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1. Apple TV yg Add or delete favourites Aa TD Assign different icons to your favourite stations to Oldies 104 Wish List a1 help group them Equalizer 2 Premium internet radio services at your fingertips Hit Radio i 924 Album covers Update Radium via the App Store Beatles Radio com ae on ae lf you know the audio streaming URL of Flaming Oldies a station you can add it to your own atom E gt favourite station list If not you can easily CBC Radio One Toronto request a network from CatPig Studios and rm Dui HQ at the same time provide feedback to improve their ap T KPOA 93 5 FM plication or get some support help had one station WEELSA FM that wasn t listed so emailed them a request Within two weeks had a reply with a link to the station ESPN Deportes 1050 AM New York This is amazing support My wife can now listen to her favourite Hawaiian music station This is one of the important features that CatPig Studios provides Radium is continuously updated and re vised They make it very easy to get a station you want The search ml EEF al field is very robust as opposed to say iTunes You can instantly find new sta Du rham PC Users Cl ub tions by name genre call sign city country frequency or any combination typed in Celtic in the search field and immediately was presented with a list of stations iTunes provides a rigid list of genres with no option to ad
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4. the size of this battery does require a lot of recharging It is made for the outdoors man having a water resistant design It should function smoothly even when it s raining The shock proof feature ensures the device will keep working properly even it is dropped The Zero Lemon SolarJuice has a good rugged feel to it It seems durable and should last quite a long time After a couple of weeks on the shelf the battery was still fully charged The Solar Juice is great for travel The housing is 16 x 8 5 x 2 6 cm in size with a weight of 480 grams Remember the higher the charging capacity the bigger the battery At 20000 mAh it is one of the largest external batteries out on the market It will charge any USB device It has dual USB output ports so you can charge two items at the same time The USB1 is 5V 1A and USB2 is 5V 2 1A You can easily check how much power is left in the battery by holding down the power button for about a second With four blue LEDs lit you are fully charged If you hold the power button for three seconds you turn on the flashlight LED located at the front end of the unit The bottom line to getting a battery recharger is complicated It re ally depends on how you see yourself using it Will it be used for an iPhone or an iPad or both You can get an expensive heavier battery such as this one that will completely recharge your iPad although re quiring a long recharging time itself Or you can get a less e
5. 104 great app again Hit Radio Radium is an Internet radio player for Mac OS X It sits in your menu b oy bar and stays out of the way No browser is necessary found that A Beatles Radio com rarely listened to the computer radio when depended on iTunes or Sa fari as my players often forgot it was available With Radium being in Flaming Oldies the menu bar listen to the Internet radio much more often It could not be easier n to use One click opens the menu window and another click starts one of the radio g CBC Radio One Toronto stations have selected as a favourite There is almost no lag time between the hipid choice made and the music playing Using the preferences have chosen to have To KPOA 93 5 FM the song titles and singers displayed a ilies WEEI 93 7 FM Radium features ae ae Equalizer control d ESPN Deportes 1050 AM New York Play through Apple TV O pm Free support and requests Easily adjust Radium s playing volume Favorites save your favourite stations for quick Radium access i Mouse over the Radium icon to see what song is Q Find More Stations C instant On Sound 3 Show the song title and singer in the menu bar 1 Fever 4 ever Ad gi i Help found in the menu bar preferences tee Poo Fever The Unie Leawo Audio Device 43 A search window to quickly find what is available ee oP Sio To s Hits
6. Create an exact image of storage media Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery ep KODAK Drive Size 974 99 MB File System FAT Total 178 4 MB in 299 File s in 1 Folder s scanning in Progress Reading Sector 1607673 of 1998847 Recover The scan results window showed that the rescued files were all of the same type JPEGs and that there were 299 pictures found on the card that added up to about 180 Megs of data Data rescue of any sort is possible because when files are deleted from a drive no matter what kind of drive or storage media is involved they do not actually go away What happens is that the master directory of the media is up dated to indicate that the sectors of the volume where the files reside is now again available to be written to That is why it is important to at tempt data recovery as soon as possible after data loss is detected The data recovery ig nores the directory information and inspects the media to see what is actually present in the sectors Any files that have been deleted but which have not yet been written over should still be completely present on the drive even though they have been rendered invisible to the drive s directory The data rescue software analyses what is actually still on the media not what the directory says is present With Stellar Mac Data Recovery the results window can show the rescued files in several dif
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8. One of the biggest problems with travel u ling out of North America is electrical con nections Not only is 120V not the standard em but the outlet plugs have different prongs It would be convenient if there was only one standard but that is not the case It seems as though each continent has its own set of standards If travelling outside of North America strongly suggest you check which standard is used by visiting a web site to see what each country requires SKROSS has updated their website to pro vide this type of information Go to www skross com en and plug in the neces sary data There is also a free app called SKROSS what else available from the iTunes store that will provide the same use ful advice SKROSS a Swiss company has devel oped many adapters that will work in the majority of the countries popular with tourists For this article will be reviewing the World Adapter EVO from SKROSS have previously reviewed a similar product from SKROSS the World Adapter MUV in the June 2015 DoubleClick There are many similarities between the two adapters but also a significant number of differences will highlight these at the end Also am leaving out some of the background info on the various sockets found around the world SKROSS ADAPT TO THE WORLD tab The appropriate prongs will emerge from their hiding spot and lock in place The order of the sliders on the EVO is type A type I typ
9. Send your submissions and articles to me at lt ducati860 gmail com gt especially if there are files or pictures attached have never refused a submission yet Because we care about the envi ronment the MaUsE DoubleClick is created using only recycled electrons matter was neither created nor destroyed in the process of creating this issue There is always room for another piece on any Mac related topic and I ll make room if there isn t would like your submissions But won t beg Scotia Bank Central Library Highway 2 Colborne Street King Street Apple Macintosh and the Apple logo are trade marks of Apple Computer Inc registered in the U S and other countries The MaUsE Macintosh Users East is an Apple authorised Macintosh User Group DoubleClick Produced and Edited by Michael Shaw Photographs by Irma Shaw Dundas Street West Center Street Michael Shaw Editor f Byron Street Don t forget to pay your MaUsE Membership fee Still only 45 per year MaUsE Meetings are held in Room 1 at the new Whitby Public Library on the south east corner of Henry and Dundas West in Whitby Ontario on the fourth Wednesday of each month except December July and August Meet ings start at 7 00 PM but there is an early session from 6 30 for people who wish to discuss hardware or software issues or problems Macintosh virus problem are discussion from 6 58 to 7 00 PM A Mess
