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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1751948" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"><a href="https://youtu.be/Ha2zDHldPvk" target="_blank">Join me for the March 19, 2017 video chat </a>at 7:00 p.m. US Central Time (Midnight GMT). As usual we'll have the forum roundup, including a few cybersecurity tips, a MacOS tip or two, and perhaps an IOS tip.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">This week I kick off the series on features in MacOS that are probably not well understood/underutilized. We'll kick it off with the comments on data detectors I had scheduled for last week's show.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"><strong>Show Notes</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"><strong>Forum Roundup</strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Welcome to our newest member, <span style="color: #BF1E2E">campbrd </span></span></span><span style="color: #BF1E2E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #BF1E2E"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">If you’re looking for some good security tips give <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/339884-cybersecurity-tips-mildly-paranoid-usa-article-mar-13-2017-a.html" target="_blank">this a quick read</a>. The thread is based on <a href="http://ee.usatoday.com/Olive/ODN/USATSample/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=USA%2F2017%2F03%2F12&entity=Ar00600&sk=4C339470" target="_blank">this USA Today article</a>. Tech savvy users will find these tips pretty basic, and probably already in use by them. Other users will find the tips helpful tough you’ll have to look elsewhere for the specific steps. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Member macgig asked how to <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/apple-desktops/339999-delete-personal-info-reformatting-drive.html" target="_blank">delete personal information from a Mac without wiping the entire drive</a>. This thread contains the link to a video that describes how to delete a user account. It’s for an older OS but the process is still the same. If you are going to pass your Mac on to someone take a look at these <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065" target="_blank">Apple recommendations</a> as well.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Forum member Dave52 is looking for a way to look up passwords stored on a Mac. You can do that through the Keychain Access utility found in Applications/Utilities. If you’ve never used that utility give <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2013756/how-to-manage-passwords-with-keychain-access.html" target="_blank">this Macworld article</a> a quick read.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Stephen Lawson, writing for IDG, points out that “<span style="color: #2F2F2F"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Nearly two-thirds of consumers are worried about home IoT devices listening in on their conversations, according to a Gartner survey released Monday.” </span></span> See <a href="http://www.techconnect.com/article/3177313/internet-of-things/consumers-are-wary-of-smart-homes-that-know-too-much.html?idg_eid=67517dc3abff28914d417b6b1a4e4437&email_SHA1_lc=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TechConnect%20Daily%202017-03-07&utm_term=techconnect_daily%20consumers%20wary%20of%20smart%20homes%20that%20are%20too%20smart" target="_blank">here</a>. The survey, conducted by Garter in the later part of 2016, included almost 100, 000 respondents from the US, UK, and Australia. The Holy Grail for proponents of this technology is to have household technology, appliances, and systems interconnected to do things such as turn on thermostats on an as need basis or turn off the dishwasher when the TV is active. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/03/14/apples-ios-10-3-update-could-result-in-losing-all-your-data-if-do-not-perform-back-up.html" target="_blank">IOS 10.3 update - Backup your data first</a> This article point out the pitfalls of updating the operating system of your IOS device without a backup. If the backup fails along the way data could be lost. This has always been true to some extent or another but this article addresses issues created by a change in the way IOS drives are formatted. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/3179153/software-entertainment/ask-the-itunes-guy-your-audiobook-questions.html" target="_blank">iTunes Audiobook issues</a> Kirk The iTunes Guy addresses some questions about organizing audiobooks in iTunes. </span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Josh Centers, writing for TidBITS, has been writing bout MacOS hidden treasures and has included <a href="http://tidbits.com/article/17088" target="_blank">some thoughts on using the Dock</a>. If you’re new to the Mac this is a good read. It includes quite a bit of good information about using the Dock.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Data detectors are one of my picks for an underused OS feature. They allow information you receive in one program to be acted upon by another program. If, for example, you receive an email containing a date clicking the link opens Calendar all set to create a date on the date shown in the email. Receiving an address opens the Maps program with an option to add the information to one of your contacts. Kirk the iTunes Guy reports that data detectors can now parse messages for titles etc. though I have had difficulty getting this to work. