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Where Yoserite crouped windows from the me app together in ston (Control El Capitan keeps them separate I's simple change but one that makes it far easier to find ‘what youre looking forf youve got multe windows open To make room for showing more ‘windows, Apple has had to rake a numiber of compromises Fora stat, when there are lots of windows Tosa, placing them separately means they show up small. Capitan also drops the icons that sed to appear underneath windows, replacing them withthe app ame that appea when you hover yur mause over them, These smal sacrifices make way fora much impewed feature, though. With Dashboard recently celebrating is tenth birthday (it was introduced in 2005 with 05x 10.4Tigen,itlooks like Apple might be puting it into retierent. By default, Dashboard is turned offin El Capitan. To re-enable it head to System Preferences>Mission Control a "sl e| EST Sd ef laner ea est (acne inthe new ieson Conta) MacTips Tks, Apps & Hacks 19[Master OS X El Capitan) The things that Apple didn’t tell you ‘During its keynotes, Apple rightly focuses on the show-stopping new festures But i've bbeen delving deep into 05 Xt discover some hidden features that Apple dd’ tellus about. Here's what we found. lide the menu bar In El Captan you can hide and unhide the menu bar jst ike you can with the Dock. Go to System Preferences>Geneal and tickAutomaticaly hide and show the ‘menu ba Non hover over itt se Redesigned Disk Utility “Taking design cues fom Yosemite, Disk tity has been redesigned tomake t more ser fend You fda simple to understand user nterface and ft, bright colours. ‘Two-Factor Authentication “Tworstep vefcation has been replaced by an entirely revamped ‘two-factor authentication sytem, which Usesa new way of trusting devies and does aay with ecovery keys Head to your Apple Daccountto set itup “2 MacTips Ths, Apps & Hacks Better manage your email with Mails latest upgre Hikes otosKeriahiar ci tena Wh, corres tomnistparyppstrne yeas TS Vat uncherts bosons akon Comes saron (sch brolenge Pato bus goal aera fepsuetoctc Amal ee ac pyc cheranest fle weusehtaaatumne cenatatnteterce Cried sp wal Soha tcp upwihireconoatan Fon Mabosyconpey beater matey ore ots walonciarpedel ascmruian byausee feattiens ‘ceonctupthocbvonecttevertusoeyeprs Sloe cmcceeares nore ioe ontieeateaase New features in Mail Sa Save time with swipes Tab between drafts Use wo fingers and swipe amessage wo the In fulscreen made, diferent rafts are fight to math t 35236 (r ured) Sipe tt ‘touped ogethe as tabsin the some theright to Tash it tsa gianttmneseveron teread compose windows wef when sending fore roinboxze0 femal about the same sublet To the inbox and back youte composing a draft emai fullscreen ena ciching ouside ofthe compose window wisi tdown to the bottom of the caer so you {an eum ioyourinbox ‘One-click events and contacts Mal now looks out for new contact tha end you emals ad references to dates times ana locations in your messages s0 you can ad thermo (Contacs and Calendar one lick,, Master OS X El Capitan ut anything useful in Notes Sharea site From the hare menu Sfat youcan Sanday webste Notes 53s review card Thesame applies cations InNaps and tesa nurbor of other aps ‘Te atachmantsbutonin the Topmenu val sow yous > ‘As yeu‘ expect, paling up ‘overview fate atachments yourl0S devices and your youve ded to Notes none plc Ws - ‘Mac with Cloud means are nmegpeend Seamer scans en instes saehereniens SS craesiose tie © een, emcee, tieinthe nes ret ay ‘uc sean fora partir nee Retrievin Pees By elong onthe tekicon inthe top men youcan tum anyst ino achecas Wie thre’ aRerinders app Chedtsn rots an male slotmere sree @ Safari's new features seta tu Pinned tabs ‘Mute all tabs AirPlay to Apple TV Pinned tabs are housed inthe far left of Safari has gained anew Mute Al Tabs In€l Capitan you can Ala a video the tab bar keeping frequently vsted button, which youl see tothe ight of from Saar to Apple TV without sharing ‘websitas in easy reach. These ses efesh inthe the address bar when a video playing great your whole desktop. Compatible videos will background to ensute they ae avays uptodate for anyone who often hasalarge numer of display an Aly icon that wil steam to Apple when youneed them, tabs open at once TV automatically. MacTips Tks, Apps & Hacks 13(Master OS X El Capitan) © Use third-party extensions in Photos Fans of Aperture have bemoaned the ack of advanced edting options inside the Photos ‘app but that cou all change in Capitan. The introduction ofthe party extensions ‘now gives you exta editing power from your favourite apps while you are stil inside the Photos interface 1: Activate Head to System Preferences> Extensions to see which of your apps are avaiable asan editing extension in Photos. Check the box ext tothe apps you want to use 2: Editing ‘Now when you open up the Et suite youl see new Extensions option atthe bottom, Ce on and then again on the app extension youl ike fuse i { 3: What else is new? “The Faces feature has been streamlined, and there are new tools for adding locations to single images or complete ‘Moments, You can now search images Inalbume by dte tle and mare = M # public 1: New option When you open Meps youtave anew menu option inthe top-ight comer tthe Tart tab and Maps ‘uromtcaly Changes. public tansiextovevew 2: Directions When you enter you Start and End points uncer the Dections tab, ae have Tari selected the options [orded alice pubic anspor selections. 3: Extra details Toger step-by-step rections jst cckon the Dera bution. 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Its now ‘easier to wrt beter code, including advanced err handing _valbilty checking and lots of enhancements to syntax Because Swifts compatible with Objective-C developers can use Swit code to implement new features in thei apps. When Swift becomes open source ful creative contol willbe backin the develope'shard.So what does hs Core performance AS much improved GH With e Capitan, Apple has brought Metal, tsnew graphics core \. technology, to the Mac. 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Uncheck any appsand sens theundeying Activity Montoro seehow much RAM atalable you dont need to runall efthe time, to sop ther problems and and ow much each pp isusing, Staring at bootup can actualy i Sema SOME simple solutions f gee May solve your current problems and make your = Mac feel like ni emg aps g > OE : 1: Disk Map 2: Memory Clean 3: WiFi Explorer hom ik Map aes omertimeto werkwth, Appsiie Memory Clean ae wsefuor _Pesermance roblemscanakiobe bur tieresieaeenightening aril gettngyou aver shumphen you cautedbyireemet connec Kase pocetalysave youmoney. tes you needtO work but ememberhtthey and anapo ite Wi Explorer wil ep Seehow every snglefle ising space will not permanent sole problems you tov) see where the ete ofthe onyourMac with aloe of fee RAM problem may be Mac Tips Tks, Apps & Hacks 21Supercharge your Mac | Customise the desktop Constdeing how much ime most of us spend ushgour Macs chances are that youl spend hous every week woking your desktop With hat nin you tanto mae sue that evrything bas attractant a convenient located ssitean possibly be Thankfully there ‘ae several tweaks rable for anyone looking wo cusamse the deskog, These range from purely superical changes tomale your Macalitle more asy on the eyes 10 some more fundamental lleations wich can save you pecous Seconds everytime you leas up the desktop Tutus they soon add up Final quick changes “hare area couple of other changes you can make to rly make your desop your on, and theyre nzecithy easy find 1: Light to dark (Open Sytem Preferences nd navigate to General Here you wi see setings, one of \which called Use dk menu ba and Dock (ick omake the Sats bat dark 2: Change menu colours Thetop wobawes etyenchange the general appesrance to blue or graphite and height colour to ay o you choosing, “These sal changes hve snimpsct 22 Mac Tips Tks, Apps & Hacks © Gofurther Themainpoon fhe desktop ‘usualy sta but apps the axdoatet you dpa spp: freaktimeinfo ares you ta Theeisasighteamng cine, butitswortht © Move eons Wen you rdckthe == saturboriconsot — theton they ae Se battyouhokt ‘eCindkey whe ing a, youll Denbow change fhe order oe of = thesytem iorsby 1 agging bam © Dockjumps ‘Youmay want» move the Dock Frofrecer terme Movethe ‘mouse tothe line tween ape Sr doce wha ldng She Sragthe Doakietornght| [the cogatthe bottom and then sslee DaNotDsw A tations il be topped un Yyouchangetback again 1: Find some icons 2: Choose an app “There re many repositories onthe web which offer InFinder go tothe Applications folder ee then Nac kong including wouleonarchivecom Tse aoh-eckan app Now choose te Get Ifo men Iinetofnd asetofkonsthatyoulkeandthen_opsionto bing upa panelofeing dew owas {app aed information 3: Copy an icon 4: The new icon {pen te foler contain the kns thet ou Noni cckthe con athe top ofthe Grin panel ne peso dowriosded andcopyonecf and then use Cnet pastein theca you theme the Geto pane! sll open on pie reo. 