Washington Apple Pi is the oldest continuously active personal computer group, formed in late 1977 and formally named in 1978. Originally set up to support users of the then-new Apple II, the group was composed of scientists and technical managers drawn from DC-area government agencies (NASA, NOAA, NIST, DOD, etc.) and technical enthusiasts. It expanded as personal computer use expanded, and as the Macintosh, Newton, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and other devices were added.
These articles are from 2007-2013
Lawrence I. Charters, “Encrypting Mac Laptops to Comply With Government Directives,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 1, January-February 2007, pp. 8-9.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Fingerprints: Why You Care About the iPhone,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 2, March-April 2007, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Bwana: A Helper for Mac OS X Terminal,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 3, May-June 2007, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “What Comes Next: A Review of Rainbows End,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 3, May-June 2007, p. 13.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Paparazzi! Small Application, Big Result,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 3, May-June 2007, p. 17.
Lawrence I. Charters, “FOSE and Computing in Washington, DC,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 3, May-June 2007, pp. 19-20.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Comic Life Review,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 4, July-August 2007, p. 20.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Comic Life: A Serious Application?,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 4, July-August 2007, p. 21.
Lawrence I. Charters, “A Meeting of Kings: Lesa Snider King and Shawn King,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 4, July-August 2007, pp. 36-37.
Lawrence I. Charters, “This is Bad: Disk First Aid alert,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 5, September-October 2007, p. 23.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Exporting video for Apple TV,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 5, September-October 2007, pp. 30-31.
Lawrence I. Charters, “First Photo Taken by iPhone,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 5, September-October 2007, p. 37.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Harry Potter and the Order of the iPhone,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 6, November-December 2007, pp. 16-17.
Lawrence I. Charters, “September General Meeting: Tangled in the Web,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 29, no. 6, November-December 2007, pp. 34-36.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Leopard Screen Saver Mosaic,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 1, January-February 2008, pp. 10-11.
Lawrence I. Charters and Kevin McMahon, “Useful Things to Do With Your iPhone,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 1, January-February 2008, pp. 18-19.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Washington Apple Pi: A New Logo,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 1, January-February 2008, pp. 26-29.
Lawrence I. Charters, “November 2007 General Meeting: Cat Toys,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 1, January-February 2008, pp. 38-40.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Macs in England,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 2, March-April 2008, p. 8.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Annual Macworld Expo Review: January 2008,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 2, March-April 2008, pp. 30-33.
Lawrence I. Charters, “The $18 Million iMac: Why Your Old Mac is Too Expensive,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 3, May-June 2008, pp. 6-7.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Mac OS X Has a Dictionary,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 3, May-June 2008, pp. 14-15.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Alien Abduction or Political Sellout?,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 3, May-June 2008, pp. 25.
Lawrence I. Charters, “March Madness: Office 2008 versus iWork ‘08,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 3, May-June 2008, pp. 26-29.
Lawrence I. Charters, “AppleScript for Real People,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 4, July-August 2008, pp. 6-8.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Using Font Book to Find Font Problems,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 4, July-August 2008, pp. 19-21.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Pi Birthday Party,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 5, September-October 2008, p. 4.
Lawrence I. Charters, “iPhone 2.0: It’s the App Store, Not the Phone,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 5, September-October 2008, pp. 6-7.
Lawrence I. Charters, “The Macness of Wii,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 5, September-October 2008, pp. 10-11.
Lawrence I. Charters, “The End of .mac, Trojans and Scams,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 5, September-October 2008, pp. 16-17.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Walt Mossberg and the June General Meeting,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 5, September-October 2008, pp. 28-31.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Little Apps: the July 2008 General Meeting,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 5, September-October 2008, pp. 32-34.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Rage Sitemap Automator,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 6, November-December 2008, pp. 6-9.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Techno Lust: 14 gigabytes of memory,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 6, November-December 2008, p. 19.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Images, From Capture to Presentation,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 6, November-December 2008, pp. 24-27.
Lawrence I. Charters, “September 2008 General Meeting — Apple’s Smallest Computers: the iPhone and the iPod touch,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 30, no. 6, November-December 2008, pp. 28-32.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Time Machine Essentials,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 6-9.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Everything is Miscellaneous: A Review,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 12-14.
Lawrence I. Charters, “December 2008 Holiday Party: Andy Ihnatko and His Internet Pants,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 24-29.
Kathleen G. Charters, “slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 2, March-April 2009, pp. 7-12.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Washington Apple Pi Journal,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 2, March-April 2009, p. 1.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Disk Utility: Superhero, Savior, Prophet,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 2, March-April 2009, pp. 16-17.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Comic Life Magiq: Life Beyond PowerPoint,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 2, March-April 2009, pp. 19-20.
Lawrence I. Charters, “January General Meeting: Macworld San Francisco 2009 in Review,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 2, March-April 2009, pp. 27-31.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Home Networking Made Easy,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 3, May-June 2009, pp. 12-18.
Lawrence I. Charters, “March General Meeting: Lesa Snider King on Photo Editing with Photoshop Elements,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 3, May-June 2009, pp. 19-23.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Peeking Interest (cartoon),” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 3, May-June 2009, p. 26.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Making a Movie, from Soup to Nuts,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 4, July-August 2009, pp. 19-23.
