Macworld Australiaの August 2016 の目次

I’m writing this sitting in my local public library (I like to work here once a week or so to break up the monotony of office life) just five days after doing something I thought I’d never do. I ran my first marathon. Technically, it counts as an ultramarathon as the official race distance was 43km and not the regulation 42.2km. It was run along the beautiful Surf Coast Trail along Victoria’s west coast taking in Torquay, Bells Beach and a number of other landmarks. The start of the race was relatively easy, but then we hit the sand on Bells Beach. In just 500m I was almost brought to a standstill by soft, wet, ankle-deep sand. Once I recovered from that I was able to get back to my…

Over the last few issues of Macworld Australia we’ve been working through the ins and outs of Profile Manager. We’ve now come to the stage when we are ready to start Profile Manager. The plan here is to use a Mac other than your server for setting up, connecting to, and managing Profile Manager. It’s not necessary for this lesson, you can perform these tasks on your server, but you will need a second computer for every episode following this one. On a second computer: • Download and Open the Server app. • Locate your Server in the list of servers, select it and click Continue. • Authenticate using the directory administrator ID and password you created in the last lesson. • You should now see a window asking you…

Remember when you first started using a web browser, how great it was to be able to save bookmarks? It was necessary back in the day, because you couldn’t remember all those URLs, and browsers didn’t auto-complete with addresses of your saved sites. They also didn’t suggest sites when you typed the name of a company or publication, so you needed to know the URL to get where you wanted. But the more bookmarks you save, the harder it is to find what you’re looking for. Remember that site where you saw that really interesting article last month? You bookmarked it, and you remember the title, but if you look in your Safari bookmarks, you have to either scan the entire list, or search for it. Sure, you can sort…

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Security is hard and most of the solutions that vendors push out to us make things worse by being too difficult to use and hindering performance on our systems. Norton – the consumer products brand owned by security giant Symantec – has been around for a long time. Experienced Mac users will remember Norton AntiVirus with less than fond memories, but a lot has changed since then. Their latest product, Norton WiFi Privacy, is a VPN (virtual private network) product for iOS and Android devices. Norton WiFi Privacy encrypts your data when you connect to public, unsecured wireless networks so that hackers can’t snoop on your data and manipulate what you see on your screens – something that is trivially…

We live in the nascent stages of the age of wearable tech. Walk into almost any electronics retailer and you’ll find smartwatches that can track all sorts of things. But when you scratch the surface you discover the vast majority are made to only work on dry land. That’s where Garmin’s Forerunner 735XT stands out. As well as being able to track you while running or cycling, the Forerunner 735XT can follow you into the sea or pool. Garmin is perhaps the most well-known brand in smart sport watches. It offers a number of devices at almost every price point from $99 to $949. The Forerunner 735XT sits in the upper part of the product range. The Forerunner 735XT boasts in-built GPS and uses both the US-owned satellite system and…

ANTHONY CARUANA An 11in MacBook Air with retina display. MADELEINE SWAIN Lightweight but with amazing battery life, and, dare I say it, hybrid features. No more trying to swipe the MacBook Pro’s screen after long iPad sessions. ALICIA PINNOCK Reintroducing an optical drive to save desk space and avoid buying them separately. MONIQUE BLAIR Apple’s ‘Colossal’ and ‘Ginormous’ 4-5K iMacs would be so much cooler if they were available in 42in or more.…

GEMINI 2 UTILITIES MacPaw Inc $27.50 If you’ve bought a new Mac in recent years, chances are it arrived with flash storage in place of a traditional hard drive. In terms of reliability and rapid-fire boot times, flash storage is awesome, but it’s expensive. So to make it more affordable, you don’t get the capacity you see with hard drives. There are a lot of ways to work around the built-in limited flash storage, but there’s another method for eking out a little more space: purge duplicate files. Few of us bother doing it, because weeding out extra copies of photos, documents and other media takes too much time and energy. With Gemini 2 there’s little reason to fear duplicates. It has a polished, intuitive user interface and the brains…

You’ve probably heard this before. There are two types of hard drive – those that have failed and those that will fail. It’s this maxim that makes backups so essential. The trouble is, many of us don’t learn the lesson about backups until it’s too late. Almost every computer user has suffered some kind of data loss or disk failure and been left scrambling to recover precious business files, photos or other irreplaceable media. For those times, we need data recovery tools that can get our data back before it disappears into the ether. TYPES OF DATA LOSS Before we start looking at Prosoft Engineering’s data recovery tools, it’s important to understand what we’re talking about when it comes to data loss and recovery. Hardware failure Old-style hard drives store…

If you plan to take your home or office paperless, you need to invest in a decent scanner. Sure, there are multifunction devices out there that can scan documents, but if you’re dealing with hundreds of pieces of paper each month, then investing in a fast scanner that can send files straight to your filing system with as little manual handling as possible is critical. Brother has been involved in document management systems for many years, on both the input and output side of the equation. The ADS-3600W is a document scanner that can handle up to 50 double-sided pages per minute at 600dpi from its 50-sheet document feeder. It can scan over USB, network connection, using a wired or wireless network, to locations on your network as well as…

After installing your favourite streaming apps and playing some of the games designed just for tvOS on your Apple TV, you’re probably wondering what else this set-top box can do. There are a slew of under-the-radar features that let you customise your TV to your heart’s content and make it much easier to use. Apple just released tvOS 9.2, which baked a tonne of functionality into the device (including some features from older TV models). Here are 30 tips and tricks to make the most out of your fourth-generation Apple TV. 1. SIRI SEARCHES ACROSS APPS Searching for stuff to watch on your Apple TV just got a whole lot easier with the help of Siri. If you search for a movie or TV show from the home screen, Siri…

PARALLELS ACCESS 3.1 UTILITIES Parallels iPAD, iPHONE $24.99 PER YEAR The ability to remotely access desktop computers on mobile devices feels futuristic, but that captivation wears off right when I have to pinch and zoom to see what’s on screen or attempt to get any real work done from a remote system. Parallels Access addresses these problems by allowing iOS and Android devices to use Mac and Windows computers from anywhere with an internet connection. Rather than replicate the computer’s display like other virtual network computing (VNC) apps do, Parallels Access adapts larger screens to smartphones, tablets or web browsers. The agent software can be installed on up to five computers, and a single user account can access those systems from an unlimited number of iOS or Android devices for…

Backpacks are a very personal choice. We’ve all got different body shapes and we carry different payloads. The STM Prime is a lightweight backpack with room for your MacBook or MacBook Pro, as well books, papers and pens. The Prime is quite light. The mere 700g it weighs is surprising given the 15l capacity. I used the Prime to carry a 13in MacBook Air and a hefty pile of documents and books. There’s plenty of space and the compartments are well-organised with specific slots for your laptop, iPad (but not an iPad Pro unless you put that in the main laptop compartment), iPhone, pens, cables, and the other flotsam and jetsam that we carry. For those who travel regularly, there’s enough room for your business essentials and a change of…