Show Notes Episode 156
Run Sheet ~ Garth & Michael
Presented by athwebhosting.com.
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Our Aussie Apple Ramblings
Story 1
As I advised over the weekend on our Facebook Group, please upgrade your iOS devices NOW!!
There were 3 major exploits discovered recently and Apple patched them as soon as they were advised.
This was apparently after a United Arab Emirates activist was hacked reportedly by his government.
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Story 2
Welcome to a new Australian Apple Podcast
Apple Slice. Good luck to the boys for your new podcast
Also congrats to MacBreak Weekly and TWIT.tv moving into there new studios
AND 10 years of MacBreak Weekly
NOT THIS ONE Also congrats to Aussie Tech Heads reaching Episode 500 last Thursday
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Story 3 a & b
Hopefully Aussie Mac Zone is broadcasting live on our Facebook Group Page
This is so we can keep trying to offer you more!
Apple Music Festival 10 Kicks Off Next Month
Apple has announced that this years Apple Music Festival takes place next month in London. The Apple Music Festival 10 will take place at the Roundhouse London between the 18th and 30th of September.
It will be streamed live to Apple Music subscribers “Free”
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Story 4 a & b
Why we don’t talk Rumours, Betas
We tend to not talk about Rumours because that is a non-stop news feed when talking about Apple.
We don’t talk too much about the betas as specifics might change before the FULL release. We will drop in our thoughts from time to time.
The Internet is here!!
In the kingdom of apps and unicorns, Rossotti’s is a rarity. This beer garden in the heart of Silicon Valley has been standing on the same spot since 1852. It isn’t disruptive; it doesn’t scale. But for more than 150 years, it has done one thing and done it well: it has given Californians a good place to get drunk.
During the course of its long existence, Rossotti’s has been a frontier saloon, a gold rush gambling den, and a Hells Angels hangout. These days it is called the Alpine Inn Beer Garden, and the clientele remains as motley as ever. On the patio out back, there are cyclists in spandex and bikers in leather. There is a wild-haired man who might be a professor or a lunatic or a CEO, scribbling into a notebook. In the parking lot is a Harley, a Maserati, and a horse.
It doesn’t seem a likely spot for a major act of innovation. But 40 years ago this August, a small team of scientists set up a computer terminal at one of its picnic tables and conducted an extraordinary experiment. Over plastic cups of beer, they proved that a strange idea called the internet could work.
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Story 5
Further to getting all banks on board with Apple Pay
Australian supermarket giant Coles and the Australian Retailers Association have announced their support for local banks’ fight against Apple’s policy to limit the use of the NFC chip incorporated into iPhones to Apple Pay.
Coles says its investment in NFC technology has been well received by customers so far, so there is a need for a cross-platform solution. Since Apple limits the use of NFC chip to Apple Pay, banks and retailers can only provide their mobile payments service to Android customers.
The Australian Retailers Association has a rather interesting example in underpinning its position for a cross-platform solution:
For example, Google Maps has been successful on both iOS and Android because it can access the GPS functionality of both platforms. This is not the case when it comes to accessing the near field communication (NFC) chip on Apple’s iOS.”
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How To 1
Safari – Close all tabs except for one
Option-click the close button on the tab you want to leave open
Safari – Go to your homepage
Command-Home key
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How To 2
AMZ listener advising an issue with Apple Mail
Top level domains like .services when sent from Apple Mail on Mac, the Receiver does not get a name in sender. When sent from say POSTBOX Apple Mail displays the sender correctly. It works from Apple mail on iOS Cheers Peter
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How To 3
AMZ listener question
My MacBook Pro gave me this today.
“OS X can’t repair the disk Macintosh HD”
“You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can’t save changes to files on the disk. Backup the disk and reformat it as soon as you can”
What do I do? What is the cause?
1/ Backup!!
2/ Find your install disks that came with MacBook Pro OR AFTER backing up restart holding down the Option key and choose the Recovery disk that shows up OR search Google on how to make a !0.11 bootable USB stick.
3/ Once it is booted go to Utilities menu at the top and choose Disk Utility.
4/ Select Erase – Hopefully this will comeback without any errors.
5/ Quit Disk Utility and Choose Install new Mac OS
~ if it is from a USB stick it takes about 20 minutes
The cause can be a Failing Drive, HDD or SSD, or corrupt data somewhere.
Lastly AFTER backing up you could try using Disk Warrior or Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery
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How To 4
Assistive Touch
Tap “Settings” icon on the Home screen.
Tap “General”
Tap “Accessibility”
Scroll to “AssistiveTouch”
To change the status, tap “AssistiveTouch”
Slide the on / off to Green
Tap “Customise Top Level Menu” and have some fun
The home button is especially good when yours is starting to fail!!
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How To 5
Turning off Shake to undo
To disable “Shake to Undo”, tap the “Settings” icon on the Home screen.
Tap “General”
Tap “Accessibility”
Scroll to “Shake to Undo”
To the right of “Shake to Undo”, you’ll either see “On” or “Off”, indicating the status of the feature.
To change the status, tap “Shake to Undo”.
Slide the on / off to Not Green
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