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Next Meeting– Monday, March 20th, 3:00 PM Creating A Simple Budget Using Numbers–Marilyn Kennedy

Key articles.....

Where Do Airdrop Files Go ? Locate Them— page 4

Create A Personal Knowledge Library— page 2

Universal Clipboard Using macOS /iOS10— page 6

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puters. According to Phil, something will eventually go wrong. The quote is also a good introduction to my first topic, The Practical Guide to Mac Security by Gary Rosenzweig. The guide consists of 24 video lessons to help beginner level Mac users protect their Macs from four major types of dangers. • The first danger is that of your com-puter being compromised. Gary shows the viewer how to create strong pass-words, how to use password managers,

and how to use two-factor authentication.

• The second danger is malware. Gary gives three simple rules to protect your Mac from malware without needing any special “anti-virus” software.

• Backing up your Mac protects from the third danger of losing data. Gary provides a few methods to help us with the backing up process.

• Lastly, Gary prepares us to deal with the fourth danger— fake emails, online

scams, and misleading websites. To get this excellent FREE course, go here and click on the green box, Start Learning Now. You’ll be directed to cre-ate an account with Udemy. The course will remain in your account so you can go back to it again and again. I hope you all take advantage of this valuable resource. Moving on to a pet peeve of mine — drivers being distracted by either texting or talking on the phone. Do you ever notice a car that’s cruising along and it suddenly slows down considerably? The driver is probably texting or trying to make a phone call. These distracted drivers can cause accidents. Would you ever think of blaming Apple if an accident occurred because of someone using an iPhone while driving? One person did. A man involved in a crash caused by someone texting while driving is trying to sue Apple. The lawsuit claims that Apple has had the technology since 2008 to prevent an iPhone from being used by a motorist, but they never implemented it. Even so, people should have enough sense not to be using the phone while driving. Don’t blame Apple! If you wish to read the whole lawsuit article, click this hot link. At our March meeting on the 20th, I’ll be giving the main program, Creating a Simple Budget Using Numbers. I hope to see you there.

May your blessings outnumberThe shamrocks that grow,And may trouble avoid youWherever you go.

~Irish Blessing

Marilyn Kennedy, President

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s a well-known Irish quote in honor of St. Patrick’s Day on March 17—Murphy’s Law:Nothing is as easy as it looks.Everything takes longer than you expect.And if anything can go wrong,It will at the worst possible moment. Somehow this quote reminds me of Phil Davis, our webmaster, who is always telling us to back up our com-

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Most of us are constantly collect-ing bits and pieces of informa-tion that we find interesting

and useful. We’ll read some household or technical tip on the internet that we say “hey, I could use that someday.” So we file that away in our brain, or maybe write it on a piece of paper and put it in a stack with all the other bits of useful knowledge. Then, three weeks, or three months later we have an occasion to need this bit of knowledge, but we not only can’t re-member it but can’t even find the piece of paper. There is a better way. Start creating your own Personal Knowledge Library (PKL). A couple of years ago I talked about creating a reference library of all your user guides and equipment manuals. A PKL takes this concept one step further and becomes your long-term memory assistant. You might even call it your per-sonal Wikipedia (or for us older folks, a personal Encylopedia Brittanica). So, how to get started?First, you will need to decide on an app to use to house your PKL. Ideally, you want one that is easy to use, can store many types of information and is searchable. Also, you would like your information to be accessible from your computer and your iDevices. The app should contain your collection of knowledge in a single file or database but have the ability to easily export stored information in a va-riety of formats. Theoretically, you could do the same thing by saving everything in individual

files on your computer, but this would quickly become a nightmare and defeat the entire purpose of your PKL.Next, think about some of the categories you might want to use to identify your knowledge entries. I would suggest start-ing with some simple ones and expand-ing later — any good PKL app will make it easy to modify and add to your orga-nization structure as it goes. For example, you might start with simple categories like household tips, technical tips, OMUG newsletters (saved as PDFs), favorite web-sites, travel plans, and important docu-ments.Finally, get an app and start using it. There are many to choose from, but here are a few to try. You might want to try several of these for a few days to see what works for you.Apple Notes: This app is on all Macs and iDevices. The latest version of Notes in Sierra and iOS 10 satisfy many of the re-quirements but is not as flexible as some of the other choices. It is good for quick notes such as shopping lists that you want to use on your iDevice. Sharing be-tween Mac and iDevices is done through iCloud.Evernote: This cloud-based service is free, is easy to use, and has downloadable apps for the desktop and iDevices. Also, there are browser extensions that make it very easy to clip information from the web for later retrieval. There are paid upgrades available, but most users will be happy with the free version. Sharing between Mac, PC, iDevices, and Androids is done through Evernote’s web-based servers.

