October 19, 2013

Montage: A Collection of Macintosh GoodnessWhittier Area Macintosh User Group

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Today’s Agenda

✤ Need a shorter URL to share with friends?

✤ Can’t find your cursor?

✤ Take Control of Your Email

✤ Taming Your Menu Bar

✤ Manage Your Pictures–Automatically

✤ If This Then That (ITTT) Fun and magic;

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Notes for today’s session are on Slideshare

http://slideshare.net/wamug/presentations

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Need a shorter URL to share with friends?

✤ From this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/with-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-american-military-gear-sold-as-scrap/2013/10/19/910e68fe-359d-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html?hpid=z4

✤ To this: http://wapo.st/15U3dFh

✤ Go to Safari > Safari Extensions✤ Scroll list of categories

✤ URL Shorteners✤ Choose the Safari extension of your preference and install

✤ The shortener extension will be in your toolbar

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Can’t find your cursor?

✤ System Preferences > Accessibility > Display

✤ Adjust cursor size

✤ Pinpoint app

✤ http://www.lagentesoft.com/pinpoint/index.html

✤ Multiple cursors – DEMO

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Take Control of Your Email

✤ Mail > Preferences > Rules

✤ 3 ways to manage incoming email

1. Rules

✤ If a condition is met, then execute an action using Rules

2. Smart mailboxes

3. VIP setting

✤ DEMO

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Taming Your Menu Bar

✤ Bartender

✤ http://www.macbartender.com

✤ Organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to Bartender's Bar

✤ Click on icon or use hot-key

✤ 4-week free trial; $15 for the app

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Manage Your Pictures–Automatically

✤ Everpix (developed by former Apple Engineers)

✤ https://www.everpix.com/landing.html?message=Your+session+has+expired.+Please+sign+in+again.&action=signin&state=#sign-in

✤ OR: http://tinyurl.com/l9ktkej (See slide 5 earlier)

✤ 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

✤ Uploaders for iDevices and Mac; photo de-duplication

✤ Works with iPhoto Library, iCloud Photo Stream, Aperture, iPhoto Library

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If This Then That Fun and Magic

✤ A web service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: IFTT (If This Then That)

✤ Put the Internet to work for you

✤ https://ifttt.com

✤ DEMO

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