Staring with a Q&A we had questions regarding the latest system Mojave installing on older Macs.
also it seemed that there were a problems with connection to emails.
Mick then gave us a comprehensive run-down on e-mailing, 10 points covering POP and IMAP, Rules, Mail Boxes, Bcc and sending the same e-mail to several people without showing the e-mail addresses, He invited us all to ask…
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Three prospective new members and two Dorchester members brought the attendance to a healthy seventeen to hear
Mick give a presentation on e-mail. Mick offered a 10 item menu of topics for us to choose from. However, nobody felt confident enough to try to improve on Mick’s ordering so we started at the top.
Setting up: Mick covered adding a new account on macOS and on iOS. Holding down…
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There were 13 people at the October meeting when Mick once again stepped into the breach and discussed quite a few elements of Mail, in this case covering Setting Up; Etiquette; Security; Pop or Imap and Rules.
After the break we had a Q & A session.
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Tony gave 20 of us a full rundown on the new operating systems macOS 10.14, Mojave, and IOS 12.
Mojave was released to the public 24th September and whilst Tony listed Apple’s list of compatible Macs but confirmed that any Mac running High Sierra can run Mojave. Tony warned that Mojave would be the last OS to run 32 bit apps and showed how to use Activity Monitor to check…
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“Last night saw a good attendance, of 19 people, to hear Mick give one of his typically concise and clear presentations. He gave it on the general area of email splitting it into with 10 separate areas. On this occasion, in response to requests by the audience, he dealt with the first 4 of these ranging from setting up email accounts, through etiquette, to spam. All of the areas were based on using the…
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Euan visited us from Dorchester to present ‘Greeting Card Design’, showing us samples of the many cards he has produced for friends and explanation how they were produced — using Affinity Designer and how many similar techniques are available in Pages and (even) Keynote.
With his Keynote presentation and Pages (both present on all Macs) he showed us simple uses of Shapes and Instant Alpha for transparency, and elaborated this…
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AUGW Bournemouth September 2018
14 members, including the welcome return of former convenor Alan Cox, met at “All Fired Up” to hear Tony run through the new features of the latest versions of macOS and iOS.
macOS 10.14, aka Mojave, will be available from 24th September. It is a free upgrade for all machines that can run it, including iMacs from late 2012. It will be the last…
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Mick had prepared a multipart presentation on everything to do with email from the basic setting up of accounts to more sophisticated troubleshooting split under 9 headings, so he suggested that the meeting requested which he should cover. We started at level 3 on his list, Spam. Most email providers provide settings by logging into the webmail account for how they handle spam. This can be holding at the server, marking as suspected spam or…
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15 people were at the Fareham September meeting in which Euan Williams showed us a demonstration of the many facets of the app TextEdit which is only available on the MacOs platform.
He explained that TexEdit is so much more than a simple WordProcessor and not a cut down version of Pages and showed us that it has a lot of features when you explore it more.
Euan did a quick run…
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Quite a small attendance for Beaminster - just 11 people were there to hear Michael show off most of the things than can be done with Spotlight (keyboard shortcut ctrl-spacebar ) on the Mac, how to record telephone conversations using your smart phone and Mac, how to print off Reminders lists, and for iOs how to save iPhone Messages, put photos and videos directly into Notes, forward text messages from an iPhone, plus a few tips…
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