Dorchester — Oct 30th 2007

This has been one of our best meetings so far. Three new members turned up to bring attendance to 15 with one apology. At least three Macs had Leopard installed, and we kicked off reasonably promptly with Apple's movie tutorials about Leopard features. The silence that followed was a trifle worrying, but it seems that this was more due to a spasm of wonder than any disapproval.

David Moon followed this up with an introduction to Pages 08. He diligently avoided the more exotic templates on offer, and used the text and media inspectors to show the flexible and intuitive interface.

After a break for discussion and refreshment, Mark Ford took a look at using Numbers to make purchasing choices, and we turned to iKeynote 08, using it to present some more features of Numbers in a vaguely relaxing way.

Many separate discussions followed and the last of these broke up after 11pm – our venue is very flexible, and hospitable – though we don't do Doughnuts...

As usual too many different matters were sorted out for them all to be reviewed here, but one thing is clear: members really like Leopard and it will be the trigger for several new Mac purchases.

Euan Williams.

Comments

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Thomas Maude said…

Yes it was an excellent meeting and a great introduction to Leopard to see it all working - I also enjoyed the keynote presentation of 'Numbers' by Mark and Euan so much so that I may even dispense with my usual 'back of a fag packet' that I normally use for my numbers calculations and give it a try ! Thanks also to Chris the tech miester for his sugestions on how to try to fix my sick and ailing G5.
Tom Maude

Terry Willis said…

Don't have Doughnuts!! Whatever next... (Note to self: Must visit Dorchester to try fine Ales...!).
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