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The offcial journal of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc Volume 37.02 – February 2020 Come to one of Editing with Pages on iCloud our meetings 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 next 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.