Tabla de contenidos para Volume 1 2016 en MacLife Specials

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, Time Machine backup on disk LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 1 hour YOU CAN UPGRADE to OS X El Capitan on Macs from as far back as 2007 – see bit.ly/1z2xzld for the full supported list. You’ll need to be running at least OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) – if you’re still running 10.5 (Leopard), then you’ll first have to buy an upgrade to 10.6 and install it before you can move to El Capitan (which is free). In theory, all your settings and data will be preserved when you migrate. flowever, it’s a good idea to ensure that you have an up-to-date Time Machine backup on an external drive or removable disk before you start (see page 92). If your Mac is…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11 or later LEVEL > Anyone can do it IT WILL TAKE > 5 minutes DRAGGING OPEN windows around your desktop – opening and closing or minimizing and maximizing them – has always been the way we’ve worked in OS X. But no matter how carefully you tried to arrange your open windows, it’s never been a perfect system for keeping everything organized. Sure, Mission Control can help (see page 24) as a quick way of seeing everything that you’ve got open at once and switching apps with ease, and there is also a fullscreen view on most apps these days that reduces distraction by utilizing the whole of your display, but overall using OS X still seems to require an inordinate amount of time resizing…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, internet connection, Apple ID, one or more thirdparty widgets LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 10 minutes ONE OF THE most noteworthy things about OS X is how it’s not just working more closely with iOS these days, but also adopting some of the best bits from the iPhone and iPad. The big revamp to Notification Center in iOS 8 proved especially popular on mobile devices, enabling users to use the new Today view to see regularly accessed information, and add widgets to customize the experience. The Today view made its way into OS X in 10.10 Yosemite, providing at-a-glance views of calendar events, reminders, weather forecasts, stock prices, and more. It remains to be seen whether developers get behind the system as wholeheartedly…

SAFARI IS full of features that make web browsing much easier. In the following nine expert tips you’ll discover exactly how to search smarter, read text on pages easily, sync tabs across devices, manage your privacy and security and more. 1 Spotlight suggestions Click and type in the Search field; Safari gets suggestions from your chosen search engine, your favorites, and your bookmarks, plus Spotlight suggestions. 2 Quick Website Search When you use a site’s built-in search, Safari learns how its search works. Next time, type the site’s address followed by keywords in the Smart Search Field to get search results from it directly. 3 Read pages easily When you visit a page with lots of body text, a paragraph-like icon appears at the left of the search field. Click…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11 LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 10 minutes AS YOU’D EXPECT, iBooks is Apple’s alternative to Amazon’s Kindle and other ebook readers. It’s available on iPad and iPhone, as well as El Capitan as a Mac app. Best of all, books that you bought on your iOS device in the past can be downloaded to and read on your Mac as well. The iBook Store can be browsed on your Mac, and new books can be purchased and downloaded straight to it. There’s a broad range of books available in the store, and some contain much richer content than a continuous flow of text. Some iBooks are made exclusively for Apple’s store to take advantage of interactive features – everything from audio and video…

Many of Mail’s new features are focused on making it more practical to work with in fullscreen mode, especially when composing messages. New messages are still created in a panel that’s displayed in the middle of the screen, but you no longer have to save the message as a draft before you can look at other messages. 27 However, clicking outside of the pane now causes it to slide out of the way to the bottom of the screen. Click on the small bar down there to bring the composition panel back into view. This is more convenient for copying and pasting text or dragging attachments from one message into a new one. 28 It isn’t just Mail’s main window that can be made to take over the whole screen.…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11 LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 5 minutes YOSEMITE INTRODUCED a colorful new interface with translucency effects to the Mac. This has been further refined in El Capitan and looks great, but sometimes you might prefer a more muted OS X experience. That preference is covered by a visual effect referred to as “dark mode.” With this enabled, OS X’s menu bar, Dock and Spotlight are affected. The Dock switches from its usual bright self to a dark gray. The menu bar at the top of the screen, and the menus that drop down from it, adopt the same effect, with black backgrounds and white text. This especially makes sense when paired with editing software that itself has darkened hues, such as Adobe Photoshop,…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, a Recovery partition on your startup disk or a Recovery disk LEVEL > Hard IT WILL TAKE > From a few minutes to several hours, depending on the feature you need RECOVERY MODE IS A built-in set of tools, hidden until you start up your Mac holding down ç+R when you hear the startup chime, that you’ll depend upon in a rare emergency – typically when some drastic glitch prevents OS X loading. It looks a lot like OS X proper, but its capabilities are limited to essential maintenance tools that will help you get up and running after a critical problem. Apple has made restoring a Mac from a Time Machine backup almost as easy as turning on that feature in the first place.…

