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The irst Apple TV’s days are numbered, writes Roman LoyolaT
ech companies (especially Apple) want us to use the latest products they have to ofer. They want to make money from the sales, but they also develop and implement new technology that older devices can’t support at all (or can’t support it in a way that’s acceptable to the user). Eventually, each product’s time runs out, as is now the case with the irst-generation Apple TV.Store. To access the iTunes Store, you need a second-generation or later Apple TV.
iTunes Store, Windows XP, and Vista
The document also says that users of Windows XP and Windows Vista will not be able to use the latest version of iTunes. Older versions of iTunes will still work, but Apple will not ofer any support, and you won’t be able to buy anything, nor will you be able to redownload previous purchases.
iOS 11.2.6 released to ix
Telugu ‘text bomb’ bug
A full suite of Apple OS updates ix the text bug that caused Messages and other apps to crash. Leif Johnson reportsI
nternet trolls had a great time causing Apple products to freeze recently thanks to a bug involving a speciic character from India’s Telugu language. Fortunately, the party’s over now, as Apple has released a barrage of updates that patch the issue on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and Apple TV boxes.Apple has had to deal with some high-proile bugs in the past few months, but this one was particularly nasty. All someone had to do was send a message with the speciic character to an app like Messages, and the app would freeze while Apple’s software struggled to interpret the character.
In the cases of Messages, the only way to get rid of it was to have a friend send you a new message. As Mashable discovered, if you happened to see the character on the Twitter app, you had little choice but to go to a non-Apple machine and block all instances of the character on your account from there.
This isn’t the irst time Apple has had to deal with such ‘text bomb’ bugs. In January, a developer named Abraham Masri managed to achieve similar efects with a line of script he posted on GitHub (which he later deleted). In 2015, a nonsensical string of Arabic characters also achieved similar notoriety for crashing iPhones. But seldom have such bugs afected such a wide range of Apple’s products.
Best VPN for Mac
Stay anonymous online and access blocked content with these VPNs for Mac. Ashleigh Macro reveals your diferent options
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f you’re worried about online privacy or looking to access sites that are ordinarily blocked in your country, a VPN (virtual private network) will help. You’ll be able to hide your location online and access blocked content using the services in our round-up of the best VPNs for Mac.of the UK. They are also a great tool to help you keep prying eyes at bay, giving an element of anonymity while browsing the web.
There are free networks available, but be aware that some may install unwanted toolbars or third-party applications, and others simply ofer much less advanced features. It’s important to irst read the terms and conditions before using a free VPN, and to make sure you know the free VPN’s limits. Generally, though, even paid-for services are cheap. You can subscribe to many for under £6 per month.
1. NordVPN
Price: $2.75 (around £2) from fave.co/2CSqdrT
A great VPN option for security, ease-of-use and a variety of useful features is NordVPN. The company tells us that it does not keep any logs of user activity at all, and there are more than 3,200 servers across 60 countries to choose from which is more than most other VPN services available.
NordVPN ofers lots of privacy and security features to help it become one of the most
attractive VPN services for Internet users looking for privacy online. One handy is Kill Switch, ends the connection if the VPN drops for any reason. It’s easy to set up and it’s quick, too, and there are mobile apps included should you need them, plus you can connect to up to six devices at once.
three-year deal. Alternative options include a two-year plan, a one-two-year plan or a one-month plan.
2. ExpressVPN
Price: £5 per month from fave.co/2CSIwNFAmong the speediest VPN services out there is ExpressVPN. It’s not the cheapest option at £5 per month, but it does ofer 24/7 live chat customer support and a 30-day money back guarantee, as well as a zero log policy and kill switch.
apps for mobile devices as well as your Mac or PC, in addition to router apps too. ExpressVPN also works with Netlix to allow you to virtually reside in the country of your choice to access additional TV shows and movies. It’s a solid option.
3. PureVPN
Price: £1.40 per month from tinyurl.com/yclbhdtg
PureVPN is fast and reliable, packed with features at a great price. It is among the biggest services when it comes to the number of countries it ofers. There are more than 750 servers available in 141 countries. It also boasts that there are no third parties involved and no logs of your activities, as it’s a self-managed network owned by the company itself. It does, however, keep a record of connections and bandwidth in order to optimally manage its servers.
Like NordVPN it has a Kill Switch feature, and also ofers split tunnelling if you only want to use the VPN connection for speciic apps.
PureVPN is compatible with more than 20 devices, including your Mac, and you can log in to ive devices at once with your account. Prices start at £1.40 per month for a three-year plan thanks to a special ofer, but there are also six- and one month options.
Plus, the support is fantastic thanks to a live chat feature available 24/7.
4. Goose VPN
Price: £2.99 per month from fave.co/2F6D4wo
This fast and easy-to-use VPN is aimed at home users who want to access media that’s restricted in their region. It ofers few options to maintain a very simple interface, putting it among our favourite VPNs of 2018.
There’s a 30-day free trial available, otherwise you can sign up for the one-year plan for £4.99 per month, or a more expensive one month plan. There’s also a limited one month plan that gets you 50GB
for £2.99, but that won’t be enough for most. You’ll be able to access US Netlix from within the UK, as well as other region-blocked content like BBC iPlayer from outside of the UK. There are less server locations available with Goose VPN, just 77 across 27 countries, and there is no kill switch. However, we found that short connection time and connection quality, as well as the ease of connecting to foreign media, makes up for it.
5. CyberGhost
Price: £2.50 per month from fave.co/2Hiwz6t
managed to build a solid reputation when it comes to security and transparency.
There are more than 1,150 servers available across 49 countries, and the list is growing fast.
In addition to helping to keep you anonymous online, CyberGhost also boasts military-grade encryption to protect you against hackers trying to steal your data on public Wi-Fi hotspots.
It works with most devices including phones and tablets, and there’s also an ad-blocker included in the application to speed up suring. Of course, that does deprive impoverished writers of their hard earned money, so that’s something worth bearing in mind if you want to switch the ad-blocker on.
It can cost as little as £2.50 per month if you sign up for two years, but there’s also a one year or one month option.
6. VyprVPN
Price: £4.08 per month from fave.co/2CUwd33 This family VPN ofers great value for money. You can connect to ive devices simultaneously for £5.83 per month if you sign up for a year’s subscription. For three devices the price decreases to £4.08 per month.
