Macworld UKの May 2016 の目次

Six months is a long time in tech, and most of us now find Mac OS X El Capitan as comfortable and comforting as a warm pair of slippers. But the not-quite-as-new-as-it-used-to-be dog still has a few tricks hidden away that even power users might not know about. And some of them might just change the way you use your Mac. We’ve rounded up 12 fantastic advanced tips for your delight and edification: secret El Capitan tricks and techniques that will transform your user experience and wow you friends and colleagues. 1. Know what iCloud Drive is doing In El Capitan it’s much easier to see when iCloud Drive is syncing, which is to say, uploading, downloading, or deleting files. For example, at the side of the iCloud Drive heading…

Hyper Light Drifter Price: £13.49 from tinyurl.com/gmgLv4v Hyper Light Drifter dazzled with its Kickstarter campaign back in 2013, and now two and a half years later – with an expanded scope thanks to extra funding – it looks even more marvellous. This action role-playing adventure takes its cues from the classic Legend of Zelda games, with combat and a world full of secrets, but has its own sense of style. The ultra-detailed pixel look is pretty astounding, as is the beautiful piano music to match, and early user reviews via Steam have been mostly rapturous, praising the game’s dystopian world, challenging combat, and superb presentation. If you love old-school games with modern polish, Hyper Light Drifter looks like a real winner. Lego Marvel’s Avengers Price: £29.99 from the Mac App…

Linux is an interesting and slightly less well-known operating system, although Macworld’s tech-savvy readers are likely to know at least a little about it. In the dual world of Windows vs Apple, Linux sits off to one side, powering serious servers and being used by software developers. There are lots of great reasons to be interested in Linux. Like OS X, it has a heritage with Unix (or at least a Unix clone called GNU). Some Linux desktops, like Ubuntu Unity, are similar in nature to OS X. Linux is loved by developers, and if you’re into coding it can be great to move into Linux. It turns out that OS X is (in many ways) better than Windows for software development, but Linux is even more comfortable to work…

I first touched an Apple product in the early 1980s. The father of my best friend in school was a technology enthusiast, and when I visited their house, I got to lay hands on their Apple II+. What I remember most was that you could play video games on it that were more sophisticated than anything you’d find on my Atari console. The other oddity about the Apple II+ was that it couldn’t display lowercase letters. Throughout the 1980s, we could identify Apple II+ users on message boards BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS TYPED LIKE THEY WERE SHOUTING. It wasn’t them; it was their computer. The Apple II captured my attention and started a lifelong connection with Apple products. We had them at school, of course, and my friends and I spent…

Free • apple.com/uk Apple has released watchOS 2.2, an update to the operating system for Apple Watch. The update includes new features and bug fixes. These include: Adds support for pairing multiple Apple Watches to one iPhone Adds Nearby in Maps to browse for places around you by category, including Food and Shopping Increases frequency of background heart-rate measurements when you are stationary Installation requires iOS 9.3 on your iPhone. When installing a watch update, your watch has to be in range of your iPhone, connected to its charger, and charged to 50 percent of battery life. Once your hardware is all set up, open the Watch app on your iPhone. Tap General > Software Update. The update is 114MB.…

Apple Keynote Price: £14.99; free with all new Macs How It Works: Like Pages and Numbers, Keynote was recently revamped and gained a more streamlined interface that makes it easy to add animations and other effects to your presentations. The key feature here is the Inspector panel that sits on the right-hand side of the main workspace. At the top of the Inspector are the Format and Animate buttons that provide instant access to all the program’s main features. Click the Format button and the Inspector displays options for changing the format of text and graphics, such as changing the font size and style for text, or adding a reflection effect to a photo on a slide. Click the Animate button and the Inspector switches to display Keynote’s ‘builds’ –…

In this article we’ll show you how to perform a clean install of Mac OS X – we focus mainly on El Capitan and Yosemite, but approximately the same technique will work for earlier versions of OS X. This is often a handy option if your Mac is slow or otherwise misbehaving. Before you start, remember to back up. You’ll need an 8GB or larger removable drive that hasn’t got anything on it you need, and admin privileges. We’ll redownload the installer file for our chosen version of Mac OS X and store it on a removable drive: you’ll need a USB flash drive with a capacity of at least 8GB. (We’re going to erase it, so make sure it doesn’t contain any valuable data.) The drive you use needs…