10. Supremacy is the warrior s choice Be the first player to own all the original Homeworlds to win An other choice is the Wonder Be the first player to build five Endless wonder structures to win And lastly there is a Score victory If no one has managed to win with one of the previous victory conditions the player with the highest score is awarded the win when the turn limit is reached Your actual progress for each of the possible victory condi tions is available from the menu bar at the top of the screen The game features full modding and multiplayer compatibility Mods are community creations that players have developed for the game Am plitude Studios is an independent company that makes the commu nity participate in the creation of the game via a system called GAMES2GETHER People have ac cess to their game design documents through their forums Here they can discuss with the developers and give their feedback so that Am plitude can make changes or improvements A QUADRINIX A gt Saving your progress is an often overlooked strategy to winning an RPG With a save you can retrace some fatal action and not have to restart from the beginning Endless Space has two save routes It au tomatically saves the last four time frames so you can retrace your moves back a few steps It also lets you choose to save your game at any point from the game menu have used both to ensure a victory There is a tutorial option that
11. behind Otherwise bringing it along means you don t need to carry Apple s charging plug just the i pk Ei cable There are two main differ ences between the MUV and the EVO With the MUV I can charge and plug in something else at the same time The USB charger does not block the socket on the MUV You can read more about the World Adapter EVO from the SKROSS web site www skross com catalog show info 0 name world adapter evo usb id 95 This plug can be purchased from various Internet sites such as amazon ca Do a web search to get the best price possible for this essential travel companion This is not the case with the EVO The charger plugs into the only available socket Thus you can charge or run something else but not do both at the same time As mentioned in my other review man aged to blow the fuse on my MUV while travelling Since the EVO ac tually comes with two fuses hidden in its frame blowing a fuse is not a problem was not able to use the adapter part of the MUV after had blown the fuse If had an EVO would have immediately had a fuse to fix my problem The last difference is the size The EVO is Slightly smaller and lighter than the MUV Together the EVO weighs about 150 g The dimensions are approximately 6 5 x 5 x 7 cm Which of the two is the better adapter This is a hard question to answer never really needed to run my charger at the same time as the adapter Charging my iPad was done overni
12. fuse would have been very convenient Now that have compared both adapters leave it up to you to decide which would be a better fit If you are tired of carrying multiple adapters when traveling pick up the World Adapter EVO with the dual USB charger and fuse protection This compact unit provides plug adapter use in more than 150 countries The adapter does not provide voltage conversion but it modifies outlets to fit different plugs Submitted by Marcel Dufresne SKROSS ADAPT TH THE We Game He lp EH Fs l J l i Ta Ta Pn A Ai AA y y 2 vv The inclusion of Windows Solitaire was integral to the success of early versions of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface GUI and introduced millions of users to the use of the mouse and to the concept of drag and drop Solitaire is still considered by many users to be the most important application on personal com puters that run the Windows operating system in an office environ ment even more vital than Ms Word or Office stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery 7 0 Bring Your Lost Data Back to Life Stellar Mac Data Recovery 7 0 is the latest version of their soft ware that can be used to restore documents photos music or videos lost due to deletion from any HFS HFS FAT ExFAT and NTFS format based file system Highlights Perform Mac file recovery on iMac MacBook Pro Air Mac Mini Mac Pro Enables s
13. powerful stream ing option Trakt syncing and unmatched AirPlay amp subtitle support Go to the web site http firecore com infuse and find out more about this app The Pro version sells for 9 99 at the iTunes store Download some video and have something to watch during those long waiting periods that occur with travel At the very least you should add the free app to your iDevice and try it out Submitted by Marcel Dufresne Trash It For When The Trash Wont Empty This article appears pursuant to something wrote in the June 2015 DoubleClick about how to force the Trash to empty That issue was still warm when received a response about the article from a MaUsE member We all get this from time to time something peculiar happens when we attempt to empty the Trash Maybe the Trash refuses to empty or we get an alert that some items cannot be deleted because they are in use when they really aren t In many cases there is a mysterious system process in the background that is using a resource in your Trash or thinks it is and restarting your computer will quit all processes and give up the resource but there are occasions when this action fails to break the connection Trash It from NoName ScriptWare This AppleScript Application force empties your Trash It also supports Drag and Drop This is es pecially useful if you have files or folders in the Trash with permis sions set incorrectly or have locked Trash items
14. that site you can drop movies into the browser window The movie will then be loaded into your iDevice The only limita tion to this process is the amount of space you have available on the iDevice No conversion is needed You can now view most media format including MKV AVI MP4 WMV amp many others The FireCore web site lists all the various types that work Tapping the movie file will open up the file displaying the play op tion as well as any metadata the app can find It auto Captain America The Wint matically adds cover art and other metad ata for your After the catachsmic events in New York with The Avengers Steve Rogers aka Captain America is living quietly In V Vashingtor U G and trying fo i FOOR adjust to the modern world But when a 5 A LE L D collaague comes under attack Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to movies and TV shows This IS one of the benefits of put the world at risk Joining forces with the Black Widow Captain America struggles to expose the ever widening conspiracy while fighting off pr Infuse It shows this hidden information about the NDA movie that is often of interest to the viewer The meta i data and artwork are provided by TMDb and l a TheTVDB which are community maintained movie and TV show databases Another feature really like ib is the watched button It keeps track of whether you jj Wik Ji N 1 have completely watched a
15. to it AutoCorrectXT adds a new sub menu in the Utilities menu of QuarkXPress which is depicted in the image below XTensions Manager AutoCorrectXT AutoCorrect Options Spell Check Story Add All To Dictionary Merge Custom Dictionaries Deactivate AutoCorrectXT AutoGorrectXT Help The commands under this menu become active whenever QuarkX Press is open and or text in Quark is selected What each AutoSpell command does is obvious but several items deserve closer scrutiny The AutoCorrectXT Help item will launch a 17 page Auto CorrectXT User Manual It is important to read the manual in order to find out how to enable and find all of the AutoCorrect features like the menu above The AutoCorrect Options tab as shown above will open up the AutoCorrect Preference window shown on the next page AthensSoft AutoCorrectXT is the professional choice for typographers when it comes to as you type spell checking and Auto Corrections AutoCorrectXT supports an array of following spelling languages USEnglish UK English Cana dian English French German Reformed German Swiss German Dutch Italian Spanish Portuguese Russian Norwegian Greek and Arabic The AutoCorrect Options window shown here at right is a very important part of the program but still easy to ignore unless needed This is where the user can customize how the program catches his or her most frequent spelling and typing errors The Optio
16. E Y KA From The Editor What you are looking at is the Summer 2015 About MaUsE edition of the MaUsE DoubleClick the online Maci hU E publication of the Macintosh Users East acintosn Users East MaUsE a motley collection of mostly harmless also Known as MaUsE cranks who reside in Southern Ontario with their motley collection of old and new Macintosh Hack is the most active entosh amp MacClone computers Apple authorised MUG The DoubleClick is published using a 2 8 GHz Mac User Group iMac Extreme and QuarkXPress 2015 An an in Southern Ontario tique Kodak DX7590 is STILL being used for all MaUsE js h f r pictures Everything not specifically attributed to AUSE IS nere tor USersS O someone else can probably be blamed on the all Apple products Editor Back issues can be downloaded from the MaUsE website lt www mause ca gt Submis including Apple computers sions from MaUsE Club members are almost al iPods iPhones ways welcome Maybe that last bit is an d iPad exaggeration ana IF aqs 2015 MaUsE Executive e President Michael Shaw michaelshaw mause ca Vice President lan Winton Secretary amp Apple Liaison Marcel Dufresne mardufresne mause com Treasurer Ken Jansen e Director Stan Wild Director Stephen Wood Director Brian Elston MaUsE Contact Information The MaUsE c o Michael Shaw 237 Huntingwood Drive Oshawa Ontario Canada L1J 7C6 MVWVW T 20UISS C3I