Create a Personal Knowledge Library By Phil Davis

Microsoft OneNote: OneNote has been around for years on the PC and is now available on Macs and iDevices. It is free but requires you to have a Microsoft One-Drive account to allow sharing of docu-ments. The user interface can be a little confusing but you might give it a try to see if it works for you.DEVONthink: DEVONthink is the best of the bunch in terms of power, flexibility, and searchability. You can dump almost anything in it and almost instantly find it later. It isn’t free, but there are several ver-sions available and you can get a fully func-tional trial version to see if it is what you want. I have used DEVONthink as my own PKL since I switched to a Mac about ten years ago. DEVONthink knowledge bases can be shared using Dropbox, iCloud, Box, and a number of other services. There are many, many other choices out there, but the best thing is to pick one or two and just get started. I think you will find that having your own Personal Knowledge Library will be one of the most useful tools on your Mac! Think of something like Apple Notes as your short-term memory and Evernote or DEVON-think as your long-term memory. a

13 hours in icy Russian river—Apple’s iPhone 7 isn’t officially classified as a “waterproof.” With its IP67 rating it is capable of surviving immersion at a depth of one meter (3.3 feet) for 30 min-utes but this is meant to protect against accidental drops into water or splashes rather than make the phone suitable for underwater activities.  However, an incident during an ice fishing trip in Russia has now demon-strated that the device offers more environmental protection than its IP rating would suggest. According to Russian language publication ykt.ru a fisherman dropped his iPhone 7 Plus into an ice fishing hole in the city of Yakutsk. Unable to retrieve the device, it was left in the water overnight, until the next day. A diver friend of the phone’s owner was, after three attempts, able to find the device and bring it back to the surface. When taken out of the water, the iPhone powered on successfully and did not show any signs of malfunction after 13 hours in the freezing 4°C/39°F water. According to its owner the iPhone 7 Plus had approximately 35 percent battery charge when dropped and still showed 19% after the successful retrieval, which is documented in an Instagram video. It’s great to know the iPhone is likely to survive even longer periods of time submerged in water, but we’d still recom-mend dedicated underwater equipment for your next diving or snorkeling video. a

iPhone 7 Plus Survives Dip In River

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A detail section from the pg. 1 image— don’t know why her tongue is out... let’s call it the ultimate in focus

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How to Enter & Exit Apple Watch Power Reserve Mode— seen on OSXDaily.comThe Apple Watch battery lasts a reason-ably long amount of time, but having a powered off or dead battery Apple Watch on the wrist is not particularly use-ful. Hint— when you approach the lower bounds of battery remaining, switch into Power Reserve Mode ..... Here’s how

Automatically Empty Trash in macOS After 30 Days— seen on OSXDaily.com For those Mac users who often dump items into the Trash but forget to empty it on a regular basis, you can enable a new feature in macOS which allows the Trash to automatically empty itself after 30 days. This can be a particularly nice feature if your Trash can is constantly bloated and taking— more ..... help 2

How to Copy & Paste on iPad— by OSXDaily.com Using copy and paste on iPad is easy, and much like copying and pasting on a desktop computer or Mac, you can copy just about anything to the iPad clipboard and paste it just about anywhere that will accept input. Whether you want to copy and paste a text clip, a photo or picture, video—more .....help 3

Fix Camera Freezing on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus— OSXDaily.com

include an excellent Magnifier feature which can turn the iPhone camera and screen into a magnifying glass. This has many potential uses, but perhaps the most useful in day-to-day life is as a read-

ing aid to read tiny text without squint-ing and straining your eyes. Instead, you can— more ..... help 7

How to Change a Live Photo to Still on Mac Photos—OSXDaily.comIf you use the Mac Photos app for man-aging your pictures and you have a mod-ern iPhone, you’ll likely have some (or many) Live Photos stored in your photo library. You can easily change any Live Photo on the Mac from the video picture form back into a still photo, and it’s fairly easy as— more ..... help 8