The downside is that we had trouble connecting to Netlix US the irst time, although we have since been more successful and found an easy and fast connection to the service. This is common among VPNs as Netlix is constantly blocking VPN servers while VPNs are creating new ones to get around it.
There are more than 700 servers available worldwide, and you’ll ind that you can connect to
them quickly and easily. There’s also a kill switch and great mobile apps to boot.
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Private
Internet Access
Price: £2.10 per month from fave.co/2CTqevmFor an even wider choice of servers, Private Internet Access ofers a whopping 3,340. It’s also cheap at £2.10 per month, and you’ll get ive licences for that small fee that can be used simultaneously on any device, including iOS and macOS.
It doesn’t track your IP address or timestamps, ofers a Kill Switch feature and lets
you pay anonymously. It’s also among the fastest VPNs available. There is one big downside, though, and that’s that it is based in the US, which is the very centre of the 5-eyes data swapping collective. For some, that will ring alarm bells, but if you’re not concerned this is a deinite contender.
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IPVanish
Price: £5 per month from fave.co/2oTjJ7Y
IPVanish is good-looking and easy to use, so is one of the best VPN options for beginners. It won’t help
you watch US Netlix, but it is a popular option that is well-worth considering if you have a diferent priority such as torrents or security/privacy.
It’ll appeal to home users thanks to access to Netlix US. However, it’s also based in the US, which is a distinct turn-of for those worried about online privacy, but it doesn’t keep any traic logs at all so it’s unlikely any data will be available to share with the government anyway. The good news is that it has a whopping 700 servers across 60 countries, and you’ll be able to connect via ive diferent devices at once with the same account.
If you do want to use the service for torrents you can reduce the encryption to hide your IP address without sacriicing download and upload speeds.
physical points of presence and servers), which is unlike most other VPN services available today.
IPVanish ofers a Kill Switch, and ofers apps for iOS, Android and Windows in addition to Mac. You’ll get a seven-day money back guarantee, and prices start at around £5 per month.
9. Hidden24
Price: £3.33 per month fromfave.co/2F7IbwA
Hidden24 focuses completely on privacy and anonymity, after starting life in 2005 as a reaction to Sweden’s snooping laws. It now has a UK-based server farm that means you can protect yourself online by connecting to another UK server. It uses the operating system’s own VPN capability, so there’s no app to download, and setup is simple thanks to complete, detailed guides.
We found the service to be speedy and stable, but there’s no kill switch option and you can only connect to UK servers for now, so no US Netlix.
It is useful for ex-pats or those travelling outside of the UK though, as it means you can access UK content including BBC iPlayer even when you’re not in the country.
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SpyOFF VPN
Price: £6.99 per month from fave.co/2oSHIE5
SpyOFF is fast and easy-to-use, with unlimited connections available for £6.99 per month. That’s a little on the pricey side, but it is good for families that need to connect via multiple devices at once. The number of servers is quite low, at 395 across 25 countries, but you will get a kill switch and there are mobile apps available.
If you’re worried about committing right away, you can sign up to the 15-day trial.
Best password managers
Being hacked can have disastrous results. A password manager is a great way to stay safe. Martyn Casserly reports
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asswords are a pain. With so much of our modern lives based online, it’s now a necessary evil to create passwords for our email, media streaming, gaming, inancial, and other services.use original passwords for each account, and they need to be updated on a regular basis, it can be a Herculean task trying to remember them all.
That’s where password manager apps come in. These allow users to create one master password, after which the app takes care of logging into all other accounts. Only having to remember one combination of letters, numbers, and weird symbols? That sounds good to us.
How password managers work
The idea of password managers is to simplify the way you access your various accounts. This is done by the manager generating a master password, which you then use to access its dashboard area where all of your login details are stored. Here you can enter far more complex passwords for each service, knowing that the manager will automatically ill in the details via plug-ins in your browser or through apps on your smartphone and tablet apps.
The managers can also create random
passwords for your accounts. These will often be harder to hack than your own eforts, as they are not designed to be easily remembered by humans.
Obviously, security is a high priority – as the manager apps have the virtual keys to your kingdom – which is why all of the ones listed below use high-grade encryption to protect your details.
root around in your pocket or bag for the card number and expiry date.
These services don’t usually come for free, but many ofer trials so you can see if it’s the solution for you. After that you’ll need to pay a small monthly fee, but we think that’s a price worth paying for only having to keep one password in your brain.
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Dashlane
Price: Free (one device), £38.99 per year (multiple devices) from fave.co/2CQuPOZ
Here’s a password manager that’s been growing in popularity over the past year or so. A potential reason for this is the free tier on ofer, which gets you up and running in a matter of minutes. Once installed Dashlane can pull any stored account details you might have in your browsers, making them available in the dashboard area where they can be viewed and managed.
The app analyses your current passwords to see how secure they are, and gives you an overall rating based on how often you reuse login details on multiple sites. There’s also a feature to auto-replace passwords instantly with ones generated by Dashlane. Plug-ins and extensions are available for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, all of which will auto-ill forms and login details when you visit a website.
wish to keep safe. The clean, clear interface for Dashlane means it’s easy to setup and use. The fact that it also features AES 256-bit encryption, and has apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, makes it a very good option if you’re new to password managers.
The free tier allows the service to be used on one device, but if you want to sync your passwords to your phone and tablet too then the Premium tier will set you back £38.99 per year.
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LastPass
Price: £22.99 per year from fave.co/2F5v5Qr
pioneers in the ield. The company places a strong emphasis on security, trumpeting the use of “AES 256-bit encryption with PBKDF2 SHA-256 and salted hashes to ensure
complete security in the cloud”.
The app does all of its encryption locally, so LastPass never knows your master password, and the Premium tier also supports two-factor authentication for another layer of security.
There are plug-ins and extensions available for Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, all of which allow you to automatically access login details for sites and accounts. Mobile apps for iOS and Android can also be found in the relevant app store.
LastPass seem to have given its interface a lick of paint recently, as it’s simple and straightforward to use, which is something that wasn’t always the case. Just like with other managers you have access to a vault where all of your passwords are stored, and these can be changed to more complex
alternatives at the touch of a button. LastPass will also advise you on how secure your passwords are for your existing accounts.
The app ofers a digital wallet to store your card details, plus another area for oicial ID such as passports and driving licenses.
