VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2019 SOME WEBSITES FOUNDED MAY 1989 Lots of New Software To Be MEETINGS - SECOND Announced at WWDC in June. SATURDAY OF THE MONTH By the time you read this call WWDC will have started, but this is a very comprehensive list of much of the new software features. tinyurl.com/yxftotc4. ANNUAL PICNIC Mount a TV. Very interesting article on planning for a new TV and mounting it without making a mess. tinyurl.com/yxuj43op. The 8 Best Mac Apps of 2019. A couple of interesting apps in here. tinyurl.com/y349w4qr. Where to Download Free Audio Books. Two good sites for those of you who like audio books. LibriVox and Rakuten OverDrive. tinyurl.com/ y6amehzz. Block unwanted calls to your cell phone. You can, if you c o n s i s t e n t l y f o l l o w t h e suggestions here. tinyurl.com/ y2zl6ral. Should You Shut Down a Computer When It's Not in Use? Yes when new and no MLMUG JUNE when old. tinyurl.com/y5jq2hv5. JUNE 8TH! REMEMBER IT’S PICNIC TIME. PICNIC MAP IS ON PAGE 5. !1 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2019 CONTENTS Some Websites and Program Info 1 MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 Picnic Information 5 Newsletter Editor May Meeting Minutes 6-8 Mark Bazrod Bookmarks: Artificial Intelligence Risk 9 Contributors and Authors Graphics Editor Get Your Mac To Activate Siri by Voice 10-12 Mark Bazrod Sally Bazrod Speaker Roster 2019 12 Tarun Bhardwaj Copy Editor Siri Shortcuts: Everything You Need To Know! 13-16 Matthew Cassinelli Deane Lappin 14 Siri Tricks You Can Use Right Now 16-20 Josh Centers MLMUG Journal Putting Your Mac on a Diet 23-25 Adam C. Engst Masthead Speaker Roster Detail 25 Geoffrey A. Fowler Designed by Dale Fletcher Prepare for Apple Dropping Old Media Formats 26-28 Kathy Garges Based on prior designs by With the IINA Video Player Marc Robinson, Steve Ed Hardy Bad Apple #4: Reminders Stinks at Sorting 29-30 Evans & Bobby Foster Kibbles & Bytes How to Free Up Space on Mac: 8 Tips & Tricks 31-34 M L M U G J o u r n a l i s Scholle McFarland 5 Reasons Apple Should Dump Intel Processors 35-37 published monthly by the Tom Nelson Main Line Macintosh Users Inside iOS 12: Use Third-Party Password Managers 38-40 Group and is available It’s the Middle of the Night. Do You Know Who 41-44 online. It is produced using Your iPhone Is Talking to? A p p l e P a g e s w i t h a AI and Humans: Explorers Club 44-46 Helvetica Neue font (Same as Yosemite). The 4 Best Mac Antivirus Programs 47-50 !2 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2019 President, Program Director & Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Membership Information Vendor Liaison Nicholas Iacona Membership dues are $25 for individuals and $35 for Maria O. Arguello [email protected] [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- Vice President & Multimedia SIG Webmaster mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Co-Chair Bob Barton Larry Campbell [email protected] If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve [email protected] Newsletter Graphics Editor been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Treasurer, Membership & Sally Bazrod consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Facilities Coordinator Elliott Cobin [email protected] • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, [email protected] OS/iOS SIG Chair and meet everyone from working Mac professionals to new Mac users from all Secretary & Newsletter Editor Adam Rice Mark Bazrod [email protected] backgrounds. [email protected] Picnic Coordinator • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Educational Liaison Tony DiPiano Mac news, tips, and information. Linda McNeil [email protected] • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] Raffle Chair • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Member-at-Large, Newsletter Susan Czarnecki Group members. Copy Editor & Apple User Group [email protected] Ambassador • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Deane Lappin Social Secretary newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] Gail Montgomery directory, directions to our meetings, and much [email protected] more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical questions or comments to each other and the experts within the group. • Reviewers keep items reviewed. Are you ready to join? Please make a check payable to MLMUG and bring it to a monthly meeting or mail it to: Treasurer, MLMUG P.O. Box 1374 