How to Record a Movie Directly Into iMovie on a Mac— OSXDaily.com Have you ever wanted to record a movie directly into iMovie on Mac? It’s easy to capture live video from a Mac built-in camera and have it instantly imported into iMovie, from there you can edit it with the iMovie tools, incorporate it into another video project, or export the re-corded movie as a file— more ..... help 9

How to Remove a Device from an iCloud Account via iOS— OSXDaily.com

You can remove a device from the devices list on an iCloud account by using the Settings app in iOS. This can be helpful if you have gifted or sold an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or Apple Watch, already removed iCloud from that device, and now you no longer want to have that device— more ..... help 10

How to See Battery Time Remaining on macOS Sierra OSXDaily.com — Apple has removed the battery time indicator from Sierra 10.12.2, meaning if you install the update on a MacBook Pro, MBook, or MBook Air, you will no longer get a battery life remaining estimate from the battery menu. Given that Mac laptops are inherently mobile and battery dependent, many users like to have a general idea of time..... tip 11

2017 - 2018 Membership Dues— The Board of Directors met after Febru-ary’s meeting and by Don’s recommen-dation a small dues increase was ap-proved to keep OMUG up and running.  The dues for the upcoming fiscal year

– $35.00 per family or single member – will be collected starting at the March meeting or can be sent directly to Don.  Don will accept either cash or a check made out to “OMUG”.  Don’s address:  16376 SW 13th Ter., Ocala, FL  34473. 

“We are all looking forward to the new year with some interesting scheduled presentations— Don.”

ST. PATRICK’S LEPRECHAUN HOT L I NKSSome iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users have discovered their wonderful camera freezes on open and randomly does not work. When this happens it’s quite obvious; the user attempts to open the Camera either from the lock screen or the Camera app directly, and instead of having access to the camera, either a stuck—more .....help 4

Get Info on Anything from Spotlight in MacOS— OSXDaily.com

You can quickly access “Get Info” for any file or application from within Spotlight search results in macOS and Mac OS X. Getting file info from

Spotlight requires a set of two simple keystrokes, first to get into Spotlight, then the next is to Get Info on the item in question. Let’s run through— more ..... help 5

How to Highlight in Pages for Mac— by OSXDaily.com Frequent Pages users may find it helpful to know how to highlight selections, words, sentences, and paragraphs of documents opened within the app. Highlighting is particularly useful for students, writers, editors, educators, and office workers, but it’s valuable to nearly anyone who spends a fair amount of time in the word processing application on— more ..... help 6

How to Use iPhone Magnifier Camera— Source– OSXDaily.com The latest versions of iOS for iPhone

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file, text, etc, will bring up a little menu with different options available on the iPhone or iPad to open and store the file that has been AirDropped. Once you get an AirDrop file to an iOS device, you just need to choose an app to open it in, and the file will then be cop-ied and available to that app. If the file is a PDF or something similar, iBooks is prob-ably the best location for it, whereas other files may be better stored in DropBox or another similar app that mimics file sys-tem access. Perhaps in the future AirDrop in iOS will allow storing files received in iCloud Drive?

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AirDrop is the excellent ` wireless file transfer feature available to Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and with it you can easily and quickly transfer pictures, movies, documents, and whatever else between any iOS or MacOS device. Being on the receiving end of AirDrop, have you ever wondered where AirDrop files go on a Mac or on an iPhone or iPad? Wonder no more, we’ll show you exactly where AirDrop files are saved to and how you can access their location in iOS and macOS. Obviously you’ll need to have received an AirDrop file on a Mac or iPhone or iPad to be able to track down where Air-Dropped files go and are located, so if you want to try this yourself you’ll probably want to quickly AirDrop a file to yourself from another device. Otherwise, read on so you know where to look in the future for data transferred by AirDrop to macOS or iOS.Where AirDrop Files Go on the Mac—Using AirDrop to move files between Macs is fast and easy done entirely through Finder, but have you ever won-dered where those AirDrop files are saved? It turns out that AirDrop files on a

