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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1774293" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Welcome to the weekly <a href="https://youtu.be/0ohzKTEMWC4" target="_blank">Mac-Forums video chat</a>. As usual we'll meet at 7:00 p.m US Central time (Midnight GMT). We'll have the forum roundup (including threads on folders opening automatically on login, and the new version of iTunes which returns some of the functions / features removed from iTunes 12.7. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"><strong>Show Notes</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">If you’re having issues with certain <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/showthread.php?t=343258&p=1773619&viewfull=1#post1773619" target="_blank">folders opening upon login</a> this thread may give you some thoughts about possible causes and how to fix it. One possible culprit is the users Sharing settings. This is particularly true if the folders that are opening are on a NAS (network attached storage). </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/ios-and-apps/343556-recognition-authentication.html" target="_blank">Security / privacy concerns with the iPhone 8 facial recognition feature.</a> Facial recognition data is stored securely on the IOS device and isn’t sent to Apple. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Can you ever have too many wi-fi hotspots? How to tell if you have <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/internet-networking-and-wireless/343280-hotspots.html#post1773942" target="_blank">too many hotspots and how to get rid of a few you don’t need</a>. Forum member MacInWin reports issues streaming music if his IOS device passes too many open wifi access points (hotspots). As the device jumps from one hotspot to another this causes breaks in the music. The solution is to check your wi-fi settings to make sure that there aren’t extraneous networks added there. Delete any that you don’t want to use. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/macos-operating-system/343583-nonfunctional-dock-hep.html#post1774257" target="_blank">Unusual Dock behavior may be the result of a stuck modifier key</a>. Member Doug Lassiter was experiencing an issue with icons in the Dock. Each time he clicked a Dock icon his Mac would open the Application folder and show the app in question. Doug traced the culprit for this behavior to a stuck modifier key. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Your mac’s modifier keys perform a wide variety of useful, and sometimes not so useful, functions. A quick internet search will lead you to several lists of these functions. Here’s <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236" target="_blank">Apple’s current list of keyboard shortcuts</a>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Apple has released another version of iTunes which can be used instead of the recently-released iTunes 12.7, The iTunes 12.6.3 version puts many features which had been removed back into the program. Kirk McElhearn looks at the <a href="https://www.kirkville.com/how-to-use-selective-color-editing-in-apple-photos/" target="_blank">pros and cons of using iTunes version 12.6.3</a>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Rob Griffits, writing in the Robservatory, takes a look at a free utility called Configurator 2 which has some of the IOS device management functions previously included in iTunes. Originally designed to help businesses / other organizations deploy software and configurations to a variety of IOS devices as a group. It can perform a variety of actions and apply the settings to several IOS devices but does not provide access to the iTunes App Store. <a href="https://robservatory.com/configurator-covers-some-of-itunes-lost-app-features/" target="_blank">See here</a> for details.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Ever get too many tabs open in Safari under IOS 11? Quickly <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/ios-and-apps/343545-close-tabs-ios-11-safari.html" target="_blank">close all open tabs in Safari under IOS 11</a>. This is easily done by pressing and holding the tabs button to bring up four choices including close all tabs.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1774293, member: 131855"] [FONT=Helvetica]Welcome to the weekly [URL="https://youtu.be/0ohzKTEMWC4"]Mac-Forums video chat[/URL]. As usual we'll meet at 7:00 p.m US Central time (Midnight GMT). We'll have the forum roundup (including threads on folders opening automatically on login, and the new version of iTunes which returns some of the functions / features removed from iTunes 12.7. [B]Show Notes[/B] [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica]If you’re having issues with certain [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/showthread.php?t=343258&p=1773619&viewfull=1#post1773619"]folders opening upon login[/URL] this thread may give you some thoughts about possible causes and how to fix it. One possible culprit is the users Sharing settings. This is particularly true if the folders that are opening are on a NAS (network attached storage). [/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica][URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/ios-and-apps/343556-recognition-authentication.html"]Security / privacy concerns with the iPhone 8 facial recognition feature.[/URL] Facial recognition data is stored securely on the IOS device and isn’t sent to Apple. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica] [/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica]Can you ever have too many wi-fi hotspots? How to tell if you have [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/internet-networking-and-wireless/343280-hotspots.html#post1773942"]too many hotspots and how to get rid of a few you don’t need[/URL]. Forum member MacInWin reports issues streaming music if his IOS device passes too many open wifi access points (hotspots). As the device jumps from one hotspot to another this causes breaks in the music. The solution is to check your wi-fi settings to make sure that there aren’t extraneous networks added there. Delete any that you don’t want to use. [/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica][URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/macos-operating-system/343583-nonfunctional-dock-hep.html#post1774257"]Unusual Dock behavior may be the result of a stuck modifier key[/URL]. Member Doug Lassiter was experiencing an issue with icons in the Dock. Each time he clicked a Dock icon his Mac would open the Application folder and show the app in question. Doug traced the culprit for this behavior to a stuck modifier key. [/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica]Your mac’s modifier keys perform a wide variety of useful, and sometimes not so useful, functions. A quick internet search will lead you to several lists of these functions. Here’s [URL="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236"]Apple’s current list of keyboard shortcuts[/URL].[/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica]Apple has released another version of iTunes which can be used instead of the recently-released iTunes 12.7, The iTunes 12.6.3 version puts many features which had been removed back into the program. Kirk McElhearn looks at the [URL="https://www.kirkville.com/how-to-use-selective-color-editing-in-apple-photos/"]pros and cons of using iTunes version 12.6.3[/URL].[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica] [/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica]Rob Griffits, writing in the Robservatory, takes a look at a free utility called Configurator 2 which has some of the IOS device management functions previously included in iTunes. Originally designed to help businesses / other organizations deploy software and configurations to a variety of IOS devices as a group. It can perform a variety of actions and apply the settings to several IOS devices but does not provide access to the iTunes App Store. [URL="https://robservatory.com/configurator-covers-some-of-itunes-lost-app-features/"]See here[/URL] for details.[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica] [/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica]Ever get too many tabs open in Safari under IOS 11? Quickly [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/ios-and-apps/343545-close-tabs-ios-11-safari.html"]close all open tabs in Safari under IOS 11[/URL]. This is easily done by pressing and holding the tabs button to bring up four choices including close all tabs.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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