ByMUG: The Bytown Mac User Group of OttawaMacs & iOS devices in a fun and social setting.

This month, Tom will talk about setting up Time Machine, and backups in general, then David will talk about backing up tax data securely using encrypted disk images and Dropbox. We’ll also talk about the various software promotional bundles, and follow up last month’s podcast discussion.

We will also go over the latest Mac news, and answer Mac-related questions as best as we can.

The meeting takes place on Sunday May 5th, 2013, at 1 p.m. at Patty Bolands, located at 101 Clarence Street.

We had Glenda demonstrate Apple’s Aperture, iPhoto’s big brother, and Paul showed how he uses his Synology DS413 network attached storage (NAS) at home.

Then we launched into podcasting, starting off with about forty from Tom. The links and descriptions are pulled from iTunes to save time.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast.

Tiki Bar TV
From the golden era of the lounge culture comes adlibbed tales of bartending tomfoolery.

Get-It-Done Guy’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More
Want to work smarter, not harder? Here’s how to do it. Join Stever Robbins, author of “Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More”, each week as he provides inventive productivity and organization tips to transform even the most overwhelmed person into an overachiever. Are you buried in email? Stever will tell you how to dig your way out. Is technology holding you captive? Stever will tell you how to evaluate your devices and only use the ones that actually help you get stuff done.

Digital Heaven Tutorials
Video tutorials for Final Cut Pro and Digital Heaven software

Creative COW Final Cut Help Tutorials Podcast (SD)
Creative COW’s Final Cut Studio tutorials podcast is filled with tips, tricks, tutorials and workflow enhancements that will expand your knowledge of and creativity in Apple Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Studio. This podcast is hosted by many Creative COW leaders and other experienced Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Studio editors. Tune in as they take you into the power of Final Cut Pro and the rest of the Final Cut Studio bundle.

TEDTalks (video)
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. On this feed, you’ll find TEDTalks video to inspire, intrigue and stir the imagination from some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers, speaking from the stage at TED conferences, TEDx events and partner events around the world.

Apple Keynotes
The Apple Keynotes podcast offers video of the company’s most important announcements, including presentations by Apple CEO Tim Cook.

MacBreak Studio
Join Steve Martin, Mark Spencer, Brian Gary, Alex Lindsay and friends as they reveal the ins and outs of video production on the Mac. From 3D to audio, video, and compression, learn from the experts how to add advanced techniques to your production workflow and a professional touch to your video content.

NOVA scienceNOW
Our podcast offers irreverent stories and introduces intriguing personalities from the world of science.

The Nutrition Diva’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Eating Well and Feeling Fabulous
The Nutrition Diva (aka Monica Reinagel) serves up simple, painless ways to upgrade your eating habits. Before you know it, you’ll be eating healthier and feeling more fabulous!

That Post Show
That Post Show is a roundtable discussion with industry experts about the art and science of video, film and post production.

The Edit Bay
Stories from the edit bay. The bad clients, the disasters, the triumphs…the fun stuff.

MacBreak Work
Learn how to get the most out of your mac at Work! From iWork to communication to databases to networking hardware – MacBreak Work will help you MACsimize your productivity!

Ancient Greek History – Audio
This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars. This course was recorded in Fall 2007.

The History of Rome
A weekly podcast tracing the rise, decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Now complete! Visit us at http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com

12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of The Byzantine Empire
This history of the Byzantine Empire is a lecture series written and presented by Mr. Lars Brownworth, author of the book “Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization”. (in bookstores and on Amazon.com) He has traveled extensively from the furthest reaches of the Byzantine Empire all the way to its heart at Constantinople. Join him for an engaging look at the history of the Byzantine Empire through the eyes of 12 of its greatest rulers. For more information, including video of Mr. Brownworth’s Smithsonian Lecture on Byzantium, please visit http://www.12byzantinerulers.com/

this WEEK in TECH – MP3 Edition
Your first podcast of the week is the last word in tech. Join Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, John C. Dvorak, and other tech luminaries in a roundtable discussion of the latest trends in high tech. Winner of People’s Choice Podcast and Best Technology Podcast in the 2005 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Released every Sunday at midnight Pacific.

NYT’s Circuits with David Pogue (Video)

https://www.nytsyn.com/rss/custom_itunes/5

New York Times personal-technology columnist David Pogue reports on new technology.

