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#67 Monthly NZ newsletter of things Apple for your edification and delectation MagBytesAugust 2015 ~ >> >> •2——Mac News ~ Festival, school Macs, car, page Windows 10, interns, Photos, Sonnet adapters, LiquidMetal, 1 Carrot weather, graphic Jobs, Music subscribers. MagBytes •5——Updates ~ Next Mac OS, #67 Parallels, iCloud, Alchemy added to Logic (free!), iOS 8.4.1, Outlook. •6——Mac Help ~ In Northland, Auckland & Christchurch. •7—— iOS & iDevice news ~

‘MagBytes’, iPhone 6+ camera replacement, ‘Mac NZ’, this sales, iOS features, Russian document & all crystal, iPhone ‘6s’, movie, Intellectual Property camera apps, Status Board Rights are all •9——Tips & Tricks ~ Handy owned by Hip uses for iPhone camera, iOS Mail Enterprises/ Mark signatures. iCloud space, Safari on Apple’s eponymous Watch is selling Webster 2015. Mac, Photos resolution, Spotlight Copyright in New Zealand starting from NZ$599 ——How To ~ Get your free Mark and lets you do things like use it as a •15 Webster/ remote iPhone camera control iCloud email address. Mac NZ/ (link to NZ store page) •16——Shiny & New ~ Sonnet Hip Enterprises 2010-2015. Thunderbolt adapters No reprinting MagBytes; the fine print or republish- This is a free New Zealand subscriber email info magazine from the NZ and info site mac-nz.com. ing without MagBytes tells you what’s happening and what’s new in the world of Apple every month, compiled from Mac NZ. permission. Learn tips and how to do interesting things with your Macs and iDevices, and how to get more out of them. For MagBytes is brought to you by Mark Webster, onetime editor of NZ Macguide magazine and a long-time trainer and commentator on Apple and the world of technology. permission, Mark wrote about Apple for a worldwide audience on the New Zealand Herald under the title ‘Apple Watch’ (2009-2014) and at his Mac NZ Apple info site. You can store your issues of MagBytes on your HD, Thumb Drive or on CD/DVD, read it on screen, or even just drag it to iTunes (or to iBooks, from Mavericks) to have it appear on your iPhone and iPad (inside iBooks) email time you sync. Or print it out, even – and please feel free to pass MagBytes on. Mac NZ MagBytes is free to receive and you can opt out any time by sending an email here with ‘opt out’ in the subject line. The email list is guarded and private and held by Mac NZ for this purpose only. Find out more about the MagBytes Apple newsletter online (click on Mac NZ MagBytes Newsletter at top centre). Mac NZ

Mac News Live Music festival ~ school tech ~ the media view in iTunes 12

>> Apple Music Festival >> Scan QR Code to quickly This was formerly known as the iTunes Music Festival) get in touch with iStore page starts next month in . Apple says , , Florence + The Machine and Disclosure are among the headliners at the 2 2015 Apple Music Festival at London’s MagBytes this September, which gets broadcast free to Apple #67 devices. The Apple Music Festival takes place over 10 nights from Sept. 19 to Sept. 28. UK residents Enhancing Your Apple Experience can apply to win tickets on Apple Music as well as through media partners including the London Evening Standard. Apple hosted the iTunes Festival in London www.istorenz.com for eight years, and now in honor of the launch of ‘MagBytes’, Apple Music, has renamed the event the Apple Music ‘Mac NZ’, this Festival. Customers can enjoy the Apple Music Festival document & all Intellectual via Apple Music or iTunes on their iPhone, iPad, iPod Property touch, Mac, PC or in HD with the Apple TV. Rights are all owned by Hip Back to school advice Enterprises/ Mark It’s almost the start of new school (in the northern Webster 2015. hemisphere) years in the northern hemisphere, so Copyright Mark articles about what tech gear to have abound abound. Webster/ Here’s Macworld’s 12 must-have gadgets ‘for your new Mac NZ/ college dorm’. There is also ‘Five must-have back to Hip Enterprises school laptop accessories‘. 2010-2015. No reprinting And what’s the best Mac, for that matter? Authorised to service iPod, or republish- ing without Master the media views in iTunes 12 iPad and Mac permission. For iTunes 12 offers several ways to view your content: permission, your music, movies, TV shows, and more. Each of these email views presents content in a different way and displays 61 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna 09 486 1493 Mac NZ Mac NZ

