Dorchester — Sep 14th 2010

Our first meeting of the new season began with attempts to connect with John in the South of France, using iChat, to formally open the proceedings. In the absence of adequate bandwidth (and therefore also of John) Mark opened the proceedings. 10 members were present.

Mark gave a talk summarising an article on the subject of setting up iChat http: //support.apple.com/kb/HT2515
Can talk, and show video, exchange files etc. iChat will also talk to e.g. AOL Messenger or Googlemail on a PC. Can therefore show pictures, films, and slideshows. We then managed to demonstrate Skype within the hall.

Mick then gave his talk on email - an introduction. This began with a simplified view of the internet, and mentioned IMAP, WEBMAIL, and POP. The talk concentrated on the last of these, and discussed mail servers. Mick discussed how to set up an email client (programme) and then went on to consider signatures. These, for standard emails, can even contain the whole email. He then went on to discuss rules. These only apply to received mail. but scripts can be obtained http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html which will enable sent mail to be filtered as well. Spam can also be a problem, and is dealt with in different ways by the ISP, and by the mail programme. To save downloading mail which provides to be spam, one can use a programme such as POPmonitor http://www.popmonitor.com/downloads.html to filter mail on the server.

After the break, Lionel spoke about backing up data. Remote backup separates the location of the data and the computer. Mobile Me is commonly used by the Mac community, but others are also available, which appear as virtual discs. Webspace can be used with an FTP programme. The problem with all of these is that it is slow to upload dates via ADSL.

Q&A session included how to put an iPhoto slideshow onto a DVD. Possible approaches of saving as a QuickTime movie, and of using Youtube. Use of Time Machine for backup and timemachineeditor http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ to modify the preset backup intervals. Steve then described how domestic science can apparently be applied to solve otherwise intractable hardware problems with the iPhone http://www.iphonetiquicia.com/iphone-wifi-oven-trick/#iphonewifihack . We do not necessarily recommend this approach.

JSR

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