Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2016 i MacFormat

FORMAT PRESENTS i.dime A coin-sized instant storage boost for your iPhone We were disappointed when Apple persisted with a 16GB base model for the iPhone SE, so if you find yourself running out of space on your device, try i.dime. It’s one part iPhone case, one part clip-on storage boost. Put on the case and i.dime magnetically sticks to the back, wirelessly boosting your storage by up to 256GB – that also makes it great for quickly sharing files with anyone else who has an i.dime case. It also comes with a small USB dongle that holds the i.dime, allowing you to easily transfer files between your iPhone and Mac. From $48 (about £36) INCLUDES i.dime, USB/Lightning dongle (some bundles include case) WEBSITE idime.us WORKS WITH iPhone 5, SE, 6,…

What’s inside 8–10 RUMOUR & NEWS The core Apple news you need to know about 11 APPS & GAMES Our top picks of the month for Mac and iOS 12 APPLE FACTS Amazing stats from the world of Apple 14–15 NEWS FEATURE How is Apple doing on issues of equality? 16 OPINION Adam Banks looks at Apple’s new file system 18 SPLIT VIEW The team’s views on the latest Apple tech Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Paul says… Could an Apple VR set help gaming on the Mac really take off? I know I’m excited by the idea VR is the next chapter in next major shift in gaming. It’s…

For our latest subscription offer see page 46! Apple admits it still has more work to do in this area When people buy Apple products, they often feel that they’re not just buying a product – they’re buying from a company that cares. Cares about the environment, about privacy, about its workers and about diversity. But how true is that last assertion? Is Apple giving opportunities to women and minorities in the technology industry, and how does it fare against its Silicon Valley rivals? As with many issues it claims to take to heart, Apple has a dedicated section on its website espousing the positive steps it is taking towards equality in the workplace. It’s prefaced by a letter from CEO Tim Cook in which he states the company is…

Explained AIR QUALITY Your home’s indoor air quality (IAQ) can be affected by volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which can include fumes from bleach and other kitchen cleaning products, as well as dry-cleaning chemicals and many types of paint. You can look up recipes, check on the weather, and even play music while you’re cooking Genius Tip! The Smarter app (bit.ly/29Pygd8) can use the GPS feature on your iPhone to monitor your location and start a brew when it sees you’re coming home from work. HOW TO Brew coffee using your iPhone 1As you like it The first thing you’ll want to do with the Smarter Coffee Machine is tell it how you like your coffee. You can choose a strength to use by default, or change it manually if you…

With OS X El Capitan, Notes underwent some major changes. Rather than only offering textual notes, the app acquired a modicum of enhanced formatting options, such as the ability to style text as headings or checklists, place images (including hand-drawn sketches on iOS), and add map and web links. Of course, it works nicely across Macs and iOS devices. Evernote (evernote.com) goes a lot further, though. Like many alternatives we’re talking about, it works on more platforms, and it can capture and store pretty much anything – even entire web pages using its Web Clipper extension. Much ado about noting Notes also pales by comparison when managing large collections. It lets you bung notes in folders, but that’s about it. In Evernote, individual items can be tagged to group related…

Soulver The main thing Calculator has going for it is its instantly recognisable interface and operation. But that brings limitations and a lack of context and flexibility for complex calculations. By contrast, Soulver (acqualia.com) is weird at first but blows away Calculator once you grasp the basics. You jot down calculations in plain language and it extracts the numbers and tots things up. Line totals become tokens that can be used in later lines, everything updating as figures are changed. Calculations can be saved, or exported to other formats. PDF Expert To give Preview its due, it’s great for opening PDFs, adding annotations and moving a few pages around. Spend some time with PDF Expert (readdle.com) though and it soon comes across rather like Preview Pro. If you regularly organise…