THE ALL-NEW, all-singing, all-dancing, OS X 10.11 El Capitan is here – and you’ll love it! Like its predecessor, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, it continues the theme of Californian place names for Apple’s operating systems: El Capitan is the name of a rock formation situated within Yosemite National Park. Also like Yosemite, this new version can be downloaded for free from the Mac App Store if your Mac doesn’t already have it. If this is your first Mac, we’ve got a guide to getting set up on page 10. You can find out about upgrading from an older Mac or migrating from a Windows PC on page 12 onwards. If you have an iPad or an iPhone, you’ll be right at home with El Capitan’s fresh-looking interface, which takes many…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, a Windows PC connected to the same network LEVEL > Hard IT WILL TAKE > 2 to 4 hours WHEN YOU’VE DECIDED to migrate from a Windows PC to a Mac, it’s important to make sure all your settings and precious data move from one to the other as smoothly as possible. OS X El Capitan includes a Migration Assistant designed to handle the various knotty problems that such a transfer can entail. It’s not just a matter of picking up all your documents and other files from one computer and dropping them onto the other (though that will work fine for many files – see the box to the right). There are numerous types of data involved, many of which need to be converted…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, a web connection, some documents LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 15 minutes SPOTLIGHT HAS LONG made it easier to find content on your Mac, and, more recently, online. By OS X 10.10 Yosemite, you could search for local documents, perform quick conversions and sums, and locate nearby stores and restaurants. With OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Spotlight has access to a number of new sources. Now, you can get the weather forecast for anywhere in the world, find out the latest sports scores, and check transit information for locations covered by Apple Maps. Spotlight has also gained some naturallanguage smarts. The idea is you type a search query as a phrase – “email from Paul in April” or “spreadsheet I worked on last…

WHEN YOU need to get somewhere, the Maps app gets your journey underway without you having to struggle with typing on your iPhone’s smaller keyboard. 1 Search Type an address in the search bar and press R to drop a pin, or click and hold to drop a pin at the pointer. Click the “i” on a pin’s label to see more about it. 2 Pin options You can mark a location as a favorite. Click the search bar and then Favorites to access saved locations (and any stored in the Contacts app). 3 Plan a journey Click the Directions button to open a sidebar where you’ll detail the journey to make. You can go to File > New Window to do this in a .fresh window. 4 Set starting…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, iTunes 12; an Apple ID; optionally a CD drive LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 20 minutes WHEN IT COMES to organizing your music, movies, TV shows and other media, iTunes provides an easy way to build up your collection, and powerful features to help decide what music you hear. You can manually build playlists, but iTunes also enables you to specify a few criteria – say, tracks from the ’90s that you’ve rated four or five stars – and it’ll pick out matching tracks in an instant, even from a library that contains thousands of items, to save you the trouble of doing it yourself. You can buy from the iTunes Store from within iTunes – to get anything that isn’t free, you’ll…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, some photos to play with LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > Give yourself at least 30 minutes WITH EL CAPITAN you get the new Photos app, which replaced iPhoto. Here we’ll look at the basics of how it works, so whether you’re new to Mac or coming from iPhoto, you can easily get to grips with it. If you’ve used the Photos app on an iPhone or iPad, the Mac version will be familiar. It provides the same ways to explore your photo library, the same methods for organizing photos into curated albums and sharing them with other people, and the same easy-to-use yet powerful toolset that makes it possible even for a newcomer to make photos look great. THE MAC VERSION OF PHOTOS…