Alongside the free version you can sign up to a Premium plan for £22.99 per year. Those wanting more scope can opt for the family plan which includes six user accounts and only costs $48 per year on the LastPass website, which is about £35.
One of the advantages of a paid plan is an Emergency backup which means that should you sufer an accident, or even pass away, then your family will be given access to your account.
It should be mentioned that, due to its size and popularity, LastPass has been the target for hackers over the last few years, leading to a few vulnerabilities being found in the code. But LastPass has responded very quickly to ix each instance and made public statements about the nature of the problems. To date, it seems that no user information has ever been obtained, thanks in a large part to the encryption and security protocols used by the company.
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1Password
Price: £3.99 per month or £34.99 per year from
fave.co/2CUt6bu
comes with the standard vault that you access via a master password, and in which you can see and update your various account login details.
A free 30-day trial is available, but after that you’ll need to move onto a paid subscription that currently costs £3.99 per month or £34.99 per year. For this you’ll be able to use the software on as many devices as you like, including the accompanying iPhone and Android apps, the former of which also supports Touch ID to log in.
Security is again front and centre, with
1Password boasting end-to-end encryption so only you will hold the key to your account. AES 256-bit is the order of the day, and 1Password monitors the activity on your account so it can send you warnings if any odd behaviour is spotted.
One interesting new feature is Travel mode. This allows you to completely remove certain
information from your device when going abroad. In these strange times, this could prove very useful if you’re passing through some of the rather aggressive customs checkpoints that now demand access to your devices. The best part is when you get home again everything can be restored by licking a switch in the settings.
1Password has won numerous awards, and is always an easy service to recommend. Based in Canada too, so you know they’re nice.
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Keeper
Price: £22.99 per year from fave.co/2F7XVzG Keeper claims to be “the world’s #1 most
downloaded password manager & secure digital vault”, providing its services to millions of customers around the world.
This doesn’t come as a surprise when you see the feature list and general polish that the app contains. You can store unlimited passwords, have Keeper auto-generate strong new ones and sync passwords across multiple devices, all while holding credit card details and other important documents in its secure vault.
There’s also support for Touch ID on the Mac and iPhone, Apple Watch compatibility, and the option of using two-step authentication.
Perhaps one of the reasons for its popularity is the reasonable pricing structure. An individual account costs £22.99 per year and can be used on all of your devices (macOS, iOS, Windows and Android). That seems like a bargain to us.
5.
EnPass
Price: Free from fave.co/2CSodje
Those looking for a simple, secure solution that doesn’t break the bank would do well to consider EnPass. It works on a device by device basis, with the macOS client being free and mobiles costing £9.99 each for a lifetime licence. This is achieved due to the fact that EnPass doesn’t store any of your information on its servers. Instead, everything is encrypted and kept on your personal device. Details can be synced securely via iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, or ownCloud/
security analysis of your passwords and generating complex replacements easily, secure storage for sensitive information and AES 256-bit encryption, plus support for iOS, Android and Apple Watch devices.
It’s a little more hands-on than some of the others in this list, but we like the no-nonsense approach and the fact that your data never leaves your device.
Install Windows on a Mac
Clif Joseph reveals how to install Windows on a Mac, using Boot Camp, VMWare, Parallels, and VirtualBoxO
ne of the beneits of using a Mac is that it gives you the choice of either running the macOS on its own, or installing Windows for those occasions when you need to run speciic Windows app or games that might not normally be available for the Mac. In this article we explain how to install Windows on your Mac, irst with Apple’s own dual-booting Boot Camp Assistant and then with third-party virtualization software. We also discuss the pros and cons of each approach.your Mac in order to run Windows apps? Here’s how to run Windows apps on your Mac without Windows.
Which Macs can run Windows?
This depends on the version of Windows you’re trying to install, but any recent Mac should be able to run Windows 10. In fact, most Macs since late 2012 support it. There’s a complete list here.
Boot Camp versus virtualization
There are two main options if you need to install Windows on your Mac, and the option you choose will generally depend on the type of software that you need to run.
The irst option, provided by Apple itself with the Boot Camp Assistant that is installed on every Mac, is called ‘dual-booting’, as it gives you the ability to start up (or ‘boot’) your Mac using either Windows or the macOS. The Boot Camp Assistant can split your Mac’s hard drive (or solid-state drive) into two sections – called ‘partitions’. It leaves the macOS on one partition, and then installs Windows on the second partition, and then you simply choose which operating system you want to run by pressing the Alt key on your keyboard when you ‘boot’ your Mac.
design software that needs all the power it can get. The only disadvantage of Boot Camp is that you lose access to all your normal Mac apps while you’re running Windows, which means that you have to shut down Windows and boot back into the macOS if you want to use Mac apps such as Apple Mail or Photos.
This is where the other option – known as ‘virtualization’ – can come in handy. Instead of splitting your hard drive into separate partitions for macOS and Windows, you use a virtualization program – such as Parallels Desktop (fave.
However, the virtual machine mimics the workings of a PC, allowing you to install Windows on the virtual machine, and then install any Windows apps that you need to run as well.
This is deinitely the most convenient option, as it means that you can run your Windows apps on the Mac desktop right alongside all your normal Mac apps, so there’s no need to dual-boot back and forth between the macOS and Windows as you do when running Boot Camp.
But virtualization has disadvantages too. Running Windows within a virtual machine means that you’re efectively running two operating systems at the same time, so you’re going to need plenty of processor power and memory to get decent performance when running your Windows apps. Even so, most recent Macs can still provide good performance when running Windows in a virtual machine, and it’s only 3D games and high-end graphics apps that need the extra power you can get from dual-booting with Boot Camp.
What you’ll need for Boot Camp
The Boot Camp Assistant is an app provided by Apple that helps you to install Windows on your Mac. You’ll ind the Assistant located in the Utilities folder within the main Applications folder on your Mac – but before you run the Assistant there are a few things that you should check irst.
Windows, along with a USB memory stick with at least 16GB of storage for the additional ‘driver’ software that Windows needs in order to control components such as your Mac’s monitor and camera, as well as your Mac keyboard and mouse (which, of course, are diferent from conventional Windows mice and keyboards).
And, of course, you’ll need a fully paid-for copy of Windows, along with the licence number. Some recent Mac models will only work with Windows 10, although older models may also work with Windows 7, or Windows 8.1. You can check which versions of Windows your Mac can run on Apple’s website (fave.co/2oJGhaX).