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Bycicking on the View menu, you can choose the Customize ‘option, which il place tick boxes next 1 al othe anes 50 simply deselect the ones you dotted, From the same menu ou can abo choose 1 ew your Sjstam Preferences pares alphabetically. == ‘ini I “Ure divk menu bar and Dock Tekthie bo sneyou wil noice thatthe menu bar that uns across the topo your screen and yout Dock ill be darkened, as wl any menus ha you select lm ether pace You wl ako nosce that Capitan adds the option tohide the menu ba Customise your lac’s appearance ‘he Appearance pane determines the button, ‘meni and window there for Mac OSX. Thee are ‘wo theme options Blue and Graphite Your choke \wlatfect the butonsin dialog boxes and certain ‘menu tems For example you choose Graphite ‘then the fafa vac Hh buttons inthe top leftcomer of windows ae replaced by alley alternatives Gor the move setous Mac use. can use your mported f from S apt Change your desktop {icing onthe Desap& een Sve rane wlan you to change ‘the wallpaper on your desktop, andthe screensaver that Kiksin ‘when your Moc ide ra perl of time hat you can determine hte When choosing a desktop, you wise a selection of fldersin thelefehand columa each ef which cosans selection of mages. ‘Aterative, you can use your own images imported om PRO ‘rte new Photos app. You can ako ck the ogton to change the picture avera certain time period Mac Tips Tis, Apps & Hacks 27Energy Saver usage The Energy Saver pane where you go toadlus the power settings of yours, most nowy the amount of time tis Ine before automaticaly gong 0 deen inorderto save power Further cptions enable youto put haa dis o deep whenever posse wake the Mac up for etwork access and estar yourrnachine automaticaly in the event ofa poner fale By ciking on the Schedule Buren, you can aka put times when your Mac wile putt seep and wake up each dy Determine precisely when your Mac goes to sleer Family management ; hi ‘While in theiaud pane of ater Preferences you clekon the Manage Fay burton yu val te abe wad fly members you cour. 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Tris wil splay pews in Kon, st ape Cover Flow ewes mating incredibly e259 and conwerert 10 ew all mane ffles wahout having oad up the relevant application, “Drag the items you want to access quickly onto the window's toolbar” Custom settings Customise the toolbar With Fier window open ck on the View menuanaslect “lstarie Too Drag the Res you want to aces uc onto the window's eoba fer earrle you regula use Dropbox. you _formessages at whatever see sus Display and then cickon you Note that youneed to ep the Reluce Fansparency Retaunch Reduce Tansparency option on fo the Messages app. got© into work a Mac Tips Ticks, Apps & Hacks any device And you can ghe cornerstones 30 theyre easier to find later e925 allows you to add people gp comesaions afte they’ve started and allows you Toleie 2 goup comersation Atematheh, you can just arth ff alert for tht conversation 30 youre ot asurbed evry ie someone chimes in © eta details TheDetaisboxe here eu mute rovfrion sve ———- ‘Pelee sen Shoring session th © Audio messages Gickthe mioeponeto Send nao menage When yous estan recona romyou Nacsmierophone. thesnbpetand lows yutovenditAudio messages Send an audio message Wile the Messagesappspimarydesoned forest messaging and sensing mages another les you can ao send srippets of fecoded auc. ck the New Message baton and type he name of therecpent When the name appeasin heist of cotacts cckon Ito place inthe adres bx Now cekthe micoprane nest the tertbon a fe bortom ofthe window Spesk your message, peste redstop buton when yu ished, and then press Send to send theauco sripoet. “You can send snippets of recorded audio in Messages” Mute notifications Activate Do Not Disturts Mig notations specie comesatons Can prove uk partici he case fy rupert chats whch canoer your notes panel nodose of, ‘avg