Dorchester — Feb 12th 2019

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John Cadd is a passionate sailor and professional photographer who takes breathtaking photos of Tall Ships both on board, from his ‘RIB’ and elsewhere. He showed us photos from his early film days to modern digital. John is totally committed to the benefits of the digital photography with no regrets at the transition from film.

When younger, John worked as an underwater photographer for companies in the North Sea oil fields… Read more…

Fareham — Feb 9th 2019

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There was a good turnout today with 15 members present.
We didn’t have a set talk, but instead choose to have an extended Q&A session.

The first question was on behalf of a member’s relative, who couldn’t send texts from the Messages app on her Mac although receiving them from iOS devices was no problem. We established a live link to share her screen… Read more…

Beaminster — Feb 5th 2019

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An excellent turnout of 21 members & 1 guest on a dreadfully damp and foggy night. David M gave a comprehensive presentation on what can be done with hearing aids integrated with iPhones and such devices. While the iPhone will connect to many hearing aids that are Bluetooth enabled hearing aids that are MFi - made-for-iPhone offer amazing control options all done via the iPhone/iPad or even an iWatch. David P showed… Read more…

Salisbury — Jan 29th 2019

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10 members and 2 guests braved a very cold evening and the threat
of snow and ice.

“iPad Night” our meetings focus was with the iPad.

Stating with a Q&A with questions regarding iCloud, e-mails and moving files between computers.

Brian started with a presentation concerning the venue’s safety and emergency procedures and ended on a lighter note with Michael&rsquo… Read more…

Bournemouth — Jan 15th 2019

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Perhaps spurred on by a desperate desire to escape from the saga of the meaningful Brexit vote, 14 members gathered in All Fired Up to hear Mick talk about synchronising Photos between Mac and iOS devices.

The first part of the talk dealt with two synchronising services offered by iCloud; iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream. The former stores all your photos on iCloud, making them available on all devices but has… Read more…

Fareham — Jan 12th 2019

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There were 13 of us at the January meeting where Euan Williams once again gave an interesting and informative talk, this time on Affinity Publisher.
This is a Beta version at the moment and eventually will complete a trio of professional creative software programs by Serif, these are Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher.

He started off the presentation by showing us how NOT to put text on a page, lots… Read more…

Dorchester — Jan 8th 2019

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During Q&A Annie told us about a new personal safety app, HollieGuard; “In danger? A simple shake or tap activates Hollie Guard, automatically sending your location and audio/video evidence to your designated contacts.”

Following Q&A, Michael gave a presentation on Spotlight, Apple’s system based search engine for both Mac OS and IOS that helps you find documents, contacts, apps, dictionary definitions, and much more… Read more…

Bournemouth — Dec 18th 2018

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AUG Bournemouth Dec 2018

12 members gathered to hear Tony tell us about “Presents from Apple”
All new Macs come with the collections of apps we used to know as iWork and iLife for free but the focus for this evening’s talk was that more nebulous offer, iCloud.

After providing a comprehensive list of iCloud services, Tony went on to look at some of them in… Read more…

Dorchester — Dec 11th 2018

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John showed a couple of short videos from his iPad nothing to do with Apple but amazing. The first best described as complex pendulums and the second an Austrian model plane defying aeronautics at a Paris tournament in 2014.

Georgia showed us how to create Memoji on the latest iPhones with facial ID, superimposing facial movements onto emoji characters with a wide range of editing features.

Euan, blaming David, showed us a range… Read more…

Fareham — Dec 8th 2018

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15 people were at the December meeting when David Moon talked us through Apple Continuity - how to interact through all the Apple devices. He discussed Handoff, where you can work on a program on one device and continue on another one, for example, you could start working on a Numbers spreadsheet on an iPhone, then later continue it on a Mac, the link is iCloud.
Bluetooth and Handoff need to be turned on using… Read more…