Salisbury — Jan 31st 2017

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Mick gave a presentation of the features of iCloud and iCloud Drive, mentioning first how they used to be combined as Mobile me and then just iCloud before being "split" into two separate items. He showed us what each does, how they should work and how to troubleshoot if they don't behave as expected!

After coffee & biscuits there was a lively question and answer session covering both the iCloud/iCloud… Read more…

Bournemouth — Jan 17th 2017

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9 members enjoyed an entertaining and informative - in equal measures - presentation by Euan Williams entitled "Of Squiggles and Marks (letters, points and punctuation), a whimsical talk". After demonstrating how punctuation can affect the meaning of a sentence, Euan followed by a brief review of modern punctuation marks. Euan explored emoticons, emoji and symbols through the macOS "Emoji & Symbols" and "Keyboard Viewer" menus. We learnt about glyphs & Unicode and… Read more…

Fareham — Jan 14th 2017

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There was a good turnout by 15 members at this first meeting of 2017.

John gave us a talk about Siri.
Siri has been available on iOS since 2011, but only recently on the Mac starting with Sierra. The demonstrations, mainly from his iPad, were all saved off-line in advance, since Siri is blocked at this venue.
John started by explaining what Siri is, and how to configure the voice… Read more…

Dorchester — Jan 10th 2017

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Stephen Hardy’s entertaining presentation “Let’s start at the very beginning with A, B, C instead of Do-Re-Mi” (but making a serious point) and was motivated by Mick’s AGM report. It expressed thanks to all members, especially our Chairman Mick, actively involved in running AugWessex. His experience of running voluntary organisations suggests that positive feedback is not often forthcoming. As he will be moving from this… Read more…

Beaminster — Jan 3rd 2017

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John Lemon gave an outstanding presentation on ViewRanger, an app created by the Ordnance Survey which brings the precision and detail of the famous ranges of paper maps to iPad and iPhone. The app itself is free, but the maps, which are downloaded onto your device, have to be paid for. However, while a complete set of the 1:25 range of Great Britain would hit your wallet for almost £300, there is an… Read more…

Bournemouth — Dec 20th 2016

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A brave 9 members convened for an Apple-themed Christmas quiz refereed by Tony Still. After a variety of questions about people, products and events, David Moon scored the most points for a score equivalent to 90%. Well done David.… Read more…

Dorchester — Dec 13th 2016

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The meeting commenced at 7:30pm with our AGM - 23 members and one visitor in attendance. Mick started by giving the Chairman's report of the overall position of the group and telling how our numbers have increased slightly over the last year - the web site now shows we have 135 members. He followed this with a short but more detailed report from each of the five meeting groups with information about their numbers of attendees… Read more…

Fareham — Dec 10th 2016

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We had 12 members at this meeting.

John gave us a talk today about the various features built in to OSX and iOS that could help anyone with poor eyesight.
Each demonstration was done on a MacBook, and then the equivalent one on an iPad, although some of the features would not have been available on earlier devices. The iPhone was not covered, but it was assumed that some of the features… Read more…

Beaminster — Dec 6th 2016

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Michael ran through a small range of free apps, plus two paid-for ones and a useful no-charge web-site - all for the Mac, bat the web-site.

The first app was Enpass, which provides a secure place for passwords, bank account and credit card details, driving license and passport detail and other travel items and log-in passwords, and anything else that you may wish to secure. The main thing to… Read more…

Salisbury — Nov 29th 2016

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11 members attended

The meeting started off with Jola giving us a very interesting presentation of SnapFish which is used to create photo books of your photo library, also cards for festive occasions and buying canvas prints. Showing some examples of what she has created and demonstrating how to make up the pages with a variety of page formats and adding text and clip-art.

Barry demonstrated 3 iPad apps, TunerLite… Read more…