Mac News Car ~ Windows 10 on Mac ~ interns ~ Photos ~ Sonnet speed >> >> different information about it. While Jamie Carlson joins several others at Apple Hidden editing power in Photos many of these views are similar to what with expertise in self-driving technology. Photos for OS X is designed to appeal to page iTunes 11 offered, there are some changes. a broad audience, with simple editing Meanwhile, to fix iTunes, Apple should Windows 10 on Mac tools that let anyone improve their revisit iSync, an app that actually worked The latest version of Boot Camp is now photographs. But is that it? Even though 3 Even before Bluetooth came along, available, and Boot Camp 6 makes it’s a 1.0 product (replacing iPhoto and MagBytes syncing cell phones and PDAs to your Mac it possible to run Redmond’s latest Aperture), a lot of editing power is actually #67 was a piece of cake, thanks to iSync. operating system — Microsoft Windows hidden beneath that user-friendly surface. 10 — on a variety of Macs. Here’s a full list For , when you edit a photo and Apple car of Macs supporting Windows 10. click the Adjust button, you’re presented Apple Car rumours have been picking with sliders for improving light and colour. up speed. I remain skeptical, but The Diverse Apple interns Guardian reports Apple is building a Apple has announced a partnership with ‘MagBytes’, self-driving car and is scouting for secure Code2040 that will see the company hire Sonnet shipping fast storage ‘Mac NZ’, this locations in the San Francisco Bay area to Sonnet has just announced its new Fusion document & all a handful of black and Latino computer Intellectual test it. science students as interns, part of a PCIe Flash Drive, a rugged, pocket-size Property [My quess would be that Apple will build broader attempt at improving the racial solid-state drive (SSD) storage device, is Rights are all an entire car to test, and then showcase, diversity of its workforce. now shipping and available for purchase. owned by Hip Enterprises/ something that will turn out to be an Code2040 is a San Francisco-based non- The newest member of Sonnet’s growing Mark installable box like Apple TV that enables profit organisation that chooses some family of Thunderbolt 2 products, the Webster 2015. whatever it is for any modern car.] of the best black and Latino computer Fusion is an ultra-fast alternative to Copyright senior Mark Apple also recently hired a science students in the US and provides portable SATA-based hard disk drives and Webster/ engineer away from Tesla, adding to the skills and opportunities to get into the SSD storage products. Mac NZ/ considerable stable of engineering and tech industry. The device connects to a compatible Mac Hip Enterprises (or even Windows) computer, or at the end 2010-2015. management talent in Apple’s car project. Apple is onboard as a platinum sponsor. No reprinting or republish- ing without ™ permission. THUNDERBOLT ADAPTERS For permission, AND CARD READERS email sonnettech.com Mac NZ More Mac news is collated online Mac NZ

