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The offcial journal of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc Volume 35.10 – October 2018 Come to one of “There’s More in the Making” our meetings Wellington Monday, 29 October 7.15pm - 9.30pm Subject: macOS Mojave (10.14) Kapiti Monday, 5 November 7.10pm - 9.30pm Subject: macOS Mojave, new products Apple have another special media event coming up, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. If you want to watch iPad Group* the keynote live, in NZ time it starts at 3 AM on Wednesday 31 Saturday, 27 October 1.30pm - 3.30pm October. It should be available for delayed viewing by 6 AM. Kapiti The creative theme and artwork suggests drawing in Help Desk* particular: a new iPad Pro seems very likely to be announced, Saturday, 17 November and perhaps a new Apple Pencil. 1 pm - 4 pm Kapiti Maybe even some updated Mac models? 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 Autocorrect — macOS p7 INSIDE Mac keyboard shortcuts p4 Editing iPhone Movies in iMovie p7 Making the most of Preview p5 Committee Contact Details p8 CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !1 The president writes ... Kapiti Help Desk The final help desk for the year will be held from 1 pm to 4 pm on Saturday 17 November at the Kapiti Uniting Parish, 27 Raumati Rd. The help desk is an opportunity to get assistance with any topic you would like to cover, assuming we can find a tutor who can help you. We can often David Empson arrange one on one tuition, but sometimes need to [email protected] organise people into small groups if we have several people wanting to cover the same topics Hi folks. and not enough tutors to go around. Topics can range from basic use of the Macintosh Wellington Meeting or iPad through general technical assistance to Our main meeting in Wellington will be held on specific help with some advanced software. Monday 29 October in the Brian Davis Room at Registration is required, and space is more Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, corner Hill St and limited than usual, so get your booking in early. Molesworth St, Wellington, from 7.15pm. To register, please email Shane Gordine at The meeting will start with a Q&A session for [email protected]. Please include details about those who have any technical issues. It would be what you would like help with, and tell us what appreciated if questions could be emailed in computer or other devices you would like to bring. advance to [email protected] so we can plan ahead. Following Q&A we will have a light Apple News supper then the main topic. The main topic is a first look at macOS Mojave Apple have announced a “There’s more in the (10.14) including new features, compatibility issues making” media event which in NZ time will run and stability. from 3 AM to about 5 AM on Wednesday 31 October. Kapiti Meeting I’ll send out my usual email summary of The Kapiti meeting will be held on Monday 5 announcements and NZ-specific details as soon as I November at the Kapiti Uniting Parish, 10 Weka am able to gather information and write it up after Rd, Raumati, from 7:10 pm. the event. Due to timing relative to WelMac The meeting topic will be the same as the meetings, we will not be able to cover the Wellington meeting: macOS Mojave 10.14. We can announcements at this month's Wellington meeting also spend a little time talking about (Monday 29 October), but can discuss them at the announcements from Apple’s event on 31 October. Kapiti meeting in early November. We can also We’ll have our usual supper at the end of the discuss the new products in Wellington at the end meeting, with time for technical questions. of November meeting. If you would like to receive e-mail The theme and venue (Brooklyn Academy of announcements about upcoming Kapiti meetings, Music in New York) suggest content creation is a please contact Don Niccol [email protected]. major theme. It is very likely this event will include release of the next iPad Pro models, perhaps also a Kapiti iPad/iPhone Group rumoured Apple Pencil update. We will be running the last iPad/iPhone group Other product updates are possible, including meeting of the year at a member’s house in Kapiti several Mac models, either announced at the event from 1:30 to 3:30 on Saturday 27 October, to cover or with press releases afterwards. iOS 12 questions. If you would like to attend, please contact Shane Gordine [email protected]. continued over page CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !2 New product releases will trigger a recalculation The new screenshots feature makes it easier to of NZ prices for almost all of Apple’s products, do a variety of screen shots, especially if you put which is likely to lead to price rises in the order of the Screenshot utility in your Dock. 5% to 10% on 31 October. The iPhone and Apple Software Updates are quite different: system Watch already had a price adjustment when new level updates have shifted out of App Store again models were announced last month, but the and are now done via a Software Update section in MacBook Pro and standard iPad are still being sold System Preferences. App Store itself has big at prices that were set before the recent decline in changes which I haven’t explored in detail yet. the NZ$ so are also at risk of price increases even without a new model. Mojave Application Compatibility The big problem I’ve run in to this time is iWork iOS 12 Status Report ’09. Pages 4.x does not work at all in Mojave: it fails https://www.apple.com/nz/ios to open any existing document. I was already Overall my initial experience with iOS 12 has having problems with Numbers 2.x and Keynote been almost perfect, but there are reports that some 5.x in High Sierra so I had stopped using them, but people have been encountering problems. Apple Pages was still working, until Mojave. has already released an iOS 12.0.1 update which For day to day use, the latest Pages, Numbers fixed a few bugs. A more significant iOS 12.1 and Keynote are now an acceptable replacement update is in the works, probably due for release for my use, but some people might still be missing after the media event. some of the advanced features of the iWork ’09 I’ve run into two minor issues since upgrading versions, such as Mail Merge. to iOS 12: the stuff.co.nz web site has been stalling For occasional use of the old versions I had been during load (workaround is to force quit Safari), intending to keep access to them via a virtual and I’ve noticed Music playlists jumping back to machine running an older macOS version, but I’ve the beginning rather than resuming where they found that method won’t work due to limits in were last paused. graphics capabilities for guest macOS systems (for all virtualisation software). macOS 10.14 Mojave Status Report My new plan is to keep the old versions running https://www.apple.com/nz/macos/ on a spare Mac at home, which will need to be I’m not running macOS Mojave 10.14 full time running an older OS X version. yet but I have been doing testing of key A few other old applications I’ve tried seem to applications using a clone of my main system. be working fine in Mojave (e.g. Microsoft Office The first problem I ran into was the increase in 2008), but the system now warns you every month minimum system requirements: Mojave needs a when you launch a 32-bit application. Mojave is the 2012 or later Mac, or a 2010/2012 Mac Pro with the last macOS version which will run 32-bit right video card. My second MacBook Pro is a 2011 applications at all, so you need to be planning to model which is too old. I’ve since acquired a find replacements for old software if you intend to second hand 2014 Mac Mini on which I’ve been keep your macOS reasonably up to date or buy a running pre-release versions to get familiar with new Mac. the changes. There are new security features in Mojave which In general operation, Mojave is very similar to mean some applications and utilities need to be High Sierra and other recent macOS versions. granted new permissions to access files in new There are some optional new features such as protected areas, or to control other applications. It “dark mode”, stacks of related icons on the definitely helps if you get Mojave-compatible desktop, and the Dock showing icons for a few utility and application updates where possible recently used applications. before upgrading to Mojave. There are noticeable differences in Finder with gallery view to get a decent sized preview of a file, That’s all, folks! David Empson and quick actions in the preview sidebar to do markup or other simple tasks without needing to To contact me, email [email protected], or you open the document in an application.