Mac go into the user Downloads folder by default. Thus, if someone sends you a file via AirDrop to your Mac, you will want to look in your Downloads folder. There are mul-tiple ways to access the Downloads fold-er on a Mac. Perhaps the quickest way for most users is to use the Dock or the Finder. This applies to all file types transferred by AirDrop to a Mac, whatever they are, whether movies, photos, word docu-ments, texts, presentations, PDF files, im-ages, you name it, all files from AirDrop go into the ~/Downloads folder. Where AirDrop Files Go on iPhone, iPad—Using AirDrop to move files and pictures to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is also su-per easy and accessible from Control Cen-ter as well as the Photos app and Sharing functions. Because iOS does not have an official user accessible file system however the AirDropped files will go to different locations depending on the file type be-ing transferred. This might sound a little confusing since there is not a central loca-tion for AirDrop files in iOS, but the way it is presented to the user is quite simple.Where AirDrop Photos, Videos, Images, and Movies are Saved in iOS—

Photos and videos trans-ferred to an iPhone or iPad via AirDrop will ap-pear in the Photos app and your camera roll.

Where Other AirDrop File Types Go in iOS—Other files, like PDF, doc

Where Do AirDrop Files Go? Locating AirDrop Files As seen on OSXDaily

25 Because of the way iOS handles Air-Drop files, some users may think it’s not working properly when it actually is (by the way, if you actually do have a prob-lem with the feature we have two excel-lent guides on troubleshooting AirDrop not working issues in iOS here and here if AirDrop isn’t show-ing up at all in iOS). Just remember, with photos, videos, movies, and images, they go into the Photos app by default, whereas other file types will reveal the pop-up menu to show where the user chooses to send the file to. a

How to Reset a macOS Sierra Password—as seen on OSXDaily.com

Need to reset the password on macOS Sierra? Maybe you forgot your primary admin user account password or maybe you’re working on someone elses Mac and you need to gain access to it. We’ll show you the easiest way to reset the password on a macOS Sierra based com-puter. To be clear, this allows you to reset any password for any user on a macOS Sierra computer, including for the ad-min account. Before beginning, keep in mind that internet connected Macs run-ning Sierra and other prior versions of macOS can also reset a password by us-ing an Apple ID after incorrectly enter-ing a password a few times, which may be a better approach for some users. —Continued on page 5

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More Reset PW How-To... and a House Automation New Product Review for your reading

Reset Sierra Password— cont’d. from pg. 4

For earlier Mac OS X versions you can also follow these tips for handling a forgotten Mac password meaning you’re not out of luck if you don’t have Sierra or a modern MacOS release.

Resetting a macOS Sierra Password—

This is the simplest way to reset a pass-word on a macOS Sierra computer:

1. Reboot the Mac, as soon as the screen turns back on or you hear the boot chime sound, start holding down COMMAND + R keys concurrently to boot into Recovery mode2. At the “macOS Utilities” screen, pull down the “Utilities” menu and choose

“Terminal”

3. When Terminal loads, type the follow-ing exactly: resetpassword

4. Hit the return key to launch the Reset Password tool, then choose the user ac-

count or admin account you want to reset the password for

5. Enter a new password, confirm the new password, set a password hint (rec-ommended) and then click on “Next” to set the new password for the account in question

6. Choose to “Restart” the Mac and when the Mac boots up, use the newly reset password to login to the computer

The Eve wireless weather sensor installed quickly outside. The sensor reports the temperature, humidity, and air pressure with what I would consider fairly high accuracy. I did initially set up the unit inside and one observation on the nega-tive is it took quite some time to accurately report on the outside temperature. It’s also important to note that it’s only water resis-tant, so you’ll want to install it in a location outside where it’s out of direct contact with the elements. I set up the Eve room in my bedroom. I have some allergies and wondered if I would notice a difference in some of my symptoms based on its air quality readings and humidity. I’ve been mak-ing a greater effort to let fresh air circulate through my room, a chal-lenge sometimes in Vermont winters. I have noticed my breathing is better since being able to monitor the air quality closer.

