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1 Your first step is to choose your territory, that is, where you live and will be using your Mac. You can scroll the list of countries up and down to find your own, or start to type it to get there quicker. Click your country to highlight your choice, then click Continue. 2 Now select your language and input source. The default ones for your chosen territory are offered, but if you want to change them, click Customise Settings and set the language your Mac uses and the keyboard layout to suit your needs. 3 Now choose your Wi-Fi network. Scroll up and down the list until you find your router’s SSID (service set identifier) and click on it. Enter the password in the field provided and move on.…

Connected Mac 1 Make sure that your Mac is within range of your wireless router’s Wi-Fi signal, then click on the Command Centre icon in the upper-right of the desktop (next to Siri). If the Wi-Fi is indicating it’s off, click the icon to switch it on. 2 Within the Wi-Fi icon you’ll see the option for Other Networks, click this to list the currently scanned and available Wi-Fi networks. Click your Wi-Fi network and enter your access password. Consult your router/ISP for the Wi-Fi password. 3 Ensure that the Remember this network option is ticked, so you don’t have to keep entering the password every time you boot your Mac. When the Wi-Fi is connected, you’ll notice the radar-like icon on the menu bar at the top of the…

While this may not seem to make to much sense, it’s really quite a clever move on the part of Apple. All you need to do to view any notifications is to click on the Date and Time in the top-right of the desktop. If there are any, then they’ll appear at the top of the slide-in area that appears from the right-side of the screen. Notifications are grouped together depending on the app they’re coming from. For example, the News app will display notifications based on what news channels you’ve decided to have alert you. If you click on a notification in the group, the rest expand so you can see all the available notifications of that group. And clicking on a notification, whether it’s from the Messages app,…

Setting Up Your iCloud Email 1 If you set up your Apple ID during your Mac’s initial setup, or if you signed in with an existing Apple ID, your iCloud email account is already in place. But if not, or if you want to add another iCloud email account to your Mail client, follow these instructions. 2 Open the Mail application from the Dock and then under the Mail drop-down menu found in the left of the menu bar, click on the Add Account… link. From the pop-up menu that appears, select the iCloud link and then click on the Continue button. 3 Now enter the Apple ID for the iCloud email account you want to add to your Mail app, and then the password. When you have confirmed your…

Add a bookmark for a site by clicking on the Sharing icon and selecting Add Bookmark. You can also use the Add Bookmark option from the Bookmarks pull-down menu or press CMD-D. You can access your bookmarks by using the Bookmarks pull-down menu. Click on one of the listed sites to open it in the current window. Bookmarks can be arranged into folders, thus grouping similar sites. Click on Bookmarks and select Edit Bookmarks. From here, you can edit the names of bookmarks by right-clicking, arrange them into folders (see the New Folder button) and delete them by dragging into Trash.…

1 Before you can make use of the Home app, you have to add HomeKit compatible devices. You can only do this from an iOS device, you can’t use your Mac. There’s a list of HomeKit compatible devices online at www.apple.co/2MFjhb3. 2 When you’ve added one or more devices using your iOS device, you can access them through Home on the Mac. Right-click on a device’s window and select Settings and you can change the room they’re assigned to. 3 Click the Automation tab and you can set timers, actions and more. What they do depends on what kit you’ve incorporated into your Home app. Click the + icon to add automations or groups of automations (scenes). 4 For example, you can use the Home app to control and configure…

The Editing Tools 1 You can edit an open photo. Use the Wand tool to automatically enhance your pic or click the Edit button to make manual adjustments. In Editing Mode, the Edit button changes to ‘Done’. Click this when you’ve finished your edits. 2 Click a triangle in the sidebar to open a tool. The Light, Colour and Black & White tools give you sliders to increase or reduce the brightness and saturation or switch to a monochrome image. Click the Options triangles for more advanced tools. 3 Retouch removes unwanted objects from a picture. Click the brush, then click and drag to paint over the object. Let go and it’s removed. Red Eye lets you paint out red pupils caused by camera flash. You can adjust the brush…

