A hardy 7 members braved February for a dose of nostalgic recycling. John Ansell presented the means of moving your vinyl records into iTunes so that you can listen to them again without all that cleaning, turning over halfway through and unwanted clicks and pops.
John first played some comparative samples, showing how a ripped vinyl record can sound as good as a first-generation CD version and, to some ears, sound better than…
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Mick explained how to make full use of Calendar on both Macs and IOS devices. Assuming one is using iCloud, the calendars are synchronised on each device. Make, modify or delete an entry and the update will be pushed to the others via iCloud. To make a new entry on the Mac just click in on the calendar roughly where you want to make the entry and the enter detail window opens. On IOS you…
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Fareham Meeting - 11th Feb 2017
We had 10 people including one guest who (whisper it quietly) was from the other side - a ""doze" and Android phone user.
Derek's topic for the meeting was based around panorama images.
Much to all the smart phone users surprise it was discovered that the smart phone could take panoramic or widescreen pictures. Lots of fun ensued as all the smart…
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John Hooper appeared from the Mysterious East - well, Southampton - to give an enjoyable demonstration of ways to:
first, see what is in the smallest print on screen, creating either a magnifying glass to move around the screen, or enlarging the screen and moving around within that.
and second, get your Mac and iPad/iPhone to talk to you, listen to you,and turn what you say into text or to carry…
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Mick gave a presentation of the features of iCloud and iCloud Drive, mentioning first how they used to be combined as Mobile me and then just iCloud before being "split" into two separate items. He showed us what each does, how they should work and how to troubleshoot if they don't behave as expected!
After coffee & biscuits there was a lively question and answer session covering both the iCloud/iCloud…
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9 members enjoyed an entertaining and informative - in equal measures - presentation by Euan Williams entitled "Of Squiggles and Marks (letters, points and punctuation), a whimsical talk". After demonstrating how punctuation can affect the meaning of a sentence, Euan followed by a brief review of modern punctuation marks. Euan explored emoticons, emoji and symbols through the macOS "Emoji & Symbols" and "Keyboard Viewer" menus. We learnt about glyphs & Unicode and…
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There was a good turnout by 15 members at this first meeting of 2017.
John gave us a talk about Siri.
Siri has been available on iOS since 2011, but only recently on the Mac starting with Sierra. The demonstrations, mainly from his iPad, were all saved off-line in advance, since Siri is blocked at this venue.
John started by explaining what Siri is, and how to configure the voice…
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Stephen Hardy’s entertaining presentation “Let’s start at the very beginning with A, B, C instead of Do-Re-Mi” (but making a serious point) and was motivated by Mick’s AGM report. It expressed thanks to all members, especially our Chairman Mick, actively involved in running AugWessex. His experience of running voluntary organisations suggests that positive feedback is not often forthcoming. As he will be moving from this…
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John Lemon gave an outstanding presentation on ViewRanger, an app created by the Ordnance Survey which brings the precision and detail of the famous ranges of paper maps to iPad and iPhone. The app itself is free, but the maps, which are downloaded onto your device, have to be paid for. However, while a complete set of the 1:25 range of Great Britain would hit your wallet for almost £300, there is an…
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A brave 9 members convened for an Apple-themed Christmas quiz refereed by Tony Still. After a variety of questions about people, products and events, David Moon scored the most points for a score equivalent to 90%. Well done David.…
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