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Bournemouth — Oct 21st 2014

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The meeting started with a presentation by John Hooper on Passwords and Keychains. Keychains were introduced in 1997 with OS 8.6 to store passwords, wireless keys etc. and to allow designated apps to use this information so that there is no need to type it in every time you visit a web page. John demonstrated how Keychain Access (found in the Utilities folder) is used to manage the passwords stored in your Login Keychain… Read more…

Dorchester — Oct 14th 2014

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David M. opened a discussion on IOS 8 by regretting the loss of the camera roll and photo stream but seemed a loan voice. More positively David P. demonstrated the excellent enhancements to the camera and the ability to select the area in picture to focus on first and then to adjust lighting. Mick then demonstrated the much improved editing facilities in the photo app. Both Sheena and John had had problems updating to iOS… Read more…

Beaminster — Oct 8th 2014

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Despite a Wednesday meeting being an unusual night for the Beaminster meeting, there was a respectable turnout to hear Michael Corgan showing ways of adding, altering and sharing photographs using the iPad. He first went through adding photos using Apple and non-Apple connection kits which will either connect to the camera or with an SD card. As alternatives photos can be added via iTunes on a Mac, or (in iOS7 at least) using Photostream… Read more…

Fareham — Sep 27th 2014

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Lionel Ogden gave the members a talk on Data Backup and specifically the need for offline or remote backup. He reviewed the various online services available from many companies. Usually these services are free until a specific value of data is stored, then the prices vary.

Concerns with online storage services are:
The data upload speed from the local computer to the remote server, even fibre connected machines would experience quite a… Read more…

Salisbury — Sep 24th 2014

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Members present 6 plus 2 visitors

This months meeting was a general discussion including the following:

Closing all open folders in one go using the alt key.
Special Characters, these are pictograms that can be placed into documents.
Facebook, showing what other people and friends have posted.
Editing a movie in iPhoto, using trimming where you can trim out unwanted starts and endings.
Capture a screen shot… Read more…

Bournemouth — Sep 16th 2014

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With a good attendance of some 14 members fresh from the Summer break, Alan kicked off proceedings by introducing Tony Still to talk about what we can expect from Apple's imminent new operating system releases, Yosemite and iOS8.

With annual updates to the iPhone now routine, iOS updates naturally are following the same pattern. Furthermore, as the iOS and MacOS are becoming more tightly integrated, Apple have now adopted an annual update cycle… Read more…

Dorchester — Sep 9th 2014

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Euan gave a very interesting talk on adjusting the quality of photos which one might otherwise simply discard. He arranged semicircular seating around the screen so we could more closely see the adjustments as they were made. Starting with iPhoto Euan showed the effects of adjusting levels which had the most immediate effect and then showed the effects of playing with Exposure, Contrast, Saturation and the other adjustments offered by iPhoto.
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Beaminster — Sep 2nd 2014

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For our September meeting we were fortunate to have Iain Cowper, an Apple accredited trainer, mainly with local schools to give us a presentation on creating/editing a video.

Iain gave a thoroughly enjoyable and thoroughly understandable guide to creating and sharing a video on the iPad in iMovie. He demonstrated the very comprehensive versatility that iMovie for the iPad has in so small and affordable a package, demonstrating the ability to add… Read more…

Fareham — Aug 30th 2014

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Derek opened the meeting with a talk entitled
Data - the size, cost and evolution.
A film of a punch card system was shown to illustrate the use of data held on punch cards, sorted by column and reports printed from the data on cards.

The evolution of commercial data storage via paper tape, magnetic tape and large disk drive assemblies was described.

The evolution of domestic data storage media… Read more…

Salisbury — Aug 27th 2014

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6 members with Trevor Noyes

Trevor Noyes visited us at Salisbury to give a very interesting demonstration of “Audasity” a freeware application that is used to edit our old vinyl LP’s, 45’s and tapes that are copied to the Mac using a HiFi system connected to your computer, he showed us how the application can be used to edit out faults such as clicks and scratches that appear… Read more…