The offcial journal of the Wellington Society Inc Volume 37.02 – February 2020

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Wellington Monday, 24 February 7.15pm - 9.30pm Subject: AGM; Pages on iCloud and mixing versions Kapiti Monday, 2 March 7.15pm - 9.00pm Subject: Evolution of Mac notebooks iPad Group* Kapiti - TBA 1.00pm - 3.00pm The Wellington meeting this month starts with our Annual Help Desk* General Meeting, then we will be looking at exchanging Kapiti - TBA documents between different versions of the iWork applications 1.00pm - 4.00pm (Pages, Numbers and Keynote), and using the iCloud versions of these applications to edit documents in a web browser. See page 2 for more details of meetings *Please register by emailing [email protected] Where to find us Unless otherwise indicated, main meetings are normally as follows. Wellington: last Monday of the month (except December) at Brian Davis Room, Cathedral of St Paul, corner Hill St and Molesworth St, Wellington. Kapiti: first Monday of the month (except January) at Kapiti Uniting Parish, Weka Road, Raumati. Help desks and other special interest meetings vary.

The President Writes p2 Early Apple Mac Recollections p7 INSIDE Free & Low Cost Mac Apps and Committee Contact Details p8 Utilities p4

CAPITAL APPLE – FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 1 The president writes ...

Kapiti Meeting The Kapiti meeting will be held on Monday 2 March, at the Kapiti Uniting Parish, 10 Weka Rd, Raumati, from 7:15 pm. I will be presenting the meeting, and will start with a summary of the decisions made at the AGM. After that, the main topic is “Evolution of Mac notebooks”. Between myself and other volunteers, David Empson we will have examples of MacBook Pro and [email protected] MacBook Air models spanning several recent design revisions, including the latest 16-inch Hi folks. MacBook Pro which can be seen alongside earlier Wellington Meeting 15-inch models. I will talk about the main changes The Annual General Meeting of WelMac will be between models, and factors to consider when held on Monday 24 February in the Brian Davis buying a new Mac. Room at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, corner One change of particular interest is the new Hill St and Molesworth St, Wellington, from keyboard in the 16-inch MacBook Pro, which 7.20pm. replaces the problematic butterfly keyboard that The purpose of the AGM is to present annual has been used in most 2016 to 2019 Mac notebooks. reports, elect officers and committee members, and We won't be able to show iMacs at the meeting discuss any items of general business. The official but I can answer questions about them. notice of meeting has been sent to current If you would like to receive e-mail members, along with reports to be presented. announcements about upcoming Kapiti meetings, As already announced, I will be standing down please contact Janet Milne [email protected]. as president (after 18 years), but I will be putting Help Desk my name forward as a general committee member. Our help desk is being planned for a By cutting down on admin tasks, I’m hoping to Saturday afternoon (1 to 4 pm) in early March at have more time for my family and some long Kapiti Uniting Parish. Subject to availability of the delayed projects. church, the date will be either 7 or 14 March, which After the AGM, we will break for supper. We we will confirm by email as soon as possible. may have time for Q&A before the main topic. It If you would like to attend, please register no would be appreciated if questions could be emailed later than Tuesday 3 March by emailing to [email protected] so we can plan ahead. [email protected]. Please include details about The main topic is “Collaborating with mixed what you would like help with, and tell us what versions of the iWork applications”. computer or other devices you would like to bring. If a document has been created in Pages, The help desk is an opportunity to get assistance Numbers or Keynote and needs to be co-edited with most topics relating to Apple products. Our with other people who are running different regular tutors can help with a wide range of macOS versions, you may run into document general Mac, iPad and iPhone questions, and if you compatibility problems due to having different need help in a specialised area, we may be able to versions of the applications. This also extends to find a tutor to assist. If several people want help on collaboration with non-Mac users for a document the same topic we may do a small group session, that originated in the iWork applications. We will otherwise we try to provide individual help. look at several solutions, particularly the iCloud The help desk is a free service to WelMac versions of Pages/Numbers, using Pages/ members, but registration is required so we can Numbers on an iPad or iPhone, plus export and plan the event. import. continued over page

