VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MARCH 2018 R COMMENTS FOUNDED MAY 1989 The HomePod could leave rings MEETINGS - SECOND w h e n p l a c e d o n w o o d e n SATURDAY OF THE MONTH fur niture. It’s preventable. TidBITS. tinyurl.com/y7puh58r. You can stop “Upgrade to M a c O S H i g h S i e r r a “ HOMEPOD FOCUS n o t i fi c a t i o n s . OSXDaily. tinyurl.com/y89d5jxy. BASICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA P D F O P E N A S A B L A C K RECTANGLE? Try recalibrating Our presenter at this Saturday’s meeting will be Stan Horwitz y o u r d i s p l a y . O S X D a i l y . who will discuss the Basics of Social Media. He will explain tinyurl.com/y9mxsr6r. what social networking is and provide a brief overview of his Want to learn to use Snapchat? favorite social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Strava, and Lots of fun! Go to tinyurl.com/ Meetup) and how to use social networks to support personal yax675j8. The New York Times. and professional interests. Should you quit Amazon Prime? Stan Horwitz is a long-time MLMUG member and has been an The discussion at tinyurl.com/ unofficial Mac evangelist for many years. A veteran Mac user, yd7sb9yz gives you reasons. The Stan uses his Macs for everything from personal taxes, Washington Post. banking, and investments to interactive messaging, digital You can hide all other windows photography, music, and keeping in touch with distant friends and family. He works except the active app. Use at Temple University in the Computer Services Department where he is responsible C o m m a n d + O p t i o n + H . for disaster recovery. Stan lives in the Art Museum area of Philadelphia with his cat, tinyurl.com/yaz8bl4f. OSXDaily. Darwin, and is an avid photographer. Learn how to search in Notes on the iPhone and iPad. Go to tinyurl.com/y6vgllcc. OSXDaily. AT TIMES IMAGES MAY BE A BIT MLMUG MARCH FUZZY IF ORIGINAL IMAGES WERE FUZZY. IF YOU NEED TO READ We meet at the Community Center in Hershey’s Mill in West Chester Take T H E M , P L E A S E G O T O T H E Greenhill to the Hershey’s Drive entry and go up the hill to the Community ORIGINAL ARTICLE. Center. Map is at tinyurl.com/mrmtnd7. !1 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MARCH 2018 CONTENTS Contributors and Authors Newsletter Editor Editor Comments and Program Info 1 Mark Bazrod Mark Bazrod MLMUG And Newsletter Info 2-4 Adam C. Engst Graphics Editor Bookmarks: Files Trials 5-6 Glenn Fleishman Sally Bazrod Speaker Roster 6 Kathy Garges Copy Editor iMac Pro Review 7-12 Matt Hanson Deane Lappin Don't Convert Time Machine From HFS+ to APFS 13-14 Todd Haselton MLMUG Journal Get Stock Prices from Safari URL Bar 15 Farhood Manjoo Masthead I'm Selling my iPad Pro Because my iPhone X 16 John Martellaro Designed by Dale Fletcher Does Everything I Need Jenny McGrath Based on prior designs by iPad Help: 12 Lessons for Beginners 17-18 Marc Robinson, Steve HomePod First Impressions: Let the Music Play 19-23 Daniel Nations Evans & Bobby Foster Apple's HomePod Speaker: Either Way 24-28 Andrew Orr MLMUG Journal is Late or Way Early David Pogue published monthly by the Why We May Soon Be Living in Alexa’s World 29-31 OSX Daily Main Line Macintosh Users Group and is available Apple HomePod vs. Amazon Echo vs. 32-36 Filip Truta online. It is produced using Google Home Apple Pages, with a macOS: 5 Ways To Find & Launch Mac 37-38 Helvetica Neue font (Same iCloud Drive To Dock of Mac OS 38-39 as Yosemite). Hide All Other Windows Except Active App 40-41 On macOS Get Around One of the Most Annoying 42-43 Permission is granted to nonprofit groups and other Macintosh macOS (non) Features User Groups to reproduce items in this newsletter. Please Dictation Eases Data Entry 43-44 include the author’s or artist’s name, the MLMUG Journal title, and our copyright notice. A copy should also be mailed to: How To Secure Your Mac – Part 1 45-47 Editor, MLMUG Journal, P.O. Box 1374, Southeastern, PA 19399 How To Secure Your Mac – Part 2 48-50 or emailed to [email protected]. AI And HUMANS Super-Ager 50-51 © 2018 Journal content not written by members is included courtesy of the sources or the fair use doctrine. Product names & images are trademarks or copyrights of the respective owners. !2 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MARCH 2018 Typical Meeting Agenda 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. 