Tag: demonstration os 26

After a force-feeding of technical detail on the new operating systems in October, the November SMUG meeting centered on a demonstration of OS 26. Rather than try and show macOS 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and watchOS 26, we settled on showing chiefly macOS 26. Why macOS 26? Because it shares the same GUI (graphical user interface) and many of the same features as the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch versions, and because it is also easier to demonstrate over Zoom.

There was also an extensive question and ansswer session, plus lots of questions during the meeting.

One final point: we decided to forgo a December 2025 meeting. See you in January 2026.

Video recording of the November 2025 SMUG meeting

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Transcript of the November 2025 SMUG meeting

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18:28:56 Um, we start with a question and answer session, and although it's not exactly 6.30, I don't see any particular reason just to.
18:29:04 sit around and do nothing, so… Anybody have any questions?
18:29:11 well, I guess I should just ask, do you like the new operating system?
18:29:14 for iOS.
18:29:19 Um, for iOS on the phone, the part that I like about it most is the call screening.
18:29:24 The rest of it doesn't dramatically change. anything I'm doing.
18:29:31 But on my iPad, I absolutely love it. because I can do things on my iPad that I've always wanted to do and couldn't.
18:29:38 So, I think the iPad is a huge win.
18:29:42 I like what it does on the Mac, again, because of the call screening, I can.
18:29:47 screen calls right from my computer. I don't have to take my phone out of my pocket. You know how.
18:29:52 a struggle it is to take your phone out of your own pocket.
18:29:56 Um, and they don't have to do that.
18:29:58 What's your biggest, uh… New… thing that makes the iPad such a winner for the iOS.
18:30:06 The 26.
18:30:08 Um, in addition to doing things like the call screening, which I'm going to emphasize repeatedly that the call screening is really cool.
18:30:16 Um, the way that you can have multiple applications at once.
18:30:21 when you could only have one window at a time, yes, they had that split screen, but.
18:30:27 I have an iPad Mini, and a split screen on an iPad Mini means everything's microscopic.
18:30:32 It's like having two iPhones right next to each other, and you can't read the print on either one.
18:30:38 Um, but now, with the overlapping windows, you can… you can actually remember what the context is.
18:30:48 research, and you want to look something up. Um, I just find it… a big.
18:30:55 a big change, a nice change. on the iPad, um.
18:31:06 like, um, a Mac laptop, and. No, it's not at all like a Mac laptop, but it is much more useful.
18:31:13 as a tablet. I have a friend who. doesn't like the iPads because the battery life is too short, they have a Kindle, and they don't.
18:31:24 They charge it, like, once… every 10 days or something, and.
18:31:28 the iPad having to charge it all the time just as terrible. They saw what I was doing with.
18:31:31 my iPad, and I saw them a couple days later, and they had an iPad, so… Um, that.
18:31:40 that multiple window. capability is a huge step up to me.
18:31:44 There are other things that are nice, too, but that's the one that, uh… That, um.
18:31:52 What is your favorite?
18:31:53 Is my favorite. I'm one of these people, well, I have a photograph of Kathleen once.
18:32:00 sitting on the couch, and she's got a laptop in front of her, she's got a laptop off to one side.
18:32:05 She has her 12-inch iPad open, and she has.
18:32:10 her phone all doing things. She was doing research for, uh, something that she was doing.
18:32:18 And, um, I just thought it was hilariously funny, so I took a picture of her and sent it to.
18:32:23 our daughter, who, um, also thought it was hilariously funny, but.
18:32:29 Um… you can never have too many screens if you're doing.
18:32:34 Research.
18:32:37 Yeah, I have to get used to how it… Yeah, opens the other screen, and sometimes I don't know even how I did it, and I don't know how to close one. Yeah, I'm getting… I'm getting used to it, but that's… yeah.
18:32:54 multi-story house, and. Kathleen's study was right above where my computer was.
18:33:00 And one day I heard this terrific crash. And I went up there, and the way we used to do research is that we'd have, like, you know, 100 books open at once in stacks.
18:33:09 One of her stacks fell over, and it sounded like.
18:33:13 Like the house, we couldn't come down, but. No, she was just doing research.
18:33:17 This is… between the three of us, Kathleen, my daughter, and I.
18:33:23 We had 10 degrees, so… you know, things got a little… intense at times.
18:33:32 Oh, that's quite the… Yeah, that's quite the thing.
18:33:41 Dean, uh, my son-in-law, said that. when he came and had dinner with us, this was, um.
18:33:48 He flew across the Atlantic, never having met us.
18:33:52 had dinner with us, did not tell us that he was planning on proposing to.
18:33:58 our daughter, and we were just having dinner. And we got into one of our usual family discussions, which.
18:34:06 covered. Politics, history. healthcare, uh, war crimes.
18:34:13 just a standard… conversation in our family, and.
18:34:18 he looked like she was in shock, because that didn't represent any kind of.
18:34:24 family dinner conversation he had ever been involved with.
18:34:28 But he still proposed, so, you know, it worked out.
18:34:33 Anyway, uh, any questions?
18:34:36 It was kind of.
18:34:37 I have a question that was not about the Macintosh or the… iPad or any of that.
18:34:48 So I finally called Astound. They sent a tech out, he checked the outside connections, and.
18:34:56 so on and so forth, you know, and he said, all that seems to be fine.
18:35:00 Uh… So then he blamed the ERO.
18:35:13 And he said, if that doesn't work. And we have… I've got a 6+, I think.
18:35:20 And I've got… it's a mesh deal, and I've got a slave.
18:35:25 down the hall, and he says, if that, if you still have trouble.
18:35:30 Then switch the two, because they're the same… the units are the same.
18:35:35 So I did that, and now my Eero app doesn't work. It wants me to.
18:35:40 and wants me to reset up everything, even though the internet's working fine.
18:35:45 in both places, but the Eero app itself doesn't work.
18:35:48 Anyway, he thought that maybe the reason he wanted me to switch him is he thought maybe one of the.
18:35:55 ports, Ethernet ports. was bad, and he didn't have any way to test it.
18:35:59 So I switched them, but I'm not sure it made any difference. I haven't… it hasn't actually gone out, but it was slow for a bit.
18:36:08 I have an ery as well, and the way.
18:36:12 Iroh, by the way, for those of you who don't have an Eero, it's a plastic, white plastic box.
18:36:17 that, um, provides Wi-Fi and connectivity throughout your home.
18:36:22 You plug it into your, um… your, um, internet connection that you get from wherever your provider is.
18:36:30 And then it balances out. your Wi-Fi throughout your entire house, and it does it.
18:36:37 automatically. And it also has a firewall and a bunch of other things.
18:36:40 Um, that's an arrow that he has right up on the screen right now.
18:36:44 Um, and… there… if you… depending upon how many units you have.
18:36:52 They're not all identical. Like, for example, my master that I have that's plugged.
18:36:57 into the internet connection from Wave Cable. It has more ports than the other two, the other two don't have as many ports.
18:37:05 And when you set it up, that's the one that you set up with the master… IP address. Ip address is the internet protocol address, it's the.
18:37:16 It's basically how all the computers talk to each other.
18:37:19 And that master. Uh, then assigns addresses to others, so… Switching the two.
18:37:29 I wouldn't. really.
18:37:32 I wouldn't have done that. Um… But I know that if you have only two, they may be identical. Mine's a… Um, I got a 3-unit mesh.
18:37:47 Um, the… If you switch them, one of the.
18:37:51 Problems that they will have immediately is that. the, uh… master address is now going to be on the satellite, and the satellite address is going to be on the master.
18:38:01 And they won't like that very much. The other thing is, because they also have a firewall in them.
18:38:08 your app, what it's doing is it's looking at the master and saying.
18:38:13 My credentials don't talk to that thing. Because even if the internet addresses the same.
18:38:21 the Ethernet address in the ERO is different, and the address that it uses.
18:38:28 themselves is a combination of the two. I'll give you a kind of a corollary.
18:38:33 When you type in your name and password. What are your credentials?
18:38:39 It's not the name and the password separately, it's the name and the password.
18:38:45 Together, it makes a much more complex thing. And that is their credential. It's not just the name, it's not just the password.
18:38:54 And when you're… when your app is looking for the Eros.
18:38:58 It looks for that combination of the internet address and the Ethernet address, which are different things.
18:39:06 And together, that tells it. that is talking to the right device.
18:39:11 Now, why Eero does that? And why your Mac does that, and why most.
18:39:18 decent networking does that. it makes it much harder to spoof.
18:39:22 If someone wanted to get into your house and spy on you.
18:39:26 And they took your base station and replaced it with something that looked the same.
18:39:31 your Mac's gonna say, hey, that's not the same thing, because the Ethernet address and the IP address.
18:39:37 don't give… they're not passing the same electronic. credential to your Mac, and your Mac's going to look at it.
18:39:43 very suspiciously. And because the Eero. does, uh, networking security, when they're talking to each other.
18:39:51 They're gonna sit there and they're gonna say, wait a minute.
18:39:53 I don't quite know who's going on, what is going on here. Now, they may eventually figure it out, because they are consumer devices, and.
18:40:00 Maybe they don't like people calling up their helpline and.
