
By Walt, on June 1st, 2010
Here’s one I found today. You may have already known this.
If you looking at a contact’s card in Address Book, hold down just the Option key. All the groups that hold that contact will hilight.
If you are using your groups to apply rules to messages in the Mail app, this can help you find out why messages are triggering the wrong rules.

By Walt, on May 21st, 2010
We’ve started working with the Central Florida Computer Society (CFSC.org) and are inviting others to participate in a unified iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch special interest group.
We’ve decided to call it “iSig”
See the new iSIG page for details.

By Walt, on May 21st, 2010
As Seen on TWIT.tv !
I bought the Belkin “Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger” at Home Depot recently.
I plugged it in on the wall in my room and I’ve been using it to charge my iPhone every night for a while. Its been marketed to travelers, but I like having here so I don’t take up a plug for the iPhone charger and no one runs off with it to power an iPad or something.
I did try it with an iPad, but the iPad just showed “Not Charging”. I don’t know if the problem was the Belkin unit, or if it was the older iPod cable I was using.
Either way, its pretty nice surge protection, mini power bar and USB power all in one.
Several places online carry it for less than Home Depot, if you are more patient than me.

By Walt, on May 20th, 2010
See the meeting’s information page for details: iPhone-iPad-iPod SIG

By Walt, on May 14th, 2010
Someone was asking about an anti-glare screen during the May 13 main meeting.
I happened upon this a minute ago: http://www.boxwave.com/products/cleartouch/cleartouch-screen-protector-apple-ipad_3779.htm

By Walt, on May 13th, 2010
Networking and Setup: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Presentations: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
First Congregational Church of Winter Park
225 South Interlachen Avenue
Winter Park, FL 32789-4411
(407) 647-2416
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By Walt, on May 7th, 2010
I’ve posted an article on my more technical blog called “Getting more Work done with iPad”.
If you get a moment to read it, please let me know what you think.
Thanks
Walt

By Walt, on April 28th, 2010
Having trouble getting “Select All” to show up in iPad Safari so you can copy a long URL?
For some reason, it only appears when no words or characters are selected. To get rid of the current selection:
- Press and hold on the URL until the magnifying glass pops up.
- When you release, the menu should popup with “Select All” in it.
If you haven’t selected anything yet, just tap the URL once to get it’s attention and once more to start an insertion point.

By Walt, on April 25th, 2010
I’ve noticed fewer and fewer magazines on the racks at local convenience stores and it makes me wonder what’s happening?
There are a lot of reasons that could account for it, but my favorite is that more people are reading electronically.
Still, the magazine rack at my local CVS is less than half it’s size one year ago, and it is surrounded by college student apartments. The 7-11 across the street has removed almost all of it’s magazines.
Of course it could also be any of or combinations of:
- More people buying magazines at bookstores
- Red Box outside the building
- Bad economy (less disposable income)
- Changes in reader interest
- Using Twitter instead
- Less reading overall

By Walt, on April 23rd, 2010
Probably everyone except me knew this already. I was getting tired of clicking the shift button for each letter and annoyed that it wouldn’t stay on like the iPhone’s shift.
I did discover this: to type several capital letters in a row, keep one finger on the shift key. Everything you type while holding that will be all-caps.
But a more full-time cure: go to the Settings app, pick “General” -> “Keyboard” and turn on “Enable Caps Lock”. Now double-tapping the shift will give you shift-lock just like the iPhone.
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