Seven people attended the meeting including a new Mac user seeking information on migrating from the dark side - welcome.
Prior to the usual business, we announced that the April 30th meeting will be held at Portchester Community School, White Hart Lane, Portchester, where we will be shown round and see in use the school's two Mac suites of computers.
Portchester School
Back to the March meeting - Derek described how he…
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An interesting evening revolving around the attributes and worth of MobileMe - ably demonstrated by Marco of Solutions. The discussions went on to cover a wider range, amongst other subjects touched on a comparison between SuperDuper and Time Machine. This was to the detriment of the former, as the argument in favour of Time Machine is that it does not interfere with the layout of the hard drive sectors, something which is apparently done by SuperDuper…
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John having just returned from holiday Mark introduced the meeting with 17 members present.
He started with a foray into the refurbished WAMUG website. He also gave the link which people have to use in order to subscribe to the WAMUG calendar on iCal -
UPDATED LINK FOR iCAL FEED
Q&A's then followed, the following items were discussed:
Hard drive problems which had origins in faulty power supplies, cables.
IMAP with…
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In spite of a major road closure to the east of the meeting only one person missed the start of the meeting at which 14 people attended.
This months focus was on Desk Top Processing.
Michael Corgan demonstrated how the page layout part of Pages could be used to create brochures, posters and books. He demonstrated the use of layers and the flexibility of the layout process.
Euan Williams then…
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No Report…
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The start of the evenings' programme was not auspicious – the presentation on iChat and Skype that Michael had given the previous week at Dorchester had to arrive on a memory stick, as his laptop was away having the hard drive replaced. However as the presentation was made in Keynote '09 it couldn't run on the '08 version in Lionel's MacBook, nor would the '09 copy of Keynote that Michael had thought to put on the…
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John introduced the meeting with 21 members present.
We started the new format of the meeting with Q&A's on a variety of problems, including how to sort out Wireless Networks, what a convert from the PC could use in place of MS Access - Filemaker was recommended. Canon PIXMA printer problem, where the solution was possibly to be found by downloading up to date drivers. Speech to text software was also discussed…
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This was the first of our monthly meetings, there was a good attendance of 15 members including three from the western reaches of Wamug territory - welcome.
The meeting started with Chris Willis the Wamug webmaster describing the evolution of the groups web site over the years - the current incarnation being the 6th iteration. He also described the tools he used to create the web site.
He is currently working on a…
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The question & answer session was quite lively this month with members asking "why am I being asked for a password to join my network" and "what hardware should I buy next". "Why is my Text Edit misbehaving" and finally, "what's Text Edit"! In fact, I think there were more answers than questions!
We then had a brief run through of how to coax labels…
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Sorry about the date shown above - the only other date on offer was for the September meeting! That was because I had forgotten that it was down to me to add the 2011 meeting dates to the WAMUG calendar. This is now done! (ARMeD*) Anyway, the meeting actually took place last night, January 18th, with the programme originally set up for that December meeting but postponed because of the bad weather. (My car was stuck…
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