18:40:04 And, um, complaining about it, but it does make me… it does make sense to me.
18:40:08 that you'd have to, uh, reset the app. Because it's just what it was talking to. Your Mac and your… iPhone, really paranoid about things like this.
18:40:22 They look at it and say, that's not what I was talking to.
18:40:25 Um, they can be upset about that sort of thing.
18:40:31 So that does make sense to me, but who do you use for your internet?
18:40:37 Sound used to be Wave.
18:40:38 Yeah, I've had a number of outages, too. They've been short.
18:40:44 Um, but, um… on the peninsula, most of our internet comes via microwave.
18:40:54 There are microwave towers that take it. It's called Northwest.
18:40:59 internet or something, I don't remember what it's called.
18:41:01 But it's, uh, um, they have some towers that go across the mountains and around the… the 101 loop.
18:41:10 And they provide, uh, internet. They used to have fiber optic cables that went underneath the bridge.
18:41:16 But, um, they decided that was probably a bad idea.
18:41:20 Um, because every time you open the bridge, it would go out, so… Now they do other things, and they were thinking at one time about running a cable under.
18:41:29 Hood Canal, but if you've ever looked at a bathymetric chart, Hoot Canal is really deep.
18:41:35 It's an interesting idea, but it's not. It's something of a technical challenge. So, most of it is provided by microwave, and the problem with microwave, when you have wind, or you have snow, or… Anything else, it interferes with the microwave signal. The wind can blow the antenna off.
18:41:55 And if you think about, if you move something a quarter of an inch right at.
18:42:01 the point of the receiver, that quarter inch can be several miles by the time it goes to the receiver at the other end.
18:42:08 And it won't necessarily get rid of this. Signal, but it greatly weakens that signal.
18:42:13 Um, so, uh, it's a, it's a consequence of where we live, but, um.
18:42:18 I'm not too wild that the technician thought it was your hero. That's… That's… Some blaming the victim, that's not.
18:42:29 Um… I wouldn't have been impressed with that.
18:42:36 If he told me to do that, I would have told him no.
18:42:42 I have a couple, if you got…
18:42:44 I'll go ahead. No, go ahead.
18:42:42 Well, thanks.
18:42:48 You know, I thought, uh, you weren't finished.
18:42:47 Go ahead.
18:42:52 Oh, okay, my question is…
18:42:54 My brother-in-law just got a new MacBook Pro,
18:42:58 And, um…
18:43:00 And we set it up for him, you know, with an Apple ID and everything, and…
18:43:05 Um, the problem was his email.
18:43:09 He came… he came from, um, Potsdam, New York, where he worked as a math professor.
18:43:17 And his email…
18:43:20 And the verification…
18:43:23 to, um…
18:43:24 to the Clarkson email address.
18:43:29 And so, and he retired and moved here, right? So now he lives in Squim.
18:43:35 But, um… so I said… I set them up a new Gmail account, because he said he didn't need any of his old gmails that, you know, he just said, I don't…
18:43:46 I don't need them retrieved, and Clarkson University,
18:43:51 cancel, you know, shut down his email. Um, they didn't want…
18:43:56 Well, yeah, and so we can't…
18:43:56 Well, that's… sucky.
18:43:59 get onto his email, but… so we have this brand new Gmail account on the…
18:44:05 new laptop… MacBook Pro.
18:44:08 So, uh, we went to, uh, his iPhone, he has an iPhone 15 Pro.
18:44:15 Uh, and…
18:44:18 Apparently, when it was, uh… I'm trying to move an app from the store…
18:44:24 It asks for the Apple ID,
18:44:27 based on his old Gmail account, not the new one that he had on the MacBook Pro.
18:44:33 Um, so how do you make his iPhone Apple ID the same as his…
18:44:40 MacBook Pro Apple ID.
18:44:45 out of the Apple ID on the phone and reset it.
18:44:49 It basically has to say, sorry, that was a mistake, and… because you see.
18:44:54 that brand new Apple phone. doesn't know what your ID is. It's whatever you tell it.
18:45:00 So if he changes it on his Mac and he wants it on the phone, you basically have to log out.
18:45:06 of the Apple ID on the phone and log back in with the new credentials.
18:45:11 Oh, how do you log out? My Apple, I never log out of my Apple ID, it's always on.
18:45:23 Yeah, yeah, the icon.
18:45:16 If you… if you go on the phone up the top where you're looking at your settings, he's got his… profile photo or icon, or whatever. If you click on that.
18:45:27 It gives you all the kind of information about your, um, your Apple account.
18:45:36 Ah, okay, okay.
18:45:39 So you log out, and then when you log in again, you use the Apple ID that he's using on his Mac.
18:45:44 Gotcha. Okay, thank you, because it was taking the old Apple ID password,
18:45:56 Yeah, yeah.
18:45:51 And, you know, he doesn't know that even anymore. It's like garbage. But the MacBook Pro, I thought, once you change it on the Pro, it would change it on all your devices, but apparently it doesn't.
18:46:03 No, no, no, because you see, if you're changing your password.
18:46:06 Yeah.
18:46:09 Gmail.
18:46:12 Yeah.
18:46:07 That's one thing. But if you're changing your. If you're changing your actual address, no, that's a completely different thing.
18:46:15 Gotcha. Okay.
18:46:17 You know, it's one thing to come along and.
18:46:20 do the magic trick where the table's all set, and you pull the tablecloth off, and all the stuff is there. But.
18:46:26 That doesn't necessarily work if you go to another table that's not set up for that. When you pull it off, all you do is.
18:46:33 Yeah, because on my… on my MacBook Pro, when I changed
18:46:33 throw all the dishes all over the place. So, you know, it doesn't…
18:46:38 Uh, my Apple ID password, it changed it for all my devices.
18:46:44 Yes, yeah.
18:46:43 Yes, but it's the same account. And through, through, through, uh, the, uh, iCloud, it's syncing all that stuff, but you see.
18:46:52 It can't sync it to something it doesn't even know about.
18:46:55 Right.
18:46:58 Gotcha. Thank you.
18:46:56 So it has to be the same thing.
18:47:00 If I come up to you and say hello.
18:47:04 in English, and then I come up to you and say hello in Hungarian.
18:47:08 Right.
18:47:06 One of those you're not going to know, even though they're both saying hello.
18:47:10 Gotcha. Thanks.
18:47:14 Any other questions? Yes?
18:47:15 All right. Yeah, I have… since we're talking about emails and stuff, not having to do with Macs, I have a… a new iPad error.
18:47:24 And a new iPhone 17, and then I have my… 2023 Mac Mini.
18:47:30 So, I was setting up. my iPhone and iPad.
18:47:36 And, um, my new iPad. suddenly did not get any of the email.
18:47:43 it showed, like, no… none of the stored email that I had.
18:47:47 So I figured out… That, uh, it was an IMAP.
18:47:51 It's Olipan, okay? I figured out it was an IMAP.
18:47:56 Whereas the iPhone and Mac Mini were both Pop 3.
18:48:01 Yes, everything should be IMAP.
18:48:03 So, I called Olipan, and I don't know if they know how to do this, but.
18:48:11 Um… it's probably more complicated than me just going in and.
18:48:18 putting IMAP instead of… POP 3, right.
18:48:21 Yeah, it is… it is a little bit complicated. I will also have another piece of advice.
18:48:27 Um, it's… it's perfectly okay to be on Olipen, but I highly recommend.
18:48:33 That you use either Apple Mail or Microsoft Mail or Gmail.
18:48:37 as your primary account. The reason is that if you move off the peninsula.
18:48:43 Your electronic life is, is… gone, because no place in the world uses Olipen except at the peninsula.
18:48:50 Whereas you can use Gmail from everywhere. So if you suddenly had a need to move to New York.
18:48:55 nobody can contact you. Whereas if you have Gmail or Apple's Mail, or you have Microsoft.
18:49:04 Those are the… those are the big… 3 that are used, pretty much.
18:49:08 On the International Space Station, people use Apple Mail.
18:49:10 Well, that would make sense, since everything I own is Apple.
18:49:17 The good news, bad news. The Apple Mail account that you get for free.
18:49:17 Ah.
18:49:22 only takes you up to 5GB, and if you take photographs with your new phone and so on and so forth, you're gonna.
18:49:28 vastly exceed that. So you probably want to go beyond the free version.
18:49:33 But the nice thing about it is that at that point, everything just syncs with one another, and they talk to each other, and.
18:49:40 They don't argue with each other. You can do the same thing with less security by using, uh.
18:49:46 Um, a Microsoft account or a Gmail account. I emphasized the security, because.
18:49:49 Yeah.
18:49:53 I'm… I'm quite paranoid, and Apple has the best, uh, paranoia out there.
18:50:00 Microsoft is far better than they used to be.
18:49:59 Yeah.
18:50:03 But it's still not something I'd recommend. Uh, if you're used to Apple Mail, when you try and use, um, out… Outlook, which is the Microsoft Mail client.
18:50:14 you will say bad words. It's, uh… Yes, Gmail is Google.
18:50:17 Yeah. So Gmail, though, is Google, right? So, yeah, I'm allergic to Google, but I'll have to think about that. I do have a Gmail account, so maybe I'll…
18:50:28 Now, here's something that you can do. Since people know your Olipan account.
