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…
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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…
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Our Q&A session solved a few problems ranging from how to split clips in iMovie to how to reset your password for this web site. We then went on to look at some favourite apps including Shazam which we all tried to fool (with some but very little success) by playing music from obscure artists, the new filing app InterconneX (from Econ Technologies) for iPad and finally Hopscotch which some older members with…
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A virtue of having only a few members attend a meeting is that the discussions and information sharing involves only one conversation which involves all the attendees. Today we only had 5 members attending which suited the topic which was a "Show and Tell" session where the members were invited to describe the free and cheap applications that they find useful. Given that we are expecting the summer to be over and the weather…
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With yet another good turn out in spite of the hot weather, Vicky of Solutions (Bournemouth) gave her presentation on iPhoto.
After a quick tour of iPhoto's main screen, she explained the various means of obtaining support. As well as the Help menu, Apple 'find out how' tutorials are a good source of information about many Mac topics including iPhoto. She also told us that phone calls to AppleCare could be made more economically by…
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[bold]Topics: Installing an SSD; Using Google Images; Producing our Bulletin; Q and A[/bold]
John introduced the meeting with over 21 members and guests present, on a very hot evening.
We again tried some new ideas for sharing the displays to make the presentations more easily visible to members. This time, two projectors were used, and a brief discussion at the end of the meeting considered possible improvements to this…
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6 Members meet in the English Classroom at the Portchester Community School.
Unfortunately my memory of this meeting is completely gone so if any one who attended can remember what occurred. Then please post to this blog or contact Andy Banks at
[undisclosed email]…
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I'm testing…
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Not to pre-empt the Q&A session scheduled for later, Alan opened the meeting with an answer to an unasked question, explaining the reasoning behind Apple's choice of name for the next incarnation of OSX, "Mavericks" - it involves a Californian beach and a dog apparently.
Mick then took the floor with a talk explaining the principles behind Cloud Computing, starting with a bit of history about how the needs…
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[bold]Topics: Instant alpha & Printing labels from Address Book/Contacts.[/bold]
As John was away, Mark introduced the meeting with 20 members present.
First off was Euan, who offered us 'a cup of Instant Alpha'.
Apple's 'Instant Alpha' in Pages, Numbers and Keynote with 'Smart Selection' in Preview are two related and useful technologies. Euan covered the concepts of Channels, Masks and Adjustment layers -- with a brief exploration of…
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