Re: Proposed name change to Apple Users WA
range of Apple products. Even though we long standing members are quite comfortable with, and likely even quite attached to the WAMUG name, a name that better reflects our activities and sounds more accessible will help us promote the use of the Apple product range and provide a obvious support group for the growing collection of new Apple users. So while aficionados principally do our work on a Mac, increasingly certain specialised functions are better served by using newer Apple products and services. The Committee proposes that we change the name to Apple Users WA to better reflect this. This name change will require the passing of a motion at a Special Meeting of WAMUG. We propose that the meeting of Tuesday 2 October be such a Special Meeting. An email with details will follow shortly. Best Regards, WAMUG Committee -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120917/fe058675/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Regards, Stephen Chape -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120918/f1736e5d/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Apple: some food for thought
Hi Rob, I will do a Tutorial over the next day or so and upload it to my website, showing you that it does work using the steps I explained below. I did the process again today so I could take screenshots on my iPad to do a Tutorial. I took a few photos on my camera and connected to iPad using the CCK (Camera Connection Kit), imported the photos, then uploaded the imported photos to dropbox. And all the uploaded photos have synced to my Dropbox Photos folder on all my devices - MBP /iPad / iPhone I'll let you know when I have done the Tutorial. Cheers, Ronni On 18/09/2012, at 11:22 AM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: Hi Ronni I don't have the iPad here - it's still with the boss in Switzerland... Your description of Dropbox is as I remember it, with one exception. I don't remember seeing the + at the top of the uploads section. I could only see the contents of my camera roll, not the other events/albums (e.g. Last Imported) which I could see in the Photo App. I was able to use the iResize App to access hi-res photos in Last Imported, and this inserted the compressed images into the Camera Roll, where Dropbox could see them and synch them, but I really wanted a backup of my originals. Cheers Rob On 18/09/12 9:45 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Rob, Perhaps I'm not understanding your problem correctly. The iPad version of the Dropbox mobile app allows you to upload any videos or photos synced to your gallery. 1. Open the Dropbox App, link to account etc. 2. Click the Box icon on the left hand side, a pop up opens 3. Click the uploads tab at the bottom, which is immediately next to the settings 4. Click the + at the top of the uploads section The app still asks for permission to access your locations, (because photos can contain location data) 5. Tap the photos and videos you want to send to Dropbox from the resulting photo gallery. 6. Once done select 'Upload' Cheers, Ronni On 17/09/2012, at 10:18 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: G'day Mart and others, This may be a bit heretical, but I have concerns how Apple is locking things down to its commercial benefit. Let me give you a concrete example. I've just returned from a month hiking through Switzerland. (If you have the interest, check out http://www.everlater.com/raphillips1). To prepare for this, I bought an iPad to: use to display Swiss topographical maps and record our track by GPS; to maintain a trip blog; to store and process Rita's photos; and do general web surfing. The iPad was great except for one element. Photo management. I was able to purchase an adaptor to download photos from the camera to the iPad. I had 15GB of DropBox space to backup the photos to the cloud. Everything was sweet. Then I downloaded the first lot of photos, and I could see them on the iPad, but they weren't in the 'camera roll'. Only items in the camera roll can be synched to DropBox and Mobile me. By default, only photos taken with the iPad camera go in the camera roll. The only way to get access to these photos seems to be to connect the iPad to a Mac registered to me, then upload/ download the photos to that machine. I didn't have one of these with me! Why does Apple restrict the functionality of powerful devices like the iPad so that it can only be used in ways that Apple determines, and which require other hardware. The underlying OS should enable me to do much more. I spent hours at nights trying to find apps to work around this, without much success. It shouldn't be so difficult. I am concerned that I am being manipulated by Apple. Cheers Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Proposed name change to Apple Users WA
I have forwarded an extract from an email sent to me from Reg Whitely - Interim Ambassador: GMUG I am a member of GMUG and Support GMUG. Begin Extract From email/ Hi Ronni Graeme Moffatt is our regional Apple User Group Regional Coordinator. He can assist with WAMUG queries. He lives in Wellington, NZ. I don't think there would be any concerns changing the name to Apple from Apple's perspective. See here as a starting point http://www.apple.com/au/usergroups/ Graeme helped us update our GMUG details last year. He is a GMUG member and is recognised on our website here: http://www.gmug.org.au/people-and-links.html I hope that helps, although I would presume the WAMUG committee would know this too. Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net /End Extract from email === On 18/09/2012, at 12:35 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello Carlo and Group, I don't wish to sound like I am complaining, because I am not; and don't intend to complain. It seems to me there has not been enough research done for this 'project', before posting the 'Proposed name change to Apple Users WA' to the Mailing List Members. I have already pointed out some concerns and queries in other posts, so won't repeat them. I'm not so much 'worried' about a name change, if one is deemed necessary to promote and influence more people to join our group. But Carlo's comment to my question - /Quote my question: How does Apple itself feel about this name change, given that it wasn't that long ago (3-4 years I think) that they took back AppleCentre names from the Resellers? Are we (as WAMUG) allowed now to use Apple Users? Or is that something they would take back down the track as well? On 17/09/2012, at 8:35 PM, Carlo Margio wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Will Apple allow this -- that we don't know. Trying the name is one way to find out. The above comment made by Carlo, just does not make sense to me at all. Why not do it the sensible way. And ASK??? Wouldn't that be an easier way than the expense and hassle? I would have thought the common sense way would be to ask Apple. Say, we're looking at changing our name to 'Apple Users WA' from 'WAMUG'. Is this going to be a problem? Then you have it in writing! If Apple come back and say NO, we'd appreciate you don't use Apple in the name then you know. If Apple are fine with it, then you know it is ok to continue. I personally would have thought asking is a better and easier way to do it. You don't start a shop with the name Apple seller to see if it's allowed. You go through the exercise first to check. Research. Ask. Question. Plan. Cheers, Ronni -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120918/4b885112/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