Changing the View 1 There are several ways to view your calendars and switching between these viewing options is simple. To move between Day, Week, Month and Year views, you use the corresponding buttons that appear in the top bar of the Calendar application. 2 The Year view shows you a complete year in a single window. Clicking on the title bar for any month takes you to the Month view for that month. Double-click on a specific day in either Year, Week or Month view to open that day’s page in the Calendar app. 3 Click the Calendars button (top left) to open and close the sidebar, as shown here. This sidebar is visible regardless of whether you’re in Day, Week, Month or Year view and lets you mute…

Setting Up Messages 1 When you first open Messages, you might need to sign in with your Apple ID. If you’re not asked to do so, you’re already signed in. Open Messages and select Preferences from the Messages menu in the top bar. Alternatively, press CMD-comma on your keyboard. Either way, the Preferences window appears. 2 Click the iMessage tab and ensure that the email address associated with your Apple ID is enabled. If it isn’t, click the Sign in button and enter your Apple ID and password. You can set more than one email address and phone number if you wish, so messages sent to any of these addresses or numbers are received on your Mac. 3 Once you’re signed in, click back to the General tab and 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 ‘Fast Food’, 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 any relevant information that accompanies it. 3 To change the view, click the map icon at the top of the pane. The options are: Map, which displays a simple graphical map; Public Transport,…

Install Applications. When you’ve found an application on the App Store that you want to install, click on its icon to open the details page. To install the app, simply click the price button under the app’s title, followed by the Install button that replaces it, then input your Apple ID. Redeem/Add Funds. In the App Store, if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, you see two buttons: Redeem and Add Funds to Apple ID. The Redeem button is for adding the value of an iTunes gift card to your account. Add Funds to Apple ID lets you pay money in by other means. Auto App Updates. You can update your apps in the background, removing the need to check for app updates manually. To…

Mission Control 1 To activate Mission Control, swipe upwards with three fingers on a trackpad or tap the F3 key on your keyboard. This is unchanged from previous versions of the Mac’s operating system, unless you’ve modified the gesture settings yourself. 2 Unlike pre-Sierra versions of Mission Control, open windows are presented in a single layer instead of being stacked according to which application produced them. Click on a window to bring its app to the fore. 3 You can open a document or app in full screen from Mission Control simply by dragging its window upwards, onto the strip showing the desktops. You can also create a new desktop space by clicking the plus sign, whether this Spaces bar is open or not. 4 You can still use the…

Wi-Fi Instant Hotspot 1 Instant Hotspot’s system requirements are stringent. A Mac must be mid-2012 or newer and running Yosemite or later. To find out when your Mac was made, click on the Apple icon in the top left and select About This Mac. An iOS device must be an iPhone 5 or later, iPad (4th gen) or later, an iPod touch (5th gen) or later or any iPad mini. 2 Make sure your Mac and all the devices you want to use with Instant Hotspot are signed into the same iCloud account. On an iPadOS or iOS device, go to Settings > [Your Name] > iCloud and on a Mac, open System Preferences (under the Apple menu, top left corner or from the Dock) and click on Apple ID…

1 The App Switcher is easy to use. Hold the CMD key and press Tab. A window showing the icons of all your open apps is displayed. 2 You can toggle through these apps by repeatedly pressing the Tab key and releasing CMD when you’ve highlighted the app you want. 3 You can move forwards or backwards through the list of open apps using the arrow keys at the bottom right of your keyboard. 4 You can also click on an app icon with your mouse pointer. Once you’re used to App Switcher, you’ll wonder how you did without it.…

