John introduced the meeting with 21 members present.
We started the new format of the meeting with Q&A's on a variety of problems, including how to sort out Wireless Networks, what a convert from the PC could use in place of MS Access - Filemaker was recommended. Canon PIXMA printer problem, where the solution was possibly to be found by downloading up to date drivers. Speech to text software was also discussed…
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This was the first of our monthly meetings, there was a good attendance of 15 members including three from the western reaches of Wamug territory - welcome.
The meeting started with Chris Willis the Wamug webmaster describing the evolution of the groups web site over the years - the current incarnation being the 6th iteration. He also described the tools he used to create the web site.
He is currently working on a…
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The question & answer session was quite lively this month with members asking "why am I being asked for a password to join my network" and "what hardware should I buy next". "Why is my Text Edit misbehaving" and finally, "what's Text Edit"! In fact, I think there were more answers than questions!
We then had a brief run through of how to coax labels…
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Sorry about the date shown above - the only other date on offer was for the September meeting! That was because I had forgotten that it was down to me to add the 2011 meeting dates to the WAMUG calendar. This is now done! (ARMeD*) Anyway, the meeting actually took place last night, January 18th, with the programme originally set up for that December meeting but postponed because of the bad weather. (My car was stuck…
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John opened the meeting at 19.30 wishing everyone a Happy and prosperous new year.
The meeting started with a QA session with subjects ranging from connecting your computer to your TV via USB dongles Ethernet connectors etc. Other subjects touched upon was Keychain access, the inner workings of the mighty mouse and copying to email from iPhoto .
Next was an excellent presentation by Mike Burrell entitled A Beginners Guide To…
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John opened the December meeting with 15 members present.
We started with the Q&A session, in which the Keychain, and associated issues of Mail passwords were explored, and problems of sorting photo folders in iPhoto discussed. This led on to discussion of similar issues in Mail, and the use of rules and smart folders was explained. Finally, the use of V-cards to export multiple contact details in Address Book for…
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Thirteen members or so attended the Fareham group meeting. It was good to see so many familiar faces and I hope that we can keep growing the group.
David introduced the business part of the meeting, where he announced that the Fareham group will now meet on a monthly basis starting on January 29th and then on the last Saturday of the month thereafter, no meeting has been planned for December 2011.
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An excellent meeting as our last of the year with two presentations from two very knowledgeable presenters.
First up was Alex Cox who is coming back into the fold after a long absence. Alex has a great depth of knowledge of computer security but managed to cover the subject so us mere mortals could understand. He covered viruses, malware and phishing attacks and gave a particular warning that it's now easier to fool…
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With three of our regulars elsewhere engaged the meeting was best described as compact. So was the presentation by Michael Corgan who gave an overview of five applications for Optical Character Recognition. Of the five it was only possible to show the three cheapest at work, namely in descending order of price and accuracy: Abbyy Fine Reader 10, Prizmo and Vuescan. The last adds OCR to it's scanner driver capabilities (which are huge and well…
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John opened the meeting, and explained that we would be short of one speaker, who had been held up in the traffic.
We started with a presentation by Michael Corgan, who told us about Soho Organiser by Chronos.
This programme serves to replace Apple's Address Book, and iCal,, and Michael feels that it has a number of advantages over these programmes. It also adds a Journal. For example, it offers a tabbed…
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