18:50:35 you can probably go into Olipen, you probably would have to go into the web interface.
18:50:42 automatically forward your mail. to your Apple Mail account.
18:50:45 That way, you don't have to log into OlePen.
18:50:49 you'll still get the mail, and when you reply to people.
18:50:52 you'll be replying with your Apple Mail account, so they'll… conversation might come in with the old address, but you continue it on.
18:50:59 using your new address. And most people won't know the difference.
18:51:02 And you could use the Apple Mail app
18:51:05 to look at your Gmail.
18:51:09 Yeah.
18:51:08 Yes. Um, my Apple Mail is logged into, like, 8 accounts at once.
18:51:15 I segregate my accounts, like, my, um… Vice President account for, uh… for, um, uh, straight back.
18:51:24 is one account. Um, I have a church account, because I work for my church. I have a webmaster account for my homeowners association.
18:51:32 I'm also the secretary of my homeowner association. Each of those has different accounts.
18:51:38 Because they do different functions. So it depends upon the function.
18:51:42 and I have lots of accounts, but all of Apple Mail takes care of all of that, and.
18:51:48 It prevents… I don't want people… Using my personal account to tell me about things that they went for church. I don't want them to use my personal account.
18:51:58 tell me things for the Homeowners association. I don't want them to use my personal account.
18:52:03 for this website that run on the East Coast. I want them to use.
18:52:06 that particular email account. My personal account is basically used by my relatives and.
18:52:13 Not many other people. So, if something comes up on my personal account, I'll probably read it immediately, whereas if.
18:52:20 Homeowner's account, depending upon what it is, I may not look at until the next day.
18:52:25 So that's how I kind of… control the chaos. When I was working for the government, I would have as many as 10,000.
18:52:33 Email messages.
18:52:40 And… so I learned, really. good sorting skills for.
18:52:44 Because a lot of the things were sent off by little.
18:52:47 robots that were monitoring things. Oh! The, uh, the, um… Uh, tides buoy off the Florida Keys has gone offline.
18:53:02 then look for those kind of messages and sort them here, and other ones get sorted here.
18:53:07 But now that I'm retired, I don't really want to do 10,000 messages a day.
18:53:18 Any other questions?
18:53:22 Can you hear me?
18:53:30 Up there, it says, see a… OL doesn't say Carol, dear, how can I change that?
18:53:37 Uh, that's… the name that's there is a name that's in Zoom, so if you go up to the Zoom.
18:53:45 menu, and look for settings somewhere in there, you can type your name.
18:53:51 Um, ah. I've seen all kinds of interesting things, quite often from, like, user.
18:53:58 Or, uh, Pat's machine. And then I'm sitting there wondering, who the heck is Pat?
18:54:03 But, um, yeah, if you go into the settings, um, we just… retype your name. I wouldn't do that during the meeting, I'd do that, um… when you're not connected.
18:54:15 So, Lawrence, I have a question. This is Sidna.
18:54:20 What is the difference between smart mailboxes and
18:54:26 I don't know, all of a sudden, my mail, I've got today, I now have…
18:54:31 Smart mailboxes showing up, and I…
18:54:33 I don't remember doing that.
18:54:36 Good question.
18:54:36 Yeah, they've been there a little time. A smart mailbox means it's a certain type of message.
18:54:43 So, a smart mailbox can be… VIPs. If you go in and you designate people as VIPs.
18:54:52 VIPs, in my case, are my daughter, my brothers, uh, those are VIPs.
18:54:57 And they'll show up in a smart mailbox for VIPs.
18:55:00 Which means I really should pay attention to them, because they're my relatives.
18:55:04 But a smart mailbox can also be. messages received today.
18:55:09 Or whatever it is, but you specify the criteria, and it'll just automatically sort them. It doesn't remove them from where they are already.
18:55:18 it just kind of… it's a way of. Of just making them stand out a little bit more.
18:55:28 Right.
18:55:25 And you can ignore it if you don't. really care, because it doesn't really… it doesn't remove any of the mail.
18:55:30 it just, uh, puts it in another little box.
18:55:35 Um, so that you. can pay close attention to it.
18:55:39 Well, I couldn't find the…
18:55:41 the message today about this meeting, so…
18:55:44 you know, I went to search, and I put in November smug meeting, and of course,
18:55:49 It showed up, and I was able to get the…
18:55:52 the key, the key to get… to get here, but…
18:55:55 Alright, I will check that out farther.
18:55:58 Further, uh…
18:56:02 Okay, that was my question.
18:56:01 Yeah.
18:56:06 Any other questions?
18:56:15 No other questions?
18:56:22 Um, I have something to offer. Since we've been having auroras.
18:56:28 Um, we, for the most part, can't see them because it's been cloudy, but if there's a clear day and we're supposed to have an aurora.
18:56:34 Uh, if you go outside. a couple things. If you.
18:56:39 If you can, you should have a tripod and a bracket for your iPhone so you can take.
18:56:45 pictures of the aurora. If you don't have a tripod, you can still do it by hand, but you want to set your phone in movie mode.
18:56:54 In movie mode, it's really… it's really taking a whole bunch of still pictures at once.
18:57:01 But what it does in movie mode is that it… it kind of brightens up the aurora.
18:57:07 And it emphasizes the motion. of the, uh, Aurora, so it makes it much easier to see.
18:57:13 So your phone will be able to see things that your eyes cannot.
18:57:17 Uh, so it's just, uh… since it's wintertime, and we happen to be in the middle of a solar storm.
18:57:23 If there's a day in which it's. Not that… cloudy, you can give it a shot. The auroras are always, always going to be to the north.
18:57:34 Occasionally, you might see them to the west. And the best time to look at them is a little past sunset.
18:57:40 Um, and when I say a little past. 10 o'clock might be too late.
18:57:46 The sun will go down on Thanksgiving, for example, because I looked it up.
18:57:50 Uh, earlier today. On Thanksgiving, it'll go down at 423.
18:57:55 But that's too early, because there's still too much light. You want to have it a bit dark.
18:58:00 But if it's… you can't see them at midnight, because what you're actually seeing is the sun.
18:58:06 hitting those plasma clouds, and if it's at midnight, the sun's been way far down, so it might be on the other side of the world.
18:58:16 And none of the light is leaking over this way.
18:58:19 you kind of have to have that. When the sun is over Hawaii, that's a good time.
18:58:27 And I'm sure you can all see Hawaii from where you are.
18:58:31 When I was living in San Francisco, there are these.
18:58:33 Uh, islands off of San Francisco. the Farallons, and they're about 2-3 miles out.
18:58:39 Uh, out to about 10 miles out. And one day I was there, and I was trying to do something, and this.
18:58:46 group of, uh… visitors kept on pestering me, and I was trying to take pictures of seals.
18:58:53 And finally, one of them asked what the islands were, and I told them that, oh.
18:58:59 multi-millionaire at the turn of the century, meaning the turn of the last century.
18:59:03 wanted to visit the Hawaiian Islands, so he had some of them towed there.
18:59:08 And… They wrote to their friends.
18:59:13 who then wrote to the paper. And the San Francisco Examiner said.
18:59:18 One of your residents told us that the islands were towed there by a millionaire. Is that true?
18:59:24 And I was very embarrassed, but, um… No, you really can't see the Hawaiian islands from here, and no, you can't really tell them, but…
18:59:36 I have to remember. to be a good boy sometimes.
18:59:42 Uh, we're… a minute away from 7.
18:59:49 does our Madam President. Anything to say.
18:59:53 Good evening, everybody. I really don't have anything to say.
19:00:00 Except… I'll just do the, um, Treasury report, and as of.
19:00:04 Today, we have $2,017.47 in the account. And, um, I don't know, Lawrence, if you have any renewals coming up, but… That's the money you have to play with.
19:00:18 Yeah, I need to… I need to actually go through and send you some.
19:00:18 Yeah.
19:00:23 bills, I'm… I've had a. difficult year, so… Um, keeping track of that has not been a high priority, but yeah, I will.
19:00:32 I will get on that.
19:00:34 Okay. Well, welcome everybody, and I will let you take it over.
19:00:39 There's nobody new, right? Brian, are you new?
19:00:49 Oh, you're muted. Oh, well, welcome! How did you hear about it?
19:00:50 I am. I had to audio muted, so yes, yes, I'm here. I actually made it to the last meeting as well, so… Very anxious to learn about iOS 26.
19:01:03 Yeah. Well, that's what it's supposed to be about tonight. You look like you're in an area where you have daylight still.
19:01:06 Well, not…
19:01:11 Well, gotta remember, we're in the middle of spring.
19:01:17 Oh, that's right. Ah, that's right.
19:01:15 So… I'm in Australia.
19:01:22 Why you have, uh, late.
19:01:20 Yeah. Okay. Now, if… if you… if you'd had the… if he'd had this meeting yesterday.
19:01:29 It would have looked like I was in the middle of winter, because that's the kind of spring we've actually been having. We've had, like, 3 inches of rain in the last 2 weeks.