Setting Up Siri 1 You might have activated Siri during the set up procedure. If not, under the Apple menu, select System Preferences. Click on Siri in the bottom row. If it isn’t already ticked, click on Enable Siri, on the left. If you want Siri in the menu bar, check that box too. 2 You can change the language that Siri understands and also speaks in using the pull-down menu. You can also change the English language voice from a British male to a female voice and a different accent, and set up a keyboard shortcut for Siri if you wish. 3 To launch Siri, click on the icon in the Dock, click on the menu bar icon if you’ve opted for one or press the keyboard shortcut, again…

Into the 4th Dimension 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…

Displaying a Finder Window There are several ways of opening a new Finder window on your Mac’s desktop. Let’s take a look at each in turn. Using Menus Click a clear space on the desktop once, open the File menu and select New Finder Window. A window then appears. Shortcut Keys Click a clear space on the desktop once to make sure you’re in Finder, then press the CMD and N together. A new Finder window appears. Using the Dock If it isn’t already displayed, move your mouse cursor to the bottom of the screen to open the Dock. Click the Finder Window to create a new window. How to Relaunch Finder If the Finder has crashed or isn’t behaving as it should, follow this tip to close it like…

Arranging Your Widgets 1 Every aspect of controlling your widgets comes from the Edit Widgets button. You’ll find this at the bottom of the widgets area. Simply click on the date/time function, then move the mouse to the bottom of the widget area that’s slid-in from the left-hand side of the desktop. Click Edit Widgets when you see it. 2 The Edit Widgets display is split into three panels: the left-hand panel is made up of the available widgets, as well as a Search box to locate additional widgets as they’re developed. The middle panel shows a collection of the widgets and what they’ll look like, as well as your main interaction with adding new widgets. And the right-hand panel is where you’ll be able to rearrange any current widgets…

The Mac App Store The Apple Mac Store is an impressive market place of apps, that have been registered and cleared with Apple to run on your Mac without any hint of anything unwarranted – such as malware. But it doesn’t have everything on offer. There are times when you may need to go outside the Mac App Store in order to get hold of a vital app, and this is where the confusion often arises. Beyond the Mac App Store you’ll find all manner of different kinds of apps and these are often packaged differently depending on the developer. You can find DMG files with apps inside them, PKG installers and even Zip archives with applications inside. Let’s keep things simple to begin with and start with the Mac…

Signing Up for Apple Music 1 With an Apple Music account, you can stream from 70 million songs for a set monthly fee. To sign up for an account, click on Listen Now in the left-hand sidebar. You can then click Try it For Free to learn about and sign up to the service. 2 A pop-up window appears inviting you to subscribe as an individual, for £9.99/$9.99/9.99 € after your free trial. Click Try it For Free to do so, or See All Plans to choose a Family or Student account 3 You must then sign using to your Apple ID. Enter your Apple ID’s email address, then your password, and then click Sign In to proceed to the next step. If you’ve forgotten your details, click the Forgot…

Setting Up Books 1 Launch the Books app and click on Get Started. You’re asked to sign in using your Apple ID. 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 Previous macOS users will note that the interface of the Books app has changed slightly. For one, there’s no longer the iCloud icon in the upper-right of the screen to begin downloading a book. Books now operates…

The Touch Bar Explained Touch Bar Behaviour System Functions: When in the Finder, the Touch Bar shows the regular function keys we’re already used to, such as media controls and keyboard brightness. Website Touch Bar: When you’re using a website, the Touch Bar gives you back buttons, a search field and more. The perfect tools for the job you’re currently doing. Touch ID: On the extreme right of the Touch Bar is a fingerprint scanner. This can read your fingerprint to unlock your Mac, or for the Apple Pay payments service. Safari Touch Bar: When you open Safari, the Touch Bar gives you buttons for your favourite websites. Slide along it to scroll for even more website buttons. Messages Touch Bar: Switch to Messages and your most recently used emoticons…

