New software and hardware is being released at a record pace and we hope to be able to help you understand what’s available, why it’s important and how to use it.
Mark Astmann showed how to set up and configure Apple AirTags, and showed how to track the item it’s attached to with Apple’s Find My app.
In this month’s Ai installment, Bruce Mittelman showed three apps. Pika.art which allows you to generate and edit videos in diverse styles such as 3D animation, anime, cartoon and cinematic. Dream Studio is used to create
images using the latest release of Stable Diffusion. Finally, Blockade Labs can be used to create entire 360° worlds in just a few clicks.
In this month’s Ai installment, Bruce Mittelman demonstrated Ideogram which helps you generate images. He also showed Leonardo.Ai which promises to create production-quality visual assets for your projects with unprecedented quality, speed, and style-consistency. Last on the AI front, Bruce demostrated Runwayml.com which claims it’s an applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity. Bruce also previewed the initial release of Skylum’s Luminar for iPad which brings the power of Skylum’s photo editing to your iPad.
Louis Perez presented part two of the Best free Mac Software for 2023. And the latest on the new DeLorean EV. Here are some of the web sites Louis discussed:
Checking weather is a daily task. With so many weather apps available which is the right one to use? Scott Alenick compared a number of weather apps from Apple, Yahoo, Accuweather, My Radar, Radar Scope, Hello and a few others.
In this month’s Ai installment, Bruce Mittelman demonstrated Elevenlabs.io which offers text to speech and voice cloning for free. Bruce also showed Clipdrop.co (Swap, Generative Fill, etc.) which helps you create stunning visuals in seconds.
Our resident legal expert Alan Walter walked us through the US Department of Justices antitrust case against Apple.
Finally, Louis Perez shared with us the highlights of CES 2024 including;
This was the first time in the last 14 months that we didn't cover any Ai based software at our general meeting. Instead, Bruce Mittelman demonstrated all the new features of Ukrainian based Skylum Software's Luminar Neo on the Mac.
Making up for the meeting he missed in April, our resident legal expert Alan Walter will walk us through the US Department of Justices antitrust case against Apple.
Finally, Mark Astmann showed many of the features of CapCut which is a totally free app that runs on a Mac, PC, iPhone and iPad.
Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC 24) was held on June 10th. Bruce Mittelman showed a video highlighting the announcements made and their potential impact.
Bruce also showed his newly acquired Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Louis Perez talk featured hot summer gadgets for 2024 including:Finally, Mark Astmann showed us Libby, a free app that runs on a iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, PC, Chrome OS and Kindle and allows users to borrow digital content from our public library.
Bruce Mittelman showed the inexpensive iDPRT Bluetooth Label Printer Thermal that can be connected using USB or Bluetooth and works any device supporting printing using these protocals.
Something a little different in his Ai tool kit, Bruce just receive the latest Microsoft Surface laptop with built in Copilot and gave us an idea of the latest in PC technology.
Louis Perez discussed the in’s and out’s of using cloud technologies. Louis discussed:Finally, Mark Astmann talked about Apple’s Passkey technology, a simpler and easier way to replace traditional login passwords. Here is the Keynote version of his presenation.
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