Dorchester — Feb 11th 2014
He started proceedings with a presentation on Numbers without Calculations - a basic introduction.
He showed us how to set up bar charts and pie charts on the MacBook using Numbers, and also in Pages, which is very similar, but only appears to support very simple formulae. Those present were encouraged to follow the demonstration using their Macs, and others tried to reproduce the results using ios7 versions of Numbers and Pages. The iOS apps appeared to be generally similar to those for OSX, but had a comparatively limited flexibility.
Q&A
Tom - wants to use voice recognition system to help catalogue books in Pages. There was some discussion as to whether Pages was the right app to use for this, even though most people felt that voice recognition was good enough for the task. On the whole, approaches which involved scanning the ISBN barcode were preferred. The Delicious app costs ~£17 was thought to be worth considering, also a number of free/ paid for apps for iphone / ipad are apparently available.
Michael is having problems in connecting iMac to iPhone using Bluetooth. He has done this, but this link no longer works. Some suggestions were offered, including clearing bluetooth, and then switching devices off and then on, and trying to re-establish the Bluetooth connection, but no one had actually experienced this problem.
After refreshment at the bar:
David gave a presentation which attempted to demystify iCloud
The aim of iCloud he said was to enable data to be shared across mac devices, not for sharing with others or to use in the same way as Dropbox. iCloud operates to sync various types of data across devices owned by an individual. These types include photos in photostream, Documents e.g. in Numbers or Pages, mail settings, calendars, and passwords (via iCloud Keychain).
iCloud also has various features. These include Find my Mac, iCloud backup, Back to my Mac, and Find my Friends. The basic, free storage allocation is 5GB, but more can be purchased. Photos, and some music (that obtained from iTunes) don’t count against this.
To set up iCloud, the user needs to set up an Apple ID linked to an Apple email address, e.g. icloud.com@, @mac.com, or @me.com. iCloud can then be set up on the Mac using System Preferences / iCloud, or on an ios device via Settings, selecting features that you wish to use.
David thoroughly recommended the iCloud help on the Mac to anyone fearful of discombobulation!
SR
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