Mac News LiquidMetal ~ Carrot ~ Jobs book ~ pop-ups ~ 11m Music subscribers >> >> of a Thunderbolt device daisy chain, via an See Apple World Today’s look at CARROT Becoming is a hearty 464 . attached 0.5-meter Thunderbolt cable. Weather for Mac. [I bought it – it’s great!] Even 2013’s rough Jobs film starring Ashton page The Fusion PCIe Flash Drive with Kutcher dragged on for more than two 256GB capacity (part number FUS- agonizing hours. TB2-256) is now available at an MSRP By contrast, the newly released Steve 4 of US$499. Jobs: Insanely Great embraces brevity. It’s it’s MagBytes The Fusion PCIe Flash Drive with a quick read at about 225 pages. Also, #67 512GB capacity (part number FUS- a graphic novel, translating the Apple TB2-512) has an MSRP of US$799 co-founder’s upbringing, storied career, (availability to be announced soon). and personal life into a series of black- and-white, pencil-drawn panels. Apple and Liquidmetal We may yet see Apple products Dealing with pop-ups & adware ‘MagBytes’, make of an alloy from Liquidmetal Pop-up ads are adware advertisements ‘Mac NZ’, this as evidenced by two newly that open over or under your browser document & all Intellectual published patents. Liquidmetal is window, in another tab, or as a graphic Property the commercial name for a series element within the current window. Rights are all of amorphous metal alloys. It’s the Sometimes they refuse to go away even owned by Hip Enterprises/ brand name as opposed to the actual when you try to close them. Mark name of the material (and it’s what If such ads appear, do not enter important Webster 2015. your little Sim pin, enclosed with each information about your Apple ID, credit Copyright Mark iPhone, is made from – it’s extremely cards, etc. If an ad refuses to close, it’s Webster/ tough). Insanely Great almost certainly a scam after your money. Mac NZ/ This graphic novel by Jesse Hartland tells Apple World Today tells you how to deal Hip Enterprises Vindictive weather Steve Jobs’ life story as a graphic novel — to them 2010-2015. . No reprinting CARROT Weather is now available Despite being cut short, Steve Jobs’ life or republish- for Mac. The robot with a vindictive was legendarily full and accomplished, 11m Apple Music subscribers ing without and the recollections of it are expectedly permission. personality has escaped the confines of Apple Music, the streaming music service For iOS and infiltrated your computer, bringing lengthy and robust. Apple launched just over a month ago, has permission, with it accurate weather forecasts for Walter Isaacson’s eponymous biography, passed 11 million trial members which email multiple cities, secrets to unlock and a issued weeks after Jobs’ death, weighs puts it at a little over half the number of Mac NZ time machine. in at 657 pages, while the more recent subscribers Spotify has after ten years. Mac NZ

Updates Next Mac OS ~ Parallels ~ iCloud ~ Alchemy in Logic ~ iOS 8.4.1 ~ Outlook >> >> 7th Beta of OS X ‘El Capitan’ to build out Apple’s mapping service, which boasts 3D Flyover Apple issues 7th OS X 10.11 El Capitan beta to developers, and the views as a standout feature in comparison to competing page 5th public beta to testers — Apple yesterday released the seventh offerings like Google Maps. For its Flyover technology, Apple beta version of its upcoming merges high-resolution aerial imagery with three- OS X 10.11 El Capitan operating dimensional digital modeling to provide users with 5 system to developers for 3D visualizations of structures, landmarks and other MagBytes testing, while at the same time points of interest. The view is also incorporated into #67 pushing out a fifth beta to those Flyover city tours, which are available for highly participating in the public beta trafficked locales and tourist destinations. program (which was then mysteriously pulled). Here’s how to use Flyover on Mac.

