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We help you decide Quicktype disasters 10 famous quotes recreated Best apps for touch ID Top fingerprint-scanning apps Time-lapse videos Capture stunning video on iPhone Michael DeAgonia Don't believe everything you hear: the iPhone 6 Plus is not too big Karen Haslam By retaining the 16GB storage option Apple is handicapping what could be the majority of iOS devices Apple SIM How to change mobile network without swapping your SIM Subscriptions Getting the latest issue of Macworld delivered to your door can save you up to 64 percent on the cover price Buyers’ guide The best hardware and software products and buying advice Matt Egan Apple’s latest earning call tells us things are about to get interesting for the iPhone 4 MACWORLD « CHRISTMAS 2014 | (003_004 Contents Xmas.indd 4 1112014 16:01 | Give the gift of words this Christmas. Readly is the ultimate subscription with over 650 magazines available For one low monthly price. 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In Safari, clicking the URL bar to bring up a quick shortcut to my favourites is useful, as is the Tab View that shows thumbnails of all the tabs | have open. Thanks to Widgets Notification Centre is now useful, rather than annoying. There aren't many to choose from, but that will soon change. And separating out the Today view was a genius move. There are also some handy new things in Spotlight, such as the ability to perform quick calculations and conversions. Calendar is a little more intelligent, autocompleting attendees if you create a regular event. There's also a lot more space for editing existing events. Markup in Mail is useful, but Mail Drop more so. Paired with iCloud Drive, | will use Dropbox less and less. And Yosemite just looks nicer than Mavericks. Some people don't like the new iOS-style icons, but | do. Also in Yosemite's favour is the fact it is free and runs on seven-year-old Macs — although older machines won't be able to access all the new features. In the run up to the Yosemite launch | was enthusiastic about the promised Continuity features that would bring closer together the iPhone, iPad and Mac and make it easier to work with — and switch between — all your Apple devices. Unfortunately, | was disappointed — at least initially: | had some issues getting In general I've hada good experience with Yosemite, and it’s destined to get better these features to work. For a while | felt like a beta tester trying to get AirDrop and HandOff to function as expected. But the issues seemed to rectify themselves, and finally able to use these features | found some proved revolutionary. Like other users, I've also been experiencing Wi-Fi issues. Apple is said to be working on an update to Yosemite that will resolve this issue. There's another issue, too. A hacker with a Swedish security firm claims to have discovered in Yosemite a serious security hole that could grant an attacker root access to your machine. His advice for now is to use FileVault and avoid running your Mac from an admin account. Apple has said nothing on the matter, but is likely at work on a fix. As annoying as these issues are, though, in general I've had a good experience with Yosemite, and it’s one that's destined to only get better. It's just frustrating that Apple didn’t see fit to iron out Yosemite's kinks prior to the operating system's launch. sanveoia 12:14 | Announcing EazyDraw Version 7 for Yosemite Vector Drawing App for Mac Effulgent on Retina Dipl Icons Illustrations Text Layout Ww. ; Soe Logo Design "Rg gw tree ec Web Graphics re For Crass) Charts & Diagrams Cree Technical Drawings 12/11/2014 11:05 News Record Mac sales outstrip iPad revenue 5.5 million Macs sold in the last quarter by Apple as sales jump 21 percent year on year BY GREGG KEIZER pple said that it sold a record 5.5 million Macs in the September quarter, boosting sales by 21 percent year on year as lean times continued for the overall personal computer sector. The previous Mac record of 5.2 million sales was set three years ago. The ensuing $6.6bn in Mac revenues in the quarter was the highest ever, and accounted for 16 percent of Apple’s total revenue of $42.1bn — the highest since the September quarter of 2011. Apple credited strong back-to-school sales for the numbers. “The back-to-school season voted, and the Mac won and carried the day,” CEO Tim Cook told Wall Street. Apple's Mac sales surge caught analysts short, beating the forecasts of every single one of nearly three dozen Wall Street analysts polled by Fortune. Mac unit sales were only 7 percent of total personal computer shipments for the period, according to market research company IDC. However, the Mac's sales growth was higher than the overall average — by a huge margin. In October, IDC and Gartner had respectively forecast the industry would lose 1.7- and 0.5 percent year on year. It was the third consecutive quarter in which Apple set sales records, and the fourth straight quarter of yeat-on- year gains. This is no coincidence since the comparative quarters were the four during which Mac sales contracted: Q4 2012 through Q3 2013. Still, Apple's one-year Cannibal computing Devices like the MacBook Air may have taken some iPad sales away retrenchment has been much shorter than the overall market's, which by IDC’s estimate has seen 10 quarters of decline. The ASP, or average selling price, of the Mac line fell 4 percent quarter-on- quarter. The slip in ASP indicates a further tip toward lower-priced Macs. Apple has priced its personal computers aggressively this year, and also ran its usual back-to-school promotion this summer. If sales of the new £1,999 5K Retina iMac take off, the ASP could again climb, although most analysts believe it will sell only in small quantities. The Mac's sales onslaught may have come, at least in part, from customers choosing a traditional personal computer — particularly the light, thin MacBook Air notebook — rather than an iPad. Apple reported iPad sales of 12.3 million, down 12.5 percent year on year and 7 percent lower than the June quarter, giving a third consecutive quarter of unit sales shrinkage. In fact, the Mac beat the iPad in both revenue and percentage of total company revenue for the first time since the March quarter of 2011. Mac revenue was 25 percent higher than iPad revenue during the September quarter. A year ago, the roles were reversed, when the iPad brought in 10 percent more revenue than the Mac. Cook, however, said he was fine with Apple eating itself: “I'm sure that some people looked at a Mac and an iPad and decided on a Mac, and I'm fine with that, by the way. I'm sure that some people will look at an iPad and an iPhone and decide just to get an iPhone, and I'm fine with that as well.” iPad revenue should jump past the Mac in the final quarter of 2014. The tablet is much more seasonally sensitive than the Mac. Last year, for example, fourth- quarter sales of the iPad jumped 85 percent over the previous period, while Mac sales rose by 6 percent sequentially. After the quarter closed Apple introduced new iPads, including the Air 2 and mini 3, and cut the price of older models by £80, so sales figures are likely to look a lot different in the fourth quarter. ( MacBook Air 8 MACWORLD - CHRISTMAS 2014 | (008.011 News.indd 8 sanveo1a 1000 | | Office for Mac update promised for 2015 Long awaited update coming next year, but Outlook upgrade is here already BY MARK HACHMAN t's been four long years since the release of the last version of Office for Mac, and it will be one more before the next version arrives, Microsoft has revealed But to tide customers over until then, there’s a new version of Outlook for Mac for Office 365 subscribers, plus new iPad and iPhone Office app versions. The Office app updates mean that iPad and iPhone users can now access and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on their devices without requiring an Office 365 subscription. Although Microsoft released the latest version of its email client on 31 October, followed by the new, free iOS apps on 6 November, the roadmap to the next version of Office is the real news. In the first half of 2015, Microsoft will release a public beta of Office for Mac, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The company said it would ship the final version in the second half of 2015. Current Office 365 subscribers will be able to upgrade for free, as expected, and Microsoft said it would ship a “perpetual licence of Office for Mac” (a standalone version) in the same timeframe. With Office 365 users still stuck using Office for Mac 2011, there has been little incentive to sign up for the suite other than for the excellent Office for iPad apps, OneDrive cloud storage, and free Skype calls. Microsoft issued an apology of sorts for the delay, noting that it had put the Mac on the backburner while it was developing mobile versions for the iPad and other platforms. “Following the release of Office 365 we made the conscious decision to prioritise mobile-first and cloud-first scenarios for an increasing number of people who are getting things done on the go more frequently,” Microsoft's Office team said in a blog post. “This meant delivering and continuing to improve Office on a variety of phones (iPhone, Windows Phone and Android) and tablets (iPad and Windows) — brought together by the cloud (OneDrive) to help people stay better organised and get things done with greater efficiency at work, school, home and everywhere between.” Fix for Yosemite’s Wi-Fi failings prioritised Apple puts solution for Wi-Fi issues experienced by customers using OS X 10.10 at top of update agenda BY GREGG KEIZER pple has told developers that the first update to OS X Yosemite will include changes to Wi-Fi, a hopeful sign for customers who have reported that the new OS has crippled their internet connections. Yosemite 1010.1, which was seeded to registered developers on 4 November, will include changes to Notification Center and Wi-Fi. The discussion forums on Apple's support site have continued to accumulate large numbers of messages from users who say their Wi-Fi | (008_011 News.indd 9 connections haven't worked reliably since they upgraded to Yosemite. Reports of connectivity issues cropped up within hours of Apple releasing Yosemite on 16 October, and have continued to pour in since. Some users have had success implementing one or more of the seemingly endless suggestions that have piled up on the thread, others on Apple's support site and on third-party blogs. Turning Bluetooth off on nearby Macs and iOS devices has worked for some but not all. Others reported having Wi-Fi connectivity problems with OS X Mavericks as well, but that installing Yosemite had greatly aggravated them. As of 3 November, Yosemite was powering about one in five Macs, an update rate that surpassed last year’s Mavericks in first-month adoption speed, analytics company Net Applications has said. CHRISTMAS 2014 « MACWORLD 9 sanveo1a 1000 | | News Digital wallets make way for Apple Pay Mobile payments service off to flying start as CEO reveals subscriber figure within first three days of launch BY JARED NEWMAN pple rarely reveals major news at other companies’ conferences, but Tim Cook's appearance at WSJD Live was noteworthy for some intriguing snippets he let slip. Apple’s CEO used the conference to hint at future plans, give status reports on current products and explain the