Terminal Velocity Before we begin to look at some Terminal commands it’s worth a quick look at what exactly the Terminal is. The macOS Terminal or Terminal Emulator to be exact, is a shell that enables you to gain text-based access to the operating system. Since macOS is a UNIX-based operating system, the Terminal will open a command-line interface where you can enter UNIX commands, create automated scripts and much more. It can be daunting to those new to a command line and within it you could potentially crash the entire system but with care you can also unlock a whole new world of control beyond the eye-catching graphics of the desktop. 1 To find the Terminal app, open LaunchPad and look to the Other icon – which is a…

1 To use the Universal Clipboard feature, the devices in question must be logged into the same iCloud account. If they’re yours, they probably already are but if you have trouble using this tutorial, it might be worth checking. 2 Now you can copy and paste a piece of text from one device to another, quickly and easily. On your Mac, simply copy it to your clipboard by highlighting the text in question, then pressing either CMD-X to cut it or CMD-C to copy. 3 Now, on your iOS device, double tap on the place where you want to paste the text you cut or copied on your Mac. From the pop-up menu, select Paste and it appears. There might be a slight lag while the text uploaded to iCloud.…

1 Get used to using Spotlight for better searching. Just press the Command + Spacebar to bring up the Spotlight search box and look for anything from files and folder to how many centimetres it is to Pluto and back. 2 You can quickly switch between open apps by pressing Command + Tab, then keeping hold of Command and tapping the Tab key to cycle through the currently available apps. 3 Hot Corners are the physical corners of the desktop, that can be customised to perform certain tasks when your mouse hovers over them. Go to System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners to set them up. 4 To quickly hide a window on the desktop press the Command + H keys. You can easily get it back by…

Siri. Siri is Apple’s personal digital assistant and you can use it on your Mac. Just click on this icon and a Siri window opens. See the Siri tutorial for more information on how to use this feature. Date, Time, Notifications & Widgets. Click on the time here and to open the Notifications and Widgets sidebar. If you go into System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar and click the Clock option in the sidebar, you can set how the date and time are displayed here.…

The Apple Menu Contextual Menu Files and folders have a Contextual Menu that you can access by right-clicking or CTRL-clicking on the item. This menu gives you a range of options, including renaming the file, move it to trash, duplicate or copy it, share it using the macOS Share options discussed later in the book and more. The Get Info option brings up a useful information window. Application Menus Each application has its own unique set of menus located next to the Apple menu. They will change when an application is active and will revert back to the Finder menu when no apps are active. Each is clearly labelled to make it easier. We’ll add specific details for application menus when we look into the applications themselves later.…

1 You can view a Finder window and indeed an application window, in full-screen mode. Click on the green Enlarge button in the upper left corner of the window and it will give you the option to expand to fill the entire screen. Alternatively, use the View pull-down menu or press CTRL-CMD-F. 2 In full-screen mode, the menus usually found at the top of the Mac desktop are still there but they’re hidden away until you need them. To see them, move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen and the menu bar slides into view. 3 To exit from full-screen mode back to the usual window view, bring up the Menu bar and then simply click on the green button again. The window shrinks to its previous…

Accessing Your Applications from the Dock Add or Remove an Application To add an app, first click the icon filled with multicoloured boxes on the left-hand side of the Dock to bring up Launchpad. Then, click and drag the item you want onto the Dock. To remove it, just drag it out. Move an Application To move an item to a new location in the Dock, click and drag to the required position. As you move the item the adjacent applications will move aside to allow you to drop the icon into its intended place. Open an Application To open an application that’s in your Dock, simply move the mouse pointer onto the Dock and click on its icon. Notice that the app icon slightly bounces as the application opens…

Using Spotlight’s Features 1 To start using Spotlight, press CMD and the space bar or click the magnifying glass in the top menu and the Spotlight Search window appears. In Big Sur, as with macOS Catalina, you can drag this window to wherever you want on the screen; it’s not fixed in position. 2 Start typing your search query into Spotlight and immediately answers appear, with suggestions based on the contents of your computer as well as other sources. This may mean you only have to type a few letters of your search term to find what you’re looking for. 3 Spotlight can do instant unit conversions for you. For example, if you want to convert from imperial to metric weights (or vice versa) you just type in the number…

