Macworld UKSeptember 2018的目錄

Another quarter, another record for Apple. For the three-month period ending 30 June, Apple posted its best third-quarter numbers ever, with revenue of $53.3 billion, a 17 percent year-over-year growth. Earnings per share came in at a whopping $2.34, up 40 percent from last year and blowing away analyst estimates of $2.19. Now for the important numbers. In Q3 2018, which saw no significant product releases, Apple sold 41 million iPhones (about the same as last year), 11.6 million iPads (slightly more than last year), and just 3.7 million Macs (representing a 13 percent year-over-year decline). However, the new MacBook didn’t release until after the quarter ended, so Apple will likely make up that shortfall next quarter. While Apple doesn’t break out iPhone sales by model, it clearly sold a…

If the best revenge is living well, then Tim Cook is sticking it to everyone. Apple’s stock passed another significant milestone in August, becoming the first company in history to top a market capitalization of a trillion dollars, albeit briefly. That’s a one with 12 zeros. Of course, it wasn’t always this rosy. On 29 September 2000, Apple’s stock dropped more than 50 percent, from $26 to $13, effectively cutting its market capitalization in half, to around $5 billion, and it didn’t look good for the Mac maker. At the time it was hard to see Apple recovering, but since that fateful day the stock has since split twice and soared to unimaginable levels. To put its market cap in perspective, Apple Inc is worth two Facebooks, seven Netflixes, 42…

First, perform a backup of your Mac before installing the update. Your Mac will also need to restart. 1. Launch the App Store app in the Applications folder, or click on the in the menu bar, select About This Mac, and then in the Overview section, click on the Software Update button. 2. Click on Updates in the top bar of the App Store app. 3. Look for the macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update in the listing. If you don’t see it, go to the menu bar and select Store > Reload Page or press Command-R to refresh the Updates. 4. Click on the Update button to the right of the Supplemental Update listing. The update will download and the installation should start automatically. Your Mac will need to…

When iOS 12 hits iPhones this autumn, it will instantly be familiar to the millions of users that rush to install it. Apple may be ushering in a new version of its mobile operating system with a whole set of new features, but the focus will still be where it’s always been: on individual apps. As it stands, iOS – like macOS, Android, and pretty much every operating system out there – is basically a means to our apps. Whether you’re making a call, sending a message, or watching a movie, you’re using an individual app to do it. Even if you look at iOS 12’s main features – Memoji, Group FaceTime, AR measuring – they all require opening an app first. But after 10 years of downloading apps –…

Every month brings a new stack of Mac games and this month we found plenty worth checking out. Stoic Studio’s long-awaited The Banner Saga 3 is the big pick this month, although you’ll want to play the earlier tactical role-players before embarking on this intense finale. Elsewhere, retro-stylized 2D action games La-Mulana 2 and Chasm offer differing takes on the ‘Metroidvania’ genre, while GNOG and Sausage Sports Club are all about zany, colourful fun. 1. The Banner Saga 3 Price: £18.74 from Steam (fave.co/2v2Oqui) The Nordic-themed quest started four years ago, mixing turn-based tactical combat with tricky decision-making and stunning visuals, and it finally comes to a thrilling close in this trilogy-capper. The Banner Saga 3 continues the winning formula from past games, but concludes on a high note despite…

When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, he didn’t like what he saw, so he set about changing the corporate culture. A decade later, one proof of his success was the fact that the company seemed to follow a rule book, largely behaving with a consistency that allowed those of us who covered the company to react to wild rumours with phrases like ‘Apple wouldn’t do that’ or ‘that’s not how Apple does things’. But in the years following Jobs’s death (and the departure of some other Jobs-era executives), Apple has continued to evolve – and in many cases, it’s torn up the old rule book. A lot of the changes strike me as being for the better. I feel like after Steve laid down the law in…

It’s come to the point where even some of my colleagues who write about Apple are bored by the company’s quarterly results. Granted, this is the good kind of boring – the best third quarter results ever, led by overall revenue of $53.3 billion, a 17 percent growth rate. But it does seem like Apple does the same thing almost every quarter: growth, billions, the works. There’s not a lot of drama in being one of the most valuable companies in the world continuing to churn away at huge profits and product growth. Still, I’m not going to call this boring. Every three months, Apple has to reveal things about itself that it would probably want to keep secret, and these disclosures can help us understand the company and its…

