Innehållsförteckning för August 2019 från Macworld UK

Apple has announced that Sir Jony Ive, the company’s Chief Design Officer, is leaving the tech giant. Ive will be forming his own design business, of which Apple will be a client. “After nearly 30 years and countless projects, I am most proud of the lasting work we have done to create a design team, process and culture at Apple that is without peer,” Ive said in a statement released by Apple. “Today it is stronger, more vibrant and more talented than at any point in Apple’s history.” Leading Apple’s design teams now are Evans Hankey, vice president of Industrial Design, and Alan Dye, vice president of Human Interface Design. Both will report to Apple COO Jeff Williams. “Jony is a singular figure in the design world and his role…

Fresh on the heels of the release of the public betas for iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina, Apple has updated both the iOS and macOS versions of its iWork apps: Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. Each app comes with its own bag of goodies, but each one now comes with better options for editing lists, charts, and tables – including the ability to create customized bullets. All three apps also let you stylize your text with new outline styles or by filling in the letters with gradients or your own images. In addition, the updates include a ‘face detection’ feature that intelligently positions subjects in photos when you place those photos in placeholders or objects. Pages Pages for Mac and iOS are basically the same, but the iOS version…

Price: £219 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2xDA2tv When AirPods launched in 2016 they were the earphones that launched a thousand think pieces. They were mocked for looking like toothbrush heads, alien ears and criticized for their high price. Fast forward to 2019 and cities are rife with AirPods. They are as common to see on your commute as the classic white iPod headphones were back in the mid-2000s. The Apple-owned Beats is still making headphones as a separately to their parent company. The Powerbeats Pro are the first true wireless Beats and they are excellent because they take all the best things about AirPods and substantially improve the fit and audio performance. In fact, aside from the enormous charging case, there isn’t much to complain about for most people – so…

It’s been a bumper few months for Mac games. Over the following pages we’ve an excellent selection of titles, ranging from the wonderful Katana Zero to a good port of the years-old Call of Duty: Black Ops III. We’ve also an enjoyable MMORPG expansion with lots of dragons, a rhythm platformer, as well as a cool comic book-styled FPS from some of the people behind BioShock There’s even a thought-provoking art house game if you’re into that kind of thing. 1. Katana Zero Price: £11.39 from Steam fave.co/2S2MMmX You’re a pixel-art assassin in Katana Zero, and your blade slices through swarms of gun-toting goons who never get a chance to touch you. Sometimes you’ll deflect bullets. Sometimes you’ll drop to kill your foes after scrambling through hidden passages. Sometimes…

The HomePod is enjoying a resurgence now that Apple has cut the price by £40, and I suspect a lot of you are wondering what you can do with Apple’s essentially buttonless smart speaker. Let’s get this out of the way: no, it still doesn’t do as many things as your average Alexapowered speaker. It can, however, do a lot more than it could do at launch thanks to a couple of big patches Apple rolled out last year – though many features aren’t obvious. Follow the tips below, and you’ll find that HomePod can feel like a member of the family, after all. A quick note: you’ll need to set up Personal Requests to use some of these features. Once you’ve set up your HomePod, open the Home app…

Apple has updated its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, but has discontinued the smallest of the bunch, the 12in MacBook. It has also stopped selling the older non-Retina MacBook Air and the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro (sometimes referred to by Apple fans as the MacBook Escape). The MacBook Air has got a small upgrade that adds True Tone to the display for better ambient colour adjustments, a feature most common on Apple’s iPads. It is also now cheaper, starting at £1,099 – £100. In place of the MacBook Escape is a £1,299 Touch Bar MacBook Pro with 8th-gen Intel processors. It means it’s the cheapest Touch Bar model yet, and one of the most powerful. But it means if you don’t want the Touch Bar on a MacBook Pro…

Less than 10 years after Steve Jobs passed away, Apple is faced with another difficult transition. Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s design guru since the days of the Newton MessagePad, has announced that he will be leaving the tech giant as an employee to form an independent design company, of which Apple will be a client. While he’s not leaving altogether, his departure from Apple Park will leave an indelible mark on the company, not unlike the iPhone, iPad, and iMacs he leaves behind. Here are 10 of Jony Ive’s most daring designs. 1. eMate 3000 Back before the Blueberry iBook was a thing, Jony Ive designed a super-portable laptop with a curvy design, translucent case, and clamshell cover called the eMate 3000. Aimed at the education market, it was…

