and Software

This month we have one of our “Experts”, Ward Stanke, share the third-party apps, utilities and software that he thinks might be useful for us to know about.

Bobbie will also present her favorite app called Ring Tones. How nice would it be to know who is calling before running to get to your phone? This maybe useful to know, as sometimes you may want to rush to the phone and sometimes, you would prefer to “catch that person later”, so to speak. ?

If you have a favorite app, be ready to present, as time permits.

Here are copies of Wards presentation: Apps, Apps, Apps: Applications for PMUG Consensus and Mac|Life Applications.

January 16, 2016 Genius Bar

Our panel of geniuses, Art Gorski, John Carter and Ward Stanke, will answer all your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iWatch, iEverythingElse questions. Ward Stanke will be the moderator.