19:01:36 So we're just drowning, but today is nice and sunny, and uh… I'll take it and loving it, so…
19:01:45 Sounds good. Well, nice seeing you again. And then, um… Um, Lawrence, did you put the sign-up sheet?
19:01:54 Okay.
19:01:53 Not yet. I was going to do that, um… when.
19:02:01 Speaking of which, I have forgotten. I normally.
19:02:06 open up the participants so I can see, oh… Stupid thing.
19:02:12 I'm running the. My computer not away that I normally do.
19:02:17 Uh, because I went to, uh, show you how.
19:02:21 OS26 does things on the, uh, screen, which is different than it has in the past.
19:02:28 And, um. Are we showing captions?
19:02:33 Oh, I didn't have it turned on. Anyway, I'm recording this, and I'm… Also, remember to turn on closed captioning, and apparently I, uh.
19:02:42 turned it off when I thought I was turning it on.
19:02:45 Um… I tried to set up my machine so it's using mostly the defaults, because.
19:02:52 Um… I was asked some questions about.
19:02:57 how do you get rid of some features that some people don't like?
19:03:01 And there's some that I don't like either, but uh… I'm gonna show you that, and so I'm gonna… I set my machine up to be the, uh… defaults, and I'm going to be mostly talking about not iOS or iPadOS, but.
19:03:15 OS26, which is. the whole cloud. When Apple changed everything to 26.
19:03:22 They did that because, in terms of the interface, the interface is now pretty much common across.
19:03:26 All of them. There's not a huge difference between the.
19:03:30 the iPhone, the iPad, and the Mac itself screen size, and there are some things that the, uh… That, uh, the iPhone has that nobody else does, some things the iPad has that nobody else does.
19:03:42 And several things that the Mac has. that nobody else does, and that has to do just basically with.
19:03:48 the capabilities of, uh. that you can build into a full-fledged computer compared to a.
19:03:57 several ounce. appliance that you carry around in your pocket, but.
19:04:01 Uh, so it's gonna be mostly on macOS, but most of the things I'm going to show you, there are equivalents.
19:04:08 for the iPhone and the iPad. Uh, strangely enough, they also renamed the HomePod operating system as.
19:04:17 HomePod OS 26. Which I think is hilarious, because there's no visual.
19:04:23 interface, so… I don't really know why they bothered to do that, but… I'm not a marketing expert, so what do I know? Um…
19:04:36 Do any of you see the little red dot that says this is being recorded?
19:04:43 Where should we be looking?
19:04:41 Yes? I don't know, because I'm the host, I don't see the same things.
19:04:49 I don't see a red dot on my screen.
19:04:53 Lawrence, when I logged in, it told me the session was being recorded. I don't see a red dot, however.
19:05:05 Oh, I see it. I see, yeah, it's in the, it's in the menu bar, okay.
19:04:59 I moved my cursor up to the top right, and it shows… came on, and it shows…
19:05:09 Oh, it's in the menu bar.
19:05:12 Up to the top right corner.
19:05:11 Yeah. Okay. Okay.
19:05:16 First thing…
19:05:16 On my iPad, it's on the top left. But only if you call up all the controls.
19:05:23 Okay. I'm going to share my screen now. So… All of you people are going to disappear.
19:05:33 And we're going to show that screen. And I'm going to remove zoom.
19:05:40 Because I don't really want to look at that.
19:05:42 This is the, um, um, macOS 26 desktop. And this is one of the standard.
19:05:51 video screens that you… desktop screens that you can see.
19:05:56 And, uh, one of the first things I wanted to do is change it. Not because I don't.
19:06:01 just… I don't dislike it, it's just I want to show you that you can.
19:06:04 If you go to Settings. and you go to Wallpaper.
19:06:10 you can pick out a whole bunch of different wallpapers, cityscapes, landscapes.
19:06:16 Um, you can see different views of the Earth and the stars and so on and so forth.
19:06:21 Or, in my case, I have. my own wallpaper, I have a.
19:06:42 from NASA and, and uh. in pictures of dolphins from NOAA, and all kinds of stuff.
19:06:48 But to do that, you go into Settings, Wallpaper.
19:06:53 and then you just pick your own folder down at the bottom.
19:06:57 and it'll, um. um, different.
19:07:02 possibilities, or you can. pick one of Apple's, um.
19:07:07 predefined ones. Some things to note, they have some that they call dynamic.
19:07:12 wallpapers and dynamic wallpapers means they move. And they will change over time.
19:07:18 So, some of them will change. As the day progresses.
19:07:24 And they'll get either brighter or darker, depending upon which way the sun's going.
19:07:29 or they'll just have patterns that'll gradually move. Um, but, um, I.
19:07:36 prefer photographs, and having looked at all of the.
19:07:40 Apple photographs of California, that's fine, I lived in California, California's very pretty, but I.
19:07:45 I'm using my own and some from Apple.
19:07:47 Lawrence, how did you get the… your photographs on the bottom? How did you do that?
19:07:53 Well, inside of my pictures, uh… directory, um, I have a, um, folder for screensavers. Now, this… particular one, the screensavers, I actually… I'm using in my Peter Lyon account.
19:08:15 Yeah, but how do you specify that in the wallpaper, uh…
19:08:10 And because I didn't want to duplicate it, I have a shared folder that, uh… has those in it, and uh…
19:08:22 How do you give to the folder name?
19:08:27 Right.
19:08:33 Oh, a plus button.
19:08:29 And then down here at the bottom, there'll be a little, uh… Well, that plus is for colors, but there's a plus… there's a button down here to specify a directory.
19:08:43 Um, and there's, you can even come up here to screen several settings, and.
19:08:49 tell it all kinds of different things you want to do, but.
19:08:51 this is actually done from the wallpaper settings. And I don't care about that, go away.
19:08:58 Um, that's wallpaper. Um, so you can go and check that.
19:09:04 But another thing that it does, which I don't like so much.
19:09:08 is that if you have something open, for example.
19:09:12 photos, and you went to open up something else, and I have a folder here.
19:09:17 Right now, I want to open up both at the same time. If you open this up.
19:09:21 The default is it'll switch between the two of them, so it'll go away from one and go to the other one.
19:09:28 you might like that. I do not. And one of the questions that I had.
19:09:32 sent to me via email was how to stop that.
19:09:35 And you stop that by going into… desktop and dock.
19:09:42 And they have this thing called. Stage Manager. Stage manager.
19:09:49 Stage Manager, if you look over here, there's a little window that shows that there's another application open. If I click on that, it shows the.
19:09:55 that Photos is open. And… If I open up something else, then it'll make that disappear.
19:10:01 And so, this directory is also over here. And Photos is over here, but I can't have them both open at once. And I kind of like that.
19:10:11 So what you do is you go into desktop and Dock, you go to Stage Manager, and you turn it off.
19:10:17 And if you turn it off. now I can have more than one window open at the same time.
19:10:25 And by default, after you install it, it'll bring it up in Stage Manager.
19:10:30 which, as I just mentioned, I find annoying. The other thing that it does that's worth noting is that if you move it up towards the top.
19:10:38 it'll fill the entire screen with that. with whatever you're using. And it'll do that also if you bump it off certain sides.
19:10:47 My particular location, that won't happen. If you don't like that, you can go into… Um… what is it called? I was just using… desktop and dock, and you can turn that off so that if it touches this screen, it won't.
19:11:02 do that sort of thing. Um, it won't fill the entire screen.
19:11:07 Uh, it does have… it's not necessarily bad, but there are times that it will be.
19:11:13 disconcerting. Um, so… Uh, that's something that we're gonna.
19:11:19 tuck you out of the… eh, wrong button.
19:11:25 I wanted to minimize you. You can also now have… widgets on the screen, you could have widgets before, but they used to be controlled by system settings, now they're not.
19:11:35 If you come over here to this section of the screen.
19:11:38 and you right-click, you can now. say, Edit Widgets.
19:11:43 And you can add new widgets, and there are all kinds of widgets you can add.
19:11:47 There used to be, you could only add. Apple things, but now you can add.
19:11:53 a non-apple thing. So if you go to widgets.
19:11:56 Um, you'll see that you can have. widgets for Microsoft applications, for example, as well as.
19:12:05 Um, um… craft, which is a text editing thing.
19:12:10 all kinds of widgets you can have. Sometimes, though, it can be a little bit disconcerting. If you go to… this is a weather.
19:12:19 This blue box here is a weather widget. And it's not showing anything. And it says location access is needed to show weather near you. So what happens if I click on it?
19:12:28 If I click on it, it will show me weather for Cupertino.
19:12:32 Well, that's not terribly useful. And I don't want to show weather for Cupertino, so if you go into.
19:12:43 settings again, and you type in location. In case you don't know where that's located, and apparently that didn't work. It's under privacy and security.
19:12:54 Location services, I have to turn on. location services in order for the weather app to work. Why do I have to do that?
19:13:03 Apple is really, really concerned about. privacy and security.
19:13:09 So, you could be, for example, I could be having a Zoom meeting with some people on the East Coast.
19:13:15 I don't want them to know that I'm in squim.
19:13:18 If I were to click on the weather app, and it told them I was in swim, and it broadcast that out to them.
19:13:23 I might be revealing things that I don't want people to know. So it's very… cognizant of the fact that you might want to, uh… not tell people where you're located, so now it says we're in Cupertino.
