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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1754075" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">Join me at 7:00 p.m. Central time (midnight GMT) for the <a href="https://youtu.be/HWaLPUimrhA" target="_blank">weekly Mac-Forums video chat</a>. We'll have the forum roundup, and several iTunes tips and bits of info. In our series on underused MacOS features we'll look at Services. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">Show notes, which include an article discussing 10 ways to connect your computer to your stereo, will be up tomorrow evening.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><strong>Show Notes</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Mac-Forums member michelangelo has some thoughts for us based upon his experiences <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/340285-changed-apple-id-password-yesterday-exception.html" target="_blank">changing the password for Apple IDs</a>. I included this thread in the forum roundup because it gives us some ideas about things we sometimes forget when changing passwords on multiple devices. </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'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Member Rod Sprague has started a thread in the forum about<a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/340353-optimize-safari-maximum-privacy.html" target="_blank"> optimizing Safari’s settings for maximum privacy</a>. The original “How To Geek article that inspired this thread can be found <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/103622/how...ximum-privacy/" target="_blank">here</a>. This article is a nice companion piece to some of the discussion that we referenced in last weeks chat concerning ISPs tracking online behavior. </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'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">This weeks discussion of little used OS X features focuses on the Services menu. This is a very useful feature because the options available in the menu vary depending upon what type of file you select. For more information on the Services menu check <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/1163996/software-utilities/how-to-use-services-in-mac-os-x.html" target="_blank">this article</a>. This article focuses on earlier versions of OS X but the principles are the same under MacOS “a.k.a. Sierra”</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'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Kirk “The iTunes Guy” has some thoughts for those of us connecting our Macs to stereo system. This article presents <a href="http://www.kirkville.com/10-ways-to-connect-your-computer-to-a-stereo/" target="_blank">several options</a> for making the connection. Of the ten methods present the first, which involves connecting a wore from the headphone jack to the stereo, isn’t suitable if you want to preserve an all digital connection. It’s important to preserve the digital stream all the way through the chain if you are sending surround sound data to the stereo. </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'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Kirk also has some thoughts for you if you are planning to use the Apple TV 4 to stream music to your stereo. This generation of the Apple TV is fine for streaming audio and video but the absence of a tussling connection on the Apple TV 4 means that<a href="http://www.kirkville.com/why-you-dont-want-the-new-apple-tv-if-you-just-want-to-stream-audio/" target="_blank"> you’re in a bit of a bind if your receiver doesn’t support HDMI connections</a>. </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'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2957219/streaming-media/ask-the-itunes-guy-importing-single-cd-tracks-icloud-download-apple-music-drm-and-status-bar-toggle.html" target="_blank">More iTunes 12 tips</a> from Kirk The iTunes Guy.</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'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/3188186/software-entertainment/ask-the-itunes-guy-album-artwork-visualizers-and-clearing-the-up-next-queue-in-itunes-126.html" target="_blank">Cleaning up Artwork, Visualizers and the Up Next queue in iTunes 12</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1754075, member: 131855"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=HelveticaNeue]Join me at 7:00 p.m. Central time (midnight GMT) for the [URL="https://youtu.be/HWaLPUimrhA"]weekly Mac-Forums video chat[/URL]. We'll have the forum roundup, and several iTunes tips and bits of info. In our series on underused MacOS features we'll look at Services. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=HelveticaNeue] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=HelveticaNeue]Show notes, which include an article discussing 10 ways to connect your computer to your stereo, will be up tomorrow evening. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=HelveticaNeue] [B]Show Notes[/B] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Mac-Forums member michelangelo has some thoughts for us based upon his experiences [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/340285-changed-apple-id-password-yesterday-exception.html"]changing the password for Apple IDs[/URL]. I included this thread in the forum roundup because it gives us some ideas about things we sometimes forget when changing passwords on multiple devices. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Member Rod Sprague has started a thread in the forum about[URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/340353-optimize-safari-maximum-privacy.html"] optimizing Safari’s settings for maximum privacy[/URL]. The original “How To Geek article that inspired this thread can be found [URL="https://www.howtogeek.com/103622/how...ximum-privacy/"]here[/URL]. This article is a nice companion piece to some of the discussion that we referenced in last weeks chat concerning ISPs tracking online behavior. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]This weeks discussion of little used OS X features focuses on the Services menu. This is a very useful feature because the options available in the menu vary depending upon what type of file you select. For more information on the Services menu check [URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/1163996/software-utilities/how-to-use-services-in-mac-os-x.html"]this article[/URL]. This article focuses on earlier versions of OS X but the principles are the same under MacOS “a.k.a. Sierra”[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Kirk “The iTunes Guy” has some thoughts for those of us connecting our Macs to stereo system. This article presents [URL="http://www.kirkville.com/10-ways-to-connect-your-computer-to-a-stereo/"]several options[/URL] for making the connection. Of the ten methods present the first, which involves connecting a wore from the headphone jack to the stereo, isn’t suitable if you want to preserve an all digital connection. It’s important to preserve the digital stream all the way through the chain if you are sending surround sound data to the stereo. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Kirk also has some thoughts for you if you are planning to use the Apple TV 4 to stream music to your stereo. This generation of the Apple TV is fine for streaming audio and video but the absence of a tussling connection on the Apple TV 4 means that[URL="http://www.kirkville.com/why-you-dont-want-the-new-apple-tv-if-you-just-want-to-stream-audio/"] you’re in a bit of a bind if your receiver doesn’t support HDMI connections[/URL]. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue][URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/2957219/streaming-media/ask-the-itunes-guy-importing-single-cd-tracks-icloud-download-apple-music-drm-and-status-bar-toggle.html"]More iTunes 12 tips[/URL] from Kirk The iTunes Guy.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue][URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/3188186/software-entertainment/ask-the-itunes-guy-album-artwork-visualizers-and-clearing-the-up-next-queue-in-itunes-126.html"]Cleaning up Artwork, Visualizers and the Up Next queue in iTunes 12[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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