David M showed us his use of the Apple Home App which “that lets users configure, communicate with and control smart-home appliances using Apple devices”. Under Climate he showed how a HomePod Mini measure temperature and humidity and how he was able to replace his basic wired room thermostat with a Netatmo Smart Therostat controllable through the Home App on any Apple device from anywhere. Under the heading Security David has a Netatmo smart…
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Nine members came to Warsash for Mick's presentation on Apple's health app, which with your iPhone or iPad (with or without an Apple Watch) can monitor and record all sorts of useful information about your health and fitness. After that, Euan had found an excellent video (on the YouTube channel Adam Savage's Tested) about the differences between Apple's Thunderbolt cables and cheaper alternatives. Watch that here. Ironically, our viewing was interupted by problems with an…
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David P aimed to find some snippet of information which was not widely known and result in members taking away nugget to make using their devices easier or even more capable. We covered a spectrum from changing the speed of YouTube videos to using Spotlight for quick calculations. The latter half of the meeting was set aside for 1:1 help. With an excellent attendance this resulted in a lot of noise and a lot…
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David explained various ways of dealing with text including dictation and translation to and from other languages. It was quite a lively session with most members trying out the various techniques as he explained them. We even managed to cope with the changes from the iOS 17 David was using to how it used to be in iOS 16!…
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Eight members came to Warsash this month. Dolby Atmos has been a big noise in video, gaming and music for a while now, and Apple has been big on supporting it- in hardware (the MacBook Pro & Air and the Studio Display all have Atmos-ready speakers, for example), and in software- almost the entire Apple Music catalogue is available for streaming in Atmos. Stuart's talk was an explanation of the technology and how we…
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Mick ran through the the key features of the new iPhone 15, 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max concluding that most of the improvements would not really be noticeable for our typical uses and if needing to update an older phone it would be worth looking at the 14 or 13 still offered by Apple. Mick suggested the Pro models can almost be described as a Camera with a built in phone…
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Quite a few members couldn't make it to this meeting but those who did heard David M explain various ways of dealing with text including dictation and translation to and from other languages. It was quite a lively session with most members trying out the various techniques as he explained them. At one point during the dictation explanation, an iPad at the back of the hall managed to pick up what David was saying at…
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Mick gave two short presentations, the first looking at the new iPhone 15. A few of the new features were picked out as being of more interest on both the "standard" 15 and the Pro models. There was a brief discussion as to whether the new features were worth the extra over and above the price charged for the still available 13 and 14 models.
The second presentation followed a similar…
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Euan, rather than a Keynote presentation showed us his Notes and how he manages them, the key being that you can copy almost anything onto a note, photo, pdf, hand written note, URL etc. Just like the Finder, you can have folders within folders. Euan clearly uses Notes to a greater extent than most of us so being able to retrieve information is critical. The search facility within the Notes app is a very effective…
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Euan showed us the basics and a few not so basics of editing in iMovie. It was a repeat of the presentation he gave to the Salisbury group on 26th August so more details are available in that report.…
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