17. age from The President This DoubleClick is the first post to appear on the club s brand new website which has come to fruition thanks to the tireless efforts of two of our Directors Brian Elston and Stephen Wood For the past couple of years MaUsE s old website had been rapidly disintegrating and Brian had devoted many many hours to keep it against all odds hobbling along But it was only a matter of time before it became beyond repair It was time for a new web site On Brian s recommendation the club s executive gave him the go ahead to make that happen stephen volunteered using Brian s help and guidance to build us a new website In July Stephen started the new build produced a BETA version for the club s executive to test took many diverse recommendations from the club s Directors under consideration and by the end of the month it was complete and ready to go live And GO LIVE it did on August 4th Brian and Stephen working together have done the club proud Stephen has done a great job on the new build whilst Brian has ensured that it meets both the club s needs and the many technical requirements of a public website To Brian offer the club s sincere thanks for all his many hours of work these past two years in keeping the old site hobbling along for putting together all the specific information required in order for the new build to take place and for acting as Stephen s mentor during the process of build
18. assword or have spaces in your password Wy a Lin F p TE A FF V A iP Y g T j ri i kB i hd Macintosh Users Se O pc ii p p 4 ma p kr E East Endless Space Rule the Universe AMPLITUD Endless Space is a turn based strategy science fiction game de veloped by Amplitude Studios In Endless Space you must choose one of ten unique civilizations and then expand your interstellar empire in order to conquer the galaxy To win you must be the first to meet the requirements for certain victory conditions such as Economic Diplomatic Expan sionary or Supremacy victories The game takes place in a ran ai u ir domly generated galaxy which a changes in size and shape de S pending on how the host player naa chooses to generate it with room for up to eight players Al per game Players colonize different star systems which in turn con tain up to six planets Star systems are connected via a series of cos mic strings which allow ships to travel rapidly between neighbouring systems In addition hero units can be recruited to act as system ad ministrators or fleet admirals Hero units can be recruited using the game s currency Dust to act as either fleet commanders or system administrators Each hero unit is unique and provides two unique bonuses which can be further leveled up Three hero units are ran domly selected fr
19. d to these or search for others The best new feature that came across is the keyboard short cuts There are eleven features that you can control by assigning keystrokes assigned 8 V to start and pause the radio station This way do not have to quit the app to turn off the radio station and it is instantly available when use the same keys You can use whatever key strokes you want to set up any of these features Another new feature is the Wish List Click the share button to any song that is currently playing and you save the track to a Wish List With track previews and store integration it s your one stop record shop Visitors are welcome to audit a meeting at no charge Radium is an easy to use internet radio player It sits in your menu bar and it just works With access to over 10 000 stations from all over the world you will always have something to listen to that suits 7 00 PM on the second Thursday your listening pleasure The app can be purchased from the Apple T iph App Store for 9 99 at this time of each month Go to catpigstudios com and get the trial version of this app Try it out for free pas CEE T While there get the iOS version of the app which is totally free With iCloud Faith United Church syncing of favourite stations you won t have to search your already found sta 1778 Nash Road Courtice Ontario tions They will appear in both apps Whereas the larger free applications
20. e EVO comes with two spare fuses hidden in the dual port USB charger which plugs into the adapter x9 frame of the adapter will deal with each of these as separate items The Adapter connects our North American plug with p W While travelling needed this adapter for two sockets found in more than 150 countries world ay wide It will work in Europe EU the United King dom UK and Australia AU Each pin style on the World Adapter has a safety release button for safe usage and best of all it comes in a compact sturdy self contained unit which is perfect to throw into any bag The North American part of this adapter fits only two pronged plugs They have a more expensive model to handle three pronged plugs Using the World Adapter simply requires know ing which plug type you will need To use one of the four pin types push the slider over on the correct major devices had to keep my iPad charged up and needed to recharge the batteries in our camera As mentioned above the EVO comes with an attach able dual port USB charger This means that don t have to bring along that extra charging plug The dual USB port provides a total of 2100 mA of load power which is sufficient energy to charge two USB devices easily at the same time A red LED light indicates that the USB port is active and ready to charge If you do not have any iDevices that need to be essa charged you can leave the USB charger portion of sw the EVO
21. e G and type C Once it is locked in position you can plug it in Have a look at the pictures of the vari ous plugs to get a better idea of what is happen ing To unlock the pins push in the black button found on the opposite side to the sliders while si multaneously sliding the tab back Once the adapter is plugged in you are now looking at the face that is used to plug in your own device am amazed that this side will accommodate any one of the four types mentioned before The World Adapter does not solve all your electrical problems There is still the voltage to consider Most computer electronics have charg ing cables with a built in step down transformer to convert the 220 V input into a usable 120 V output Check the specs on the charger itself They are listed For my iPad charger or my lap top cable the input can be anywhere from 100 to 240 V The same cannot be said for items such as hair dryers They would definitely burn out if you plug them in without a step down transformer The World Adapter comes with a fail safe fuse that protects both the adapter and your inappropriate device The fuse will blow on this adapter and not burn out any of your You can refer to my previous review for this info Se gadgets The fuse will need to be replaced but this is The EVO adapter that have is actually two items ot much cheaper than having to get a new hair dryer in one It consists of an adapter and a removable ae a Th
22. e with your knowledge and consent then please stop If this is being done without your knowledge and consent then your AOL email account has obviously been compromised You should change your password for this account From Y Support lt j aol com gt To fat_idle_bastard yahoo ca Sent Saturday August 1 2015 6 25 PM Subject Important mail from yahoo do not ignore SECURITY CHECK oS ls there your card in the hackers database You can easily check here just enter your card info CVC CW2 __ Check Radium from CatPig Studios The Perfect Radio Station App for Your Mac The Internet is a great way to get and listen to radio stations from all over the world Many stations have their own web site which offer live streaming of their broadcasts iTunes also has a very extensive radio station listing in its menu Both of these require that actually start up the application and find the station want iTunes did provide me with my first glimpse into the world wide availability of radio stations to listen to but now find that it has a limited number of choices and some of my favourites are not there came across Radium way back in 2010 have been using this app since then You can read this original review in the March 2010 DoubleClick Radium has un Find More Stations m Fever Lee Peggy Fever The Unrfo dergone considerable changes since then thought it was time to review this Oldies
