April in Bournemouth saw 9 members gathered, including one new member (welcome Barrie). We were treated to a fascinating journey through the history of type, design and printing from Euan Williams with many an intriguing digression along the way.
Euan opened with a great quote from Adrian Frutiger (he of the typeface) who said that "Type is the clothing a word wears, so it must be subordinate to the content ... The whole…
Read more…
The various new features of Apple’s recently upgraded iWorks apps, Pages, Numbers and Keynote were introduced by Euan. They include gobal font replacement through a document, bookmarks and notes, along with Collaboration and Keynote Live. These were shown by switching the projector between two computers, where we see his Airdrop to watch his presentation running from a second computer on the screen. KeyNote Live does not require the recipient to have the Keynote…
Read more…
There were 13 members attending this month, and Derek gave us two interesting talks, covering WhatsApp and Yojimbo.
We moved back to the classroom for this meeting, so that Derek could use 2 projectors to show his MacBook and iPhone on different screens.
WhatsApp is a free communication app for smart phones, which includes the iPhone. The product enables "instant" communication in text, image, live video and audio. 
It works…
Read more…
At a well-attended meeting (18 were present) the chance of a fiasco, when Michael’s MacBook Pro refused to respond to a variety of commands, despite the attentions of Euan and Mick, Euan came to the rescue by another route, kindly lending his MacBook Pro so that Michael was able to go. ahead with his presentation on Photos, having been careful enough to bring a copy on a memory stick.
The…
Read more…
19 members attended
John Lemon travelled from Bridport to present a very interesting explenation of a free app ViewRanger, produced by Ordnance Survey shows high definition OS maps that can be used on iPad and iPhone you are able to zoom in on a particular area.
The maps are the same high quality of the more familiar paper maps, these can be downloaded and paid for at a very reasonable price…
Read more…
March's main topic was the story of the disks in out Macs, presented by Tony Still with 11 members, 13 people in all, in attendance. Tony first talked about the evolution of non-volatile (permanent) computer storage from magnetic tapes through to the disks that we know today. He described the current move towards SSDs (flash memory) that are already ubiquitous in iPhones and iPads.
We then explored the many disk formats available…
Read more…
Tony raised our understanding of Malware and the ways in which Apple helps defend us from it. His talk focused on macOS but most points are also applicable to iOS. He excluded eMail and Social Media from his talk as these have been covered by others and the vulnerabilities are user-enabled.
Malware, short for Malicious Software, includes viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, adware and ‘bots’. All are program code, designed to…
Read more…
This month the members attending were down to seven.
Michael Corgan travelled from Bridport to give us a very interesting presentation, describing and demonstrating the many features of the Preview application.
He emphasized that it was much more than just a document viewer. You can take screenshots, scan from a USB connected scanner, or import photos directly from a camera or from a file, then crop, resize, edit and convert them to…
Read more…
There was another good attendance, with 20 people coming along to learn some of the basics about iTunes. Michael’s presentation covered playing CDs and music from the iTunes Library, ripping CDs and a little technical stuff about the best settings to use for whatever you are copying (there are only two, so not too difficult to follow), and how to load audio books, which need a different technique in some respects.
…
Read more…
12 members and one guest attended
The meeting began with a Q&A with subject ranging from putting your own icon on folders, how to remove the pop-up flash at the start of using Pages, not showing all the e-mails when send to multiple people.
Brian then went on to demonstrate a few points in Pages, getting text to runaround a graphic and using Instant Alpha from a…
Read more…
