Table of contents for Vol 2 2022 in Mac & MacBook User

A New Apple Silicon Processor Before the March keynote, there were three Apple Silicon M-series processors; M1, M1 Pro and the top-of-the-range M1 Max. A fourth has now been added; the M1 Ultra, the most powerful Apple Silicon chip yet. Mac Studio runs on the M1 Ultra or M1 Max, depending on which model you choose. According to Johny Srouji, Apple’s SVP, Hardware Technologies, the M1 Ultra is “the next breakthrough for Apple Silicon.” While the chip architecture was scaled up from the M1, to M1 Pro and M1 Max, the M1 Ultra takes a new approach. According to Srouji, there are challenges in creating a die that’s larger than the M1 Max. The usual approach is to use two chips, and connect them on the motherboard. Unfortunately, this increases…

Price and Availability The new Mac Studio and Studio Display are available online and in Apple Stores from 18th March, 2022. Pricing is as follows; Mac Studio M1 Max: £1,999, $1,999, 2,299 € M1 Ultra: £3,999, $3,999, 4,599 € Studio Display (basic version) £1,499, $1599, 1,749 € The Mac Studio with an M1 Max Processor The Mac Studio with an M1 Ultra Processor…

Sharing an iCloud File.…

1 You can open the App Store app from the Apple menu, as well as from the Dock, the Applications window, the Launchpad and Spotlight. If updates are available for any of your apps, this is shown in the Apple menu, next to the App Store option. 2 Type the name of an app, a developer or a genre into the Search window to search the App Store for apps. Your search results are then shown in the main window. 3 The sidebar gives you options when exploring the App Store. Discover is best for general browsing, Arcade is for Apple Arcade titles, then there are categories for creative apps, work-related software, games developers’ tools and more. 4 This is the featured app of the day, chosen by Apple’s editors. 5 Click on…

Using Launchpad…

Set New Home Page Accessing Websites Using Links.…

Tab Groups The Tabs Audio Indicator…

Receiving Email. When you receive an email in your inbox, this is how you open and read it using the macOS Mail app. Once you’ve set up your email account, you can send and receive email. As soon as you launch Mail, it connects to your email service and collect any email that is waiting for you. These messages are shown as a list in your Inbox. Click on one and it’s displayed on the right. While Mail is running, it periodically checks the server for new messages. You can also prompt Mail to look at the server immediately by clicking the button in the top left of the screen that looks like an envelope. Adding Attachments. Almost any type of file can be attached and sent over the Internet…

Using Mail Signatures. You can add a signature to your emails, that is, a short piece of text that’s at the foot of every email you send. A signature is a piece of text that you can add to the foot of your email automatically. To set one or more up, open Mail Preferences (from the Mail menu), click on Signatures in the top bar and then on the account to which you wish to add a signature in the accounts on the left. Click on the ‘+’ button under the middle column to add a signature. You can click on the name of it in the middle column and change it to anything you like, and write your chosen signature in the right-hand column. It can be anything you…

Setting Up Auto-Pairing The new Apple Pencil, second generation, does not need to be paired like the older version. Instead, you just place the flat side of the pencil on the iPad, and it pairs automatically. It couldn’t be any simpler. Battery Swipe down from the top of the screen to open Notification Centre. Tap the Widgets tab and you can see the Batteries section. Below the iPad will be the Apple Pencil charge. When it starts to run you get alerts, just plug it back in to charge up. Charging When you place the second-generation Apple Pencil atop the iPad, as shown, as well as pairing, it also charges wirelessly, using your iPad Pro’s own battery. No need to plug it into the iPad’s charging port. Tap/Gestures The second-generation…