19:13:36 And if I don't want it to be in Cupertino, I go up to weather.
19:13:40 I say settings… And I… pick a, uh…
19:13:50 Location. How do I get changed the… Okay, I didn't actually check this part.
19:13:58 I haven't set up before, but I don't remember how he did it.
19:14:09 Oh, there it is. Swim. So now it tells me what the weather is in Squim.
19:14:15 And you can change these, you can add them or delete them, uh… I have, you know, for my regular account, I have it set for London, because my daughter lives in England.
19:14:26 I have it set for. Seattle, I have it set for, uh… Toronto or something, because I didn't want to put in Washington, D.C, I was just being strange.
19:14:40 Um, but just basically so I can keep track around the world, and I have it set for Tokyo because.
19:14:45 My daughter was born in Japan, but it gives you the weather, and it gives you a forecast out for several months, and.
19:14:51 You can click on what's going to happen Wednesday.
19:14:54 And if you're not interested in the temperature, you can come up here and you can.
19:15:00 find out that it'll show you different types of things, so it'll show.
19:15:03 Chance of precipitation, or all kinds of… the wind speed, all kinds of things that you can do.
19:15:10 Um, and it'll go out as far as. care to look.
19:15:15 I will tell you, though, having worked for NOAA.
19:15:19 The 7-day forecast is very good. The 14-day forecast is not bad.
19:15:27 The 34-day forecast is absolute fiction, so… Um, we can't really predict God yet.
19:15:37 That's proving to be difficult. You can also add, like I said, you can add widgets that you don't have.
19:15:43 This widget up here is for batteries. Uh, there's a battery in my wireless keyboard, and it tells me right now it's fully charged. My mouse is almost fully charged.
19:15:53 I have no idea what this is. It looks like a cable.
19:15:57 And I have no idea. wet cable that is. These are clocks.
19:16:04 for, uh, London, for Tokyo, for, uh, Seattle, and for, uh.
19:16:11 Washington, D.C, because these are people who either call me or I call them.
19:16:16 So, you can customize these widgets any way you want.
19:16:20 Um, that's kind of cool.
19:16:26 I have notes here someplace.
19:16:34 One of the questions I had was to show iPhone mirroring, and… There is an iPhone app.
19:16:40 there's a… I shouldn't say an iPhone app, there's a phone app. By the way, when I'm bringing up shortcuts.
19:16:46 If you hold down the Command key and press the spacebar, it brings up.
19:16:50 Siri for searching through things. If you now, in Tahoe, if you do Command-1, it'll search through just applications. So if I type on phone.
19:17:01 It won't be looking at documents, it'll look to see if there's a phone app.
19:17:05 And if it finds a phone app, I can press return, and it launches the phone app.
19:17:10 And here's the phone app. Here's the problem, though.
19:17:15 Um, it doesn't want to use my phone when I'm in my.
19:17:19 Peter Lyon account, because Peter Lyon doesn't. own a phone. So I can't really show you.
19:17:26 phone mirroring, and I don't really want to show you phone mirroring using my own.
19:17:31 phone account, because phones are all. kinds of full of.
19:17:36 personal information, and we record these meetings, and I really don't want my phone number and such to be.
19:17:59 going out to the rest of the world. Um, this phone number here is somebody who tried to call me today, so I don't care if their phone number goes out.
19:18:01 They were now using your iPhone. So you.
19:18:04 and this is really handy when you're doing something like you're looking at.
19:18:07 a hospital bill, or you're looking at, you're doing research, and you want to call somebody.
19:18:12 If you want to refer to something on your Mac, you can now refer to something on your Mac.
19:18:17 Make a phone call, and you never have to take your eyes off the screen.
19:18:21 It's really quite, quite handy. I'm a big fan of that.
19:18:28 Uh, you can do the same thing, by the way, with the iPad. The iPad now… Uh, has a phone app as well, and it works just the same.
19:18:37 on the iPad as it does on the Mac.
19:18:40 Um… And I obliterated part of my note there.
19:18:46 Because I was not.
19:18:50 There is also now a password app. The password app first came out, I think.
19:18:56 on the iPhone, and now it's on the iPad and the Mac as well.
19:19:00 And again, I bring up my little spotlight here.
19:19:05 Command 1, because I want to look at applications, and I type in password.
19:19:11 And…
19:19:17 Maybe it's passwords?
19:19:22 And it's telling me that the Passwords app is locked.
19:19:26 Why is the password app locked? Anybody have any ideas?
19:19:31 Security.
19:19:32 Yes, if somebody… if you're, say, you're at work, or you're at home, and you have visitors, and they come play with your machine.
19:19:39 They can't look up your password. So, the password app is locked. Fortunately, I know Peter's password, so we're gonna try it.
19:19:52 And Peter doesn't have too many passwords because Peter's not real.
19:19:56 But, uh, so here's a Yahoo to reveal the password, I would put my mouse over the password, and it would show the password.
19:20:03 If you want to add something to it, you can do that right here. So, uh… what's the website or label? We're going to put, um…
19:20:16 CIA, okay. username is going to be… Spook 007… And… the password is going to be… do I want a strong password, or one without.
19:20:32 pest control characters, now I'm just gonna write one.
19:20:42 Uh, does anyone happen to reckon… can you actually see that text?
19:20:47 It's too small.
19:20:46 Does anyone recognize what it is?
19:20:51 Thank you. Yes.
19:20:49 It's, uh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
19:20:52 Robert Frost.
19:20:56 It's a poem by Robert Frost. is this a good password?
19:21:00 Hmm…
19:21:03 This is an excellent password. What makes a password good?
19:21:09 is the length. It has nothing to do with special characters.
19:21:14 has nothing to do with almost anything you've been told over the last.
19:21:19 40, 50 years. The thing that makes it a strong password is the length.
19:21:23 Yes, it's good if you use upper and lower characters.
19:21:27 Does this use upper and lower characters? Yes, it does.
19:21:29 Yes, it's good if it uses special characters. Are there any special characters in this password?
19:21:35 space?
19:21:36 Space is a special character.
19:21:40 So this is an excellent password. Um, unless you happen to be wobbered frost, in which case this is a really bad password.
19:21:50 Um, also, if you were Robert John Kennedy. John Kennedy.
19:21:54 had Robert Frost read this poem at, uh, his inauguration, so… probably not a good password for.
19:22:02 JFK either. However, back then. passwords were 4 characters at most.
19:22:09 So, couldn't have used this anyway. If you have a bank.
19:22:14 that insists that your password be uppercase, lowercase, use special characters, and you type something in, and then it complains and says, oh.
19:22:23 We can't use that special character. Do not stop… just do not go.
19:22:30 anywhere, find a different bank. It means they're using obsolete software.
19:22:42 If it won't allow you to use the space.
19:22:45 If it won't allow you to use a comma.
19:22:47 if it's actually auditing your password. that is insecure, and you need a new bank.
19:22:54 no ifs, ands, or buts. Um, but anyway, you can add passwords all the time, and so now… did I actually finish my CIA?
19:23:03 It's not listed here. What happened to my password?
19:23:16 Well, I didn't finish my CIA password, so it didn't keep it. But anyway, this is… This is what the password app does.
19:23:23 you can manually enter passwords, which is what I just tried to do.
19:23:28 Or, if you go onto a website and it says, oh, do you want to save this password?
19:23:33 your Mac will actually prompt you. So, do you want to save this password? If you say yes, then it adds it to this password app.
19:23:39 Now, this password app comes with. macOS 26, it comes with iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
19:23:49 If you turn on. iCloud, and you have it sync passwords.
19:23:54 If you enter a password on your Mac. and then try to go to that website on your phone, it'll work.
19:24:02 You don't have to re-enter it, because it knows your phone now.
19:24:06 knows that password. It's a really, really powerful.
19:24:10 very handy tool. Any questions about that?
19:24:16 Well, not just about that, but when you hit
19:24:21 Command Spacebar…
19:24:22 All you have to do is move your cursor, and it'll bring up a little application icon, and you just click on it.
19:24:31 You don't need to hit Command-1.
19:24:31 Yeah, but I tend… I don't… But I don't want to take my hands off the keyboard.
19:24:36 Oh.
19:24:40 I tried to do as much as I can.
19:24:42 Okay, because you have… you have to hit the trackpad to do that.
19:24:42 Uh, with my hands on the, uh… On the keyboard.
19:24:48 Yeah, I have to take my hands off the keyboard.
19:24:49 Okay.
19:24:52 Just, just to show you the kinds of things you can do.
19:24:54 I'm not sure that you can hear this, but I'm gonna… Try it. From the keyboard, you can do all kinds of weird things. I'm in terminal now. Now, terminal is a way to talk to the underlying Unix operating system.
19:25:05 But because this is a Mac, Apple added some special features, too.
19:25:11 terminal, and one of them is the command called say.
19:25:26 And I think I can blow this up, let's blow this up a bit.
19:25:30 Now, what I'm typing in is the word say, and then a string of characters.
19:25:35 And if I press the return key. it… the Mac will say something.
19:25:41 This is a demo that I hope you hear.
19:25:43 Did you hear that?
