12 members attended
We started with a look at a few gadgets, for a bit of fun my Selfie Stick used with an iPod was passed around to take some interesting photos, next up a Veho Discovery microscope showing a couple of specimens that were saved, an iPod Shuffle attached to a small speaker played some music, one or two of my gadgets unfortunately did not work as well as I had hoped…
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March's main presentation was given by WAMUG chairman Mick Burrell with an attendance of 15 keen attendees.
Mick started by looking back to the discussion on iCloud. iCloud can back-up and synchronise iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) but it syncs all music and all photos etc. Mick questioned whether this was what users really wanted, especially those having devices with smaller memory sizes. He then explained that iTunes running on a Mac…
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There was a good turnout by 14 members for this meeting.
John gave us a talk about some internet scams, starting with ID theft.
He illustrated a typical scenario whereby a hacker had sent out phishing emails to a long list of email addresses. Each phishing email had a link to a fake website that looked authentic with exact copies of forms to fill out, the Halifax bank was chosen in this…
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Mick demonstrated in real time how to create a ringtone for iPhone — a good reminder of how useful the Garageband App can be. Using an MP3 clip of the opening bars of Dave Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’, he opened a new “Empty” Project in the latest version of Garageband 10.1, (any of the three options offered work) and dragged his MP3 clipping into Garageband. ‘Take Five&rsquo…
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There was a good turn-out of seventeen members and three new visitors to hear Michael give a presentation on a Mac basic – Time Machine. The importance of backing-up cannot be stressed too strongly, particularly by people who have lost files or photos ,and so this presentation was a welcome introduction to the ease of letting your Mac look after itself and of avoiding grief when, as is inevitable, a hard-drive dies…
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Members present 11 and 5 guests
First up was the usual Q&A.
Brian started off with a look at some items in System Preferences, Desktop and Screen Saver, The Dock, Keyboard, User groups, Sharing and BlueTooth, Security, this included a long discussion regarding passwords and security, we had some suggestions on apps for protecting and remembering your passwords.
After a break for Coffee, Mick gave an interesting…
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16 members attended to hear John Ansell's talk entitled "Whether to iCloud?"
John suggested that the easiest way to think of iCloud is that it adds some more internet-based services to those we are already familiar with, such as the world wide web and email.
All these services store information somewhere in the Internet, then the service is provided by an application running on computers typically located in data…
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Eleven people attended this meeting, including one new member.
The start was delayed due to some technical problems connecting to the Wifi.
John explained that the Maps app had first appeared with iOS 6 in 2012, and before that, the original default app for iOS devices was Google maps. John started with the basic features, Map view, Satellite view, 2D, 3D and zoom, however, the current location couldn't be accessed on the…
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Euan explained that masking is laying a partially translucent or opaque layer over an image to affect the appearance of the image without affecting the original. The mask can affect only a selected part, parts, or the whole of the image, the level of transparency of the mask varying the intensity of the effect. The default red colour of a mask is based on “Rubylith” a red transparent film used in traditional…
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There was quite a good attendance (14 in all) to hear and see two presentations.
The first was a demonstration by Roy Moore of the free iPad/iPhone app “Snapseed”. This proved to be a very competent and easy-to-use app for manipulating photographs. As chairman of the Beaminster Camera Club Roy knew of what he spake and gave us a good set of examples to show the power…
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