23. edge and con sent then please stop If this is being done without your knowledge and con sent then your email account has obviously been compromised You should change your password for this account lf the email address includes indications of the name of the User whose email address is being used to send the SPAM mention it and also mention the mail server name again include a copy of the SPAM message received and make sure that the From and Subject lines of the original SPAM message are shown as received them The result of this action is that have received quite a few thank you emails from people who were unaware that their email addresses and passwords were being used to do SPAM mailings And on the topic of SPAM Never share any sensitive information with anyone no matter who they claim to be Trust nobody And don t accept any of those bogus American 50 bills that are suddenly appearing in Canada this summer Contributed by Michael Shaw amp gt T Delete EJ Move w se More v t x I m Getting Spam From Your AOL Email Account Fat Idle Bastard To Y Support CC M o com I m Getting Spam From Your AOL Email Account Today at 10 30 AM Hello Jim just want to inform you that am receiving annoying SPAM and spurious email messages that appear to be coming from some asshole who is using your AOL email address to do mass SPAM emailings See below for an example If this is being don
24. elated to Mac OS Because they are in PDF format these ebooks have a lot of advantages over the traditional paper books Electronic books are a new experience for many people but they pro vide you with a good deal of flexibility that isn t available with printed books With your purchase of the ebook you get expert advice on var ious topics but with an Apple perspective These are the same expert authors of some best selling print books The download is immediate and you don t have to leave your house to get it Because it is paper less it can be purchased for much less than a paper edition Also if a new edition of the book comes out your original purchase of the book allows you to easily update your current copy for free There are click able links right in the text so that your book immediately leads to other sources on the same topic It is readable onscreen which means you can control the size of the print If you use Preview you can even highlight sections without messing up the book use a copy of the original if you are worried You can even print up a paper copy of the book if you feel the need The catalog is very extensive and can be accessed from http www takecontrolbooks com catalog They offer free sample sections of all their ebooks and a money back guarantee so try one out anytime As readers of the DoubleClick you also now have access to this coupon CPN90219MUG which entitles you to a 30 discount on the purchase of a book
25. ferent ways by name and by thumb nail pre view With the images viewed as thumbnails the Preview option becomes available This is a useful tool if there are specific images that the user wants to rescue Because Mac Data Recovery saves files by their actual names there is also a Search panel where files can be located by name This is a huge improvement over many other data recov ery programs that simply give saved files a generic number in a list If this were a mixed media drive like an erased or damaged external USB drive there would have been separate folders down the left side of the results window for PDFs movies images text files audio files and any other type of files found on the drive but since this trial is being performed on a SD camera card there is only one type of file found and shown By default every image is marked for sal vage but any number of the files can be de se lected to take them off the list of rescued items KODAK Drive Size 974 99 MB File System FAT Total 178 4 MB in 299 File s in 3 Folder s oa File Name 7T Kind Size Creation Date Modification a EASTMAN KODAK 48x1536 JPEG File 427 11 KB EASTMAN KODAK 48x1536 JPEG File 464 73 KB a EASTMAN KODAK 48x1536 JPEG File 455 76 NB EASTMAN KODAK 48x1536 JPEG File 262 75 KB ai a EASTMAN KODAK 48x1536 JPEG File 590 24 KB EASTMAN KODAK 48x1536 JPEG File 532 78 KB
26. ght when the adapter itself was not needed Big News P From The World of Windows Microsoft s new Windows 10 operating system has finally landed but tech fans are outraged that classic game Solitaire is no longer free Free Windows games Solitaire and Minesweeper were once the refuge of the bored office worker but they are no longer available free of charge Known as Microsoft Solitaire Collection Premium Edition the addictive card based game is now built into the operating system but is packed with advertising Users who want to play the rudi mentary game with no ad based obstructions will have to shell out a subscription of 10 a year or 1 50 a month Puzzle game Minesweeper requires a Separate download and also needs a subscription in order to play without ads Solitaire which was first added to Windows in 1990 as a free game first went freemium on Windows 8 where users also had to pay to remove ads When it was announced that it would once again be built into the operating system with no need for a separate download fans assumed that it would once again for free Sadly it appears that is not the case Microsoft fans turned to social media to express their outrage amusement and disbelief at the move With the upgrade to Windows 10 itself being offered for free it seems that Microsoft is having to seek additional revenue else where could easily have done everything needed with either adapters Having the spare
27. he Abbott and Costello Show Who s On First watch something on the plane or in the hotel room espe ra cially when the television channels are not in English Un fortunately video formats are numerous and not all of these are directly playable on the iPad iTunes works best when the file is in an mpeg 4 format There are a number of apps that will work around this problem Often they re quire you to convert the file into another form Infuse from FireCore takes this file formatting drudgery out of the pic ture Infuse is able to play most media formats without the Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like Who s On First and The Lemon Bit need for conversions And with a simpler free version of this digitally restored and re mastered Best Of collection includes six of the Abbott and Costello the app the price is right Show s most beloved episodes Jean Yarorough Bud Abbott Bud Abbott Let me walk you through the various methods Infuse can play media files for you When you open Infuse you are presented with a split screen The bottom half of the screen shows any movies that you have added to the iDe vice Tap the button and you are taken to the download ing part of the app This is where you add movies to be watched later The easiest set up is through a browser Once the browser and the iDevice are on the same Wi Fi network you are in business A special URL is set up so that when you go to
28. heir phones The charging ability is directly related to the number of electrical outlets and how close you can get to them Fortunately you can get battery packs that you can pull out of your travel bag and use to charge up your iPad at any time That way you are not depen dant on uncontrollable locations to keep using your iPad Zero Lemon has a few of these for sale See zerolemon com am always on the look out for new green energy products This review is for the Solar Juice 20000mAh external battery Not all battery rechargers are equally efficient Care must be taken when buying one for an iPad While all rechargers will work with an iPhone and such not all will easily charge up an iPad The iPad uses an internal rechargeable lithium ion polymer battery The original Apple charger had an output of about 10 W 2 1 Ax 5 1 V The iPad 2 was designed to be charged with a high current using the included 10 W USB power adapter and USB cord with a USB connector at one end and a dock connector at the other The newer iPads use a 12 W charger While they can be charged by a standard USB port from a computer the older computers are limited in output As a result if the iPad is running while powered by a normal USB computer port it may charge very slowly or not at all a re N q Sn 3 4 lt N High power USB ports found in newer Apple computers and ac cessories provide full charging capabilities It takes a lot of p
