16 October 2013 Main Meeting

Meeting Summary…

October’s topics (presented on the large screen) included: Apple TV (animated screen saver) photo themes, a short PBS video, and the iOS Sleep Cycle app.

The Apple TV has a list of animated photo montage themes. Harold Adams demoed many of the colorful themes using the Apple Remote.

“The Quantified Self: Data Gone Wild?” is a report by PBS correspondent Hari Sreenivasan. This five minute PBS Newshour–Weekend video showed the growing popularity of using devices to monitor personal activity states and the chart data outputs. It follows one man and some of the Apple devises he uses to self-track aspects of his daily life using wearable sensors and wireless computing. David Pogue added some commentary on these new data-gathering “routines.”

The iOS (alarm clock) app Sleep Cycle was demoed by Jim Tinsley from his iPhone. This “waking app” monitors your movements/non-movements during sleep and wakes you up in your lightest sleep phase. Jim also displayed a few sleep-monitored graphs recorded by the app.

Jim Tinsley [President of SBAUG] took us through a short “tour” of some pages under construction at the SBAUG.org website. A spontaneous after-meeting discussion on 3D printing brought the evening to a close.

ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2013 @ 20:31
PRESERVED BELOW…

Our general meetings are on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, in the meeting room at Petrini’s Italian Restaurant, 5711 Calle Real, Goleta.

Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m.

As always, we’ll have wireless internet access and good company! Plus, the drawing for a $100 gift card to the Apple store: Each member who attends gets 2 free tickets, and if you renew your membership or become a member at the meeting you get a 3rd ticket! Members can also buy additional tickets for $3 each.