OS X 10.11 is finally here – and we’ve dived deep into its greatest new features Apple’s latest update to OS X, El Capitan, takes its title from a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park. Like its namesake, El Capitan rises from Yosemite, the version of OS X it replaces – building upon its solid foundation to deliver a stronger operating system packed with exciting feature enhancements. In many ways, El Capitan is like a modern version of Snow Leopard, the 2009 version of OS X in which Apple introduced very few new features. Instead, the company rewrote underlying code and focused on improving performance for the long term. But that doesn’t mean there are no new features in El Capitan – far from it. There are some real…

REMEMBERING LOGIN details for a multitude of websites isn’t easy. Passwords either end up being difficult to remember, or you make them so simple that they’re easy for others to work out. But Safari and other web browsers can save your credentials so you can set a stronger password and never have to memorize it. You might want to log in to the same websites on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or another Mac. iCloud Keychain saves you having to enter the same login details on all of your devices. It can remember bank card details as well – but it won’t store the security code from the signature strip. 1 Get started Go to System Preferences > iCloud. Scroll down the list of features and turn on the Keychain…

WHETHER YOU print brochures for your business or just the occasional letter to your bank manager, a printer is a vital part of every Mac setup. OS X has access to the latest printer and scanner software from the world’s leading manufacturers, so you mostly only need to connect your device; if any additional software is needed, OS X will download it. This means there’s no complex setting-up. And printers aren’t that expensive. You can get a good multifunction inkjet, which also scans and photocopies, for under $250. If your needs are modest, a simple desktop inkjet printer can be bought for less than $60. If you have any printers that support AirPrint, Apple’s own wireless print system, OS X will automatically use AirPrint. If you want to use another…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 (64-bit versions) LEVEL > Medium IT WILL TAKE > 1 hour MOST WINDOWS apps have a Mac counterpart, but sometimes you need to use arcane Windows-only software, or you want to play Windows games. Boot Camp gives you way to do that. This free utility that comes with OS X enables you to choose whether to boot your Mac into OS X or Windows. You’ll need your own copy of Windows to install, and modern Macs support only 64-bit versions of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 – go to apple.co/1JUZLO4 to find out which your Mac can run. The Boot Camp Assistant helps you through the whole process of putting Windows on your Mac. It enables you to install…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11 LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 5 minutes WHEN YOU FIRST switch on a brand new Mac, there are a few steps to go through before you can get going with it. For starters, you’ll need to personalize your Mac, and optionally connect it to the internet and Apple’s iCloud service. The Setup Assistant guides you through these important steps in just a few minutes. You’ll need to confirm the language you want to use and verify your keyboard layout. The latter of these steps is especially important if you aren’t using an Apple keyboard, which is most likely if you’ve moved to the Mac from a Windows PC and kept your existing mouse and keyboard. USER ACCOUNTS You’ll also create an administrator account…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11 El Capitan (some features work in older versions) LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 15 minutes MISSION CONTROL HAS been a feature of Apple’s OS X operating system since 2011, but it’s roots go back to Exposé, which debuted way back in 2003 with OS X 10.3. As the name implies, Mission Control is envisaged as the control center from which you run your Mac. It’s very useful when you need to find that one crucial app you’ve lost behind a dozen open folders, or you simply need to get a handle on exactly what apps you’ve got running at a given moment. “Smart yet simple” is the mantra underlying Apple’s latest OS X update, and the new Mission Control beautifully exemplifies this philosophy.…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11 LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 20 minutes THERE’S NOTHING worse than realizing you were due in ameeting 10 minutes ago, or have forgotten a birthday. Happily, Notification Center can make such disasters a thing of the past. It displays little popups on your screen to tell you about a new email, an event in your Calendar, a new iMessage, or a note you’ve left for yourself using the Reminders app. Notifications also appear in the Notification Center sidebar, which you access by clicking the right-most icon in the menu bar. You can also place two fingers on the right-hand edge of your Mac’s trackpad and swipe left onto the trackpad to slide it into view. You control notifications mainly in System Preferences. Many…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11; (optionally) an iCloud account LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 15 minutes SAFARI DOES everything you’d expect of a web browser, but it’s also tightly integrated with Apple’s iCloud service and your Mac’s trackpad or Magic Mouse. It doesn’t matter that your Mac hasn‘t got a touchscreen – you can simply swipe horizontally with two fingers on a trackpad (or one finger on a Magic Mouse) to move between pages you’ve visited. Once you’ve signed into social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, Safari’s Share button makes it quick and easy to post a link to a web page so your friends can also read it. The browser’s integration with iCloud enables you to pick up an iOS device or switch to another Mac…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, an email account LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > 10 minutes MAIL IS THE standard app you use for getting your email on a Mac. It’s been around since the start of OS X but has been through many changes. In an age where webmail is king, it might seem old fashioned to use a dedicated email program, but there are several advantages to using Mail, which we’ll go through here. At first glance, Mail hasn’t changed much in El Capitan compared to the previous Yosemite version, but if you look more closely you’ll find that there are plenty of new features to delight you. For example, it can automatically identify event details, show you addresses and spot updated contact information. You can use…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11 LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > Five minutes whenever you add a note IN PAST EDITIONS of OS X, Notes felt like no more than a simple tool for syncing thoughts and flashes of inspiration between your Mac and iOS devices. No wonder the lure of rivals such as Evernote proved irresistible for so many. With the move to El Capitan, Apple has thought again, pulled Notes to bits and started out from scratch. It still synchronizes with iOS devices through your iCloud account, but now goes far beyond simple jottings. It’s fully tooled up to act as a repository for everything that matters day to day, whether that be the simple shopping lists, jobs and recipes to which it has always been basically…

