Dorchester — May 11th 2010

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Tom picked up the iMovie theme from last month and walked us through importing, setting up a new project and basic editing. There were a great many interested questions and we were left with the possibility of exploring the finer points of what is clearly a powerful application.

We had hoped that the iPad would be available for this meeting but … well you know the story … so John stepped in with a description… Read more…

Salisbury — Apr 28th 2010

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A slightly smaller turnout this month with only nine of us present. The format was also slightly different in that there was no formal presentation given however this meant that the whole meeting was given over to problem solving and general discussions based around Macs.

Our first issue was that none of us could actually gain access to the Internet at the meeting! Having spent a good deal of time on this we finally… Read more…

Bournemouth — Apr 27th 2010

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Afirst class presentation on iWeb, showing how an impressive web site can be built and published using this easy application together with mobileme. Mark took us though the various options that we could use and there was a great deal of interest and a good many questions followed. A good meeting!… Read more…

Dorchester — Apr 13th 2010

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Salisbury — Mar 31st 2010

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We had a rather surprising but very enjoyable meeting on Wednesday evening. Brian had put together a demonstration on Numbers that he said would last about 15 minutes. In the event there was so much interest in what was going on on screen and so many questions prompting explanations that before we knew where we were it had lasted an hour! It didn't stop there. Michael had a few more points that he wanted to… Read more…

Fareham — Mar 27th 2010

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A little different this week... We started with Coffee & Doughnuts, which seemed to go down very well, but followed this with some news of future changes.

Terry Willis announced he would be standing down as Local Area Representative after the meeting and would no longer be taking an active organizing role in the meetings. Things looked bleak for a moment or two, but swiftly changed as collectively a number of members offered to… Read more…

Bournemouth — Mar 16th 2010

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A rough demo to show the possibilities of the Pages page-layout module was given by Michael, and they are very impressive and worthy of more exploration. This drifted into another rough demo, of Keynote, followed by a far more polished one from Peter Shepheard. We had a visitor from the Windows world, thinking ahead and considering (he is already a programmer) of writing apps for the iPad. We went around the group to let him… Read more…

Dorchester — Mar 9th 2010

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The meeting was introduced by John; 24 members were present. Two presentations were offered.

The first was by Ryan, entitled 'Confessions of a portrait photographer'. Ryan is from the Dorchester firm Ryetography. They use iphoto as a viewer, which serves for organisation, and the faces and places features are also useful, together with the editing and retouch tool. Photoshop has many more sophisticated tools available, but it is a fine line to define… Read more…

Salisbury — Feb 24th 2010

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We started off the session with a look at just how easy it is to put together a presentation using Keynote. Whilst lots of its features are a bit "flash" there's plenty of variety to enable you to tailor your presentation to your audience. The session was so successful, I was inundated with volunteers to put something together for future meetings.

Lionel then stepped up and took us through brief demos… Read more…

Bournemouth — Feb 16th 2010

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Despite rain and terrible traffic problems there was a very good attendance - 14 people were there to see a demo of some of the basic features of Numbers by Marco of the Solutions staff. We were greted by Lucy, the store manageress, annd that is an indication of the fresh and helpful approach that Solutions will be taking towards our Group.

While Numbers is an easy spreadsheet to set up and use it… Read more…