Software quick-fire questions Why does Safari keep freezing on random websites? > This is most probably because of an old and broken plug-in. Check the Internet Plug-Ins folders in /Library and ~/Library to root out old ones. A frequent offender is an old Google Earth plug-in, for example. Bring Java and Adobe Flash Player up to date too, if they’re installed. Can I verify that an HTTPS connection is actually secure? > Yes. To check this, connect to the website in question. Once it has loaded, you should see a padlock icon to the left of its address. If there isn’t one there, the site isn’t secure. Click the padlock to check the site’s security certificate for final confirmation. Aperture libraries can be imported into Photos, and should transfer your…

Hardware quick-fire questions How do I create a new user account? > In System Preferences > Accounts, click the padlock at the bottom (if it’s locked) and enter an admin password, then click the + under the list of accounts. Choose Administrator from the pop-up menu at the top if you want the account to have full access to the Mac, or Standard to restrict its ability to change settings. Fill in the name and password details in the relevant fields, then click Create User. How much memory can be fitted in a 2006 MacBook? > Provided all memory slots are working (unlike mine), you can put 1GB modules in each, for a total of 2GB. You can look up the specs of old Macs at support.apple.com, or in MacTracker…

OS X Recovery provides an option to restore your Mac’s contents from a Time Machine backup if OS X itself won’t start your Mac is unresponsive or exhibiting problems that can’t be resolved using the tips in the previous section, use your Mac’s diagnostics tools to check for physical problems before contacting Apple for support. First, eject and detach all external devices, then shut down your Mac. Next, power on your Mac and hold d while it starts up until you see either Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test. (If you’ve completely erased your Mac’s startup disk in the past, you can start Apple Diagnostics from the internet by holding instead.) On Macs introduced in June 2013 or later, your Mac will run Apple Diagnostics. When this tool is finished…

£450 FROM Audeze, audeze.com features 10Hz–50kHz frequency response, 6W maximum power handling The 3.5mm cable lacks the immediacy and warmth of listening over the Cipher Lightning cable The Audeze Sine, unlike most other headphones, is ready for a future that actually may not come to fruition. That’s the possibility of an iPhone 7 devoid of the traditional 3.5mm headphone socket, and how Apple’s move could signal a big change in the way manufacturers make headphones. If Apple does decide to kill the decadesold standard, Audeze is prepared with the Sine thanks to its Lightning functionality (there’s also a 3.5mm version, though). If you’re an iPhone user, you should really get the ‘Cipher’ Lightning cable version, which has an amplifier, a digital signal processor and a digital-to-audio converter. It houses all…

£595 FROM Naim, naimaudio.com FEATURES UPnP, AirPlay, Bluetooth, internet radio. USB, 3.5mm and optical digital inputs The original Mu-so was an amazingsounding speaker, but its form factor didn’t make sense. The Qb is just as good but smaller, making it a much better fit compared to its bulky predecessor. Naim has done well to fit five drivers (one subwoofer, two tweeters and two midrange) into a box this small, giving you 300W of power. The bass is punchy but not overbearing, and sound separation is impressive. The Qb’s connectivity ports are at the rear; you’ll find analogue, optical and USB inputs, and a power connector and Ethernet port. However, you’re likely to connect to the Qb wirelessly with your iPhone, and the speaker works with most audio standards, including AirPlay.…

ALSO INSIDE… Create a great website using RapidWeaver Make pro-looking videos for YouTube Salvage an old drive and its precious data Discover what’s new in emerging Wi-Fi tech ISSUE 304 ON SALE 30 AUG 2016 DON’T MISS IT – SUBSCRIBE TODAY! IN PRINT & ON YOUR iPAD Our print and digital bundle gets you the paper magazine as well as our iPad edition myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/macformat ON YOUR MAC Read on the big screen: subscribe with Zinio at zinio.com/macformat Zinio subscriptions do not include a print copy of the magazine.…

[MOVIE] ZOOTROPOLIS £13.99 A rabbit cop and a fox con artist are unusual partners attempting to unravel a city-wide mystery in this hilarious animated comedy. [PODCAST] DETECTIVE FREE Two retired homicide detectives discuss their methods, best cases and worst moments. A gripping series with gritty subject matter. [GAME] BATMAN UNLIMITED FREE Part storybook, part video game, Batman Unlimited: Gotham City’s Most Wanted is a puzzle adventure for die-hard bat fans!…

