Salisbury — Aug 31st 2011

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This month we were looking at two aspects of using a Mac that are not new but seem not to be widely used - at least by those attending last Wednesday. Firstly, Gordon took us through using Smart Folders in the Finder, Mail, iPhoto and iTunes to show us how they could be used to automatically collect certain items together for ease of use. We then went on to look at the differences between POP and… Read more…

Fareham — Aug 27th 2011

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We had eight attendees at the meeting including Euan and Martin from the west.
The subject was Lion - as this is quite a hefty topic Derek decided to use the skills of Apple’s Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President Worldwide Product Marketing, and Craig Federighi Vice President OS X Software to introduce Lion from Apple’s perspective.

He then had Soldierknowsbest (Mark Weston) a technical reviewer to present the Features of Lion… Read more…

Bournemouth — Aug 16th 2011

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There was a select gethering at Solutions to take a further look at Lion, presented by a very knowledgeable staff member. Then a discussion of various problems, and the meeting adjourned - to find our favourite restaurant was full! We still managewd an enjoyable meal to finish an enjoyable evening. Lion is looking good!… Read more…

Fareham — Jul 30th 2011

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We had nine attendees at the meeting.
The formal topic was given by Alan Lewer on Geocaching using an iPhone 4
.
The principles of Geocaching being a search and find activity for hidden caches containing information or logs to prove that the cache has been found. A database of caches and their locations can be found on

Geocaching.com

the location data being downloaded to the iPhone and then… Read more…

Salisbury — Jul 27th 2011

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As far as content goes, it was one of our busiest meetings so far - the discussions were still in full swing when I had to call time. Doug and Luke had already downloaded and been using Lion so between them gave the rest of us a taste of what it's all about. Doug showed us some of the new features of Safari, Address Book and iCal and Luke showed us Launch Pad and Mission Control… Read more…

Bournemouth — Jul 19th 2011

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Last evening was the first at the slightly later time of 7.00 pm and while it is probable that themain attraction was learning about Lion, our main feature, nevertheless with 20 people in attendance this was the best meeting since the enthusiastic opening of the Bournemouth venue.

However an unveiling of the new operating system didn't happen. The guys at Solutions had still not received a copy to work with! But all… Read more…

Dorchester — Jul 12th 2011

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John opened the meeting with 21 members present. Gordon, Maggie and Terry sent apologies.

The first presentation was by Mark, of the 'Show me' app for iPad.
He first loaded some photos onto the iPad using a card adapter, and then demonstrated how the app was used to
annotate and provide a verbal commentary on the photos, which resulted in a movie which could be emailed from within the app.
This… Read more…

Salisbury — Jun 29th 2011

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I'm pleased to report that we had a slightly higher attendance this month and it resulted in a very lively and hopefully informative meeting. We started off with the usual question-and-answer session and this did get slightly technical with a discussion on the use of IP addresses but I'm fairly sure that the people who were asking the questions went away happy and hopefully with a problem cured.

We then went… Read more…

Fareham — Jun 25th 2011

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The meeting started with a business session in which we discussed the potential move to Portchester Community College following our interesting visit to the school in April. We decided that subject to no issues being raised that we will move the meeting to the school starting in January 2012. We will be keeping everyone informed as to what is happening.

We then discussed the types of pointing devices that people used and did… Read more…

Bournemouth — Jun 21st 2011

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The meeting started with Lionel's presentation on the varied – and in some cases unexpected – uses of Front Row. This is a much under-used application that comes with the Mac, though latterly the handset has been sold separately as an extra, for £15.00 Lionel pointed out that this was a very useful and time-saving method of watching movies, dvds and photos, and of listeing to music inasmuch as it is not necessary… Read more…