We had a look at using some of the supplied apps on iOS & iPadOS, showing some of the less obvious features including Lists in the Contacts app and custom event repeats in Calendar. We also looked at the Health app (iPhone only) and how various medical details can be entered and showed how medical professionals can access them in an emergency.
The Q&A session was pretty busy and covered charts…
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Seven members were at Warsash this month. Stuart demonstrated HandBrake, the open-source video transcoding application, which can convert pretty much any video into a size and format of your choice. It's one of those apps that's both simple and straightforward yet potentially befuddling (trial and error is most definitely a good thing in this case) but those who hadn't used it before came away better informed. The usual breakout discussions followed, including on AI…
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David P showed how, in Safari, Reading Lists can be used to facilitate access to web sites both on-line and off-line. We also looked at how to copy a link to a section of a web page which you have highlighted (as opposed to simply sending the link to the whole web page).
The bulk of the meeting was taken up discussing possible alternative venues and in particular where and when…
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David showed Apple’s movie promoting all the current AI features, for the latest Apple devices, including all Macs using Apple Silicon. But you don’t have to have the latest devices to use AI, and David showed some of the apps which can be downloaded from the App Store, including ChatGPT, which is the system incorporated into Apple Intelligence. David’s favourite is the Chinese app DeepSeek, but don’t…
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The term AI is much talked about at present - all sorts of companies are boasting that they are using it, but what exactly can it do for us with our Apple devices? David gave us some very useful examples of what Apple offer from manipulating photos to improving the performance of the Mail app by changing the writing style of an email or proofreading it and then a quick look at using the popular AI…
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Mick gave us an in-depth look at Apple’s Mail app, which most of us use but are unaware of many features. Having explained the differences between POP and IMAP accounts, the latter being the default for most new users, he showed the relatively recent added Privacy setting. On the Mac, you can change the way the emails browser window looks by selecting Column Layout. By double-clicking on an email in the…
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Mick gave us an in-depth look at Apple’s Mail app, which most of us use but are unaware of many features. Having explained the differences between POP and IMAP accounts, the latter being the default for most new users, he showed the relatively recent added Privacy setting. On the Mac, you can change the way the emails browser window looks by selecting Column Layout. By double-clicking on an email in the…
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Nine members at Warsash this month, for Mick's talk on Apple Mail (on all Apple devices), highlighting some features many of us weren't familiar with or even aware of. The usual breakout discussions followed, with a particular focus on one member's recent spam problems.…
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The topic for this meeting was Apple Mail. As we all use email, it was quite a popular choice. Mick talked us through some of the features we may have missed or just have never used like signatures, rules etc, for most of them, showing how to use them on both macOS and iOS. Members were able to follow the presentation on their devices and when necessary ask questions as we went along.
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Mick responded to a request for guidance on Privacy and Security settings and in particular which apps needed to have your permission to know your location. There was a broad discussion on the degree to which our data is exposed and what we can do about it. Using Apple Pay was generally regarded as a more secure way of paying for goods but Mick warned us that if we agree to a repeat buying schedule…
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