9:05 - 10:05: Three Concurrent Special Interest Groups (SIGs) convene in separate rooms. The three current MLMUG Email list SIGs are: The Main Line Macintosh Users New Users SIG Newer Users- We cover the most Group has its own email list, You don’t have to wait a whole month to basic questions you may have about hosted at Yahoo Groups. Compose get answers to your basic Mac questions! your Mac/iDevices and how to use your letter and email it to Get together with other members on the them. [email protected] and fourth Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each your message will be sent to regular meeting) for the Startup Folder Lite. Multimedia - We discuss using your everyone on the mailing list.. Mac/iDevices and applications for Contact Bob Barton if you are a Many new users have said that they can photo, video, audio, and print media. member and you are not on the learn much more from face-to-face list. meetings than they do from manuals or OS - We go beyond basics to discuss Please observe rules of etiquette. other sources. That’s what this meeting is Apple’s current operating systems, in Yahoo Groups Terms of Service. all about. Go to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html using your Macs & iDevices, & various for details. The MLMUG list may be used to applications, & have Q&A. post Apple/Macintosh-related 10:05 - 10:15: Continuation of Q&A for all items for sale, but any solicitation attendees. of members through the list is forbidden without the written 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. consent of a MLMUG officer. 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a member or guest) 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. Come join some fellow MLMUG members for lunch after the meeting at a nearby restaurant. !3 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MARCH 2018 President, Program Director & Newsletter Copy Editor & Apple Membership Information Vendor Liaison User Group Ambassador Membership dues are $25 for individuals and $35 for Maria O. Arguello Deane Lappin families. Memberships are based on your anniversary [email protected] [email protected] date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Vice President & Multimedia SIG Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & Co-Chair Webmaster If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve Larry Campbell been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Bob Barton consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer, Membership & • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, Facilities Coordinator Newsletter Graphics Editor and meet everyone from working Mac Sally Bazrod professionals to new Mac users from all Elliott Cobin backgrounds. [email protected] [email protected] • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Secretary & Newsletter Editor OS/iOS SIG Chair Mac news, tips, and information. Mark Bazrod Adam Rice • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] [email protected] • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Member-at-Large Raffle Chair Group members. Deane Lappin Susan Czarnecki • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG [email protected] newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] directory, directions to our meetings, and much Educational Liaison more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. Linda McNeil Social Secretary [email protected] Gail Montgomery • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical questions or comments to each other and the Multimedia SIG Co-Chair 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 !4 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MARCH 2018 Pages files, Numbers files, Keynote files, Preview files, TextEdit Bookmarks files, etc. I organized my files by application 30-40 years ago, but that is an unsatisfactory method today. Also folders are show in By Mark Bazrod Icon View which is unsatisfactory (to me). You can switch to List View by checking the hamburger menu at the top right of the main Files Trials window. Some of the files are downloaded to my iPad; others are not. I cannot find the reason. If I click on an undownloaded article, it This is a tale of trials by Files; of joys and woes; and examples of doesn’t work most of the time. That is unsatisfactory if I am using inexplicable searches for information. the iPad away from the iMac and I need to use an undownloaded Quite some time ago we had just one personal computer.