2013-04-22 Meeting

[fivespan]

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

[Agenda]

- News and Views [crowd sourced]
- NSNorth - news from the Mac & iOS development conference in Ottawa [with Glen Sharp]
- Duplicate eliminator, Gemini [with LeRoy Lees]

-- break --

- Bookmarks - taking it to another level [with Glen Sharp]
- A short sketch on Skitch [with Paul Timmins]

[/Agenda]

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

[ben schmidt]

News & Views Notes

• One member bought "his and her" jawbone.com UP wristbands
  complete with accompanying free iOS app.
  - http://jawbone.com/UP
  - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/up-by-jawbone/id461125277
  
  


• One member mentioned a recall on select AppleTV v3 by serial number.
  http://www.appletvhacks.net/2013/04/16/apple-replacement-program-apple-tv-3-wifi-connectivity-issues/
  
  


• Another member has a Bowers-Wilkins A7 speaker with built-in Airplay.
  It cuts out intermittently when receiving from an iPhone.
  http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Wireless-Music-Systems/Wireless-Music-Systems/A7/explore.html
  Suggestions were made to try connecting directly to see if the problemn could be isolated to the AirPlay connection.
  
  


• Another member has an iPod Touch which is operating erratically.
  Suggestion to connect, via USB, to iTunes and try restoring
  to factory settings.
  PS. It was noted in iTunes 11, the left-hand navigation panel
        can be restored by View -> Show SideBar (Option-Command-S)
  
  


• One member suggested InkyDeals.com for graphics software
  
  


• Another member noted 1-day left for MacHeist.com $10 bundle.
  
  

[glenesharp]

Some followup information about NSNorth:
- Videos not available yet
- Joe Cieplinski
For those asking about my slides, I've posted them here: https://speakerdeck.com/jcieplinski/the-long-game
- Jason Brennan
My slides are up on my github presentations  repo:https://github.com/jbrennan/presentations/tree/master/April_20_2013_NSNorth_Educated_Guess
Eventually, there will also be a submodule for Cortex when it becomes available.
- Justin Miller
Here is a PDF version of my slides on maps: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/575564/Justin%20Miller%20NSNorth%20%2713.pdf

Philippe Casgrain
So we have to have a winner in the inaugural Caroline Sci-fi Challenge. Entries include:
- "Where is Luke's tauntaun?", by Rob
- "Don't lecture me about emotions", by Caroline [Spock in Star Trek]
- "Your neutralness, it's a beige alert!", by Justin
- "Plan 9 from Outer Space", by Joe
- "Destination Earth", by Chuck 

Vote hasn't been completed yet on which was the earliest sci fi reference. Which one would you vote for?

[glenesharp]

The NS prefix on developer conference names is a reference to the Code frameworks that have the NS prefix. The code frameworks get the NS prefix from their NextStep/Sun origins.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-prefix-mean