An excellent turn out - 20 members all keen and ready to go! I would say that it was down to Frances bringing a mouth watering cake along, but we didn't know about that till she arrived but it was a welcome addition. (Much nicer than Terry's doughnuts!)

Martin had done a very professional Keynote presentation to show us some of the podcasts he's found interesting. All available through iTunes. This was followed by…

We had a very small band of members attending this month - very small but very keen! We had a good question and answer session and were able to solve most of them. Do remember though if you come and want to try to solve an issue, it's much easier if you have your machine with you. O.K. PowerMacs or Mac Pros can be a little tricky but iMacs can be surprisingly portable.

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A good turn out. David demonstrated the way in which Airfoil can take audio from any application and send to an AirPort Express unit, as well as Apple TV. It also includes a beta player for video which delays the picture to match the delay in the sound.
http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/. Mark showed some odds and ends that he had come across to do with preview & keyboard shortcuts. This was followed by an…

The star of this meeting was undoubtedly the new MacBook Air, ably demonstrated by Lucy, the Assistant Store Manager of our hosts, Solutions. So light (at 3 lbs) that she was able to hold it up on the palm of her hand throughout the demonstration, while illustrating not only the slick design, but the abilities of the enlarged touch pad, echoing those of the iPhone in allowing rotating of pictures, as well as enlarging, diminishing…

Thanks to our two volunteers - Brian (who showed us how to produce 3D photos in Photoshop) and Colin (producing a two sided, folded leaflet in Pages) - for two very well received demonstrations. There was lots of discussion and questions for both. After the demos, things continued apace as a few more people had brought machines so we were able to work to solve issues on the spot.

I'm pleased to say that we…

This months meeting was inspired by a request to look at "Back to my Mac". But before delving into the intricacies of this technology we took a look at Security, looking at why we, or if we, should be concerned! It proved to be an interesting, if not wide subject, which hopefully inspired everyone to consider the various considerations.

Coffee and Doughnuts followed along with general discusions between members. I'm sure…

September 30th 2008
To start the season, we had two excellent presentations with a photographic theme. Euan introduced us to some of the mysteries of Colour on the Mac, and in Photoshop. When he finished, we had all taken on an understanding of RGB, CMYK, how to calibrate the monitor, and colour spaces, and also of some of the tools which Photoshop provides to enable colours to be balanced, enhanced, and transformed. After an…

Members braved the wind and rain to join us at our first meeting at Solutions Inc. in 2008. Michael our usual host was away on the other side of the world so the meeting was hosted by Lionel.

The meeting began with Sebastian from Solutions who gave us a demonstration of iPhoto 08. This caused a lot of interest, particularly from those of us not yet using this latest version; enough I think…

Another entertaining meeting! The two demonstrations went down well and once again provoked a lively question and answer session. Nobody had any burning issues to sort this time (are Macs really that reliable/easy to use?) so we had ample time to look at a new machine that Santa had brought one member.

In February, I'll get a night off! Oh, I'll be there trying to maintain order but I've had two volunteers…

Today turned out to be an excellent meeting despite there only being a dozen of us - at least, judging by the number of people who stopped on the way out to say what a good one it had been!

Lionel gave us a presentation on how to connect to a PC and I followed that with an explanation of how simple(!) it is to make your wireless network secure. Both presentations provoked lively…