VOLUME 31, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2020 SOME WEBSITES FOUNDED MAY 1989 Big Sur’s New Features. MEETINGS - SECOND Apple’s detailed explanation of SATURDAY OF THE MONTH what's new in Big Sur. Very useful if you want to know everything about Big Sur. apple.co/3kALqw3. FOCUS - BIG SUR A Blueprint For Machine Consciousness. 3 Carnegie Mellon scientists (all in one HOW TO USE DIFFERENT WEB TECHNOLOGIES family1) explore computer and our own consciousness. A bit FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES beyond me, but fascinating. Doug Dixon and his organizations, have a bounty of digital information that would be nice to share bit.ly/2VQkhLD. online - if there were useful and efficient ways to do so. China Claims It Built A The Hopewell Valley History Project is a volunteer effort to collect, digitize, and share the history of Quantum Computer That’s 10 the Hopewell Valley in Mercer County, New Jersey (HopewellHistoryProject.org). It is currently Billion Times Faster Than hosting some several hundred historic documents and several thousand historic images. The Google’s. Another fascinating challenge is to present the material in useful ways depending on its format and content. reading, even though the article is a bit dense. /bit.ly/2JS0MzJ. Doug will explore the approaches used on the History Project site to present different types of materials using various web technologies. Most use off-the-shelf web components that could be The Best Browser for Most applied to your own projects. People. 7 evaluated. Very interesting approach. For Mac Doug Dixon is an independent technology consultant and writer, specializing in Web technology, users, the winners are Safari databases, and digital media. He consults and develops technical communications for military and and Brave. bit.ly/2VGt2Ip. commercial clients including Adobe, Intel, and Sonic Solutions. Doug writes books and articles about The Best Label Makers for new and cutting-edge technology, making it understandable and useful for real people. He has authored four books on digital media, published hundreds of feature articles, and presented over a 2020. Handy little gadgets. You hundred seminars and talks. His writing are freely available on his web site, www.manifest-tech.com. want to get one if you are set to re-organize your paper files - and things. bit.ly/33Pjijh. DECEMBER “LOCATION” WE WILL MEET VIA ZOOM. GO TO ZOOM.US/DOWNLOAD TO DOWNLOAD THE APP. CLICK ON DOWNLOAD IN THE BIG BLUE BOX NEAR THE TOP CENTER. 1 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2020 CONTENTS Some Websites & November Program Information 1 MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 Contributors and Authors Bookmarks: Delays 5 Boone Ashworth Newsletter Editor November 2020 Meeting Minutes 6-9 Mark Bazrod Mark Bazrod 2021 Speaker Roster 9 Dieter Bohn Copy Editor Big Sur Is Here, But Say “No Sir” for Now 10-11 Michael Calore Deane Lappin macOS 11 Big Sur Review: a Long Time Coming 12-17 Josh Centers MLMUG Journal Masthead 2020 Speaker Roster Details 17 Monica Chin Designed by Dale Fletcher MacBook Air With M1 Review: New Chip, no Problem 18-22 Benj Edwards Based on prior designs by Everything Apple Announced, From New Macs to 23-25 Adam C. Engst New Chips Marc Robinson, Steve Kathy Garges Evans & Bobby Foster Universal Apps: How Apple Is Bridging The Gap 25-26 Between Mac & iOS Anita George M L M U G J o u r n a l i s published monthly by the Joe Gvora Imagine a World Without Apps 27-28 Main Line Macintosh Users AnyTrans for iOS Review in 2020 28-30 Ashley Mae Group and is available online. It is produced using AnyTrans: Your Must-Have iPhone Manager 30-32 Shira Ovide A p p l e P a g e s w i t h a Apple Just Added An Instant Song Identifier 32-33 Ian Paul Helvetica Neue font (Same To the iPhone Michael Simon as Yosemite). The Best Tips for Using Zoom 34-38 Muhammed Swalih How To Check Which CPU Your Mac Uses 39 Bitdefender Antivirus For Mac Review 40-42 AI and Humans: Empty Classroom 42-43 2 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2020 President, Program Director & Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Membership Information Vendor Liaison Nicholas Iacona Membership dues are $30 for individuals and $40 for Maria O. Arguello [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary [email protected] 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] OS/iOS SIG Chair been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Treasurer, Membership & Adam Rice consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Facilities Coordinator Elliott Cobin [email protected] • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, [email protected] Picnic Coordinator and meet everyone from working Mac Secretary & Newsletter Editor Tony DiPiano professionals to new Mac users from all Mark Bazrod [email protected] backgrounds. [email protected] Raffle Chair • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Educational Liaison Susan Czarnecki Mac news, tips, and information. Linda McNeil [email protected] • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] Social Secretary • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Member-at-Large, Newsletter Gail Montgomery Group members. Copy Editor & Apple User Group [email protected] Ambassador • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Deane Lappin newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] directory, directions to our meetings, and much 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 31, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2020 Typical Meeting Agenda MLMUG Email list 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. The Main Line Macintosh Users Group has its own email list, hosted at Groups.io. Compose 9:05 - 10:15: Q&A Panel - 3 or 4 expert your letter and email it to members will answer your questions [email protected] and your about anything relating to your Mac, message will be sent to everyone iPad, iPhone, iWatch, and any on the mailing list. Contact Bob attached peripherals. Barton ([email protected]) if you New Users SIG are a member and you are not on Questions can relate to the most basic You don’t have to wait a whole the list. items, equipment issues, Apple’s month to get answers to your basic o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m s , a n d a l l Please observe good email Mac questions! Get together with applications, including applications for etiquette. If your message is other members on the fourth photo, video, audio, and print media. humor or not Apple-related (off- Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each Answers are amazingly helpful and topic), please include "Humor" or regular meeting) for the Startup often in depth, exploring the subject "OT" in the subject line. The Folder Lite. beyond the question. Groups.io Terms of Service are at groups.io/static/tos. Look for the Many new users have said that they section on "Conditions of Use" can learn much more from face-to- 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. face meetings than they do from The MLMUG list may be used to manuals or other sources. That’s post Apple-related items for sale, what this meeting is all about. Go 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a but any solicitation of members to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for member or guest) through the list is forbidden details. without the written consent of a 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. MLMUG officer. Violation of the Come join some fellow MLMUG members Groups.io terms of service or good email etiquette may result for lunch after the meeting at a nearby in removal from the list. restaurant. 4 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 12 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP DECEMBER 2020 And let’s not forget what I think is the most important delay, Bookmarks action on climate change! Delays There’s light on the horizon for an end to many of these delays by the spring or summer of 2021. But unless we soon see major By Mark Bazrod actions by many nations on climate change, our children and grandchildren will experience a planet and a world far different than anything we experienced - even though forecasted by many This is “the winter of our discontent”, given the COVID-19 scientists for many years. pandemic and the contested presidential election, but it is also In fact, unless major changes are made by 2030 and 2050, the the fall and winter of thousands of delays. Here’s some of the result will be catastrophic for humanity. We are already seeing major ones: some results of warming temperatures - wildfires, hurricanes, Approval of COVID-19 vaccines droughts, and floods. Distribution of COVID-19 vaccines Scientist tell us that to have at least a 50% chance of limiting warming to no more than 1.5°C, we must cut global emissions to The end of the COVID-19 pandemic half their current levels by 2030, half again by 2040, and finally to Waiting for Trump to concede the election lead to zero by 2050 at the latest.