John opened the meeting with 24 members present.
Martin introduced a useful tool for investigating local network problems – iNet for OSX. This scans your local wireless network and identifies devices linked to it. Wifi Explorer is an OS X app too, which identifies nearby WiFi networks, and is useful to identify channel conflicts.
Martin then showed us MacTracker which lists all Apple OSs and models…
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Proceedings were opened by Mick presenting our retiring convener with a bottle of Christmas cheer in appreciation for his efforts over the last couple of years. Tony Still will take over from the new year.
Having safely stowed the bottle, Alan introduced Ben of Solutions to enlighten us on the subject of photo management.
After covering the basics of importing photos into events in iPhoto, sorting the events, editing the photos…
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John Lemon gave us a presentation on Garageband to a very good meeting – 21 people came to hear him and it was not a wasted journey. John looked at this program on both the Mac and the iPad and guided us through what could have been a maze, given the huge capabilities and multiple avenues to explore that Garageband presents. He opened many doors to making our own music without dragging us too far…
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Ten people attended the meeting including two guests let us hope that they will visit again.
The subject this month was Yosemite. Derek gave an overview to the new features of Yosemite aided by two videos. An iPhone hotspot was used to get 4G speeds (occasionally). A discussion followed on various topics including a potentially heated discussion on the use of POP or IMAP mail protocols.
At the end of the meeting…
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Number of members present 9
John Hooper took us through Mail Steward and explained how it can copy every email with all its raw data, and also any attachments, from Apple Mail, then archive them all into a single database file. Alternatively, the emails can be stored in separate database files, each one corresponding to separate categories, such as for each year.
We were shown the various aspects of retrieving your emails…
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Peter Shepeard gave an interesting and informative talk about using spreadsheets that he had created using the Numbers application.
His purpose is to keep track of his income and expenditure, as well as to monitor his bank and card accounts. He has now been using the system for at least 10 years.
Initially, he makes estimates of expenditure in various categories. He enters the actual amounts each month which he downloads…
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We started the evening with a discussion on Yosemite. Opening the discussion, John suggested that from the various comments he had read it would seem best to stick with Mavericks for the time being. But the eight or so members present who had upgraded were quite happy with Yosemite; Graham had got over his early WiFi problems by switching from Automatic location to a manual setting. David and Drew had their Computers showing up in…
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Mick Burrell gave a presentation outlining the new features in both OSX 10.10 Yosemite and iOS8. There was a very good attendance for this – Mick seems to draw the crowds! It was good to see Mick showing us in his usual concise and easily understood fashion what we can now do with our Macs, iPads and iPhones, and also to learn which of these can be updated to the latest operating systems. The…
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Members present 8
Our first session was how to copy film based slides and home movies without a slide or film copier, what you will need is a digital camera that can take movies, (you could also use the camera on the iPhone, iPad or iPod), a slide/movie projectors and screen, a tripod and your slides and your home movies, then uploading the results to the Mac.
If you…
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The meeting started with a presentation by John Hooper on Passwords and Keychains. Keychains were introduced in 1997 with OS 8.6 to store passwords, wireless keys etc. and to allow designated apps to use this information so that there is no need to type it in every time you visit a web page. John demonstrated how Keychain Access (found in the Utilities folder) is used to manage the passwords stored in your Login Keychain…
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