With two talks to fit in, Alan called the meeting to order and immediately introduced Peter Shepheard to talk on fractals. A Polish born mathematician called Benoit Mandelbrot is generally regarded as the father figure of fractals (Mandelbrot in Wiki).
His talk centred around three applications that allow fractal artwork to be produced with little or no understanding of the underlying mathematics. Peter started by showing pictures of fractal patterns occurring in nature. He then…
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After John opened the meeting, David gave a talk and demonstration of Image Capture both as a stand-alone app and as built in to Preview. Actually his live demonstration was frustrated by the fact that whilst his Epson Printer/Scanner printed fine over the network , he could not get the scanner to respond. Several members printed documents from IOS devices via Printopia installed on David’s Mac. Printer network problems proved a significant…
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We had six people at the meeting. The flow of the meeting was disturbed by the disastrous news that Apple have decided to kill Aperture - a favourite product amongst the members. Aperture is a product that helps to define OSX as being different from Windoze and the Windoze centric Adobe products.
A certain amount of branch admin took place regarding meeting run times and schedule.
It is thought that we may…
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Salisbury Group Meeting
at The Pheasant Inn Salisbury 7.30 - 9.30pm
Date 25/06/2014
Number of members present 8
John took us through SKYPE and FaceTime starting with what these are and a brief history on how and where SKYPE began and that it is now owned by Microsoft.
SKYPE can be used on all platforms, Mac, PC, Linux Etc. it works over the…
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John Ansell presented a short history of his experiences with electricity monitors some of which he produced out of his bag as he proceeded with his presentation. About five years ago he bought an energy monitor from E-on, his energy company. He showed how the sensor part clips to the main electricity input to the house while the display part, connected wirelessly, shows the instantaneous energy usage. This allows consumers (that’s us…
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With apologies from John, David Moon took the chair opening the evening by reporting that Rowland Wren a longtime member of WAMUG Dorchester has moved to Spain and the assembled gathering wished him well. David then did a short hands on look at the basics of iPhoto running through the Preferences and then looking briefly at Photos, Events and Albums.
Stephen gave a full presentation on his personal use of iPhoto. Armed with…
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Firstly I must apologise for the lateness in posting the report for the June meeting!
Diana Trenchard gave those present a very interesting presentation of her portable mini scanner. The mini scanner has many uses especially if one is interested in local History or family history.
Diana has kindly sent me a link to her presentation which I have included below.
Diana demonstrated a portable, battery-operated mini-scanner…
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Saturdays meeting was an interesting meeting, the discussion was about Genealogy, Alan Clemmy introduced the topic explaining how he started using “Family Tree History” a Windows product, many years ago to record his family history, he used Virtual Box on his Macbook to run ‘doze to show how the application worked.
He then moved on to using Heredis a Mac application to continue documenting his family tree.
We…
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28th May 2014
8 members attending
Lionel’s presentation described backing up your files using a physical hard drive or using the one of the collection of online services available some are free with a storage limit and a charge is made for more space.
You should have a fast broadband speed to back-up all your files to an online store, the normal home broadband speed is…
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The main event of the evening was a talk by John Hooper on FaceTime, including a comparison with Skype. John started by outlining what is needed to use FaceTime. It works over a wired or WiFi internet connection (although can now be used over 3G with some carriers). It is really aimed at Apple devices (Macs from Snow Leopard onwards, mobile devices from iOS7).
You also need to ensure that your Address Book…
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