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Peter Weiler won the iPad raffle

An All-Day Workshop Featuring Jason Snell, Former Editor of Macworld Magazine

Saturday, March 4th, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Pacheco Community Center
5800 Pacheco Blvd
Pacheco

What’s new and how can you use it better? Jason Snell joins us for a day-long DVMUG workshop about how to take advantage of Apple’s latest stuff. We’ll cover what’s new and interesting in macOS Sierra and iOS 10, dive into Photos on Mac and iOS, and maybe even sneak in a few tips about the Apple Watch if we’re not careful. Plus, plenty of hands-on Q&A time!

Jason has written for Macworld for 25 years and was lead editor for over a decade. He writes about Apple at Six Colors and podcasts at Relay FM and The Incomparable.

MacClinic Favorite Apps

One of the great things about our group is the diversity of skill levels. We have everything from alpha geeks to folks that are still figuring out where the power switch is. Another item of diversity is the apps that we all use. Since those of us at the clinic are frequently asked what we use ourselves, now seems like a good time to have a program where all the clinic staff discuss their favorite apps and how they improve our technological lives. It might be one for the Mac, for iOS, or maybe even both, but it should be interesting. So, join the MacClinic staff at the February general meeting where we’ll be discussing our favorite apps (and demonstrating them, too).

Malwarebytes

AppCleaner

MacUpdater

EtreCheck

Mactracker

DiskWarrior

Carbon Copy Cloner

SuperDuper!

Easy Find

A good crowd enjoyed Derrick Story’s demonstration of the equipment needed to be a Nimble Photographer at DVMUG’s April 16 meeting at the Pacheco Community Center.

Nimble Photographer Derrick Story demonstrates how to do a “group selfie” with an iPhone controlling his Canon camera.

Check It Out by Caryn Lum

After a hard drive failure, I was forced to get a new M1 MacBook Air and therefore forced to make a big jump from Yosemite to Big Sur. I had previously used a now-discontinued application, “Folder Brander,” to put text on the icons of drives, folders, and documents to help me with organization. A quick internet search revealed no good replacement, but it turns out that you can accomplish this task using only the Finder and Preview.

Step 1.

In the Finder, select the item whose icon you want to label and click cmd-I (Get Info).
Click on the item’s icon in the Get Info dialog box and click cmd-C (copy). You are copying the .icns file to your clipboard.

Step 2.

Launch Preview and select “New From Clipboard” (cmd-N)

Step 3

Preview will open a document with multiple thumbnails of the icon in its sidebar. The thumbnails are for various icon sizes, with the largest icon size at the top. Pick a large to medium icon to edit. You will be able to have larger text size on your icon if you choose a medium size – #3 is good. Use Preview’s markup tools to add your text. You can also change the color (Tools > Adjust Color), but Big Sur users should beware – the OS 11 Preview is said on the internet to be buggy and Preview crashed several times while I was playing with this tool.

Step 4

In Preview’s main window (not the sidebar), “Select All” (cmd-A), then “Copy” (cmd-C) to copy your customized image to your clipboard.

Step 5

Back in the Finder Get Info dialog box, click on the item’s icon again and click cmd-V (paste).

Step 6

You have replaced the item’s original icon with your custom icon. Selecting the icon in the Get Info dialog box and clicking delete will restore the default icon.