Macworld UK的August 2018目录

If you watched Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote, saw the macOS Mojave reveal, and said, “I can’t wait” well, you don’t have to wait anymore – if you’re willing to run beta software. Apple has released the macOS Mojave Public Beta for anyone willing to try the new Mac operating system before it is officially released this autumn. Why would you want to run a beta operating system? If you’re a developer, you’ll want to see how your product can use the new features. But if you’re a regular user like me, it’s an opportunity to try the new features and see how the OS works with your current apps and hardware. Here’s what you need to know about the Public Beta. What is the Public Beta? macOS Mojave is the…

Apple insists that iOS and macOS will never morph into the same digital beast, but at least it’s increasingly willing to share the most useful features between each platform. Consider, for instance, the ability to markup screenshots in iOS 11. It quickly became one of our favourite tools on the iPhone, as you could quickly circle or highlight specific passages in a screenshot of an email ,or pinpoint a location in a photo and then send that file off to a friend in an iMessage. With Mojave, that same great feature comes to Apple’s desktop system, along with a pile of Mac-appropriate enhancements (many of which are familiar from Preview). Here’s how to use it. Take a screenshot Many of us have long been familiar with the old standbys of…

It’s easy to lose track of time when you’re working all day in front of your Mac. Before you know it, it’s the end of the day. With Dynamic Desktop, your Mac’s desktop picture adjusts accordingly with the time of day, so you have a better idea of how the day is going. As of the first version of the macOS Mojave Public Beta, there’s only one desktop image you can use as a Dynamic Desktop. We’ll probably see more images become available as the official release date approaches. Turn on Dynamic Desktop 1. Click on the Apple menu and select System Preferences. 2. Click on Desktop & Screen Saver. 3. Click on the Desktop tab if it’s not already open. 4. Desktops that are Dynamic are indicated with an…

With Mojave, the Finder gets a few welcome improvements. The new Gallery View makes it easier to identify a file, as well as look at metadata for a photo – you no longer have to launch an app to see this information. Use Gallery View 1. In the Finder, open a new Finder window. If storage devices appear on your desktop, you can double-click a device icon. Or in the menu bar go to File > New Finder Window, or press Command-N. 2. In the Finder window, look for the four View buttons grouped together at the top of the window. The first is for Icons, the second for List, the third for Columns, and the fourth is for Gallery. Click on the Gallery icon to switch to Gallery View.…

Apple has unveiled its latest upgrade to its MacBook Pro line of laptop computers. While the design hasn’t changed, the new MacBook Pro promises to reach new performance heights that video editors, audio producers, animators, developers, and other professionals will truly appreciate. That performance boost is supplied by Intel’s eighth-generation of Core processors, along with a change in the RAM being used, and new graphics processors. The heart of the new laptops, Intel’s ‘Coffee Lake’ processors, actually became available in April, and Coffee Lake PC laptops have been on the market for a couple of months. Now Apple users get a taste of what Coffee Lake can do for the Mac: the firm claims a boost of up to 70 percent for the 15in MacBook Pro, while the 13in MacBook…

As we’ve seen, Apple has unveiled its latest upgrade to its MacBook Pro line of laptop computers. While the design hasn’t changed, the new laptop promises to reach new performance heights that video editors, audio producers, animators, developers, and other professionals will truly appreciate. Thinking about buying a new MacBook Pro? You also might want to consider protecting your new investment with one of Apple’s new leather sleeves for the 13- and 15in MacBook Pro. They come in three colours: Black, Midnight Blue, and Saddle Brown. The sleeves are made of high-quality leather, and inside feature a microfibre lining so your laptop is cradled in comfort. The sleeves are now available at the Apple Store: Leather Sleeve for 13in MacBook Pro: £179 from fave.co/2JuUBvH Leather Sleeve for 15in MacBook Pro:…

There have been a lot of rumours flying around about Apple developing some sort of headset or glasses that will bring virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) to the Mac and iOS devices, and Apple’s updates to its ARKit software at WWDC 2018 reinforced the company’s commitment to this new technology. And, also at WWDC, Apple showed a MacBook Pro using an eGPU – external graphics processing unit – to provide a graphics boost for 3D games and VR. It’s true that the iPhone and iPad are well-suited to AR, as the popularity of mobile games in recent years means these devices have plenty of graphical horsepower for titles, such as Pokémon Go, that work by superimposing computer graphics and data over images of the real world. (iOS 12…

