Fareham — Apr 5th 2008

This months meeting at Fareham, took us from the creative genre to business acumen. Both topics providing a lot of discussion and interest. We kicked off with Sam giving us an insight into the workings of Garageband, bringing along his wealth of talent and enthusiasm to persuade us all that perhaps, we all should investigate how we could use the programme.

Following a break for Coffee & Doughnuts, Mick then showed us the business side of life by explaining how he runs his holiday cottage business on his Mac. Having a holiday may be fun, but as it turns out, running his business on the Mac is almost as good!!

Plenty of questions followed, both to Sam and Mick, alongside fixing a few problems. This included one particular problem where when quitting Safari, an error message appeared. It turned out, after trying numerous fixes, that a small program called "Speed Downloader" was incompatible with Safari 3.1!! You live and learn.

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John Surtees said…

Just like to say thanks to Sam and Mick for their demos. It made for a very enjoyable meeting. Even the work-round due to the lack of a 'mini dvi to vga' cable for connection to the projector, proved educational. Would it have been so strait-forward, I wonder, if we'd been using Windows?

Roy Rainford said…

Yes an interesting meeting, thanks to Terry for the organisation & to the two presenters for the input. Good to have the digital projector.

Tony Roberts said…

I agree, lets have more, more and more of these enthusiastic people whetting our appetite to discover the full capabilities of Mac software.
As a frustrated musician, Garageband has allowed me to produce some pleasing tunes (if only to my ear)- thanks Sam.
Also good to see something other than Microsoft Access being used so productively - well done Mick, a superb example of what can be done if you
learn your software well and search for those hidden features.
A great meeting yet again Terry and Chris, with the added bonus of the new projection facilities.
Thanks
Tony
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