The installation process will also vary, depending on which version of Windows you’re using. If you’re using Windows 10 then you’ll need to download it as a ‘disk image’ ile – sometimes also called an ‘ISO ile’ – from Microsoft’s website (fave.co/2oI617M).
You can download ISO iles for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 also. However, these versions of Windows were originally sold on disk, so if you still have the original disk then it’s probably quicker to create the ISO ile using the installer program on the disk. This is actually quite straightforward, and Apple covers this option on its website too (fave. co/2H4W8rk).
Running Boot Camp
When you run the Boot Camp Assistant for the irst time, it will prompt you with a number of options. The irst option is simply to conirm that you want to ‘Create a Windows 7 or later install disk’. This will copy your Windows ISO ile on to the USB memory stick so that you can install Windows.
When you select this option, the Boot Camp Assistant also tells you that it will download the driver software for Windows on to the USB memory stick as well. However, it will only download the drivers for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, so if you want to install Windows 7 – which is still used by millions of people around the world – then you’ll have to head back to the compatibility tables on
locate the driver software that you need for your Mac and then follow the instructions to copy the drivers on to your USB memory stick.
also a simple button that will simply split the drive into two partitions of equal size.
If your Mac has more than one internal hard drive or SSD then it is possible to devote one of those drives exclusively to Windows.
However, Boot Camp doesn’t play well with external drives connected via USB or Thunderbolt, so it’s best to use your normal internal drive
wherever possible. And if you have an external drive connected to your Mac for Time Machine backups then it’s a good idea to remove it as Boot Camp can get a bit confused if it detects an external drive during installation.
Windows installer program from the USB memory stick. You can just follow the prompts to install Windows. As soon as Windows starts up you will also be prompted to install the additional Boot Camp drivers from the memory stick as well.
Once that’s done you can simply ‘dual-boot’ between the macOS and Windows by pressing Alt on your keyboard when you turn the Mac on. You’ll see the two partitions with the macOS and Windows displayed on screen as the Mac starts up, and you can simply select whichever operating system you need.
you can look at to see which one you prefer). There is a free virtualization program, called VirtualBox (fave.co/2oIFpTY), but it’s complex and diicult to use, so we’ll focus irst on using Parallels and VMWare to install Windows. Go to the VirtualBox section if you feel ready for the challenge.
Parallels Desktop 13 has a more colourful graphical interface than VMWare Fusion 10, but the two programs take the same basic approach. They provide several options for creating a new VM on your Mac, using an installer disk, or ISO ile.
you’re already using Boot Camp, you can even create a VM that duplicates your Boot Camp partition – which is a handy option for quickly checking a few iles, or running apps that don’t need top performance, without having to shut the Mac down and boot into Windows.
Virtual hardware
Both programs also let you change the ‘hardware’ coniguration of your VMs if you need to – just as though you were choosing the physical hardware for a real Mac or PC. If your Mac has a multi-core processor – such as the new iMac Pro, which has up to 18 processor cores – then you can devote multiple cores to your VM in order to improve performance. You can also allocate extra memory and disk space, and even increase the amount of video memory that your VM can use for handling 3D graphics in games and other graphics software.
speakers to your Windows VM. You can also determine how your VM interacts with the macOS on your Mac, perhaps sharing speciic folders and iles that you need for a work project, or sharing your music or photo libraries.
But a better option for many people is the ability to hide the Windows desktop altogether, so that individual Windows apps appear all on their own on the Mac desktop, just like ordinary Mac apps.
The number of diferent options available here can be a bit intimidating, but the great thing about virtualization technology is that you can’t break a VM. You can save diferent versions of your VM – just like saving diferent versions of a document in Microsoft Word. That allows you to experiment with diferent settings to see which options work best for you, and then simply revert back to a previous version of the VM whenever you want.
Oracle VirtualBox
Download and install VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a free download from fave.
co/2oIFpTY. Opt for the latest edition by clicking
the ‘amd64’ link beside VirtualBox 5.0 for OS X Hosts in the VirtualBox binaries section at the top of the page. Once the disk image has downloaded, locate it on your Mac, mount it and double-click the VirtualBox.pkg ile to install the application.
You’ll need 175MB of free space on your computer to accommodate it, in addition to the space required by Windows (up to 32GB). When the installation completes, launch VirtualBox from your Applications folder.
Download your copy of Windows 10 as explained above, and put it somewhere convenient so you can access it from within the VirtualBox installer. Click the New button on the VirtualBox toolbar and give your new virtual machine a name (‘Windows 10’ in our instance) and select the operating system you’re installing from the Version drop-down menu. Click Continue.
Devote suicient resources
When Windows is up and running it will behave like a separate computer from the rest of your Mac, which will continue to run macOS. To do this it needs to ‘borrow’ resources from your Mac, which your Mac won’t be able to touch while the virtual machine is running. The most important of these is memory.
Windows some room to breathe. If you want to do the same, use the slider and then click Continue.
Create a virtual disk
When you set up a virtual machine, not only the operating system but also the applications running on it and the iles created and edited in it are stored in a bundle, which your Mac will see as a virtual hard drive. This is convenient as it means you won’t get your Windows and macOS assets mixed up, but it also means that you’ll put a large chunk of your disk out of reach of macOS. For this reason we’re going to stick with VirtualBox’s fairly conservative recommendation of a 32GB virtual disk for
VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) unless you’re going to use this installation of Windows with a diferent virtualization app, such as Parallels Desktop.
Put of the inevitable
VirtualBox can either take away the 32GB immediately or take it piecemeal as and when required by increasing the size of the Windows drive over time as your iles and range of installed applications grows. It makes sense to opt for the latter, so unless you have any particular reason for giving up the full amount right away, leave the storage option set to Dynamically allocated and click Continue.
Install Windows
it. VirtualBox new shows you a summary of the composition of your virtual machine, and allows you to switch between diferent virtualized environments in the sidebar if you’ve set up more than one. Click Start to begin the Windows installation process.
Locate your installation ile
We’ve stored our installation download on an SD card in the slot on the back of our Mac mini. We need to tell VirtualBox where this is, so we click the folder icon on the screen that popped up when we clicked Start and select the ISO ile on the card. Clicking Open returns us to the set-up screen where we click Start to open the disk image and use it as the installation media.
