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VOLUME 32, NUMBER 7 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JULY 2021 FOUNDED MAY 1989 SOME WEBSITES MEETINGS - SECOND Apple Starts Leaving Intel SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Macs Behind in MacOS Monterey. Bob Barton pointed us to the story in Wired that certain features in the new Monterey OS will only be FOCUS - WWDC 2021 available in M1 Macs. bit.ly/ 3gpyfyg. Paste Text So Its Style Matches the Surrounding Text. Very handy when you want text from a website, PDF, word processing doc to be same style as the doc you’re pasting into. bit.ly/2TP9Qeh. H o w t o R e m o t e l y Troubleshoot Your Relative's Computer. For both Mac and Windows users and between platforms. Can be very useful if you’re the family tech guy. bit.ly/3wx33mC. Beta to Say “No” to Beta Operating Systems. Bob LeVitus couldn’t be more emphatic in saying DONT do it for any device you rely on. bit.ly/36uYf6O. NO MEETING IN JULY WE WILL NOT MEET VIA ZOOM. CLICK ON DOWNLOAD IN THE BIG BLUE BOX NEAR THE TOP CENTER. 1 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 7 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JULY 2021 CONTENTS Some Websites & July Program Information 1 MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 Bookmarks: Filibuster, Movies, FSevents, 5-6 and WWDC 2021 Speaker Roster 6 June 2021 Meeting Minutes 7-9 2021 Speaker Roster Details 9 Contributors and Authors Newsletter Editor Mark Bazrod Apple Announces the Arrival of its New 10-11 Mark Bazrod Touchscreen Mac Andy Boxall Copy Editor Apple Just Lost $1,999.00 12-16 Robert C. Deane Lappin Ten Best Features from WWDC 2021 16-18 eero MLMUG Journal WWDC 2021:Monterey, iOS 15, iPadOS 19-22 Masthead Mark Ellis iPadOS 15 Improves Multitasking & iPhone 22-24 Designed by Dale Fletcher Kathy Garges Photos App on the Mac Use Smart Albums 25-26 Based on prior designs by Globe Business Center 5 Important Router Specs, Explained 26-28 Marc Robinson, Steve Suzanne Kantra Evans & Bobby Foster The M1X Will Be Incredible 28-29 Michael Long Why the New iMac Has Two Fans 30 M L M U G J o u r n a l i s Julio Ojeda-Zapata published monthly by the 5 Apps That Never Leave my iPhone 31-33 Main Line Macintosh Users Small Dog Electronics How to apply filters to your Photos and Videos 33-34 Group and is available How to Clear Disk Space on Mac and 35-38 Stella online. It is produced using Recover Mac Data Tango A p p l e P a g e s w i t h a Helvetica Neue font (Same TCL’s Wearable Display Puts a 140-Inch Screen 39-40 Dan Wassink as Yosemite). Right in Front of Your Eyes What Is the Cloud 40-42 How to Fix Bluetooth Pairing Problems 42-45 AI and Humans: Virtual 45-47 2 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 7 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JULY 2021 President, Program Director & Membership Information Vendor Liaison Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Maria O. Arguello Nicholas Iacona Membership dues are $30 for individuals and $40 for [email protected] [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- Vice President & Multimedia SIG Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & Co-Chair Webmaster mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Larry Campbell Bob Barton If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve [email protected] [email protected] been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Treasurer, Membership & OS/iOS SIG Chair consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Facilities Coordinator Adam Rice Elliott Cobin • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, [email protected] [email protected] and meet everyone from working Mac Secretary & Newsletter Editor Picnic Coordinator professionals to new Mac users from all Mark Bazrod Tony DiPiano backgrounds. [email protected] [email protected] • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Educational Liaison Raffle Chair Mac news, tips, and information. Linda McNeil Susan Czarnecki • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] [email protected] • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Social Secretary Member-at-Large, Newsletter Group members. Copy Editor & Apple User Group Gail Montgomery Ambassador [email protected] • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Deane Lappin newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] directory, directions to our meetings, and much more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical questions or comments to each other and the experts within the group. 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 3 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 7 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JULY 2021 Typical Meeting Agenda MLMUG Email list 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. The Main Line Macintosh Users Group has its own email list, hosted at Groups.io. Compose 9:05 - 10:15: Q&A Panel - 3 or 4 expert your letter and email it to members will answer your questions [email protected] and your about anything relating to your Mac, message will be sent to everyone iPad, iPhone, iWatch, and any on the mailing list. Contact Bob attached peripherals. Barton ([email protected]) if you New Users SIG are a member and you are not on Questions can relate to the most basic You don’t have to wait a whole the list. items, equipment issues, Apple’s month to get answers to your basic o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m s , a n d a l l Please observe good email Mac questions! Get together with applications, including applications for etiquette. If your message is other members on the fourth photo, video, audio, and print media. humor or not Apple-related (off- Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each Answers are amazingly helpful and topic), please include "Humor" or regular meeting) for the Startup often in depth, exploring the subject "OT" in the subject line. The Folder Lite. beyond the question. Groups.io Terms of Service are at groups.io/static/tos. Look for the Many new users have said that they section on "Conditions of Use" can learn much more from face-to- 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. face meetings than they do from The MLMUG list may be used to manuals or other sources. That’s post Apple-related items for sale, what this meeting is all about. Go 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a but any solicitation of members to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for member or guest) through the list is forbidden details. without the written consent of a 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. MLMUG officer. Violation of the Come join some fellow MLMUG members for Groups.io terms of service or lunch after the meeting at a nearby good email etiquette may result restaurant. in removal from the list. 4 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 7 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JULY 2021 highly to those of you who are really technically advanced, i.e., Bookmarks super geeks which I say as a matter of admiration. bit.ly/ Filibuster, Movies, FSevents, 3jZRbqs. As many of you know Firefox is a memory hog and I found that and WWDC true. I normally leave at least a half a dozen applications open at By Mark Bazrod any time as I did with my 2017 iMac. The Mac mini produced scores of SPODs. I rarely saw them on the iMac. The iMac had This has been an unusual June/July, as you will soon see, and so 12 GB of RAM and the Mac mini has 16 GB so I am still at a loss this column will be very different than the usual. for what's going on. And I guess to make matters worse, I The Filibuster. I have belonged to a discussion group for about normally would have six or seven tabs open on Firefox. I now the last 15 years and it has slowly grow from about a dozen close for Firefox when I'm not using it and that has diminished people to more than 70. We originally met 16 times a year. We the SPOD somewhat. I've got to spend a lot more time trying to now meet weekly. I will shortly be making a presentation on the figure out why the Mac mini is such a “Pinwheel Spinner”. Tom filibuster in the Senate, ranging from the early days, progressing Nelson’s article in Lifewire looks to be helpful. bit.ly/2n46OSZ. In through to the current times, particularly the current situation and the meantime, I only keep three or four apps open at a time and what might happen in the next several months. The research has what I need more apps, they open very quickly. been totally absorbing and I have found myself spending hours May Big Sur is the cause, although I doubt it. days on the project and disregarding all the things that really WWDC. I thought the two hour presentation (apple.co/ should be done. Thus, this newsletter is a bit late. 3htMvYf).was fabulous and was outstanding from a number of Movies. And it hasn't helped that we have watched several perspectives. Of course, the presentation was extremely series on Netflix, particularly The Kominsky Method, Manifest, professional and I thought the fact that at least half of the and The 4400.