Fareham — Sep 12th 2015
Mick gave us quite a comprehensive talk about how to get started using the Pages app for the iPad. He demonstrated many of the features by using a previously saved letter heading template.
Apparently you can do all the text and format adjustments the same as on the Mac version once you know where everything is. He also showed us how to insert a picture into a document.
You can also dictate to it and it will quite accurately type the text and keep up with you, although the processing is being done live using Apple's servers in North Carolina. It even has the ability to differentiate between similar sounding words such as 'their' and 'there', depending on their context in the sentence.
There was a general discussion and Q&A session, which included iPads not backing up to iCloud, how to add extra memory to an iPad by using the Leef iBridge device, slow running Macs, and the impossibility of finding an exact replacement hard drive, which had a built-in temperature sensor, for an iMac, however Apple would happily supply and fit one, and charge you for doing it!
Next we had a tea/coffee break, and in the second part of the meeting John gave a presentation about Time Machine. He explained that after you had set it up and done the initial long backup, Time Machine would run automatically unnoticed in the background, just doing small backups.
He showed how easy it was to restore individual files that might have got corrupted or deleted completely. Although individual photos took longer to restore than in earlier versions of OS X, because you now have to restore the complete photos library first.
There was a discussion at the end about the difference between Time Machine backups and Archive backups, and also how to put the system back to normal when the entire disk was corrupted.
The next meeting will be on the 10th October starting at 10.30am.
Subsquent meetings will also be on the second Saturday of each month.
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