Aside from the ability to simply better monitor weather conditions via HomeKit from anywhere, the Eve app itself pro-vides you with accumulative data. I can look for example and see what my aver-age room humidity has been over the last week specifically in my room. To see this more detailed information you do need to use the Eve app. HomeKit cannot provided the detailed maps and statistics, but the benefit of HomeKit is I can see all of my various HomeKit enabled devices at a glance. a

25That’s all there is to it, the password will have been reset to macOS for the user ac-count you chose. While this is fairly advanced, it’s also relatively easy. If the ease of this concerns you at all, you can make things more se-cure and prevent the easy password re-setting by setting a firmware password on the Mac, but do be forewarned that if you forget the firmware password it can be a much more significant ordeal. Using and enabling FileVault for disk encryption can also be beneficial to users who are generally concerned about data security and privacy. a

Product Review: Elgato Eve—by Emoly Doloff on Smalldog.com

I continue to play around with home automation products. As I’ve mentioned in a previous article, it’s ok to take baby steps into home automation. I’ve been slowly adding devices in my home and started with installing outlets around my home that I can use with HomeKit. I’m not sure yet if any of these smart outlets will help to reduce my energy usage in a significant way, but it sure makes me feel better to know my kids are really turning off the lights. Over the past week I’ve installed and have been playing around with the Elgato Eve wireless weather sensors. Both units measure temperature and humidity. The room sensor adds air quality and the out-door sensor measures air pressure. Setting these sensors up is quick and easy. Simply download the free app from the App Store, sync them to your phone by verifying a serial number and you’re ready to go!

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But what if it doesn’t? It turns out that six things must be true for Universal Clipboard to work. Miss any of these and Universal Clipboard will fail to copy the clipboard contents from de-vice to device without warning. The re-quirements are as follows:■ Any Macs involved must have been in-troduced in 2012 or later, or, in the case of the Mac Pro, 2013 or later. Choose “About This Mac” to check your Mac’s age. Since Sierra runs on most Macs introduced since late 2009, Universal Clipboard won’t work on some older but otherwise Sierra-capable Macs.■ All Macs must be running macOS 10.12 Sierra or later, and all iOS devices must be running iOS 10 or later.■ All the devices must be on the same Wi-Fi network. This requirement can be tricky since devices might join different Wi-Fi networks if several are available. On a Mac, look in the Wi-Fi menu bar menu, and on an iOS device, check Settings > Wi-Fi.■ Each device must have Bluetooth en-abled and be within Bluetooth range of the other devices. That’s usually about 30 feet, but it’s safest to assume that both devices need to be in the same room. On a Mac, check in System Preferences >

This “how-to” is targeted at those of you with a DSLR or Mirrorless camera, long focal length lens and the ability of cam-era to spot meter. Camera was on a tripod. Manual fo-cusing is a virtual must to get a sharp im-age. I used a max. 300 mm zoom on my crop frame camera (450 mm equiv. on full frame). I spot metered on a bright area of the moon using aperature priority and tweaked speed and ISO until I was able to get 1/125 sec. at f/8. An “averaging meter” would have resulted in a “blown-out” image resembling a white blob. F/8 happens to be a good sharp setting on my lens. White balance was set in the day-light range. I deliberately chose a “less-than-full” moon to get good shadowing on the craters. Post-processed on a Mac mini using Photoshop CC 2017. Slight adjustment for sharpness and color temperature. a

How to Shoot The Moon Al Sypher

Universal Clipboard Tips by Don Mayer of Smalldog.com

macOS 10.12 Sierra on your Mac and iOS 10 on your iPhone or iPad combine with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and your AppleID to bring you Universal Clipboard. How many times have you copied something on your Mac, like a phone number and wish you could paste it into your iPhone? I’ve emailed myself stuff, put it in my iCloud account and other work-arounds but now with Sierra and iOS 10 it is all automatic. But a lot of people were having difficulty getting it to work, including me. Here are some tips to get Universal Clipboard working on your devices. Install macOS 10.12 Sierra on your Macs and iOS 10 on your iOS devices and you’ll get a cool new feature: Universal Clipboard. As you’d expect from the name, Universal Clipboard transfers anything you copy to all your devices so you can paste anywhere. Copy some text on your iMac and a few seconds later you can paste it on your MacBook Air, your iPhone, or your iPad. Or copy an incom-ing phone number in the Phone app and paste into an email message on your iMac. Universal Clipboard even works with graphics and videos. Neither Sierra nor iOS 10 provides any interface for Universal Clipboard at all. You can’t turn it off or configure it in any way. In other words, it should just work.