Parallels Desktop 11 and VMWare for Mac X and MainStage get Alchemy Late northern summer has become the time of year when the Logic Pro X has been updated to 10.2 and now integrates Alchemy, ‘MagBytes’, Big Two of Mac virtual machine software – Parallels and VMware a sample-manipulation synthesiser. You can find and shape ‘Mac NZ’, this – introduce the latest version of their marquee apps. Parallels sounds from the Alchemy library or create your own with a document & all Intellectual Desktop 11 for Mac adds a number of new features and improves choice of synthesis engines and advanced morphing tools. You Property performance; and VMware released VMware Fusion 8 lets Mac can also produce sounds with analog-modeled filters, multiple Rights are all users run Windows on Macs without rebooting and provides modulation sources, an integrated arpeggiator, and effects. owned by Hip Enterprises/ support for Microsoft Windows 10 and for Mac OS X El Capitan. Mark iOS 8.4.1 Update packed with security fixes Webster 2015. Restore missing iCloud data through a browser Apple seldom goes into great detail in its most public description Copyright Mark Apple recently added a long-awaited feature that lets you easily of iOS (and OS X) updates. In this case of iOS 8.4.1, what seems Webster/ recover lost data from iCloud Drive, calendars/reminders, or like a minor update is packed with critical security fixes, and all Mac NZ/ contacts. The way you’ll do this is really simple, too — just visit users should update immediately. Hip Enterprises 2010-2015. iCloud.com, sign in with your appropriate Apple ID email address No reprinting and password and then click on the Settings button. Microsoft Outlook and other Office iOS apps or republish- Microsoft’s Office apps for iOS have been updated yesterday to ing without More Maps flyovers permission. make it easier for people to work with files sent and received For Apple has expanded Maps Flyover coverage to 20 cities in Europe, using Outlook for iOS. Thanks to the upgrade, users can now tap permission, Japan and more. Now 21 cities including multiple destinations on a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file emailed to them in Outlook email in France and a handful of sites in Mexico, among others, have and quickly edit it in the corresponding app on their iPhone or Mac NZ been added. The additions come as part of an ongoing project iPad. Mac NZ

Mac Help Apple assistance, consumers, help, support >> >> Mac & iDevice training in Grey Mac Senior Net — ready to help surrounds by running iPad sessions in Lynn, Auckland If you are aged 55 years or better and you rest homes. This is a large, well-run and page You’re getting MagBytes and may be use an Apple computer or device, Mac successful group. following my weekly Friday tips on Mac Senior Net is a wonderful resource. NZ – but I also run the Grey Lynn Sessions 6 in Auckland (click on Training). This is the Apple support & AppleCare Apple’s official support pages are MagBytes cheapest way to learn, at $40 per session #67 in a friendly, group environment. A new comprehensive and cover all aspects of series is starting Wednesday March 4th at Apple hardware and software – it’s here. 7:30pm. Please email if you are interested Plus there’s Intro to the Mac and How Tos. in attending, as I only book a room when I AppleCare: If you need your Mac fixed, can guarantee five attendees. The sessions look for an Apple licenced repair centre. are friendly, open to questions at all times People often ask me if they should buy ‘MagBytes’, and are backed up by handouts, and one Auckland: Mac Senior Net Auckland AppleCare with their devices. ‘Mac NZ’, this is running now on Wednesday nights provides on-going Apple Mac and iDevice Every new Mac has a one-year warranty document & all I train knowledge to help competency, learnt and 90 days free phone support. Intellectual (7:30pm). (one-to-one at your home Property or workplace (in Auckland) for $95/hour. I alongside others in similar situations. AppleCare extends this all out to three Rights are all also present to institutions. The Auckland Club holds monthly years. Under NZ law, you are covered by owned by Hip email Mark meetings in Howick, Bayswater and the Consumer Guarantees Act against Enterprises/ Please for more info. Mark Remuera and provides lessons and talks anything going wrong that comes Webster 2015. Mac diagnostics very reasonably. Go to MSN Ak’s web page down to parts failure within reasonable Copyright Your Mac has various diagnostic tools and or email Marion Moffat. expectations (say, inside three years’ use), Mark Webster/ routines available. If you think things are Handy Absolute Beginners’ courses are also but be prepared to spend anxious time on Mac NZ/ going awry, check the Help page on Mac available at SeniorNet, including for . the phone, sticking to your guns to get it Hip Enterprises NZ (click on Help at the top). fixed. 2010-2015. Eden Roskill — This Auckland branch No reprinting has However, this absolutely does pay off. or republish- Mac help in the North an Apple interest group. AppleCare is expensive, depending on the ing without Dave Boswell has been a reseller in device, but it’s a replacement policy which permission. Christchurch: With nearly 600 covers you anywhere in the world. For Whangarei for 20 years and can assist. permission, MacNorth Computers 09 433 9855, members, this very active Apple- email 027 490 2332, or email Dave Boswell. focussed group covers Christchurch with If you travel and you want full reassurance, Mac NZ a dedicated lab – and caters to the city’s and you can afford it, AppleCare is superb. Mac NZ

iDevice news 6+ camera replacements ~ sales ~ iOS annoyances ~ Russia >> 6+ Camera replacement >> Apple has started an iSight Camera page replacement program for the iPhone 6 Plus. The company says it has determined that, in a small 7 percentage of iPhone 6 Plus devices, MagBytes the iSight camera has a component #67 that may fail causing photos to look blurry.