29. ice on one charge and it still had about 25 left The charging time was the same as if had plugged it into a wall socket The manufacturer claims it can charge most smartphones up to 7X on one charge found the solar Juice took over 12 hours to fully charge using the wall socket and the micro USB cable it came with There is a set of four blue LED lights which flash while charging They start to stay on one at atime until all four are lit Zero Lemon claims the SolarJuice can charge your iPhone to about 50 power after being solar charged for 8 hours under normal sunlight It takes a long time for the 1 2W Solar panel to fully charge the buit in battery with sunlight If you are hoping to keep this battery charged up only by sunlight you will be disappointed found a few formulas that allow one to calculate the charging time for a solar panel These are some what inexact as there are too many factors to take into ac count The length of daylight whether it is inside or outside the season a winter sun is not as good are all external points that will skew the results of a pure mathematical formula did a quick calculation and determined it might take up to three weeks to fully recharge the battery That being said any time in the sun recharging will decrease the amount of time the battery needs to be plugged in to the wall socket It is getting some charge from the sun just not enough for you to fully rely on this source alone Again
30. inating another member of the club for election that member must also state in writing their willingness to stand for election and to serve if elected Nominations should be addressed to the MaUsE Nominating Committee and may either be A Handed in person to either the club s President the Secretary or the Treasurer at the club s meeting on September 28th or by the close of the meeting on October 26th B Mailed via Canada Post to the nominating committee at Macintosh Users East 58 Rothean Drive Whitby Ontario L1P 1L5 or C Emailed to the nominating committee c o stan wild mause ca If more than three members are nominated to fill the available directors positions a formal election will be held starting at 7 00 p m on the evening of Wednesday November 23rd 2015 Members elected as directors of the club will be expected to attend the club s executive committee s meetings usually held each month three weeks prior to the club s regular members meetings For further information the club s bylaws may be consulted on the website www mause ca Note Mailed or e mailed nominations must be dispatched in sufficient time to arrive at the nominating committee no later than 12 Noon on Wednesday October 21st Stan Wild Nominations Chairman Macintosh Users East Take Control eBooks iBooks DoubleClick features an ebook from Take Control Books every month These ebooks have been published in PDF format and cover issues r
31. ing the actual website To Stephen offer the club s equally sincere thanks for having the skill required and for do nating the time effort and the patience and for having the gifted vision to build us a fully func tional modern web site the club s great new electronic face to the world Well done Stephen The club is fortunate to be graced by the generous dedication of these two directors Michael Shaw President Macintosh Users East computer club MACINTOSH USERS EAST 2015 ELECTION NOTICE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS In accordance with the club s bylaws three of the currently serving directors will complete their two year term of office at the conclusion of this year s Annual General Meeting to be held on Wednesday November 23rd 2015 At the Annual Meeting elections will be held to fill the then available director s positions on the club s Board of Directors which is usually known as the Executive Committee of MaUsE Here s what you need to know in order to be nominated All paid up members of Macintosh Users East are eligible to be nominated for election to the club s executive Nominations will open on Wednesday September 28th and will close at the end of the October 26th members meeting Any paid up member of Macintosh Users East may nominate his or her self for election and or they may nominate another member of the club for election All nominations MUST BE IN WRITING and if you are nom
32. lDooks com Submitted by Marcel Dufresne son Macintosh Users East June 2015 MaUsE Meeting Report Our last meeting before the summer hiatus was well attended Bruce ran the audio and visual stuff Our lan ran the show Ken gave the Treasurers Report Brian did his usual fine job of reporting on what was up at Apple Marcel talked about iPad stuff and Michael described and showed half a dozen AKVIS programs The outstanding feature of the evening was Mar cel s shirt In the second half of the meeting lan showed some stuff he does with his iPad and Marcel talked about the hardware and software that he uses when traveling to helps him keep in touch with where he is going and what he is doing A good time was had by all Macintosh Users East Te News from Apple Apple User Group AthenaSoft AutoCorrectXT 5 0 For QuarkXPress 2015 Since Quark released the QXP 2015 a k a QXP 11 a few months ago QuarkXPress has been a better behaved application In the past few issues have written extensively about the wonderful improve ments built into QXP 11 and how well this new version of QuarkX Press has been received One aspect of the program upgrade that was not addressed was the awkward way in my opinion that Quark handles spell checking Luckily for me there are third party compa nies that have made their mark in Desktop Publishing by creating bril liant ad ons and plug ins for programs like QuarkXPres
33. look for salvaged files later Recover To Here As the name implies quick scans are less thorough but much faster than deep scans The type and size of the media to be scanned and the processor speed of your computer will also affect the time it takes to perform a scan How much RAM is installed can be a factor For this trial ran a Quick Scan on a 1 Giga byte media card connected to my antique 2007 iMac via a universal USB card reader verified that the card was empty before scanning it The operation took about two minutes and the re sults were encouraging y ill Scan Co l Select file s folder s from the list amp click Recover button 573100052845 MEDIA 931 51 GE Green 465 27 GB HFS Red u 465 18 GB HF5 KODAK oe 974 99 ME FAT Stellar n Si Mac Data Recovery Stellar Sa her Mac Data Recovery Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery Select Scanning Method O Deleted Recovery Recover accidentally deleted data from volumes of your Teen storage device Recover Data Es scan storage media to recover lost data Sn Scan unused blocks of volume to recover deleted Deleted Recovery Recover deleted data from volumes Fast amp Efficient method to 1 a Raw Recovery Dee Somi Recover data from severely corrupted storage media recover deleted data It takes more time but may give better results e Create Image
34. m bat modules to outfit your ships and makes ships more efficient in combat Technologies are researched one at a time and research ad vances to the next queued technology when one is complete You can negotiate technology discovery trades with your opponents if they choose to cooperate As with all games of this type scouting colonization and war ships are all needed to win With Endless Space fleets of ships can be assembled You get to com pletely customize five different types of space ships It is fun try ing to figure out what will work best against your opponents New technology allows you to have a larger number of ships in your fleet The size and the composi tion of your fleets are important to the battles that might be fought Winning an interstellar fleet battle is not simply a matter of having the biggest or most numerous fleet The weaponry and defen sive Capabilities play an important role Each battle scene takes place in three engagement stages long range medium range and melee range engage ments with different types of weapons and ship systems per forming better or worse as the fleets increase in physical proxim ity over time Fleets are issued up to three different cards one for each stage of combat which rep resent fleet wide general orders from categories such as attack defend tactics sabotage and engi neering Each card has a certain function such as increasing the fleet s weapon
