This Month's General Meeting:

Meeting Date: September 15, 2026 at 6:30PM

What’s hAppling, Apple’s Fall iPhone Event, Mainspring, Back to School Websites, TMOG (Task Manager for Mac), and Carbon Copy Cloner

Once again we are bringing pizza to our September Meeting! Bring your own drinks and and show up hungry.

As always September's meetingswill start off with Questions and Answers followed by our monthly What’s hAppleing section.

On August 9 Apple held it’s fall iPhone event. This year was different from previous years as Apple only released their high end models. The base model iPhone 18, iPhone Air and possible iPhone SE won’t be released until the spring of 2027. This helps Apple spread out their resource requirements and allows them to build up an inventory of “binned” chips for their base models. Mark will show a video showing the highlights from this event.

Mainspring is a vibe coded app that reveals the settings macOS hides — as one-click, fully reversible power-ups. Wind it up exactly how you like it; unwind any change just as fast. From showing hidden files, to show finder path, default column view to change icon size and grid spacing in Finder, Mainspring has you covered. Nirangam, Mainsprings developer will give us a 20 minute demonstration of his product. And good news, we will raffle off a free copy of Mainspring to members attending the September meeting.

If you have ever used a PC you may be familiar with the app called Windows Task Manager. Introduced to Windows in 1996 it shows all the critical information on how your PC is performing and what might be causing it issues. Dave Plumber the original programmer for Task manager has just written a brand new version of task manager which now works on Windows, Mac and Lennox. It’s informative, beautiful and free. Mark will give us a quick walk through of TMOG for the Mac.

Louis Perez is back and this time with his annual look at back to school websites.

Bombich’s Carbon Copy Cloner Carbon Copy Cloner is one of the leading Mac backup software applications on the market and they been around since 2002. Scott Alenick will walk us through the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner and how to use it to backup your Mac.



Future Meeting Dates:

NJMUG general monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month.

Meeting agendas will be posted on the website approximately 2 weeks prior to the meeting date. Upcoming meeting dates are as follows:

2026 General Meeting Dates:
  • September 15
  • October 20
  • November 17
  • December 15
    • 2027 General Meeting Dates
  • January 19
  • February 16
  • March 21
  • April 20
  • May 18
  • June 15
  • July 20
  • August 17

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