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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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