Full Screen. Browse in full-screen mode by clicking on the green gumdrop in the top left corner, selecting Enter Full Screen in the View menu or pressing Ctrl-CMD-F. To go back to regular browsing, repeat any of these options. Open Tabs. Start to type the address of a website that’s already open in a different tab and Safari offers that open tab as a suggestion. Set New Home Page 1 Open a new Safari window and navigate to the web page that you want Safari to load each time you launch the app. Click the Safari menu (top left corner), then select Preferences to display Safari’s preferences dialog box. 2 Ensure the General tab is selected and press the Set to Current Page button. A small window will likely pop…

Updated Classic Layout. To use the old-school, column-based layout, in the View menu, select Use Column Layout. Repeat this step to revert to the modern layout. Sending a New Email 1 Here we show you how to open a new, blank email, write a message and send it to a given email address using the Mac’s Mail app. To send a new email, click on the button in the top left corner of the screen, with a picture on it that looks like a pen writing on paper. 2 To send someone an email, type their email address into the box marked To:. To also send it to someone else, add their email address in the Cc: box. Add multiple email addresses in either box, separated by commas, to send…

1 When you first open the News app, you see a sidebar and a main window. The sidebar’s Today option is selected, giving you a range of the day’s top stories. Click on a story to open it and read it in full. 2 When you open a news story, if it has a video it can be watched within the News app. In the File menu, there’s an option to open the story in Safari. This takes you to the web page from which the story was drawn. 3 The Spotlight option gives you a selection of features chosen by Apple’s editors. If you find a story you particularly like or dislike, choose the Suggest More or Fewer Stories Like this in the File menu to improve future suggestions.…

Managing and Maintaining Contacts 1 This guide shows you to how to add new contacts to your Contacts address book, edit existing ones and share a completed contact card with other people. To create a new contact card, click on the plus button in the bottom left of the current card. Select New Contact from the window that pops up and you’re given a blank card to fill in. 2 To add details, click on the field and then type in the information. After entering a phone number or address, another blank is offered, in case you want to add a second one. Click on the name of the detail (in blue) for a pop-up window that lets you change it. When you’re finished, click Done. To change or add…

Creating and Using Reminders 1 To create a new list, click the Add List link in the bottom left. Add a title for your list. Double click on its icon in the sidebar to edit its title and then by clicking the Edit label in the icon you can select from a range of specific icons and colours. 2 To add a reminder to a list, click the Plus button (top right). Add a name and, if you wish, tap the ‘i’ icon next to it to: add notes, a URL or a flag, set a priority as low, medium or high and more. When you’ve carried out the task, tap the circle to its left to check and dismiss it. 3 To schedule a reminder, click it, tap the…

Social Distancing Contact The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the way in which we work and contact each other for generations to come. It’s the single most devastating blow to global civilisation in living memory and there’s a chance it’s going to be with us forever. Thankfully, with our modern levels of technology we can still get access to the things that mean the most to us; our family, our friends and our work. We can do all of this through the power of video communications. Indeed, since the governments of the world announced lockdown measures, video communications has taken on a new cultural significance. Social Isolation The pandemic, in some ways, brought forward the problems of social isolation to more people than ever before. Prior to lockdown, social isolation was…

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 Font. To attach an image, simply drag it onto the note. 3 To search notes, use the search icon (the magnifying glass) in the top right. Searches cover all…

1 To use Split View mode, first open an app you want to use as a split-screen app. Here we’ve chosen Safari but any app that’s compatible will do. Just open the app window; there’s no need to open it as a full screen. 2 Click on the window’s top bar and drag it upwards, onto the menu bar. A strip appears, offering the current desktop image and a receptacle for the app you’re dragging. Drop the window onto the plus sign to make it a full screen app. 3 Go back to the desktop and open the second app you wish to use as a full-screen app in Split View mode. Here we’re using Apple’s own Pages word processor app, though once again, you can use almost any app…