19:25:44 Yes.
19:25:49 the terminal and the underlying operating system is all text. Unix is all text-based. You type in commands.
19:25:56 But, because this is a Mac, and because it has this voice synthesizer.
19:26:00 And because my voice synthesizer is sent to an Australian woman's accent.
19:26:07 Do not ask why. Um… I can type it in, and in an Australian woman's accent, it says, this is a demo that I hope you hear.
19:26:16 Now, it used to be, they fixed it, but it used to be.
19:26:19 that when I'd ask this Australian woman what the weather was, she said… she would say things like, the weather in.
19:26:27 sequel will be rainy tomorrow, but they fixed that, and I'm kind of disappointed, because.
19:26:32 It gave me a real… um, chuckle every time it mispronounced the name.
19:26:37 But anyway, this is… this is something that you can do on your Mac.
19:26:42 And it's text-based, but there are lots of things that you can do on your Mac that are not obvious. You can do this before, this is not something new, but… I try to do as much as possible from the keyboard.
19:26:53 Because I'm a reasonably fast typist. Um, so… I like to do things that way.
19:27:00 Another thing that, um, I'm not going to make any comments on the relative age of people.
19:27:06 in the user group, but… Uh, you really should learn about the accessibility features.
19:27:12 in on the Mac. Uh, accessibility, people think of them as people who are blind or deaf.
19:27:17 But it also comes for people who are having vision problems, or hearing problems, or a bunch of other things.
19:27:23 you can do, among other things, you can have it do voiceover, which I'm not going to turn on, because it's really annoying.
19:27:29 With VoiceOver, as you move the mouse over things, the Mac will speak to you and tell you what it is that you're pointing at.
19:27:36 If you… there's a way to actually do this using a repeated keystroke, and if you ever turn on voiceover.
19:27:43 accidentally, it'll drive you nuts, and you'll probably call up everybody you know asking if there's a way to turn it off, because.
19:27:50 Uh, you're sitting there, you're moving the house back and forth, and every time it touches something.
19:27:54 tries to, uh, speak it. But there are also things like, uh, zoom commands, so you can blow things up.
19:28:02 This screen… this window here, what I was doing is I was holding down the control key and hitting the equal sign, which is also the same.
19:28:08 T is plus, so think of it as control plus, I can make it larger. Ctrl minus.
19:28:13 And then I can make it smaller. But it's a useful thing.
19:28:17 for people who may be getting on in years and their eyesight isn't as good as it used to be.
19:28:23 And you find that under accessibility, but other things that you can find under accessibility.
19:28:29 Um, and I don't remember. where it's hiding, so I'll…
19:28:43 Display…
19:28:49 Pointer size. Uh, it's under accessibility and display.
19:28:56 in the pointer size, this arrow here that I'm moving around, that's the pointer.
19:29:00 And by using this little key here, you can make it the normal size, which is very small.
19:29:05 Or you can make it pretty large. But one thing to note.
19:29:08 Even at the small size, if you shake it back and forth, it increases in size.
19:29:13 So if you don't… you can't find out where the pointer is, you want to.
19:29:17 Insert something in between 2 letters and you can't figure out where the pointer is, just shake it and it'll increase in size.
19:29:23 You can change the color. This one's set to purple, but you can pick any color you want.
19:29:28 Uh, you could pick brown, which is. a really boring color for a pointer.
19:29:32 Uh, I kind of like purple because it's not blue, it's not black, it's not… anything else. A white.
19:29:39 pointer, which is the default. sometimes gets lost in the clutter, so.
19:29:45 I think a, uh, a, um… a color works out better. You can change the outline color.
19:29:53 Like, the outline right now color is white, but you can change it to yellow if you wanted to.
19:29:57 and make it look more like a. traffic sign or something. But, uh… Yes.
19:30:03 Hey, Lawrence, on my MacBook Pro, the terminal…
19:30:08 Um, to make it larger, uh, is command, uh, plus sign, not
19:30:15 Uh, not control.
19:30:18 Oh, okay.
19:30:18 I'm sorry, I meant command. It depends upon whose keyboard. If you have a Windows keyboard or a Mac keyboard as to what.
19:30:25 Well, this is a Mac keyboard. I'm on a laptop.
19:30:29 I know, I know. I was… I spent all day helping somebody with a Windows problem.
19:30:39 You're forgiven.
19:30:34 And I kind of… this is a Mac keyboard, but I'm just… my vocabulary, uh… I was confusing them because I was talking about the command key, and.
19:30:45 What can we… what key is the command key?
19:30:47 It says command on it.
19:30:46 Because they don't have a community. Well, no, no, on Windows, there is no Command King.
19:30:50 Oh, yeah, that's right, there is no Kameki.
19:30:59 Um… the, um…
19:31:07 a couple other things. To, uh, to note.
19:31:11 are… you see these things up here in the, um… in the, uh… menu bar, you have control over what shows up there.
19:31:22 interestingly enough, you go to the menu bar, and you can tell.
19:31:26 Uh, like, if I want the clock to be in the menu bar, I can just come up here and click on.
19:31:30 clock, and it'll put it up in the menu bar. Now, in this case, it doesn't really want me to do that, because I've got a widget.
19:31:35 But you can turn things on or off in turn, I can put the weather in the.
19:31:41 menu bar, except that I've got it as a widget.
19:31:43 There are other things you can put in there. I could put Zoom in the menu bar.
19:31:46 I will not. Um, Zoom's already all over the place anyway.
19:31:52 Um, but different things you can stick up here in the menu bar, so you have control over that.
19:31:57 You'll notice that here it says where it says Peter Lyon, I don't know if you can actually read that, but this is Peter Lyon.
19:32:03 Uh, if I click on this and hold it down, I can switch to other accounts, my account or Kathleen's account.
19:32:11 I can switch between them. So right now, I'm technically logged in under my Lawrence account as well.
19:32:17 And I demonstrate that, except that as soon as I switch.
19:32:20 we lose this session, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
19:32:24 But having done that, I want to show you some things that.
19:32:29 worked on the operating system you may have now, even if it's not.
19:32:34 OS26, but… Uh, and OS26, there are some.
19:32:39 change is made, and it's for things that people do all the time.
19:32:42 that sometimes confuse them, so I'm going to open up my.
19:32:47 folder here… And I'm going to… show you… well, actually, I want to show you something about the iPhone.
19:32:56 the new iPhone. I went out yesterday, and I took some pictures of an elk.
19:33:03 This is a photo that I took. Using the wide angle lens.
19:33:09 And so that's with the… wide-angle lens, which is .5X.
19:33:15 we're at 1X. I click on this.
19:33:20 And it looks like this on 1X, and… You may not see that too much of a difference, but there are elk right here.
19:33:27 You'll have to take my word for it. And here, you might be able to see that there are, you know, spots right there.
19:33:34 And I go to 2X. And you can see bigger spots there.
19:33:41 I go to 4X. Which is, as far as you could go using an iPhone 16.
19:33:48 And you can actually see that they're. You know, fairly large lumps here.
19:33:53 Cool.
19:33:54 But the iPhone 17 has an 8X. And you can actually see.
19:33:58 Oh.
19:34:02 Uh, the elk. Now they're in tall grass, and they're brown, and the grass is brown, but, you know.
19:34:08 Take my word for it, those are elk. This is out on Schmuck Road, by the way, if you've never seen the elk.
19:34:13 I was talking to a woman today. who's been here 18 years, and she's never seen the elk.
19:34:19 I try to see them as often as possible.
19:34:23 And Shmak Barod is probably the easiest way for a lot of people to.
19:34:26 To see it, um. But that's… this is.
19:34:32 is… that's as good as you're going to get. These are about… these elk are about.
19:34:37 Oh, 1,200 feet away. And with an iPhone, that's as good as you're going to get with a 16.
19:34:43 But with the 17, uh, you can get. a really good shot.
19:34:50 And I'm going to show you what you can do.
19:34:54 Well, I went to show one mother.
19:34:55 So… so, Lawrence, um… So, say you take a picture wide angle.
19:35:02 How do you see it in ADEX? Or what it is.
19:35:06 Oh, you have to change the settings, so if you shoot it with wide angle, that's if you want to shoot.
19:35:11 like a big building up close or something. But I was just doing it just to show you the difference in.
19:35:14 Yeah.
19:35:18 in what you see at the different resolutions. So…
19:35:20 So you… so you, uh… shot it in ADEX, and… Okay.
19:35:26 No, I shot it… I shot it… the first shot was at that .5X, then 1X, then 2X, then 4X, then 8, just so I could show you the difference.
19:35:30 Okay. Oh, you… there's several different… okay, several… I got… Got it.
19:35:36 Right. And just to give you some idea of what this means in terms of.
19:35:43 the pictures, the pictures, the. 0.5 is… where is the 0.5?
19:35:49 That is, uh, 8,064 by 6048 pixels. Which is a lot of pixels. It's, uh… And that comes out to the same as a, uh.
19:36:02 as ah. 2.222.
19:36:08 millimeter lens. The 1X would be a. 6.75mm lens.
19:36:15 The, uh, 2X is, again, a 6.75 for reasons that I'm not going to explain.