Southeastern, PA 19399 !3 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2019 Typical Meeting Agenda 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. MLMUG Email list The Main Line Macintosh Users 9:05 - 10:05: Two Concurrent Special Group has its own email list, Interest Groups (SIGs) convene in hosted at Groups.io. Compose separate rooms. The two current SIGs your letter and email it to are: [email protected] and your message will be sent to everyone New Users SIG on the mailing list. Contact Bob Multimedia - We discuss using your Barton ([email protected]) if you You don’t have to wait a whole Mac/iDevices and applications for are a member and you are not on month to get answers to your basic photo, video, audio, and print media. the list. Mac questions! Get together with other members on the fourth Please observe good email Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each OS - We go beyond basics to discuss etiquette. If your message is regular meeting) for the Startup Apple’s current operating systems, humor or not Apple-related (off- Folder Lite. using your Macs & iDevices, & various topic), please include "Humor" or applications, & have Q&A. "OT" in the subject line. The Many new users have said that they Groups.io Terms of Service are at can learn much more from face-to- groups.io/static/tos. Look for the face meetings than they do from 10:05 - 10:15: Continuation of Q&A for all section on "Conditions of Use" manuals or other sources. That’s attendees. what this meeting is all about. Go The MLMUG list may be used to to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for post Apple-related items for sale, details. 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. but any solicitation of members through the list is forbidden without the written consent of a 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a MLMUG officer. Violation of the member or guest) Groups.io terms of service or 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. good email etiquette may result in removal from the list. Come join some fellow MLMUG members for lunch after the meeting at a nearby !4 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2019 PICNIC INFORMATION DIRECTIONS 19TH ANNUAL MLMUG Take US 202 North or South to PA 29N/Great Valley. Take PICNIC-IN-THE PARK 29N and go approximately 0.5 miles and pull into the turn lane for Valley Creek Park. You will have passed part of the Valley Creek Park Great Valley Corporate Center on your right. There is not a Route 29, East Whiteland. light at the turn so if you get to the light at Great Valley Parkway, you have gone too far. Once you pull into the lot, Saturday, June 8, 2018 make a short left and right and park. Then walk down the 12 Noon - 4 PM hill to the covered pavilion. (No Raindate) From US 30 (Lancaster Pike), it’s about 1.2 miles on 29N to All members and their families are welcome. the Park. Hamburgers, hot dogs, rolls and condiments will be provided by MLMUG. All other food and beverages will be brought by attendees. We’ll need: snacks, salads (green and main dish), desserts and beverages (canned sodas, juice, iced tea, etc.). No alcoholic beverages in the park! Pets are OK, but must be leashed and cleaned up after. It's important that we have accurate numbers, so please RSVP: Gail Montgomery by Tuesday, June 4 [email protected] !5 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2019 A. Because your password alone is no longer enough to access May 11, 2019 Meeting Minutes your account, 2FA dramatically improves security. With 2FA, your By Mark Bazrod, Secretary account can only be accessed on devices (like your iPhone, iPad, or Mac) you have indicated are trusted. When you want to Maria Arguello, our President, opened the MLMUG meeting at sign in to a new device for the first time, you'll need to provide 9:05 AM at the Community Recreation and Environmental Center, two pieces of information—your password and the six-digit 9000 Parkview Drive in Havertown (great facility). There were verification code that's automatically displayed on your trusted about xxx attendees. devices. By entering the code, you're verifying that you trust the OS SIG - Adam Rice. new device. Q. Sometimes when my iMac wakes from sleep, most of the Email is great source of information and a way to get into your windows which were open are no longer open. I’m running system. Altho authorized for a site, it may not require 2FA every Mohave with 2 monitors and using Mission Control.