A good attendance to greet Alan Cox, who has bravely stepped forward to take over running the meeting.
There was a lively discussion about the uses of some of the applications in the Utilities folder. The mysteries of Activity Monitor were unveiled, revealing how it can be opf help, particularly if your Mac is running slowly, by showing which programs are taking up processor time and memory.
Color Sync Utility was touched on…
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Our first meeting in the New year saw the Fareham section meeting in a new location, the Portchester Community School in White Hart Lane, Portchester.
We also were pleased to welcome two new people so that we had 11 people participating in the meeting.
The meeting kicked off with Alan Clemmy helping the group to setup so that we could contact the internet by introducing some of us to the concept…
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Things are on the up! With Bournemouth having slightly improved numbers last week and then this Salisbury meeting having more people than for some time, including two potential new members, we're probably doing something right.
There was not too much to sort out in the question and answer session this month so it was quite short and we moved on to Lionel's presentation on iTunes. The intention was to show us some of…
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Another good turnout at Solutions and another good presentation from Mick. This time it was on the basics of iChat - the stuff we wanted to know about at the last iChat presentation but didn’t get! He explained that it is possible to exchange text messages, and to have telephone & video chats. Using two screens (and hats off to Mick for lugging the second one all the way down and back up to the…
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John introduced the meeting, with 20 members present.
The first presentation was by Mick, on Garage Band
Very few present had used this. He demonstrated three things one can do with GarageBand.
First, how to prepare a mobile phone ringtone. Drag in mp3 file, trim to length (about 30s) and transfer to phone (easier if it is an iPhone).
Second how to add commentary to slide show
Drag jpegs…
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John opened the meeting and welcomed the 16 members present.
Michael presented 'Some elements of Pages'.
Pages is easy to use for basic functions, but is capable of more advanced jobs too.
He demonstrated inserting graphics into text, and showed how one can move the graphic around, and the text wraps automatically, as set by the Inspector. The Inspector can also be used to adjust the size and shape of…
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A good attendance and a lively meeting!
There were a few questions for the Q&A section, most of which were dealt with but as usual, there were a couple requiring investigation which was not possible as the offending Mac was not portable so still at home. However, we made some suggestions and await feedback.
Next, Michael ran through a short demo of Dragon Dictate. The accuracy was pretty good especially…
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Nine members attended what will be our last meeting in the upper room in Wallington Village Hall. The next meeting at the end of January is planned to be held at Portchester Community School.
The topic this week was the production of slide shows from Aperture.
Derek introduced the topic by describing how many years ago 35mm colour slides were projected using two or more projectors onto screens with the slide changes…
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