The Dock in macOS Mojave has a new, very helpful feature: it now displays recently-used apps. It’s handy when you’re going through a phase of using a particular app frequently, but you don’t want that app to appear in your regular Dock line-up. Recent apps is on by default, and they appear on the right side of the Dock in a section marked off by horizontal white lines. In the Dock’s default setup, recent apps appear in a section between the Settings and Downloads icons. The Dock shows the three recent apps that you’ve used; if a recently-used app already has a home in the Dock, it doesn’t appear in the recents section. (In case you’re wondering, recent apps, documents, and servers are still available in > Recent Items.) If…

The desktop is a convenient place to save files. You can get to the file you need quickly; it’s right there on the desktop, and you don’t need to sift through folders. Problem is, the desktop can get very cluttered, and your access efficiency diminishes every time you save a file to the desktop without removing one. The new desktop Stacks feature in macOS Mojave helps organize the clutter. (It’s actually not a brand-new feature; Stacks made its first appearance in the OS X Dock. You can choose to have a group of items in the Dock appear as a Folder or as a Stack. The desktop implementation is new, though. As the name implies, Stacks puts your desktop files into stacks. When you click on a stack, it expands…

Emoji are a handy way to communicate while texting, so it seems natural for emoji to make its way into email, too. The Mail 12 app in Mojave now supports emoji, and the characters available are the same ones found in iOS. Add emoji in an email using Mail 12 1. Create an email by clicking on the New Message button in the Viewer Window, or press Command-N. 2. At the upper right of the New Message window is the Emoji & Symbols button. It has a smiley face and is located between the Format and Photo Browser buttons (see below). Click it. 3. A pop-up menu will appear wherever your cursor is in the message. This shows the emoji and symbols available to you. It works just like the…

In April of this year, when all the high-performance Windows laptops transitioned to Intel’s new 8th-generation ‘Coffee Lake’ processors, Apple fans were left scratching their heads. If it offers such a huge boost in performance... why isn’t Apple upgrading the MacBook Pro? Well better late than never, as they say. Apple’s bumping up the specifications of the 13- and 15in MacBook Pro (with Touch Bar) to the 8th-generation Intel chips, plus adding a few other goodies that should help make them tear through your Final Cut and Photoshop tasks. We will test, benchmark, and thoroughly review the new MacBook Pros just as soon as possible, of course. While you wait, let’s dive into the specs, compare them with what we know from Windows laptops, and paint a picture of just…

It was as absolute an answer as you could possibly get. Is Apple merging iOS and macOS? “No” said Apple software chief Craig Federighi, with an animated accompaniment smashing down on the screen behind him. And yet... he made that comment just moments before he unveiled a new system, being worked on by Apple over multiple years, that will allow the developers of iOS apps to bring those apps to the Mac more easily. And first up will be Apple itself, which is using this approach to translate the iOS Stocks, Voice Memos, News, and Home apps for macOS Mojave, coming this autumn. While the Mac and iOS might not be merging, major changes are in store for the Mac and the apps it runs. It’s hard to imagine how…

The Apple Watch may be Apple’s most personal device, but to truly make it yours you’ll need to start adding some of your favourite apps. But don’t worry if you’ve spent the last of your wearable budget on the watch itself – there are plenty of great apps to be had for free. So put away the credit card and check out our favourite free Apple Watch apps. Chirp Available from: fave.co/2Jt7N3Z Ever since Twitter pulled its app from the Apple Watch, there’s been a missing link between our timelines and our wrists. Chirp restores the connection. A simple interface lets you browse your timeline, scan your mentions, and catch up on the latest trends, and with a quick tap you can like or retweet anything you see. Heavy Twitter…

