Dorchester — Apr 11th 2016

In his earlier talk about making an iPhone ringtone, Mick had explained how to save the ringtone from Garageband to iTunes so that when you sync your iPhone to iTunes it will copy the file to the iPhone. As some members rely on syncing their devices via iCloud and have little experience of using their Mac with iTunes, Mick explained this month how to do just that. Other than not running out of iCloud storage, the biggest advantage of syncing via Mac and iTunes is that you can be selective about what you sync rather than the all or nothing option using iCloud. While Mick has thousands of tracks on his Mac’s iTunes he can make an album called ‘iPhone Album’ and just select a number of tracks to include in it. Then you can set the Music Syncing Preferences to only sync the one album to the iPhone. By changing the contents of that Album in your Mac’s iTunes the next time you sync your iPhone the new selection replaces the old — and you can do this with photos, movies etc. as well. The syncing process is very straight forward: iTunes will recognise the connected IOS device and lead you through the process.

Mark brought us up to date with a suitably entertaining presentation on the latest version of ‘Comic Life’. At £21 this is not cheap, but a very comprehensive way to produce material such as family cards and newsletters as well as teaching materials for both Mac and IOS. Mark wanted to show what could be done rather than detailed how-tos and he pulled this off admirably using dramatic graphic effects with pictures and text form. He showed how the program allows you to set up a story board and then choose from a blank sheet or a wide range of layouts. Photos on the Mac can be accessed directly from within the program, as well as a variety of graphics for callouts etc. which can be dragged and dropped into the document. Lot’s of creative fun is to be had from this App.

David M showed us how to set up and use Apple’s new Two-Step Verification. Then, admitting that he seemed to be the only person to have had the problem, he showed how he resolved Photos App not syncing to Photostream . The solution, having first checked that Photostream is working on other devices, is to close Photos, then open Activity Monitor > CPU tab. Now search for Photos and delete Photos Agent and any other “com.apple…Photo” entries. Close and restart Photos. To close the evening, David revealed how, with a little local help, he exported a booklet he had created in Affinity Design as a PDF complete with bleed and crop marks ready for commercial printing.

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