CAPITAL APPLE – FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 2 iPad/iPhone Group Most of Apple’s products are manufactured in Subject to availability, we will be holding an China. (There is some smaller scale manufacturing iPad/iPhone group meeting from 1 pm to 3 pm on of some products in other countries.) The the same day and venue as the help desk. The coronavirus situation affects not only production of focus of this meeting is likely to be coming to grips the end products, but also availability of with iOS/iPadOS 13 and any problems members components, the logistics of deliveries within, to or have had over the holidays. from China, and movement of Apple employees For further details or to register, please email who need to travel to or from China to manage [email protected]. product development and production. If you would like to attend both the help desk Apple have announced that the impact of the and iPad/iPhone group, there will be some time coronavirus will result in them not being able to for general help after the iPad/iPhone group meet their expected revenue targets for the January meeting. to March quarter, due to reduced production and fewer products sold in China. They have Meeting Videos emphasised that their main concern is the health Videos for most of our Wellington meetings for and well-being of all the people involved in the last two years are available for members to developing and producing their products. view at their leisure, which is especially handy for For the rest of the world, I see the following as those who live outside the Wellington area or are possible short term impacts: otherwise not able to attend in person. 1. Some Apple products may be temporarily out The videos are available via a semi-private of stock. YouTube channel: 2. The AirPods Pro (introduced late 2019) were https://www.youtube.com/channel/ already hard to get due to demand outstripping UCmJBMCRuX6iyV8smOu2iApw/videos supply, but there will now be further supply constraints so they will continue to be in limited Apple News supply for longer than expected. 3. Custom orders of Apple products (e.g. getting Software Updates a Mac with different storage or other options) are The next minor updates of Apple’s operating normally manufactured on demand in Chinese systems (including macOS Catalina 10.15.4 and factories and shipped directly to the customer. iOS/iPadOS 13.4) are expected about mid to late I’ve already noticed a delay affecting custom March. Developers and public beta programme orders of some Mac models, which seems to be a members are already testing pre-release versions. moving window with about a four week lead As the “half way” point between major versions, it time. Other Mac models seem to be less affected, is looking like there will be some new features on which may be due to different situations for top of the usual bug fixes and security fixes. I’ll factories making those models. Standard wait for the public release before going into detail, configurations still show as in stock (normally in as there may be changes by then. Sydney) for everything I checked. Coronavirus Disruption 4. Apple may have been planning to introduce The COVID-19 coronavirus is growing rapidly several new products around March, but both in terms of reported cases and deaths. So far, production limits may mean they need to delay the worst impact has been in China, but if its the announcement and/or availability. If spread is not contained it may become a serious production delays continue they might problem in other countries. announce the products but supply could be China is the major product manufacturing constrained more than usual. centre for many industries, so health issues and That’s all, folks! David Empson restrictions affecting Chinese workers is going to have significant impacts on trade, the economy in To contact me, email [email protected], or you can general, and many companies around the world. ring me at home (976 9755)

CAPITAL APPLE – FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 3 Free & Low Cost Mac Apps and Utilities by Graeme Moffatt Front and Center Brings Back Classic You can run First Aid on any drive by Mac Window Management launching the utility and clicking the In the classic versions of Mac OS, if you clicked one corresponding button. For better results, and in application window, that click would bring all of that cases where your Mac won’t boot, you can application’s windows to the front. Apple abandoned launch your Mac in Recovery Mode by restarting that behaviour in Mac OS X, changing things so and holding Cmd + R while it starts up. Select clicking an app’s window would bring only that Disk Utility, then First Aid to attempt a fix. Hit window to the front. If you want all of an app’s Repair Disk if it detects a problem. windows to come forward, you have to click the app’s It’s also possible to create whole images of Dock icon. Some utilities, like DragThing, could your current disk using this utility, which is restore the old behaviour, but the advent of macOS perfect if your drive is failing. Reboot in 10.15 Catalina and Apple’s elimination of support for Recovery Mode and connect a large enough 32-bit apps killed them all off. external drive. Then eject the drive you want to In response, Lee Fyock and John Siracusa created back up (probably called Macintosh HD), Front and Center to solve the problem. It’s available followed by File > Create New Image from from the Mac App Store for $2.99. “Macintosh HD” (or whatever the label is). Failing Disk Utility’s repair options, you can always boot into single user mode and use fsck to fix drive options from a command line interface.

