1. Montage: A Collection of
Macintosh Goodness
Whittier Area Macintosh User Group
October 19, 2013
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2. Today’s Agenda
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Need a shorter URL to share with friends?
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Can’t find your cursor?
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Take Control of Your Email
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Taming Your Menu Bar
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Manage Your Pictures–Automatically
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If This Then That (ITTT) Fun and magic;
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3. Notes for today’s session are on
Slideshare
http://slideshare.net/wamug/presentations
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4. Need a shorter URL to share with
friends?
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From this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/with-us-withdrawal-fromafghanistan-american-military-gear-sold-as-scrap/
2013/10/19/910e68fe-359d-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html?hpid=z4
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To this: http://wapo.st/15U3dFh
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Go to Safari > Safari Extensions
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Scroll list of categories
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URL Shorteners
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Choose the Safari extension of your preference and install
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The shortener extension will be in your toolbar
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5. Can’t find your cursor?
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System Preferences > Accessibility > Display
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Adjust cursor size
Pinpoint app
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http://www.lagentesoft.com/pinpoint/index.html
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Multiple cursors – DEMO
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6. Take Control of Your Email
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Mail > Preferences > Rules
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3 ways to manage incoming email
1. Rules
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If a condition is met, then execute an action using Rules
2. Smart mailboxes
3. VIP setting
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DEMO
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7. Taming Your Menu Bar
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Bartender
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http://www.macbartender.com
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Organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them,
or moving them to Bartender's Bar
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Click on icon or use hot-key
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4-week free trial; $15 for the app
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8. Manage Your Pictures–
Automatically
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Everpix (developed by former Apple Engineers)
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https://www.everpix.com/landing.html?message=Your+session+has
+expired.+Please+sign+in+again.&action=signin&state=#sign-in
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OR: http://tinyurl.com/l9ktkej (See slide 5 earlier)
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JPEG format i.e. no TIFFs or RAW),RGB color, 480 pixels on the smallest dimension
but less than 15,000 pixels on the largest dimension, aspect ratio less than 10
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Uploaders for iDevices and Mac; photo de-duplication
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Works with iPhoto Library, iCloud Photo Stream, Aperture, iPhoto Library
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9. If This Then That Fun and Magic
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A web service that lets you create powerful connections with one
simple statement: IFTT (If This Then That)
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Put the Internet to work for you
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https://ifttt.com
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DEMO
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10. end
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