company’s overall strategy. He announced that within the first 72 hours of the Apple Pay launch in October, customers had activated one million credit cards for the mobile payments service. While that might sound impressive, it's worth pointing out that Apple sold 39 million iPhones worldwide in the last quarter alone. Cook also revealed that the iPod Classic had been discontinued when the Apple Watch iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were unveiled because the company could no longer get hold of parts for it. Despite Cook’s enthusiastic comments about television in the past, he shied away from saying that Apple is working to improve the current TV experience, which could suggest that Apple is still struggling to strike deals with content providers. Privacy was mentioned during the talk, with several Jabs aimed at Google — “We're not Big Brother,” said Cook. “We'll leave that to others.” He added that Apple is working on a “Fort Knox kind of thing” to enhance privacy, but didn’t go into any further detail. Nor did he reveal the release date of Apple Watch, just reiterating that it will probably need to be charged up every day. launch timing pushed back VP's leaked video message to staff rules out launch date before Chinese New Year BY CAITLIN MCGARRY he release date for Apple Watch T may still be under wraps but January and February are now out of the running for the “early 2015” time frame Apple had been suggesting. Angela Ahrendts, the company’s senior VP of retail and online stores, told employees in video remarks that the watch will appear after Chinese New Year on 19 February. Website 9To5Mac obtained a manuscript of the message, in which Ahrendts said app developers on board. If Apple Watch is to be a hit, it will need amazing apps on launch day. The company is looking for an Apple Watch evangelist, according to a job listing posted at the end of October. Apple is also looking for an iOS app development expert to help third-party developers build Apple Watch apps. the next few months will be a “marathon” for Apple Store workers: first, the holiday rush, then Chinese New Year, then the Apple Watch release in spring. A Valentine's Day release had been rumoured, but Apple is still working to get 40 MACWORLD + CHRISTMAS 2014 | (008.011 News.indd 10 Duties include crafting presentations for the Worldwide Developers Conference, so it looks like we might be seeing plenty of Apple Watch next June. Apple won't ship a product without a robust app ecosystem, and that could be why the company won't confirm a release date. If Apple is still looking for a point person to guide developers and offer them resources, then the Apple (Watch launch might happen later in 2015 than previously predicted. Meanwhile, according to a report from French Apple site Igen fr, the gold version of Apple Watch could cost $5,000, while the steel version could start at $500. The sports version already has an official price — $350. sanveo1a ro10 | | Troubled sapphire supplier settles GT Advanced Technologies blames Apple for many of the problems that led to its bankruptcy BY GREGG KEIZER T Advanced Technologies and Apple have reached a legal settlement over the breakdown of their partnership deal for the production of the sapphire glass used in the iPhone's camera lens and Touch ID fingerprint reader as well as the iPad and Apple Watch displays. The partnership, agreed last year, had committed GT, a producer of the furnaces used to generate the sapphire crystal, to produce the sapphire itself at an Apple- ‘owned facility in Arizona. Apple agreed to lend GT $578m to equip the factory. The deal unravelled because of cost overruns and production issues. GT filed for bankruptcy protection in October. The settlement has cut most ties between the two companies by terminating all previous contracts, and allows Apple to recoup the $439m it has already lent GT through the payment of a bounty on all sapphire furnaces produced by GT over the next four years, including those at the Arizona factory. The settlement had initially required GT to keep under wraps several filings with the bankruptcy court, including one that went into detail about the company's collapse, and ordered the destruction of most copies of the filing documents. It had been anticipated that those documents would tell GT’s side of the story and blame Apple for its problems. And indeed a revised summary filed by GT criticised Apple for ordering poorly performing sapphire- finishing equipment for the factory, for refusing to renegotiate payment for the sapphire when it proved impossible to meet Apple's timetable and spec, and for not equipping the factory with backup power — millions of dollars of production was lost through power interruptions. The bankruptcy court subsequently ordered that most of the sealed documents must be published. Apple CEO in gay pride revelation Company board backs Tim Cook's public proclamation of his sexual orientation BY CAITLIN MCGARRY pple CEO Tim Cook has published an essay in Bloomberg Businessweek revealing he is gay. He is the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company. A famously private man, Cook said he doesn't think of himself as an activist, but had decided to speak out to help others. “If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy,” Cook wrote. “Being gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day. It's | (008.011 News.indd 11 ys —N | made me more empathetic, which has led to a richer life. It's been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it has given me the confidence to be myself, to follow my own path, and to rise above adversity and bigotry. It’s also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you're the CEO of Apple.” Apple has opposed legislation seen as discriminatory toward the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) community. The company supports workplace equality legislation in its home state of California and earlier this year took a stand against Arizona legislation that would have allowed businesses to refuse service on the basis of religion. Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel said in a video accompanying the editorial that Apple’s board of directors supported Cook's decision to publicly announce that he’s gay. Cook said privacy remains important to him and that he will “continue to spend virtually all of my waking time focused on being the best CEO | can be”. CHRISTMAS 2014 - MACWORLD 11 44/11/2014 10:10 | HEADLINE FEATURES ARE ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT IT’S THE LITTLE UPDATES AND TWEAKS THAT CAN TURN USING A NEW VERSION OF y 4 MAC OS X INTO A JOYOUS EXPERIENCE. HERE WE LOOK AT SOME HIDDEN TRICKS, TIPS, HINTS AND HACKS THAT MIGHT JUST MAKE THE TRANSITION FROM MAVERICKS TO YOSEMITE A WHOLE LOT EASIER SE G6 OF mi am EES | Q. YOSOMTIG National Park — vorrei kro @ ‘petro Yosemite National Park 1 ay svat fetes acts Prsmsae Soest Toe peg te Manec? 4 Sticky Spotlight This might be a bug or it might be a feature but give it a try and see what you think. When using Spotlight in Yosemite, you can right-click (or Ctrl-click) the Spotlight icon at the top right of the desktop to make the window stay on top and not disappear when you click outside of it. This way you can grab as much info as you need without accidentally cancelling your search. The Spotlight icon will turn blue to indicate this new sticky mode (or grey if you use the Graphite colour scheme). Subsequently, the only way to make the Spotlight window disappear is to left-click the Spotlight icon. Or if that doesn’t work, Cmd-space again. Strangely, the Notifications icon at the top right will also turn blue if you right-click it, although the Notifications area will still disappear when you click outside of it. Intriguing! 42 MACWORLD « CHRISTMAS 2014 | | 012.02008x Yosemite Tpsinéa_ 12 2 Recording output Ever needed to create a tutorial or walkthrough for something on iOS? Or do you just fancy projecting your iPhone or iPad screen onto your Mac’s display? Previously the only way to do this was with complicated setups involving AirPlay mirroring and third-party software. With Yosemite all you need do is attach the device to your Mac via USB and then open QuickTime Player. Then select File + New Movie Recording. QuickTime will default to your Mac's iSight camera (if it has one), but click the small down arrow alongside the record button and your iPad or iPhone will show up. as an option. You haven't got to record anything, and can simply expand the QuickTime Player window to fullscreen for some cool game-play mirroring. You can also select the New Audio Recording option in QuickTime Player to record only audio on your phone or tablet microphone. Recording video/audio in this works only with Lightning connections and not the older iPod-style cables. ornwaor4 1528 | | 3 Import bookmarks Fancy switching to Safari? It’s one of the fastest browsers around nowadays and is a necessity if you want to use such features as Handoff and iCloud Tabs. Unfortunately, importing your bookmarks into Safari used to be a painful process that involved exporting them first from your existing browser as an HTML file. In Yosemite, Safari can now nip into the configuration files of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox and grab them automatically, making switching much easier. Just click the options on the File + Import From submenu. With Firefox, Safari can import bookmarks, history and passwords. For Chrome it can import only bookmarks and history. New Window New Private Window -36N eT #80 Lb ow Close All Windows X38W. l | 012.0290 Yosomte Tpsinas 19 Bookmarks HTML File... me Bon, Qi] zn [@) voce FE cescristions BB canon Hearing QW Ao Accessibilty Diewert eators (Use grayscale D)itirentite without calor increase contrast Display contrast: -—-————__— Nowra Maximum Cursor sit ———) ‘tear Luge Display resolution and brightness can he acsted in Cipla preferences: (Open ipiay Preferences Show Accesso atau menu bar O) 4 Fiat, flat, flat Flat is the all-encompassing mantra for interface designers at Apple right now. Not to your taste? Open System Preferences, click the Accessibility icon, then ensure Display is selected at the left. Put a check alongside the Increase Contrast option. The effects will be visible immediately, and this alternative look and feel goes back to the plain and simple appearance of very early releases of Mac OS from the 1980s. Plain colour wallpapers also might help if the translucency effect annoys you, and don't forget the Dark UI option under the General section of System Preferences. CHRISTMAS 2014 « MACWORLD 13 orr2014 1525 | | Features / 40 0s x YOSEMITE TIPS 5 Annotation extras The always useful Preview app has gained a number of annotation tools in Yosemite. To access the new tools, click the toolbox icon at the right of the toolbar, alongside the search field. The new tools are as follows: Sketch: The pen icon allows you to roughly draw a shape, which will then be autocorrected to its nearest canonical shape — draw a circle around something, for example, and it'll be converted toa perfect circle. A floating toolbar will appear briefly, offering you the opportunity to switch back to your rough sketch if you prefer. Note that this tool replaces the ability to hand-draw circles and squares. New shapes: Yosemite lets you add stars and polygons to images or documents in addition to straight-up rectangles and