The official journal of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc Volume 28.08 – August 2011
Come to one of our meetings Steve Jobs Resigns Wellington Monday, 29 August as Apple CEO 7.10pm – 9.30pm Subject: iTunes as home entertainment hub
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Final Cut Studio Monday, 19 September Time Cinema (see presidents report for full details) 7pm – 9.30pm
Help Desk* Saturday 10 September (see presidents report for full details) The surprise news that Steve Jobs had resigned as CEO of Apple doesn’t change the company’s approach or future. But it’s still the end of a remarkable era guided by a singular vision. See See page 2 for more story on page 5. details of meetings Where to find us *Please register by emailing Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are held at [email protected] Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington. Kapiti meetings are held at the Kapiti Uniting Church, Raumati Road, Raumati.
INSIDE The President writes p2 Mac 911 p6 Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO p5 TidBits p7
CAPITAL APPLE – AUGUST 2011 PAGE 1 The president writes ...
If anyone wants an but we expect that some people introduction to using the Mac, will need to be organised into please contact me at groups of two or three.
CAPITAL APPLE – AUGUST 2011 PAGE 2 The president writes ...
and we will more options for Apple has updated their application, Lion reopens all solid state drives. printer and scanner compatibility windows that were open when listing to include Lion details: the application was quit. OS X Lion http://support.apple.com/kb/ Auto Save and Versions is a ht3669 major change in thinking, and a Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) has been point of confusion is that only available for about a month, and Early Experiences some applications have been early adopters have been For established Mac users, updated to use this. Overall I reporting on their experiences. Lion has several changes in the think I like this one, or will do I’m not running Lion yet on a user interface which will take a once I get comfortable with it. regular basis, but I have done a little work to get familiar with. I This deserves an article of its few demos and experimented think Apple needs to improve own, but it will have to wait with it to gain some familiarity. some of these and we may see until next month. changes in later versions of Lion Application Compatibility if enough people send 10.7.1 Update The main issue preventing me constructive feedback via http:// Apple has already released a from moving to Lion is that I www.apple.com/feedback. small 10.7.1 update to fix some have several applications which I haven’t found any “must bugs. This update differs from are not compatible with Lion. In have” features yet which will Apple’s normal pattern in that it the last month, many push me into running Lion. There didn’t fix any security issues, applications I use have been are quite a few features I like and and there wasn’t a updated to fix Lion issues, but for will be looking forward to using, corresponding Security Update some I will need to pay to such as Mission Control, Auto for Snow Leopard. 10.7.2 should upgrade to later versions which Save and Versions, local Time be released by early October, and officially support Lion. Machine backups, and being able will have a more substantial set I also have several older to resize windows from any edge. of changes. PowerPC-only applications The main usability issues I’ve If you have already upgraded which will never work on Lion, noticed are in the areas of to Lion, you can get the 10.7.1 due to Lion not including the scrolling (reversed direction, update via Software Update Rosetta code translation changes to the scroll bars, hidden (about 16 MB). You can also mechanism. The main one for me scroll bars by default if you have download the update manually in this category is my e-mail a trackpad), more grey instead of from http://support.apple.com/ software, Eudora. colour, poor contrast between downloads/ (about 80 MB). My current plan is to keep available and unavailable toolbar If you bought the latest testing and upgrading items. MacBook Air or Mac Mini applications, then once I’m Finder’s new default sidebar models, note that they have a happy with everything else I’ll and default window view (“All special build of the 10.7.1 update, migrate from Eudora to another e- My Files” search instead of home so make sure you get the right mail client, then upgrade my folder) can mostly be changed via one if you download it manually. main system to Lion (after taking settings. Lion on the App Store was a full backup, of course). Mail’s layout has changed but updated to 10.7.1 about a week can easily be set to look similar to after the 10.7.1 was available via A useful web site which lists earlier versions. Software Update. Those who Lion compatibility for The Restore feature is likely to upgrade to Lion later (or applications: bug some people, but changes to download the installer again for http://roaringapps.com/ workflow should resolve this. By any reason) will start from a default, when you launch an recent minor version, reducing