othe contin whose noiatons you want tomute Clk the Detals box the top "ght ofthe wanda Then eek re box ext © Do NorOisturs Notcaons wil now be satched [Ticks] Hacks | Apps Leave a group Let the conversation carry on without you Sometimes, ming ntfeaton fr agro cerweation ry ot be enough a you may decide hat ou ned eave Ratogener To leave group cometsaon cick te Dts button 3a 98 downto where 595 Lave is Cormesston Cie and youl be moves fom ‘he coneration The che paricans wile ‘or this conversation but eman on for hers, ‘oucan siteh mem back ona ary te, by Uunchecing the box nest © Do Not Disturb. Name a conversation Make it easier to find Naming comesations particu group Conversations can make them much eset fod thon you nec! o refer to ther er Moder ame agioup conversation start conversation bby sending amessage othe recipients Then cick the Deals bax cckon Goup Name and ype a ‘ew rare ort You will pow see that the new ‘Group name scape athe rop ofthe window ‘Now: when the convesaton ends youll beable to find using the name to search fori Heep tea, though the rame wllappearwith every message! able o cay on chatng using the same window, ‘butyou wl nolonge see tre conversation be able orespond. “There are occasions when allowing others to see your screen is very useful” Share your screen Tet othefs see your Mac's screen ‘There ae ocasiors when allowing ther people ta see your screen, Corbeing able to see thescieen ofthe peson youl cating, ‘er useful yout raring someone, for example or prong technical suppor. seeing the same screen hepa great deal Clk (on Detas and then click the ketmost ion nest your contacts rare. Chocse whose screen to share yous thes They eta otf request they accept you wl bath see the screen rs youlend ether the conversation ofthe screen sharing session MacTips Tks, Apps & Hacks 35Facelime PACE TINE SS an FaceTne uses the bln camera.on a MacBook, MacHook Ai Maook Fro or iMac to enable yout ‘make video calls 3t upto 720p defintiono anyone who hasa Mac Phone or Pad oweverfyau havea Mac i or@ MacPro, youcan stiluse FaceTimeby connecting the panty webcam. © Audio st ‘Ta Audlotab ie Serve uve Spoken areca, ‘Whether ites Facet ora phone ‘al onyour hose © Contacts list ‘onthelefehand Sotthe Facstne ‘window when yeu Bunentne apo ahofconacs iPhone cellular calls To wseFaceTime to mske phone ‘as youneed to setitup on both your Phone and your Mac inthe Setings 9 9 053,90 FaceTime and enable the hone Call Cale ‘option. Then backon your Mac, launch FceTme, go to references, deck the Settngs tab, and check the 36 MacTips Ticks, Apps & Hacks bor nex Phone Cal Cal Make sure you als rick the box next {] your phone number ates than {nst you Apple Dor emaladdess Soyou can recs call madeto your Phone ter tat you should bbe atle to make phone calls fom, FaceTime on your Mac “The app can aa be used to make auco-only ‘al wnen you dont ware to share video fom yur Facetime camera FaceTime cn now be used wien you haven iPhone rvaring 05 8 or abowe onthe same Wi netvork to make telephone cal to ary phone umber you desire. You can ako rece calls an your Mac: Once youhave tse up, whenever someone cls your [Phone's phone number you Mac wil sarong and youl see anotfcation eng you that you have ‘incoming cal Presa button 0 arsed youl hear the cal on your Macs speakers and youl be le rouse ts microphone to takro them, © Moreinformation Clekthe nexttoa Infomation en he Contactsape, edna ‘harem adsreerand phone number «Block unwanted calls event unwelcome phone calls Tereare a number f ways in which youran block unwanted ‘hone cs on our Phone you have aeady Blocked some urnaes, go to Pelerences in aceTe on you Maca cick the Blocked ab You wil sea of locked number. To ada contact tothe blocked ist ick the symbol at the botiom ofthe window Back choosea coriact om te Is the nue tht you wane@ Diockist associted witha particu contac, you haveto ceate onetort “Go to Preferences in FaceTime on your Mac and click the Blocked tab” Make a phone call Set up yourMacand Phone to alow you to make nd receive cals a described in he Phone Cur eal borcut on the previous page Then, In Faceime cick the Audo tab 2nd se the Search bok a seuch fra specie contact or ‘hone numer oF crease one rom the Ist of recent contacts When youhave found it cickthe ‘hone ican nev othe contas mame: Assuring somes SD rts