There were 11 members at this meeting.
David gave us an interesting insight into the world of Digital Currency.
He showed us a presentation he prepared in 2014 on Bitcoin and the blockchain, and emphasised the significant changes in the scale of the operation just three years later. He then showed the iPhone app of Monzo Bank, one of the new online-only banks recently licensed by the Bank of England. He…
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15 members and 2 visitors attended a comprehensive presentation from Mick on how to create a celebration card on both Mac & iPad
Mick went through the process of opening photos, selecting card, choosing photos for both external and inside, text etc., on the ipad an app is required e.g. photo box was suggested , more apps available in the app store, going through the various processes to create your card.
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12 members attended
The theme of our meeting was a look at some of our favourite Apps,
Brian demonstrated some features of editing in QuickTime Player, showing the various camera options, sharing your movies including recording whatever was being done on the screen, flipping a movie, speeding up the action.
Barry showed us a mapping and routing app. WAZE a free app. a good SatNav for iPhones, users are…
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Nine members gathered in Solutions’ smart new shop to hear about High Sierra (Mac OS 10.13) from Tony Still.
In their determination to keep to the release schedule, it seems that High Sierra was released with a few fairly serious issues. Most have been fixed through a couple of updates, although XProtect (the built-in virus protector) still has problems (uses old virus data) [UPDATE: Looks like this has been fixed…
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We had 11 members attending this meeting.
John gave an overview of how you could organise your photo collection and the things that each individual needed to consider.
He emphasised the importance of making at least 2 backups of the entire collection.
The second half of the meeting was devoted to discussions about any aspects of using digital photos on Apple devices.
The next meeting will be on…
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Mick listed the hardware configurations that can be upgraded to IOS 11. Mildly underwhelmed by the update, he confirmed it is much more significant on the iPad than iPhone and particularly so for those fortunate enough to have an iPad Pro and Apple pencil. A feature specific to the iPhone is Emergency SOS: press the power button five times, the phone locks and lets you “slide” to emergency services. Touch ID is disabled…
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A small attendance, unusual for Beaminster. Just 9 people came to hear a about first of all the background to spreadsheets - what they were originally used for and by whom, then the advent of VisiCalc back in 1979, designed to run on the Apple ][, predecessor to the Mac, which brought a revolution to the way computer programs worked inasmuch as things were no longer done in a linear fashion, but in several directions at once. This…
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15 members
The meeting started with Q&A with a question regarding zooming in on parts of a Keynote presentation.
Michael Corgan travelled from Beaminster to give a very interesting and very comprehensive talk on "Preview" an app that is with all Mac OS, he showed us it can be used to open photos and documents, converting then into quite few different formats such as PDF you can…
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For September, 14 members gathered in Solutions' new shop to try out our new venue. We found an immediate benefit by using the permanently installed large screen Apple TV display to demonstrate iOS 11 live as Tony and David presented its features.
The OS had been available for about 24 hours and Tony pointed out a number of differences from the Beta Test versions discussed on the Web. We concentrated on the iPad…
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Michael showed us extensive range of capabilities of Preview in document and image management, from scanning, editing images, adding texts and highlights etc using the markup menu and converting documents to different formats. Preview comes as part of the Apple bundled software and the version is related to the operating system and cannot be updated independently. Working with pdfs Preview enables the combining of documents, re-sorting, deleting and adding pages. Combine this to the…
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