19:36:21 The 4X is, uh, 16mm lens. And the, uh, 8X is also a 16mm lens, so Apple's doing some interesting electronics there.
19:36:32 But to give you a comparison. If I remembered to keep, yes.
19:36:39 Uh, on a different day, when it was very foggy.
19:36:43 shot these elk. through the fog. Now, this was shot using a… I, uh… expensive camera, and it's using a 539mm lens, so just… a massive, massive lens.
19:37:01 in order to, uh… shoot these elk. Uh, it was about the same distance, but with, uh, much, uh, which is a really expensive camera.
19:37:10 Uh, so, Apple's not. at that point yet, but they're getting.
19:37:15 the cameras are really improving by, um. substantial margin.
19:37:20 Um, next thing I wanted to… I was… telling you about things that you can do now that are a little bit easier.
19:37:28 I'm going to open up a directory. And this is a directory of.
19:37:32 images, uh, and. I'm going to show you what one of the images looks like. It's going to take a while for it to show up.
19:37:41 It's a picture of an airplane. And, uh, why don't I change the.
19:37:50 Screen, so…
19:37:54 Uh… make things look a little larger.
19:37:59 Okay, it's a picture of an airplane. And I happen to know that this airplane was filmed at.
19:38:08 Uh, that I took this picture at, um… Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego.
19:38:15 Well, all of the photos that I took with this camera.
19:38:17 They just say that it's image, image 4, 9.
19:38:22 9, 5, not terribly descriptive. So if you're going to look for that image, it's going to be a real pain.
19:38:28 But if you have something highlighted. In order to get into edit mode, you can try and position your.
19:38:37 your cursor at a particular point, but quite often you'll end up double-clicking and opening it instead.
19:38:41 If you highlight it, and then press the space bar.
19:38:47 Wrong. Nope, that is not what I want to show. If you press the.
19:38:48 Ah!
19:38:52 uh… return key. it puts you into edit mode.
19:38:56 So, have this here, press the return key. puts me into edit mode. Puts you into edit mode.
19:39:03 Now that I'm in edit mode, I can use the cursor keys. If I push the up.
19:39:08 cursor, it goes to the very front of the.
19:39:11 uh… file, name. And I can say, uh, Miramar.
19:39:16 and put a space, so now it says that I filmed this at Miramar, and since they're in alphabetical order.
19:39:22 it's going to be way down here at the bottom.
19:39:23 Now, this particular folder has… 191.
19:39:31 photos in it. So, this shortcut makes it faster to edit, but think about it.
19:39:38 191. Do I really want to do this 191 times?
19:39:42 Well, you can cheat. You can come down here to where it… says, mirror image, press return key.
19:39:51 I… I select where it says.
19:39:54 Miramar.
19:40:10 a lot easier. But that's still 191.
19:40:17 thing called Script Editor.
19:40:24 Eh?
19:40:32 And Script Editor is for writing scripts, and… I don't actually want to do a script.
19:40:37 I want to go up here to, say, Settings.
19:40:40 And in settings, I want to push this little thing down here, it says Script Menu.
19:40:46 The script menu says show script menu in menu bar. Okay, I want the script menu in the menu bar.
19:40:51 So here I have a window full of images.
19:40:55 Up here is the script menu. of scripts, and I went to go to Finder Scripts, and it says Replace Text in Item Names.
19:41:04 So, it comes up here and says, okay, I want to have access to do this.
19:41:10 I say I want to have. file names, I went to look for the word image.
19:41:18 And I went to replace it with the word Miramar.
19:41:22 and a space. And I say, okay, and it says, replace the word image, which is from this image, and then it's got a number.
19:41:37 Come on. Do something.
19:41:45 Okay. I just renamed… under… well, I already named 2.
19:41:46 Okay.
19:41:54 Hmm.
19:41:50 Irene named 189 files in a couple seconds. This is on your Mac right now. You don't even have to be running OS 26. It's just that with OS 26 now.
19:42:02 it's easier to do this. And now, what I'm looking for images, rather than just have them all say image.
19:42:10 These tell me that they were shot in Miramar.
19:42:13 Which doesn't mean anything unless you've been to San Diego, but San Diego is where the.
19:42:18 Miramar Naval Air Station used to be. Now, that's nice, but are there easier ways to edit photographs? And the answer to that is yes.
19:42:27 I happen to have sucked in a lot of these things into.
19:42:32 Uh, this… well, first off, I want to show you how to make a new.
19:42:36 Um, no, I'll show you this first. This is a database of.
19:42:40 these images that I have. And I actually added 3. The U.S. Air Force Museum, Flying Leatherneck Museum, and Naval Air Station Miramar.
19:42:50 Uh, I've already added into this. this database of.
19:42:56 It's, uh… the photos… file of photographs.
19:43:01 I want to add some more, just to show you how to do this. Come here to, say, File.
19:43:06 Say, import, you point it at a directory of.
19:43:11 uh… things that you. might want to import, and I'm going to pick this one here that says Dayton.
19:43:18 Which may not seem to have anything to do with.
19:43:20 aircraft, but it really does.
19:43:22 I was born in Dayton. Yeah.
19:43:26 Oh, Dayton, Ohio? Ah, well, then you probably know what this is going to be.
19:43:28 I know. Bright Patterson Air Force Base Museum.
19:43:33 Yes. Well, technically right now, it's the United… it's the national United States Air Force Museum.
19:43:40 Um, because the Air Force wanted to recall that.
19:43:43 Anyway, these photographs are large, which is why it's taking.
19:43:46 While for them to show up. Um, these are scans of slides that I took.
19:43:58 35 years ago?
19:44:02 So it's taking a while, because each one of these is, like.
19:44:06 121 megabytes.
19:44:18 And I'm going to select all of these, because I went to put these into a new collection.
19:44:23 And so I come here to say collections. And, uh… this thing that says Dayton, that's going to be a new collection.
19:44:35 And… Uh… oh, actually, we haven't even reported them, they're not even imported yet.
19:44:42 Never mind. That was just a preview, which is why it was taking so long.
19:44:48 Okay, now they're being imported.
19:45:08 And…
19:45:16 Collections…
19:45:22 Hmm? Recently saved…
19:45:52 Uh, there. I want to create a collection.
19:46:07 Recently… Recently viewed, nope.
19:46:15 There's a plus at the top, is that? In the menu bar, is that… Oh, okay.
19:46:21 Now, that's to increase the size. eh, well, I don't care.
19:46:26 I just want to show you that that's how you import things, so that… I'll stick with that.
19:46:31 Um, but I come here, and I have these 3 collections already.
19:46:35 that tell me something about them. And if I come up here, I can say.
19:46:39 Click on this one and press right arrow, uh, right click, and it says get info, and it tells me.
19:46:45 that this is United States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio.
19:46:49 Okay, that's nice to know. But where's the location?
19:46:54 It's not telling me the location. And I really wanted to know that it's the United States Air Force Museum. So I'm going to type that in there.
19:47:03 U. S. A. USAF.
19:47:09 museum? And it says National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. I say.
19:47:17 Grab that, and it says… It even shows you where it's, uh, located.
19:47:23 And unfortunately, because I… It was only showing that one plane, that's the only plane that it recognizes, so I want to grab all of them.
19:47:31 do a right. and I went to say that they're all there. So now it knows that all of these planes.
19:47:37 We're at the, uh, Air Force. museums. Come down here.
19:47:41 and say get info, and it knows, ah! He did it wrong.
19:47:49 You got a riverside.
19:47:52 Well, it's looking at the part of Dayton that it's in, is Riverside, apparently.
19:48:02 Hello?
19:48:11 So now I have all of these things here.
19:48:14 are being shown as being in Dayton, Ohio. Why is this useful? Well, if you take a lot of pictures.
19:48:20 It'll tell you now that I have 170… One that were in Miramar, because I did this previous for Miramar, and it's telling you that.
19:48:30 Uh, this… There's still only one in Dayton, Ohio, because of the way that I did it. I screwed that part up, but.
19:48:36 You can go to a map and it'll show you where you took your photographs.
19:48:40 It's a real easy way of going through photographs. And if I actually… zoom in on this.
19:48:47 A bit, like a lot.
19:49:00 you can see what part of San Diego. this is in, and there's 50 of these things that are in a different part.
19:49:09 Well, let's see what that is. that is actually the flying leathernecks Museum, which is in a different part of San Diego.
19:49:18 It's in, uh. place called San Carlos, which is.
19:49:22 about a mile from where I used to live.
19:49:24 And if we go to that. The flying Leatherneck Museum is mostly on the outside.
19:49:30 And it's a bunch of planes that were used by the U.S. Marine Corps.
19:49:36 And then, if I really wanted to get fancy, I would go in here.
19:49:40 And I would say that this particular one that's stuck on a post, I would say that that is a, um…
19:49:48 F. 104… Starfighter.
19:49:54 Which is not from Luke Skywalker, that's really what this plane was called when they.
19:49:59 designed it in 1956 or something. And, uh… I can go through and just individually mark these particular planes, like, this is, uh.
19:50:12 F4 Phantom and. Uh, this is, uh… Um… scene 46 and.
19:50:22 various incendiary planes, so you can mark them. But the nice thing about this is after you do this.
