Bournemouth — Mar 18th 2014

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Tony (Still) gave us a master class on page layout. Unsurprisingly, he used Pages! He told us he was familiar with the 4.3 version and thought it very good, but at Alan’s behest he had used the current and recent 5.1 version for this talk. This is very different from 4.3 and lacks some its useful facilities (eg. Roman numerals) that could be critical to a particular project; he hoped… Read more…

Dorchester — Mar 11th 2014

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John introduced the meeting with 21 members present.

Euan began proceedings by showing two films which he had prepared, the first taken at the Dorset County Museum of a demonstration of a 3-D printer, which formed part of a PhD research project exploring the application of this technology to enhance the museum experience, and which was being used to reproduce archaeological artefacts using a plastics medium.

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Beaminster — Mar 4th 2014

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There was an excellent turn-out for the meeting at Beaminster on Tuesday night. Twenty three people came to listen to Lionel and Diana.Three new faces plus Barry Welch usually seen at The Dorchester meetings and one unexpected one - Andy Banks who is normally at the Fareham meeting drove three hours to be with us, and it is a pity that he had so short a time at the meeting.
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Salisbury — Feb 26th 2014

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First up any problems and queries

Brian presented an introduction to iStudio Publisher a low cost page layout application priced under £30 starting with setting up the document then placing shapes entering text into a shape filling the shape with a picture and text
Text can be made to runaround any shape along a curved line and a spiral
Creating a page layout with text and pictures

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Fareham — Feb 22nd 2014

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The February meeting of the Fareham section featured a set of iPhone Apps from Silver Ware Software. Andy explained to the seven attendees how he had been using IOS apps from Silver Ware Software for several years to help him track his business travel expenses.

He showed the group how he used the apps to help him in his business life.

For a detailed description of the apps please refer to… Read more…

Bournemouth — Feb 18th 2014

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Sixteen members were present for the February meeting, swelled by a welcome group of Dorchester members.

The star of the show was undoubtedly Alex from Solutions, who took us through the Apple TV device from ‘the ground up’. He described connecting it up to the tv and your wi-fi network, how to control it via the remote, the options in Settings and then went on to talk about and demonstrate… Read more…

Dorchester — Feb 11th 2014

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John opened the meeting with a total of 25 members and guests present.

He started proceedings with a presentation on Numbers without Calculations - a basic introduction.

He showed us how to set up bar charts and pie charts on the MacBook using Numbers, and also in Pages, which is very similar, but only appears to support very simple formulae. Those present were encouraged to follow the demonstration using their Macs, and… Read more…

Beaminster — Feb 4th 2014

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This evening's meeting went really well. Despite the howling gale and torrential rain, 12 stalwarts turned out to listen to an excellent presentation by John Lemon on iOS, the why's and how's - why it is different from Mac OS, how iCloud functions, the benefits of synchronisation and the pitfalls of Photostream (among other areas covered). In short a clear and very understandable tour of the system that we use for our iPads and iPhones.
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Salisbury — Jan 29th 2014

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Our first presentation was on how to upload movies to You Tube starting with a Keynote presentation on the details. then on to signing up to or singing in to You Tube and showing what will be involved in the way the movie will be available to be viewed if you want anyone or a selection of friends and allowing comments. How to let friends to find your movies and sending the link name. we… Read more…

Fareham — Jan 25th 2014

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The Fareham section started the new year with a talk on alternatives to Photoshop.
Derek spoke to the eight attendees about finding a cheap or free substitute for Adobe Photoshop for photo editing.

Aperture can supply a significant number of features however it does not support:
- Layers -to enable one to incorporate more than one image into a picture, for example:
swapping heads in group pictures so that all the… Read more…