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1751948, member: 131855"] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Roboto][URL="https://youtu.be/Ha2zDHldPvk"]Join me for the March 19, 2017 video chat [/URL]at 7:00 p.m. US Central Time (Midnight GMT). As usual we'll have the forum roundup, including a few cybersecurity tips, a MacOS tip or two, and perhaps an IOS tip.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Roboto]This week I kick off the series on features in MacOS that are probably not well understood/underutilized. We'll kick it off with the comments on data detectors I had scheduled for last week's show. [B]Show Notes [/B][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue][B]Forum Roundup[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#3E3E3E][FONT=Tahoma]Welcome to our newest member, [COLOR=#BF1E2E]campbrd [/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#BF1E2E][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]If you’re looking for some good security tips give [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/339884-cybersecurity-tips-mildly-paranoid-usa-article-mar-13-2017-a.html"]this a quick read[/URL]. The thread is based on [URL="http://ee.usatoday.com/Olive/ODN/USATSample/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=USA%2F2017%2F03%2F12&entity=Ar00600&sk=4C339470"]this USA Today article[/URL]. Tech savvy users will find these tips pretty basic, and probably already in use by them. Other users will find the tips helpful tough you’ll have to look elsewhere for the specific steps. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Member macgig asked how to [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/apple-desktops/339999-delete-personal-info-reformatting-drive.html"]delete personal information from a Mac without wiping the entire drive[/URL]. This thread contains the link to a video that describes how to delete a user account. It’s for an older OS but the process is still the same. If you are going to pass your Mac on to someone take a look at these [URL="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065"]Apple recommendations[/URL] as well.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Forum member Dave52 is looking for a way to look up passwords stored on a Mac. You can do that through the Keychain Access utility found in Applications/Utilities. If you’ve never used that utility give [URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/2013756/how-to-manage-passwords-with-keychain-access.html"]this Macworld article[/URL] a quick read.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Stephen Lawson, writing for IDG, points out that “[COLOR=#2F2F2F][FONT=Helvetica]Nearly two-thirds of consumers are worried about home IoT devices listening in on their conversations, according to a Gartner survey released Monday.” [/FONT][/COLOR] See [URL="http://www.techconnect.com/article/3177313/internet-of-things/consumers-are-wary-of-smart-homes-that-know-too-much.html?idg_eid=67517dc3abff28914d417b6b1a4e4437&email_SHA1_lc=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TechConnect%20Daily%202017-03-07&utm_term=techconnect_daily%20consumers%20wary%20of%20smart%20homes%20that%20are%20too%20smart"]here[/URL]. The survey, conducted by Garter in the later part of 2016, included almost 100, 000 respondents from the US, UK, and Australia. The Holy Grail for proponents of this technology is to have household technology, appliances, and systems interconnected to do things such as turn on thermostats on an as need basis or turn off the dishwasher when the TV is active. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue][URL="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/03/14/apples-ios-10-3-update-could-result-in-losing-all-your-data-if-do-not-perform-back-up.html"]IOS 10.3 update - Backup your data first[/URL] This article point out the pitfalls of updating the operating system of your IOS device without a backup. If the backup fails along the way data could be lost. This has always been true to some extent or another but this article addresses issues created by a change in the way IOS drives are formatted. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue][URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/3179153/software-entertainment/ask-the-itunes-guy-your-audiobook-questions.html"]iTunes Audiobook issues[/URL] Kirk The iTunes Guy addresses some questions about organizing audiobooks in iTunes. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Josh Centers, writing for TidBITS, has been writing bout MacOS hidden treasures and has included [URL="http://tidbits.com/article/17088"]some thoughts on using the Dock[/URL]. If you’re new to the Mac this is a good read. It includes quite a bit of good information about using the Dock.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Data detectors are one of my picks for an underused OS feature. They allow information you receive in one program to be acted upon by another program. If, for example, you receive an email containing a date clicking the link opens Calendar all set to create a date on the date shown in the email. Receiving an address opens the Maps program with an option to add the information to one of your contacts. Kirk the iTunes Guy reports that data detectors can now parse messages for titles etc. though I have had difficulty getting this to work. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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