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The offcial journal of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc Volume 32.4 – April 2015 Come to one of our meetings The new Mac Photos app Wellington Monday, 27 April 7.10pm - 9.30pm Subject: Photo and Note Taking Apps Kapiti Monday, 4 May 7.10pm - 9.30pm Subject: Photo and Note Taking Apps iPad Group* TBA Help Desk* Saturday, 9 May 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm Lower Hutt As part of the OS X 10.10.3, Apple has introduced the Mac See page 2 for more details of meetings version of the Photos application, which can be used in place of *Please register by emailing iPhoto and Aperture. [email protected] Photos introduces Mac support for the iCloud Photo Library, an optional way to store your entire photo library online and sync selected photos to your devices. Where to find us Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are held at MacKenzie room of the conference centre at St John's church, corner of Dixon St and Willis St, Wellington. Kapiti meetings are held at the Kapiti Uniting Church, Raumati Road, Raumati. The President Writes p2 When Your Numbers Get Serious, INSIDE How does Steve Jobs’s legacy Read “Take Control of Numbers” p6 live on at Apple? p5 Committee Contact Details p8 CAPITAL APPLE – APRIL 2015!!!!!! ! PAGE 1 The president writes ... notified when the meeting is scheduled, please register interest by emailing Shane Gordine [email protected]. Lower Hutt Help Desk The next help desk will be held at a member’s residence in Lower Hutt, from 1 pm to 4 pm on Saturday 9 May. Full details will be supplied when David Empson your registration is confirmed. [email protected] The help desk is an opportunity to get assistance Hi folks. with any topic you would like to cover, assuming we can find a tutor who can help you. We can often Wellington Meeting arrange one on one tuition, but sometimes need to organise people into small groups if we have several Our main meeting in Wellington will be held on people wanting to cover the same topics and not Monday 27 April (Anzac Day observed), in the enough tutors to go around. MacKenzie Room of the conference centre at St Topics can range from basic use of the Macintosh John’s in the City, 129 Dixon St, Wellington, from or iPad through general technical assistance to 7.10pm. specific help with some advanced software. The meeting will start with a Q&A session for Registration is required, and space is limited so those who have any technical issues. It would be get your booking in early. appreciated if questions could be emailed in advance To register, email Shane Gordine at to [email protected] so we can plan ahead. [email protected]. Please include details about Following Q&A we will have a light supper. what you would like help with, and let us know Tonight’s main topic will be a look at the new what computer or other devices you would like to Photos application introduced in OS X 10.10.3, and bring. implications for iPhoto and Aperture users. If time permits we will also look at “Note Taking Apps” as we ran out of time to cover it last month. Apple News Kapiti Area Meeting Apple Watch The Kapiti meeting will start at 7.10 pm on http://apple.com/watch Monday 4 May, at the Kapiti Uniting Parish, 27 In the initial launch countries (including Australia Raumati Rd. but not New Zealand), Apple Watch will be in the The topic of this meeting is the same as for hands of those who made pre-orders starting on Wellington: the new Photos application introduced Friday 24 April, so we’ll be starting to see more in OS X 10.10.3, and implications for iPhoto and details from general users rather than just reviewers. Aperture users, plus “Note taking apps” if time As is often the case with new Apple products, permits. initial supply is way behind early demand: orders If you would like to receive e-mail placed now are estimating delivery in June. That is announcements about upcoming Kapiti meetings, likely to mean a delay before Apple announces please contact Hamish Turnbull launch dates for additional countries. [email protected]. Many iPhone apps have already been updated to add support for the Apple Watch, including at least iPad Group one specific to New Zealand: the Air New Zealand We expect to be holding the second Wellington app allows using an Apple Watch for flight details, iPad group meeting on a Saturday afternoon before as a boarding pass and other features. the end of May. If you would like to attend and be continued over page CAPITAL APPLE – APRIL 2015!!!!!! ! PAGE 2 New 12-inch MacBook CarPlay lets the iPhone control the in-car display, http://apple.com/macbook giving you a safer driving experience and a larger The new 12-inch MacBook is also is short supply. display for things like maps, music playback, etc. It hasn’t shown up at local retailers yet, and may not See https://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/. for several more weeks. Orders placed online with Apple are estimating 4-6 weeks before shipment. OS X 10.10.3 and Security Updates Apple has also released the 10.10.3 update for MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro Yosemite, and corresponding security updates for These updated models are available at local OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). retailers. I’ve had a play with the Force Touch 10.10.3 introduces the “Photos” app, more on trackpad (on the 13-inch MacBook Pro) and it works which below. It also has several minor changes, very well. A normal pressure click gesture anywhere including new Emoji characters. on the trackpad produces a vibration which feels like clicking the button on earlier trackpads. If you Photos push harder to get the “force click”, the trackpad OS X 10.10.3 introduces the Mac version of the responds with a second vibration feedback. Photos app. This is similar to the Photos app on recent versions of iOS, but with additional features Developer Conference specific to the Mac version. Apple will be running their developer conference Photos is effectively a replacement for both starting June 9 (NZ time). Expect a keynote at the iPhoto and Aperture. As of its initial release, Photos start of the conference which will be previewing the covers most of what can be done with iPhoto, plus next versions of iOS and OS X, and introduce new or some additional editing features, but there are some updated Apple products and services. omissions, e.g. you can’t use an external application to edit photos in place, and star ratings are replaced iOS 8.3 with a simple favourite tag (existing star ratings are Apple has released the iOS 8.3 update. In addition converted to a comment). to security and bug fixes, this version has some Compared to Aperture, Photos is missing many significant changes. Performance is noticeably faster features. Later updates are likely to close the gap, but in many areas, possibly making this version more it is unlikely that Photos will ever be a full palatable for those with older devices. New Emoji replacement for even serious amateur use of characters have been added, including multiple skin Aperture. Serious or professional photographers will colours for people, and different family groups. be better served by getting Adobe Lightroom, which For New Zealand users there is a major has just had a major update to version 6. enhancement: Siri has added support for New A major feature of Photos is support for the Zealand English. This includes a spoken voice iCloud Photo Library, which allows you to store which is closer to a New Zealand accent, much your entire photo collection in iCloud. This is better reliability understanding New Zealand optional, and may be a bad idea for those with a accents, and many of the associated information large photo collection, due to Internet data caps, services such as finding nearby businesses are now slow upload speed, and storage costs. available (though with limited data so far). This Photos is part of OS X 10.10.3 and later, but actually makes Siri usable to me. I gave up trying installing the 10.10.3 update doesn’t delete iPhoto with earlier versions because Siri was missing too and Aperture, so if you can continue to use the old many features and often didn’t understand me. applications if you prefer. The catch is that they I also noted that shortly after this version was might break in some future update of OS X. released, Apple updated their support pages to say When you run Photos for the first time, it offers to that CarPlay is now officially supported in New convert your existing iPhoto or Aperture library for Zealand. To use CarPlay, you will need an iPhone 5 use in Photos. This effectively clones the existing or later, and either a brand new car with a CarPlay- library, after which any changes made in iPhoto/ compatible built-in display, or replace your car’s Aperture will not affect the Photos library, and vice existing CD/cassette/radio with a suitable (and versa. Since photo libraries can be rather large, expensive) unit from Pioneer or Alpine. continued over page CAPITAL APPLE – APRIL 2015!!!!!! ! PAGE 3 Apple has used an interesting trick: the original be wary of web links in email as it may be a photo files are not duplicated but have two “phishing” attempt (with the links pointing to a fake references to the same physical file (using “hard web site).