Salisbury — Nov 30th 2011

A good attendance and a lively meeting!

There were a few questions for the Q&A section, most of which were dealt with but as usual, there were a couple requiring investigation which was not possible as the offending Mac was not portable so still at home. However, we made some suggestions and await feedback.

Next, Michael ran through a short demo of Dragon Dictate. The accuracy was pretty good especially as the training it requires only takes about five minutes. However, it would be interesting to see how it coped with no training at all as it was still pretty accurate with Mick dictating using Michael's profile! No, we don't sound the same. It's a very complex programme with lots of customisable options which would take a while to learn but it's easy enough to get started so you can learn as you go.

For the bulk of the meeting we were discussing iCloud. Lionel had it working as expected but the two other members who had tried it found it wasn't. Luckily, in both cases they had a laptop and phone with them so we could investigate. Small setup errors were found and once corrected, iCloud went from "doesn't work, waste of time" to doing exactly what it says on the tin!

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