Walk through Windows
Once you’ve selected your language the installer needs to know whether you’re upgrading an old version or opting for a Custom install. Pick Custom, as you’re setting up a brand new virtual machine and then, on the following screen, make sure Drive 0 is selected as the installation drive (this should be the only option).
Sign into Windows
installing updates when they become available, and sending your browsing history to Microsoft.
If you don’t want to do this, click the Customise button and tweak the settings by hand. Next, you need to tell Windows whether the machine belongs to yourself or your organization. Only you know the right answer here, but if you’re a home or small business user, the chances are the second option is the most appropriate.
Click Next, then enter your Microsoft account details to log in. If you don’t already have a Microsoft account, click Create one.
Finish up
do in each instance, Windows reboots one last time before presenting your with the desktop.
Running macOS on a Windows PC
What about the opposite scenario? Is it possible to run macOS on a PC?
software available only on Mac software. Overtly the reasoning is laudable: macOS is designed to run on Apple’s own hardware, and the experience wouldn’t be as good on any old computer.
This is one reason why you will never run an underpowered Mac.
Make apps with Swift 4
Darryl Bartlett explains all you need to know about writing apps with Apple’s Swift 4 developer languageS
wift is a programming language used towrite apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and more; Apple designed Swift explicitly to get the fastest and most eicient performance from devices, and Swift 4 expands upon its already impressive feature set. Here we show how to use Swift 4, explain why you should, and outline all the new features.
Overview of Swift 4
macOS development, adopting the best of C and Objective-C without the constraints of C compatibility. It uses the same runtime as the existing Obj-C system on macOS and iOS, which enables Swift programs to run on many existing iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 platforms.
• Swift 4 makes use of safe programming patterns
• Swift 4 provides modern programming features
• Swift 4 provides seamless access to existing
Cocoa frameworks
• Swift 4 uniies the procedural and object-oriented
portions of the language
New features in Swift 4
Let’s look at the new elements in more detail.
Strings
Swift 4 takes a diferent approach for multiple line strings by using triple quotes instead, so you don’t have to escape double quotes any more:
JSON Encoding and Decoding
Smarter Key Paths
Swift 4 makes it easier to access an object’s properties with key paths.
Mixing Classes with Protocols
You can combine protocols together in Swift 3 when creating constants and variables. Swift 4 goes one step further and lets you add classes to the mix using the same syntax. You may constrain a certain object to a class and a protocol in just one go the same way as in Objective-C.
swap versus swapAt
The swap(_:_:) mutating method in Swift 3 takes two elements of a certain array and swaps them on the spot. This solution has one major drawback: the swapped elements are passed to the function as input parameters so that it can access them directly. Swift 4 takes a totally diferent approach by replacing the method with a swapAt(_:_:), which takes the two elements’ corresponding indices and swaps them just as before.
Dictionaries and Sets You can use the dictionary’s
Why you should code in Swift 4
1. Swift is open source. Open source typically
means that the source code behind a program, or programming language, is made available to the general public. Coders can then inspect, modify and deploy the program wherever they want.
Apple’s Open Source page says: “Apple believes that using Open Source methodology makes
macOS a more robust, secure operating system, as its core components have been subjected to the crucible of peer review for decades.”
2. Swift is easy to learn. Apple built its language
to be easy to use and with syntactic simplicity to match Python. The formatting does not require semi-colons at the end of each line, and functions are easier to understand.
3. Swift is fast. Apple claims search algorithms
in Swift complete up to 2.6 times faster than Objective-C and up to 8.4 times faster than Python 2.7.
4. Swift is safe. When you work with the language,
5. Swift is familiar. If you’ve developed software
before, you’ll ind Swift’s syntax and concepts closely resemble those you already use.
6. Playgrounds. Swift 4 comes with a feature
called Playgrounds, where Swift 4 programmers can write their code and execute it to see the results immediately.
7. Swift is the future of Apple development.
8. Swift is enterprise-ready. You can use Swift’s
code on Linux (Apple provides pre-built Ubuntu binaries) and Android. That’s great for developers creating client/server solutions.
9. Swift is constantly improving. Swift has been in
use for more than three years, and it continues to evolve with every update. We’re likely to hear more developments at WWDC 2018.
Since Swift 4 has come into play, the compiled binary iles size has been changed, which has resulted in the decrease of app sizes; a mobile application used to weigh 20 MB, for example, and in the newest Swift version it will take around 17MB. And there has been bug ixing, and the language has become faster.
10. Swift’s memory is managed. Developers do
automatically. This makes the Swift programming language safer to use for developers who aren’t quite as experienced.
How to get started with Swift 4
In order to develop apps for iOS, you will need a Mac and a piece of software called Xcode. Follow the steps below to get started:
• Open the Mac App Store on your Desktop
• Search for ‘Xcode’ in the search bar
• Click ‘Get’ next to the Xcode icon
How to write a simple App in Swift
Open Xcode, and select File > New > Project. Then choose a suitable template: in our case we will be using a Single View App.
Fill in the details as required (just put your own name for Organization Name if you don’t work for a company). The Organization Identiier is usually your company’s URL in reverse order. Select the Language as Swift and tap Next.
Select the location where you want to create your project and you’re done. Xcode will create a project for you at your desired location. Upon creation of the project you will be presented with the screen at the top of the next page.
Go to the ‘Main.storyboard’ ile in the left pane. Drag and drop a label from the bottom-right corner on to the view and set its text to ‘Hello World’ in the top-right corner.
Now select View in the left pane and set the background colour to light grey. Run the app by clicking the play button in the top-left corner. (And make sure an appropriate choice of iPhone simulator is selected to the right of the play button: in our case it’s iPhone 8 Plus. See opposite screen.)
Now copy and paste the following code in the viewDidLoad() method of ‘viewcontroller.m’. let date = Date()
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = “dd.MM.yyyy” // setting the date format
let result = formatter.string(from: date) self.label.text = “Hello World “ + result Your code should look like the screenshot at the top of the following page.
(If the text inside the label crops, increase the width of the label by dragging the edges.)
More advanced Swift 4 methods
We’ve made a simple app. Now let’s move on to some methods and code snippets you can use in your own app projects.
Printing ‘Hello World’ in Swift print(“Hello, world!”)
Deining Variables
once assigned; the value of a variable will change. User don’t always have to write the type explicitly. Providing a value when you create a constant or variable lets the compiler infer its type.
let constVar = 42 var numberVar = 27
User can also specify the type:
var numberVar: Int = 27
Comments in Swift
Comments in Swift can be of two types.
