December 2020

by Jeff McKamey

Our StMug dinner in January 2021 will not be held, due to COVID-19. We will have a Zoom meeting instead.

 

Big Sur is now available:

If you mac is older than 2014, it won’t work.  The new macs only come with Big Sur:

 

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/12/21562585/macos-11-big-sur-apple-mac-download-available-now

 

There is not a lot of difference between Big Sur and Catalina, I am not sure I would upgrade if everything is working good right now.

 

 

New Macbook Pro and Macbook air with M1 Chip,

It is faster, cooler, has better battery life.  There are a couple of intel applications that do not work, but for the most part, it looks like apple hit a home run.

 

It will let you run iphone and Ipad apps that ‘turn that on’ and there are workarounds to run all apps.

 

https://www.wired.com/review/macbook-air-m1-2020/

 

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro-is-powerful-but-its-the-battery-life-that-will-blow-you-away/

 

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/17/apple-m1-mac-reviews/

 

 

List of compatible apps:

https://isapplesiliconready.com/

 

How to download any Ipad app to the mac

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-any-ios-app-m1-mac/

 

 

Transfers files from any device to any other device!

All you have to do is go to this website on both devices while on the same wifi, and it will let you transfer files from one to the other:

 

https://snapdrop.net/

 

Glympse, share your location with someone else:

 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/glympse-share-your-location/id330316698?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

 

 

Every Infocom text adventure for the macintosh:

 

https://archive.org/details/ClassicTextAdventureMasterpiecesofInfocomMacintosh

 

Most underated websites reddit thread

https://digg.com/2020/this-reddit-thread-of-the-most-underrated-websites-might-change-the-way-you-browse-the-internet

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k213qf/what_are_underrated_websites_and_what_do_you_use/?ref=share&ref_source=embed&utm_content=title&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_name=45bc4baad8414c79a6e14fb241d2c295&utm_source=embedly&utm_term=k213qf