Price: £55.99 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2LccQv8 When I reviewed Picktorial 3.0, I noted how the software took a few unconventional approaches to photo editing and employed a clever way to save non-destructive edits. The new Picktorial 4.0 adds some new editing features, but mostly focuses on the organizing side of working with your library of images. An editing assistant When you’re making adjustments to a photo – retouching in particular – you want to view the image at actual size to see how the edits are affecting the pixels. The new Assistant Viewer splits the editing area, so you can view the full image in one pane while you’re applying corrections at 100 percent in the other pane. It’s a simple and effective alternative to zooming in and out repeatedly…

The Apple Watch is a marvel of miniaturization and can do so much. It’s no wonder it’s the most popular watch in the world. But the tiny display and simple controls don’t leave a lot of room for tutorials and explainers. Many of the best, most useful features and controls for the Apple Watch are, not exactly hidden, but at least hard to discover. 1. Take screenshots Want to brag about that epic workout session or high score in an Apple Watch game? Taking a screenshot on your Apple Watch is simple. Just press and hold the side button and tap the digital crown (you can usually trigger it by simply tapping both buttons at once, which is easier since they’re on the same side of the watch). Your…

Stuck in macOS Recovery with a language you don’t speak? Here’s how to fix this When you start up a Mac while holding down Command-R on the keyboard, the Mac boots into macOS Recovery. In this mode, you can run Disk Utility, access the command-line Terminal app, and reinstall the operating system. But what do you do if you restart your Mac into Recovery mode and a language appears other than one you know? This doesn’t seem to happen at random, but it can occur when you’ve purchased a computer from someone who installed the system using another language, which can remain in place in the Recovery partition, a separately organized part of your startup drive. Fortunately, there are a few ways to resolve this. • Choose the third menu…

Apple has revealed a voluntary recall for owners of the 15in MacBook Pro. If you bought such a laptop between September 2015 and February 2017, it could have a battery that is at risk of overheating. The tech giant will replace the battery in these laptops for free. To see if your laptop is part of the recall, click on the Apple (›) menu and select About This Mac. In the overview section of the About This Mac window that appears, you should see the operating system as the main header. Underneath that is the listing for your Mac. If it says, ‘MacBook Pro (Retina, 15in, Mid 2015)’, take note of the serial number. Then go to Apple’s website fave.co/2L7MQRw and submit the serial number to see if your 15in…

As we reported on page 4, Apple has announced that design chief Jony Ive is departing as an employee of Apple after almost 30 years with the company, during which he spearheaded the design for iconic products ranging from the iMac to the iPhone. It doesn’t appear to have been a hostile departure, as Apple’s official press release states that Ive is forming an independent design company which will count Apple among its primary clients. Technically we’re not yet looking at a totally Jony Ive-free Apple, but it’s easy to get the impression that we might as well be. No longer will Ive be one of the main wizards behind Apple’s curtains. As parody account @JonyIveParody shows, Ive tends to be Apple’s public face more than Apple CEO Tim Cook…

Price: £199 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2S2VXUd We’ve got Beats and AirPods, but here’s something a little different from Bose – sunglasses which double up as an in-ear headphones but without, well, any headphones. The audio giant’s move into wearables shouldn’t be a surprise when you consider headphones have always been something you wear, but you might be surprised we’re talking shades here. What does a part of your wardrobe have to do with enjoying your Spotify favourites, you might ask? First up, put away any thoughts of Snapchat Spectacles and Google Glass as while Bose Frames have an augmented element, it’s AR audio we’re dealing with here. Anything visual is relegated to the design of the specs themselves (which we rather like the look of). The ‘wow’ factor comes in…

I love using my Mac. And yet when I am confronted with a fresh new device running macOS, I am taken aback by the barren expanse that is the default Mac experience. That’s not on the Mac, that’s on me – I have become incredibly reliant on some fantastic utilities that enhance the Mac experience in countless ways. Every now and then I mention these utilities to friends who are Mac users, or they see me using them, and they are often completely baffled. This reminds me that, quite shockingly, there are lots of Mac users who never take advantage of utilities to make the Mac far more powerful than it comes out of the box. Here, then, are some of the utilities that make the Mac feel like home…

Being a big business is all about making choices. Even the most successful, most profitable company can’t pursue all possible avenues. Decisions have to be made, even if they mean ignoring a segment of the market that might address some consumers. Such is the reality with Apple. It can’t possibly make all of the products that its customers want – it just doesn’t have the time, money, or people. But some of the choices that Apple has made about products to not pursue have been surprising. Especially when it seems as though the market in question is desperately in need of a solution that would be right up Apple’s alley. During the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, I noticed a few places where it seemed as though Apple was…