Single line:
//This is a comment
Multiple-line comments:
/* This is a
Multiline comment */
Decision-making in Swift
The syntax of an if statement in Swift 4 is as follows:
if boolean_expression {
/* statement(s) will execute if the boolean expression is true */
For example:
The syntax of an if...else statement in Swift 4 is as follows:
if boolean_expression {
/* statement(s) will execute if the boolean expression is true */
} else {
/* statement(s) will execute if the boolean expression is false */
}
For example:
if boolean_expression_1 {
/* Executes when the boolean expression 1 is true */
} else if boolean_expression_2 { /* Executes when the boolean expression 2 is true */
} else if boolean_expression_3 { /* Executes when the boolean expression 3 is true */
} else {
/* Executes when the none of the above condition is true */
}
For example:
Switch statement
Switch expression { case expression1 : statement(s)
fallthrough /* optional */ case expression2, expression3 : statement(s)
fallthrough /* optional */ default : /* Optional */ statement(s);
}
For example:
Arrays
Create arrays and dictionaries using square brackets, and access their elements by writing the index or key inside the brackets. The following line creates an array.
To access and modify the second element of an array we can directly write:
arrayList[1] = “Watermelon”
To create an empty array, use the initialiser syntax.
var emptyArray = [String]() emptyArray = []
Dictionaries
var occupations = [“Steve”: “Captain”, “Kate”: “Mechanic”,]
To access and modify any value for a dictionary we can directly write:
occupations[“Steve”] = “Engineer”
To create an empty dictionary, use the initialiser syntax.
occupations = [:]
Sets
Sets in Swift are similar to array but they only contain unique values.
ar a : Set = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]
either “there is a value, and it equals x” or “there isn’t a value at all”. You can deine an Optional with ‘?’ or ‘!’
var myString: String?
‘?’ means the value can be present or absent. ‘!’ means the value can be nil initially, but in future it has to have a value, or it will throw a compiler error.
No sign means the variable is not optional and it has to be assigned a value, or it will throw a compiler error.
Functions
Following is the syntax to create a function in Swift: the inputNum is the parameter name followed by the DataType, ‘createStr’ is the name of the function. ‘-> String’ denotes the return type. The function takes Integer as input and converts it into String and returns it.
func createStr(Number inputNum : Int) -> String
{
return “\(inputNum)” }
The function can be called using the below syntax:
Classes
Following is the syntax to create a Class Car. It has an optional member variable numOfPersons and a function displayDetails()
The class instance can be created using the line below:
var myCar : Car = Car()
The ‘numOfPersons’ variable can be initialised as below:
myCar.numOfPersons = 5
Closures in Swift
Closures are anonymous functions organized as blocks and called anywhere like C and Objective-C languages. Closures can be assigned to variables. Following is the syntax of a closure in Swift.
{
SDUDPHWHUVî!UHWXUQW\SHLQ statements
Below is a simple example. Here we are assigning a closure to the variable scname. Then on the next line we are calling the closure by calling the variable name.
Here’s another example of closure which takes two variables as input and divides them.
Extensions
In Swift we can extend the functionality of an existing class, structure or enumeration type with the help of extensions. Type functionality can be added with extensions but overriding the functionality is not possible this way.
Tuples
The tuple type is used to group multiple values in a single compound value. Here’s the syntax of Tuple declaration:
var TupleName = (Value1, value2,… any number of values)
Here’s a Tuple declaration:
var error501 = (501, “Not implemented”)
Best places to learn more about Swift 4
Apple Documentation: The best place to learn Swift 4 is Apple’s oicial documentation for Swift at fave.co/2oHZlpY.
eBook: Apple has released an up-to-date eBook which is extremely useful when learning Swift 4: The Swift Programming Language (Swift 4.0.3). It’s available at fave.co/2oIMZho.
Udemy: The biggest online learning resource has several courses on iOS development with Swift 4. I have listed a couple of the best ones below:
• iOS 11 & Swift 4: The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp. Available at fave.co/2H67viG.
• iOS 11 & Swift 4: From Beginner to Paid Professional. Available at fave.co/2H3N3PA.
Swift Programming in Easy Steps: This book, by the author of this article, will teach you how to build iOS apps from scratch and it’s fully illustrated too. You can get a copy at fave.co/2tka8vz.
Get started with Swift 4
Want to learn Apple’s Swift development language? Help is at hand with these handy online resources. Nik Rawlinson reports
A
pple’s Swift is billed by the tech giant as a programming language that “lets everyone build amazing apps”. Now, that may be true, but don’t expect to dive into Swift coding today and write the next Candy Crush tomorrow. As with any language, spoken or coded, learning it takes both time and efort.language in depth. Whatever your ability, you’ll ind plenty here to advance your skills.
Before you get started, Swift 4.0.3 is available to download at fave.co/2tkLOto, and you can get it along with Xcode 9.2 and start learning the new language straight away.
You should be careful to check which version of Swift and Xcode your training materials are using, because there may be some variations.
Getting started
The Developer documentation includes sample code, links to the reference material and, most useful for anyone switching from another language, videos from the Swift 4.0 update at 2017’s
Worldwide Developers Conference.
Apple’s iBooks
Put your commute to good use by working your way through Apple’s free Swift programming materials available from the iBooks Store. There you will ind books including The Swift Programming Language, which ofers a tour of the language, a details guide to each feature and a formal reference for the language.
The Everyone Can Code is available for free there too. Apple has said that the curriculum, which is primarily designed for high school and college students but is accessible to all, will teach students to “code and design fully functional apps, gaining critical job skills in software development and information technology.”
Try an online course
Lynda
If you need to get started with Swift as quickly as possible, check out Lynda.com’s Swift 4 Essential Training at fave.co/2oIoFwg.
ofers a monthly subscription that gives you access to unlimited courses, so you can try lots of them.
Lynda.com charges between £12.95 a month and £18.95 per month depending on the level of service you want, and once you’ve paid you can access all of its courses, whatever the subject, alongside this series of Swift lessons. If you’re not sure whether you’d suit this kind of tutoring, try out a free preview account irst.
Tutsplus
If the Lynda courses are too expensive, check out Tutsplus (fave.co/2H7E0NL), where you can buy courses for $9 (around £6.50).
