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The offcial journal of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc Volume 36.01 – January 2019 Come to one of Scams and how to spot them our meetings Wellington Tuesday, 29 January 7.15pm - 9.30pm Subject: Scams and how to spot them Kapiti Monday, 4 February 7.10pm - 9.30pm Subject: Scams and how to spot them iPad Group* TBA There are a lot of email, web site and telephone Help Desk* scams out there. This month’s meetings will be TBA discussing many of them and ofering advice on how See page 2 for more details of meetings to identify them before you get sucked in, and where *Please register by emailing [email protected] to go to find more information. 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 Apple Opens iTunes up to TV Rivals p5 INSIDE Neat apps for the new year p4 Mac keyboard shortcutsCommittee p7 A Great Tip p4 Contact Details p8 CAPITAL APPLE – JANUARY 2019 PAGE !1 The president writes ... The main part of the meeting will be the same topic as Wellington: “Scams”. David Empson will lead the discussion. If you would like to receive e-mail announcements about upcoming Kapiti meetings, please contact Don Niccol [email protected]. David Empson Kapiti iPad/iPhone Group [email protected] An iPad/iPhone group meeting is being planned for a Saturday in February at a member’s Happy New Year to all. house in Kapiti. If you would like to attend the meeting, please contact Shane Gordine Please note that we were unable to hire the [email protected]. Wellington meeting venue on our regular last Monday for the first two months, so have shifted Help Desk the January and February meetings one day later to We’re aiming to hold the first help desk of the the last Tuesday (which also affects the AGM). The year in March in Johnsonville or Lower Hutt. March and later Wellington meetings are scheduled Details to follow in the next issue of Capital Apple. for the last Monday as normal. Kapiti Meeting Review Wellington Meeting The WelMac committee and those who attend Our main meeting in Wellington will be held on our regular Kapiti meetings are aware of a notable Tuesday 29 January, in the Brian Davis Room at reduction in meeting attendance. This has Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, corner Hill St and prompted a review of several aspects of our Kapiti Molesworth St, Wellington, from 7.15pm. meetings. As part of this, one of our members, The meeting will start with a Q&A session for Humphrey Babbage, has offered to take on the task those who have any technical issues. It would be of contacting individual members n the Kapiti area appreciated if questions could be emailed in to discuss their expectations for meetings and advance to [email protected] so we can whether other arrangements might suit them plan ahead. Following Q&A we will have a light better. supper then the main topic. During the review, we will continue to hold Tonight’s topic is “Scams”. David Empson will Kapiti meetings on the first Monday evening each lead a discussion on scams of various types (e.g. month. We hope to have gathered enough email and telephone) that seem to be increasing in information to be able to have a detailed discussion frequency, and related issues around computer as part of the meeting on 4 March, with the aim of security. Questions and experiences from those implementing any changes starting with the April attending the meeting are welcome. meeting. Kapiti Meeting Changing Internet Connections The Kapiti meeting will be held on Monday 4 Members who are planning to change or February, at the Kapiti Uniting Parish, 27 Raumati upgrade their Internet connection (e.g. due to the Rd, from 7:10 pm. availability of fibre) should keep in mind a small We will start the meeting with a short discussion tale of caution reported by one of our members. on the review of Kapiti meeting structure and The technician got the new connection up and survey of Kapiti members which is currently under running, and got their Mac working with it. way (see below). continued over page CAPITAL APPLE – JANUARY 2019 PAGE !2 Soon afterwards they noticed that many aspects I’ve seen recurring warnings about some of my of their iPads were no longer working. This turned old applications which I know are 32-bit and will out to be because the router had been replaced and need to be replaced or retired before I can run the Wi-Fi network along with it. The iPads were macOS 10.15 late this year. The warning says the still trying to connect to the old Wi-Fi network. application in question “is not optimised” for Their ISP was able to help with a second visit Mojave. It appears the warning is limited to once a from the technician to update their iPads to use the month for each affected application, and it only new Wi-Fi network. recurs after a restart of the computer. Moral of the story: if your Internet connection is The only new compatibility problem I ran into going to be upgraded or your router is being was with Pages 4.x (from iWork ’09) which is no replaced, be sure to identify all of your devices that longer able to open any files. I had already stopped access your wireless network before the change using the corresponding versions of Numbers 2.x occurs (e.g. computers, smartphones, tablets, and Keynote 5.x because they had started printers, smart TVs, Apple TV, etc.) and make sure misbehaving in macOS 10.13 High Sierra. I’ve dealt either you know how to reconfigure them for the with this by moving to the latest versions, but I’m new network, or ask for help from the technician. retaining the iWork ’09 versions on a spare Mac running an older macOS version for rare occasions Apple News where I still need them (e.g. for converting even older AppleWorks documents). The only new Apple products since our last issue in November are smart battery cases for the State of Play for iOS 12 iPhone XS, XS Max and XR. iOS 12.1.3 was released in late January, and iOS The biggest news over the break was Apple 12.2 will be due in about March. I’ve been running revising their market guidance downward for the iOS 12 since September and it has been fine apart quarter ending December 2018, mostly due to a from the aforementioned stalling problem with recession in China have a greater effect on product Safari (getting around it on iOS requires a force sales than expected. There was much wailing and quit: double-click the home button or swipe up to gnashing of teeth amongst market analysts who get the app switcher, then swipe up on the Safari seem to think that it is really bad that Apple is now app to force quit, then you can launch Safari again only expecting their second best quarter ever, from the home screen or dock). rather than their best quarter. This has no immediate impact on us as users of What to expect in 2019 Apple products: it is mostly of concern to investors Many Apple products are rumoured to be in Apple stock. The downturn may lead to strategic getting regular or long awaited updates at some changes by Apple, which could affect future point this year, including new models of iPad, iPad products or related issues like the timing of mini and iPod Touch. The redesigned high-end products being launched or discontinued. desktop Mac Pro has been promised for 2019, and we will probably get an iMac update at some point. State of Play for macOS 10.14 Mojave Apple’s pre-announced AirPower wireless macOS 10.14.3 was released in late January, and charging mat is still missing in action but there 10.14.4 is due in about March. I’ve been running have been rumours about it. Mojave since November and in my experience it About the only reasonably certain timing details has been stable apart from an annoying recurring are the likely developer conference in June and problem with Safari (which is also affecting iOS likely release of new iPhones, iOS and macOS in 12): for some web sites, Safari gets into a state September. where it stalls while loading any page from the site. If this happens, the easiest way to get it working That’s all, folks! David Empson again is to quit and relaunch Safari. I’ve seen this To contact me, email [email protected], or you on several web sites, most frequently stuff.co.nz. can ring me at home (976 9755) CAPITAL APPLE – JANUARY 2019 PAGE !3 Neat apps for the new year By Andrew McPherson Gif Brewery 3 Battery Health 3 Gif Brewery 3 on the Mac app store, free. Battery Health 3 also from Fiplab on the Mac (Previous versions were paid) app store is an essential utility for Mac laptops. It This lets you create Gif memes from video gives you full details about your battery, such as including highlights clips.