OnyX https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/ onyx. When to use: For making deep system tweaks, cleaning up caches, and fiddling with the OS. OnyX is the jack of all trades maintenance tool for macOS. Most users won’t have any specific need for it until the time comes, but it’s a handy tool to have installed. Just like Disk Utility, you Disk Utility can use OnyX to verify the structure of the When to use: Corrupted files, drive errors, or a startup disk. It can also repair permissions, Mac that won’t boot into macOS. something that most users of El Capitan or later Disk Utility is a utility provided with macOS, will never need to do. which you can find under your Applications > Utilities folder. It’s used for formatting drives, mounting and unmounting volumes, and fixing problems as they arise.

OnyX can perform tasks like run the ’s daily, weekly and monthly clean-up scripts with the click of a button. It can rebuild

CAPITAL APPLE – FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 4 like Spotlight, Mail, and LaunchServices Wunderlist without having to boot into Safe Mode. Get it from: App Store This tool works to to clear just about every cache Price: Free on your system, though generally speaking you An uncomplicated app, but a great one, to do app should let the OS take care of this task. You can also Wunderlist’s selling point is its cross device perform three and seven-pass secure erases, functionality. It’s available on Mac, PC, Android and though you shouldn’t do this on solid state drives. iOS, allowing you to sync your to do list wherever OnyX can also show and hide files, folders, and you’re using macOS’ Handoff feature. applications, plus access macOS applications like Once you've started a list, you can schedule the hidden Network Utility and Directory Utility reminders, add notes and embed it into the macOS tools with a click. Notification Center using a widget. Team-based Finally, you can tweak some settings that are features are unlocked by signing up for usually only available via Terminal prompts. These Wunderlists’s pro subscription, and you can add include the format, location, and naming files of any size without running into limits conventions for screenshots, recent folder and file listings, Safari tweaks like history cutoff and DNS prefetching; startup sounds, and even graphical effects throughout the OS. Malwarebytes https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/ When to use: Periodically to ensure your Mac is malware-free. Your Mac is susceptible to malware, even though the likelihood of infection is low. Apple has put in place protections like system integrity protection and Gatekeeper to limit damage from Evernote errant third-party software. But exploits still happen, and Malwarebytes is a free solution to Get it from: App Store keep you protected. Price: Free If you’ve already been infected, this is one anti- Evernote has morphed into a mighty note-taking malware tool that can help. The free version lacks app over the years. While some people will say that real-time protection, but that’s fine since resources it's too bloated, the sheer number of things that you can do with it still makes it best-in-class. You can type up notes, obviously, organizing them using a combination of folders and tags. You can even embed Google Drive documents, which are accessible in a click. There's also the ability to set reminders, share notes with friends, find information related to notes using Evernote's 'Context' feature, create lists, and

are precious. A quick scan from time to time, as well as running the updates when they arrive, should be enough to keep you safe. You’ll get a free trial of the premium version of Malwarebytes when you download, but the free version offers ample protection for most users.