circles. Click the shapes icon and a drop- down list will appear. Shapes are now dropped onto the canvas and you can move them around by clicking and dragging. The blue handles on each shape allow resizing but there are smaller green handles too that let you adjust the shape or nature of the item. For example, dragging the green handle on a polygon will adjust how many sides it has, and even allow you to create triangles. Shaded mask: At the bottom left of the shapes drop-down list that appears when you click the shapes icon on the toolbar is the new mask tool. It lets you define an area of the image for highlighting. It does this by shading out the rest of the image. This is confusingly similar to how the crop tool on some image editors works, but is totally unrelated. Loupe: If you need to magnify an area of the image to get a clearer look at the detail, you can place a loupe at that spot. This tool lives at the bottom right of the shapes drop-down list, as mentioned above. You can place loupes over the top of each other to further magnify the image. Again, it might seem that this is simply a magnifying tool offered by Preview to help with editing, but each loupe you place is saved with the image, and other items can subsequently be placed over the top of them. The new tools in Preview are actually part of Yosemite's markup feature. They feature prominently within Mail and are used to annotate attachments (click the arrow at the top right of any image/ PDF mail attachment). However, markup is available system-wide, not just in Mail. This can be demonstrated by adding a picture to a TextEdit or Stickies document — the same markup option will appear at the top right of the image (although curiously the Notes app is an exception to this rule). 44 MACWORLD + CHRISTMAS 2014 | | 012.02008x Yosemite Tpsinéa 14 6 Network disconnect Want to disconnect from a wireless network? Before Yosemite appeared, doing this was a bit of a hassle, involving either switching off the Wi-Fi entirely or digging around in ‘System Preferences. On Yosemite all you need do is hold down Alt (or Option ‘on some keyboards) and click the Wi-Fi icon at the top right of the screen. Beneath the name of the currently in use Wi-Fi base station will be a Disconnect option. This option also appears when you connect to an iPhone/iPad via personal hotspot, although there's no need to hold down Alt/Option here because it appears in the main menu. Mon 27 Oct 1:36 pm 77% (4) Q Interface Name: ent Address: Open Wireless Diagnostics... 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Smart Search Flt: lela Spatght Suggestions Note that Spotlight now defaults to Microsoft Bing. Outside of (eee Show Favoritos a hack, yet to be discovered, there's no way to change this. CHRISTMAS 2014+ MACWORLD 45 | | 012.02008 x Yosemite Tpsinda_ 15 & ornwaora 1528 | | Features 41 Preview files Finder has always offered a preview pane as part of its columns view mode. As you might expect, this shows a preview of the file you have clicked on. In Yosemite the preview can now be activated in any view 40 OS X YOSEMITE TIPS, mode — icon, list, column or cover flow. To activate the preview window, click View + Show Preview. Alternatively, tap Shift-Cmd-P. Click the same button or hit the same keyboard combination to hide it again. oo Tasrsasar < a Pec one =<. UCU sane 3 ‘= a Ra me am cares —erauanog enemas cc = =m H a CEE cuore clots af i ow 412 Website update feeds —_ you want to add the site to Back in the old days, Safari had the ability to tune into news feeds (in other words, it was compatible with RSS/ Atom update feeds provided by some websites). Unfortunately, the feature was then pulled in OS X Mountain Lion. In Yosemite, though, it’s back, and integrated very neatly with the shared links feature that pulls links from your friends’ Twitter feeds. Just click on the RSS/Atom link on any web page and you will then be asked if your collection. To view shared links, click the Sidebar button on the Safari toolbar (next to the back/forward icons), and then click the @ icon. Regardless of their source, shared links are sorted by the date and time they were posted. To unsubscribe froma site, again click to show the sidebar in Safari, then click the @ icon, and click the Subscriptions button at the bottom. Click the X icon to the left of any site you want to remove. 46 MACWORLD « CHRISTMAS 2014 l | 012.029008 x vosomte Tpsinas 16 Orange a Appearance J} ro buton, Mens an Widows and Dock Som Graphite Sidebarieon size moter. P Highlight color v Show ecrol bars: © Automatically based on mouse ot trackpad When seroling Aways Click in tho scrol bar to: © Jump to the next page Jump to the spot that's clicked Default wee browser: @ Sates B ‘Ask to keep changes when closing documents Close windows when quitting an app \ineneslected, open documents and windows wil oct be featres hon you -open an opp Fecentitems: (& J) Documents, Apps and Servers Use LCD font amocthing when available 43 Brown and pink in your highlight rainbow Okay, so this is a really small detail, but it's one worth knowing if you like to truly personalise your Mac's interface. Open System Preferences, click the General icon, then look under the Highlight Color drop-down list. You'll find Brown and Pink have been added as options in Yosemite. The colour formerly known as Gold has also been renamed Yellow, and most colours are a touch duller than previously. All that glitters... 14 Auto updates Open System Preferences, Previously OS X Mavericks let you automatically download major point releases of OS X but would not install them unless you first manually authorised it. However, security updates could be installed in the background without your knowledge. In Yosemite auto installation of all updates is now possible, including third-party apps. click the App Store button, and put a check alongside Install OS X Updates. Incidentally, if you ever want to view how many updates are pending, just click the Apple menu at the top left of the desktop, where the number will be listed alongside the App Store entry on the menu. If there are no updates, then no number will be shown. @eo < CA) Tre App Sov kagp 08 X and appa ‘@ Automatically check for updates: © install app updates: install OS X updates ‘Automatically download apps purchased on other Macs Last check was Monday, 27 Ootober App Store ‘available updates inthe background od when the updates ae ready to be nstaled install eystem data les and security updates from the App Store up to date 2014 Chock Now orr2014 1525 | | 15 Get Java Considering the security risks presented by the Java Runtime add-on, Apple has perhaps wisely removed it entirely from Yosemite — even if you already had it installed in Mavericks. However, this decision stops certain apps from running. And there's a twist in the tail because simply installing the latest Java release from Oracle might not provide the solution to getting those apps going again. Minecraft and Adobe Photoshop CSS are just two apps that require Apple's version of Java, even though itis a little ancient. The solution is to ins' versions, and the two can exi: Apple’s Java can be found tall both Apple and Oracle’s st side by side in harmony. and installed via tinyurl.com/ b7u53tm, while Oracle’s up-to-date version of Java can be found at tinyurl.com/nktmxxe (download the JRE version). Java for OS X 2014-001 <a 47 The great dictator A dictation feature has been in OS X for a few years now and it's surprisingly accurate. In Yosemite, it has been substantially beefed up with ‘Seon 2 select wor Sele at word 2 Select erence 5 Salt revs sentence Salt est sovtooe 3 Salo pagan 2 Select rvs paragraph Select ox paragraph # Salet nest "Rwes be bes ing waste wort lined over 50 new commands, along the lines of ‘Select Previous Sentence’. Additionally the dictation call-out balloon now displays what it thinks are commands, l | 012.029008 x vosomte Tpsinas 17 id use it 16 Images from a chat iOS 8 brought the ability to quickly and easily view all the images sent to you, and by you, in conversation with a particular iMessage recipient. Just tap the Details button at the top right of the screen when chatting. (Q) carry ervant Do Not Disturb Mute notifications for this conversation he if | cal i go to t! a attachments, sent and received. Details Well, in Yosemite an almost identical feature comes to the Messages app. Just click the Details button at the top right when chatting and you'll see via a pop-out window all your Here you can also initiate a phone call, FaceTime call or — another new feature in Yosemite — a screen-sharing session that allows the other person to view your desktop. as opposed to dictated text, and you'll see any text interpreted immediately as you speak, as with Siri within iOS 8 To view the commands you can use, first activate the dictation feature by opening System Preferences and clicking Dictation & Speech. Then click the On radio button. Switch to an app in which you can type (such as TextEdit) and activate the dictation function by tapping the left Cmd key twice (or possibly the Fn key on MacBooks). Then say “show commands”. A window will now appear showing all the formatting commands that are possible. Fans of the old Speakable Items feature that allows users to control their Mac by saying certain words or phrases might notice its absence in Yosemite, but the functionality is still there. Switch back to System Preferences and click the Accessibility icon. Look to the left of the window and scroll down until you can select Dictation, and then select Dictation Commands. Here you'll see the same list of formatting commands as earlier, but you can also put a tick alongside Enable Advanced Commands to be able to say things like “switch to Microsoft Word” or “open document”. By clicking the plus icon you can add your own spoken commands to run apps, perform a particular keyboard shortcut, and more. CHRISTMAS 2014 MACWORLD 47 orr2014 1528 | | Features / 40 0s x YOSEMITE TIPS BEEN corora ae Press any key when fried. ter the name of be pan you hae sg fo ou ein bones 23 and 24 enter your ame A yourattes 49 Bring back the old If you're not a fan of the new-look Dock in Yosemite, or the system-wide use of the Helvetica Neue font, don’t suffer in silence. A couple of hacks will let you move things back to how they used to be. The first is lucida-grande- yosemite, which will revert the system-wide font to the older Lucida Grande used in Mac OS X versions 1 to 9. It only works on non-Retina Macs, although the developer is working on a version for all Macs. Download it from tinyurl.com/n8erekg. Right-click the app once it has downloaded and select 48 Sign using your trackpad If you've got a finger and a MacBook or Magic Trackpad, then you can now sign PDFs within Preview. Admittedly, the signature you come up with is only likely to be a likeness of the real thing, but it might be enough. Start by clicking the toolbox icon at the top right of the Preview toolbar (next to the search field), and then click the signature icon beneath (sixth from the left). Then click Create Signature, ensure the Trackpad tab is selected, and then click to begin as directed. When you've finished you can select the signature from the menu, then drag it to wherever you want it to appear. If you intend to make good use of this feature then you might want to use a touchscreen stylus, which works just as well on a trackpad as it does on an iPhone or iPad. A biro won't do the business, so don't try it! Open from the menu that Finder sidebar, as in older versions of OS X. Bear in mind that both these apps are unauthorised appears, then wait a few seconds and follow the instructions on-screen. To swap out the Dock for something more old- hacks and so come without guarantees or warranty. fashioned, you can use cDock, which is available at tinyurl. com/mebuj2s. This can also However, both include the option to restore things back to the way they were should restore ‘colour’ icons to the you encounter any problems. b $0 oD x ‘rela, Mac PnP ins botom iene a. HoT TOPICS Mae Raina SK wwwmacencuk oO 20 Safari tab suppressor If you've got an external mouse, then clicking the mouse wheel while the cursor is hovering over a browser tab in Safari will instantly close it (Ctrl-Z will reopen it), even if the tab isn’t the currently selected one. Unfortunately, because there’s no way to middle-click using a trackpad or Magic Mouse, this trick is limited to ‘PC’ mice. However, adding middle-click capabilities to any pointing device is possible via apps such as Better Touch Tool or MagicPrefs. 