We've now settled back permanently into our previous meeting room, Classroom E2, and there were 8 members attending this time.
John Lemon from the Beaminster group gave us an excellent talk about ViewRanger.
This is an App that was created by Ordnance Survey, and allows you to view very detailed maps on the iPad and iPhone, as well as on other smart phones.
There is an extensive range of maps in…
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“Twiddling Type”
If we were to take one underlying message from this fascinating subject it is that good style and appearance should enable the content and not divert attention away from it. The reader should be fully absorbed in the content and barely be aware of all the effort and care put into its layout on the page.
Before the interval, Euan took us through the gamut of font…
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This month at Beaminster was Show and Tell - people were invited to show their favourite or most useful apps for iPad and/or iPhone and the response was heartening as, apart from Michael, 5 other people stepped up to the projector. We saw a range of apps -among them a map app that shows footpaths, a public transport app that gives details of transport options (down to the bus-stop and any walking time) for…
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Our presentation this month was dedicated to the iPad A to Z by Mick and Brian, as much about the iPad in the time, from the basics to more advanced.
We went through the alphabet for iPad and some of iPhone features, Mick started with Apple pay, Emergency (iPhone) where you can enter contacts and information in case of an accident, Using your fingerprint as security to start up.
Dictation to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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