6 Members meet in the English Classroom at the Portchester Community School.
Unfortunately my memory of this meeting is completely gone so if any one who attended can remember what occurred. Then please post to this blog or contact Andy Banks at
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Not to pre-empt the Q&A session scheduled for later, Alan opened the meeting with an answer to an unasked question, explaining the reasoning behind Apple's choice of name for the next incarnation of OSX, "Mavericks" - it involves a Californian beach and a dog apparently.
Mick then took the floor with a talk explaining the principles behind Cloud Computing, starting with a bit of history about how the needs…
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[bold]Topics: Instant alpha & Printing labels from Address Book/Contacts.[/bold]
As John was away, Mark introduced the meeting with 20 members present.
First off was Euan, who offered us 'a cup of Instant Alpha'.
Apple's 'Instant Alpha' in Pages, Numbers and Keynote with 'Smart Selection' in Preview are two related and useful technologies. Euan covered the concepts of Channels, Masks and Adjustment layers -- with a brief exploration of…
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Martin came along to talk to us above viruses and malware. As usual it was a well planned and laid out talk presenting arguments both for and against running some kind of anti-virus software. Most members seemed to be ambivalent and would be prepared to run some from time to time but accepted that the major threat to Macs was the user being careless about security. Perhaps the best reason for running some is…
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We welcomed Micheal Corgan and Lionel Ogden as speakers to our meeting.
Lionel spoke first describing how he used Numbers to control the finances of WAMUG. He used a dummy setup of the spreadsheets to protect the innocent.
For a full description of his talk see the Meeting notes of the Bournemouth group meeting on the 21st of May when Lionel gave this talk.
Michael then gave us a…
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After a brief Q&A session dealing with a couple of Mail-related queries, the first presentation was by Lionel on how he uses Numbers to manage the WAMUG accounts. For confidentiality reasons, this was demonstrated using the accounts of Cybergeeks, an organisation with a most intriguing membership list which, spookily, happens to use precisely the same accounting structure as WAMUG.
Lionel has set up separate sheets within the same document to…
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TOPICS: Photo management, Keynote
The Dorchester meeting on May 14th was opened by John. 20 people were in attendance, including two from an embryonic group in Beaminster.
Michael spoke first on Alternatives to iPhoto.
His requirements were to store photos in large numbers, with the ability to keep, file and find them.
He doesn't use iPhoto, and wanted a more "transparent" system, which stored the…
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Fifteen attendees, including some members from other WAMUG groups, listened to a very interesting talk by Dan Dilloway of Dataquest International
Dan explained how Data quest International were a Portsmouth based company that specialises in data recovery from disc drives. The company has recovered data from many thousands of drives that were in varying states of distress.
In the main they attempt to recover the data at the bit level to an…
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Martin came to talk to us about maintaining our Macs and it was a great relief to all to find out that Macs now do an excellent job of maintaining themselves without our intervention! Indeed, Martin pointed out that intervention was likely to be either a placebo or just plain wrong.…
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