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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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10th April 2009
Posted: April 17th, 2009
Robert and David gave a presentation showing two uses for the audio recording program Wiretap Studio which was included in the recent Mac Heist 3 bundle.
Robert showed how the Recording Sessions feature can be used to set up scheduled recordings of Internet radio broadcasts.
Dave then demonstrated recording albums from a Mini Disc player and then splitting and editing tracks using the built-in editor for export into iTunes.
Also at this meeting Malcolm described a somewhat hidden feature of MobileMe which allows you to make the contents of your iDisk available off-line and automatically sync changes when you later connect. The process is described in the Apple support article Creating a copy of your iDisk. Darren told us about Burn, a useful free DVD and CD burning program.
As an aside, several members mentioned how much they enjoyed watching (and listening to) the talks on all manner of topics found at ted.com.
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