48 MACWORLD « CHRISTMAS 2014 l | 012.029.08x Yosomte Tpsinas 18 orrv2014 1520 | | 21 Superior Safari * [ searches SY Put simply, Safari learns when you use the search field within any website. Subsequently you can use the site’s search feature direct from Safari’s URL/ search bar without having Tips, Hol ‘Searen for “amazon Sherlock Holmes" in History {Go to Site “amazon Sheriock Holmes” Find "amazon Sherieek Holmos” on Thie Pago (0 matshoe) the visit the site first. Just type the name of the site and your search query, then select the search option that appears in the pop-out window beneath. 22 QuickType in Yosemite Kudos to the iDownload blog for spotting this one. In some OS X apps like TextEdit it's been possible for a long time to hit Esc while typing a word (in some apps Alt-Esc) to have OS X guess the word you're starting to type. A list will appear and you can select by clicking one of them. It’s pretty cool. In Yosemite this feature has been expanded to something very close to iOS 8’s new QuickType, which attempts to guess the next word you want to type. Type ‘hello’, then space, and hit Esc (Alt-Esc in some apps), and OS X will list possible next words. You might also be able to click Edit + Complete. We don't know if this is tied into iOS 8's QuickType, which learns from what you type. We suspect not. But it’s fun to play with, if bit clumsy. Te Untied 4 = Fale oy mr a Ee make have not tel take sy For example, to set this up for amazon.co.uk you would visit the site, use the search feature to search for, say, ‘Sherlock Holmes’, and then in future just typing ‘amazon Sherlock Holmes’ into Safari will show an option to search amazon.co.uk for Sherlock Holmes. On some sites you might not even have to do a dummy search first because Safari will figure it out all by itself. It’s a subtle feature, but useful. 23 Turn tags into stacks Stacks are the special folders at the right of the Dock that spring up when clicked. It’s always been possible to drag your own folders there to create your own stacks, but in Yosemite this feature is extended to tags — the colour- coding system introduced with the previous version of OS X 18 Magaane wor, < Boo ao. Bee Sree cman © anew Speer ogee © © ener Shaneicoe ts © Edaidous! 9 T4878. )..08 1390 that allows you to organise your files. Just drag a tag from where they're listed in the sidebar of a Finder window to the right-hand side of the Dock. A space should open up for you to drop the icon, and clicking on that stack in future will show only files or folders that use that particular tag. 24 Keypad keytones If you're in the middle of a phone call using your Mac and are asked to enter information using your telephone keypad, such as when you're using online banking, just type the numbers using your Mac keyboard. They'll automatically sound as standard DTMF tones, although you may need to click first on the call window at the top right of the desktop to ensure it has focus. And did you know that you can turn the floating call window into a standard window, complete with close/minimise buttons, simply by dragging it away from the corner? o @ @) Tue 28 Oct 8:11 pm 99% Ba» +44 333 2009... ot HULATALEALUUTTTULEOUUL DE ttanntttntantnsnseseses Q 00:05 — using your iPhone l | 012.028008 x vosomte Tpsinas 19 CHRISTMAS 2014 MACWORLD 49 orr2014 1528 | | Features / 40 0s x YOSEMITE TIPS 25 Maximise like old times Clicking the green blob at the top left of windows in Yosemite switches them to full-screen mode, but that might not be what you want. If you long for the old behaviour of windows sliding toa larger size to make their contents more visible, hold down Option (Alt on some keyboards) when clicking the button. Alternatively, double- click the titlebar/grey bar at the top of the window {assuming you haven't got the Double-Click to Minimise option set within the Dock panel of System Preferences). With Safari you'll need to double-click the spaces between the icons and URL field. Note that this tip doesn’t work with some apps, including Microsoft Office. 27 Dial or SMS from Contacts In Yosemite the Contacts app becomes a lot more useful because you can use it to initiate phone calls, assuming you have your iPhone logged into the same iCloud account as your Mac and it’s on the same Wi-Fi network. Just click the heading alongside the number you want to dial, and select Call from the menu that appears. The FaceTime app will open on your Mac and attempt to make the call. You can also select Send Message, which will send an iMessage or standard text message, depending on whether your recipient has an iOS device - SMS sending requires iOS 81 to be installed on your iPhone. Incidentally, your missed call history now automatically syncs between your phone and your Mac via iCloud, so you don't have to fish your phone out of your pocket to see what that missed call was. Instead, just start FaceTime and look at the recent call list for audio. If you want to remove an entry from the list, just right-click or Ctrl-click it and select the Delete option from the menu that appears. , Cathy Bryant ® call (© Stow nLage Type Send Message Cali with Skype tirng Sand SMS wit Skype Cailwith Yahoo! Messenger <1 Sond SMS with Yanoo! Messenger cot 20 MACWORLD - CHRISTMAS 2014 l | 012.0290 Yosomte Tisinas 20 26 The full URL monty In Yosemite Safari shows only the base URL of a site-—a wise tweak designed to avoid users being taken in by phishing scams where the URL is obfuscated. In other words, if you're visiting macworld.co.uk/this/page/ that/page, then all you will see in the address bar is macworld.co.uk. If this isn't what you want, Safari can be configured to show the whole URL. Hit Cmd., (comma) to open its preferences dialog box, then click the Advanced icon and put a check alongside Show Full Website Address. le ‘aweneed oa ZY Qa0 Goneral Tabs AutoFill Pasewords Saarch Securty Privacy Notifications Extensions Advanced @ ‘Smart Search Field: [Show full website address: cee: No a rt sox ante tan Press Tab fo highlight each item o ‘Opton-Tas hanghte each tm. Bonjour: |_| Include Bonjour in the Bookmarks menu Include Bonjour in the Favorites bar Internet plug-ins: (@ Stop plug-in to cave powar Plugin sat avtrnaicaly on 3 websites | Detais Sie sheet: [None Selected | Defauit encoding: | Wester ($0 Latin 1) B Proxies: [ Change Settings. @ show Develop ment in menu bar 2 28 True website favourites only Clicking in Safari's URL/search bar in Yosemite shows sites from your Favorites toolbar, as well as recently accessed sites. If there’s any site that you don’t want to be listed there, simply click and drag it away from the drop-down list. Once you release the mouse it'll be deleted in a puff of smoke. If you change your mind mid-drag, just tap Esc to cancel the procedure, or drag the icon back into the fold. And if you change your mind after you've deleted something, just tap Ctrl-Z to undo. The bookmark icons can also be rearranged by clicking and dragging them to new positions. coe E ‘eninn CX ine Stop dN geo x [ orr2014 1528 | | 29 A chopper for Maps In 2012 Apple introduced its own mapping solution and demoed Flyover, which allows tours to be taken of various cities as if you're in a virtual helicopter. In Yosemite this feature comes to the built-in Maps app. Just use the search function to find a compatible city (Manchester, Leeds, , London, and so on) and then click the pin marking the place. In the pop-out window click the information icon, then in the second pop-out window select the Flyover Tour button. Incidentally, if you're wondering what happened to the hybrid maps feature — where you can view satellite imagery with roads and place labels superimposed on top — just switch to satellite imagery by clicking the button at the top right, then click Show at the bottom left, and then Show Labels. 30 Translate to and from Spanish The Dictionary app in Yosemite has gained several new languages. You can activate them by opening the app, hitting Cmd-, (comma) to open the Preferences panel, then putting a tick alongside them (drag them up and down to rearrange the order in which they appear during lookups). icici Spanish - English tip! | up| New to Yosemite is a Spanish/English dictionary, and also Turkish, Portuguese, Thai and Russian language dictionaries. Once the Spanish dictionary is activated, you can look up any word in most apps by right-clicking it and selecting the Look Up option, or by hovering the mouse cursor over it and tapping Ctrl-Cmd-D. A (end, extremity) punta f (of stick, umbrella) ... British English tip! | up |noun the pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering: George pressed the tips of his foges together | the... British English Thesaurus tip !noun 1 the tp ofthe spar: POINT, end, extremity, head, sharp end, spike, prong, tine, nib. 2 the tips of the Glencoe mountains: PEAK, point, .- Tips ‘Tips may refer to: * Tip (advice), unsolicited advice on matters that may be of interest to you, ... 012.023 OS X Yosernite Tips.indd 21 31 Repeat reminders It's always been possible to repeat entries within a Reminders list but up until now the choices have been primitive and limited to every day, week, fortnight, month or year. In Yosemite you can set pretty much any kind of repeat period — for example, repeating only on certain days of the week, or repeating every three days, or repeating on the first Saturday of each month, and so on. Just click the information symbol alongside a reminder when you create it, then puta tick alongside On A Day, and then click Custom from the Repeat drop-down list. How it works is self-explanatory. remind me @& On a Day 29/10/2014 04:00 pm _| At a Location Frequency: Monthly Every 1 monthis) Each @ onthe first Saturday nore) Cancel CHRISTMAS 2014 « MACWORLD 24 orr2014 1528 | | Features / 40 0s x YOSEMITE TIPS 32 Instantly switch to mini-player Bach: English Suite #4 In F BWV 800 - Allomande - Angela H When you have music playing within iTunes, clicking the small album art icon next to the currently playing track title at the top of the window will instantly switch iTunes to the mini-player window. If there’s no album art associated with that particular track, a musical note icon will appear there instead, but this trick will still work. Hold down Option while clicking and you'll leave the main iTunes window visible while opening the mini-player. Hold down Cmd and you'll open a floating window showing a large version of the album art, complete with QuickTime Player-like controls at the bottom. Right-click the album artwork in this window and you'll see options to make the artwork bigger or smaller, or even make it expand to the full height of the desktop. Neat! 33 Dark shortcut Opening up System Preferences is the only apparent way to switch to the all-new Dark interface mode. Yet switching to Dark is something you might want to do quickly as the sun goes down each day, for example. Fortunately, a Redditor with the handle abspam3 has discovered a hidden way of doing so. Setting it up is a little involved but it subsequently Start by opening a Terminal window. You'll find Terminal in the Utilities folder of the Applications list within Finder. Then copy and paste in the following code, which should be entered as a single unbroken line: defaults write -g_ HiEnableThemeSwitchHotKey 1 Then log out via the Apple menu, and log back in again. Once you've done that, you'll be able to switch instantly l | 012.0290 vosomte Tpsinas 22 works a treat. between Dark and non-Dark ‘> @) Wed 29 Oct 3:48 pm FE Battery Is Charged Power Source: Power Adapter No Apps Using Significant Energy v Show Percentage Open Energy Saver Preferences... 