The Math Dude Quick and Dirty Tips to Make Math Easier
The Math Dude makes understanding math easier and more fun than your teachers ever led you to believe was possible. Host Jason Marshall provides clear explanations of math terms and principles, and his simple tricks for solving basic algebra problems will have even the most mathphobic people looking forward to working out whatever math problem comes their way. If you’re getting ready to take the SAT, GRE, or any of the other standardized tests; or if you’re going back to school and need to brush up on the basics, the Math Dude’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Make Math Easier will strengthen your fundamental skills, help you better understand the language of math, and succeed when it comes to taking a test. And if you just want to calculate the tip without using your iPhone and impress all your friends, his tips and tricks are for you too.

Science Talk
Science Talk is a weekly science audio show covering the latest in the world of science and technology. Join Steve Mirsky each week as he explores cutting-edge breakthroughs and controversial issues with leading scientists and journalists. He is also an articles editor and columnist at Scientific American magazine and his column, “Antigravity”, is one of science writing’s rate venues for humor.

The King Cast
ne fan’s attempt to do some analysis of Stephen King’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry. From Carrie to the top of the Dark Tower, King is a huge presence in the marketplace. But what does his work tell us about ourselves? And what will last of his work?

Search Engine
The podcast that predicts the present: host Jesse Brown and guests explore the Internet’s impact on politics and culture.

MacBreak Weekly
Get the latest Mac news and views from the top journalists covering Apple today. Another great show from the TWiT Netcast Network.

Creative COW DSLR Video Podcast (SD)
CreativeCOW.net’s DSLR For Video Podcast is filled with tips, tricks, techniques, training, support and information that will enhance your ability to use, choose or just learn about DSLR Cameras and DSLR Video. These video podcasts are pod-friendly and can be downloaded to your iTunes or any other device that can use iTunes.

Spark Plus from CBC Radio
Spark on CBC Radio One Nora Young helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways.

The Nerdist
I am Chris Hardwick. I am on TV a lot and have a blog at nerdist.com. This podcast is basically just me talking about stuff and things with my two nerdy friends Jonah Ray and Matt Mira, and usually someone more famous than all of us. Occasionally we swear because that is fun. I hope you like it, but if you don’t I’m sure you will not hesitate to unfurl your rage in the ‘reviews’ section because that’s how the Internet works.

Film State (HD MP4 – 30fps)
Film State is a one of a kind look at everything film related. Get movie news and rumors, film trailers, movie reviews, and new DVD release info all in one place. Never waste your time or hard earned money on a bad movie again.

i can haz podcast
A podcast for people that need help understanding online and social media marketing.

NASACast: Space Shuttle and Space Station Video
NASA video podcast episodes on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station

White Coat, Black Art on CBC Radio
CBC Radio’s Dr. Brian Goldman takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals and doctors’ offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies.

Ellipsis with Ella Morton
A weekly podcast about creativity, motivation and being a little bit mad. Hosted by Ella Morton with special guests.

Astronomy Cast
Astronomy Cast offers you a fact based journey through the cosmos. Each week Fraser Cain (Universe Today) and Dr. Pamela Gay (SIUE / Slacker Astronomy) take on topics ranging from the nearby planets to ubiquitous dark matter.

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
In “Hardcore History” the very unconventional Dan Carlin takes his “Martian”, outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This is a difficult-to-classify show that has a rather sharp edge. It’s not for everyone.

Penn’s Sunday School

Get-Fit Guy’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Slim Down and Shape Up
Enhance your energy, lose weight, boost your performance, and look better than ever in your bathing suit with the Get-Fit Guy! If you want to begin an exercise routine and don’t know where to start, or if you’ve been working out for a while and aren’t getting the results you want, host Ben Greenfield will give you the tips you need to reach all of your fitness goals. Get expert information and advice on everything from toning your arms, butt, and abs, to blasting fat fast, to running a 5K and preparing for your first triathlon. With his easy-to-understand explanations, concrete examples, and sound reasoning backed by scientific research, Get-Fit Guy will provide you with the inspiration and knowledge you need to become fitter, faster, stronger, and ultimately happier and healthier.

Scruffy.TV Presents
Scruffy.TV Presents,The Scruffy Show! Upcoming shows are: THE DARK KNIGHT DESCENDS, FLIGHT CLUB, TED E. BEAR, THE Z EVENT, BURN NOVICE, PREALIENUS and much more. Or, pretend we said something more poetic, but with zombies.

The History of WWII Podcast – by Ray Harris Jr
A biweekly podcast covering the last great war

Mac Power Users
Learn about getting the most from your Apple technology with focused topics and workflow guests. Creating Mac Power Users, one geek at a time since 2009. Hosted by Katie Floyd and David Sparks.

