Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2017 i Macworld UK

Fresh off a record-breaking $78.4 billion first quarter, Apple reported a decidedly more muted Q2 of fiscal year 2017: a profit of $11bn, or $2.10 per share, on revenue of $52.9bn. The quarter ending April 1 saw no new flagship iPhones, though there was a refreshed SE and a special edition red model. But Apple usually sees a decline from Q1 to Q2. And the results are better than the year-ago Q2, which saw profit of $1.90 per share on $50.6 billion in revenue. The firm’s profits beat analyst expectations on profit but missed slightly on revenue and iPhone sales, for those who care about that sort of thing. Some things to note before Apple’s Q2 earnings call, which will shed more light on its overall OK quarter. Sales in…

Anew malware program that targets macOS users is capable of spying on encrypted browser traffic to steal sensitive information. Dubbed OSX/ Dok by researchers from Check Point Software Technologies, was distributed via email phishing campaigns to users in Europe. One of the rogue emails was crafted to look as if it was sent by a Swiss government agency warning recipients about apparent errors in their tax returns. The malware was attached to the email as a file called Dokument.zip. What makes OSX/Dok interesting is that it was digitally signed with a valid Apple developer certificate. These certificates are issued by Apple to members of its developer program and are needed to publish applications in the official Mac App Store. Applications signed with an Apple-issued developer certificate can also be installed…

£38.99 inc VAT from fave.co/2pNBxk8 Apple has never been the biggest player in photo editing, but when it chose to discontinue Aperture and throw its efforts behind Photos for Mac, many developers saw an opportunity to jump into the field. One of those, Picktorial 3.0 is a Mac-only image editor built for photography that takes a fresh approach to how photos are adjusted and managed. Editing and retouching Picktorial tries to be as minimal as it can be while still providing the tools required of a modern photo editor. That includes the adjustments you would expect for adjusting tone and colour, from white balance to clarity to curves to saturation. The application has its own raw processing engine to work with raw-formatted image files; it can also load DCP colour…

When Apple met with select members of the media to talk about the Mac Pro, Apple VPs also mentioned that it plans to update the iMac this year. The gap between updates for the iMac isn’t as long as the Mac Pro, but it’s been a while. The current iMac was released in October of 2015, well past the yearly updates Apple used to issue. So the iMac is due. Pike’s Universum, which has an eagle eye for finding references to future Apple products in Apple’s operating system code, reported on some specs that could be used for the new iMac – though the site says that the information should be “handled with care/ scepticism”. We’ll point out Pike’s findings in each section below, along with my commentary. The latest…

Whether you’re concerned about your online privacy or looking to access sites that are ordinarily blocked in your country, a VPN (virtual private network) will help. You’ll be able to hide your location online and access blocked content using the services in our round-up of the best VPNs for Mac. Many people use a VPN in order to enjoy the BBC iPlayer’s streaming services while outside of the UK, or to access US Netflix while inside the UK in order to make use of its expanded catalogue (although with much tougher restrictions these days many VPNs can no longer help you access these reliably). They are also a great tool to help you keep prying eyes at bay, giving an element of anonymity while browsing the web. Virtual private networks…

Touch skeuomorphic wood, but we’ve never had a computer or mobile device stolen. (We feel footsteps on our digital grave as we write those words.) But we have forgotten where we’ve left one of my pieces of electronics. Apple started building its location-based device-finding system years ago into iOS, then macOS, then watchOS, and even AirPods as of iOS 10.3 (still in beta at press time). For this article, we’re going to call the feature Find My iPhone just for consistency, even though Apple labels it differently on every kind of device. You just have to remember it’s on and have your iCloud account associated with your devices handy to use it, whether you think a device has taken off on its own or it’s fallen down between the sofa…

As we saw on page 4, Apple recently announced its latest corporate earnings, a relatively flat quarter that still brought in $11 billion in profits. As always, if you look beyond the raw numbers on its reports and listen to its hour-long phone call with select Wall Street analysts, you can get some interesting perspective on where the company is going. 1. Rumours suppress demand If there’s anything Apple likes less than discussing its future product plans, it’s probably other people discussing its future product plans. Aside from a tossed-off joke on stage at a product launch, Apple rarely discusses rumours of what it’s working on. Which is why we were struck by Tim Cook’s response to a question by UBS’s Steve Milunovich about a recent survey from 451 Research…

All signs are pointing to Apple’s work on an augmented reality device of some sort, and now Apple has a new addition working on that effort: NASA’s Jeff Norris. According to Bloomberg, Apple hired Norris away from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, where he founded the Mission Operations Innovation Office, to work on its augmented reality products earlier this year. Norris’s experience is fantastic. His work over the past few years has been totally consumed with virtual and augmented reality in space. Norris partnered with Microsoft to develop software called OnSight, which lets scientist on Earth work virtually on Mars by wearing Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets. Norris also put pairs of HoloLens sets on the International Space Station to let astronauts show NASA staff on the ground exactly what they’re seeing using…

1. Use Siri to change System Preferences If you don’t feel too much of a plonker talking to your Mac, you can use Siri to quickly make changes to your settings. First, press Cmd + Siri to activate the voice assistant. Next, simply ask it to, for example, increase the brightness or turn on Bluetooth, and Siri will change the relevant settings. 2. Correct Siri’s mistakes If Siri has misheard you, click on the text where it has attempted to transcribe your words and correct them there before pressing return. 3. Copy and Paste between devices Universal Clipboard is an extension to the Continuity features introduced in El Capitan. With Universal Clipboard you can cut and copy items on your macOS and iOS devices, and paste them on to other…