A afconvert – Used to convert audio files. afinfo – Can display information of an audio file. afplay – Can play an audio file. alias – Used to create alias commands. For example, the clear command can be aliased to CLS. awk – Used to find and replace text within a file or files. B basename – Can be used to convert a full pathname to a single filename bash – A different type of Shell, the Bourne-Again SHell. bg – Send a process to the background. break – Used to exit from a For, While, Until or Select command loop within a script. bzip2 – A compression tool to compress or decompress files and folders. C caffeinate – Used to prevent the system from going into Sleep mode. cal…

1 On your Mac, open the document you wish to import a photo into, or start a new one. Right-click where you want it to appear, select Import from iPhone or iPad, then Take Photo on whichever device you’re using. Devices only appear here if they’re on the same Apple ID as your Mac. 2 Switch to the device you chose to take the photo from. The Camera app should already be open, so take a photo. You get fewer options in the Camera app than usual. When you’ve taken your snap, you can discard it or use it; make your choice from the links at the bottom of the screen. 3 The photo instantly appears on your Mac, in the application you chose to import it to. You can…

Storing Your Documents in iCloud 1 Click on your desktop to open Finder, then open iCloud Drive from the Go menu. You may need to log into iCloud using your Apple ID. You’ll see a Finder window showing the contents of your iCloud drive folder, with folders for some apps that store output in iCloud. 2 To save files of any type into your iCloud Drive folder, simply drag them from their current location (in this screenshot, that’s the desktop) and drop them in the open iCloud window. They are now stored remotely and accessible from any connected Apple device. 3 You can organise your iCloud folder like any other folder, including creating new folders within it. To move files into a new folder in your iCloud Drive, just drag…

“New line” Move to the next line “New paragraph” Start a new paragraph “All caps” Make the next word all uppercase “All caps on … all caps off” Make part of what you say uppercase “No caps” Make the next word lowercase “No caps on … no caps off” Make sure part of what you say is all lowercase “Space bar” Prevent a hyphen from appearing in a normally hyphenated word . “Period” , “Comma” ’ “Apostrophe” ! “Exclamation mark” ? “Question mark” & “Ampersand” * “Asterisk” ( “Open parenthesis” ) “Close parenthesis” [ “Open bracket” ] “Close bracket” { “Open brace” } “Close brace” - “Dash” - “Hyphen” ? “Em dash” % “Percent sign” © “Copyright sign” ® “Registered sign” § “Section sign” $ “Dollar sign” ¢ “Cent sign”…

Finder Shortcuts These shortcuts are available when you’re using Mojave’s Finder features, like windows and folders. Command + [………………………… Go to the previous folder Command +] ………………………… Go to the next folder Command + ↑ ………………………Navigate up one level Command + ↓ ……………………… Navigate down one level Command + Double click …… Open selected folder in a new tab Command + Tab …………………… Cycle forward through your opened applications Command + Shift + Tab ……… Cycle backward through your opened applications Space ……………………………………… Launch Quick Look Command + A ……………………… Select all items in Finder Command + Option + A ……… Deselect any selected items Command + N ……………………… Open new Finder window Command + Shift + K …………… Open Network window Command + I ………………………… Get info on an…

Why did you opt to purchase a Mac? There may well be many reasons but often chief among them is quality. Macs are the most robust and cleverly designed computers ever manufactured. Their complexity doesn’t stop at their aesthetic design but also includes the millions of lines of code that come together to bring you the stable and powerful operating system that is Big Sur. However, no computer is one hundred percent perfect. No matter how well designed, computers contain parts that will undoubtedly break and code that can become confused and freeze mid-way through your work. It’s a pain but when you consider the early days of computing, where knocking the desk may have sent the 80s computer into a confused frenzy of ones and zeros, the modern Mac…