Perhaps spurred on by a desperate desire to escape from the saga of the meaningful Brexit vote, 14 members gathered in All Fired Up to hear Mick talk about synchronising Photos between Mac and iOS devices.
The first part of the talk dealt with two synchronising services offered by iCloud; iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream. The former stores all your photos on iCloud, making them available on all devices but has…
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There were 13 of us at the January meeting where Euan Williams once again gave an interesting and informative talk, this time on Affinity Publisher.
This is a Beta version at the moment and eventually will complete a trio of professional creative software programs by Serif, these are Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher.
He started off the presentation by showing us how NOT to put text on a page, lots…
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During Q&A Annie told us about a new personal safety app, HollieGuard; “In danger? A simple shake or tap activates Hollie Guard, automatically sending your location and audio/video evidence to your designated contacts.”
Following Q&A, Michael gave a presentation on Spotlight, Apple’s system based search engine for both Mac OS and IOS that helps you find documents, contacts, apps, dictionary definitions, and much more…
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AUG Bournemouth Dec 2018
12 members gathered to hear Tony tell us about “Presents from Apple”
All new Macs come with the collections of apps we used to know as iWork and iLife for free but the focus for this evening’s talk was that more nebulous offer, iCloud.
After providing a comprehensive list of iCloud services, Tony went on to look at some of them in…
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John showed a couple of short videos from his iPad nothing to do with Apple but amazing. The first best described as complex pendulums and the second an Austrian model plane defying aeronautics at a Paris tournament in 2014.
Georgia showed us how to create Memoji on the latest iPhones with facial ID, superimposing facial movements onto emoji characters with a wide range of editing features.
Euan, blaming David, showed us a range…
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15 people were at the December meeting when David Moon talked us through Apple Continuity - how to interact through all the Apple devices. He discussed Handoff, where you can work on a program on one device and continue on another one, for example, you could start working on a Numbers spreadsheet on an iPhone, then later continue it on a Mac, the link is iCloud.
Bluetooth and Handoff need to be turned on using…
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Meeting on 4th December 2018
19 members came along to hear three presentations.
John gave a very comprehensive talk on Backing Up. After a salutary warning as to why we should all back-up he took us through wired (using iTunes and a local computer) and wireless backing up (using wifi and the iCloud) of iPads and iPhones. He then completed the cycle by explaining how to then use the back…
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12 members
Questions regarding IMAP and POP, running out of space in the your in box, phone chip not working in an iPad contacts and problems solved by contacting Apple Support.
Apps discussed were, City Mapper, Glymps, ETSY, FaceBook (selling and buying), LetGo and Preview
The meeting continued with David’s use of City Mapper explaining that in selected cities it will help you to easily find your…
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Ten members attended the meeting to hear Euan Williams continue the year’s theme of less mainstream applications. Euan presented the third of Affinity’s promised trio of Mac apps, the document design package Publisher. Publisher is actually still in public Beta testing but the app that Euan demonstrated contains most features in a what is already a high quality and reliable app.
Euan started by describing ‘design’ as…
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After and extensive Q&A and general discussion Tom gave us a quick resumé from the E&T magazine of smart phone sales with the refurbished market expanding very fast in contrast to slowing in growth of new units. Perhaps this is not surprising given that Apple models lose 57% of their value in the first year with Samsung and HTC 72%.
Georgia took us through Apple’s new…
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