35 Re-energised energy levels Clicking the power icon at the top right of the desktop to see which apps are eating battery power on MacBooks used to take several long seconds under Mavericks, but under Yosemite it’s virtually instant. To be honest, we've no idea if this is true for all MacBook models, and it’s impossible for us to check, but if you stopped using this feature because it simply took too long, why not give it a second look? 22 MACWORLD « CHRISTMAS 2014 modes by tapping Ctrl-Alt- Cmd-T (on some keyboards Ctr-Option-Cmd-1). If you want to deactivate this feature, again open a Terminal window and type the following (which, like the enabling code, is a single line): defaults delete -g_ HlEnableThemeSwitchHotKey And then log out and back in again. @ keir — bash — 80x24 Lact login Wed Oct 20 13:20:08 on ttyedoe MacBook-Pro:~ keir$ defaults write -g HTEnableTheneSwitchHotkey 1] 34 Send audio messages The Messages app in Yosemite gains a little microphone icon alongside where you type. It allows you to send short audio clips to other iMessage users. Just click the icon, speak, and then click the red square button to end the recording. Then click the Send button. There’s no way to preview the recording nor is the audio quality great — it’s only slightly better than a mobile phone — probably because the audio is compressed to make sending and receiving quicker. Recipients using iOS 8 devices will see the audio files as waveforms along with a play button. Those using earlier versions of iOS will be told they have an audio attachment that can be tapped to play. “ext 313 6m Divered orr2014 1528 | | 36 Do not disturb After a week or so of making/receiving calls and texts via your Mac, you may find it’s not something you want. Turning off both features is not entirely obvious, though. Turning off making/ receiving phone calls can be done by opening FaceTime ‘on your Mac, pressing Cmd-, (comma) to open the Preferences dialog box, and removing the tick alongside iPhone Cellular Calls. To turn off text messaging, ‘open your iPhone's Settings app, then tap the Messages heading. Tap the Text Message Forwarding heading, and tap the switch alongside the name of your computer. wee © Siem ona < Back Text Message Forwarding MacteckProa) - @) 39 Unify your passwords In Yosemite you can log in using your iCloud password, rather than a separate password just for your Mac. To activate this feature, open System Preferences, then click 37 Work easier with network shares Here's one for anybody whose Mac is on a network with Windows computers, or other Macs that share files via the file sharing function within System Preferences. Up until Yosemite, clicking Go + Connect to Server within Finder and then typing a bare IP address or host name into the dialog box would cause Finder to assume you wanted an AFP connection — Apple's old file sharing technology, rarely used nowadays. Yosemite’s Finder assumes 38 Close tabs on iOS devices If all your iOS devices and your Mac are signed into the same iCloud account, Safari's Show All Tabs feature on your Mac (View + Show All Tabs) will show any tabs open on your iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches or other Macs. What's new to Yosemite is the Users & Groups icon. Then click the padlock icon at the bottom left to unlock the preferences system, and click the Change Password button. Finally, click the Use iCloud Password button. e Users & Groups) Would you like to change th a ‘your iCloud password to Use iClaud Password. | “You will only need ta vemember one password i you use your ICioud password to fog in to sword for *Keir Thomas", or begin using 1d unlock this Mac? cane you want Windows file sharing (also known as SMB), which is used nearly everywhere. So all you need do now to access a shared folder on another computer is open Finder or click the desktop, tap Cmd-K, and then type the IP address or host name of the computer you want to connect to, without the need to precede it with ‘smbi//’, as you used to have to. And if you have to make an AFP connection, just precede the address with ‘afp:/’. ‘Server Address: ee Connect to Server | 192,168.1.129] (4) Lor Favorite Servers: © Keir's iPhone 5 A selection of small but useful tips for OS X Yosemite eo “That event does not belong to that event store* when trying to create anew c. Vitamin D - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that an X will appear at the right-hand side if you hover the mouse over any of these tabs. Clicking the X will close that tab on that device. Considering it can be painstakingly annoying to prune no longer needed tabs in Safari on an iPhone/iPod touch, this is a godsend! Q MacWorld UK macworclemacwons.con (2) macworid.co.uk — Anple, Mac an. MacWorld UK tems 10 TextEdit Secrets 40 things on a mac 20 Yosemite Tige 20 Yosemite Tios 40 Look in folders using Spotlight If you search for something using the new Spotlight in Yosemite, a folder may be shown in the list of results. What's not obvious is that you can use the cursor keys to highlight cee ee Cpe this folder, then tap the Tab key to move the highlight over to Allow user to administer this computer Gielen = the right of the window so you can select an item within it. Enable penal controls [_ Oper Parental Contos +m =e Hitting Enter will open any highlighted entry. Tapping Shift- é Tab will move the highlight back to the left-hand column. Clk the lock fo prover frhar charge 2 CHRISTMAS 2014» MACWORLD 23 | | 012.02008x Yosemite Tpsinéa. 29 & ornweora 1528 | | 11/1112014 13:43 2 3 3 024_041 Comy WW UNS GET YOUR MAC READY FOR YOSEMITE NOW THAT APPLE HAS MADE OS X YOSEMITE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING ONTO MACS, HERE’S HOW YOU CAN GET IT ONTO YOURS — ALONG WITH A LIST OF THE 10 CRUCIAL THINGS YOU SHOULD DO FIRST By Karen Haslam pple has at last released the final version of its new Mac operating system, OS X Yosemite, and made it available for download for free. Flatter, and with a minimalist appearance reminiscent of last year’s iOS 7, it also offers new continuity features as well as upgraded apps and other changes. But before you get busy downloading and installing this must-have, take our complete tour so you can be up and running immediately after installation without any irritating snags to iron out. How to download and install it You can now find Yosemite on the Mac App Store. To download and install it, simply open the Mac App Store on your Mac. Before you do, though, you should prepare your Mac for the update by following the steps listed here. It could take several hours to download and install Yosemite. So while you're waiting, turn to page 12 to read our 40 ultimate Yosemite tips. How to prepare your Mac Just as with its Mavericks (OS X 10.9) operating system, Yosemite is free and pretty easy to install. However, as with any big update to OS X, you should first complete a few tasks to ensure that your Mac is ready to go. (024_041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 25 It's worth doing a bit of housework before installing any new operating system. Here are the 10 things for your must-do-first list for Yosemite. 4 Find out if your Mac will be able to run Yosemite This one is a biggy. If your Mac can’t run it, then I'm afraid there’s no new software update for you. Don't panic, though, Apple has kept the list of supported Macs the same as those supported for OS X Mavericks (see page 27), so if you're already running Mavericks you'll be able to get Yosemite. You can check the specs of your system by clicking on the Apple logo on the top left of your screen and selecting About This Mac. This will tell you which version of the OS is installed on your Mac. 2 Make sure you have enough RAM If your Mac is on the list of supported machines, you are unlikely to run into any problems, but it's worth checking that you also have enough RAM to run Yosemite. Apple suggests that you'll need at least 2GB of RAM, although 4GB is advisable. If you have less than AGB of RAM in your machine it might CHRISTMAS 2014 - MACWORLD 25 sanve014 10:21 | Features COMPLETE GUIDE TO YOSEMITE be time to consider upgrading to a new Mac, or installing more RAM. If you do decide to add RAM, make sure the RAM you choose is compatible. Read about how to update the RAM in your Mac at tinyurl.com/Lmf4ybg. 3 Ensure you have enough space Apple says you should have 8GB of free space on your Mac's drive before installing a major OS X update, but we recommend 15- to 20GB. The Yosemite installer is 56GB, and you'll need to allow some room for temporary files. Go to tinyurl.com/k6xjxzr to find out how to free up space on your Mac. 4 Get access to the Mac App Store If you are still running the Leopard OS and don't have access to the Mac App Store you really, really, really need to upgrade. Yosemite is available only via the Mac App Store, which arrived with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. You can still get hold of a copy of Snow Leopard from Apple for £14 — go to tinyurl.com/ khgesha to find out how. 5 Update your software Install the latest OS updates to Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks (whichever you're currently running) before upgrading to Yosemite. To find out if you are up to date, click on the App Store icon in the Dock and select Updates. You can also click on the Apple logo at the top left of your screen and select Software Update from there. 26 MACWORLD « CHRISTMAS 2014 | 024.041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 26 6 Update your third-party apps You need up-to-date third-party apps, too. App updates may include changes required for upgrading to Yosemite; if you don’t run the updates they may not work properly once you've updated the OS. To update apps bought from the Mac App Store, launch the App Store app and click the Updates button in the toolbar. Then click Update All, entering your Apple ID and password when prompted. For apps purchased elsewhere, you'll need to manually install updates. You can check if there are updates available from the application’s menu; in Microsoft Word, for example, it’s a case of clicking on Help * Check for Updates. 