iPhone 5 Benchmarks
Wow, the iPhone 5 benchmarks are very impressive... FAST! The results show an iPhone5,2 device running iOS 6 with a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1GB of RAM. The total Geekbench 2 score comes in at 1601. Poole notes that the average score for the iPhone 4S is 629 and the average score for the iPad 3 is 766. A comparison chart of previous iOS devices can be viewed at Geekbench. The numbers seem to validate Apple's claim that the A6 processor is twice as fast as the A5 and any previous iOS device. This one score also places the iPhone 5 ahead of the average scores of all Android phones on Geekbench. The full Geekbench results further breakdown processor, memory and bandwidth performance. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/16/iphone-5-benchmarks-appear-in-geekbench-showing-dual-core-1ghz-a6-cpu/ Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120919/a8078ccc/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Proposed name change to Apple Users WA
While I understand that the attendance to WAMUG meetings is a big problem I do not believe that changing the name will be part of the solution. I personally believe that the WAMUG name is not having any influence on meeting attendance and a different name would not do so either. I understand that people are putting in a great deal of time and effort in an attempt to address the attendance problem but I feel that many valid points about the name change have not been addressed. Not to say that these points have been overlooked but perhaps by taking the time to try and write a reply to them the gravity of their effect on WAMUG may be strongly felt. Regards Ruben I have forwarded an extract from an email sent to me from Reg Whitely - Interim Ambassador: GMUG I am a member of GMUG and Support GMUG. Begin Extract From email/ Hi Ronni Graeme Moffatt is our regional Apple User Group Regional Coordinator. He can assist with WAMUG queries. He lives in Wellington, NZ. I don't think there would be any concerns changing the name to Apple from Apple's perspective. See here as a starting point http://www.apple.com/au/usergroups/ Graeme helped us update our GMUG details last year. He is a GMUG member and is recognised on our website here: http://www.gmug.org.au/people-and-links.html I hope that helps, although I would presume the WAMUG committee would know this too. Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net /End Extract from email === On 18/09/2012, at 12:35 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello Carlo and Group, I don't wish to sound like I am complaining, because I am not; and don't intend to complain. It seems to me there has not been enough research done for this 'project', before posting the 'Proposed name change to Apple Users WA' to the Mailing List Members. I have already pointed out some concerns and queries in other posts, so won't repeat them. I'm not so much 'worried' about a name change, if one is deemed necessary to promote and influence more people to join our group. But Carlo's comment to my question - /Quote my question: How does Apple itself feel about this name change, given that it wasn't that long ago (3-4 years I think) that they took back AppleCentre names from the Resellers? Are we (as WAMUG) allowed now to use Apple Users? Or is that something they would take back down the track as well? On 17/09/2012, at 8:35 PM, Carlo Margio wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Will Apple allow this -- that we don't know. Trying the name is one way to find out. The above comment made by Carlo, just does not make sense to me at all. Why not do it the sensible way. And ASK??? Wouldn't that be an easier way than the expense and hassle? I would have thought the common sense way would be to ask Apple. Say, we're looking at changing our name to 'Apple Users WA' from 'WAMUG'. Is this going to be a problem? Then you have it in writing! If Apple come back and say NO, we'd appreciate you don't use Apple in the name then you know. If Apple are fine with it, then you know it is ok to continue. I personally would have thought asking is a better and easier way to do it. You don't start a shop with the name Apple seller to see if it's allowed. You go through the exercise first to check. Research. Ask. Question. Plan. Cheers, Ronni -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120918/4b885112/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
iOS6/maps
Morning all, iOS6 will be available soon and for all you early adopters I would be interested in how good the map application is. They will dropping Google maps in this new version and I'm not sure it will have the coverage we are use to. At the moment I use the map app quite a lot to search for places and things cheers Pedro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPhone 5 Benchmarks
And just adding on to your post Ronni, it seems the Java speed for the iPhone 5 is one of the fastest recorded for a smartphone as well. /quote Javascript is used as a measure of web browser performance, but the final score can be impacted by both the processor as well as the particular Javascript implementation on the device. Javascript is a common area of optimization due to its common usage on websites and may have been improved in iOS 6 which ships with the iPhone 5. /end quote Here is the link to more info:- http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/19/iphone-5-javascript-benchmarks-over-twice-as-fast/ Interesting to note is the massive difference of the iPhone 5 (at 914.ms) to the iPhone 4s (at 2250ms). So will be interesting to see it in real world usage as well. That's quite a big difference for web browsing!! WoW!! Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 19/09/2012, at 6:36 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Wow, the iPhone 5 benchmarks are very impressive... FAST! The results show an iPhone5,2 device running iOS 6 with a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1GB of RAM. The total Geekbench 2 score comes in at 1601. Poole notes that the average score for the iPhone 4S is 629 and the average score for the iPad 3 is 766. A comparison chart of previous iOS devices can be viewed at Geekbench. The numbers seem to validate Apple's claim that the A6 processor is twice as fast as the A5 and any previous iOS device. This one score also places the iPhone 5 ahead of the average scores of all Android phones on Geekbench. The full Geekbench results further breakdown processor, memory and bandwidth performance. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/16/iphone-5-benchmarks-appear-in-geekbench-showing-dual-core-1ghz-a6-cpu/ Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120919/a8078ccc/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
