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VOLUME 29, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2018 R COMMENTS FOUNDED MAY 1989 T H E U N T O L D S T O R Y O F MEETINGS - SECOND N O T P E T Y A , T H E M O S T SATURDAY OF THE MONTH DEVASTATING CYBER ATTACK IN HISTORY . Fascinating story of the attack on Maersk shipping lines. tinyurl.com/yazequ8y. MOJAVE ISSUE APPLE MAKES IT A BIT MORE DIFFICULT TO MAKE A GENIUS BAR APPOINTMENT. But why? tinyurl.com/yc79pj9a. LEVITUS - WORKING SMARTER HOW TO ZOOM IN OR OUT. Our presenter at this Saturday’s meeting will be Seems increasingly important as Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus who will show us three we get older and pixels get smaller. techniques he guarantees will save you up to an tinyurl.com/y94belxx. hour a day, every workday fo the rest of your life. HOW TO MAKE YOUR NEW And then he’ll show you a few of his favorite things. APPLE EARPODS FIT He has been developing strategies and tactics for PERFECTLY. Just use $10 flexible staying focused and doing more work in less time little rubber arms. tinyurl.com/ for at least two decades. y89khh7d. Better yet get some $23 Bluetooth earpods from MPOW. Then no cables! Lastly, he’ll provide us with his latest tips and tricks with an emphasis on Mojave and iOS 12 (and maybe WatchOS 5). HOW TO VIEW FOLDER SIZES USING FINDER. Go to View… Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac", has been one of the world's leading tinyurl.com/y97vx2zo. authorities on Apple technology for more than three decades. He's written or co-written more than 85 popular tech books including: macOS Mojave For Dummies, iPhone For NOVEMBER LOCATION We will Dummies: 12th Edition, and iPad For Dummies: 10th Edition, all for Wiley Publishing. meet at Ludington Library in Bryn Mawr. It’s at the corner of For the past 22 years Bob has been the Apple technology columnist for the Houston Lancaster and Bryn Mawr Chronicle, and a columnist for the Mac Observer for as long as he can remember. Avenues, near the Bryn Mawr One more thing: Bob's big thing now is Working Smarter for Mac Users: train station. www.workingsmarterformacusers.com, which offers an online course and eBook dedicated to showing Mac users how they can do more work in less time so they have more time for things they love. !1 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2018 Newsletter Editor Mark Bazrod Contributors and Authors Graphics Editor Mark Bazrod Kathy Garges Sally Bazrod CONTENTS Bob Levitus Copy Editor Editor Comments and Program Info 1 Roman Loyola Deane Lappin MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 John Martellaro MLMUG Journal Bookmarks: Mojave and Surveillance 5-6 Masthead Edward Mendelson Designed by Dale Fletcher Speaker Roster 6 Michael Muchmore Based on prior designs by 10 macOS Mojave Features We Can't Wait to Try 7-10 OSX Daily Marc Robinson, Steve macOS Mojave Review: Dark Is Cool. 10-23 Rene Ritchie Evans & Bobby Foster The Future Is Hot M L M U G J o u r n a l i s Apple macOS Mojave 24-29 published monthly by the Mojave’s Quick Actions Are Easy To Use 30 Main Line Macintosh Users Group and is available How to Enable Dark Mode on macOS Mojave 31-33 online. It is produced using Apple’s macOS Mojave: a User Perspective 33-36 A p p l e P a g e s , w i t h a & Review Helvetica Neue font (Same Three macOS Mojave Features You’ll Love… 37-38 as Yosemite). Speaker RosterDetails 38 macOS Mojave: What Is Desktop Stacks? 39-40 Permission is granted to nonprofit groups and other Macintosh 5 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to 40-43 User Groups to reproduce items in this newsletter. Please macOS Mojave Right Now include the author’s or artist’s name, the MLMUG Journal title, and our copyright notice. A copy should also be mailed to: macOS Mojave: How To Use Apple News 44-45 Editor, MLMUG Journal, P.O. Box 1374, Southeastern, PA 19399 October 11, 2018 Meeting Minutes 46 or emailed to [email protected]. AI And Humans: Biofeedback 47-48 © 2018 Journal content not written by members is included courtesy of the sources or the fair use doctrine. Product names & images are trademarks or copyrights of the respective owners. !2 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2018 Typical Meeting Agenda 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. MLMUG Email list 9:05 - 10:05: Three Concurrent Special The Main Line Macintosh Users Interest Groups (SIGs) convene in Group has its own email list, separate rooms. The three current hosted at Groups.io. Compose SIGs are: your letter and email it to [email protected] and your Newer Users- We cover the most message will be sent to everyone New Users SIG basic questions you may have