7 Ditch old software if you're still running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), you may be using a few PowerPC programs — software that was never updated to run natively on Macs with Intel processors. Apple used to provide software called Rosetta that translated PowerPC code so it could run on Intel Macs. When Snow Leopard launched, Rosetta was no longer installed by default, but it was possible to download and install Rosetta if you wanted to run a PowerPC program. However, Apple killed off Rosetta completely when Lion (10.7) was released, and it remains unavailable to this day. Any PowerPC apps you have won't work when you update your system, so you'll either need to ditch them and find alternatives — or stay in the dark ages || and run very old software. To find out if any of your applications are PowerPC programs, launch Snow Leopard's System Profiler utility (in Applications/Utilities), select Applications (under Software in the sidebar), and then click the Kind column header, which sorts the list of applications by processor type. Any programs listed as PowerPC will not work under Yosemite; they won't even work in Mavericks, Mountain Lion or Lion. 8 Make sure your Mac is healthy Your Mac needs to be healthy before you install a big update to the OS. To check this, open Disk Utility (in Applications/ Utilities), select your startup drive from the list on the left, click the First Aid tab to the right, and then click Verify. If Disk Utility finds problems, you'll need to boot from a different volume to perform repairs using the Repair Disk button. Boot into recovery mode (by holding down Cmd-R at startup) and use Disk Utility from there to perform the recommended repairs. You can also run the Apple Hardware Test (for Macs older than June 2013) or Apple Diagnostics (for Macs from June 2013 on). Both check your Mac for other hardware issues, such as bad RAM. 9 Back up your Mac Before updating to Yosemite we recommend that you back up your Mac, and test that the backup works before you do anything else. You can use Apple's Time Machine software to create a backup that will recover your Mac exactly the way you left it prior to the install. There are alternatives to Time Machine, including SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner, both of which will create a bootable clone backup of your Mac. 10 Set up iCloud When you install Yosemite, you are likely to be pestered for your iCloud details because these days it is heavily integrated into many apps and system services. Make sure that you are logged into iCloud and enable synching before you start updating the OS and things should go smoothly. sanve014 10:21 | WILL MY MAC RUN YOSEMITE? By Ashleigh Allsopp pple unveiled Yosemite (OS X 10.10), the new version of its Mac operating system, during its Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 keynote event in June, releasing the software to developers in beta format for testing before launching a public beta programme. Now, Yosemite is ready for everyone. But how do you know it will work on your Mac? Apple has confirmed that a Mac will need a minimum of 2GB of RAM and 86GB of available storage to run Yosemite. The earliest compatible Mac OS is Snow Leopard, which was the first operating system to give access to the Mac App Store — and that’s where Yosemite has to be downloaded from. If you have an older OS, then you may | 024.041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 27 need to upgrade to Snow Leopard before installing Yosemite. Yosemite will run on the following Macs models: iMac: Mid-2007 or later MacBook: 13in aluminium version dates, from late 2008 MacBook Pro: 13in version, mid-2009 or later; 15in option, mid/late 2007 or later; 17in laptop, late 2007 or later MacBook Air: Late 2008 or later Mac mini: Early 2009 or later Mac Pro: Early 2008 or later Xserve: Early 2009 Mavericks The system requirements for OS X Yosemite are identical to those for Calebot OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the previous current operating system for Mac. Mavericks supports Mac models that date back to 2007. What follows below is a list of the Macs that OS X Mavericks currently supports. As you can see, they are exactly the same models as those listed as compatible with Yosemite. iMac: Mid-2007 ot later MacBook: 13in aluminium version dates, from late 2008 MacBook Pro: 13in version, mid-2009 or later; 15in option, mid/late 2007 or later; 17in laptop, late 2007 or later MacBook Air: Late 2008 or later Mac mini: Early 2009 or later Mac Pro: Early 2008 or later Xserve: Early 2009 CHRISTMAS 2014 - MACWORLD 27 sanve014 10:21 | Features COMPLETE GUIDE TO YOSEMITE YOSEMITE INTERFACE CHANGES By Jason Snell For a few years there, it felt like major changes in the look and behaviour of OS X were imminent. The conventional wisdom during the era of the Lion and Mountain Lion operating systems was that Apple had placed OS X on a collision course with iOS, and the two would inevitably have to come together to form —well, if not a single operating system, then two variations on a single theme. In the past year, though, it's become clear that Apple no longer believes in that approach - if it ever truly did. iOS 7 and 8 have taken big, bold steps in one direction while OS X Yosemite has taken smaller steps in a different direction. Apple appears to have a very clear and distinct future in mind for the Mac — even though some of today’s Apple hardware might not be up to delivering that vision. The Retina age During 2012’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled the 15in MacBook Pro with Retina display, and a few months later the 13in models of the MacBook Pro arrived. But two years into the Retina Mac era, there are still no Retina MacBook Airs or affordable external Retina displays, though a 27in iMac with Retina 5K display was also announced at the Yosemite launch. Apple knows that in the next few years, every computer display in use will be at Retina resolutions. And Yosemite’s new design feels like it was built for Retina displays: the thin Helvetica Neue font replaces the long-serving but chunky Lucida Grande as the system typeface. Transparency is more present than ever before, inside app windows and Lucida let go The font change from Lucida Grande (upper) to Helvetica Neue (lower) is most noticeable on the menu bar. underneath toolbars and even on the login screen itself. Yosemite is simply gorgeous on a Retina MacBook Pro display. So here’s hoping Apple rolls out more high- resolution Macs in the near future. If it does, Yosemite's refined look will be able to shine across even more products. Beyond the system font, the most obvious visual change in Yosemite is that the grey light-to-dark gradient atop most windows is now much more subtle — so much so that | didn’t even register that | was looking at a gradient. In addition, the red, yellow, and green traffic light buttons on the corners of windows — the ones you use to close, minimise or zoom that window — have been stripped of the shading effects that Back to flat The traffic light buttons. made them look like pieces of candy. They're just flat circles now. When you move your cursor over them, you'll find the same X in the red circle and the same minus sign in the yellow circle as in Mavericks. However, the green circle no longer displays a plus sign: instead, it shows the two-headed arrow that indicates full-screen mode. If you want to zoom a window's size in and out, old-school-style, then you'll now need to hold down the Alt key before clicking the « Safari @ = Safari File File Edit Edit View History Bookmarks View History Bookmarks Window Help Window Help 28 MACWORLD CHRISTMAS 2014 | 024.041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 28, sanve014 10:21 | < oO THE MACALOPE green button — or just double-click on the window's title bar. Darth Vader will be a fan of Yosemite, because it allows you to darken the menu bar and the Dock. Enabled by a checkbox within the General pane of System Preferences, this feature makes the menu bar dark, with light text, and the Dock’s background darkens substantially as well. Menus are now darkly translucent, and drawn with light text. However, when I checked the box, nothing else on my screen changed. It would make sense for predominantly dark-on-light apps to switch to a dark-on- light colour scheme in this situation, but none of the apps | was running changed in the least. It looks like apps can detect whether that checkbox is engaged, but none of the apps | was running (including Apple's own) bothered to do so. Lord Vader will not be pleased by a mere menu bar makeover. For a Mac to truly turn to the dark side, apps need to be able to follow suit. Vertically challenged Just about every Mac uses a display that's a lot wider than it is tall. So in the Mac interface, height is at a premium, while there’s width to spare. This, incidentally, is why | don’t understand why people leave their Dock visible on the bottom of the screen — | always pin mine to the right- hand side. Yosemite's design tries to fit more stuff on your screen by cutting the height of many window title bars in half. This has a ripple effect on other interface elements. Take, for example, those traffic light buttons that were Oo Qs Phone Howard shotkin ‘Olga Staub Rich Siege! Brent Simmons Homer Simpson ‘Aarti and Navneet Singh John Siracuta Colin Smith Dol Smith Barry Soot Jason Sal Lauren Slt sa Snet! Michael & Lisa Snel! ‘Mike Set Homer Simpson ‘mobile 1 (234) 887-800 home 129 Fake Street + edt Half-height The title bar has been dramatically reduced in Safari and is only half as deep. previously on the same level as the centred name of the window and, far off to the left, the double-headed arrow icon for full-screen mode. Now those buttons share space at top of windows with other interface elements. In Yosemite’s version of Safari, the three buttons are on the same level as toolbar elements such as the next/ previous page button, the address/search bar, and the like. In fact, in Safari the name of the window — and, therefore, the title of the page you're viewing — is completely gone. In Contacts, meanwhile, the entire top window bar is gone. The traffic light buttons remain at the top-left corner of the window, but that’s now at the top of the leftmost visible pane of the application. They hover over the translucent Groups column until you choose View * Hide Groups, at which point they hop over to the top of the Contacts column, which turns from white to translucent in the process. A thin band across the top of the Contacts window is still draggable, but it's not what you'd call a traditional Mac title bar. This design isn’t consistent across all Bar none In many Yosemite windows, the menu bar has vanished, and the traffic light buttons move around. CHRISTMAS 2014 - MACWORLD 29 | (024_041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 29 e 141112014 1021 | | Features / ComPLETE GUIDE TO YOSEMITE Q, Search To: Lauren Snell New Message to Lauren Snell Moisés Chiullan Caacs That could be fun. Greg Knauss 4 my IP is port itis trying to use it 8000 erioris and the Dan Benjamin Bror4 Ok Vil wait to publish anything. Dan Moren eaiid Yeah, I dunno. They may rearrange it or not? PR and... +1 (415) We r on our way wets Sidelight The lex ioumer sidebar in You're a genius. Messages is translucent, showing the items behind it, of Apple’s apps either. The traffic light buttons share space with the toolbar in the Calendar, Maps, Messages and Reminders apps. Which prompts the question: if a bar contains no title, can it still be called a title bar? Yet Mail, TextEdit, Preview and iWork alll look the same as they ever did. I don’t really mind the trend. | use an ‘tin MacBook Air every day, so | know about cramped working environments. By merging the toolbar and title bar, the approach saves some precious vertical space. Unfortunately, an overly cluttered title bar might be hard to reposition on screen if you can’t find anywhere to click that isn’t covered by a button. And Away from base The Spotlight feature is now disconnected from its place in the menu bar. Who's picking Jamie up tonight?) while those old title bars featured an awtul lot of empty space, sometimes such space can be good. Yosemite’s new look can lead to situations where windows feel more cluttered. I have to admit I'm nonplussed about the disappearance of titles from the top of many windows. In apps that never really have more than one important window (Calendar and Maps come to mind), the title is unnecessary; labelling the Calendar window with the word Calendar seems pointless. But in many other contexts, the title of the window imparts important information, and there's a danger that some of that could be lost if Apple takes this approach too far. It's something worth keeping an eye on, especially given the radical changes Yosemite has in store for Safari. 