iPhone sales stay strong Apple’s iPhone continues to gain marketshare despite a slowing global ‘MagBytes’, smartphone market during the second ‘Mac NZ’, this quarter, doing particularly well in document & all Intellectual China – where the overall market Property actually shrunk by 4% year-over-year. Rights are all And it’s still creeping into Samsung’s owned by Hip Enterprises/ market share. Mark Webster 2015. Truly annoying iOS features Copyright Mark Nope, you’re not the only one who’s Webster/ ever barked “stop it!” to your iPhone Mac NZ/ or iPad because it was being, well, Hip Enterprises 2010-2015. a little too helpful. Luckily, you can No reprinting tweak or turn off many of iOS’s most or republish- nagging and intrusive features. ing without permission. For Russian Monocrystal permission, This has been identified as Apple email Watch sapphire supplier of Apple’s Mac NZ scratch resistant sapphire for the Mac NZ

iDevice news Next ~ iPhone movie ~ camera apps ~ Status Board >> >> Apple Watch. Monocrystal is a Russian firm which is now the The film takes place on Christmas Eve, which in Hollywood is just largest synthetic sapphire manufacturer in the world. another warm day, and the cinematography radiates that heat. page But as you trail behind best friends Sin-Dee and Alexandra as they German ‘iPhone 6s’ launch for September 18? search for Sin-Dee’s cheating boyfriend, you’d never realise that German carriers have reportedly been preparing to launch Apple’s with an iPhone, you too could create that scene, since it was shot 8 next 9stongly rumoured) flagship handset — typically known with an iPhone 5. MagBytes as the ‘iPhone 6s’ — on September 18th, a date in line with a #67 rumoured press event earlier in the month (9th). The best camera apps for iOS Rumours also claim it will have a 12MP camera. Not only is the iPhone one of the most popular point-and- shoots on the market, if you had to pick one feature that sets How to make a movie with an iPhone it apart from its smartphone competitors, it would have to be Tangerine is a movie so vivid and real you feel like you’re walking the camera. The secret is in Apple’s proprietary image signal the streets of Los Angeles with its main characters. processor, which handles things like autofocus, face detection, ‘MagBytes’, and noise reduction to reduce the strain on the main processor ‘Mac NZ’, this and optimize the camera for iOS. document & all Intellectual Here are the best apps based on three factors: interface, ease of Property use, and of course features. Rights are all owned by Hip Enterprises/ Status Board shows lots of info in one app Mark Cabel Sasser and the team over at Panic have been working hard Webster 2015. lately on a lot of their products, and Copyright Mark the recent debut of Status Board 2 Webster/ for iPad (free with in-app purchases) Mac NZ/ made it obvious that their hard work Hip Enterprises 2010-2015. is paying off. No reprinting Status Board is a unique iPad app — or republish- users basically add status panels to ing without permission. a full-screen iPad display that show For those things they’re interested in permission, seeing all the time. Things like the time (local or in other cities), email weather, upcoming appointments, incoming mail subjects, Mac NZ tweets, or headlines from news feeds. Mac NZ