about on the mailing list. Contact Bob your Mac/iDevices and how to use You don’t have to wait a whole month to them. Barton ([email protected]) if you are get answers to your basic Mac questions! a member and you are not on the Get together with other members on the Multimedia - We discuss using your list. fourth Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each Mac/iDevices and applications for Please observe good email regular meeting) for the Startup Folder Lite. photo, video, audio, and print media. etiquette. If your message is humor or not Apple-related (off-topic), Many new users have said that they can OS - We go beyond basics to discuss please include "Humor" or "OT" in learn much more from face-to-face Apple’s current operating systems, the subject line. The Groups.io meetings than they do from manuals or using your Macs & iDevices, & various Terms of Service are at groups.io/ other sources. That’s what this meeting is applications, & have Q&A. static/tos. Look for the section on all about. Go to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html "Conditions of Use" for details. 10:05 - 10:15: Continuation of Q&A for all attendees. The MLMUG list may be used to post Apple-related items for sale, 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. but any solicitation of members through the list is forbidden 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a without the written consent of a member or guest) MLMUG officer. Violation of the 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. Groups.io terms of service or good email etiquette may result in Come join some fellow MLMUG members removal from the list. for lunch after the meeting at a nearby restaurant. !3 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2018 President, Program Director & Newsletter Copy Editor & Apple Membership Information Vendor Liaison User Group Ambassador Membership dues are $25 for individuals and $35 for Maria O. Arguello Deane Lappin [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary [email protected] date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- Vice President & Multimedia SIG Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Co-Chair Webmaster If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve Larry Campbell Bob Barton [email protected] been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, [email protected] consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Treasurer, Membership & Facilities Coordinator Newsletter Graphics Editor • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, Elliott Cobin Sally Bazrod and meet everyone from working Mac [email protected] [email protected] professionals to new Mac users from all backgrounds. Secretary & Newsletter Editor OS/iOS SIG Chair Mark Bazrod Adam Rice • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting [email protected] [email protected] Mac news, tips, and information. • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. Member-at-Large Picnic Coordinator Deane Lappin Tony DiPiano • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User [email protected] [email protected] Group members. Educational Liaison • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Raffle Chair newsletters, meeting information, a member Linda McNeil Susan Czarnecki [email protected] directory, directions to our meetings, and much [email protected] more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Social Secretary • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical Nicholas Iacona Gail Montgomery questions or comments to each other and the [email protected] [email protected] experts within the group. • Reviewers keep items reviewed. Are you ready to join? Please make a check payable to MLMUG and bring it to a monthly meeting or mail it to: Treasurer, MLMUG P.O. Box 1374 Southeastern, PA 19399 !4 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2018 Bookmarks By Mark Bazrod Mojave And Surveillance The entire November issue is devoted to one subject - Mojave. That’s something I‘ve never done in my 10 years as editor of this magazine. I have become more and more impressed with Mojave's capabilities as I read more and more about it. In fact, I have become so impressed with the reports of so little problems that I probably will install it even if the 10.14.1 release is not out The blue dots are the sites he visited; the red and gray spots are by mid-November. the sites tracking him. I have included two long reviews of Mojave because there are a Joe Kissel's talk on privacy at our September meeting gave us a number of aspects of Mojave's many features that need detailed needed look on our loss of privacy and what steps we can take explanation.