Salisbury — Apr 29th 2015

Number of members present 12 plus 2 guests

The presentation was on the App Store, iTunes Store and iBooks followed by a description of a selection of free apps for iMac, MacBook and iPad with a brief description of what they do.

The App. Store is where you can buy or get free apps. and download them, click any of them and it will show you what they are, the size,some details and any reviews and it is where any updates will be listed.

Things to watch out for are in-app purchases, mostly in games, these can run up extra costs, don’t let children download an app. or a game with in-app purchases, a game that is free to download had an in app purchase of £79.99 so be careful.

iTunes Store is where you can buy music, videos and audio books to download.

iBooks is where you can buy or get free books and download them to your library.
You can write your own eBook using Pages and put it in your library or upload it to iBooks.

Redeeming a card purchased you will have to uncover the number, sign in with your Apple ID and Password you will be then asked to hold the card up in front of the iSight camera thats it, credit is added to your account, any credit you have will show in the App Store, iTunes Store and iBooks and used to buy items.

Most of the Apps, Music and Books can be used on Mac Desktops, Mac Books, iPads, iPods and iPhones. All purchases can be used on every Mac you have and can be downloaded again several times if required.

We were please to welcome David Moon from Dorchester and John Elton-Wall from Fareham

There was quite a lot of feedback, John showed us how to get radio stations in iTunes, David had found a better app than Image Transfer and Mick pointed out the Airport Utility is a very useful App.
Other business, there was a discussion regard Tesco Community Space, which is a free space at the Salisbury Store.

Next meeting, 27/05/2015 The Pheasant Inn Salisbury 7.30-9.30 pm

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