Info// Edifier www.edifier.com £69.99, $79.99, 69,00 € Compatibility: Bluetooth audio devices These bookshelf Bluetooth speakers take the traditional approach to audio tech. They boast MDF wooden enclosures to minimise acoustic resonance and deliver a natural sound, and feature tweeters half an inch in diameter with 3.5-inch drivers for the mid-range and bass reproduction. Mesh grilles protect the speakers from dust damage, but if you prefer the exposed look, they’re easily removed. Each unit measures 33x21x27cm and weighs 3.7 Kilograms; just the right size for your living room shelf or computer desk. For connectivity, the Edifier R33BTs offer Bluetooth 5.0 and 3.5mm AUX input. It’s ideal for your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or a television with a 3.5mm headphone socket. They’re easy to use too, with power, volume, source switching…

Info// Twelve South https://twelvesouth.com £54.99, $59.99, 64,99 € Compatibility: USB-C Twelve South’s StayGo mini USB-C Hub is a smaller, cheaper version of the original StayGo. It’s designed for MacBooks which only offer USB-C ports for connectivity, or the latest iPad Pros that use USB-C instead of Lightning for the data port. Plug it in and it gives a HDMI port (4K supported), a USB 2.0 port, a pass-through USB-C port for charging and a headphone socket. If you don’t want to plug the 70 x 30 x 8mm device directly into your notebook, you can use the supplied half metre-long USB-C cable instead. StayGo’s mini USB-C Hub is mercifully small; it’s perfect for slipping into your laptop bag when you’re going on holiday or a business trip. But the price…

Info// Adobe, Inc www.adobe.com £85.99, $99.99, 98,99 € Compatibility: Intel 6th Generation or newer processor, Apple M1 processor, macOS 10.15 or macOS 11, 8GB of RAM, 7GB of hard-disc space Not everyone needs the pro-level power of the full Photoshop package, and nor can we all afford to spend a few pence short of £20 a month paying for it. Photoshop Elements takes the key editing features from the main Photoshop app, which is more than enough for most people, and sells for a one-off payment instead of a subscription model. If you buy Elements 2022 you have it forever, whereas the same money would get you about four and a half months’ worth of the regular Photoshop app. Elements’ annual updates haven’t always brought us enough to justify upgrading from…

The most exciting product to come out of the March keynote is a brand new addition to the Mac family. The Mac Studio is a powerful beast aimed at high-needs users. It’s a similar shape to a Mac mini, but taller, and it runs on top-of-the-range M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips. But what’s the story behind the new Mac Studio, and why should we be excited? “We couldn’t be more excited to introduce an entirely new Mac desktop and display with Mac Studio and Studio Display. Mac Studio ushers in a new era for the desktop with unbelievable performance powered by M1 Max and M1 Ultra, an array of connectivity, and a compact design that puts everything users need within easy reach.”Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide…

The New Studio Display Alongside the new Mac Studio, Apple also lifted the lid on its latest monitor; the Studio Display. It’s an all-screen design, with very narrow surrounding bezels. It also features an all-aluminium enclosure that crams a lot of technology into its slim profile. There are two different stands on offer. The basic stand lets you tilt the display up to 30 degrees, but if you need more mobility there’s the tilt and height-adjustable version, with a counterbalancing arm that makes the screen feel weightless. A VESA mount adapter option, which supports landscape or portrait orientation for even more flexibility, is also available. The Screen As you’d expect, the Studio Display has an excellent screen. It’s 27 inches corner to corner and features 5K definition. As Nicole Kordes,…

Preview Basics Editing Images Highlight Documents. If your PDF document has selectable text, you can also highlight passages in Preview, as well as underlining and crossing it out. Just click on the highlighter button, then select the portion of text you wish to alter. You can change the colour of the highlighter or opt for underlining or crossing out using the menu next to the button.…

The Mac App Store is a safe and friendly place for the Mac user to visit and install apps from. Open the App Store via the Dock and you’ll notice that there are categories on the left-pane, while the content relating to each category is in the right-hand or main pane. There’s also a handy Search bar at the top of the App Store window.…