RATING: £4,409 inc VAT from fave.co/2MoZx7o Since its introduction in 2016, the MacBook Pro as we know it today has produced mixed reactions. People love the combination of size, weight, and performance. But there are issues that make people hesitate or even regret buying one: keyboard problems, the need to find ways to work with its Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports, a low RAM ceiling. With the 2018 MacBook Pro, Apple has addressed some of those issues. And if you’re lamenting that I didn’t say all of those issues, well, there are some things that, in an effort to move towards a particular technological ideal, Apple won’t change. But as a whole, the 2018 MacBook Pro is a better laptop than its 2017 predecessor, and a vast improvement over the 2016 model.…

RESTORE A DELETED SHARED ALBUM IN PHOTOS iCloud Photo Sharing lets you create albums from your images and videos and then share them to invited parties, or create a link that anyone can access. It’s a great way to leverage your existing photo libraries without having to set up sharing on other services. However, Macworld reader Grace ran into one of the downsides: if you delete a shared album, there’s no way to restore it. MacOS and iOS warn you when you try to delete, noting that the shared album will be deleted from all your linked accounts and all of those with whom you shared photos. But once you confirm, it’s gone. All your original media remains in place, so there’s no worry about losing images or videos, but…

On iOS, you can activate Siri by saying “Hey Siri”. Vocal activation isn’t available on macOS Sierra through the Siri system preferences, but it can be done through Sierra’s Accessibility system preference. In essence, you use dictation to activate the keyboard shortcut for Siri. The default Siri keyboard command in Sierra is to hold down the Command and Space buttons. You need to change this because the Accessibility feature doesn’t have a way to hold down a keyboard combination. Change the Siri keyboard shortcut To change your Siri keyboard command, follow these steps. 1. Open the Siri system preference (Apple menu > System Preferences). 2. Look for Keyboard Shortcut in the main window. Click on the pop-up menu. There are two Hold keyboard combinations that you don’t want to use.…

Apple’s quarterly financial calls are usually a time for big numbers: record revenue, billions in income, millions of iPhones sold, and so on. But what I always find more interesting are the titbits that make their way through, like tiny rowboats at risk of being crushed by the monstrous rocks that are Apple’s blockbuster financial results. This quarter was no different. There were more than a few breadcrumbs dropped by Apple CEO Tim Cook in-between fielding questions about gross margins and talking about tariffs, some of which zipped by so fast that they were all too easy to miss. I’ve picked out two that perked up my ears, along with the larger significance that I think they import. There’s something in the Air(Pods) The early days of the AirPods were…

With Apple having addressed its throttling issues with a firmware update for the 2018 MacBook Pro, it’s time to take another look at the laptop and supplement our original benchmark results from our initial review. More benchmarks This suite of tests are benchmarks that perform tasks that a professional might do. We ran the tests on the 2018 15in 2.9GHz Core i9 MacBook Pro before and after the update. We also tested the 2017 15in 2.9GHz MacBook Pro for reference. Adobe Premiere CC 4K video render This test involved an Adobe Premiere video project created by the Macworld video team. (You can watch the video at fave.co/2ModaDP.) We exported a video to the H.264 format using the YouTube 2160p 4K preset and with Maximum Render Quality turned on. When we…

RATING: From £518 inc VAT from fave.co/2OQ6zUv Technology always seems to be about the newest thing, the latest and greatest. But what fuels those new ventures and ideas are products that long ago proved their value and continue to be strong-a product like FileMaker. Long-time products aren’t glamorous, and a proclamation that ‘FileMaker gets even better’ isn’t a grabber, and that’s too bad, because the latest version, FileMaker 17, is the best version of a great product line. New features FileMaker 17 ties up loose ends, fills in small gaps, and fixes little problems left over from previous versions. Layout object grouping was introduced a couple of versions ago, but now developers can select and move or reformat individual layout objects in a group without having to ungroup them first.…

It’s a nightmare scenario. Your Mac has been playing up for weeks but you’ve been ignoring it, or just haven’t been able to figure out how to fix it, and then it refuses to start up. Why didn’t you make that backup? Is there any way you can get back your lost data from your Mac? Luckily there are apps that can recover your photos and files from your failed Mac hard drive. If you are unable to boot up your Mac in order to try any of our suggestions in the story above, your next port of call is a data recovery app. Luckily there are a few options here, some of which have trial versions that may be able to recover some files, and should, at least, be…

With macOS, you can set up your Mac with separate user accounts. That way, multiple people can use one computer, but the files, app settings, and other data for each user are kept separate from each other. But what if you have two Macs, and you want to move a user account from one Mac to another? Macworld reader and newlywed Nolan wrote in with questions about just such an activity. He and his wife want to migrate his account from a computer he owns to her Mac, and he’ll sell his old computer. But he has questions about how to handle this appropriately. Specifically: Eachofthemhaveseparate Time Machine backups. He has Backblaze running for cloud-based archiving on his computer. His wife’s MacBook doesn’t have enough storage to let him…