Indholdsfortegnelse for April 2020 i Essential Apple User Magazine

1st April 1976 Apple Computer Company founded by: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne 2007 Watch it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I January 1984 The Mac Launches Apple’s famous commercial, screened during the 1984 Super Bowl, was voted the best ad in the game’s 40-year history. Apple CEOs 1977 to 1981 Michael Scott 1981 to 1983 Mike Markkula 1983 – 1993 John Sculley 1993 – 1996 Michael Spindler 1996 – 1997 Gil Amelio 1997 – 2011 Steve Jobs 2011 – Present Tim Cook Mac Sales by Year: £52,899 $53,399/65.749 € The most expensive configuration of the current Mac Pro (Excluding extra software, input devices or wheels) OS X /macOS by Release Date: In April 1976 Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake in Apple for: $800 Today those shares are worth: $130bn Original 1984 Mac, memory: 128k Latest 2019 Mac, memory (cheapest option):…

1 This button downloads new emails. You can set your Mail app to check automatically but this button does so manually. 2 When you want to write a new email from scratch, click on this button to open a blank one. 3 This button archives the selected message. Very useful if you want to make sure you don’t delete it. 4 If you want to throw away the currently selected email, click here to send it to the Trash folder. 5 This button moves the selected email to your junk mail folder. Use it to help the Mail app identify ‘spam’, which is junk emails. 6 These three buttons let you reply to the selected email, reply to everyone who received the selected email and forward the selected email to a third party. 7 This pull-down menu…

Setting Up Books 1 Launch the Books app and click on Get Started. You’re asked to sign in using your Apple ID. Do so. If you need to sign in with another account at a later date, use the Sign In/Out option in the Store drop-down menu in the top bar. 2 If you’re already a Books user on your iPad or iPhone, you can access your books by clicking the All Books option at the top of the left-hand sidebar. From this link, you’re taken to your complete Books library located on iCloud. 3 By clicking on the iCloud icon in the top right corner of a book, you download it to your Mac where it can be read. Once you’ve downloaded your picks, you can change how you view them based…

Setting Up Time Machine 1 Connect an external hard drive, via USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt, to your Mac. It should be at least the size of your Mac’s hard drive. The larger the drive, the further back in time you will be able to store backups. Now open System Preferences and click on Time Machine in the bottom row. 2 Click the Select Disk… button and you will be presented with a window listing your connected drives. Select the drive on which you would like to store your backups. If your external drive isn’t already formatted as ‘Mac OS Extended (Journaled)’, Time Machine invites you to erase and reformat it. 3 If you choose to reformat your disk, all data currently on the drive is wiped. You might get a pop-up asking if…

“Everyone loves the Mac, and they especially love MacBook Air. We’ve given it a huge update, with two times faster performance, the new Magic Keyboard, double the storage and a new lower price. With its stunning, thin and light design, brilliant Retina display, all-day battery life and the power and ease-of-use of macOS, MacBook Air is the world’s best notebook.”Tom Boger, Apple’s Senior Director, Mac and iPad Product Marketing In March 2020, Apple’s best-loved notebook got an upgrade. It has a faster processor, better graphics and a great new keyboard. Storage capacity has been doubled, and the price has fallen. Yes, seriously – the updated MacBook Air is actually cheaper than the one it replaces. Once again, two models are available. Both have 13-inch Retina displays for vivid images and…

1 The Voice Memos app for the Mac has a very user-friendly interface. All you have to do to record your first memo is to press the red button and start to talk. The Mac’s microphone records your voice. 2 A wave form shows the recording level as you speak. You can pause the recording using the pause button in the bottom left corner and then click again to continue when you’re ready. When finished, tap Done. 3 Listen to a memo by clicking on it and pressing Play. Drag a memo to the left to open a Delete option. Right-click to open a window where you can share, duplicate, or edit the recording. 4 You can click on the name of a voice memo and give it a new title. When you have…

Creating, Editing and Searching Notes 1 To create a new note, first of all, click on the pen-and-paper symbol found in the toolbar at the top of the Notes window. A new blank note appears. Start typing your note. The first line of a new note is used as its title in the notes list, so bear this in mind. 2 Your notes are listed in the left-hand pane. Click on a note to open it. To change the font, or use bold, underline or italicise, select the text and right-click or CTRL-click for a menu; these options are found under Fonts. To attach an image, simply drag it onto the note. 3 To search notes, use the search field in the top left. Searches cover all your notes, not just the titles.…

In March, Apple released new versions of the Mac mini and MacBook Air. The Mac mini was a very mild refresh; the new models were basically the old models but with double the storage. The new MacBook Airs, on the other hand, were a significant step up from their predecessors. The much-criticised butterfly-switched keyboard was replaced by new keyboards with a scissor mechanism, and the old inverted ’T’ shape for the arrow keys returned. It got a very significant processor upgrade, and a faster graphics performance too. Storage was increased, and if you go for the cheaper of the two models, the price is actually lower. Find out all about the new MacBook Airs on Page 16. Starting on Page 20, we take a look at the rest of the…

1 Navigation Controls: These two arrow control buttons enable you to move back and forth between current and previously viewed web pages. 2 Toolbar Buttons: These buttons give you access to various Safari features. You can add or remove buttons by right-clicking or CTRL-clicking on the toolbar and selecting Customize Toolbar. See the section on Customising the Sierra Finder for more information. 3 URL Bar: Enter the website address of your choice or a search term that you wish to look up into this bar, then tap the Return key. 4 Reload Page: Sometimes, if a web page fails to load properly, you can fix the problem by clicking on this button and reloading the current page. 5 Share Button: Click on this 5button to see your options for sharing the…

1 Open the TV app, and click on the Account menu in the top bar. If you’re not signed into your Apple account, select Sign In and enter your Apple ID and Password in the fields provided, then click the Sign In button below them. 2 Look at the tabs at the top of the window. Watch Now is the TV app’s front page, showing movies and TV shows you’ve previously bought alongside those available to buy or rent from the app. Scroll up for more suggestions. 3 The Films and TV Programmes tabs take you to movies, and TV shows respectively, available to buy and/or rent. TV shows can be bought individually or on a per-series basis; scroll up for available episodes. 4 The Kids tab is, unsurprisingly, for children’s programmes. Again, click…

Finding Places with Maps 1 To find your current location, click the arrow icon left of the search field. The map zooms to your current whereabouts. To search for a specific location, type the address, postcode or zip code or road name into the search field. Possible matches are shown as you type. 2 You can search for a business by entering the business name or type, for example ‘pizza delivery’, into the search field. Pins appear on the map indicating all matching businesses in the area. To get more information, click on a pin, then on the ‘i’ button next to the name. 3 To change the view, click one of the options at the top of the pane. The options are: Map, which displays a simple graphical map; Public Transport, which…

The People Tab 1 The Find My app is divided into two sections, represented by tabs at the top of the sidebar; People and Devices. Unsurprisingly, the People tab is for finding friends and family who are sharing their locations. If it isn’t already selected, tap it. 2 To start sharing your location with friends or family members, tap the Share My Location link at the foot of the sidebar. You should then enter the name, Apple ID email, or phone number of the person with which you want to share locations. 3 As is usual, you can tap the + sign to the right and select a person from your Contacts app. Add as many people as you wish, and tap the Send link. Then you can choose whether to share for…