Beaminster — Nov 5th 2013

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Despite the wind & rain, 15 of us who didn't have a fireworks party planned made their way to the meeting. This month was a very informal affair with no presentation but plenty of time to deal with questions & answers. We worked through the WAMUG joining process for a few members who'd paid their subs up front but not set up their profile on here and also looked at varies, mainly iPad related issues… Read more…

Salisbury — Oct 30th 2013

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Unfortunately, due to problems in the kitchen, those of us who'd planned to eat before the meeting held up the start for almost half an hour. However, at 8:00pm Gordon launched into his rundown of iOS 7. He gave us a very comprehensive presentation including most of the changes from iOS 6 and had prepared before & after screenshots of the icons, some of which have changed beyond all recognition leaving some people searching… Read more…

Fareham — Oct 26th 2013

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Eight members attended the meeting which kicked off discussing the latest and greatest offering from Apple - Mavericks.
Andy then gave a talk on obtaining charts from Numbers using the dummy data from Lionel's talk from the previous meeting.

The meeting closed after further discussions on our favourite products.

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Bournemouth — Oct 15th 2013

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Alan Cox welcomed everybody who had made it to the meeting through the traffic gridlock that evening. There were 17 present. He then introduced Ben Cahill, the new Assistant Manager at Solutions, and Dean who repairs Apple kit at Solutions as a fully trained and accredited Apple technician.

Dean gave an interesting presentation on all the seemingly myriad cables that have been and are used to connect our various devices - although he tempered… Read more…

Dorchester — Oct 8th 2013

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John introduced the meeting with 22 members present.

Mark told us about Saving stuff in the Cloud. This was not about backing up, just a personal view of using the Cloud for saving and sharing.
He discussed the benefits and drawbacks of using a Cloud approach.

Mark then presented more detail on iCloud and using it to save and share iWork documents, mail, calendars etc. He observed that problems could… Read more…

Fareham — Sep 28th 2013

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Lionel gave a talk on using Pages to control the Finances of WAMUG using dummy data (so as to not infringe Data Protection laws.

The talk then went on to using the Charting feature in Pages to illustrate the breakdown on subscription payment methods.

This proved to be a challenging activity which would be carried over to the next meeting.

The meeting finished up with the usual discussion on… Read more…

Salisbury — Sep 25th 2013

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This month we were treated to a very entertaining demo by Brian. We're used to the high tech world of Apple but in contrast, and I hope he won't mind me describing his gadget this way, Brian had gone very low tech to produce a turntable to hold his camera to produce a 360deg video. This was made from a 1.5v motor purchased from Maplins and bits & pieces found in his shed, namely… Read more…

Bournemouth — Sep 17th 2013

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The proceedings started with the AGM. Mick and Lionel respectively gave the Chairman's and Treasurer's report followed by the election of officers. Mick then paid tribute to Terry Willis, co-founder and long term supporter of WAMUG; Terry is stepping down from the Committee and was thanked for his long and invaluable service.

Alan then opened the group meeting by thanking Christopher Harrison of Solutions, who is moving on to write for Future… Read more…

Dorchester — Sep 10th 2013

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The holidays may still be taking its toll on members as there were only 15 present. The new room lay-out seems most successful and thanks are due to Mick for bringing his kit to make it possible.

Georgia demonstrated three free iOS Apps:

Sky Scanner [also in OSX] that gathers together information from many airlines on flight prices. They are displayed in the classic lists but also on a map… Read more…

Fareham — Aug 31st 2013

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We had two talks, the first one on upgrading a Mac Pro with an SSD to improve boot and program load time. The second one on the use of Country specific address formats in Contacts and the use of the Chronos Labelist program to get a greater degree of flexibility of labels and Contact listings than is supplied in the basic Contacts application.

Discussions covered RAID storage and exploiting undocumented features in the… Read more…