We’ve seen the Internet Archive publish classic software collections for MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Windows 3.1, and classic arcade games. Now, the online museum is moving on to the Macintosh. The site recently published a collection of Mac OS System software (not to be confused with the current macOS) from the 80s and 90s at tinyurl.com/kLjk7ss, including classic Macintosh computers such as the 128K- and 512K. The best part? You can try all this software without having to constantly switch floppy disks on your machine. All of the software can be saved to your own PC or used with an in-browser emulator. There are more than 40 items in the online exhibit. You can find working versions of Mac OS System 6 and 7.1 with various software preinstalled. There are…

The spring isn’t usually a particularly prime month for video game releases, but this has been the busiest period we’ve seen for noteworthy debuts in some time. In fact, we had so many intriguing games on our working list that we had to cut a handful from what you’ll see within. Luckily, we pared it down to the 10 most notable new games, including 3D platform-action revival Yooka-Laylee, racing simulator F1 2016, Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy adventure series and the epic Total War: Warhammer. 1. Yooka-Laylee Price: £34.99 from Steam (tinyurl.com/m7ttqkq) If the only machine you played on in the ‘90s was a Mac, then you probably missed out on the golden age of 3D platform-action games for consoles, when entries like Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie changed up…

Macworld reader Noelle Oliveira says her Mac isn’t letting her save files from several different programs. She consistently receives the error (with various filenames and folder locations): ‘filename’ couldn’t be moved because you don’t have permission to access ‘folder’. macOS says she needs to change permissions on Desktop, but we’d wager most Mac users haven’t had to wrangle with this. Permissions are a Unix-level property attached to files (including apps) and folder that control the rights a given user or system agent has to read, write, execute or act in other ways upon a file or folder. In the old days, we had to muck about with permissions all the time. Disk Utility even had a Repair Disk Permissions options to fix system settings that might have gotten out of…

The legal fight between Apple and Qualcomm on licensing modem technology is turning uglier. Apple has filed lawsuits against Qualcomm in countries like the US, UK, China and Japan, accusing the chipmaker of using its dominant market position to overcharge licensing fees. The iPhone maker itself doesn’t pay licensing fees directly to Qualcomm. The fees are paid by partners like Foxconn, which makes the iPhone and iPad for Apple. Qualcomm is now accusing Apple of interfering with the licensing payments owed by those partners. Its revenue forecasts for the third quarter are affected, Qualcomm said. The chipmaker recently revised its revenue projections for the third fiscal quarter. It is projecting revenue to be between $5.3 billion and $6.1bn. That range runs between a decrease of 12 percent and an increase…

Apple has a new high-flying project in the works. According to Bloomberg, the firm is getting involved in launching satellites that would beam down broadband internet access. Recently, Apple poached two Google satellite executives to form a new hardware team within the company. John Fenwick led Google’s spacecraft operations and Michael Trela was head of satellite engineering. The report adds that Fenwick and Trela will now report to Greg Duffy, the Dropcam founder who joined Apple earlier this year. Presumably, they will be working on a secret project to design and develop Apple’s own satellites. Another recent development that points to Apple’s growing interest in this area is a partnership with Boeing to launch more than 1,000 low-orbit satellites. Apple has held discussions with Boeing about being an investor/partner in…

With WWDC just around the corner we’re hoping that Apple takes the opportunity to announce a new Mac Pro and iMac. Over the following pages we reveal what we’d like to see in the next models. Here we look at what we hope to find in a future Mac Pro. A practical tower case design There’s no denying that the current cylindrical Mac Pro (see opposite) is a design feat that’s nice to look at, but it’s impractical in so many ways. And the fashionable design is one of the last things pro users care about. It’s not like you’re going to sit there and admire the Mac Pro’s round edges and gunmetal glare while waiting for a 4K video to render. No, you’re moving on to other tasks. You’ve…

We recently received an email asking about network inconsistency. The reader has 60Mb/s internet access, but their Wi-Fi network often drops anywhere from half to a twelfth of that. They have Ethernet in their home, but use a version of powerline networking, which carries about 30- to 40Mb/s. They asked: “Would it be possible that OS X (or other software) constantly observes speed performance and, if performance is bad, automatically switches from Wi-Fi to Ethernet?” The reader is aware that if the connection drops altogether, macOS will swap to the next available network connection, if multiple connections are active. It’s a great idea, but it doesn’t exist. Conceivably, a developer could create software that monitored network interfaces and changed the priority of which network was used when one dropped, but…

As a company, Apple’s philosophy is often about pushing the envelope. And that’s great. It’s how we got the original Mac’s GUI, the iPhone, and other products and features too numerous to name. Apple likes to play up this revolutionary part of its history, and how it’s constantly trying to create world-beating products and not just move the needle slowly forward. It’s not to imagine the late Steve Jobs summoning forth the adage often attributed to Henry Ford: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Of course, the philosophy of innovation can go awry. Apple was so concerned about transforming the 2013 edition of the Mac Pro into an elegant, radical piece of machinery that it lost sight of what made that product…