Salisbury — Jul 28th 2010

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I hate to admit it but I hadn't noticed I'd forgotten to post what happened at this meeting until I came on to post this month's! Can someone who was there mail me with reminders? (Inserts sheepish grin icon!)… Read more…

Bournemouth — Jul 20th 2010

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A very good meeting, with attendance back up in double figures – just! Mick Burrell gave an excellent presentation on how to set up a web site, and his preferred method, using the Easily site was clearly and concisely described, making us all fee that it will be a doddle to do. We'll see!

Michael ran throough a swift review of nine clipboard applications to allow clippings to stay on the clipboard instead of being… Read more…

Dorchester — Jul 13th 2010

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In the absence of our regular scribe, Steve, here is an inferior effort.
Mark described a document management application called Yep. Together the group explored it's possibilities and we were all greatly impressed by the improvements since it's last outing at a WAMUG meeting at the Crumpery some years ago. It is particularly valuable if, like this writer, you have made more than one filing scheme over the years and are starting to loose… Read more…

Salisbury — Jun 30th 2010

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A really interesting talk by Lionel again this month - off site backup. If you have important data, to run alongside your existing backup method (you do have a backup I hope!) we looked at the options available for uploading your precious data to a server. This is now getting relatively inexpensive but there are still two problems to overcome to make it an easy/good choice for everyone. Upload speed would be painfully slow for large… Read more…

Bournemouth — Jun 15th 2010

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Another small attendance - just 7 people came to see the first class demonstration of the capabilities (and shortcomings too) of the iPad, given by two members of Solutions staff. The iPad is impressive in its' ease of use. Though the environment is different to a Mac, being based on the iPhone OS, it would be more intuitive to a newbie, though lacking in some of the abilities that we take for granted in a computer… Read more…

Dorchester — Jun 8th 2010

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In the absence of John, Mark opened the meeting, and announced that the Colliton Club had, at last, decided that we can be allowed access to the Club's Guest wi-fi network. Those members, out of the 19 present, who had brought their computers, promptly availed themselves of this facility, which was pronounced a great success, helping presentations to demonstrate the way in which the internet interacts with the kit being presented.

This… Read more…

Fareham — May 29th 2010

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Approximately 12 members attended the Fareham meeting. The meeting consisted of three components
a business meeting run by David Teale
a demonstration of Aperture 3
a show and tell of the liPad by Chris Willis - note this was on the day the product was formally released.

The main items from the business element:
The meeting format.
It was agreed that it should be 2 to 2.5 hours… Read more…

Salisbury — May 26th 2010

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Lionel's demo of the Elements plug-ins was very well received. Most of us use a digital camera with our Macs and most that do want or need some form of manipulation. For most of us that's Photoshop Elements. Whilst some of what they do is already available in Elements, OnOne have made things both easier and better. And at £45 for the suite of four they represent excellent value - it's probably worth that… Read more…

Bournemouth — May 18th 2010

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There was a select gathering at Solutions store and we began with a brief hints, tips, and problems discussion when we talked about maintaining the quality of MP3 tracks uploaded to an MP3 player. Following that Lionel gave a demonstration of OnOne Essentials 2, which is a suite of plug-ins for use with Photoshop Elements. The plug-ins are cut down versions of a more comprehensive suite produced for Photoshop. Nevertheless they give a… Read more…

Dorchester — May 11th 2010

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Tom picked up the iMovie theme from last month and walked us through importing, setting up a new project and basic editing. There were a great many interested questions and we were left with the possibility of exploring the finer points of what is clearly a powerful application.

We had hoped that the iPad would be available for this meeting but … well you know the story … so John stepped in with a description… Read more…