FaceTine aaa to Bock nth at belo Add an email address lore than one Apple ID iyouhavemoce than one malades associated ‘ath your Apple De exam youve been Jang accom and aa have mecom and idoudcom vara 8 el you can beeches onaryor tem dvougha single Fusing poe, GotoFaceTme and then Peterenes ck he Settings tab ond cick Al ero odes You Desert anemal king yout very the actu SStSieeeS Changetherngtone — eset ‘number and relay the cal directly to your Mac. There are FaceTime settings. eee cous teenie, Sokineebenon. met “if you have another microphone connected to your Mac, you can use it” Use a different mic fou can use an external microphone ‘By defau, Face uses your Ma’ bun microchone for Faceime calls Bu you have aexher microphone connected 10 your Mac saya USB mic yourcan use that insted, ote Faetiene and dick onthe Videormenu At the bottom under the heading Microphone you see Ist ofthe mictoohones avalible for use Cickon the one you wart fits not here, goto stem ‘Seigs cckon the Sound pana then the Ipputab and select i Try ‘again in Facet, MacTips Tks, Apps & Hacks 37Cortacts nitust an acess book isthe very hub Contacts ako xegiates wth Pages tormake lt Fortunately the app has evlved to maketh ery of werything youdo onthe Macthat hus anything easy iaddaddtesesto lets ard éavaiuble ay. For camp ttcan now pullin data om Todowith keeping in touch with others. 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Now cick an Facebook and checkthe box nextto Contacts inthe rain window Repeat or Linked, You Facebook ends and Linhadncontacts wll now beaded to the Conc api carabase Change profile pic You carruse any photo you like to keep track of contacts Find the contact whos profe photo you wart 0 change Cickonthe prof picture and you wil be resend th several options, but there sit one Innmedialy avaliable which alons you to choose apicure fom ouside Apole’ photo apps You can {se any photo you have on your Mac, Powever ust find the phow that you want to we inthe Finder {and crag tonto the prof photon Contacts You {an now crop itor ese to your ling, in oder fithe space tothe fal, Tips | Ticks | Hacks | Apos iiss boner) Find a contact’s address Look up fiends locations with Apple Maps The Conactsapp does ist alow youtosee the det of contacts acess ean actualy show youthe addtessona map and ge you drectons {oh co the coat whose ates you wart {orev ad hove the poner ve thet ork or home acess When you s2e aap pin, lek “The Maps app wl subsequently open and display the adressen armap fr you To get dtecton Single the Drecon buten and typein he Sonate. “You can change the way in which contacts’ details are displayed” Edit the template Customise cards fo your needs Youcan change the way a which contacts deta te dsl, as wal as add new leds and delete existing ones n Contacts, go 12 Preferences and ick on Template You" see Bankcard withthe cures emplate To ac feds toa name cick onthe drop-down ‘menu an cc the fed To remove he fd do the same Ifyou ust want to adel space feranactional ema acres cr ‘phone number or change ther de use the and "buttons next Mac Tips Tks, Apps & Hacks 38Calendar Your Mac bulllin Calendar app isan estental_ ert that you dr forget about an event you toolto ensue that you never forget an important can thon et lets to nudge youin a vanity of date whetheritbe scritea work meeting orfamly ferent ways. birthday. Youcan cent events quclyandeasly The Calendar appa ls you pay mute fac any dete and then factor in as much formation calendars snultaneoush So you can dsphay 25 yeu wantinduing alocaion times and even events lang toyou werker pasonal fe on one hem fom peep wher you woul Ike ove along. To. calendar and hen enable and csable Your calendars ‘ccktibuton| toply teste ‘ohumn sing ‘tyourenatiea “alone Fom hi isryoucan lector esse lends Todspay trough theintrace Addevents ‘Geates Quick vert, ‘rightaikon the ‘ate andtime to ‘rate amore spect ‘eer puting oof thewcert dete inploce Tweaking the preferences he Galendarapp is quite versatile when the week begins whether'o and you can allrittomeet your dsply pubichokaysor not anc Spectic needs ‘much mere besides You can even Inorder todo this fst dckon opt ta dsp alternate calendars the topeftGalendaroption inthe alongside the standard ones, menubar and choose Preferences. 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