Dorchester — Nov 12th 2019

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We had a successful evening of 3 workshops, three members on Pages with Mick, four on Keynote with David and six on Affinity Photo with Euan with a mix of iPad OS and Mac OS.… Read more…

Beaminster — Nov 5th 2019

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Mick Burrell gave a talk on the oft confusing term ‘Things in the Cloud’. Whilst it has become a generic term Mick focused exclusively on the Apple elements - iCloud and iCloud Drive. Why are there two and are they different? If there is one thing to take away it is this: iCloud synchronises while iCloud Drive stores. He then gave details on how to set up access to both elements on each of… Read more…

Salisbury — Oct 29th 2019

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Again our meeting was held in a training room, as it is not possible to turn the lights off in the training room we used the large TV for the presentation, a projected image was too difficult to see.

We began with a Q&A.

Euan then presented his Painting with Filters showing how to use filters and layers to create multiple effects in the Affinity suite of applications that… Read more…

Bournemouth — Oct 15th 2019

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iPad now has its own version of IOS, iPad OS which Euan explained incorporates more Mac-like filing system, about which Euan enthused along with Multi-Tasking where you can have more than one window of the same app open together and other floating widows as well.

David and Euan covered some of the new features in IOS 13, common to both iPhone and iPad, starting with Dark Mode. Icons now give short… Read more…

Dorchester — Oct 8th 2019

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iPad now has its own version of IOS, iPad OS which Euan explained incorporates more Mac like filing system. about which Euan enthused along with Multi Tasking where you can have more than one window of the same app open together and other floating widows as well. David and Euan covered some of the new features in IOS 13, common to both iPhone and iPad starting with Dark Mode. Icons now give short cuts to… Read more…

Beaminster — Oct 1st 2019

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Our October meeting was split into 2 groups, a pages workshop lead by Mick and an affinity workshop lead by Euan. Both workshops proved very informative & were much appreciated with positive feedback & requests for more of the same!… Read more…

Salisbury — Sep 24th 2019

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Eight members braved one of the wettest day of the year to attend, the start was a little later than usual due to a move to a training room, on the first floor, a rather bright room so viewing the screen was a bit difficult but manageable, the subject this month was iMovie, and include importing a movie, simple editing, adding titles and transitions, then on to cropping the ends and removing unwanted section. reversing… Read more…

Bournemouth — Sep 17th 2019

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AUGW Bournemouth, September 2019

12 members gathered at All Fired Up to listen to Mick tell us all about Apple’s Calendar app.

Starting with the Mac version, Mick took us on a tour of the General pane of the app’s Preferences,
showing how to choose what portion of the day to show and adjusting the scrolling behaviour to your liking. Comments from the floor indicated that… Read more…

Dorchester — Sep 10th 2019

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This was a trial session of hands on activity. We split into in 3 pre-arranged groups, 6 working on Pages with Mick, 6 on Affinity with Euan and 2 on Keynote with David M. The Colliton Club Dorset room is long enough that were able to have the three sets of tables far enough apart that there was no crosstalk. Two of the tables had projectors and screens. Feedback from the evening was very… Read more…

Beaminster — Sep 3rd 2019

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Beaminster AUG
Meeting on 3rd September 2019

David P presented ways of getting documents onto iCloud. The methods included: saving directly from packages such as Pages or choosing particular documents to save on the iCloud using the Share option or scanned in using the Notes app in iPhones and iPads then sent to the cloud using Share. In the Share option is the facility to convert to pdf and save that… Read more…