LittleBITS: New Year’s Resolution, macOS Upgrades, Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Networks
MacTalkFebruary 2022LittleBITS: New Year’s Resolution, macOS Upgrades, Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Networks ADAM ENGST 10 January 202214 comments In this week’s installment of LittleBITS, I share some news posts that are informing my resolution for 2022, compare Tonya’s and...
Learn to Tickle the Ivories with Simply Piano
MacTalkFebruary 2022Learn to Tickle the Ivories with Simply PianoJOSH CENTERS 20 January 20226 comments My wife is a great piano player and has been teaching piano her entire adult life, so she’s been dying to teach our 8-year-old son Harris to play for ages....
Apple’s New Focus Feature May Be Overkill
MacTalkFebruary 2022Apple’s New Focus Feature May Be OverkillADAM ENGST 20 January 202264 comments Apple walks a fine line with the iPhone. On the one hand, it’s magic made manifest, giving you access to both the accumulated knowledge of the world and all the...
AirTags: Hidden Stalking Menace or Latest Overblown Urban Myth?
MacTalkFebruary 2022AirTags: Hidden Stalking Menace or Latest Overblown Urban Myth? GLENN FLEISHMAN 11 January 202267 comments The plural of anecdote is not statistics. In the absence of hard data, however, anecdotes often stand in. That seems to be the case...
New Members
MacTalkOctober 2021New MembersNew members joining in January: Murray EndersDoreen LeVecqueHermann Orth Returning Member: Marilyn WoodrowContents Click for special offers to Mac Users Groups members.Website design by Blue Heron Web...
New Members
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USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables
MacTalkJanuary 2022USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and CablesGLENN FLEISHMAN 3 December 202154 comments It USB’d to be easy. Pardon the pun, but you know what I mean. USB used to mean one kind of connector for a computer: Type-A, which...
Reflections on a Year with HomeKit
MacTalkJanuary 2022Reflections on a Year with HomeKitADAM ENGST 17 December 202122 comments Last year, I added more devices to our HomeKit setup with the Meross Smart WiFi Plug Mini outlets (as cheap as $10 each at Amazon, with a $5-off coupon if you click a...
Reduce Distractions with Notification Summaries
MacTalkJanuary 2022Reduce Distractions with Notification SummariesJOSH CENTERS 20 December 2021No comments Do you find yourself continually pinged and buzzed by iPhone apps that just have to notify you of something? If that annoys you—but you do want to see...
iOS Music and iTunes Store Apps Stumble over Deleted Tracks
MacTalkJanuary 2022iOS Music and iTunes Store Apps Stumble over Deleted TracksDAVID C. 17 December 202124 comments Call me unusual, but I don’t keep any music on my iPhone—I have an iPod touch for that. In the not-too-distant past, the Music app on my iPhone...