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Meeting Report: 9th October 2009
Posted: October 11th, 2009
The hot topic at this months meeting was Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. Robert demonstrated the new OS running on his Mac mini and showed off some of his favourite new features which included the improved Stacks, showing the date next to the clock in the menu bar and the new features of the WiFi menu. Snow Leopard has many new “hidden” features that you might not notice straight away, Robert recommended Mac Life’s article 100 Snow Leopard Tips, Tricks, and Features as a good list of features to try out.
We also discussed one member’s options with dealing with an eMac with limited hard drive space including how he could make best use of external drives and different methods for getting Album art in iTunes.
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Meeting Report: 11th September 2009
Posted: September 12th, 2009
SEAL met as normal in September but we don’t have a report from this meeting, sorry!
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Meeting Report: 14th August 2009
Posted: August 16th, 2009
Nigel brought along several classic Macs from his collection to show members, these included a Mac Classic II, a PowerBook 190cs and a Newton Message Pad 2100 with a selection of accessories and expansions. New member Graham also brought along his Classic II, Nigel helped him investigate a boot problem.
Dave demonstrated Spotify, a streaming music application with a huge range of Music available. Spotify allows you to search for music from many popular and more obscure artists and listen for free, occasional audio adverts are played in between songs to support the service. A paid account is available which removes the adverts.
Finally Nigel gave a presentation on backup strategies which covered the use of Time Machine and a multi-computer, multi-site back up system Nigel is working on using rsync.
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Meeting Report: 12th June 2009
Posted: June 14th, 2009
At this meeting there was a lot of discussion about Apple’s WWDC announcements including the iPhone 3G S, Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard and the MacBook Pro and Air updates.
New member Graham gave us a bit of a blast from the past by asking for advice about getting his blue and white iMac running Mac OS 8.6 on a dail-up Internet connection. Some helpful advice was given and we were able even able to find some old tutorials on-line.
John drew a large crowd when he demonstrated X-Plane which is a great looking flight simulator. However the real interest came from an iPhone app that John is beta testing which allows you to control the plane (in the simulator running on a Mac) by tilting the iPhone. The touch screen is used to control the throttle and rudder.
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8th May 2009
Posted: May 9th, 2009
SEAL met as normal in May but we don’t have a report from this meeting, sorry!
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