Podcasts
If all of this solo study is sending you stir crazy, sign up to a programming podcast. iDeveloper focuses entirely on iOS and macOS development, discussing tools and techniques, and ofering tips and advice. If you’re serious about making some money from your work, it also concerns itself with the business side of selling your apps.
The content is chatty and engaging, but can get technical at times, so if you ind it going above your head, hang in there and assimilate as much as you can – at least you’ll be getting familiar with terms and phrases used within the realm of programming.
HomePod tips and tricks
Your HomePod can do more than pump out music. More than you may realize. Michael Simon and Jason Cross report
A
pple’s HomePod is primarily a musicplayback machine. And it’s got Siri, which means it can do obvious things like set timers, take notes, and tell you what the weather is going to be tomorrow. But it can do more. It’s no Echo or Google Home in its lexibility, but HomePod has a few neat tricks up its... um... power cord. Here are some of the things you might not know it can do.
1. Precisely control the volume
The same principle applies to music tracks. “Skip forward” and “next track” are obvious commands, but to can also say, “Skip forward 42 seconds” to get past the boring intro or zoom straight to the chorus.
2. Remember a tune you’ve forgotten
Don’t remember One Foot in the Grave is the name of Beck’s irst album? No problem, you can simply say, “Play Beck’s irst album” to hear it. Or if you want to hear a song that escapes you, try being generic. For example, “Play that Run DMC song with Aerosmith” will cue up Walk This Way.3. Listen by Activity, Mood, or Genre
Apple Music maintains curated playlists organized by activities and moods. It’s a great way to discover new music and queue up tracks that it what you’re doing in your home. Try saying, “Play some cardio music” or “Play chill music”.
Okay, so maybe you knew you could do that. But did you know you could use these in combination? Try “Play lively indie music,” for example. Here’s a list of activities and moods to get you started:
• Oldies
There are lots of subgenres of music, too, such as k-pop, Chicago blues, smooth jazz, and zydeco.
4.
Turn Explicit Content on or of
Have children in the house? Maybe you don’t want them to be able to play songs with a bunch of inappropriate words in them. You can turn explicit content on or of in the Home app. Here’s how:
• Open the Home app
• Select your HomePod in the Favourite Accessories list
• Long-press or 3D touch on it • Tap Details
• Scroll down to Music & Podcasts • Toggle Allow Explicit Content
5.
Rescue your music recommendations
It’s annoying that HomePod doesn’t recognize diferent voices. Even if you turned of
the songs played there won’t afect the ‘For You’ recommendations on your Apple Music account. It’s not ideal, but it may be your best option.
• Open the Home app
• Select your HomePod in the Favourite Accessories list
• Long-press or 3D touch on it
• Tap Details
• Scroll down to Music & Podcasts
• Toggle Use Listening History
6. Use HomePod as a speakerphone
HomePod as a very sophisticated speakerphone. It’s not the most elegant solution, but when you’re in a call or about to accept one, simply tap the ‘audio’ button and choose HomePod as the source. It’s the same as you would do to use a Bluetooth headset.
7. Change Siri’s voice
or change the gender from female to male. For further details see page 114.
8. Find a good place to eat
Siri on HomePod is missing a lot of what makes Alexa and Google Assistant so good on those other home speakers. But it’s surprisingly helpful in one area: restaurant reviews. Just ask Siri to “Find a good pizza place near me”, or “What’s the best sushi restaurant in Tunbridge Wells”, and it will oblige, even telling you far away it is from your home and how many starts it gets in Yelp.
9. Add a song to a playlist
While you can’t create new playlists on HomePod, you can add songs to ones that already exist. Just ask Siri to “Add this song to my Running playlist”, and it will appear on all of your devices. However, if you want to delete a song you’ll need to head to Apple Music on your device to do it.
10. Check on the timer
One of the few tasks Siri does well on HomePod (aside from playing music) is setting timers. But after you set it, you don’t have to wait until it goes of. Just ask, “Hey Siri, how much time is left on my timer”, and it will tell you.
11. Turn on VoiceOver
and Touch Accommodations
with impaired vision or tweak the sensitivity. To turn it on, head over to the Home app and select the Accessibility tab. Inside you’ll two options for Voice Over and Touch Accommodations. There are a few settings inside each, including speaking rate, hold duration, and tap assistance.
12.
Limit the volume
Just like iTunes and Apple Music, HomePod includes a feature that will normalize the volume across songs to avoid inconsistent levels when listening to a playlist. Just go to the HomePod settings in the Home app and turn the Sound Check toggle green.
13.
Pick up where you left of
Whenever you stop playing a song on HomePod it’s not actually of, it’s just paused. So when you want to start playing music again, just say, “Hey Siri, play,” and it will begin playing from the point where you stopped it last time.
14.
Find out what’s playing on the radio
15. Add a tone to Siri
Help Desk
Glenn Fleishman answers your most vexing Mac problems
IS iCLOUD REQUIRED WHEN YOU
UPGRADE TO IOS 11?
Safari for macOS lets you view the kind of data cached locally by websites in your browser. Select Safari > Preferences >Privacy, and then click M to remove them, or even go nuclear and click Remove All.
That’s not a terrible lot, but 5GB doesn’t even cover the capacity of any of the iOS devices Apple sells. Other services, like iTunes Match (£21.99 per year) are not quite iCloud features, but rely on it.
Macworld reader Susan is still running iOS 10 and has apprehensions about upgrading to 11. She writes, “The information I ind on iOS 11 suggests that it will automatically log me in to various things I do not use. Apple seems to be pushing a lot of features I am leery about, especially too much storage of things in iCloud.”
Fortunately, you’re not forced to use anything. Apple doesn’t turn on iCloud features by default, even though it ofers them. You may be thinking of a feature new to iOS 11, Quick Start, which is often called automatic setup. With that feature, you bring two iOS devices close together, one you’re using as the template and one you’re setting up. With a combination of Bluetooth to exchange some information and a visual pattern that requires the camera to complete, the transfer process starts. It’s much more streamlined than other methods, and it brings most or all of your settings, including iCloud.
You can always review your iCloud service settings in iOS via Settings > account name > iCloud, and make sure there’s nothing switched on that you didn’t mean to enable.
HOW TO SET OFFLINE ACCESS FOR
SAFARI’S READING LIST FEATURE
Safari in macOS lets you mark a preference or select articles one at a time for offline reading
help getting Safari’s Reading List to work offline, as they had no internet connectivity. She’d saved articles to it to read later.
