Following the AGM, 18 members present, Euan gave a talk on Stage Manager, the new way of organising working files, introduced with Ventura and iPad OS 16.1 requiring modern hardware. Euan reminded us of prior, still current, options, Mission Control, multiple desktops, split screen and stacks. He showed a brief section from Craig Federighi’s Apple event presentation of Stage Manager before showing greater detail of how to use it on both the…
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With Stuart having a transport problem, we had to cope without him, but decided to stick with the subject of backups with Mick in the chair. We opted to have each member tell us what they do regarding backing up. There was excellent participation by everyone and overall a pretty reassuring standard, ranging from relying on Apple’s built in backups via the cloud and IMAP for email accounts, Time Machine, a home file…
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Having explained the virtues of Apple Notes last month David P demonstrated how to access and use some of these features. The final slide asked 'How can you live without it?' Beaminster members departed fired up to give it a go. But before they left there were mince pies and hot chocolate served while people worked in small groups to answer questions and solve problems.…
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This last meeting on the year was well attended with 13 regular members and 2 guests present. David Moon gave a full review of the many enhancements present in iOS 16 and showed examples of selecting in a photo the main image and removing it from the background, thus making it available for posting elsewhere. He also showed how Apple's use of artificial intelligence was able to accurately identify a plant from a photo. How…
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Eight members came to Warsash for a meeting without a presentation. Seinfeld was famously 'The Show about Nothing', that was actually about quite a lot, and this was the meeting equivalent. Given that Apple had launched a number of new hardware and software products these past few weeks, and that Stuart had bought none of them, doesn't have an iPhone so couldn't talk about iOS 16, and doesn't have a Mac that can run Ventura…
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John Cadd showed us how he creates his http://shipsshapes.co.uk website using GoDaddy which has a website builder as part of it web hosting service. John explained that he first started using the excellent Apple iWeb, which was released in 2006 but sadly withdrawn 2011 when he turned his hand to Adobe Dreamweaver, the definitive website builder at that time, but he needed professional help. Whilst the result was great, it had been costly which is…
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There was a quick re-cap of the iOS16 changes affecting Contacts on the iPhone followed by the fist part of a description of the power of Notes. After David M's supply of hot chocolate, 1:1 problem solving sessions sorted out several issues for members.…
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The main body of the meeting, attended by eight members and one guest, was devoted to Ventura, the public release of MacOS 13.0 which took place yesterday. Barry had taken part in the trials of beta releases and now had the latest version loaded on a MacBook Air. He gave an illustrated demonstration of all the new notable changes in the software that had taken place and explained how, in particular, Stage Manager was…
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David M presented Apple’s September IOS hardware releases focusing mainly on the new iPhone 14 and 14 Pro with a look at the development of Apples System-on-Chip technology powering these. Trevor C demonstrated the iPhone Pro and its Dynamic Island feature which impressed many of us.
After the break we took a look at some of the features of IOS 16. David P showed us the huge improvements in…
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Ten members came to Warsash this month, and we started with a postscript. Or rather, we started with a talk on vector graphics and PostScript, Adobe PostScript in fact, the page description language that was and is a vital component of the desktop publishing world. Euan's presentation was a gentle introduction to a complex subject, including more recent developments like Quartz (the graphics layer of OS X/macOS) and PDF, and showing what can be…
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