tips&tricks Handy uses for your iPhone camera >> >> 1/ Short Term Memory — Sometimes you are available. need to remember something, but only for page a short time, like an hour or a day. These 4/ Reference info things include a parking spot. Then you while shopping — can pull up that photo later and find your Think something’s 9 car – especially handy with larger parking great in a shop MagBytes garages like at airports. but not sure what #67 your significant 2/ Longer Term Memory — There other will think are times when you need to refer to so, or whether something from some time ago, such as it’s actually right a screenshot of an error message that for what you only happens at certain times under intend? Snap it, ‘MagBytes’, certain conditions. This is another time and either send it ‘Mac NZ’, this that picture you took ‘before’ can come in to that significant document & all Intellectual super handy. You can also the camera to other by choosing Property compare items, such as last year’s garden it in the Photos Rights are all (bad) compared to this year’s (worse!). app then tapping owned by Hip Enterprises/ the Share Sheet Mark 3/ Reference info for shopping — That button(shown Webster 2015. bulb that burned out in the hallway: what below) to Copyright type of bulb was it? Things like this may immediately text or email, it to them, or 1/ Add a simple text signature to Mail for Mark Webster/ not be rattling around in your brain, and if just have it on your iPhone for when you iOS — Unlike on Mac, you can only have Mac NZ/ you do need them they can be difficult or get home. (Most of these tips came from one signature per email account on your Hip Enterprises impossible to find out when you’re out. Mac Observer.) 2010-2015. iOS device. Choose Settings, then Mail, No reprinting Also, taking a picture of model/serial Contacts, Calendars. Choose Signature or republish- number stickers when you get something 5/ For Flash Harriets with Apple Watches and create your Signature ing without new out of boxes means you don’t have — boot the Camera app on your iPhone, permission. For to worry about those things in the future. then tap the Camera app on your Watch to 2/ Add a complex signature to Mail for permission, You can also take photos of the backs of use it as a remote viewfinder and shutter. iOS — You can take a signature, complete email equipment with lots of ports to always Now you can compose and shoot from the with image, that you have created on your Mac NZ know which cables will work or what ports Watch screen. Mac and use it on your iOS device. Just Mac NZ

tips&tricks Signatures for Mail on iOS and making space in iCloud >> >> send yourself an email that contains the iCloud account via Mac or iOS apps (from following screen representing the amount signature you want to use. In the email iOS 8.1, that includes iCloud Photo Library, of iCloud storage currently in use. Next, page you receive, click on the signature, Select shared photo albums, My Photo Stream, select the particular Backup to be deleted. all, then Copy. Now Select Settings>Mail, documents, contacts, calendars, mail, Users with iCloud being used on multiple Contacts, Calendars>Signature bookmarks, devices will have more than one. 10 If you already have a signature saved, and notes). Selecting particular old (and MagBytes delete it. iCloud backups redundant) backups to delete (not #67 Then double tap to get the save options include the current one, obviously). and select paste. It will remain in place purchase until you decide to change it. history from 5/ Choose which apps back up — the iTunes or You can choose which apps back up, 3/ Free up space in iCloud — Call me , app too – remember (and please note) a Scrooge but I have managed to resist data, home that, unlike on Mac or PC where ‘MagBytes’, buying extra storage space in iCloud for screen and app documents go into files and folders ‘Mac NZ’, this years now, and I’m running three devices organisation, independent of the applications document & all Intellectual on the account. The first easiest way is iMessage/ that create them, in most cases, iOS Property to delete emails you have received with SMS/MMS apps contain the docs they create Rights are all attachments in them, and easiest of all is text messages, within the originating apps – and owned by Hip Enterprises/ to do this on your Mac as you can delete device settings, these can be backed up. So disabling Mark multiples at once. and visual any non-essential apps from a Webster 2015. Please remember that iCloud is essentially voicemail on backup frees up space within iCloud Copyright a folder on a hard drive somewhere that an iOS device. storage. Mark Webster/ you access over the internet, with access But if you At the bottom of the Backup Info Mac NZ/ privileges set to you via your email address have multiple screen, there is an option to Delete Hip Enterprises and Apple ID password. devices, old the particular backup. Once the 2010-2015. No reprinting iCloud back-ups can quickly fill up their backup is deleted, the amount of available or republish- 4/ Delete iCloud backups to free up storage — particularly if they’re on the free iCloud storage will increase in proportion ing without iCloud space — When a device is set to (yay!) 5-gigabyte tier. to the size of the deleted backup. To permission. For backup to iCloud, Apple automatically To delete an old iCloud backup from an delete an iCloud backup from a Mac, open permission, backs up data and settings stored locally iOS device, simply open the Settings app, System Preferences and select iCloud. email on the particular device; it does not create and select iCloud, then select Storage. Then, select the Manage button on the Mac NZ a backup of data already stored in an There’s a line graphic at the bottom of the bottom right of the window. Mac NZ