35. mooth data recovery from encrypted file systems Recovers all deleted files with their original file names Supports RAW recovery on lost volumes Supports Time Machine Backup drive recovery Compatible with the latest Yosemite 10 10 Recovers from optical disks CDs and DVDs Naturally enough decided to run this pro gram through a few paces found that this lat est version of Stellar s Mac Data Recovery program offered several levels of dataa recov ery that are designed to work with everything USB disks media cards hard drives optical disks and flash drives Time being of the essence trialled the eoo program by seeing nm v oi 5T31000528A5 MEDIA weet 931 51 GB ly Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery what it could make of a one Gigabyte SD memory card from Kodak that had been erased and removed from service several years ago mounted it with a USB card reader Here it is below Select Scanning Method Green re A a fx 465 27 GE HFS i Red la 465 16 GE HFS S Recover Data Scan storage media to recover lost data T Ei USB MASS 5 ICE MEDIA E KODAK GES 974 99 MB FAT Deleted Recovery Recover deleted data from volumes T Raw Recovery Create Image Create an exact image of storage media Stellar n ter Mac Data Recovery Recover data from sewerely corrupted storage media Quick Scan amp Advance Scan option to recover data f
36. n subtitles or add them in sec Featuring thesfputines that made them comedy legends like Who s On First an onds with a free one tap download from OpenSubti tles org All this is under your control with Infuse With the app doing the work you are not mirroring the iDe vice Infuse is actually playing the movie and provid ing great sound If space is becoming a problem then you should delete some of those watched movies To delete a movie from the iPad simply tap and hold until you get the wiggly icons and tap the X in the top left of the file There are three zoom options normal crop stretch like to use the full iPad screen when watching so always zoom in freCere TripMate_Elite If you find that you have some movie formats that Infuse does not play then you might consider getting Infuse Pro With the Pro version more file formats are available Enjoy Dolby sound if you have it to get that true surround sound effect You also get a connection to http trakt tv With this your viewing history and playback progress are automatically logged Use Trakt to keep tabs on what you ve watched by syncing your play history and submitting ratings or re views Are you looking for a flexible video player that plays more formats Infuse is the answer This video player app bridges the gap between your iTunes and other content formats Infuse is optimized for iOS 8 iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Infuse Pro provides a
37. nd when finished go back into Users and Groups and set your password back to noth ing Persons using Yosemite may or may not have this issue Persons using Snow Leopard 10 6 x will not be able to use Trash It with a blank password If you are in any way connected to the Internet and are using a blank password you are opening your entire system up to hackers trying to gain ac cess It is highly recommended you have a pass word even if it s a single letter Do NOT use a Space as a password or have spaces in your pass word Drag n Drop If you drop a folder or files onto Trash It it will delete only what you dropped on it not what s in the trash Double clicking the app If you double click on Trash It it will delete what is in your trash All options are non reversible after you enter your administrator password and click OK so be careful with what you delete You can always choose cancel if you decide not to use either function Drag n Drop or App launching If the file folder you deleted is backed up in Time Machine you can recover the file folder using Time Machine s instructions If you have other safe guards in place please use those lf you are In any way connected to the Internet and are using a blank password you are opening your entire system up to hackers trying to gain access It is highly recommended you have a password even if it s a single letter Do NOT use a Space as a p
38. ndom chance events some good some bad Just another means of making the game different each time If you forget to pick a technology the game will remind before your turn ends Another feature like is the assign ing of heroes to your system or fleet Heroes bring various advan tages to their assignment Propaganda for instance will raise the approval level for that system I like to reassign and move these he roes around so that they are doing the most good You are not limited to the ten starting civilization types You may choose to create your own unique civilization by selecting from a number of different traits that correspond to military science diplomacy hero units and so on There are several means to win only one of which is war like A player wins the game when they reach the requirements for different victory conditions With Expansion you will need to colonize 75 or more of the known Universe The Scientific winner is the first player to research the Pan Galactic Society the last technology of the Science tree That particular technological wonder is hard to get and reach ing the ends of the other technology trees will make it easier to finish The Economic victor is the first player to reach a certain level of cumulative revenue Dust Only overall revenue counts so it does not matter if you spent it all The Diplomatic win applies if you man age to survive long enough while being at war the least amount of time
39. ns window shows a list of hundreds of commonly misspelled words along side their corrected spellings If the user types in any of these common mistakes AutoCorrect will instantly substitute the correct spelling before moving on to the next word If it turns out that the user is prone to making other unique or dialect specific errors they can be easily added to the list The Replace and With fields are used with the Add and Delete buttons to make it possible to personalize the AutoCorrect feature to make it watch for common and known errors but they also have another purpose The first two additions made to the AutoCorrect Options were to replace Quar with QuarkXPress and duca with ducati860 gmail com Now when type the first four letters of either long word and hit the space bar the AutoCorrect X Tension fills in the rest of the word This same method can be used to set up acronyms or nick names to instantly expand into the lengthy phrases or sentences that they stand for If the user decides for whatever reason to let the acronym or short form stand the action is easily curtailed The AutoCorrect comes with a handy floating menu showing the options that you need to select Just hover over the auto corrected word and you can see a button for the context menu shown above Clicking on the button reveals the context menu where you might manage options for that particular word or remove it from the AutoCorrect replacement li
40. om a pool unique to each empire and new hero units are available for purchase every fifty turns Battles take place in either automatic or manual mode Every player begins with one colonized capital system which is connected to further systems via cosmic links Players can also research new technologies from four different re search trees representing military science expansion exploration and diplomacy Research unlocks new ship types planetary improve ments stat modifiers either for heroes or planets new travel meth ods which do not rely on cosmic links and more As players expand their empire they will gain access to strategic and luxury resources which can be used to upgrade ships build improvements and trade with other players Strategic resources are primarily used to upgrade components of your empire while luxury resources are primarily used for trade and maintaining your empire s approval rating This is Civi lization on a Universal scale AE amp a E THE R P Each turn comprises moving ships building checking your re sources planning tech negotiating There are three speed levels that determine the length of the game It took me about three hours to play out the smallest galaxy at the easiest level am sure this can be im proved upon with a bit more familiarity with the game A Star System produces four basic outputs Food Industry Dust and Science Together they are known as FIDS Each planet is ex
41. or you want to delete a stuck item or you need to trash items from other partitions If you drop files or folders onto the Trash It icon it will delete them im mediately If you double click on the Trash It icon it will clean out your Trash can This is the software Apple Tech recommends when all else fails according to users Trash It should be used when 1 You can t get rid of trashed items manually 2 You can t move items to the Trash 3 You have a large number of items to delete i e previous system folders 4 You just like using cool scripts This is not a Finder trash can replacement It should be used only as a last resort If you have a lot of files it may take a while When Trash It is finished you ll be shown a message Saying it s completed System Requirements Mac OS X 10 6 or higher Previous versions still on Downloads page on website http Awww nonamescriptware com downloads BSD Subsystem installed by default with Mac OS X e You must have a password Blank passwords will not work USAGE NOTE ABOUT BLANK PASSWORDS If you re password is blank i e you have NO password Trash It will not work on your system Trash It uses the BSD Subsystem and a blank password will not be accepted To get around this issue It s an Apple thing CLOSE all open applications go into your System Pref erences gt Users and Groups and change your password to some thing other than nothing Run Trash It a
