After a brief Q&A session dealing with a couple of Mail-related queries, the first presentation was by Lionel on how he uses Numbers to manage the WAMUG accounts. For confidentiality reasons, this was demonstrated using the accounts of Cybergeeks, an organisation with a most intriguing membership list which, spookily, happens to use precisely the same accounting structure as WAMUG.

Lionel has set up separate sheets within the same document to…

TOPICS: Photo management, Keynote

The Dorchester meeting on May 14th was opened by John. 20 people were in attendance, including two from an embryonic group in Beaminster.

Michael spoke first on Alternatives to iPhoto.
His requirements were to store photos in large numbers, with the ability to keep, file and find them.
He doesn't use iPhoto, and wanted a more "transparent" system, which stored the…

Fifteen attendees, including some members from other WAMUG groups, listened to a very interesting talk by Dan Dilloway of Dataquest International

Dan explained how Data quest International were a Portsmouth based company that specialises in data recovery from disc drives. The company has recovered data from many thousands of drives that were in varying states of distress.

In the main they attempt to recover the data at the bit level to an…

Martin came to talk to us about maintaining our Macs and it was a great relief to all to find out that Macs now do an excellent job of maintaining themselves without our intervention! Indeed, Martin pointed out that intervention was likely to be either a placebo or just plain wrong.…

Alan opened by giving the 15 attendees details of the meeting being held at Fareham on 27th April when Dan Dilloway from Dataquest will be giving a talk on data recovery from hard drives and SSDs etc.

Tony Still then gave a presentation on WiFi Basics, explaining that this was concerned with communication between a computer and a base station, usually a WiFi Router. Showing how networks are designed in layers, with WiFi…

John opened the April meeting with 23 members present.
It appears that we may be victims of our success in attracting new members, in that we are investigating methods of providing local displays of presentations, in addition to the main screen so that people, seated at the back have a good view of what is going on. This month's research (following March's exciting episode) was into screen sharing, which was explained by Martin, and…

Eight of us enjoyed a meal before the start of the meeting - a very sociable gathering and far more than when we ate afterwards!

As our planned presentation had to be postponed until next month, Gordon stepped in and took us through some of the apps he uses (plays with!) on his iPad and this was followed by others chipping in with their favourites.

The meeting finished with John & Bruce…

Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics for the seven attendees.
John Hooper described the Time Machine and Time Capsule functions and capabilities and how to use them to back up one's files. Comparison was made to the SuperDuper clone methodology and how that the process are different but several members use both processes.

The discussion moved on to controlling one screen from another machine. John introduced the TeamViewer program that…

The meeting opened with a presentation by Mick Burrell on the subject of email and the differences between POP and IMAP accounts. He explained in detail how they work behind the scenes, and pointed out the problems that can arise particularly when synchronising between a number of mobile devices and a Mac at home. There was a good deal of interest and several questions were posed generating a lively discussion. Members expressed their appreciation…

John opened the meeting, with 20 members present.

In anticipation of our numbers swelling still further, and of its becoming more difficult to see the screen properly, Martin gave a practical demonstration and talk on how the situation could be ameliorated by either sharing a Keynote or a .pdf file containing the slides to be presented, or alternatively, how to implement screen sharing between computers. There are multiple ways of achieving the aim…