CAPITAL APPLE – AUGUST 2011 PAGE 3 the number and size of setup to transfer your documents, subsequent updates that need to Upgrading from 10.5 or preferences and applications to be installed. earlier the new Mac. This will support If you want to be able to If you want to upgrade an old Macs running Tiger (10.4) or downgrade to a previous minor existing Intel Mac from Tiger later (possibly also 10.3). version for some reason, you will (10.4) or Leopard (10.5) to Lion You do not need to buy Snow need to keep a copy of the oldest (10.7), you need to buy Snow Leopard for your old Mac if you version of the installer, then Leopard (10.6) first. are migrating to a new Mac. apply subsequent delta or combo The Snow Leopard retail DVD Apple has released updates for updates to get to the desired is available from the online Apple 10.5.8 and 10.6.8 to fix issues with minor version. Store http://store.apple.com/nz migration to Lion (these updates If you already have the 10.7 A single licence is $60 and a probably only affect migrating installer, getting the 10.7.1 family pack is $101 (up to five over a network, not when using installer from the App Store computers in one household). Firewire Target Mode). 10.7.1 has means another 3.7 GB download, The store is out of stock at some related changes, which may and using it will require a full OS present (2-3 week lead time). affect all migration methods. install. Software Update is much Note that the Apple Store easier. charges $15 for shipping unless Recovery Disk Assistant you spend at least $113. If you A new feature of Lion is that it Lion on a USB Thumb Drive want to order Snow Leopard by has a hidden “Lion Recovery” As promised, Apple have itself, please get in touch with me volume which you can access via released the USB thumb drive and I can arrange a combined the Option key at startup. This edition of Lion, available from order to save on shipping. lets you do maintenance tasks the online Apple Store for $99. The Lion installer is not able to such as repair the file system on The only significant reason to install Lion directly on top of your main drive, restore the buy this version rather than Leopard (10.5) or earlier. You can system from a Time Machine getting it from the App Store only install Lion on a volume backup, or reinstall Lion (with a ($38.99) is if your Internet containing Snow Leopard (10.6), 3.7 GB download). connection is not capable of a 3.7 Lion (10.7), or no system at all. The catch: Lion Recovery is on GB download. the same hard drive as your data. I haven’t seen any detailed Buying a new Mac with Lion If your hard drive fails, you lose reported from users of this thumb The latest MacBook Air and both your main system and the drive, but I expect it comes with Mac Mini are supplied with Lion recovery volume. 10.7 since it was released before pre-installed. The MacBook Air Apple has addressed this issue 10.7.1, and that means it will not cannot be downgraded to Snow by releasing Lion Recovery Disk be compatible with the new Leopard, but this might be Assistant, described here: http:// MacBook Air and Mac Mini. (If possible for the Mac Mini. support.apple.com/kb/HT4848 you buy this product in several Other models may still be Lion Recovery Disk Assistant months you will probably get a supplied with Snow Leopard, lets you copy the Lion Recovery newer version of Lion the thumb until old stock runs out, after volume to another hard drive, or drive and it will hopefully be which Lion will be preinstalled. to a USB flash drive (a 1 GB drive compatible with later models.) These models can still be is sufficient). You can then boot The licence conditions are downgraded to Snow Leopard from the other drive in the event identical for the USB thumb drive but it requires a workaround your main drive fails. and App Store editions of Lion. with assistance from another Mac. Both versions require the If you move to Lion by buying That’s all, folks! computer being upgraded to a new Mac rather than upgrading David Empson already have a licensed copy of an existing Mac, you can use Snow Leopard. Setup Assistant during initial If you wish to contact me, it’s best to email [email protected], or you
CAPITAL APPLE – AUGUST 2011 PAGE 4 Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO by TidBITS Staff Cook acted as interim CEO during previous medical absences by Jobs, and was in charge during several key product introductions and e don’t know Steve Jobs, any of us. The W development cycles. By all accounts, Cook has the closest we can claim to him is mere proximity: same attention to detail from top to bottom. we’ve been a few feet away from him at an Apple press event or in an Apple Store. But we’ll feel his Jobs worked in an implicit slap at analysts and last departure from Apple as much as any pundits who have criticized Apple for not having acquaintance can, having spent much of our a public succession plan for who would replace collective adult lives using computers and him as CEO. That despite the fact that Cook has software mostly guided by his hand, and writing remained at the company, when he could have about the company and its products. had his pick of being CEO elsewhere. Jobs’s note said, “I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.” The letter suggests what many have feared for some time: that Jobs’s health was declining, and that despite a liver transplant