appleJAC Users Group

Meeting Agenda - June 2020

from Tom Piper, appleJAC President

Are you feeling trapped at home? Do you want to see your technology friends again?

You will want to attend our next appleJAC Users Group meeting via Zoom . . . its not face-to-face in person, but face-by-face using technology screens on your Mac, iPad or iPhone . . . and its really easy.

Want to learn more about Zoom, and its advantages? Then use your 30% discount to download the Take Control book described in the next message below.

See you there . . . 

 

Master Zoom with a new book from Take Control

from Joe Kissell, Publisher, Take Control Books In the 144-page Take Control of Zoom, Glenn walks you through all the important capabilities of Zoom, from top to bottom. An important early chapter titled “Can You Trust Zoom?” goes into detail about the past, present, and likely future of Zoom’s security and privacy issues, and what you can do to keep yourself safe. Glenn goes on to explain how to set up and use Zoom on any platform; what you should know about cameras, microphones, and lighting; how to make smart configuration choices; the differences between free and various paid plans; how to take part in meetings as a participant or a host; how to use features such as screen sharing, chat, and call recording; and what to do if participants become unruly. An appendix covers a variety of alternatives to Zoom and explores cases in which one of them may be a better choice.   Buy Take Control of Zoom now for $10.49 with your 30% MUG discount Get more information about what’s in the book I also wanted to quickly mention three new free updates: Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily version 1.3 adjusts its perspective to account for the longer-term nature of remote work that many of us are now adapting to. Take Control of PDFpen, Second Edition covers PDFpen and PDFpenPro version 12. Take Control of DEVONthink 3 version 1.2 covers DEVONthink 3.5. Thanks for your kind attention, and please stay safe & healthy!

 

 

Photos Video Presentation

George Kopp has prepared a 45-minute presentation on Apple Photos for a “Virtual” meeting so you can continue to learn more about your Macs during these stay-at-home times. This video covers most of the tools available in Photos. In order to view the video, click on this link: https://youtu.be/wwwxmhFuixg. Feel free to submit questions to applejac@mac.com, or directly to George (georgekopp@icloud.com), if you have any.

Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac: Recapturing Treasured Data

a review by Tom Piper

Since the invention of the first mechanical computers, data recovery has been an important (and often indispensable) service. The origins of data recovery go back much further than the digital revolution of the late 1990s. The term “data recovery” refers to the many methods that engineers can use to extract data from an inaccessible or damaged medium. Techniques have vastly improved during the last 30 years.

Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac specializes in the easy and powerful recovery of lost or deleted data from the Macintosh computer. Such recovery includes deleted documents, photos, videos, audio, and much more. It restores data from crashed or non-booting Macs, regains files lost due to USB corruption, partition loss, and unrecognized drive from APFS, HFS, HFS+, ex-FAT and NTFS rotating, SSD and flash drives by supporting the latest macOS Catalina and lower operating systems.

This professional data recovery software for Mac can recover deleted files even if they have been permanently removed or emptied from Trash. To avoid overwriting of deleted files on Mac, I can launch Stellar software to allow scanning of my start-up disk and recover the deleted Mac files to a location of my choice. Stellar Mac file recovery tool can also deep scan formatted storage partition or volume to maximize data recovery on Mac. It implements file signature-based search technique to locate fragments of the lost data and stitches them together as a whole, integral unit.

This software offers data recovery from all Mac devices, loss scenarios, make and model of storage drives, file types and formats, file system, and macOS versions. It can run customized recovery procedure by allowing me to choose specific file types such as document, email, photo, video, audio and storage drives or partitions. Customizable scanning allows faster recovery of specific files. In terms of convenience, Stellar software GUI seamlessly maps into macOS experience by way of clutter free design, unified interface, and easy recovery action. It previews all recoverable data in a neatly laid out Tree structure to help me verify and select the required data or files for recovery. The Scan Mode toggle in the software allows easy switching between Quick Scan and Deep Scan modes to choose the type of media scanning required for specific data loss case.

Stellar Drive Monitor is included with the software to keep track of drive Temperature, Performance, and Health. It also shows SMART attributes of the hard disk to ascertain its overall health. Scan Disk module in the drive monitor utility scans and reports bad sectors in the hard disk to help assess the need for cloning to take data backup and allow secure recovery of data. Clone Disk feature creates replica of the affected drive for performing secure recovery. Its easy to use with simple instructions and interface.

To learn more about Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac, go to https://www.stellarinfo.com/data-recovery-mac.php where it can be purchased for $79.99, or the Premium version for $99.99, or the Technician version (same as Premium for three Macs) for $149.99 (USD). A free download is available to scan and preview your lost or deleted data. This is a powerful solution for saving our precious data.