42. ore All 3 Add To Dictionary In the slashed shown here below accidentally put a double a into available As soon as finished typing avaailable AutoCorrect underlined the word in red and offered some five possible correct spellings ofwords that might have in tendedto type When clicked on the correct spelling of available in the 4 AutoCorrectXT list it instantly appears in the text in place of the misspelled word available A soon as l finished yping avaallable AutoCorrect nderi 4 thar aunare in ran and l Ignore Ignore All 3 Add To Dictionary available assailable availably availability compilable QuarkXPress 11 was a hugely different program from QuarkXPress 10 and required a completely new version of AutoCorrectXT On the AthenaSoft website there are earlier versions available for QuarkX Press 7 8 9 and 10 In terms of how it works with different versions of QXP there is no visible difference when the program detects a word not in its Dictionary it underlines the word in red and shows a small gray box under the word when the cursor comes near the sus pect Clicking on the gray box reveals the floating pull down menu list ing possible actions and alternative spelling suggestions If the ability to do dynamic spell checking were all that this Auto Correct XTension could do it would be well worth the 50 price tag But as the name implies there is a lot more
43. ower to light up the newer fourth generation model s Retina display That s why the device is packed full of battery capacity an impressive 11 560 milliampere hours worth This should provide more than nine hours of use on a single charge It also requires a lot of time to recharge Typi cal iPad 4 charge time is 6 8 hours longer if you are using it The quickest way to charge your iPad is with the included 10 W or 12 W USB Power Adapter plugged into an electrical outlet and the iPad not in use You should keep an eye out for several things when you re shop ping for a portable recharging battery This should include capacity convenience and cost If you re seeking a portable charger that offers the greatest amount of juice for your iPad or other USB charged de vice look first at battery capacity measured in milliampere hours These have a wide range and can go up to 20 000 mAh and more Keep in mind that higher capacity batteries are generally larger and heavier than lower capacity models Also the higher capacity a portable battery has the longer the battery takes to recharge itself Some need as long as 14 hours requiring you to leave them plugged in all night tested the Solar Juice 20000mAh external battery in terms of four features how long it took to charge itself how long it took to charge an unused iPad 2 how much of a charge did it give the iPad and the battery shelf life was able to com pletely recharge my iPad 2 tw
44. pected to add to the FIDS total but some planets are better equipped to do this With the correct technology discoveries all planets can eventually be made efficient A Star System s population increases when there is sufficient food output The more population units the more FIDS your planets will generate The Star System s Approval represents how happy the people are in this system This will affect the FIDS output Taxing will improve dust output but decrease approval A tax rate slider can be adjusted to change approval rating but lower taxes re sult in a lower revenue stream of Dust There are so many aspects of this game that must be juggled at the same time improving your FDIDs keeping the approval rate high building keeping enough re sources around and keeping an eye on your opponents All this makes for a fascinating and very engrossing game found the technology section the most important to winning es pecially in a short game In 150 moves you do not have the time to research everything There are four main technology branches Ex ploration and Expansion allows you to navigate faster and farther unlock new spaceship hulls and colonize or improve new planet types Applied Sciences is for improving your empire s economy and sciences as well as discovering Strategic Resources Diplomacy and Trade helps you in agriculture diplomacy and finance and also helps you manage your citizens Galactic Warfare unlocks new co
45. rom volumes Recover accidentally deleted data from volumes of your storage device Recover data on file signature basis using Raw Recovery Create an identical image of your storage device to speed Up recovery process Stellar n ter Mac Data Recovery The interface of Stellar Mac Data Recovery 7 is pretty and simple On the left side of the applica tion window all of the potential recovery Sources appear CDs DVDs drives volumes media cards what ever In the centre of the window are the offered scan select methods They vary with the type of media the user chooses to recover data from On the right there is a brief descrip tion of the chosen process and scan prefer ences And of course the Start Scan button The rules for successful data recovery are actually quite simple You need to have a data recovery pro gram like Stellar Mac Data Recovery And you need to run it as soon as possible after data loss is detected or suspected This is necessary to ensure that you do not accidentally over write the data that you are trying to recover You need to have a writable destination drive to save the recovered files to The destination must be larger than the drive that is being recovered from As a general rule usually create a Recover To Here folder on the Desktop and designate it as the save to target when prompted by the software This sim ple rule ensures that there is an easily found place can
46. s and InDesign AthenaSoft is one such company One feature I ve used in just about every version of QuarkXPress prior to QXP 11 is the ability to check and auto correct spelling dy namically as type Quark by itself has a spell checker that does not provide this function but the ability to spell check dynamically famil iar to users of MS Word is available in a scathingly brilliant spell checking XTension that got from from AthenaSoft used AthenaSoft AutoCorrectXT 3 5 with QXP 8 and 9 AutoCorrectXT 4 it with QXP10 and have been waiting impatiently for AthenaSoft to come up with a version of their excellent XTension that works with QXP 11 As the name implies AutoCorrec tXT 5 0 is an XTension for QuarkX in Press that adds a dynamic auto correct feature The way it works a dynamically is by underlining in red st Sa ck any word that is suspect If the word is Et aly deemed by the user to be correct but Athena y Athenian A merely unfamiliar it can be ignored or prea added to the AutoCorrectXT Dictionary a so that any and all future occurrences of the word will be accepted as correct As you can see in the example presented above the name AthenaSoft has been caught by the XTension as a suspect and the program has come up with six suggestions from the Dictionary as log ical replacements Since none of them is correct chose to add AthenaSoft to the Dictionary Ath naSoftis_one such Xy Y Ignore Ign
47. s damage by a certain amount an attack card As you become more versed at playing the game you will learn the ins and outs of these cards If custom building a space ship does not appeal to you you can always have the game auto build them for you The battle scenes can be played out automatically or in a dramatic visual manual mode Think of a Star Wars battle that you have some control over and you get a picture of what a manual battle looks like AMPLITUD amp There are a lot of pluses to this game The initial set up even be fore you start to colonize the stars has a tremendous amount of op tions First there are eight galaxy shapes Next you need to pick the number of opponents you will face This ranges from two to eight There are five empire sizes The age of the universe can be new medium or old This will affect the type of suns that are around and the types of planets you will find There are eight difficulty levels from newbie to endless There are many different planets types and won ders to be found Planets are never the same Add in the speed of the game and whom you choose to play as and you have enough vari ety that it is anew game each time you play MLA OW Because the game is from a Steam network there are a number of achievements to be won always find this a great incentive to re play a game like to get all those prizes and there are 93 in this game As the game moves along you will be hit with ra