Using the Finder Using the Dock Quitting Apps.…

Add Tools to the Toolbar Status, Favourite & Tab Bars Pinned Sites.…

Safari’s Shield Tailor Site Settings The Reader View.…

1 This is the sidebar, which lets you select mailboxes, see emails from VIP senders or those which you’ve flagged, and more. You can resize and even close this sidebar by clicking and dragging the divider between this and your emails list. 2 The list of emails contained in the currently selected mailbox, in this case, All Mailboxes. The number of emails in the box, and the number of unread emails, are shown. You can resize this column by clicking and dragging its left or right edge. 3 Click this circular icon to toggle between showing all emails and only unread emails. 4 This button downloads new emails. You can set your Mail app to check automatically but this button does so manually. 5 When you want to write a new email from scratch, click…

The Mail Markup Feature Move to… Highlight or open an email. In the top-right corner there’s a pull-down menu marked ‘Move to…’ in the toolbar. If your Mail window is small, you might have to click on a chevron and select it from a menu. This lets you move it to one of your folders including Trash, Junk, and folders you’ve set up yourself. Show Only Unread Messages. You can hide emails you’ve already read by clicking this icon. Now only unread messages are shown. Click it again to show all your emails once more. It’s great for finding emails that you received a while ago but haven’t seen yet. Flagging an Email. To mark an email with a flag, highlighting it for later reference, click on the Flag pull-down…

Adobe Illustrator Affinity Designer Affinity Photo Cinema 4D CorelDRAW DaVinci Resolve Final Cut Pro Maya Motion Painter Principle Sketch Substance Designer Substance Painter ZBrush System Requirements. To use Sidecar, your Mac must meet the following requirements; iMac 27-inch 2015 or later Mac mini 2018 or later Mac Pro 2019 or later MacBook Pro 2016 or later MacBook Air 2018 or later MacBook 2016 or later…

Info// Feral Interactive Ltd £12.99, $14.99, 14,99 € iOS 14.8 or later Ridley Scott’s original Aliens from 1979 was a ground-breaking piece of cinema. Set within the claustrophobic confines of a spaceship, the crew are hunted by an alien creature of immense death-dealing impressiveness. It was tense, scary as hell and the feeling of absolute terror seeped through the screen as the protagonist, Ripley, tries to flush the beast into the depths of space. Sadly, that sense of terror had never really been conveyed through gaming. True, there have been several Aliens-based games in the past, for all manner of systems (one of our favourites was a Doom Aliens mod, from 1994), and we did have space-based horror in the form of System Shock and Dead Space, but the Alien franchise…

SUPERMAN Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a Superman game! We could hardly have a round-up of comic hero titles without at least one featuring the Man of Steel. There were actually several Superman games for mobile, but this one by Chillingo Ltd has got to be our favourite. The simply-named Superman saw our hero soaring across the Metropolis skyline, taking on a myriad of enemies using many of his best-known powers. These include heat vision, super breath and super speed, but it’s the flying element which makes this game so much fun. The action took place over 18 levels as the evil mastermind, Lex Luthor, attempts to take over the world (well, what else does he have to fill his days?) The game was fairly…

Tale of the Tape The Mac Studio is a surprisingly small device considering its power. It looks a little like a Mac mini, though at 3.7 inches (9.5 cm), it’s over two and a half times as tall. Both the Mac Studio and the Mac mini have a square footprint, with sides of 7.7 inches (19.7 cm), so if you imagine two Mac minis stacked one on top of the other, the Mac Studio is a similar size but just over half a Mac mini taller. Aluminium Enclosure The Mac Studio’s chassis is milled from a single piece of aluminium, making it very strong. This process was developed for the first unibody Mac notebooks back in 2008, and proved immediately successful. Lack of joints made the chassis stronger, without adding…

Wireless Communications The Mac Studio also conforms to the latest wireless standards. Wi-Fi: The Mac Studio has 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking. It’s backwards compatible with standards IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, so you can use existing Wi-Fi products with it too. Bluetooth: The Mac Studio’s Bluetooth chip is Bluetooth 5.0 for low energy consumption and dual audio, which means you can stream to two compatible Bluetooth devices at once. It is, of course, backwards compatible with older versions of Bluetooth.…

