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All the desktops in Room C, equipped with iOS 26, now feature AI capabilities and are accessible to all CW members during club operating hours.

It's an excellent opportunity to experience this new feature.


MONDAY MARCH 16 , 2025








Room C open whenever the club is open for free The Mac U Video Training. 

FREE MAC LESSONS



TUESDAY MARCH 17, 2026

ST. PATRICK'S DAY - March 17th - National Day Calendar


All Things Apple Tech Tips Tuesdays 

We strongly encourage everyone to continue practicing their technology skills throughout 2026. We invite you to join us for Tech Tips Tuesday, an excellent opportunity to enhance your technological proficiency. This session will allow you to share daily Apple technology features with fellow Computerswest members and further develop your expertise with Apple Maps, Translator, Find My, messaging, and other Apple applications and features within a peer-to-peer Apple Hands-on community setting.

Kindly bring your updated iOS 26 or iOS 18 iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. You are welcome to utilize the Club's Macs during the session.

Please be advised that Tech Tips Tuesday is designed as a collaborative session and is not intended as a formal class or for individual technical assistance. For individual support, we recommend attending the Wednesday Genius Bar.




WEDNESDAY,  MARCH 18, 2026


APPLE SUPPORT SESSION


We need support session helpers! 
 
If you have the skills to help others with a Mac, iPhone or iPad, please come to an Apple Support session and share your knowledge. You don't need to be an expert. Many issues deal with email accounts or setting up a new device.

10:00 AM – APPLE SUPPORT SESSIONNo need to make an appointment. Just walk into the Palm Ridge Rec Center Computer Lab Room C and have a one-on-one session with someone there to help you. We will be there to help solve your Apple device and Apple app problems. Be sure to bring your list of IDs and passwords (you do write them down somewhere safe, don’t you?)






THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2026 



10:00 AM to NOON – Laura will be in Computer Lab Room A to discuss genealogy and help you with the Ancestry app—which we have on one of the iMacs

Room C open whenever the club is open for free The Mac U Video Training.. 

FREE MAC LESSONS

How to customize App icons in iOS 26 for iPhone & iPad – Default, Dark, Clear & Tinted!





FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2026



Room C open whenever the club is open for free The Mac U Video Training. 

FREE MAC LESSONS

How to take iPhone photos with a Siri voice command with the “Say Cheese” Shortcut!





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Why There's Simply No Need For Phone Cases Anymore

A person removing the case from their iPhone

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iOS 26’s Passwords app has a new feature that can save you a headache


Apple’s Passwords app iOS 26

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Your Google Maps just got two huge upgrades - including a totally new driving experience

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Apple quietly kills 15 devices in sweeping product purge


Among them are the iPhone 16e powered by the A18 chip, the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air models with the M3 processor and the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air featuring Apple’s M4 chip, all released last year (file image)

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Windows fans say MacBook Neo’s 8GB RAM is ridiculous — so I tested it, and the results are shocking


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COLD IS RELATIVE

Foridians turn on the heat. People in Wisconsin plant gardens.
50°F
Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in Wisconsin sunbathe.
40°F
Italian & English cars won't start. People in Wisconsin drive with
the windows down and the sunroof open.
32°F
Distilled water freezes. Wisconsinites chill their beer outdoors &
strip to their skivies to take their docks out.
20°F
Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.
People in Wisconsin grab a flannel shirt & drive their trucks on the
lake to go fishing.
New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in Wisconsin
have the last cookout before it gets cold.
0°F
People in Miami all die. Wisconsinites finish raking leaves.
-10°F
Californians fly away to Mexico. People in Wisconsin get out their
blaze orange wind breakers for opening gun deer season.
Hollywood disintegrates. Sturgeon Spearers saw through 2 feet of
ice on Lake Winnebago so they can sit in uninsulated metal boxes
and wait weeks for a prehistoric fish to swim by.
-40°F
Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in Wisconsin let the
dogs sleep indoors.
-100°F
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Wisconsinites get upset
because they can't start the Mini-Van to go to friday night fish fry.
-460°F
ALL atomic motion stops (absolute zero, zero on the Kelvin Kale.)
People in Wisconsin start saying...'Cold enough fer ya?"
-500°F
Hell freezes over. Wisconsin public schools open 2 hours late



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‘Refreshed’ colors reportedly coming to the iMac this year


M4 iMac


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Tim Cook salutes ‘the crazy ones’ ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary


apple logo scribbled with "50 years of thinking different" underneath

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Mexican Train or any games in Room C….anytime. It’s your club to use
Free Air-conditioned Rooms
Bring your own snacks

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Monitoring can be fun! You’ll meet some great new people, renew some friendships, and learn something new each time. Monitors do not have to have computer expertise or answer any difficult questions. You just have to be here. You’ll be ready to go after this class. Sign-up sheets are at the Club, or you can just call the club at 623-214-1546 and reserve a spot.  See you there!

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Accepted Donated Items List  

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Back Issues of This Week @ All Things Apple 


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