Eight members came to Warsash for David's talk on iOS Settings. There were many settings, and many questions, so (in a very good way) there was little time for much else, barring discussions on considering options for a new venue. …
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David Moon ran through various IOS settings focusing on the iPhone. He was using an iPhone 11 running IOS 17.5 so some members present with older phone and systems did not have all the feature covered. Whilst is was generally agreed to be a very useful, we concluded that we should only cover fewer points in any single session to give people more time to follow hands-on.
John Marriott wanted to…
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David gave us a fairly comprehensive run through of the editing facilities available on Mac and iOS. It was news to several members how much was there meaning that unless you were really seriously into editing there would be no need for more sophisticated software.
He then looked at some non-Apple apps which add to the capabilities of the iPhone camera. Spectre enables you to take a photo of say a building…
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We looked at what functions could be activated by tapping on the back of an iPhone, the way to access numbers on an iPad keyboard without changing the alphabetic keyboard and how one could do calculations on an iPad without downloading a third party app. As a response to a question about using What3Words we explored identifying locations and navigating to a What3Word location. A variety of 1:1 topics were addressed.…
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We had a discussion about legacy, making it possible for designated people to have access to your computer and related accounts. David M showed us Apple’s offer but it seem very limited and requires a death certificate to enable. Trevor C makes full use of 1Password for holding all key information which his wife can access on his demise. Mick too similarily makes use of 1Password. The conclusion was that members are well…
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Nine members and a guest (who is signing up when she sees our treasurer) were at Warsash. Stuart recently had full-fibre broadband installed, courtesy of CityFibre and Portsmouth-based ISP Toob. Everyone will be getting fibre installed in homes and businesses, as Openreach are in the process of replacing the copper wire based telephone network with fibre (even those who want 'just a phone line'- obviously not you, dear readers!), and CityFibre, Toob (who…
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Just as he has at other meetings, Mick updated us on the introduction of Passkeys which may ultimately replace passwords and be more secure. He described what they are, what you need to set up on one of your devices to be able to use Passkeys (enable Keychain and Two Factor Authentication - both are likely to be already set up). After that you set up a Passkey on each of the sites you use - assuming…
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Mick updated us on the introduction of Passkeys which may ultimately replace passwords and be more secure. He described what they are, what you need to set up on one of your devices to be able to use Passkeys (enable Keychain and Two Factor Authentication - both are likely to be already set up). After that you set up a Passkey on each of the sites you use. You can enable Passkeys without fear that you…
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Nine members plus a guest were at Warsash for Mick's talk on passkeys. Passwords aren't terribly secure and have various other pitfalls, so Apple, Microsoft, Google and others are backing passkeys as their replacement. They're potentially both more secure and easier to use for logging into apps and websites. It's a very interesting technology, though as Mick demonstrated, not without its own drawbacks. The usual breakout discussions followed.…
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Mick introduced us to PassKeys explaining the secure technology behind how they operate using un-hackable public and private keys with no password i.e. very secure without the hassle of remembering and recording passwords. The Passkey will still be shown as present in Passwords Keychain and that has to be turned on for for PassKeys to work including sharing across all devices logged in to the same Apple ID. Passkeys are a very new…
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