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DVMUG Zoom Meeting

Wednesday, February 17th 6:30p, Pacific

DVMUG members can check the weekly DVMUG News email or the DVMUG BBS for the Zoom meeting login.

To receive an invite to the DVMUG Zoom meeting send an email to zoom_mail@dvmug.org

Download the Zoom Client for Meetings app for macOS:
macOS 10.9 or later
zoom.us/download

Download the Zoom Cloud Meetings app for iPhone and iPad:
iOS 8.0 or later
apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-cloud-meetings/id546505307

Take Control of Your Digital Legacy
Joe Kissell
Take Control Books

Take Control publisher Joe Kissell has written more than 60 books about technology, including many popular Take Control books.

takecontrolbooks.com/digital-legacy

How do you want to be remembered by future generations? You can make a will to handle your physical possessions, but what about your digital lifeóphotos, videos, email, documents, and the like? This ebook, written by tech expert Joe Kissell, covers many aspects of preserving such electronic ephemera as part of your digital legacy.

If youíre not at the stage of life where you can think about this for yourself, consider that you may have to do so for your parents or other relatives. Itís not all about posterity either, since following Joeís advice will also help loved ones access your key accounts and important info if youíre incapacitated, which can happen at any time.

The book will help you with these essential tasks:

• Identify your key digital assets: online accounts, photos, audio files, videos, passwords, documents, email, and more.
• Plan for each type of digital asset based on your priorities for today, for shortly after you are no longer around, and for posterity. Joe explains the ideal file formats to use, how to deal with social media sites, the best ways to digitize paper documents and photos, and strategies for sharing passwords with family members, among much else.
• Communicate your wishes in a digital willî and designate someone to be its digital executor. The book includes a template document that you can develop into a personalized digital will.
• Preserve your data for the future. You will consider types of archival storage media, cloud-based storage services, backups, and what instructions to provide about maintaining your data as file formats and storage media types evolve.

Whether you just want to ensure that your heirs get copies of your favorite family photos and a few key documents or you want to catalog and preserve tens of thousands of digital items, this book helps you make smart decisions about your digital legacy.

Questions answered include:

• What strategies can I use for sorting and preserving email?
• How can I ensure that my email account will be available to those wrapping up my estate?
• What if I have digital data that should be destroyed when I die?
• What should I do with my huge photo collection (both digital and paper)?
• How can I make my passwords available to those who will need themóbut keep them private for now?
• What should I think about when handing down purchased audio and video files?
• What should happen to my Facebook account when Iím no longer around?
• What choices are available for keeping my digital archive available and backed up?
• How long should I expect archival media to last?
• Should I write an autobituary?
• Are online digital legacy services any good?
• How will organizing all this stuff benefit me while Iím alive?

DVMUG Zoom Meeting

Wednesday September 16th 6:30p

DVMUG members can check the weekly DVMUG News email or the DVMUG BBS for the Zoom meeting login.

To receive an invite to the DVMUG Zoom meeting send and email to zoom_mail@dvmug.org

Download the Zoom Client for Meetings app for macOS:
macOS 10.9 or later
zoom.us/download

Download the Zoom Cloud Meetings app for iPhone and iPad:
iOS 8.0 or later
apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-cloud-meetings/id546505307

Lee Wagner will be showing us the power of Pages that comes built in to the macOS.

The DVMUG General Meeting topic this month is the Apple Pages word processing program. Following a MacMost presentation on special features in Pages, there will be an “Introduction to Pages” Keynote presentation followed by (time allowing) a “Do It With Pages” Keynote emphasizing the utility of Section Masters (Watermarks) in designing a single-sheet program flyer.

apple.com/pages

DVMUG Zoom Meeting

Wednesday August 19th 6:30p

DVMUG members can check the weekly DVMUG News email or the DVMUG BBS for the Zoom meeting login.

Download the Zoom Client for Meetings app for macOS:
zoom.us/download

Download the Zoom Cloud Meetings app for iPhone and iPad:
apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-cloud-meetings/id546505307

Tina Tanenbaum will be showing us the power of the the Preview app that comes built in to the macOS.

Use the Preview app to view and edit images and PDFs
support.apple.com/en-us/HT201740

12 things you may not know you can do with images in Mac Preview
macmost.com/12-things-you-may-not-know-you-can-do-with-images-in-mac-preview.html

12 Things You May Not Know You Can Do With PDF Files In Mac Preview
macmost.com/12-things-you-may-not-know-you-can-do-with-pdf-files-in-mac-preview.html

How to use Preview on Mac
imore.com/how-use-preview-mac

The Power of Preview

DVMUG Main Meeting

Wednesday, February 19th · 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

(Third Wednesday of the month)

Pleasant Hill Community Center
320 Civic Drive, McHale Room
Pleasant Hill

 Get a map to Pleasant Hill Community Center

Linda Rubio will be showing a preview of what she has planned for the new DVMUG iWork SIG.

Pages, Keynote and Numbers are free programs that come with macOS. It is not about all you want to know about those programs; rather, it is about what you personally need to know. It is an approach on how to say it, how to search for it, how to be effective in your presentation of it. How can you use these programs to describe your resume or recipes, or list the parts required for the carpenter to fix something? How can you create and use a sideshow, or create spreadsheets to track money or budgets?

https://www.apple.com/iwork/

The Diablo Valley Mac Users Group helps Macintosh users get the most out of their computers. Software, hardware, digital filmmaking, photography—these subjects and more are covered in the club’s monthly General Meeting, workshops, and Special Interest Groups.

You are invited to attend our general meetings at the Pleasant Hill Community Center for vendor and club presentations on new hardware, software, and other items of Mac interest. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m. with a Question & Answer segment where you are welcome to ask about your own Mac problems; there’s a break during which the club Mac experts answer your questions one-on-one, and a raffle in addition to the main presentation, usually by a software publisher or hardware manufacturer.

Dues for the entire family are $40 per year-a bargain! Especially since it includes access to the club’s weekly email including current Apple news and How-To tips, and attendance at all Special Interest Group meetings including the monthly MacClinic, where club experts diagnose and repair what’s wrong with your Mac as well as helping you with software upgrades, hard-drive replacement, and similar improvements.

DVMUG Main Meeting

Wednesday, January 15th · 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

(Third Wednesday of the month)

Pleasant Hill Community Center
320 Civic Drive, McHale Room
Pleasant Hill

 Get a map to Pleasant Hill Community Center

TechTool Pro 12

Christian Pickman from MicroMat will be showing us the new TechTool Pro 12.

micromat.com/products/techtool-pro

Techtool Pro 12 now works with macOS 10.15, Catalina, and takes advantage of the new technology made available through Apple’s latest OS.

The Diablo Valley Mac Users Group helps Macintosh users get the most out of their computers. Software, hardware, digital filmmaking, photography—these subjects and more are covered in the club’s monthly General Meeting, workshops, and Special Interest Groups.

You are invited to attend our general meetings at the Pleasant Hill Community Center for vendor and club presentations on new hardware, software, and other items of Mac interest. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m. with a Question & Answer segment where you are welcome to ask about your own Mac problems; there’s a break during which the club Mac experts answer your questions one-on-one, and a raffle in addition to the main presentation, usually by a software publisher or hardware manufacturer.

Dues for the entire family are $40 per year-a bargain! Especially since it includes access to the club’s weekly email including current Apple news and How-To tips, and attendance at all Special Interest Group meetings including the monthly MacClinic, where club experts diagnose and repair what’s wrong with your Mac as well as helping you with software upgrades, hard-drive replacement, and similar improvements.