Under the Influence by Terry O’Reily (3 or 4 are free, rest are paid)
The first 50 years of modern advertising was hard-sell. The next 50 years was persuasion through creativity and media tonnage. But advertising is no longer a loud one-way conversation. It’s a delicate dialogue now. The goal is no longer to triumph by weight, but to win by influence. Welcome to Under the Influence. An exploration of that critical shift.

Colonial Williamsburg Historical Podcasts
Colonial Williamsburg: Past and Present brings you new perspectives from the Revolutionary War era. American history is explored in interviews with historic interpreters, tradesmen, musicians, historians, curators, authors, archaeologists, and more.

Thinking Allowed on BBC
Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works and discusses current ideas on how we live today.

History of the World in 100 Objects on BBC
Welcome to A History of the World. Below you can find all 100 episodes in the series. Although the series has ended, you can continue to listen to the episodes on this page or download them to keep on your computer or mp3 player by following the links on the right.

This Week in Photography
Join Frederick Van Johnson, Alex Lindsay, and friends each week as they discuss photography, camera technique, technology and news. With in-depth guest interviews and discussion around everything from taking family photos to understanding how state-of-the-art cameras work — you’ll hear it all on This Week in Photo.

Photography 101
Hosted by photography instructor/author Scott Wittenburg, this podcast is for anybody who wants to learn the secrets of taking better photographs digitally and traditionally. Tips on camera settings, lenses, lighting, composition, exposure, studio photography, difficult shooting situations, black and white film, darkroom techniques and alternative processes are among the topics to be covered.

Cultcast (Mac stuff)
The official CultofMac.com podcast, CultCast is the best 30-minute Apple conversation you’re going to hear, allll weeeek looong.

Freakonomics Radio
In their books “Freakonomics” and “SuperFreakonomics,” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explore “the hidden side of everything,” with stories about cheating schoolteachers, self-dealing real-estate agents, and crack-selling mama’s boys. The Freakonomics Radio podcast, hosted by Dubner, carries on that tradition with weekly episodes. Prepare to be enlightened, engaged, perhaps enraged, and definitely surprised.

iMore Show (guy from Montreal – Mac stuff)
The iMore show covers everything iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Apple including in-depth news, analysis, and reviews. Hosted by Rene Ritchie and featuring iMore’s expert panelists and industry leading special guests.

Stuff You Should Know
How does the Panama Canal work? What about the sad science of grief? Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the Stuff You Should Know about everything from Panama to painful emotions in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

Wiretap from CBC by Jonathon Goldstein
CBC Radio presents the WireTap podcast! Enter the world of Jonathan Goldstein. You wouldn’t want to live there, but it’s a hell of a place to visit.

Quirks and Quarks on CBC
CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom… and everything in between.

Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin
In WNYC’s new podcast series, award-winning actor Alec Baldwin gives the listener unique entrée into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by taking listeners inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people such as comedian Chris Rock, political strategist Ed Rollins and Oscar winner Michael Douglas. Here’s the Thing: Listen to what happens when an inveterate guest becomes a host.

Woodworking with the Wood Whisperer
Learn how to design and build furniture with Marc Spagnuolo, The Wood Whisperer. Develop new skills with our video project and technique tutorials.

TWoodworking at Billy’s Little Bench
My name is Bill and I am a woodworker. This video series documents some of the work I do in my shop. I mainly work with hand tools and am always developing my skills. Hopefully this podcast is not only interesting but entertaining.

Hand tools and techniques
A video podcast about woodworking and furniture making with hand tools.

Popular woodworking magazine
For more than 25 years Popular Woodworking magazine has taught woodworkers how to build furniture with step-by-step project plans, practical technique articles and unbiased tool reviews.

The Renaissance Wood Worker
Woodworking A-D-D. I cover anything and everything woodworking from current projects in my shop to design styles.

NPR and CBC are fantastic sources for podcasts, as is the TWiT Network and 5×5

You Made It Weird
Comedian Pete Holmes talks with fellow comedians and actors (including ones you’d know, like Jon Hamm!) about their work and life. Long, but often both very funny and incisive.

Good Job, Brain!
A trivia podcast with a great sense of humour that often likes to delve into specific categories with oddball knowledge. All the hosts have geeky backgrounds, too, so you’ll be in good company.

Weekend Confirmed
If you like your video gaming, it’s a nice and in-depth exploration of the latest goings on in the industry, but with a healthy amount of hilarity thrown in. Jeff Cannata often steals the show whenever he’s on (which is most of the time).

Special thanks to Paul for adding other’s podcasts as they came up, and to everyone for contributing to ByMUG’s seventh birthday meeting.