HFS+ was made for magnetic disks, but APFS is optimised for use with flash The biggest announcement Apple didn’t make at June’s WWDC keynote was that it was entering beta testing on a brand new file system. APFS (Apple File System) will appear in macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS and presumably any other OS: vrOS, say, if Apple moves into virtual reality, or brOS, if Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue form an ’80s boy band tribute act. I’m not sure which you’d get better odds on. It’s easy to forget how central the file system is to our conception of personal computers. The PC’s original software, after all, was MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System). That distinguished it from ‘micros’ like my Commodore 64, which barely had an OS at all, just…

What’s inside 22–25 SMART KITCHENS Cook and do chores better with the latest in clever home appliances 26–27 TUTORIAL How to brew the perfect cup of coffee right from your iPhone 28–29 HOME GADGETS Essential kit to elevate your abode from ‘home’ to ‘smart home’ Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Get the latest subscription offers at macformat.com LIVE SMARTER The smart home is here – live the Apple dream today! he kitchen is one of the busiest rooms in your home – from that first cuppa in the morning, through to the delicious dinner that brings the whole family together at the end of each day. Oddly, though, it’s taken…

Although it has plenty of options, Apple’s Mail feels quite rigid in use. The main reason to switch to Airmail (airmailapp.com) is that it’s so flexible and accounts for people with vastly different ways of working with email. Also, its wealth of options make it extremely efficient for blazing through bulging inboxes, hurling yourself with merry abandon towards the promised land of ‘Inbox Zero’. It all starts with browsing your messages. This works in much the same way as in Mail, enabling you to sort your inbox by various criteria, such as sender, subject, or date; unlike Mail, keyboard shortcuts are already assigned, speeding things up a little. Airmail goes further, with a set of filters that make life a bit easier. For example, you can quickly hone down the…

1 The Path Navigator and Bookmarks Bar provide fast access to folders but also enable you to navigate your Mac’s file system. Just click the former or right-click the latter and venture into Contents. 2 In Path Finder’s application menu, you can opt to use the app’s own desktop (so clicking there doesn’t activate Finder), and, in a nod to old hands, a desktopbased Trash icon! 3 The Drop Stack at the top of the sidebar is a place you can use to temporarily stash files while moving things between multiple folders. The stack‘s contents can be compressed, emailed or moved as one. 4 The Filter field works much like Finder’s search. Use it to filter the current folder by name. Click the magnifying glass icon to switch criteria –…

Brilliantly, you’ll be able to pin Siri’s Finder search results to Notification Centre to reuse later on Apple revealed macOS Sierra on 13 June 13, packed with new goodies that are coming to the Mac later this year. In the context of this feature, are Sierra’s updated apps so much improved that there’s less point in using alternatives? The biggest new feature is Siri. As on Apple’s other platforms, this virtual assistant permeates the entire operating system, providing a new way of communicating with your computer. Apple’s on-stage demos showed how Siri can be used to perform tasks in the background or even grab info such as weather forecasts from the web while you carry on with something else. Siri should boost usability and efficiency when dealing with Calendar and…

IT WILL TAKE At least 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to run a light check of your Mac’s hardware and follow up any errors detected. YOU’LL NEED MacCheck. Disk Utility. Other tools mentioned throughout to test more extensively. After a crash or freeze, two minutes with MacCheck screens for problems you need to fix Whenever an app quits unexpectedly, or your Mac restarts after freezing, you would probably like to run a quick check to reassure yourself that there’s nothing more serious wrong with it. You could restart and run Apple Diagnostics, or start up OS X Recovery to run Disk Utility’s First Aid feature, but by then it’ll be lunchtime and you’ll have got nothing else done. These are ideal situations to run a quick and lightweight check,…

