February in Bournemouth brought another way to make Mac users' lives easier. Andrew K presented Keyboard Maestro, a long-standing Mac application that promises "if you can perform it manually, Keyboard Maestro can almost certainly automate it for you".
Keyboard Maestro (KM) lets the user build "macros" in a graphical way, similar to Apple's Automator and Shortcuts, but provides many more "triggers" (ways, or things happening, to…
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Mick talked about the Finder on the Mac and how iCloud Drive offers filing not dissimilar to IOS. He started by running through the Finder Preferences including Finder new window settings and various options that can be switched on and off in the side bar. He showed how other folders, files and documents, can be added or removed from the sidebar. You can move/drag a file within a drive, but when you move/drag…
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Thanks to Roy we were able to have an emergency change of venue and meet in the Yarn Barton Centre. David P addressed the basics of using Numbers and illustrated how spreadsheets could be used for more than just manipulating numbers. Some sheets had not a single number on them. Members used their own devices to enter basic data and autofill columns and rows. The exercise highlighted the difference in commands (not functionality) between the…
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For our January meeting we had a look at a couple of new and extra features of iPad iOS 13.3, asking members to tell us what they may have found and could be useful.
Starting with taking a screen shot and mark-up..
During the break there was a short Q&A concerning Yahoo and how to get larger text on an iPad.
We then had a…
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14 members braved the dark January evening for a presentation by Euan Williams on Apple’s Automator app.
Automator is a facility included in macOS for generating scripts without the need for programming. Euan started with a history lesson, tracing the origins of this idea back to Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard app which was run on the very first Macs. Variants on this classic program such as SuperCard are still available…
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To start the year, David M showed some some of the more surprising editable features of Apple’s vector Clip Art including how make a window frame round a video, and modify, add to, and subtract from shapes.
Euan gave a full demonstration of NeoFinder (was CDFinder) which quickly catalogs and manages your entire media and disk library. It is a much more fully featured version of the Mac Finder which can…
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The year commenced with David P presenting the various uses of maps on an iPhone or iPad. The focus was on Apple Maps but the ubiquitous Google Maps was included to highlight the additional facilities available from this app. Bing maps offers access to OS maps but can only be accessed via a search engine under OSX. Members followed the presentation on their own devices. Whilst neither Apple nor Google maps accepts a What3Word search…
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Bournemouth -17th December 2019
Tony Still gave a presentation and demonstration of ON1 Photo Raw, a photograph organisation and manipulation application.
There followed an extensive question and answer session.
ON1 presentation
Background
Lightroom V6 was sold with a perpetual licence which unfortunately Adobe has superseded with a subscription only version.
This, coupled with concerns about 32bit components not working in Catalina and the inevitable lack of…
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Trevor gave a great demonstration as to why we should all be giving more attention to the IOS/iPad OS app Shortcuts, now a lot more powerful and included by Apple by default in IOS 13. There are already a large number of Shortcuts available from the built-in Gallery and through the cloud and many can be integrated into other Apple apps. He showed that in Photos you can access the “Where Was…
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Members were invited to follow along using Macs or iPads with David Moon’s workshop session. To make this possible two screens were used - one mirroring the Mac and the other the iPad. David used Keynote as his vehicle to demonstrate a host of features which are common to many Apple programmes: importing photos, using shapes to mask the photos and how to edit those shapes, animation (Santa was flying across the screen in…
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