30 MACWORLD « CHRISTMAS 2014 | (024_041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 30 Ma ToS Jason Sool KOM | Material change More plastic, less metal Subtle changes As with most OS X releases, Yosemite has its share of subtle design changes. The most notable is probably the system’s increased use of translucency, in which some interface elements are semi- opaque, allowing a blurred-out version of whatever is behind the window to show through. It’s a style that iOS uses in abundance, and it’s now sprinkled here and there in Yosemite. The Messages sidebar, for instance, is translucent. It’s subtle, so it doesn’t affect readability, but it doesn’t really seem to serve any useful purpose. It’s a light design flourish that isn’t offensive, but it’s not particularly bold either. Up in the (still translucent) menu bar, the bars on the Wi-Fi icon are thinner, and sanve014 10:21 | File Format: Delete Rich Text Document Cancel iV Save No pattern, no pulse Default buttons now lack a texture and don't pulsate. a simplified battery icon on laptops feels more like the one from iOS. The Spotlight menu bar item remains anchored next to the similarly immovable Notification Center icon, despite the fact that the Spotlight window itself now floats in the centre of the screen. | sense a certain disconnect here. Mac OS Hello, goodbye New face, old face. Beyond the occasional window pane, translucency effects pop up in a few other places in the system. When Exposé is triggered, the background now fuzzes out, and there’s a similar effect on the login screen, which shows a fuzzed-out picture of Half Dome. Several other interface elements have been flattened in the same style as the traffic light buttons. Most notably, the pulsating blue glass-textured button in dialog boxes has lost its texture (the glass texture that remained from OS X's ‘aqua’ interface is gone); it's darker (with the text displaying in white) and it doesn't pulsate any more. Apple’s engineers have clearly been browsing in the US equivalent of Lakeland for their inspiration, and the result is that the system's trash can is now a white translucent plastic job rather than the metallic wire basket previously favoured. Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch would doubtless demand a return of the big metal trash can from the classic Mac OS. And the Dock, which in recent versions of the OS had become a 3D shelf at the bottom of your screen for the program icons to sit on, has reverted to something simpler. Like the Dock that you can still find in Mavericks if you set it to display on the left or right side of your screen, Yosemite's is merely a 2D background with a hint of translucency. It's a great improvement, but seriously, people, try pinning your Dock to the left or the right — you'll like it. The subtle glow beneath running applications in the Dock is now a more noticeable black dot. There's also a fresh new face in OS X Yosemite — literally. The ‘Mac face’ logo that has represented various portions of the Mac (originally the classic Mac OS, most recently the Finder) for the last 16 years, has been updated. The image (which is made up of two half-faces, one viewed full-on and the other the profile of a different face) still represents the Finder, Jy Energy Energy Saver Saver LED lights up A tale of two bulbs. Yosemite's forward-thinking design simply looks better on Retina displays, pointing the way toward a high-resolution future for Mac users | 024_041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 31 but it's been tweaked. Farewell, old face, you served us well. Finally, breaking news from the System Preferences app. The compact fluorescent light bulb that represented the Energy Saver preference pane since 2008 is no more. After visiting container heaven, Apple’s OS X elves popped into the US equivalent of Homebase and picked up an LED light bulb. One can only assume that Oscar the Grouch will also be lamenting the loss of the old incandescent bulb. Skin-deep The design changes in Yosemite are noticeable, but the system is still quite recognisably OS X. Long-time Mac users’ fears that the Mac was about to collide with iOS in some kind of crazy peanut butter-chocolate disaster have not been borne out. Yosemite's forward-thinking design simply looks better on Retina displays, pointing the way toward a high-resolution future for Mac users. Unfortunately, in some areas Apple’s left hand doesn’t seem to know what the right is doing. I'd like to see more consistency when it comes to the way the traffic light buttons and title bars are displayed, and | worry about the increased clutter and decrease in clickable areas for dragging windows. I'm also concerned about the loss of window titles in apps where they impart real information. What's more, the new dark Dock and menu bar option seems like an afterthought. It'll be interesting to see how Apple designs its individual built-in apps, and what decisions third-party Mac developers make on this front. But otherwise, there’s a great deal to like in Yosemite’s design. Unless, of course, you're Oscar the Grouch. CHRISTMAS 2014 MACWORLD 34 sanve014 10:21 | Features COMPLETE GUIDE TO YOSEMITE || HOW TO USE HANDOFF TO MAKE iOS 8 AND YOSEMITE TRUE COLLABORATORS By Christopher Breen key feature that makes the iOS 8/Yosemite combination so powerful is Handoff, a scheme that lets you transfer tasks from one device to another. You can start working on something in one device, and then smoothly and seamlessly take up the same task on another — begin with your iPhone and then move to your Mac, for example. iOS 8 already let you use Handoff between an iPhone and an iPad, and with the launch of Yosemite your Mac can get in on the fun, too. Handoff requirements To take advantage of the feature, you will need a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac mini made in 2012 or later. The late 2013 Mac Pro is compatible, too. Your Mac must be running Yosemite and you must have iOS 8 on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Devices should be within approximately 33 feet of each other for Handoff to work. Ready to resume Swipe up on the Handoff icon on an iOS device to get going again 32 MACWORLD - CHRISTMAS 2014 | 024.041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 32 And any devices that you wish to use with Handoff must be signed into iCloud using the same Apple ID. Additionally, you must switch on Bluetooth for these devices to talk to one another via Handoff. To enable Handoff on your Mac, launch System Preferences, select the General preference, and enable the Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices option. On an iOS device you instead go to Settings + General + Handoff & Suggested Apps and then switch on Handoff. Now that you've configured your compatible devices correctly, let's see how Handoff works. Handoff and apps The idea behind Handoff and apps is that you can launch an app on one device and then, when you're in range of another, continue your work seamlessly on that other device. For example, you might be working on a long note on your iPhone and, walking into your home office, choose to finish your work within your Mac's version of Notes. Currently compatible apps include the iOS 8 and Yosemite versions of Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes, iPhone, Reminders and Safari. On a Mac running Yosemite, Keynote 6.5, Numbers 3.5 and Pages 5.5 are compatible, as are versions 2.5 of Keynote, Numbers and Pages running under iOS 8. Handoff on the Mac To use Handoff between an iOS device anda Mac, simply launch a compatible app on your iOS device. When you do, a Handoff icon will appear at the left of the Mac’s Dock (or at the top of it if you've pinned your dock to one of the sides of your display). To use the app on your sanve014 10:21 | Click to continue The Handoff icon is next to the Dock and in the application switcher. Mac, just click on this icon and the app will launch and display the content that you were viewing on your iOS device. Alternatively, you can press Cmd-Tab to bring up the Mac’s application switcher. If an app can be handed off, you'll see its icon to the left of the switcher. Select it and the appropriate app will launch. Handoff on an iOS device On an iOS device you'll see evidence of Handoff on the lock screen. When an app is available for handing off, you'll find its icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen. Swipe up on it, enter your password, and the appropriate app will launch on your device and display its current content. You don’t have to quickly lock and unlock your device just to access Handoff, though. You can also double- click the Home button to get to the multitasking screen and swipe to the right. The first pane you see in this screen is used by Handoff. Tap it and the correct app will launch. In either case you can continue to work within an app and then hand it back simply by invoking Handoff on the original device. Or, if you like, hand it off to yet another compatible device within range that shares your iCloud address. Note that the device you're handing off from must be awake and unlocked. If, for example, you're working on an email message on your iPhone and that iPhone automatically locks, Handoff won't work until you wake the phone and unlock it. And that, in a nutshell, is Handoff. It offers a convenient way for you to continue with your work from whatever device is best for the job at that point. | (024_041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 33 GET TO KNOW THE NEW, SLIMMED-DOWN SAFARI By Jason Snell fthere’s a single app that defines the OS X experience, it's probably Safari. Not everyone uses it - many of my friends and family members prefer Chrome — but as the default browser it's the window on the web for most Mac users. And it's clear that Safari is the stock Apple app that has changed the most under Yosemite. Where’s the rest of the URL? By default, Safari