Salisbury — Sep 26th 2012

A few regulars missing this month but a select band listened to John's demo of Skype. He volunteered his son (who was in another country - Scotland) to be on the other end. We were treated to a video chat which of course is free to do. We then looked at how you can find contacts by searching for their Skype name (if you know it) or their email address or name. John didn't demonstrate but explained that you can buy credit and use this for calling landlines both here and abroad at cheaper than BT prices.

Annie is a big fan of the Tom Tom sat nav app on the iPhone and was all set up to show us how this worked. However, she has yet to buy an iPhone 5 and we discovered that a 3GS will not connect to a projector so we fell back on Mick's 4S (he also uses Tom Tom). Annie explained lots of the facilities that the basic app has and demonstrated a route using Mick's phone. The app compares very well (at £39.99 with free map updates) against the cost of a stand-alone unit. Annie makes extensive use of the traffic update information but she couldn't project this as unfortunately Mick is too tight to pay the £20 per year this service costs but Annie assures us it's well worth it!

Finally, Gordon brought his new iPhone 5 and was showing us the changes to that and to iOS 6 including some very impressive rotating and tilting of maps.

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