Ten members, including, in a very pleasant surprise, Chris & Terry (back after a long absence), were at Warsash this month. Mick's presentation was on wi-fi problems and how to resolve them- with software tweaks or hardware like mesh systems or wi-fi extenders. Stuart's attempt to resolve the wi-fi issues we have in the Newbury Room (at the far end of the building, so it's a bit tin can & string...) using…
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Mick talked us through the various ways of backing up on both Macs and iOS. He started with Time Machine , a Mac-only system, showing us how to set it up, selecting an external drive and an option about the timing between backups running from every hour to every week. The great feature of Time Machine is to be able to go back in time and retrieve documents, etc., from a previous time, which could…
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Mick talked us through how our home networks work to allow our devices to communicate with each other and the internet and followed that with methods of getting a better wi-fi signal all round the house.…
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The meeting discussed at length the structure of our sessions. There were only a few members present, so it was suggested that the other members be invited to comment. Notwithstanding the numbers present, the 1:1 session solved several of our members' issues.…
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The topic was all the day-to-day transactions we carry out using our Apple devices. David M opened by showing the advantages of holding bank and credit card details in Wallet and also setting up and using Apple Pay. He also repeated his recommendation to rely on the Apple Passwords app or similar and avoid any little password book, the key passwords and codes being those to open each Apple device and Apple ID…
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Ten members were at Warsash this month on a grey dank day, but the meeting was thankfully warm and enlightening. The topic was NAS- Network Attached Storage. Prompted by discussions on this very web site, Stuart prepared an introduction to the subject. Happily, Rick (who initiated that discussion) was able to attend and brought his QNAP NAS. After Stuart handed over, Rick couldn't do a live demo of the QNAP due to various technical issues…
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Apple has started to roll out Apple Intelligence, so at this meeting we took a look at what is currently available. To benefit from this, you require Macs and iPads with M chips, or the latest iPad mini with A17 chip, iPhone 15 Pro, and all iPhone 16 models.
We looked at summaries in emails and messages and how to get Siri to read out summaries. Writing Tools, Image Playground, Siri requests either…
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Ranging over Macs, iPads, and iPhones, we looked at new features such as writing tools made possible by AI and identified several tips to do things easier. For example, how to put a screen grab directly onto the Clipboard and how to access special characters. For those who don't like the Categories form of presenting their emails on their iPhones, we showed how it can be changed back to List View. A busy series of…
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Apple has started to roll out Apple Intelligence, so at this meeting we took a look at what is currently available. To benefit from this, you require Macs and iPads with M chips, or the latest iPad mini with A17 chip, iPhone 15 Pro, and all iPhone 16 models.
We looked at summaries in emails and messages. Writing Tools, Image Playground, Siri requests either typed or spoken will now offer to answer more…
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Nine members and a guest- who intends to become a member- attended our return to Warsash. I won't mention who missed the memo(s) about the meeting time going back to our usual 10.30 slot! This meeting was a general Q&A. Questions included on iOS 18 glitches and/or features (some of the features were unwanted...), email problems, and how best to type accent characters. The usual breakout discussions followed.…
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