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Dorchester — Nov 8th 2016

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David Parnell is an enthusiastic user of a Garmin Sat Nav. His ‘Zumo 660’ is designed for motorcycles and includes bluetooth allowing for wireless sound in the helmet, however it is equally at home in the car and can even be used when walking. The unit comes preloaded with street maps for Europe and millions of points of interest (POIs) that include hotels, restaurants, and petrol stations. The ‘BaseCamp’ Mac OS… Read more…

Beaminster — Nov 1st 2016

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While there are many apps available to help us find our way using our Apple devices, for the sake of everyone, Michael only discussed the comparative merits of the two best known free ones -Apple Maps and Google Maps, and added Waze, a free sat-nav with a difference, for good measure. These all work on Mac, iPad and iPhone.

The meeting - 18 people including three new faces - was taken through the basics… Read more…

Salisbury — Oct 25th 2016

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The subject of our meeting was “Bring out the artist in you”, Brian show a couple of sketching apps Paint Brush and a web page that is a drawing and painting page Sketchpad that will open on nearly every computer whatever operating system being used.

Also a very quick demo on how they worked by producing a simple sketch, only two other members had a try though, Brian showed a few… Read more…

Bournemouth — Oct 18th 2016

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13 members gathered to hear Alex from Solutions tell us all about MacOS Sierra. Although the new features of Sierra are fully documented on Apple's website, it was interesting to see them demonstrated and much discussion ensued to clarify exactly how the updates worked. Regulars at Bournemouth will be unsurprised to learn that the Photos updates, in particular, attracted much interest and interrogation.

A show of hands indicated that not many members had… Read more…

Dorchester — Oct 11th 2016

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We were delighted to welcome back John L’s friend Jenny who spoke to us last year about building a 3D printer under the auspices of U3A. This year she came armed with that printer and had persuaded her U3A friend and engineer Charles and his wife to bring his 3D printer from Rugby to join us. Their enthusiasm was infectious. Jenny ran through the building of her printer which clearly needed Charles&rsquo… Read more…

Fareham — Oct 8th 2016

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There were 9 members at this meeting, and we had a slightly delayed start due to an unexpected room change!
The meeting today was not as technical as normal, but still had a link with Apple devices.

Euan, from Dorchester, gave us a very interesting talk about how punctuation has evolved over the years.
He started by explaining how punctuation can change and clarify the meaning of a sentence, that would… Read more…

Beaminster — Oct 4th 2016

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15 members and 2 guests both of which joined during the meeting after receiving invaluable help with queries!

Mick gave us presentation on iPad/iphone basics such as where the switches are and what they do, then explaining the apps screens, how to move the app icons around to another screen if needed, deleting then and creating and renaming folders. What is in the Systems, battery usage and how much space the different… Read more…

Salisbury — Sep 27th 2016

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15 members and 1 guest

Mick started off with a look at the iPad, starting at the basics such as where the switches are and what they do, then explaining the apps screens, how to move the app icons around to another screen if needed, deleting then and creating and renaming folders. What is in the Systems, battery usage and how much space the different apps take up, also how to find what… Read more…

Bournemouth — Sep 20th 2016

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The first post-holidays meeting was attended by fifteen members who were rewarded by Tony handing out complimentary USB sticks, with strict orders to read the contents, before commencing his talk on Malware. (Sticks are for all members so there will be a further opportunity at the next meeting).

Malware, which may include Viruses, Trojans, Worms, Bots, Adware etc. takes the form of a program placed on your computer covertly. It usually tries… Read more…

Dorchester — Sep 13th 2016

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John Hooper suggested that most of us never dig very deeply into the Settings on either IOS or Mac OS devices, and that it is well worth taking an in-depth look at Settings as it offers many useful and customisable options. As they pretty well parallel each other, he concentrated on IOS. Firstly he showed the structure of the Settings menu and how these can bring up nested subsidiary settings by selecting an item… Read more…