48. st You can also add words to the user dictionary These words are ignored while spell checking The words are added as belonging to the currently used language These words persist in your AutoCorrect preferences so that they can be used across sessions The words in the custom dictionary can be added or removed from the Edit custom Dictionaries dialog If it becomes necessary to work in other languages there are over a dozen for eign language dictionaries on the AthenaSoft website that are available to download The AutoFormat options allow the user to apply bullets and numbering As soon as you type an asterisk or a Quark recognized number format Auto Formatting takes over Contributed by Michael Shaw Auto Correct Options AutoCorrect Enable Auto Correct Replace With accordingta according to mseel wml AutoSpell Ignore AutoSpell Ignore Words Containing Numbers Edit Custom Dictionaries AutoFormat Apply Automatic Bullets Apply Automatic Numbering AthenaSoft develops quality software for clients worldwide As a full service firm we can handle all aspects of your soft ware project right from analysis and design to deployment of l the software http athenasoftsolutions com 2 A Macintosh Users East Infuse from FireCore Play Movie Formats on your iDevice Having the ability to view video on your iDevice is a real plus like to have some handy when travelling can T
49. strongly advise you use for the first few times playing The information contained there can also be ac cessed through an online manual would have preferred an informa tion option right in the game rather than having to leave it to find out something The complexities of the game require quite a bit in terms of a learning curve would not recommend this game for your first try at an RPG The Al players seem to be very adept They build and im prove their spaceships much faster than human players Even at the newbie level found the game play to be challenging It also takes a few games to get acquainted with the technology especially when EAMES E GETAER cA O O PARDALIS II PARDALIS III PARDALISIV QUEUE e3 RESERVE ce FT each race has their own terms for various discoveries After a few trial and error games am now winning more often than losing This makes the game a lot more fun and keeps bringing me back for more In conclusion this is a very addictive RPG have spent many en joyable hours trying to beat the game and attempting to get as many achievements unlocked as possible have a lot more playing time waiting ahead Having played a few other turn based games like this can honestly say that this has been the most challenging As said above it might not be the best game to introduce yourself to RPG but anyone with some knowledge of the genre would be very pleased with its game pla
50. such as Safari and iTunes will play radio stations for you they take up cpu space and they are slower to respond It took very little time for me to decide that wanted Radium to be permanenily in my menu bar y a rT F s Bi e Submitted by Marcel Dufresne rm T er 1 second Thursday fi ofeach month J To change a shortcut click it and hold down the new keys Open Close Radium Display current track notification Skip to live broadcast E Play Pause Add current track to Wish List 1 Copy current track to clipboard Play previous station Play next station _ Play random station Increase volume Decrease volume solar Juice 20 000 mAh External Battery From Zero Lemon One of the inconveniences of iDevices is that their batteries need to be periodically recharged The more you use them the more fre quently they have to be powered up At home we formulate strategies so that we charge when the devices are not in use Otherwise when it is possible they take a lot longer to recharge while using them For my iPad 2 this is usually at night or early in the morning tend to use it more in the afternoon and early evening Each of us has our own routines Travelling with the iPad always puts a wrinkle in the routine However as long as there is an electrical outlet nearby you can charge it up It is not uncommon at the airport to see people charging up t
51. video or not This is help ASE pire Ne 4 R D ful if you have five episodes of a TV show and you Mh Be y 7 4 can t remember which you last saw Infuse will play Be oH tT Slee WACK REACHI each of these episodes one after another without l having to instruct it to go to the next one Set up the iDevice and be Infuse can get video in a number of other ways You can use Air prepared for hours of TV watching If you have to stop a show in the Drop or FTP to transfer videos No iTunes syncing is needed so you middle Infuse remembers where you left off and defaults playing from have fewer cables found that my iTunes movies were immediately that spot What more could you want from a free app added to the Infuse playing list If this is not the case then follow the iTunes sync instructions provided You can connect with Wi Fi travel drives or Airport Extreme to down load or stream content Infuse automatically searches for any networks it might link to You can import from other apps and add videos from Dropbox Google Drive email attachments and more Additionally you can use AirPlay or Google Cast to stream formats like MKV MP4 and AVI files to the big screen with surround sound and subtitles Subtitles are supported and can be added in if needed The subtitles types supported are SRT SSA SUB SMI DVDSub PGS XSUB Timed Text VobSub DVB The Abbott and Costello Show Who s On First You can have your ow
52. xpensive lighter version that will add some power when needed can see my self using this charger when flying or camping It was nice having the iPad available on our last long flight and using it for Podcasts TV shows and as an eReader The charger removed the worry of not having enough power to last the full flight My iPad was also very use ful in passing the time when our power went out for over a day last winter Whether you re exploring the great outdoors or enduring a power outage a portable charging device can come in handy when electrical outlets are either unavailable or as is sometimes the case not func tioning Portable batteries can charge your smartphones media play ers and other mobile gear that charge over USB The Solar Juice 20000mAh external battery will provide your iPad with the extra power that you need to keep on using it It is the world s largest capacity rain resistant and shockproof portable solar charger With its solar en ergy technology it is environmental friendly and could recharge itself under sunshine for an emergency purpose when outside Go to zerolemon com and have a look at what others have to say about this handy device It is the perfect size for your iPad It is one of those items you think you don t need until something happens and you wish you did have one Power failures will occur Don t be left short Submitted by Marcel Dufresne WORLD ADAPTER EVO from SKROSS ai a
53. y The graphics are stunning and beautiful to see Each race has their own unique coverage that fills the screen At 34 99 for the Endless Space game and the Expansion Pack you are getting your money s worth Check this game out at www amplitude studios com There are two other newer spin offs of the game to be found there You will not find a more complete RPG out there in terms of strategy and game play have already earned 25 of the achievements and am working on more Submitted by Marcel Dufresne SPAM The Generic Reply In my iClips copy amp paste multiple Clipboard app l have two little text clippings that use just about every day and sometimes multiple times per day The first clipping says I m Getting Spam From Your Email Account use this text to replace the subject line of just about every SPAM message that shows up in my Yahoo email whether it shows up in my Inbox or is successfully routed to my SPAM folder Either way when get SPAM I reply to it If the return address is AOL or Yahoo or Hotmail or Gmail alter the subject line to indicate which mail server delivered the SPAM The second clipping says I m Getting Spam From Your Email Account Hello just want to inform you that am receiving annoying SPAM and spurious email messages that appear to be coming from some asshole who Is using your email address to do mass SPAM emailings See below for an example If this is being done with your knowl

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