In the event of a serious problem, you may need to reinstall your whole Mac operating system using the recovery partition. But how do you restore a Mac that’s missing a recovery partition? It is possible to restore a Mac without a recovery partition, but it can be tricky (especially on older Macs). You have two approaches available: 1. Use Internet Recovery to reinstall OS X on Mac with a missing recovery partition. 2. Create a OS X installation drive from an old USB Thumb Drive and reinstall OS X. We’re going to look at both of these options in this feature, but first, a quick explanation of what a recovery partition is. What is the OS X recovery partition? Most people don’t really think about hard drives in terms…

On 27 January, many iOS and Mac users found that their Safari browser would crash every time they tried to tap the URL bar, or sometimes a new tab, completely closing the Safari app and forcing them to launch it again, only to experience the same issue continuously. The problem is reportedly being caused by Apple’s Safari Suggestions, which is the feature that offers up automatically completed URLs as you type in the URL bar. These autocompletes come from Apple’s server, so even if you haven’t updated your browser or device recently, you could still experience the issue. To turn these off on an iOS device, go to Settings > Safari and turn off Safari Suggestions. On your Mac you can use Private Browsing mode by clicking File > New…

Smart Keyboard for 9.7in iPad Pro Price: £129 A shrunken iPad Pro means shrunken iPad Pro accessories: Apple’s Smart Keyboard (pictured above) is now available to fit the new tablet. It costs a little bit less – £129 for the 9.7in model, compared to £139 for the 12.9in Pro – but the functionality is the same, with its Smart Connector power port and Bluetooth-less data connection. The larger keyboard is comfortable to type on, and we hope the smaller one doesn’t feel cramped, although we generally only have that problem with keyboards sized for the 7in iPad mini. Apple Pencil Price: £79 Okay, the Apple Pencil isn’t a new accessory, but it’s newly compatible with the new 9.7in iPad Pro, so it’s worth a mention. This pressure-sensitive Bluetooth stylus is…

Apple and Microsoft If IT was a soap opera, Apple and Microsoft’s on-off relationship would put EastEnders to shame. Today, you’d never guess there had ever been anything wrong, and that’s probably down to the fact that their relationship has never been more symbiotic. IDC figures released in summer 2015 showed Mac sales to have climbed by 16 percent over the previous quarter. At the same time, though, the overall PC market for machines running Windows had dipped by 11.8 percent. So, with ever more of Microsoft’s revenue coming from Office 365, it needs to push its subscription-based productivity service onto as many platforms as it can – including Android, iOS and, of course, the Mac. Apple, on the other hand, needs Office. It has its own productivity apps in…

If you share your Mac with other people in your household or office, you’ll want to set up separate user accounts for each person. Each user can have different settings for things like the way their desktop looks and which tools or apps open at launch. Crucially, the admin user can specify which users can access specific files and folders. The admin can also set Parental Controls for other users. There’s one ‘special user’ – Guest. By default, recent versions of OS X have the Guest user enabled. This allows a friend or colleague to use your Mac without having their own account or using someone else’s account. They can do all the things a regular user can do, but when they log out, all of the files and folders…

Having regular backups is always recommended, no matter if it’s on a smartphone or a desktop. If you’ve recently migrated from Windows or would simply like to have your backups on a Mac, you might be wondering how to. In this guide, we will go through the various steps and iteration of Windows which have various backup options. Restore from Windows 10 and 8 Windows 8 and 10 have ‘File History backup’, which can be found in Settings > Update & Security > Backup on a Windows computer. Once you’ve got your backup from your Windows PC, you’ll be able to simply browse your hard drive or USB stick and extract the files you wish from your Finder. Due to the way Windows creates its backups, it might look a…

Are you a developer working across iOS and OS X platforms on a Mac? Then you’ll be interested to know that the new Safari Technology Preview is available for free for anyone to download and use. It will allow developers to see the upcoming changes in iOS and OS X and even help Apple improve the Safari user experience. Where to find and download the Safari Technology Preview The browser can be downloaded for free, directly from Apple’s website. In order to run the preview, you’ll need to be running on a Mac that has OS X 10.11.4 or later. Unfortunately, there are no current plans for the browser to be released on any other platform, which is a shame. Once you’ve downloaded the file, head over to your Downloads…