in 2010, the toll taken on his body by pancreatic cancer and the surgery to remove it would catch up with him. Jobs gave no word, and we are likely to receive none, whether he is in his last days, or simply cannot sustain the kind of mental and physical effort necessary to run the Apple released a brief statement that Jobs had most valuable company in the world. sent to the board through a press-release service. We won’t recapitulate the history of Apple and This confused matters briefly, as the release hit Jobs’s journey into the wilderness and back here. without Apple informing any press directly. Apple will be a different company without Jobs at However, it was quickly confirmed by multiple outlets. Tim Cook was immediately appointed as the day-to-day helm, in whatever role the coming head of the firm, continuing the role he’s had days bring for him and the firm. It won’t be a since Jobs announced a hiatus from the CEO worse company, but it will be different. Whatever position (see “Steve Jobs to Take Medical Leave of the cause, and whatever state he is in, we don’t Absence,” 17 January 2011). Jobs will take over a need to know. We only wish him and his family new role as Chairman of the Board. the best. In a letter to the “Apple Board of Directors and Reprinted from TidBITS; reuse governed by Creative the Apple Community,” Jobs writes, “I have Commons license. TidBITS has offered years of always said if there ever came a day when I could thoughtful commentary on Apple and Internet topics. no longer meet my duties and expectations as For free email subscriptions and access to the entire Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. TidBITS archive, visit tidbits.com. Unfortunately, that day has come.”
CAPITAL APPLE – AUGUST 2011 PAGE 5 Mac 911 by Chris Breen
The 5-minute Lion configuration Hide the Dock. I rely on utilities such as Reader David Mitchell delves into the DragThing and LaunchBar to navigate to my files personal with this question about Lion. He so I rarely need to see the Dock. I select Dock writes: from the Apple menu and choose Turn Hiding I’m planning to buy Lion and was curious about On. what pros like you do when you install a new Search for System files. Under Lion, the operating system like this. Finders Search window still wont search for files Every Mac user pro or otherwise is different in the System folder and Library folders by and we all develop certain work habits. I’ve had default. I often muck around in these folders and Lion for awhile thanks to pungling up the $99 want Search to as well. To make that happen I necessary to become a developer and have press Command-F in the Finder to bring up a installed it on a couple of different Macs. These Search window. From the Kind pop-up menu are the things I generally do in the first several near the top of the window I select Other. In the minutes: sheet that appears I enter System in the Search Run Software Update. Apple often releases field. I then tick the In Menu check box next to patches and updates with new OS versions. To the System Files entry that appears in this make sure my OS and Apple applications are as window so that I have the option to easily search up-to-date as possible, I run Software Update for files that appear in System and Library immediately (available from the Apple menu). folders. Kill the translucent menu bar. I’ve never Tweak the sidebar. Apples collection of grown fond of the thing. To restore the menu bar sidebar items Applications, Desktop, and to its time-honored off-white hue, open the Documents, for example are a start, but they’re Desktop & Screen Saver system preference, select hardly the end- and be-all of sidebar shortcuts. I the Desktop tab, and disable the Translucent always drag my user folder and the Drop Box Menu Bar option. folder within the Public folder into the sidebar. Restore scrolling. Much as I love my iOS Change the Desktop background. Apple makes devices, Im not ready to change my scrolling some lovely Desktop backgrounds but I quickly habits to Lions natural scheme where scrolling tire of the default. If you do too, just Control- down makes the contents of a window also move (right) click on the Desktop and choose Change down. Over 20 years of doing it the other way Desktop Background. In the window that appears will make this a hard habit to break. To change you can choose from a variety of new the way this is done, go to your Trackpad system background pictures. preference, select the Scroll & Zoom tab, and disable the Scroll Direction: Natural option. But thats just me. You’re a smart and experienced Make Dock folders useful. Another Apple bunch. What settings do you tweak within the design decision that I never cottoned to is the first five minutes of installing a new OS? way folders (stacks) are displayed in the Dock. To appear with other images taken that day and the me it makes no sense to take a pile of documents 2011 image will join its more up-to-date brothers and either fan them out or expose them on a grid. I generally have a lot of files in these folders and and sisters in a separate event. these two Apple-preferred options make it hard for me to find what Im after. Instead, I Control- (right) click on these stacks and ask them to be Continued on next page. displayed as folders in List view.
