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About your iPhone Battery

Our own Mark Pimentel tells is how to make our iPhone battery last longer. Hit Read More button REALLY HARD to play the video to find out how!

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Home Network 2020-2-10

Jim Johnson gave a presentation on home networks. This talk covered: Available Internet services in Colorado Springs, LAN-WAN Interconnections, Wiring the home and/or Wireless, Future Providers (SpaceX, Amazon, Cellular, Access Points, modems & routers, His Home Network, and IP Addressing. This talk would be useful to any of us working to initially setting up or […]

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“Your Can’t Learn Less” Program Info: 1-13-2020

Links from Skip Mundy’s Presentation. Lots of info and links to find information from our Apple Club (smmug.org) and websites. For people interested in learning about Apple items, Photography, Apple Tablets, iPhones, and applications. Log in as a member, go to Slides From Meetings to view the slides presented by Skip in his presentation. Skip […]

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How To: Apple’s Clips App Review

How To: Apple’s Clips App Review by Saundra (Sandy) Foderick, Editor | Apr 17, 2017 | Leaders, Members, User Group How To, User Group Meeting Materials | Written by Rex Covington of the Apple User Group Advisory Board and Lonestarrider.com Apples new clips app is like a mixture of Photo Booth, Snapchat, and a very light […]

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How-To: iCloud Sharing

How-To: iCloud Sharing by ugabadmin | Nov 19, 2017 | Leaders, Resources, User Group How To | By Rick Ortiz With the introduction of iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, Apple has added some new features to iCloud Drive, offering the ability to share files. iCloud Drive is now offering sharing services similar to what […]

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How to Avoid a Safari Scam

With all the online scams like the Ransom Ware this May (2017), you might want to know how to avoid one of the latest scams that is hitting Mac computers, the “Virus Scan”.    Our own Apple expert Mark Pimentel tells us what these scams look like when they appear, and what steps to take […]

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Clear Your Cache

The cache is where your browser stores things to be retrieved and shown more quickly. Sometimes, old or wrong things get into your cache, and they need to be cleaned out. How to do the “clear my cache”? Here is a link to a great site that shows how to clear caches in various browsers, […]

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My iPhone 6 is Bendy – Oh No!

Really?  Yeah, I saw this guy bend an iPhone 6 on a video right there on the Internet, so it must be true. Right?  Below is a link to an article, whose subtitle is  “What the bleep are you trying to bend your phone for?”  You would figure that some science guy would look into this.  The […]

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Prepare for iOS 8

iOS 8 is due out next week (September 22 – 26). Before you download iOS 8 to your mobile device, you need to prepare. As promised at the 9/13 SIG, here is a link to a great MacWorld article on what to do to prepare for iOS 8. Get read info is at: Prepare for iOS […]

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Is iOS 8 Compatible With Your Device?

Find out here: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/06/is-apples-ios-8-compatible-with-your-device-find-out-here

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Heartbleed

You should think about changing your passwords. Click the link below to see several articles about which sites have fixed the heart bleed flaw in their web and email servers. This is not a Windows or a Mac problem, but a server problem. It can only be fixed by the folks running the servers. Check […]

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New Apple iOS Software 3/10/14

Apple has released iOS (mobile device) software updates today (Monday, March 10th, 2014).  You should update your device ASAP.

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iPod Touch 4

One day after I briefed, Macworld magazine tells me that iOS 7, due out this fall will not work on a Touch 4, only on the Touch 5. Given this, if you decide you can use an iTouch, I’d recommend buying the new iPod Touch 5. Or maybe even waiting for the iPod Touch 6, […]

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iPod Touch 4 Cost

I stopped at my local Wal-Mart to check out what I told you at the meeting last Thursday. It turns out that Wal-Mart does not stock the $150 priced new-in-the-box 8Gb iPod Touch 4. But they do sell them. If you want one of these amazing low-cost mini computers, you have to order them online […]

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