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Meeting Report: 8th July 2011
Posted: July 26th, 2011
With Mac OS 10.7 Lion due later this month we spent most of the meeting discussing our upgrade plans and how best to prepare. Suggestions included checking hardware compatibility, making good backups and identifying incompatible applications.
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Meeting Report: 10th June 2011
Posted: July 26th, 2011
SEAL members discussed Apple’s announcements at the recent World Wide Developer Conference including iOS 5, iCloud and more OS 10.7 Lion details.
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Meeting Report: 13th May 2011
Posted: May 27th, 2011
The meeting started with our news discussion where we covered the new iMacs and the White iPhone amongst other topics.
An interesting discussion covered Mac Defender, a piece of malware disguised as anti-virus software which is targeting Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate web sites to a page that claims their computer is infeted with a virus. The aim of Mac Defender (which also goes by other names) is to get the user to enter their credit card information to buy the software which will then “remove” the fictional viruses. Apple now have a support article which covers avoiding or removing the malware if you are tricked into installing it.
It was noted that if you have the “Open ‘safe’ files after downloading” option set in Safari’s General preferences page then the installer for Mac Defender may open without intervention (the user still has to go through the installation process to actually install the program). It’s worth considering turning this option off so you have to open downloads manually.
SEAL members then discussed creating a flyer to publicise the group.
During our Workshop session we helped Alan find a memory upgrade for his MacBook and discussed some problems he’d been having with compatibility of iPhoto CD backups with different versions of the software.
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Meeting Report: 8th April 2011
Posted: April 4th, 2011
Sonia gave us a very interesting presentation on her on-going project to build an Apple-based media centre to play content on her TV. She showed us an original Apple TV and a Mac mini based media server she had configured and explained the advantages and disadvantages of each device. On the Mac mini she had installed the free Boxee media centre software and had also configured the system to be usable on the TV with a wireless Magic Trackpad and Keyboard.
We also discussed the latest Apple-related news including the iPad 2, Thunderbolt and the release of Firefox 4.
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March Meeting Cancelled
Posted: March 7th, 2011
SEAL Member John Hudson sadly passed away recently and his funeral is being held on Friday the 11th of March. As a mark of respect we have decided to cancel the March SEAL meeting which was due to be held on the same day.
John will be greatly missed at our meetings and everyone at SEAL sends their condolences to his family.
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