David M showed us the various features of the Find my App built in to all Apple devices including how to share location with others, track items e.g. Wallet and umbrella using AirTags as well as devices, all dependent on being connected to the same Apple ID. We had a discussion about whether putting an AirTag in hold luggage are acceptable to airlines, and concluded best to check if planning such a journey.
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Eight members were at Warsash for a Q&A/general meetup session. Topics included how to save photos from an iPhone at lower file sizes, issues with a NAS, printers and how to make sure someone you've sent a file to uses the same version as the one you intended. Mick dashed off to make sure he got his 'present' from Apple (an M2 MacBookAir). Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, everyone.…
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The pre-Christmas meeting looked at a variety of topics: using the new Forms facility, formulas in Numbers, Mark-Up, another way to speed up YouTube videos (just hold a finger on the touch pad) and we were reminded of the very convenient way of transferring information from one device to another - Copy or Ctrl C something, it automatically goes onto the Clip Board, and then you can paste it into another of your devices…
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Although we were a very select band (several regulars could not make this meeting) the session was a very lively one. Mick ran through a few of the things Preview can do on your Mac that hopefully not everyone knew about. This sparked several discussions - for example, looking at the location of a photo given as latitude and longitude, the question was asked "can it show the location as What 3 Words?" That…
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David M showed us his use of the Apple Home App which “that lets users configure, communicate with and control smart-home appliances using Apple devices”. Under Climate he showed how a HomePod Mini measure temperature and humidity and how he was able to replace his basic wired room thermostat with a Netatmo Smart Therostat controllable through the Home App on any Apple device from anywhere. Under the heading Security David has a Netatmo smart…
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Nine members came to Warsash for Mick's presentation on Apple's health app, which with your iPhone or iPad (with or without an Apple Watch) can monitor and record all sorts of useful information about your health and fitness. After that, Euan had found an excellent video (on the YouTube channel Adam Savage's Tested) about the differences between Apple's Thunderbolt cables and cheaper alternatives. Watch that here. Ironically, our viewing was interupted by problems with an…
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David P aimed to find some snippet of information which was not widely known and result in members taking away nugget to make using their devices easier or even more capable. We covered a spectrum from changing the speed of YouTube videos to using Spotlight for quick calculations. The latter half of the meeting was set aside for 1:1 help. With an excellent attendance this resulted in a lot of noise and a lot…
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David explained various ways of dealing with text including dictation and translation to and from other languages. It was quite a lively session with most members trying out the various techniques as he explained them. We even managed to cope with the changes from the iOS 17 David was using to how it used to be in iOS 16!…
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Eight members came to Warsash this month. Dolby Atmos has been a big noise in video, gaming and music for a while now, and Apple has been big on supporting it- in hardware (the MacBook Pro & Air and the Studio Display all have Atmos-ready speakers, for example), and in software- almost the entire Apple Music catalogue is available for streaming in Atmos. Stuart's talk was an explanation of the technology and how we…
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Mick ran through the the key features of the new iPhone 15, 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max concluding that most of the improvements would not really be noticeable for our typical uses and if needing to update an older phone it would be worth looking at the 14 or 13 still offered by Apple. Mick suggested the Pro models can almost be described as a Camera with a built in phone…
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