CAPITAL APPLE – AUGUST 2011 PAGE 6 InstallThe QuickTime president 7 Pro with Lion writeshappy to... proceed. The Leopard version (7.6.9) attempts to place QuickTime 7 in the Applications When I installed Lion on my iMac I wiped its hard folder and because it sees a copy of QuickTime drive and then installed Lion clean. After the Player already in place, it balks. installation I was playing around with QuickTime X in the hope that it would allow me to edit movies to the Once installed you’ll have to enter the extent that I could with QuickTime 7 Pro. It doesn’t, registration code you paid 30 bucks for lo these so I downloaded the latest version of QuickTime 7 from many years ago. Having located the code (you Apple. When I try to install it though, it wont. The did write it down, yes?), just choose QuickTime - installer tells me that a version of QuickTime is > Registration and enter it in the Registration already installed and wont let me proceed. How can I Code field. get QuickTime 7 back? If you cant find that code, Macworld forum The problem is that you’ve downloaded the member jdb8167 offers this excellent tip: Go to wrong version of QuickTime 7. You need the Apple online store, click the Account button QuickTime Player 7.6.6 for Mac OS X v10.6.3 (the at the top right of the window, enter your version designed for Snow Leopard). What username and password, and click the you’ve undoubtedly downloaded is QuickTime Downloadable Software Purchases link. You 7.6.9. Although the version number is higher, this should see your QuickTime purchase there, along is actually the version intended for Leopard. with its registration code. If you’ve never had a copy of QuickTime Pro 7 and would like one, you When you install the Snow Leopard version can buy it from Apple by clicking the Purchase (7.6.6) the installer places QuickTime 7 in your QuickTime Pro button within QuickTime Utilities folder. Because the installer doesn’t see Player 7. another copy of QuickTime in that location, its
TidBits!! (headings are hyperlinked to full article) Subtle Irritations in Lion Immensely popular as Lion has been, Apple’s latest version of Mac OS X offers not just new and exciting features, but also some subtle annoyances, shortcomings, and, yes, real bugs that are slowing us down and making us less productive. Mac OS X 10.7.1 Fixes Just a Few Bugs Lion sees its first update with 10.7.1, but only a small number of bugs are fixed, presumably those that are the most serious. Google Buys Motorola for Patents and Manufacturing Capability Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility pairs up the last major mobile operating system maker without a compelling hardware story with one of its most fervent handset partners, giving Google Motorola’s patents along with hardware design and manufacturing capabilities. Lion Security: Building on the iOS Foundation Lion leverages lessons learned from iOS to be Apple’s most significant security update to Mac OS X ever. Here are four security key changes, why they matter, and what we can expect in the future. Lion Recovery Disk Assistant Creates External Recovery Drives A new utility from Apple lets you create an external Lion Recovery drive, from which you can reinstall Mac OS X, restore from a Time Machine backup, repair your disk with Disk Utility, and more, even if your boot drive is too damaged to use its hidden Recovery HD partition.
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