tips&tricks Mac’s Safari, Photos image resolution and Spotlight tricks >> >> 1/ Set Safari to automatically delete your Download Originals to This Mac in Photos If you want to find all photos taken with history — You can get rid of your browsing (Photos>Preferences>iCloud). It’s also a certain camera, just enter its name or page history any time in Safari by choosing possible to set that option in iOS, but for model number in the search field. ‘Clear History …’ from the History menu. people concerned about backups, they’ll (To see what sort of metadata a file Then you get the option to clear the have more photos and videos than can fit is storing, select it in the Finder, click 11 history of your browsing for the last hour, at full resolution on an iOS device. Command-I to open Get Info, then click on 3/ Creating good queries in Spotlight — MagBytes Today, Today & Yesterday or all. (History the triangle next to More Info.) #67 is how you backtrack and find sites you Every Spotlight query is an ‘AND search’ have visited – anyone else using your Mac by default. This means the program looks 5/ Use Keywords — Even when you can do the for files containing all the words you type. know what you’re looking for, you may same thing and A search like ‘time machine’ will turn up get an overwhelming number of search see every site any files that mention Yosemite’s Time results. To help limit searches to certain you’ve been Machine backup feature, but also an IMDB file types or time periods, use one of the ‘MagBytes’, too, including search result for a movie of that name, a many useful keywords that Spotlight ‘Mac NZ’, this banking, Wikipedia article on time travel and so on, understands. Place the appropriate document & all Intellectual and if you’ve and will also find emails mentioning it. keyword and a colon in front of your Property had Safari But Spotlight also supports true Boolean search term (but don’t insert a space Rights are all ‘remember’ searching, which uses logical operators before the colon). owned by Hip Enterprises/ your passwords, they can get right into (AND, OR, and NOT) to pinpoint results. For example, if you know the name of Mark your account and start transferring money For example, if you type “time machine” a file you’re looking for, you can limit Webster 2015. to theirs, for example). OR morlock, you’ll get references to your search to file names by using the Copyright If you want Safari to take care of this for Yosemite’s backup tool, as well as any files name:keyword. Type name:machine, Mark Webster/ you, open Safari, open Preferences from related to HG Wells’s fictional species. Spotlight will find only files that contain Mac NZ/ the Safari menu, and under the General the word “machine” in their names Hip Enterprises tab choose a setting under Remove history 4/ Use Metadata — Spotlight also looks (though your search results may also 2010-2015. No reprinting items. (While you’re there, remember to at metadata; file information generated by turn up bookmarks, iCal events, and or republish- un-tick ‘Open Safe files after downloading’ the program or device that created the file. other items). You’ll need to use double ing without to stop things auto-installing themselves.) A digital photo’s metadata may include quotation marks to identify phrases, such permission. For information about the camera used to as, name:”time machine” (ie, in exactly permission, 2/ Make sure Photos is storing the full take the photo and about how the photo the same as you would in Safari for Google email resolution images — It’s best to anoint was taken: the camera type, focal length, searches.) Mac NZ one computer as the place you set colour space, exposure time etcetera. More on Spotlight searches at Macworld. Mac NZ

