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Our next SAAUC meeting is…
Friday July 5th from 7:30pm Photos (Managing photos, create a book, play a slideshow, plus much more)
See location map on the last page.
Page 1 of 6 If you are wondering whether your device A word from our is ready for iOS 13, here is a list of President… compatible devices: • iPhone XS • iPhone XS Max Times are a • iPhone XR changing at • iPhone X Apple with the • iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus announcement • iPhone 7 and 7 Plus that Jony Ive will • iPhone SE be leaving the • iPhone 6s and 6s Plus company and • iPod touch (7th-generation) setting up his own, although And here is the compatibility list for the expecting Apple new iPadOS, which is basically iOS 13 but to be one of his for the iPad. clients. He walked alongside Steve Jobs in • All iPad Pros creating the iconic ‘Look’ of Apple - some • iPad (6th generation) of the coolest pieces of industrial design • iPad (5th generation) seen. Time doesn’t stand still and no doubt • iPad mini (5th generation) there are new and exciting young • iPad mini 4 designers looking to fill his shoes. The • iPad Air (3rd generation) world be watching with interest for success • iPad Air 2 or failure.
While we wait for the next OS’s to arrive in Regards September or October, there are many housekeeping tasks to keep us occupied on a cold Winter’s day. Clean out the hard Mare Good drive of all the excess and unnecessary files clogging it up - remember that there SAAUC President should always be 10% of the hard drive free. Don’t forget those 32 bit apps which need to be updated to 64 bit, if possible, or completely deleted, before you want to upgrade to macOS X.14 Catalina. The most pressing decision for many will be whether to sign up to the 64 bit apps of Microsoft Office or rely in future on Apple’s alternative of Pages, Numbers and Keynote.
The July meeting, next Friday 5th, will be a workshop for creating a slideshow using the Photos App. Bring your iPhones, iPads or iPods to get some ideas on how to manage your photos.
Page 2 of 6 a month - so for the time being, I’ll stick …and a word from our with the 50. Vice President
After years of waiting, I have finally connected to the NBN - the National Broadband Network. I was wondering if we would ever There has been times when I have get connected, connected my 4G iPhone to my MacBook as most of my Pro to download files quicker (e.g. a friends and MacOS update, or an Apple Keynote relatives have presentation), but now I can simply use my already home internet connection - which has connected to it. So last Friday, an NBN unlimited data. tech attended my home, and within 45 Even though 50Mbps is a great increase minutes, I had that long awaited speed from my ADSL speeds, just using the increase. wireless network at the Apple Store in Adelaide will give you 100Mbps download. We have cable (that we use for Foxtel), so And when 5G gets deployed across our NBN connection is using Hybrid fibre- Australia, then my NBN will seem slow as coaxial (HFC). So our Foxtel cable now a wet week. has a splitter, with one side going to our Foxtel unit, and the other to the NBN NTD. My Fritz!Box is connected to the NTD via ethernet cable, and my Fritz!Fon (DECT phone for my VOIP) are connected as well - wirelessly.
I simply had to make a small configuration change on my Fritz!Box, that my ISP had posted on their website.
With DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) I was getting download speeds around 10-13Mbps, and upload speeds of 1Mbps, I quickly jumped onto https:// www.speedtest.net/ website, and viewed My NBN HFC NTD (Network Termination Device) the download speed was now 46.7Mbps, and upload was 17.8Mbps. If only I was on Has anyone signed up for the 100Mbps NBN when I decided to upload my Photo NBN plan? Are you getting great speeds? library to iCloud. It took about 10-14 days from memory to upload my files, so it would be drastically quicker if I was to do Rick Sarkanen that today. SAAUC Vice President I am on a 50Mbps unlimited plan, so if I wanted extra speed, I could upgrade to the 100Mbps plan…but that is about $20 extra Page 3 of 6 Mike’s Musings 32-bit Apps Won’t Run Under macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
Out with the Old…In with the The latest macOS will be released to all New! users very soon, with many new and improved features … and one important I bought a new iPod touch a few weeks possible “gotcha” for some users. For ago. It replaces one I have had for about ages, Apple has warned developers to four years, convert their apps to 64-bit, as older 32-bit but which versions will no longer run under Catalina. had been Most developers updated current offerings gradually a while ago; all new apps will be available failing for only in a 64-bit version. some There will be some users who have apps months. they have been using for years—some The old because they love them, others because one was in they have to use those apps. But many of basic these may be 32-bit versions, which their silver; the new one is in Space Grey, developers no longer support. Users will essentially black! It is used mostly for have to look for a different app (which may listening to a radio service in a Bose not always suit their work environment), or SoundDock (an amplified speaker system), they will have to maintain a second via either the CBC Radio or TuneIn apps, machine with a pre-Catalina version of or with me to listen to podcasts. macOS on it, just to run 32-bit apps. To see what 32-bit apps you have on your In the last year or so, I noticed that battery Mac … level seemed to get lower and lower after a – Go into About This Mac, then click on given number of hours of use. I assume System Report. this was just due to the battery “getting – In the left column, scroll down to older”. Usefulness of the device was Software then click on Applications. compromise further a few months ago – After a short wait, a list of applications when it got dropped on the hardwood floor will appear. of my bedroom. This loosened the “home – (Stretch it out to the right!) Well over to button”, which often required more than the right look for 64-bit (Int … one attempt to get an effective “press”. – No means that app is not a 64-bit—it’s Things deteriorated gradually until—quite 32-bit. coincidentally—the time the new touch – Click on that heading to re-group all arrived, at which point pressing no longer entries, so all “No’s” are together. worked at all. In my Mac there were loads of apps whose The new one is working very nicely. The names I did not recognise. I think many of old chap went to an approved place that these are utility sub-programs we never accepts “retired” electronic devices for see in normal use. But I found a couple of proper recycling after I followed the 32-bitters from Adobe—and an old version approved procedure for “wiping” it clean. of Toast Titanium that I had to use recently! (I have a few other 32-bit “fun” apps in my system that I have not used for ages; I’m sure there are newer—and better —ones that do the same thing.) [If this new macOS doesn’t work so well, will it be nicknamed Catatonia:-)?] Page 4 of 6 Apple Releases AirPort Base You can read the full article at:
Once in a while Apple releases firmware How iTunes Went from Simple to updates for their—now discontinued— Airport base stations. (Apple has promised Perplexing in 18 Years to provide firmware updates for the next few years.) A few months ago they Remember the good old days, when released Firmware Update 7.9.1 for iTunes did just the one thing—handle your Airports running the (more recent) music? As time went on, Apple gradually 802.11ac protocol. In June they released added more and more “functions”, until the 7.8.1 update for Airports running the now it is a “bewildering bureaucracy”—as slightly older 802.11n protocol. All Apple I’ll put it. said about these updates is that they will appleinsider tells this very well in the “improve the security of your base station”. following article: (Typical Apple?) https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/27/ I found it easy to tell if your Airport gear how-itunes-went-from-simple-to- needs one of these updates. Run the perplexing-in-18-years Apple Airport Utility. A schematic of your As has been mentioned elsewhere, iTunes Airport network is displayed. If you see a has been dumped from the new macOS red “1” beside a unit, there is an update for 10.15 (Catalina), and replaced by separate it. Click, on the “1” to start the update, apps for Music and Podcasts. Apple has which should not take long. If it fails, click assured us that “Nothing can go wrong, on the “1” again. If it still fails, powering off [
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Meetings at Rosefield Uniting Church 2 Carlton Street Highgate (off Fullarton Rd, between Fisher Street & Cross Road) Street View https://goo.gl/maps/3Zj4RFTpSHk
SA School Holidays, Public Holidays and Observances http://www.calendar-australia.com/school-calendars/south- australia/2019/1/0/1/1/
SAAUCery is the monthly newsletter of South Australian Apple User Club Inc. http://www.saauc.org.au – https://www.facebook.com/saauc Editor: Rick Sarkanen If you do not want to receive copies, please email us. Images, Trade Marks, company and product names are the property of the respective owners and are used for educational, information and descriptive purposes only. Original content © SA Apple Users' Club Inc.
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