John having just returned from holiday Mark introduced the meeting with 17 members present.
He started with a foray into the refurbished WAMUG website. He also gave the link which people have to use in order to subscribe to the WAMUG calendar on iCal -
UPDATED LINK FOR iCAL FEED
Q&A's then followed, the following items were discussed:
Hard drive problems which had origins in faulty power supplies, cables.
IMAP with…
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In spite of a major road closure to the east of the meeting only one person missed the start of the meeting at which 14 people attended.
This months focus was on Desk Top Processing.
Michael Corgan demonstrated how the page layout part of Pages could be used to create brochures, posters and books. He demonstrated the use of layers and the flexibility of the layout process.
Euan Williams then…
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The start of the evenings' programme was not auspicious – the presentation on iChat and Skype that Michael had given the previous week at Dorchester had to arrive on a memory stick, as his laptop was away having the hard drive replaced. However as the presentation was made in Keynote '09 it couldn't run on the '08 version in Lionel's MacBook, nor would the '09 copy of Keynote that Michael had thought to put on the…
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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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