1 Size Slider: This slider sets the size of the thumbnails in this management window. If it’s missing, you can’t change the thumbnail size on that particular screen. 2 Arrangement Options: Click on a tab to change how your photos are arranged. Photos just shows the pics, whilst Moments, Collections and Years orders them according to when taken. 3 Information: Click here for an information window. If you’ve highlighted a photo, it shows you the camera used and location where it was taken. You can add your own notes here if you wish. 4 Share Button: Click on a photo to select it and then here to share. Hold CMD and click on several photos to share more than one at a time. You can also set it as a desktop picture. 5 Favourites:…

1 If you know the name of the application you’re looking for, type it in the Search Bar to go straight to it. Suggestions are offered as you type, so click on one to select it. You can search for developers here too. 2 Click on Discover for the App Store’s main page, where you can see Apple’s picks of the best and most essential apps for your Mac. 3 For a monthly fee, Apple’s all-youcan-eat Arcade gaming subscription service lets you play as many games as you want, for as long as you want. 4 Click Create to look for apps designed for creativity, such as image editing, music making, photography, video editing, desktop publishing and more. 5 Under Work you’ll find the App Store’s productivity apps, such as note taking apps, software for…

One other popular file type for macOS installations is the PKG file. Although it’s not as popular as DMG files. Simply put, a PKG file are installation packages that generally contain automated scripts that will direct the installation of the app in question. They will take you through a kind of setup wizard and create a multi-step installation process. They are usually only used where multiple additional components are required by the app but also when different services are required from macOS or the installation files will be placed in different areas of the Mac’s file system. One more note: Once you’ve installed any DMG or PKG file, you can delete it from the system. Its job is finished now, and the app is installed. Unless you’d like to keep…

1 This icon opens and closes the sidebar on the left. 2 Here you see how many tabs you currently have open in Safari. Click the four-squares icon to see those tabs as thumbnails in the main window. 3 This icon gives you a menu that lets you make a Tab Group of the tabs you currently have open, or start a new, empty Tab Group to which you can add tabs manually. 4 These two chevrons are your navigation controls, which let you move forward and backward through your browsing history. 5 Click the house icon to take you back to your designated Homepage. Change this Homepage in Preferences > General. 6 A lot of websites use trackers to track your browsing from site to site, in order to…

Bookmarks and Reading List The Start Page.…

Private Browsing Private Browsing lets you browse the Internet without adding tracking cookies or recording where you’ve been in your history. Activate Privacy Mode by selecting New Private Window in the File menu. In a private window, the URL field is darkened. Stored Passwords You can access any stored login credentials from a website by entering Safari > Preferences, then clicking on the Passwords section. You need to enter your admin password to unlock them. You can see if passwords have been compromised, and change them from this window. Integrated Spotlight Search Spotlight search is a tightly integrated feature of macOS, including Safari. From the search bar you can find links to web pages, bookmarks and browsing history; simply by typing a search term. Click on one of the responses…

Sending a New Email Customising Mail.…

Mail Drop. If you need to send large attachments via email, the Mail Drop feature is very useful. If an attachment you wish to email is too large for a regular email, it’s stored on Apple’s server and offered as a download instead. Depending on whether the recipient is using Mail, the attachment could appear as a download link or as thumbnails. Here, we received huge photos, which are displayed as thumbnails. You can download them all by hovering over the email and clicking on the paperclip as shown. They’re kept on Apple’s server for a month from the date they were sent. Mail in Full Screen Mode. The Mail app’s full-screen mode works in a different way to other apps. Here’s a guide on how to use this useful…

Info// Psyonix LLC Free iOS 11.0 or later 2015’s Rocket League has proved to be one of the most popular games in recent years. Who would have thought that driving cars around a 3D football field, knocking a giant ball into the opponents net would have caught on? Turns out Psyonix did. Rocket League is available on virtually every gaming platform, and now it’s time for it to shine on the mobile. Rocket League Sideswipe is a scaled-down version of the main game, a free spin-off that retains the feel of the original, but loses some of the presentation. If you’re unfamiliar with Rocket League, it’s basically football, but you’re driving a car and you boost around a 360-degree environment in an effort to score a goal against the other player.…