2009 – April 7th. Minutes

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MINUTES of MONTHLY MEETING

April 7, 2009

Opened:     19:05
Chair:         John Feltham
Minutes:    Cheryl Robertson
Apologies:    None
Present:    John Feltham, Cheryl Robertson, Peter Neuhaus, Les Hyland, Ray Mead, Lorna Mead, Mick Devlin, Betty McClellan, Nicki Crowther, Barry Bamford, Judy Leong, Joe Leong, Chris Griggs, Bill O’Donnell

Round Table:

Chris Griggs:
How to load avi files into iMovie?
•    Save as Quicktime in Quicktime Pro.

Barry Bamford:

Received large pdf of many photos and wants to save individual images.
•    Use screen capture (toggle SHIFT/COMMAND/4, then select the image by clicking/dragging and hit enter which puts it on the desktop)
•    Open the saved image by right-clicking and select the required application to open the image in the required format and save that file where you want it.

Says that Firefox is now different and his bookmarks tabs are on the side instead of on the top where he likes them.
•    Double click and drag the icon to where he wants it.
•    VIEW/TOOLBAR/BOOKMARKS and select ‘on’.

Nicki Crowther

Has upgraded to Leopard but had some problems especially with Entourage.

Betty McClellan

How do you do a blog?  Answered by Bill.

•    You can get your own website or you can go to wordpress.com to get free software to use on your own website for the blog in an extra folder, or get wordpress to do a free one for you.  It can be set up to allow or to stop others posting to it.

Mick Devlin

Downloaded a file in Safari and discovered that if you DoubleClick the download status bar it will open the application and you can also delete from there.

Lorna Mead

Has a new USB stick which has files on it that she did not put there and can not remove.
•    These are system files for Windows compatibility.

Has a music disk which plays on some of her MACs but wont show at all on one of them.
•    This is just a system thing which can happen – no solution for it.
Joe Leong

There is a widget called Album Art which will get track names from the internet for your music album files.

Les Hyland

Problem with Bookmarks in Safari – got a message ‘can’t edit bookmarks without iSync.
•    Bill said to look in Applications – iSync is in there.
Intermittent problem with Mail – sometimes does not search for new mail in his second account.
•    Should check the account set up to ensure that ‘auto’ is selected.

Piet van Rosendahl

Suggested that we send out a google map of how to find the meeting venue.

How can he receive faxes on his computer in a program clalled “Page Sender”.
•    Apparently it can not be done.

Joe Leong

His software updates used to come automatically but not any more.
•    Should go to PREFERENCES/SOFWAREUPDATES and check the settings and select his requirements.
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General Discussion

General discussion regarding Bigpond/Telstra problems and service complaints and the direction of broadband when the government initiative rolls out.  Bill said that the Rawnet hardware still in place.  Joe said the best strategy with Telstra when phoning is DON’T hit menu buttons as requested by the automated voice, but instead say “OPERATOR” OR CONSULTANT.  That way you don’t go through menus and submenus and wait but get an actual person.

20:12 Tea break

Presentation

Presentation by John Feltham; Recording SKYPE chats and video.  John showed us a SKYPE video chat with his son in Perth.  He wanted to record his small grandchild.  He opened Screenflow while in SKYPE and started recording.  It captured the video chat.  To buy Screenflow go to SNAPSPRO.

This promped Nikki to comment that when she has video chats with her son he looks distored and pixelated.  Bill said it can be a bandwith problem.

Presentation for May

Barry Bamford will do a presentation on wrapping text in Pages.

Meeting Closed: 21:03