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  • How to Find the Snaps You Want in the Mac’s Photos App

    How to Find the Snaps You Want in the Mac’s Photos App

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    Mike Moffit
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    Digital cameras have been around long enough that people have stopped making snarky comments about how hard it is to find anything in a shoebox filled with hundreds of unorganized photos – I still have those boxes of photos and slides in Vermont. But given the tens of thousands of photos many of us now…

  • Apple Has Disabled Group FaceTime to Prevent Pre-call Eavesdropping

    Apple Has Disabled Group FaceTime to Prevent Pre-call Eavesdropping

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    Mike Moffit
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    A serious bug has been discovered in Apple’s Group FaceTime multi-person video chat technology. It allows someone to call you via FaceTime and then, with just a few simple steps, listen in on audio from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac while the call is ringing, before you have accepted or rejected it. To prevent the…

  • A first look at Mojave

    A first look at Mojave

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    Don
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    I swore I was going to wait for the third developer beta to upgrade my Mac to Mojave but I could not resist. After carefully making sure I had back-ups, I downloaded Mojave. I have just started to play with it but I do want to caution you that, unlike me, you should NOT be…

  • Apple Stands Up The Street

    Apple Stands Up The Street

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    Don
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    $50.6 Billion in revenue, $10.5 Billion in net profit and $235 Billion in the bank. Let’s get one thing straight, 99.9% of the companies in the world would love to have those kind of numbers. And while this fell into the range of Apple’s forward-looking guidance, it did fall short of the expectations of the…

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    Emily Dolloff
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    _Dear Friends,_ Don’s making the voyage home this week from Key West back to the Green Mountains. He’s in for a bit of a shock when he gets back. Mother Nature seems to have gotten a bit confused this week. I mentioned in the fall that I was taking a new stance on winter and…

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    Don
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    Next week I will be on the road so it will be fun to see how Emily handles the Apple quarterly results that are going to be announced on Tuesday. I guess I’d better write that up in my hotel room from the road. Last year, most of our plants suffered while we were gone.…

  • Macbooks and Macbook Air Upgraded

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    Don
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    Apple announced some changes to the 12-inch MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Air this week. Let’s talk about the MacBook Air first. Apple discontinued the 13-inch MacBook Air models that had 4GB of RAM and made them sport 8GB. There were no other changes to this model but the additional RAM comes at no additional cost…

  • Hey Dora, Follow Orders!

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    Don
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    Last week we talked about how to activate and use dictation to write emails and documents but there is a lot more that you can do. I keep thinking about Scotty from Star Trek when he went back in time and was “**confronted with a Mac Plus**”:https://youtu.be/LkqiDu1BQXY?t=1m8s. He picked up the mouse as natural as…

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    Don
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    _Dear Friends,_ It is raining today here in Key West but as with most tropical showers it will likely pass over soon and the sun will come back. My neighbor, Glenn Thomas, posted a picture of the first daffodil at our Prickly Mountain location so I guess it is safe for me to head back…

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    Don
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    My daughter Autumn and her husband Ismael are coming to visit next week which should be fun. Then we pack up and head back to Vermont. Hopefully the weather will cooperate but it seems like warmer weather is in the forecast for the Green Mountains. Thank you so much for reading this issue of Kibbles…