Shortcut Superpowers Unleashed!

Shortcut Superpowers Unleashed!

What You’ll Learn:

  • Why Shortcuts are useful to know about and use on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
  • How to create and use Shortcuts
  • Launching applications
  • Sending messages and emails
  • Adding calendar entries
  • Text processing
  • What can be scripted and controlled with Shortcuts
  • Extending Shortcuts through Apps with Actions
  • HomeKit and Siri integration
Your Home Network, Supercharged

Your Home Network, Supercharged

What you’ll learn:

  • What features a Synology NAS can bring to your home (or small office) network
  • How to select the right NAS for your home (or small office)
  • Why and where a Synology NAS is better than other, free cloud services
  • How to get started with your Synology NAS
Cloud Services Demystified

Cloud Services Demystified

What You’ll Learn:

  • What is the cloud and its benefits
  • The security of the cloud and the services
  • All the cloud services and the pros and cons
  • Importance of the use of alternative cloud services in addition to iCloud
  • Using cloud services as alternate of your photos
  • Syncing your files to iCloud
  • Collaboration and the cloud
The Case for the Lifelong Learner

The Case for the Lifelong Learner

What You’ll Learn:

“In my home, my goal is to train myself and my children to “create not consume” regarding our use of technology.”

How can we each be creators not merely consumers of media, technology, and entertainment? In her talk, Rachel will give many examples of how each of her children have learned coding, designing, audio engineering, and enjoy creating in other ways using technology. This is applicable for any user of tech — we must learn to master our time, attention, and focus. Mindlessly consuming media is the trap that we all must face and conquer.