Updates to the operating system are important to install because they fix bugs and security holes. Sometimes they even add new features. In Mojave, Apple has moved OS updates to a Software Update system preference. It has also simplified the settings for automatic update installations. Let’s take a look at the Software Update system preference settings. Software Update settings The Software Update system preference is located in > System Preferences. Software Update is located in the third row. You can also get to the preference though > About This Mac > Software Update. Adjust the Software Update settings When you open Software Update, a check is made to see if your Mac is up to date and if there are any updates available. You might even miss this screen if…

At the unveiling of macOS 10.14 Mojave during Apple’s 2018 WWDC, the first feature the company showcased – it’s also the first feature listed on Apple’s Mojave preview website – is Dark Mode. With a Mac in Dark Mode, dark colours are used in place of light colours in the user interface. For example, in Dark Mode the menu bar at the top of the Mac UI is no longer white with black text. Instead, it’s inverted so the bar is a dark colour and the text is white. That dark theme is carried throughout the UI. For some, Dark Mode may not seem like a big deal, but it has many benefits. For example, the higher contrast of text makes it easier to read documents and menu items. Also,…

When you’re sifting through a set of files on your Mac – say, photos you just transferred from your iPhone – you’ve probably noticed little things that you want to adjust or fix in those files, but you don’t want to go through what seems like an ordeal of opening the file in an app just for a simple tweak. The new Quick Actions feature in Mojave is here to help. It gives you tools to perform quick edits to your files, right in the Finder, so you don’t have to launch an app. Your Finder windows need to have Preview turned on to see the Quick Action tools. To do this, open a Finder window and in the menu bar select View > Show Preview, or press Shift-Command-P. Quick…

We’ve all had this happen – in fact, it’s probably happening on your web browser right now, and it probably happens all the time. You have so many tabs open that you can’t quickly find the tab you need. Safari 12 in macOS Mojave has a new feature that displays favicons – icons (usually a logo) that represent a website – right in the tab itself. You can now find the tab you want with a simple glance. The favicon feature isn’t turned on by default in Safari 12. Here’s how to turn it on. 1. Launch Safari, located in the Applications folder. It’s also placed in the Dock by default. 2. Click the Safari menu and select Preferences. 3. Click on Tabs. 4. Check the box for Show website…

Leave it to the teardown experts at iFixit to figure out what Apple is doing to address reliability issues with its ‘butterfly’ MacBook keyboards. The site has begun tearing down the new MacBook Pros – the ones with eighth-generation Intel Core processors – and it’s discovered something interesting under the keys. Covering the butterfly mechanism is a very thin, flexible silicone membrane. As iFixit notes, this exactly matches a recent Apple patent for “ingress prevention for keyboards”. That’s where the story gets interesting. Apple has told journalists that the new third-generation butterfly keyboard was not engineered specifically to address reliability issues: instead, it only intended to make them quieter. While the percentage of failing MacBook butterfly keyboards may be relatively small, the situation is at least bad enough that Apple…

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO WHEN YOU INHERIT A MAC The loss of a loved one is devastating. When this gets tied up with a technical support issue? Even worse. Help Desk recently received several emails from Macworld readers who inherited, purchased, or were given computers or iOS devices by people who have passed away. They have enough password information to use the Macs successfully, sometimes for years. But then an event occurs that requires resetting the machine. Macworld reader Andrew has a Mac given to him a few years ago by a now-deceased acquaintance. He attempted to disable FileVault after upgrading to High Sierra. After restarting, the Mac presented a lock screen and asked for a code to enter. It didn’t resemble anything he’d previously used. (It’s unclear from…

The ongoing Steam Summer Sale means that it’s the ideal time to stock up on Mac games new and old. But if you’re just on the hunt for something that’s totally new on Mac, then that’s what this monthly round-up is for. We scoured the release lists to pick 10 of the most compelling Mac game debuts from the past few weeks, including gunship shooter Overload, intense indie action game Dead Cells, and the mysterious adventure tale Unforeseen Incidents. 1. Overload Price: £23.79 from Steam (fave.co/2LvUou3) Interplay’s Descent was a formative early 3D game, albeit a potentially stomach-churning one: with six-degrees-of-freedom movement through tight corridors, the gunship shooter could be nauseating. Still, it has its die-hard supporters, and Overload is billed as a spiritual successor that comes from some of…