REQUIRES > OS X 10.11, some photos to play with LEVEL > Easy IT WILL TAKE > Give yourself at least 30 minutes WITH EL CAPITAN you get the new Photos app, which replaced iPhoto. Here we’ll look at the basics of how it works, so whether you’re new to Mac or coming from iPhoto, you can easily get to grips with it. If you’ve used the Photos app on an iPhone or iPad, the Mac version will be familiar. It provides the same ways to explore your photo library, the same methods for organizing photos into curated albums and sharing them with other people, and the same easy-to-use yet powerful toolset that makes it possible even for a newcomer to make photos look great. THE MAC VERSION OF PHOTOS…

Apple is determined to make Spotlight the go-to place for finding anything with your Mac. That means not just files and folders, but also online information, weather reports, your contacts and much more. In recent years, Apple has started to blend search results from the internet with the ones from your Mac, adding a few new sources to make Spotlight more effective at answering a range of questions. El Capitan gives you the ability to find certain things – files, folders and email – by expressing yourself using natural language. Spotlight then interprets your meaning to give you more accurate results – such as files you worked on a week ago when you want to continue a project. One small but very welcome improvement is that you can also move…

A pple has reintroduced a more helpful layout as a default setting for Mission Control. Windows are now spread out, with no overlaps, rather than stacked up according to the app they belong to, making it easier to find the one you want. 21 You can return to having windows stacked up (Yosemite’s default) by turning on “Group windows by application” in System Preferences > Mission Control. 22 A new gesture for opening Mission Control cuts the number of steps for moving a window to a new space; try dragging it past the top of the screen. The Spaces bar at the top of the screen has changed to initially display only the names of your desktops and fullscreen apps. This gives more space for the window previews below. Moving…