Following up on last month’s meeting, Trevor Noyes advised against up grading to the latest version of OS Map namely version 3.6.0 and stick with 3.5.0 for the time being.
David Moon showed the basic graphics common to the Apple apps, Pages, Keynote and even Numbers. David focused on Pages set to Page Layout (“Document Body” unticked). Apple include a wide range of vector shapes…
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David M ran through several of the new features in the latest release of IOS & iPadOS 15.0. Whilst superficially there seems little change, once you start to look in detail this really is a major upgrade but some features depend on having more modern devices with a minimum of the Apple A12 Bionic Chip. David showed various features including Live Text,Tags in Notes, Tab Groups, Shared with You and the improved FaceTime…
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The meeting was once again held upstairs in The Pheasant Inn's Shoemakers Hall. After a small group sampled the extensive evening menu downstairs, nine members and two guests enjoyed a detailed illustrated talk by David Moon on the Apple Watch; time-keeping is clearly the least exciting function of this extra-ordinary device which can now measure a number of medically-relevant functions, act in many ways as a small readily accessible iPhone and, as…
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11 members and 1 visitor turned out on a wet Autumn evening, lured by the prospect of All Fired Up’s excellent coffee and cake - and maybe also by the prospect of Euan explaining why Apple’s M series of chips represent a significant technological advance.
Euan’s presentation covered the various processes involved in chip manufacture, from spark erosion, chemical etching through to the use of extreme ultraviolet light…
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For our second post-Lockdown meeting at the Colliton Club is was great to have 23 people attending including members from outside of Dorchester and three visitors.
David ran through several of the new features in the latest release of IOS & iPadOS 15.0 already now 15.0.2. Whilst superficially there seems little change, once you start to look in detail this really is a major upgrade but quite a lot of…
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Euan explained the technical wonders and evolution of Apple’s new Apple Silicon chips, starting with the M1, which are replacing Intel processors across the Mac range and is also used in the iPad Pro. He discussed some very technical details but the talk was aimed at a more general audience and he successfully held our interest and attention. We all felt informed rather than bewildered!
After visiting the development of integrated…
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After a brief taster of a couple of the delights of IOS 15 to whet the appetite for the topic being addressed in detail at our November meeting Euan introduced us to ePub. After describing where ePub fits alongside PDF and HTML we were shown examples of ePub documents can embody text, video, audio and images and what's more Euan showed us we all already possessed the means of generating ePub files. The attendees using…
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Salisbury’s first meeting post-lockdown was held in the old Shoemakers Hall at The Pheasant Inn, an early Tudor building in the city centre. Though the weather was atrocious, 8 members and 1 guest attended.
As a personal gift for help in the past, Barry gave Brian Tapper a voucher entitling a couple to have a steam train excursion as he thought that though Brian was an avid photographer of steam…
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For Bournemouth’s first post-lockdown meeting, 10 members and one visitor gathered in All Fired Up to exchange stories of lockdown experiences and for the customary questions and answers.
Lockdown purchases included home automation, notably ‘connected’ doorbells, multi-port dongles for USB-C Macs, new iPhones and Apple’s new AirTags. The generally agreed most useful feature of Apple’s technology during lockdown was video conferencing/calling…
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Euan explained the technical wonders and evolution of Apple’s new M1 chip which is replacing Intel processors across the Mac range and is also used in the iPad Pro. He discussed some very technical details but the talk was aimed at a more general audience and he successfully held our interest and attention.
After visiting the development of integrated circuits from Jack Kilby’s first experimental design through Apple&rsquo…
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