Lawrence I. Charters, “May 2009 General Meeting: Photo Contest 2009 and Briefings on the Past and Future,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 4, July-August 2009, pp. 24-29.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Snow Leopard Upgrade: Spectacularly Boring,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 5, September-October 2009, pp. 7-9.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Some Thoughts on Electronic Media and the Written Word,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 5, September-October 2009, pp. 11-13.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Catching up with McDonald’s: TCS Forum passes the 100,000 mark,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 5, September-October 2009, p. 17.
Lawrence I. Charters, “July 2009: Social Networking, Part I,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 5, September-October 2009, pp. 23-28.
Lawrence I. Charters, “August 2009: Social Networking, Part II,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 5, September-October 2009, pp. 29-32.
Lawrence I. Charters, “One issue of Washington Apple Pi Journal from Conception Through Birth,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 6, November-December 2009, p. 4.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Magic Mouse: A Fine Gesture,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 6, November-December 2009, pp. 8-9.
Lawrence I. Charters, “PocketMac RingtoneStudio 2,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 6, November-December 2009, pp. 10-12.
Lawrence I. Charters, “September 2009 General Meeting: Cloud Computing,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 31, no. 6, November-December 2009, pp. 21-24.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Pi Schedule Pummeled,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 1, January-February 2010, p. 4.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Fingerprints: Why you care about the iPad,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 2, March-April 2010, pp. 6-8.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post technology columnist,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 2, March-April 2010, pp. 13-16.
Lawrence I. Charters, “I now own December,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 2, March-April 2010, p. 18.
Lawrence I. Charters and Larry Biggs, “iPad: Not a Netbook; It’s Better,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 3, May June 2010, pp. 8-10.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Images from the iPad Introduction Day,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 3, May June 2010, p. 11.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Theodolite for the iPhone,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 3, May June 2010, pp. 19-22.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Degrees of separation: compasses go digital,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 3, May June 2010, p. 23.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Hitachi 1 terabyte Deskstar hard drive,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 4, July-August 2010, p. 23.
Lawrence I. Charters, “MiniSuit Black “Leather” Case/Folio for iPad,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 4, July-August 2010, p. 24.
Lawrence I. Charters, “CrazyOnDigital Executive Leather Folio Case Cover for iPad,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 4, July-August 2010, p. 25.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Exploding computers are only semi-mythical,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 4, July-August 2010, p. 26.
Lawrence I. Charters, “I’m worth millions!,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 4, July-August 2010, p. 34.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Think you need a laptop? No, you need an iMac!,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 5, September-October 2010, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Putting video on devices using HandBrake,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 5, September-October 2010, pp. 15-18.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Computer Tool Identification,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 5, September-October 2010, p. 32.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Supercritical,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 5, September-October 2010, p. 11 supplemental.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Uniformity: an iPhone app for the Navy,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 6, November-December 2010, pp. 7-9.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Offsite Backups,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 32, no. 6, November-December 2010, p. 14.
Lawrence I. Charters, “How much Spam can you take?,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 1, January-February 2011, p. 1.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Spam,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 1, January-February 2011, p. 3.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Smart UPS or surge protector?,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 3, May-June 2011, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Distracted Driving,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 3, May-June 2011, p. 7.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Computer Quandry – Cursive,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, September-October 2011.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Computer Quandry – Blu-Ray,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, September-October 2011.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Computer Quandry – MapQuest,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, September-October 2011.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Computer Quandry – Word,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, September-October 2011.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Safe Browsing: Are Web browsers smarter than users?,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 4, September-October 2011, pp. 10-13.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Evolution,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, November-December 2011, p. 7.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Lionspeak: Voice synthesis in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, November-December 2011, pp. 8-10.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Mac Security in an Age of Cyber War and Cyber Crime,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, November-December 2011, pp. 11-14.
Lawrence I. Charters, “On the road to Lion: the untold story,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 33, no. 5, November-December 2011, p. 33.
Lawrence I. Charters, “I figure by now Apple owes me a pony,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 1, January-February 2012, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Blackout: SOPA, PIPA and Sabotage,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 1, January-February 2012, pp. 8-13.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Change your Apple ID Password. Now,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 1, January-February 2012, pp. 21-24.
Lawrence I. Charters, “WriteRoom: A review,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 1, January-February 2012, pp. 25-27.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Washington Apple Pi Apple III DVD Going Online,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 1, January-February 2012, p. 28.
Lawrence I. Charters, “TechTool Pro 6: Beyond Disk Utility,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 2, March-April 2012, pp. 17-20.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Who can resist a cute kitten? Mountain Lion,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 3, July-August 2012, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “They say nothing ever goes away on the Internet,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 3, July-August 2012, p. 31.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Vast Conspiracy,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 4, November-December 2012, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “The Road to Mountain Lion: A Survey,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 4, November-December 2012, pp. 7-9.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Install OS X: Mac OS X From The Future,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 34, no. 4, November-December 2012, p. 29.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Split: Slicing up very large files,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 28-29.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Smart Phone Alerts and the iPhone,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 15-16.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Awkward,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2013, p. 36.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Bing: That Explains It,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 2, Summer 2013, p. 6.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Windows on a Mac in 2013,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 2, Summer 2013, pp. 8-13.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Potentially Harmful Asteroids,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 6.
Kathleen G. Charters and Lawrence I. Charters, “Your Mac and Your Health,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2013, pp. 8-9.
Lawrence I. Charters and Kathleen G. Charters, “Fitbit for Fit Activities,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2013, pp. 10-12.
Kathleen G. Charters and Lawrence I. Charters, “Withings Blood Pressure Monitor,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2013, pp. 13-14.
Lawrence I. Charters, “Memory – all alone in the moonlight,” Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 34.