How To Apple offers a free email address to every user – here’s how to get yours >> @.com versus @gmail etc >> Many people I meet use gmail, or even page hotmail, email accounts either solely or as a secondary account for good reason: these use international ISPs, so travelling 12 out of your own country means it’s very MagBytes easy (if not completely transparent) to #67 connect and use your email compared to most @-co.nz accounts. But since most people I meet are Mac/ iOS users, I don’t understand why they’re not using @icloud accounts over much less secure Gmail accounts since iCloud offers ‘MagBytes’, the same benefits (free, international) ‘Mac NZ’, this plus the added benefits of Apple’s iCloud document & all Intellectual sync across all your devices, plus secure Property access online via www.icloud.com (right), iCloud online in a browser – you get access to Mail thanks to an iCloud account, and all your other iCloud services Rights are all which you sign into with your Apple ID’s owned by Hip email address and password, and which On an iOS device Enterprises/ before you get an email address you want Mark you can do from any internet-connected Open the Settings app and find iCloud. In – for example, you might end up with Webster 2015. device anywhere (mind that you log out here, tap to turn Mail on, then follow the [email protected]. I notice many Copyright afterwards if you do log in on someone on-screen instructions. Mark people get round this name availability Webster/ else’s device). problem by adding an ‘nz’ – for example, Mac NZ/ If you have an older Apple email address On a Mac I could have chosen markwebster32@ Hip Enterprises that ends with @mac.com or @me.com, Open System Preferences either from its 2010-2015. icloud but markwebsternz was available. No reprinting you already have an equivalent address grey cog-icon in the Dock or from your Nicknames your friends and family know or republish- that ends with @icloud.com. In other Apple menu at top left. Click the iCloud for you might also work for you as might, ing without words, you can email me at mac.nz@ tab, select Mail, then follow the on-screen say, a middle name initial: markfwebster. permission. For mac.com, [email protected] and mac.nz@ instructions. On any Apple device in which you turn on permission, icloud.com and they all come to the same In either case, put in your name and iCloud and sign in, the iCloud address will email place – they’re essentially the same email hope nobody else has already optioned be automatically configured and ready. Mac NZ address. it – you may have to try several variations (Apple’s instructions are here.) Mac NZ

shiny&new Sonnet Thunderbolt adapters harness your high-speed ports >> Thunderbolt to USB 3 plus Ethernet Thunderbolt to USB 3 plus eSATA >> Many modern portbale Macs no longer have Ethernet ports – If you are, for example, a video professional or just a drive speed page ‘hard-wiring’ your Mac into your modem/UFB/etc is at least twice demon, or you use an eSATA Card Reader, you will want to be as fast as relying on a wifi connection to the net. able to plug in that fast eSATA device, but how do you plug one Sonnet’s USB 3.0 + Gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt Adapter into a Mac? With an adapter by Sonnet, which has the extra 13 provides a simple way to connect a USB 3.0 device plus addsa benefit of adding an extra high-speed USB 3 port. Simply plug the MagBytes Gigabit Ethernet interface to any Mac® with a Thunderbolt 2 or Thunderbolt cable into your Mac’s Thunderbolt port and you’re #67 Thunderbolt port, or Windows® computer with Thunderbolt 2 ready to roll. The Thunderbolt end handles up to 10GBps and, ports. like the Ethernet adapter (left), it takes all it’s power from the With 10Gbps Thunderbolt technology, this compact adapter bus (that built-in Thunderbolt cable, in other words). The adapter connects directly to your computer or at the end of a Thunderbolt facilitates data transfers at up to 350 Megabytes per second. device chain with its built-in Thunderbolt cable. One advantage More info at MacSense, NZ$185. is you might have ‘MagBytes’, a Mac with a ‘Mac NZ’, this Thunderbolt port document & all Intellectual but only USB 2 – Property plug this into that Rights are all faster Thunderbolt owned by Hip port and now Enterprises/ Mark you can use the Webster 2015. much faster USB Copyright 3 hard drive you Mark Webster/ bought at its native Mac NZ/ throughput (it’s Hip Enterprises up to 85% faster 2010-2015. No reprinting than USB 2) instead or republish- of stepped-down ing without to USB2 speed permission. For because that’s all permission, your Mac has. email More info at Mac NZ MacSense, NZ$185.