Addendum from Paul:
As mentioned, mine is a Synology DS413: http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS413&lang=enu
They make a lower-end 4-bay NAS device called the DS413j. It has the same software but slower hardware. http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS413j&lang=enu
They make scads of other NAS devices too.

Wikipedia article on RAID levels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
– RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and “10″ are pretty common these days. I’ve personally never seen an implementation of RAID 2, 3 or 4.
Why RAID 5 Stops Working in 2009 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162
RAID 5 Problems: Is RAID Dead and Obsolete? http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Is_RAID_Obsolete%3F
FreeNAS http://www.freenas.org
– If you’re feeling ambitious, you can put together a PC from the parts bin and install free NAS software on it.

As I mentioned, I’m a hobby photographer and much of this effort is dedicated to ensuring my photos are protected. Here is what other photographers are doing:
- David duChemin – http://davidduchemin.com/2013/01/back-it-up/ http://davidduchemin.com/2012/06/backups-revisited/ http://davidduchemin.com/2012/06/backup-questions-answered/
- Scott Kelby – http://scottkelby.com/2012/my-life-after-drobo/
- Chase Jarvis – http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/06/workflow-and-backup-for-photo-video/ http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/10/photo-workflow-backup-chasejarvi/
- Rob Lim – http://photographyconcentrate.com/backup-system-photographers-hobbyists-and-professionals-alike/

ByMUG Business Cards: Tom

• Printed using VistaPrint
• Just ask for some!

Creating your Own Domain Name for eMail: Tom

• Hover.com to search for domain names that are available, and to buy your own & set it up
• Other services can do same, but avoid “GoDaddy”
• Annual fee: make sure you renew or you risk losing your name
• When setting up, use IMAP, not POP; IMAP is better for showing emails as “read” on all devices once they’ve been read on one device
• You can set up old email addresses to forward to your new domain name
• Buying a domain name for a kid: be comfortable that in OSX, parental controls can be set to limit the child’s emails only to your own Contacts

iOS Tricks: Tom

iPhone Vibration Mode – turning it off

• Sounds > Vibrate on Ring / on Silent > OFF
• Stops vibration and saves batteries
• Video: How to stop iPhone from vibrating

iPhone – Light Alert, instead of Ring or Vibrate

• General > Accessibility > LCD flash for Alerts > ON

iPhone – Do Not Disturb mode

• Settings > Do Not Disturb > ON
• Caveats: calendar alarms will still ring; call from same number within 3 minutes will still rink

Longer Battery Life in IOS Devices

• Airplane mode: turns off cellphone and radio
• WiFi > OFF
• Brightness / Wallpaper: Turn down
• Data Roaming > OFF
• Enable LTE > OFF
• Location Service > OFF

iOS Apps: Tom, David & Others

• Flipboard (Tom & David)

• pick your preferred news sites
• groups sites; e.g., news, technology, etc.

Vine (John? & Tom & David)

• 6-second videos; caveat re posting propensities

PDF Maps (David)

• Free app, by Avenza
• You can add your own notes to maps
• Has Googlemap support
• Can track GPS

Pythoniste (David)

• A development language
• Foundation for Dropbox, for example
• To learn Python, google “Learn Python the Hard Way”
• Caveat: complex; can solve one problem while opening another, if not mastered

MacStories (David)

Documents (Jeff)

• Allows you to move documents from one cloud service to another
• more?

Minecraft (Tom)

• Virtual game reminiscent of “Lego”
• You build a whole world
• Great for both kids and adults
• Can be played offline, or online collaboratively
• Tom did a demo

CES (Consumer Electronics Show): Jon

• Great for seeing new things before market; also to see things that never make it to market
• Panasonic 4K (20”) “Tablet”
• “Insanely sharp and detailed”
• Resolution: 3840 x 2860 (?) pixils
• Good for advertisers, architects, graphics designers who have to make that one big “pitch” for $ millions
• Microsoft Surface Pro
• Acer Iconia B1-A71 and other inexpensive tablets
• Vizio 10-inch tablet with “Tegra 4” high resolution
• New laptops have been disappointing recently; gimmicky
• Lost of “Ultrabooks”, but mostly poor imitations of the MacBook Air

Mobile World Congress: Jon

• Highlight was the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
• Tablet and phone if it has 3G / 4G
• Uses a stylus
• Attempts to be a response to the iPad Mini
• Not priced yet
• Huawei Ascend Mate is another phone / tablet (also shown at CES
• Different operation systems, not just IOS; e.g., Firefox OS for budget phones, popular mostly in countries like China