is sparsely decorated in Yosemite. There’s no longer a title bar with the name of web pages, and the traffic light buttons at the top left of windows have merged down into the toolbar as they have in some other apps. All other toolbars are off by default, and the address/search bar no longer even displays a full URL, just the name of the host that's serving the page you're viewing. If you want to see the name of the page you're on, you need to display the tab bar — tabs are the only part of the Safari window that can show page names. The result is a minimalist look that feels like it was taken right out of Safari on iOS 7. There is one bar, very little text and everything else is the web page itself. On a phone, minimising the stuff around the web page is desperately necessary. On a tablet it’s a good idea. On a 15in Retina MacBook Pro or a 27in iMac, though, it feels a little pointless. In Mavericks, my Safari app was set to display the status bar and favourites bar. The status bar shows where a hyperlink will take me, which | like. And the favourites bar gives me quick access to my most important sites as well as bookmarklets, little JavaScript-embedded macros that do things like add podcasts to Huffduffer or articles to Instapaper. Though | use browser tabs sometimes, | don't have the tab bar turned on by default — it only appears when | have more than one tab open in a window. The way Safari does things in Yosemite is essentially the opposite of the way | use my web browser. The good news is that most of these choices can be simply changed by judicious use of the View menu, which can restore the favourites bar (which, oddly, now centres the bookmarks) and the status bar. Unfortunately, the page name doesn't CHRISTMAS 2014 * MACWORLD 33 sanve014 10:21 | Features / ComPLETE GUIDE TO YOSEMITE Froquenty Vata Uogate ene Deeg sage show up in the menu bar any more, nor can you opt to see the full web page URL. General crankiness aside, there’s a major usability problem with this design approach. Removing the title bar space at the top of the browser window makes it more difficult to drag Safari windows around the screen. The centre of the window is now the address/search bar, and you can't click on that. Nor can you click on the traffic light buttons or any of the other toolbar buttons. There is a narrow grey space just to the left and right of the address/search bar, and that's the only place from which you can reliably drag the window around. The centring of tabs in the tabs bar is also a mistake; now, when you resize a window or add or remove an item, and those at the left and right become smaller and impossible to select, every other item in the bar slides around. If like us you have lots of tabs open, you'll find it difficult to find the tab relating to the page you are looking for this way, and we'd advise you use the new Tab view instead, discussed below. Adding more views But Apple hasn't been content just to hide features in Safari for Yosemite. Several features have been added, some of which have been taken from Safari for iOS. The demotion of the bookmarks bar seems to have happened because there’s 34 MACWORLD CHRISTMAS 2014 | (024_041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 34 The vow Afar Look at vrecrewee ‘ower 8 a new Favorites view that looks very much like what you see when you tap in the URL/search bar in Safari for iOS: the browser window fills with the contents of your favourite bookmarks, the same collection that populates the bookmarks bar. The background to this page is translucent, so it will let in some hints of whatever's behind the browser window. If you like the Favorites view, you can even set it as the default when you open a new page or tab. A smaller version also appears as a drop-down when you type Cmd-L or choose Open Location from the File menu. In this view, there are large icons for each bookmark in your Favorites folder, and folders full of favourites appear as an icon full of smaller icons. In the menu bar itself, it's sort of annoying — it just gets in my way when I'm typing a URL. But as a replacement for top sites or a blank page in a new browser window, it’s kind of a ‘macworid yosemite — Search macwort com for youu’ rman oo ¢| macword youemite hands on -Go.._ htpatwww goog smacword yosemite review -Googl..._itoe/we ooo ‘Searen for ‘mueworid yoserste” i Heory | (Go t Ste “‘macwori youemte” G Immediate hit You can eliminate the middleman by jumping straight to a site's search engine from the search box Favicons The new Favorites view is similar to the one on iOS, giving you quick and easy access to favourite sites and even folders full of favourites good idea. Your favourite sites and your frequently visited sites are all arrayed in front of you, represented by simple favicons. It takes some getting used to, but it's a good idea. Another addition is Tab view, which is actually a redesign of the existing feature that would let you zoom out (by pinching on a trackpad) to see the contents of all your open tabs in one place. In Mavericks, that view was a series of slightly zoomed out pages that you could swipe through, one by one. Well, that’s gone. The new Tab view, accessible via pinching on the trackpad or clicking on the new Tab View button in the toolbar, is a grid of thumbnails of the tabs currently open in that window, supplemented with a list of tabs open on your other devices, synched via iCloud. It is the replacement for the old iCloud Tabs button. I never considered the old quick-tab view anything but a nuisance — a mode | got into when | unintentionally zoomed out of a page too far. And I'm still not convinced that the new Tab view is going to be used a lot, though the addition of iCloud tabs will give some people a reason to visit. Personally, | preferred iCloud tabs when they were beneath a button on the toolbar, but that feature has been removed in Yosemite. The ability to scroll through a long list of tabs in the tab bar, added in Yosemite, seems like it will appeal to more people than this zoomed out view. Stronger search One feature addition | really do like is the enhancement of the auto-complete options when you're typing in the URL/ search bar. And as you type into the URL/ search bar, Safari’s not just querying your search engine and bookmarks any more, it's also searching Wikipedia, Maps, iTunes and news, just like in Spotlight. It's a small change that makes it much easier to use the browser as a quick sanve014 10:21 | Supemanseat Fs SUPERNATURAL FANFICTION ate dec your Read ston te and common on thom © reference tool, since you can, for example, jump straight to the Wikipedia page for a topic you're interested in directly from the bar. The destination of so many of my Google searches tends to be a Wikipedia page that it makes sense for Apple to eliminate the middleman and allow me to jump straight there. There's also something called quick website search. Once you've searched on a website — although only in the home page — it's added to Safari's list of searchable sites. Once that's been done, you can use the site’s name as a shortcut to search directly from the URL/ search field. For example, if | type ‘macworld retina iMac’, Safari gives me an option to search macworld.com for retina iMac, and if | select that item | am taken to Macworld’s own search results for that | 024.041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 35 term. That's a nifty shortcut that, again, eliminates an intermediate page and takes me to my results. Hands off my stuff Per-window private browsing, long a feature in Google Chrome, arrives in Safari with Yosemite. Previously, to browse securely, you had to enable a Safari-wide private browsing mode from the Safari menu. That feature is now gone, and it’s not a bad thing. Making it available on a per-window basis will make it much more useful. Even with that feature there, | always switched to Google Chrome for my private browsing. Now | can choose New Private Window from the File menu and, according to Apple, the browser session will be completely anonymous. An alert appears Guilty pleasure Safar'’s private browsing mode will make sure what you view isn't trackable or in your internet history. at the top of the screen when you create a new private window: if you dismiss it, the private window looks like every other Safari window, except the URL/search bar is dark grey with white text, the reverse of the usual colour scheme. I'd prefer it if a private window was more obviously different from ordinary Safari windows. Too much of our behaviour on the web is stored and tracked, and sometimes, especially when searching sensitive topics, it's comforting to know that what we're doing is not being stored. However, bear in mind that Safari's private browsing feature can't completely obscure you — your device's internet address and some other basic information about your computer are still passed on to servers. Another Apple move toward more privacy on the web is the integration of the DuckDuckGo search engine, which has been added to the previous options of Google, Yahoo and Bing. DuckDuckGo is most notable for being committed to not collecting or tracking the personal information of its users, in contrast with the more established search engines. And within the Privacy tab of Safari’s Preferences window, there's now increased granularity when it comes to storing cookies and website data, which allows you to limit whether previously visited websites can track you. Awhole new Safari The Safari's new search and privacy features are welcome. And on small screens (such as an tlin MacBook Air) its new simple and sleek look will be helpful | question whether most Mac users need the browser experience simplified to quite this degree, but at least most of the toolbars and features we've seen in previous versions can be turned back on (or at the very least approximated) by toggling various preferences. Old hands can put things back the way they want; less adept users will probably appreciate how much Safari on the Mac now resembles its iOS cousin CHRISTMAS 2014 - MACWORLD 35 sanve014 10:21 | Features COMPLETE GUIDE TO YOSEMITE Dapsoass NOTIFICATION CENTER GIVES WIDGETS THEIR DUE By Jason Snell otification Center has been a part of OS X for two years. It was introduced in Mountain Lion and expanded in Mavericks. But with Yosemite, Notification Center has transformed into something exponentially more useful than it was before. In fact, in Yosemite Notification Center is so different — and so much more useful than it was — that it probably deserves a whole new name. Asupply of widgets But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start with the most fundamental of changes: with Yosemite, Notification Center no longer slides a Mac’s entire interface off to the left in order to pop out from the right side of the screen. Now, Dock-like, it slides in on top of the right side of your screen while you're using it. The old approach was certainly dramatic, but | think this new one is a better metaphor. Once Notification Center slides in, you'll notice a major change right there at the very top. As in iOS, there are now two tabs, one called Notifications (that’s the 36 MACWORLD CHRISTMAS 2014 | (024_041 Complete Guide Yosemite.indd 36 one you're already familiar with) and one called Today. The Today tab is where all the exciting new additions to Notification Center live. Today takes its name from the same tab