She wasn’t missing anything. Despite seemingly having all the right settings enabled to sync her Reading List across all the devices connected to her iCloud account, her marked items didn’t show up and weren’t available. What gives?
Turns out, Safari for both macOS and iOS have a setting you may never have noticed, since we so often have internet access (and perhaps so rarely consult Reading List).
In Safari for macOS, choose Safari >
swipe down to the bottom, and then tap the switch to on for Automatically Save Offline. If you have that option disabled, which it is by default, you’re prompted the irst time you choose Add to Reading List from the Sharing sheet whether or not to save items from then for offline reading automatically.
HOW TO SIMULATE THE MAC’S
DESKTOP FOLDER TO GET AROUND
iCLOUD CONTINUOUS SYNC
With macOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple introduced a way to offload some of your Mac’s storage dynamically using iCloud. The Documents & Desktop option had the most impact, in that it could not just sync your home folder’s Documents and Desktop folders to iCloud and make them available through iOS, iCloud.com, and other Macs, but also delete the least-used and oldest documents from your Mac if local storage was under pressure. The copy kept in iCloud would be available on demand, so accessing an infrequent document retrieves it.
Macworld reader Chris is running up against this feature, because they use their Desktop for their active working documents. “Files I’m working on go there until inished, and then are moved to their various folders,” he writes. However, he often works with large Photoshop iles. This leads to excessive syncing.
feature to create multiple desktops, macOS still stores the actual items in the same Desktop folder.
You could switch to another syncing service, like Dropbox, which only syncs the Dropbox folder, and store your documents there.
You could also use a regular folder to simulate what you rely on with the Desktop through
these steps:
1. Create a new folder and place it anywhere. 2. Name it something identiiable, like ‘Working Desktop’.
3. Select View > Icons for a Desktop-like icon view. 4. Select Show > Show View Options, and set a background colour or picture.
5. Add the folder to your sidebar so it can be
reached from any open or save dialog. 6. Click the green full-screen button on the
folder’s window in the Finder.
This might be close enough to what you need to let you keep using Desktop & Documents for synchronization without the constant Internet ile updates to iCloud.
ANOTHER WARNING: DON’T
CONVERT YOUR TIME MACHINE
VOLUME FROM HFS+ TO APFS
Months after the release of macOS 10.13 High Sierra, folks are still having problems with limitations of the new Apple File System (APFS) format required for SSDs that run High Sierra, and which you can optionally upgrade other drives to use. That includes your columnist, who bifed a Time Machine question that’s now updated for accuracy.
Time Machine can work with APFS volumes, but the shape looks like this:
• Time Machine can archive iles from both HFS+ and APFS volumes
• Time Machine volumes must be HFS+ • You can use Disk Utility to upgrade a Time
backup archive is mostly useless, even though iles aren’t destroyed
The archive becomes useless, because APFS doesn’t support hard links. These are a special kind of alias. A soft link is a pointer to a destination ile that looks to the operating system like a pointer. A hard link looks to the operating system like an actual ile, even though it’s just a pointer. This allows a single copy of a ile to be in a ile system, but have many pointers that reference it, and they can be manipulated and copied as if they exist in multiple places.
Time Machine backups start with a full backup of a drive for every ile, and then in subsequent backups it creates folder-based snapshots that use a mix of hard links for iles that haven’t changed and new iles for ones that have. This makes Time Machine accessible through the
Finder as well as through the Time Machine app’s graphical interface.
Because APFS lacks hard link support, converting an HFS+ volume to APFS destroys those links and replaces them with broken soft-link aliases. Thus, Macworld reader Yousif noted to me on Twitter that he’d upgraded his HFS+ Time Machine volume to APFS, but he couldn’t copy the backups.backupdb folder, because the aliases were broken. He received a “the operation can’t be completed because it isn’t supported” error. I tried this with individual iles that existed on the APFS volume and were not aliases, and received the same error.
It appears that all the individual copies of iles that Time Machine made are intact, so you could manually browse folders to ind older versions. That’s better than entirely losing those archives, but it’s not fun, and being unable to copy them directly make them near useless. There doesn’t appear to be any way yet (and possibly ever) to copy that folder to another drive or to restore the hard links, though I would think a developer might be able to write a utility that could handle it.
You can reformat an APFS drive back to HFS+, but it requires erasing the drive completely. Time Machine will ofer to handle the erasure and formatting if you try to use an APFS drive for Time Machine. But that, of course, doesn’t restore your archives, either.
will never come to?) Fusion drives that pair an SSD and hard drive for afordability, so I reiterate my advice: don’t upgrade drives manually to APFS.
WHY YOU CAN’T USE THE IMAGE
CAPTURE MAC APP TO DELETE
PHOTOS ON YOUR IOS DEVICES
I often recommend the not-quite-hidden app Image Capture to people having trouble getting images transferred or sync from iOS devices, especially if they’re using iTunes sync. It’s a way to peer into photo storage on an iOS device, as well as camera cards and other places. (It handles scanners, too, but some readers have found in High Sierra that they had to use Preview with their scanner.)
However, Macworld reader Larry wrote in asking about an article from July 2017 in which we noted that Image Capture also let you delete images directly from an iOS device. (Actually, it was another publication that wrote that article, but we’re happy to answer the question.)
Larry asks, “There is no delete button and delete in the Edit menu is greyed out. What am I doing wrong?”
With iCloud Photo Library enabled, you have to use iCloud.com, or an iOS device or Mac with the feature enabled to delete images. Those images will then be deleted of every connected device and iCloud.com.
O
n the hunt for a fresh and exciting game to play this month? Luckily, there’s always something new worth checking out in the world of Mac games, and we’ve put together our picks for the 10 best new titles. Survival smash Rust recently exited Early Access, while Descenders is a frenetic new downhill biking game, Never Stop Sneakin’ is a speedy take on stealth-action classics, and Sailaway lets you explore the world’s oceans on a digital dinghy.Latest Mac games
1. Rust
Price: £27.79 from Steam (fave.co/2oM3cSZ)
Rust is easily this month’s biggest full release, and it’s one that has already been available via Steam Early Access for more than four years now, and has sold several million copies along the way. Facepunch Studios’ game is all about survival: from the moment you emerge into the world, naked and alone, you’ll have to fend for yourself.