What’s inside 69 MAC SOFTWARE How to get rid of an unwanted Bitdefender installation on your Mac 70–71 MAC OS X Sage advice to help you overcome the worst Mac maladies 72–73 MAC SOFTWARE Ease your app-fuelled anxieties and get your productivity on track 74 iOS SOFTWARE Swipe away your touchscreen troubles and love iOS once again Contact us Email your queries and your questions to genius@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Get the latest subscription offers at macformat.com EXPERT ADVICE Our resident genius solves your Mac and iOS problems Q I erroneously opened an email that appeared to be from a friend. In it was a link to a site promoting a weight loss product. A little later, I…

iOS software quick-fire questions Why do our iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 differ in mileage? > Distance walked or run in Health’s Dashboard is calculated from periodic location fixes using built-in Assisted GPS, while your number of steps is measured by the accelerometer. Both are approximations and will vary considerably. Later iPhones are often more accurate, and adding a Watch makes measurements better than a phone alone. iMessage is using my new, temporary phone number > When you’ve switched networks but kept your old number, this can leave some settings wrong. In Settings > Phone, edit the number at the top. Also check it’s correct in your card in Contacts. You can make yourself reachable on any email address that’s associated with your Apple ID Getting started with iMessages and…

1 SECURE A work computer, games console, family planner, photo album, and a music library… your Mac is an integral part of your life. To prevent that information falling into somebody else’s hands, or your Mac being compromised by outside attack, we’ll walk you through various options for tightening its security. 2 PREVENT Prevention really is better than cure when the ‘cure’ for a significant crash could be spending days trying to reclaim your data. Take practical steps to monitor your Mac when a problem crops up, or even ahead of time, and you can accurately predict or forestall problems before disaster is even able to strike. 3 RECOVER Should the worst happen, don’t panic – we’ll show you how to fix common Mac problems without reaching for your backups.…

What’s inside 90–95 MAC HARDWARE Travel-friendly on-ear headphones, a 256GB MacBook Pro storage boost, and other kit 96–99 GROUP TEST Six portable Bluetooth speakers with sound that’ll rock your world! 100–102 MAC SOFTWARE Apps to enhance your landscape photos, build a website, and more 103 iOS SOFTWARE Improve your verbal communication and mark up digital docs Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Get the latest subscription offers at macformat.com BUYING ADVICE Our authoritative reviews help you make more informed choices Manifesto – our ratings explained Our reviews are totally independent; we’re not affiliated with Apple or anyone else, nor are we influenced by advertisers. You can trust us to give an…

£200 FROM Bang & Olufsen, beoplay.com FEATURES Bluetooth 4.2, magnetic clasp, USB charging cube These days, audio companies see wireless buds as a fertile market. Bang & Olufsen has thrown its hat into the ring with the H5 earphones, delivering on its premium mandate for top notch design and sound, but with a few caveats. The plastic, solidly made earpieces come with a thick braided cable, four pairs of silicone tips and three sets of anti-wax foam tips. In our tests, the standard silicone tips had the comfiest fit and seal, and delivered the best treble and bass response. Design-wise, the most attractive feature of the H5 is its magnetised buds, which click together around the neck and turn off when not in use. The inline, threebutton remote is thin…

Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com LETTER OF THE MONTH! AIRPLAY PAINS I’m struggling with your April edition’s AirPlay project. 1: the MicroSD card. I assume a blank card is required. 2: I downloaded the Pi Music Box from the MusicBox site (I’m using a new Pi 3). Your instructions say “extract” the IMG file. I tried double-clicking it and it produced on the desktop a volume named “MUSICBOX”. This looked hopeful. 3: I downloaded and opened Pi Filler. How do I “point it at the image” extracted? When aiming Pi Filler at the desktop, volumes such as MUSICBOX do not appear (no volumes do). So I tried the unopened ‘pimusicbox-0’ folder which contains the original IMG file and pointed Pi Filler to this IMG file.…

