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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Alan opened by giving the 15 attendees details of the meeting being held at Fareham on 27th April when Dan Dilloway from Dataquest will be giving a talk on data recovery from hard drives and SSDs etc.
Tony Still then gave a presentation on WiFi Basics, explaining that this was concerned with communication between a computer and a base station, usually a WiFi Router. Showing how networks are designed in layers, with WiFi…
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John opened the April meeting with 23 members present.
It appears that we may be victims of our success in attracting new members, in that we are investigating methods of providing local displays of presentations, in addition to the main screen so that people, seated at the back have a good view of what is going on. This month's research (following March's exciting episode) was into screen sharing, which was explained by Martin, and…
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Eight of us enjoyed a meal before the start of the meeting - a very sociable gathering and far more than when we ate afterwards!
As our planned presentation had to be postponed until next month, Gordon stepped in and took us through some of the apps he uses (plays with!) on his iPad and this was followed by others chipping in with their favourites.
The meeting finished with John & Bruce…
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Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics for the seven attendees.
John Hooper described the Time Machine and Time Capsule functions and capabilities and how to use them to back up one's files. Comparison was made to the SuperDuper clone methodology and how that the process are different but several members use both processes.
The discussion moved on to controlling one screen from another machine. John introduced the TeamViewer program that…
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The meeting opened with a presentation by Mick Burrell on the subject of email and the differences between POP and IMAP accounts. He explained in detail how they work behind the scenes, and pointed out the problems that can arise particularly when synchronising between a number of mobile devices and a Mac at home. There was a good deal of interest and several questions were posed generating a lively discussion. Members expressed their appreciation…
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John opened the meeting, with 20 members present.
In anticipation of our numbers swelling still further, and of its becoming more difficult to see the screen properly, Martin gave a practical demonstration and talk on how the situation could be ameliorated by either sharing a Keynote or a .pdf file containing the slides to be presented, or alternatively, how to implement screen sharing between computers. There are multiple ways of achieving the aim…
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We're now settling in at our new venue and with the wi-fi working perfectly, everyone was happy. We started with a few questions but not many of us are experiencing problems that need sorting at present so of necessity, it was quite short.
John then took us through the workings of Time Machine and a general discussion followed on different ways of using it and what it would and would not do…
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This meeting was a triple header - first of all Mick Burrell introduced us to the differences
between POP and IMAP email accounts which seemed to clear up some mysteries for quite a few of those in attendance.
Next up was Derek with a review and demo of the Preview application, an often overlooked program with many features and capabilities. During the demo members identified that Apple had updated Preview in the latest…
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