iPad now has its own version of IOS, iPad OS which Euan explained incorporates more Mac like filing system. about which Euan enthused along with Multi Tasking where you can have more than one window of the same app open together and other floating widows as well. David and Euan covered some of the new features in IOS 13, common to both iPhone and iPad starting with Dark Mode. Icons now give short cuts to…
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Our October meeting was split into 2 groups, a pages workshop lead by Mick and an affinity workshop lead by Euan. Both workshops proved very informative & were much appreciated with positive feedback & requests for more of the same!…
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Eight members braved one of the wettest day of the year to attend, the start was a little later than usual due to a move to a training room, on the first floor, a rather bright room so viewing the screen was a bit difficult but manageable, the subject this month was iMovie, and include importing a movie, simple editing, adding titles and transitions, then on to cropping the ends and removing unwanted section. reversing…
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AUGW Bournemouth, September 2019
12 members gathered at All Fired Up to listen to Mick tell us all about Apple’s Calendar app.
Starting with the Mac version, Mick took us on a tour of the General pane of the app’s Preferences,
showing how to choose what portion of the day to show and adjusting the scrolling behaviour to your liking. Comments from the floor indicated that…
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This was a trial session of hands on activity. We split into in 3 pre-arranged groups, 6 working on Pages with Mick, 6 on Affinity with Euan and 2 on Keynote with David M. The Colliton Club Dorset room is long enough that were able to have the three sets of tables far enough apart that there was no crosstalk. Two of the tables had projectors and screens. Feedback from the evening was very…
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Beaminster AUG
Meeting on 3rd September 2019
David P presented ways of getting documents onto iCloud. The methods included: saving directly from packages such as Pages or choosing particular documents to save on the iCloud using the Share option or scanned in using the Notes app in iPhones and iPads then sent to the cloud using Share. In the Share option is the facility to convert to pdf and save that…
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Two items this month, for certain you will have several 32 bit apps, that should be up-dated when the next OS Catalina is released and installed, David explained the difference between 32bit and 64 bit apps. flags may be appearing on your Macs’ saying that 32 bit apps will not work David showed us how to find them and what to do about it, some can hopefully be up-dated there are a…
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Whilst we all snap away with our iPhones we not appreciate all the powerful features included. David Parnell took us step by step through these features limiting his talk to the mechanics and not getting into composition other than to show us a range of professional photos he taken exclusively on his iPhone. David started with the menu which you can scroll through at the bottom of the screen and how which you select changes…
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Tony presented “Pages” an app that is installed on all Macs including iPad, he began with a look at the large selection of Templates that came as standard choosing one to make a start showing some imported text and using this text to demonstrate formatting and the use of Styles.
Showing us how to import a graphic to make the text to flow around the text then using Instant Alpha to…
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11 members and a guest gathered at All Fired Up. Such was the enthusiasm of the pre-meeting chatter that Tony, struggling to call the meeting to order, had to resort to mime. You know it makes sense!
The feature presentation was by Euan Williams, entitled “Partitions: what, why, when and how?”
Euan started by listing the possible reasons for wanting to partition a hard drive, then went on…
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