2013-06-24 Meeting

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Doors open at 7:00
Meeting starts at 7:30

[Agenda]

- News and Views [crowd sourced]
- World wide developers conference [crowd sourced]
- Yahoo! Weather for iOS [with Ferriss High]

   Break

- Zinio for iOS and magazines via the Ottawa Public Library [with Chris Duguid]
- TBD [with TBD]

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We will also head out for tea and dessert at the Royal Oak next door for an after-meeting-meeting.

[AdminMan]

At the start of the meeting, Neil and Ferris paid tribute to Kouchi Matsumoto, our vice-president's (Lynda Matsumoto) late husband, who died in a traffic accident on May 26, 2013. His obituary appears at http://www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com/en/families-in-our-care/matsumoto . Members wishing to do so should send contributions in his memory to Physicians for Global Survival https://www.gifttool.com/donations/Donate?ID=2011&AID=1899 or the Canada Pugwash Group http://www.pugwashgroup.ca/index.php/donate . The MUGOO executive extend condolences to Lynda on behalf of all MUGOO members.

[AdminMan]

Perhaps it was the humidity or heat or St. Jean Baptiste Day or the final game of the Stanley cup, but turnout was quite small. As a result we modified the presentations a bit and then left early for nachos and dessert across the street.

In the News and Views section we found out:

• how to keep a second hand Mac from turning on every morning at 9:30 - go to power saving and look for schedule
• how to burn up 20 Euros on your phone when "roaming" - forget that if you have a local SIM, then you are NOT roaming! So turn off all data on the phone - don't just rely on "no data when roaming". Sigh.
• make a cheap wifi hotspot from your hotel wired ethernet using something like the D-Link Mobility Travel Kit http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/research/d-link-dir-505-shareport-mobile-companion/rc9570.aspx . Available at Costco as well.
• some other stuff

The WWDC crowd-sourced discussion was missing the crowd, but we did talk a fair bit about iOS 7 and where it might appear next on Apple products and how it compares to Windows 8. Everybody learned about skueomorphism http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/shortcuts/2013/jun/12/skeuomorphism-apple-ditched-ios7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph. Neil learned how to spell it.

Ferris was then prepared to slag LeRoy's favourite weather app, Yahoo Weather https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/yahoo!-weather/id628677149?mt=8, since it didn't seem too fancy to him. However, as Laurence pointed out from the front row, there are lots of quite fancy features hidden behind its very iOS 7-like interface.

After the break, Chris showed us how friendly and convenient and cheap Zinio http://ca.zinio.com/ has made borrowing magazines from the Ottawa Public Library http://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/zinio-notice.

Then it was off for snacks!