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Meeting Report: 11th February 2011
Posted: February 17th, 2011
Members discussed the latest Mac and Apple news including the launch of The Daily, an iPad newspaper and the Verizon iPhone.
Printed business cards, designed at the last meeting, were distributed to members.
Robert demonstrated the latest beta of Firefox 4 which features a redesigned user interface, powerful tab organisation options and many behind the scenes improvements.
During our workshop Alan had a problem with iTunes not recognising the track names on a custom CD he had burnt on another Mac. As Alan had included CD Text we found a useful Applescript from Doug’s Applescripts which populates the tracks in iTunes from the CD Text on the disc.
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Meeting Report: 14th January 2011
Posted: January 16th, 2011
Happy New Year from Everyone at SEAL
At the January meeting we discussed Apple’s launch of the Mac App Store.
Members then contributed to the creation of a business card to publicise the group, the card was created in Pages.
In our Workshop session, members helped Alan set up a hard disk from a failed external enclosure so he could transfer it’s data onto a new iMac.
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Meeting Report: 10th December 2010
Posted: December 11th, 2010
During the news portion of this meeting we discussed Apple’s release of iOS 4.2 for iPhones, iPod touches and iPads. We also talked about the Mac Update December Bundle and Manomio’s forth-coming Amiga Emulator for iOS.
Nigel then gave a presentation about keeping various types of data synchronised between various computers and mobile devices. He recommended Firefox Sync for bookmarks, Soocial for contacts and Dropbox for files.
We also helped Alan with his MacBook which was failing to boot with a “no entry” symbol on the start-up screen. We found that removing an audio CD that was stuck in the optical drive allowed the computer to boot but it was still very slow and logins failed. We suspected that the machine also has a hard drive problem.
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Meeting Report: 12th November 2010
Posted: November 19th, 2010
SEAL members discussed the latest news from Apple including announcements of Mac OS 10.7 Lion, the Mac App Store and the new Mac Book Airs.
Nigel gave a demonstration of the open source cross-platform cryptography utility TrueCrypt.
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Meeting Report: 8th October 2010
Posted: November 19th, 2010
SEAL met as normal in October, sorry there is no meeting report available.
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