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* LOCATION: Stuart Hall, Room 6, Princeton Theological Seminary, (Alexander St), Princeton, New Jersey. See http://pmug-nj.org/ for map and directions. * WHEN: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m. * FREE: Open to the public * CONTACT: Khürt Williams * PHONE : 609-375-8479 * EMAIL: publicity@pmug-nj.org Google+ is the latest attempt at social networking from Internet search, advertising and product giant Google. Already six months old and ...

One of the least mentioned features of the new Mail app in iOS 5 is encrypted email. iOS 5 allows the user to send digitally signed or encrypted email to protect your electronic communications. I’ve (http://islandinthenet.com/2008/10/14/digital-certificates-and-signatures/) before on this blog. The idea is to use a special key — a digital certificate — to sign and encode your email so that ...

Jeff Gorman is the owner of (http://creativecomputing.com/), Princeton’s only Apple store and dealer for the last twelve years. He majored in computer science at the University of Buffalo, graduating in 1989. Jeff then worked as a software engineer for a small Mac based software development company before founding Creative Computing in 1996. A PMUG member for sever years, he has been running PMUG’s ...

>Accessing your iTunes library from other computers and iOS devices is the chief benefit of iTunes Match, but it’s not the only benefit. You can use iTunes Match to upgrade the low-bit-rate tracks in your library to 256kbps AAC files. Great how-to article from (http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57326759-285/how-to-use-itunes-match-to-upgrade-audio-quality/).

Note: This firmware update is for all 802.11n capable AirPort base stations and Time Capsules. For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Apple issued and update for Mac OS X that includes several bug and security fixes. Java for Mac OS X 10.7 Update 1 delivers improved compatibility, security, and reliability by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_29. Please quit any web browsers and Java applications before installing this update. See (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4883) for more details about this update. See (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222) for information about the security content of this update.

#MEETING: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., STUART HALL# ##Presentation## From E-Book to App: A Short History of Information Mobilized The mobile revolution is upon us, and industries across the spectrum are finding new ways to make information available to users in situ, pushing data to users via mobile devices that understand where they are and what the options are for, say, parking in that place or what ...

##NEWLY ELECTED## Results of the elections held in October. Leading the PMUG for the 2011-2012 year are: * President : Khürt Williams * Vice President : Aric Pedersen * Executive Secretary : Ben Britt * Treasurer : Dee Silver * Community Representatives : Ewa Zak, Jack Wenzel and Rob Golding PMUG is asking for members to step forward and volunteer with several positions.

The concept is deceptively simple, but it involves quite a bit of thoughtful engineering on Apple’s behalf. There needs to be support built into both the desktop and mobile operating system, as well as a web interface for the cloud-based storage. Third parties also have to incorporate support for iCloud’s Documents & Data in their apps. Apple has demonstrated how to do with with ...

iCloud now features Find My Mac service: With iCloud comes Find My Mac, a feature that’s essentially identical to what’s been offered for iOS devices. If you have a free iCloud account and your Mac is running OS X Lion 10.7.2 or greater, has Wi-Fi access, has a recovery partition installed (more on that later) and has been set up beforehand in the iCloud preferences, ...