Alan Stonebridge Production Editor Never mind “Winter is coming”. Alan’s spent summer in the postapocalyptic Red Forest of 12 Monkeys’ second season on iTunes. Bleak. Alex Blake Commissioning Editor Alex managed to drop his new iPhone into a swimming pool less than two months after buying it. Thank goodness for insurance policies… Paul Blachford Managing Art Editor While playing Pokemon Go with his kids, walking several miles around his village, the battery in Paul’s son’s iPhone SE lasted the whole time on one charge! Impressive. macformatuk.tumblr.com facebook.com/macformat twitter.com/macformat youtube.com/MacFormatUK…

1 2,640°C Zirconia, a ceramic used in the Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition, is heated to more than 1,000° hotter than lava during manufacturing. 2 Nine hours It takes Apple this long just to cut the links for the Watch’s Link Bracelet. 3 0.01mm By creating Watches from machined gold ingots, Apple can control their dimensions to within 0.01mm. 4 80% The stainless steel Apple uses is 80% more durable than regular steel thanks to a cold forging process. 5 5, 280 It would take over 5,000 Apple Watches laid end-toend to surround the one-mile circumference of Apple Campus 2. 6 2x Apple uses a gold-ceramic composite in its Apple Watch Edition, which makes it twice as strong as regular gold. NEXT ISSUE Find out just how successful the…

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! SAVE 45%! Turn to page 46 APPLE IN QUOTES HILLARY CLINTON hillaryclinton.com “Hillary rejects the false choice between privacy interests and keeping Americans safe.” Presidential hopeful agrees with Apple in her published tech agenda CHRIS SMITH trustedreviews.com “If anything, it’s amazing it took Apple so long to get to this point.” Columnist reckons Apple should have released the Home app a long time ago JOHN GRUBER daringfireball.net “[Apple] will initiate a painful transition for long-term gain.” Pundit says removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 will be worth it STUART DREDGE theguardian.com “By growing to 15 million subscribers in a year… Apple Music has shown there’s an alternative.” Apple Music can succeed without the need for a free tier like Spotify’s “WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE…

Which web browser is best for you to some extent comes down to the type of person you are. Safari’s a solid choice on the Mac – broadly dependable and well-integrated into the operating system. Also, if you’re wedded to the Apple ecosystem, there’s sense in sticking with it to share tabs and data across your Macs and iOS devices. However, not everyone has such a straightforward setup. Perhaps you also use an Android device, a Chromebook or a Windows PC, in which case Chrome (google.co.uk/chrome) is a smart choice for your Mac because it affords you a continuity of experience and data that you’d otherwise miss. If you don’t care at all about Google services, there are still two good reasons to consider Chrome. Historically it has been far…

TextEdit is an app with roots that go right back to the Mac’s early days. Early versions of Mac OS bundled TeachText, which later evolved into SimpleText. TextEdit is the similarly straightforward successor on OS X – yet it’s surprisingly versatile in many ways, boasting a text engine that’s used throughout a large range of Mac apps. Notably, you get access to plenty of formatting options, making for an experience akin to a stripped-back word processor. What you don’t get is a great deal of help when it comes to writing and finding what you’ve previously written. Poles apart Ulysses (ulyssesapp.com) is almost the polar opposite of TextEdit, and yet for many people who do a lot of writing, it’s the perfect replacement. It lacks word-processor-style formatting, but the structure…

What’s inside 50–53 GET READY FOR SIERRA & IOS 10 Prepare your devices to try out betas of Apple’s new operating systems 54–55 DESIGN PAGES NEWSLETTERS Get to grips with precise page layouts 56–58 CREATIVELY BLEND IMAGES Master blend modes using Affinity Photo 60–61 GIVE YOUR MAC A ONCE-OVER Test and diagnose hardware issues 62–63 INSTALL NEW FONTS ON iOS Boost creative options on your iPhone or iPad 64–67 RESCUE OLD AUDIO MEDIA Give old recordings a new, lease of life NEW IDEAS Your new-look guide to getting more fro your Apple kit GET CREATIVE WITH BLEND MODES P56 Understand iOS gestures A tap is a brief contact of (usually) one finger on your device’s screen. To drag is to move a finger across the screen to scroll or pan…

WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to add fonts from your Mac to iOS. YOU’LL NEED AnyFont. iTunes. Compatible fonts. A device running iOS 8 or later. With AnyFont, you can use a clever system to add fonts from your Mac to iOS devices Genius Tip! If you’re unsure which fonts are already on your various devices, use Font Book on the Mac and compare its contents with the ‘Already installed fonts’ tab in AnyFont on your iOS device. Bear in mind that fonts you’ve installed yourself will also appear in this list. In the early days of computing, you were limited to a tiny selection of ugly fonts, but today’s computers typically come with plenty of much nicer typefaces. The only problem is that what you get…

Mac OS X quick-fire questions If my Mac freezes, is it okay to turn the power off? > Give it a minute or two in the hope that it will restart automatically. If that doesn’t happen, hold down the power button until the Mac shuts down. You should only ever shut it down by turning off the mains power supply in a dire emergency, as that’s likely to cause problems. What keyboard shortcut moves to the end of line? > Press to move the insertion point to the end of the current row or line, or to move it to the start. You’ll find many more shortcuts that help you work with text under Document Shortcuts at apple.co/29swVss, and apple.co/29gu5do for Apple’s Numbers. External drive in trouble Q I upgraded…

What’s inside 78–79 FIX UP AN OLD MAC FOR GAMES Set up an old Mac so a young child can safely play Minecraft 80 INSTALL OPTIFINE TO FIX MINECRAFT Boost performance on low-end Macs with this free modification Contact us Email your queries and your questions to lovemac@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Get the latest subscription offers at macformat.com REUSE OLD KIT Inspiring ideas for revamping your old Apple devices A Mac for Minecraft My niece Darcy is almost five. Like most children under 10 she likes Minecraft, but she doesn’t get a lot of time on the family Xbox because her two brothers put in six or seven hours each day to keep their Darks Souls 3 skills…

£1,349 from Sony, sony.co.uk Features 20.1MP one-inch CMOS sensor, 24–600mm lens, 4K video recording Alex says… There’s no denying it: that lens is incredible. While I find it tempting to have such versatility in a single lens, the price is pretty steep for the type of photographer Sony is aiming at. My heart wants it, but my brain says no – I hope for my wallet’s sake that my head wins. ALTER NATIVE CHOICES Canon G3 X (body only) £700 Specifications from canon.co.uk 20.2 megapixels One-inch CMOS sensor I SO 100–12,800 (64–25,600 extended) 6fps burst rate 1080p video recording at 60fps Panasonic FZ1000 (body only) £ 569 Specifications FROM panasonic.com/uk 20.1 megapixels O ne-inch Live MOS sensor ISO 125–12,800 (80 –25,600 exten de d) 12fps burs t rate 4 K…

£75 FROM STM, stmbags.com.au DIMENSIONS 47x28x13cm (fits 15-inch MacBook Pro) Style This backpack is aimed at the practical user rather than the style-conscious MacBook owner. It’s much more like a hiking pack, with plenty of compartments and side pockets for people with a lot to carry! Comfort The Haven generally feels bulkier than Knomo’s Hanson, though it is fractionally lighter (there’s less metal on zips and no leather). It distributes weight well on the move, but the straps don’t have the best padding and can feel rough. Features You really get some bang for your buck in this department, or should we say ‘compartment’. We counted 13 separate areas for your gear, ranging from sleeves and zipped compartments to small pouches. There’s also a cablerouting clip and a port for…

Welcome to MacFormat’s Store Guide, the place to go to find out about all the Apple kit that matters, whether you’re looking for your next iPhone or a powerful new desktop Mac. We’ve chosen our top products from Apple’s product line-up, plus the best third-party kit that meets our quality standard. Whether you’re a recent convert or a seasoned Apple user, we highlight a model of each product that’s ideally suited to your needs. So, check our handy tables to see which Mac, iPad or iPhone is best for you. We’ve also highlighted the gold standard in audio, storage, cameras, and many other categories to complement your Mac or iOS device with the best accessories. Who’s it for? ENTRY LEVEL You’re just getting started in the world of Apple and…