John opened a lively meeting with 22 members present.
Gordon was first man in, and started by quoting some short anecdotes which helped us to recall the unique nature of Steve Jobs
- On being shown some final prototype large monitors "Can't you make the corners a bit more round"? This led to an increase in production costs of some 3 to 4 million Dollars
- On interviewing a lady applicant…
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The meeting was quite a cosy affair with just seven members and a meeting room short of tables due to the set up of an important meeting due to take place in the next room.
Lionel began by giving a personal view of his experiences downloading and working with Lion over the last few weeks. It appears that this is one of the most significant upgrades to MAC OSX since its introduction and…
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We had 7 members attending. Andy Banks opened the meeting and introduced Alan Clemmy who gave an excellent talk on his experiences with Apple's iMovie application.
Alan started to use iMovie when he got his first movie camera. He went on to show us some of the work his school has produced when 60 to 70 students and staff produced a movie to show case their work to the end of year assembly…
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Lionel began the meeting with a short Q & A session followed by a brief explanation of Dropbox and its uses. This was a little curtailed by a small problem with the wi-fi connection not allowing a demonstration.
However this was forgotten when Mick gave an interesting demonstration of the use of Smart Folders, Smart Albums in iPhoto and Smart Playlists in iTunes. It was shown how these can automate the sorting…
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John opened the meeting with 19 members present.
Mick talked about Smart folders in finder, and in three Apple applications.
The first example was Mail, in which smart mailboxes keeps a copy, or rather a pointer to the original message. This is similar to Rules, but can process sent mail as well. (It is worth noting that this limitation in Rules can be worked around…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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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
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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…
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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…
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