CAPITAL APPLE – FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 5 favourite notes that you frequently return to. Better Unclutter will help keep everything in one place, yet, all of your notes are synchronized using the rather than scattered across several folders. company's servers, making them accessible on It’s a brilliant idea made even better by the fact nearly any PC (through a browser or the native that it can be configured for use with gesture Evernote app) or mobile device in the world. The controls. At any given point, you can swipe down paid version lets you use Evernote with more than from the top of the screen with two fingers on the two devices while upping the amount of data you trackpad (or one on the mouse) to reveal a trio of can sync each month. windows that can be concealed and re-summoned SoftMaker Office 2018 whenever you please. Get it from: https://www.softmaker.com/en/ -office Price: Free It might be kind of like three apps than just one, but SoftMaker Office 2018 takes all the key features of and puts them into an interface that tailors to your needs. It comes with a group of programs called TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations 2018 that are similar enough to Office 365 without the rolling subscription. Regardless of whether you need an easy-to-use or a or slideshow creator of equal accessibility, SoftMaker Office has Fantastical 2 what you’re looking for. And, because it’s still in Get it from: App Store beta, you can get a complimentary, albeit temporary, Price: NZ$83 license over email if you want to give it a spin. Sometimes, life gets hectic, and you need some Otherwise, there’s a permanent free version called help getting everything organized. Luckily, there’s SoftMaker FreeOffice, but it’s only available on an app for that. Fantastical 2 is the most fully- Windows, Android and . featured calendar and reminder suite we’ve ever seen. You’re able to set events and reminders using natural language, and it’s fully compatible with your iCloud reminders. There’s also an iOS app for iPhone and iPad that will effortlessly sync with the Mac app, so that you can stay on top of your busy life no matter where you are.

Unclutter Get it from: App Store Price: NZ$13 Since you’re obviously going to install all of the other apps we’ve mentioned, you’re going to need at least a utility that, well, declutters your desktop. And, while macOS Mojave brought Stacks to your Here’s some more amazing FREE Mac Utilities Mac, making everything less cluttered, Unclutter you must download! https://www.youtube.com/ goes even further. So, whether you’re a frivolous watch?v=cqjpa8-Cp-s notetaker or a temporary file hoarder like we are,

CAPITAL APPLE – FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 6 Early Apple MacIntosh Recollections by Graeme Moffatt

As we are now at the start of a new decade, I Macintosh team. Highlights include footage of the have decided to highlight a few videos that are from actual pirate flag waving in the wind. the computer dark ages. These illustrate some of the https://www.youtube.com/watch? early discussions and developments that took place v=l3agg64LM88. with a relatively small band of young geeks that One of the original team of software developers sought to change the world. Led by and was and on his Youtube channel , they banded together to develop the https://www.youtube.com/user/ahertzfeld, he software that we now take for granted in order to posted some interview snippets recored in October make life easier for everyone. 1983 with members of the original Mac team, It is debatable just how successful that they were intended for commercials that were never used. in this pursuit as in some cases, life with computers This post is the entire reel of proposed commercials, has become more complex rather than less. featuring mini-interviews with Mike Murray, Burrell “In Search Of Excellence” is a documentary Smith, , , George Crow and produced by John Nathan, based on Tom Peter’s me. bestselling business book, that profiled six excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch? companies. This is the segment about Apple v=1lIzmR1LHf4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1 Computer, filmed in the summer of 1984, featuring VMjfP4ihfOicj0gmxak865YUqe3nI3cRSwiYmzEpic_ interviews with Steve Jobs and the original BJYYevF7B3K5g.

Mac keyboard shortcuts Cut, copy, paste, and other common shortcuts • Command-X: Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard. • Command-C: Copy the selected item to the Clipboard. This also works for files in the Finder. • Command-V: Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app. This also works for files in the Finder. • Command-Z: Undo the previous command. You can then press Shift-Command-Z to Redo, reversing the undo command. In some apps, you can undo and redo multiple commands. • Command-A: Select All items. • Command-F: Find items in a document or open a Find window. • Command-G: Find Again: Find the next occurrence of the item previously found. To find the previous occurrence, press Shift-Command-G. • Command-H: Hide the windows of the front app. To view the front app but hide all other apps, press Option-Command-H. • Command-M: Minimise the front window to the Dock. To minimise all windows of the front app, press Option-Command-M. • Command-O: Open the selected item, or open a dialog to select a file to open. • Command-P: Print the current document. • Command-S: Save the current document. • Command-T: Open a new tab. • Command-W: Close the front window. To close all windows of the app, press Option-Command-W. • Option-Command-Esc: Force quit an app. • Command–Space bar: Show or hide the Spotlight search field. To perform a Spotlight search from a Finder window, press Command–Option–Space bar. (If you use multiple input sources to type in different languages, these shortcuts change input sources instead of showing Spotlight.

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