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Upcoming MacinTech Meetings

If you’d like to attend and are not a member of the group, please, email standy ([email protected]) to request guest access.

Presentation Links and Downloads from Past Meetings

March 12th General Meeting

Topic: Passkeys; Will. they grant our wish for a passwordless future

Speaker: Melissa Davis, aka MacMommy

February 22nd SIG Meeting

Topic: Editing with Adobe, ON1 and Pixelmator Pro

Speakers: Chris Domino and David Bourne

February 13th General Meeting

Topic: Bits and Pieces (including Vision Pro)

Speaker: David Bourne

January 25th SIG Meeting

Topic: Journal App

Speaker: Becky

January 9th 2024 General Meeting

Topic: Avoiding Identity Theft

Speaker: James (Jamie) E. Sorrells, Director of Consumer Fraud Protection, Office of the District Attorney

December 12th General Meeting

Topic: End of Year Get Together

November 14th General Meeting

Topic: New Mac Hardware etc.

Speaker: Jeff Gamet

October 26th SIG Meeting

Topic: iOS and OS improvements – “How to” items

Speaker: Chris Domino

October 10th General Meeting

Topic: The New Hardware

Speaker: David Bourne

September 28th SIG Meeting

Speakers: Chris Domino, Mark Stevenson, David Bourne

Topic: iOS 17 and other new OSs

September 12th General Meeting

Speaker: David Bourne

Topic: Apple Sep 12th Announcement

August 24th SIG Meeting

Speaker: Mark Stevenson

Topic: Buying, Selling, Donating on line

August 8th Zoom Meeting

Speaker: Jeff Gamet

Topic: All About Passkeys

July 27th SIG Meeting

Speaker: Chris Domino

Topic: Freeform

July 11th Zoom Meeting

Speaker: MacinTech Members

Topic General Discussions

June 22nd SIG Meeting

Speaker: Chris, Mark, David

Topic: WWDC

June 13th Zoom Meeting

Speaker: Adam Engst

Topic: Offline File Storage

May 25th 2023 – MacinTech SIG Meeting

Speaker: Chris Domino will tell us all we need to know about Procreate. Introduction to Procreate, the Apple Award-winning “digital art studio that you can take anywhere.” On the iPad App Store for $12.99.

May 9th Zoom Meeting

Moderator: David Bourne, Title: “ChatGPT and Friends”

27th April 2023 – MacinTech SIG Meeting

Moderator: David Bourne. Title: “AI Based Text to Image (and maybe Video) with DALL-E”

April 11th Zoom Meeting

Speaker: Our friendMac guru Jeff Carlson on “What the Heck is Computerized Photography?”

6:30 – 9 pm

23rd March 2023 – MacinTech SIG Meeting

Travel Photography Techniques

March 14th Zoom Meeting

Speaker: Dan Wassink of Dan’s TutorIals. Dan is going to present his favorite tips and tricks for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Visit Dan’s Tutorials for even more information. Some of the tips mentioned include; Application Folder in the Dock, Desktop stacks, Text replacement (The Option-Shift-K for the Apple icon seems to require the US Keyboard) and Quick Actions.

Ask Me Anything (AMA) Thursday afternoons from 5 – 6 pm EDT

23rd February 2023 – MacinTech SIG Meeting

Password Storage Utilities, Keychain, Notes, Safari (Firefox), 1Password…

February 14th Zoom Meeting

The speaker will be Dan Moran, Sci-fi Author and Mac Guru.

Apple’s New Security Protocols

6:30 – 9 pm

26th January 2023 – MacinTech SIG meeting

Chris is going to continue her discussion of using Layers

September 13th Zoom Meeting

The next MacinTech meeting will be on Tuesday, 13 September, via Zoom.

First, we have a new MacinTech President. He’s David Bourne. See the Newsletter for some information on him.

As for the meeting, Bourne will review the survey results from TidBITS #1622. How many iOS 15 & macOS Monterey features do you use?

If you’d like to attend and aren’t a member of the group, please, email standy with your request.

6:30 – 9 pm

November 2021 Meeting

Next meeting:

Tuesday, 9 November 2021,

Zoom meeting

Start time: 6:30 PM

Topic: What’s New in Monterey

Steve Sande is with AppleWorld.Today. He’ll give us some basic info on the new macOS Monterey. Come with your questions,

If you wish to attend the session and are not a member, email me at [email protected] for the link.

For non-pandemic months, still in the future, we will meet about 5 PM at the Panera Bread on the SE corner of Holly and Orchard for a little supper. After that, we drive down to the meeting, for 6pm.

Presentation Links and Downloads

Below are links and downloads from presentations from recent meetings:

March 12, 2024

General Meeting, Prez slides as a pdf file

February 13, 2024

January 9, 2024

November 14, 2023

October 10, 2023

September 12, 2023

August 8, 2023

July 11th 2023

June 13th 2023

May 9th 2023

Apr 2023 SIG: Text, Images, ML and AI

Mar 2023

Mar 2023 SIG

Feb 2023

Feb 2023 – SIG Meeting

Keychain Access Apple Support Page

Notes Apple Support Page

Safari Apple Support Page

News, 24 Feb 2023: Recent iPhone thefts highlight the danger of using passcodes in public

More news, a day late ;-): Which keychain is which on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Jan 2023

New Year’s Resolutions

AppleTV+ shows for 2023

realityOS – rOS