25Bluetooth. On an iOS device, open Set-tings > Bluetooth.■ All the devices must be signed in to the same iCloud account, and that account must be the primary iCloud account on each device. To see which account is signed in, on a Mac, look in System Prefer-ences > iCloud. On an iOS device, check Settings > iCloud. This one is the one that is usually the culprit as we troubleshoot Universal Clipboard. It MUST be the same Apple ID/iCloud account. #Handoff must be enabled. On Macs, turn it on in System Preferences > Gen-eral. On iOS devices, the necessary switch is in Settings > General > Handoff. If you still have trouble after verifying that your setup meets the six require-ments above, make sure that your Wi-Fi connection is working well on each de-vice, and that each device can connect to the Internet. If either of those isn’t true, Universal Clipboard may not transfer the clipboard contents. When it’s working, Universal Clipboard takes just a few seconds to move the contents of the clipboard from device to device, and the transferred item remains available for pasting for about two min-utes. It’s a subtle, but welcome addition to the Apple experience. a

Live radio from around the world— Check out RADIO GARDEN. . . AMAZING. Listen to AM or FM stations on Apple device in realtime around the world. A circle w/plus sign is fixed in the center of your screen. Simply use your cursor to drag the world map to an area you want to listen to positioning a green dot under the circle +. Use the plus/minus symbols to zoom in/out to select the exact city. After a few seconds a station will begin to play. Click— Radio Garden

First, to see how nature develops within 30 years and how fast it takes back struc-tures built by mankind and second, that was the eerie silence in the zone that was sometimes interrupted by the warning sound of the Dosimeter like in the old school where I took this photo:

What do people need to consider if they are thinking about going to an abandoned place in order to stay safe and legal?Visiting an abandoned place is exciting but does requires preparation. Do your research about the place you want to visit. All the abandoned places I have visited so far are legally accessible; some require a paid guide as a companion. The guide will ensure you have a great experience while staying safe.

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Christian Feichtner lives in Vienna, Austria. He has been a photographer for many years and used to work as an event and concert photographer during the 2000’s. Since that time his interests have gravitated towards travel photography and iPhone photography. Your author caught up with Christian to find out more about his iPhone photography.

You have a background in DSLR pho-tography so how did you first discover iPhone photography?I used the iPhone merely as a low quality snapshot camera since it came out. Later, during a trip to Las Vegas in 2012, I took more and more photos with my iPhone. One day, I decided my DSLR stuff and the heavy backpack had to stay in the hotel and I started to take photos of Vegas us-ing only my iPhone. Later, as I discovered apps that allowed me to edit my photos I turned completely to iPhone only pho-tography and sold my big camera and ac-cessories.What inspires you to take photos with your iPhone?As strange as this may sound, my main motivation is because I love to travel light. No more heavy and cumbersome equip-ment. Previously, I needed a DSLR and notebook computer but now I can do the same thing on a single device which fits into my pockets.Travel is a big part of your photographic work but you also seem to have a soft spot for abandoned places. What is it about abandoned buildings that fasci-nates you?

Photographically, it’s the contrast to the designed and styled world we live in. For me, those decayed buildings demon-strate one thing quite clearly: In the end, nature wins – always.Tell us about some of the abandoned places you have visited.We do have a lot of decayed castles here in Austria that I’ve been to; most notably is castle Dürnstein, where Richard Lion-heart, King of England, was held captive in 1192. There are a number of places in and around Berlin, Germany, that I’ve been to such as the abandoned Sanatoriums in Beelitz or a former military installation in Wünsdorf. In Scotland I traveled to see the decayed Elgin Cathedral and Kilchurn Castle. In Bucharest, I strolled through the remains of an abandoned ammunition factory. Finally, during a road trip along the south coast of the U.S. I stopped at Bodie in California, a former mining town that’s kept in arrested decay and Rhyolite near Death Valley. But the most exciting trip was definitely a visit to the Chernobyl Exclusion zone.What is Chernobyl like, is it not a hazardous area to visit?I did a lot of research before I visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. There are still a number of ‘hot zones’ that are hazard-ous but many areas are clean. Just listen to the guide (and your dosimeter) and use common sense: Don’t drink or eat any-thing that you find inside the zone.For me, visiting the zone was like entering a time capsule where time stood still for the past 30 years.There are two things about the zone:

Photographing Chernobyl & Other Abandoned Places With An iPhone— excerpts from an Andy Butler interview with Christian Feichtner, writing on Mobiography.net

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Editor’s note— This article is considerably longer than the available room in this issue of MUGSHOT. For the entire fascinating story along with more iPhone photos— go to the web here.

