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Fareham — Apr 13th 2019

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April saw 11 Members attending when John talked us through keyboard shortcuts supported by a printout. He mentioned that there were 5 Modifier keys, Command, Control, Option or (Alt), and Shift. These only do something when used with another key for example Cmd key plus S is the shortcut for Save.
John then went on to show us a lot of the shortcuts and what they did. The conclusion was that the keyboard shortcuts… Read more…

Dorchester — Apr 9th 2019

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Mick showed us how useful and flexible Apple’s voice assistant Siri can be. A simple request about the weather in Andover was easily answered but so also was the rather more indirect question “do I need to take my umbrella if I go for a walk this afternoon in Andover. Siri can be used to control many aspects of the Apple Device; sticking with the Mac, Mick got Siri to open an… Read more…

Beaminster — Apr 2nd 2019

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13 members & 1 guest came to our April meeting to hear John Lemon summarised his own talk as follows: “Three apps and a dongle.” Perhaps a little more detail is needed to do it justice. First app was WeatherPro which is available in basic or premium form. The latter shows the weather for two weeks ahead in whichever location takes your fancy. A lot of fine detail, graphical and numeric, is… Read more…

Salisbury — Mar 26th 2019

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The meeting began with Barry presenting ZOOM an application that is cross platform covering most formats ZOOM is used for video conferencing it can be used to video chat with one person or talk to several friends and family with video at the same time, or with a large group of people for a conference, with your picture all participants and their pictures are displayed and selected when they speak, he explained how he uses… Read more…

Bournemouth — Mar 19th 2019

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March 2019 brought 12 members together to hear Rick Churchill talk about Audacity and sound processing. Rick started by describing a need to play short sound clips for a quiz night. He then introduced Audacity and its configurable user interface (e.g. choice of colours and movable toolbars).

The remainder of the presentation was a demonstration where Rick highlighted some of Audacity's effects. These include a notch filter, that can be used to… Read more…

Dorchester — Mar 12th 2019

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In defence of the criticism of Apple over pricing of its new iPhone XS at the end of 2018, Tony decided to look at all the presents that Santa Tim Cook gives us starting with the fact that all new Macs come with a collection of included apps we used to know as iLife i.e. iMovie, Photos and GarageBand and iWork i.e. Pages, Numbers and Keynote, but now steadily being incorporated into an… Read more…

Fareham — Mar 9th 2019

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There was a turnout of 16 at this month’s meeting when Michael Corgan gave a talk on Spotlight, a built in app on the Mac platform.
Michael said that this app was more useful than most people realised and very few people use it to it’s full potential. It is opened by clicking on the Magnifying Glass icon at the top right bar on the Mac screen, or by using… Read more…

Beaminster — Mar 5th 2019

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Another excellent turn out of 17 members & 1 guest

Michael presented ten tips which may help members tailor their Apple equipment so it behaved exactly as they wished - for example the first screen on waking up showing the local weather. Others included finding that elusive cursor, dedicating specific key combinations to ensure that you always had ‘save as’ available and how to alter a PDF without buying expensive software or… Read more…

Salisbury — Feb 26th 2019

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Lawrence presented Astro Pixel Processor a very interesting app and web site where you can find more information and where you are able to have a look at deep space objects streamed from an array of private telescopes. he explained that the pictures are raw photographs that allow you to edit the images with the use of sliders that a familiar to anyone using a photo editing app such as Photoshop or Afinity Designer, he… Read more…

Bournemouth — Feb 19th 2019

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February brought a keen but diminished nine members to hear David Moon describe the facilities available from Apple's Continuity. Before the presentation, Tony Still reminded everyone of the recently published 'Code of Conduct' for the Bournemouth meetings, designed to avoid any more unfortunate incidents around the fragile shelves of All Fired Up.

David described the introduction of Continuity in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 and how it is now available for Mac… Read more…