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Oh... and one last thing —May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright, happy hours that stay with you all the year long.

— Irish proverb

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Apple Users Helping Apple Users—OMUG’s Help Team will try to help you with your Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and software problems. Please speak to any of the following member volunteers: Bob Adams Don Boyd Philip Davis Marilyn Kennedy Dr. Roberto Putzeys Al Sypher Brian Voge Lorraine Wieskamp

OMUG Assignments—Door Prizes– Tom LeeMembership– Don Boyd MUGSHOT Newsletter– Al SypherProgram Coordinator– Burt StephensOnline Services Coordinator and Apple Ambassador– Philip DavisSunshine Ambassador– Don Morrison

OMUG Meeting Information—

The Ocala Mac User Group meets the 3rd Monday of the month at 3 PM: Discovery Center of Ocala— Tuscawilla Park 701 NE Sanchez Ave, Ocala

Member Help sessions, time permitting, are selectively held in conjunction with regular meetings.

OMUG Board of Directors—

President– Marilyn Kennedy marilynkennedy2@mac.com • 854-1021 Vice President– N.C. Sizemore ncsizemore@gmail.com • 291-8778Secretary–Lorraine Wieskamp wieskamp37@gmail.com • 351-3533Treasurer– Don Boyd trpdip7@gmail.com • 203-4059Director– Tom Lee twleeper@embarqmail.com Director– Philip Davis davistech@gmail.com • 369-8432Director– Burt Stephens burtstephens@gmail.com • 509-4407 Director– Al Sypher aes@imageocala.com • 237-9501Past President– Bobby Adams badams0993@gmail.com • 274-0177

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About the cover photo—And there your editor goes again, trapsing about the spacious grounds of Post Time Farm to try and catch horse and rider (complete with extended tongue– see pg.2) clearing the jumps during the HITS competition. The lovely young lady and her mount were shot with a Nikon 7100, 55-300 mm lens @ equiv. 117mm setting, 1/800 sec., f 7.1, ISO 400. Digital camera raw file processed in Adobe Photoshop CC camera raw on a Mac mini.

25Announcements: President Marilyn Kennedy  greeted 27 members and three guests— Chris & Jim Kurlapski and Nancy Bumpus to the meeting. Marilyn talked about our need for a member to take over as Treasurer, as current treasurer Don Boyd, though he plans to continue as a member, has said he will no longer be in a position to act as Treasurer. Without a Treasurer we will no longer be able to function! Marilyn also mentioned that our Annual Elections for Officers/Board members will take place at the April meeting. The Board will act as the Nominating Committee. A unanimous vote was taken to confirm NC Sizemore as Vice President for the remainder of our current year. Treasurer’s Report: Balance on hand as of 31 January 2017: $757.59. Secretary’s Report: Minutes of the January meeting were accepted as published.Program: MAC Fundamentals— Phil Davis.  After giving an overview of several common MAC features, he turned the session over to questions and answers. See Phil’s Program notes on the web site. After the break, Don Boyd gave a very informative overview of the Treasurer’s and Mem-bership Chairman’s responsibilities. His notes are available on the web site here.Phil also announced  our upcoming Tech Clinics which will be held in conjunction with the Senior Learners program at CF:5/22: Using Google Drive 6/28: Organizing Your Life with Numbers 7/26: Introduction to Microsoft Excel 8/23: Get More from your MAC.

Door Prizes: We had three prizes: 250 GB External Drive – Arnold Bunker ■ Take Control of iTunes:  Al Sypher ■ Take Control of Your Digital Life:  Shelley Sizemore.

Next Meeting: Monday March 20 – program: “Creating A Simple Budget Using Numbers”— presented by Marilyn Kennedy

As always, thank you to those who brought along refreshments – they are always appreciated.

Respectively submitted, Lorraine Wieskamp, OMUG Secretary

OMUG MEETING MINUTES February 20th, 2017