19:50:28 And let's go. grab this one here, because it's nice and handy.
19:50:33 Um, this is… doesn't tell you anything about where it is, but I happen to know this was also… this photograph was also taken at Miramar.
19:50:41 I want to have a caption. This is a, um…
19:50:50 Trying to remember that designation of it. S…
19:51:01 I can't remember that one. I'll pick on this one instead.
19:51:07 This is a F.
19:51:14 T28. Talon.
19:51:23 G28.
19:51:28 T28… Comma…
19:51:42 Um… What's Top Gun.
19:51:49 This… this particular type of plane is called a T28. It was a trainer, an advanced trainer, supersonic trainer.
19:51:57 It's painted as if it's a Russian plane because.
19:52:00 when they're training, uh, dogfighting tactics in the American.
19:52:04 uh, Navy, they call the aggressors the aggressors, and they paint them up to look similar.
19:52:10 And the pilots of the T-28.
19:52:11 a clear trick.
19:52:16 I'm sorry?
19:52:27 they fly these planes as if they're Russian pilots to give our.
19:52:30 pilots training in how to fight them. So, if I type in these keywords for the, uh… plane, I can then go back and do a search on it.
19:52:40 And if I say T28. it'll find that. Ah?
19:52:46 Well… it would work most of the time. It hasn't had time to sync this, but normally it would work, and it would tell me that it would…
19:53:02 The other thing to note, though, is that if I… sit here and I export this photograph, this photograph here, which I didn't add any metadata to.
19:53:13 I export the one photo. to my desktop.
19:53:21 Um… And then I take this T28 that I added some.
19:53:29 keywords to. to export to the desktop?
19:53:34 No, that's not what I meant it to do.
19:53:45 And then I get all this stuff out of the way so we can actually see something.
19:53:55 show these things side by side by saying git info.
19:53:58 You'll see that the one where I added nothing.
19:54:02 it doesn't show anything extra. This is that first photograph of the surveillance plane. It's not showing anything at all.
19:54:10 But this one where I added the extra information said it was Top Gun, Aggressor, T28.
19:54:16 Uh, it keeps that information. It actually writes that into this information.
19:54:22 which is searchable in the Finder. Which means you don't have to go into photos in order to find it.
19:54:28 If you just happen to have this photo sitting on your desktop, it would be able to find it.
19:54:33 And I'm showing you this because a lot of people have a lot of stuff on their.
19:54:37 computers, and it's in no particular order. And… To give you an example.
19:54:44 In my Documents folder. Uh, when you.
19:54:48 create something in Word. Word will, unless you tell it otherwise, try to save it in your documents folder.
19:54:58 in your, uh, pictures folder. If you. Um, have a movie, it'll try to save it in.
19:55:04 your movie folder. Why does it do that? It does that so that you can find things, because if you just dump everything into one folder.
19:55:11 it's almost impossible to find. And that's not good.
19:55:16 are there times when you might want to have a movie and photos and documents all in one photo?
19:55:22 Yes, if you're doing something like a family history and you want to have.
19:55:26 the photographs of the family, and you went to have short little videos of the family, and you want to have a narrative about.
19:55:32 you know, coming over to the new world from Hong Kong or whatever.
19:55:36 Yes, that makes sense to put all of that stuff into one folder, but for the most part, you kind of want to have.
19:55:42 written documents in a documents folder, you want to have movies in a movie folder.
19:55:46 and whatnot. It's a good way to organize it.
19:55:49 And it's much harder to do that. if all of your images are called image.
19:55:55 and all of your documents are called documents. Believe it or not.
19:55:58 I once worked with a woman who was the secretary for the director.
19:56:02 for some not… years and years and years. She was an expert at Windows, and one day she had a problem, so she called me over.
19:56:12 And even though I'm not a… didn't tell anybody I was a Windows guru.
19:56:16 went over and looked at her machine. She had been saving 20 years' worth of documents into a single directory.
19:56:23 There were no subdirectories, it's just a single directory.
19:56:27 And she would do things like. April 21st minutes.
19:56:32 April 22nd minutes. April 23rd minutes. Do you know how difficult it is to search.
19:56:39 through that, because it's not organized chronologically. If you try and sort it alphabetically, all the Aprils are listed together.
19:56:48 And then December has come after April. And if you want to come to January, that's in the middle someplace, because alphabetically.
19:56:56 Doesn't make any sense. If you want to name something.
19:57:00 chronologically. I'll make a folder here. If I was making a folder about today.
19:57:06 I would number it something like. 20? Ah.
19:57:15 C5, 11… 18… Meeting. Why would I do that? Because if I list them alphabetically, they'll all be listed by date.
19:57:27 in the proper order, year, month, day. If you have it month, day, year, or day, month, year, or any other way, they're just going to be scattered all over the place. They won't be in any particular order.
19:57:42 So, there are ways to improve editing on the Mac, but one of the ways to improve editing is to give some thought.
19:57:49 to actually putting some metadata in there and telling you things.
19:57:52 In this picture of this, um… E2C Hawkeye, that was what I was looking for earlier.
19:57:57 This is an E2C Hawkeye. how can I tell the finder that this is an E2C Hawkeye? Believe it or not.
19:58:05 I can actually write a comment here. E2C… Hawkeye.
19:58:15 electronic.
19:58:20 warfare craft. Now, because I typed this in to the finder, it'll now search for it. I can actually find that in the finder.
19:58:32 But an easier way to do this sort of thing is to do this within Photos, because photos… is actually designed for working with photos.
19:58:40 How did I get this to blow up? uh, show on the screen quickly.
19:58:47 Anyone have any idea how to do that?
19:58:52 I pressed the spacebar. It was highlighted, I pressed the spacebar.
19:58:59 If you went to look at something and you want to have a quick look at it.
19:59:03 press the spacebar.
19:59:08 They don't have to do anything really fancy, just… Press the spacebar.
19:59:13 Um, Lawrence?
19:59:15 Yes.
19:59:14 Um, another way to rename a whole bunch of files really quickly is just select them all, and then right-click on one of them, and select Rename.
19:59:27 And it comes up with that thing you showed me from this…
19:59:30 From the editor, uh, from the script editor.
19:59:35 Um, yes, but you can't really do the search and replace, which is what I did.
19:59:38 Yeah, find and replace, yeah.
19:59:41 It's… it comes up with find and replace as a window.
19:59:42 Um…
19:59:46 Isn't it the same?
19:59:46 Yeah, but… It is the same, but I can actually get it, the way I did it, I can get more granularity.
19:59:55 Uh, because among other things, there are other scripts in there.
19:59:58 Uh, in that script library. Uh, but yes, you're correct, you can also do it that other way.
20:00:04 The trouble is, if it… sometimes it'll get confused, and then you'll end up with.
20:00:07 files that have no name at all. If you have a naming conflict where two files have.
20:00:13 Oh.
20:00:11 roughly the same name. you'll have a naming convent.
20:00:14 Well, if they… if they all say image, you know, they…
20:00:23 Oh, okay. No, you're right, yeah.
20:00:20 Well, say you have 2 images 345s.
20:00:25 Well, how does the other one figure it out?
20:00:29 The other one will give in, uh, what's called an incrementator, so it'll be, uh, 345A, 345B, 345C.
20:00:36 Oh, okay, and the other… the other window wouldn't do that?
20:00:39 I don't know… I remember having problems with it some time ago, so I went back to the way that I do.
20:00:45 There's also another way to do this, but it costs money.
20:00:49 Um, and because it costs money, that's not necessarily bad. There is, uh, something out there called.
20:00:58 here's a bunch of things that are called Pensacola.
20:01:02 Um, and I have a program, commercial program. Called, uh… a better… Finder rename.
20:01:15 Which, of course, it's not finding. There it is, it just took it a while.
20:01:21 And it's gonna come up, and it's gonna say, do you want to have the new version? No, I don't want to have the new version.
20:01:25 This one can do actually fairly complicated things. So, it says, Pensacola 209… 2019, whatever.
20:01:36 Um, I can have it look for… Yeah, oh, these ones down at the bottom.
20:01:42 are not named. So this is just some of these are called Pensacola.
20:01:49 Alright, we're gonna change these ones that say DSN.
20:01:52 We're gonna have it look for.
20:01:57 D… S-C-N.
20:02:01 And we're going to have it… Uh, actually, I don't want that.
20:02:06 And I want it to be…
20:02:10 I don't want its sequence numbers, I want it.
20:02:17 D-S-C-N. Uh, no.
20:02:24 Place text. Look for. D-S-C-N.
20:02:30 and replace it with Florida.
20:02:37 And… Then I grab… All of these into this window.
20:02:48 And it found 776 items. It's going to change these on only 632, because 632.
20:02:56 have that pattern. They perform rename. say, go for it.
20:03:02 Oh, and it says that it recognizes that I'm not the, uh… my fake person is not the lawful owner, so it only changed 10 of them.
20:03:11 Not my best demo, but. Um, it would go through, and you can give it all kinds of different commands. It's got, like, 200 different ways to rename.
20:03:22 Was that from the App Store?
20:03:20 lots and lots and lots of files. And since I… Um, I don't know.
20:03:26 Where did you get it?
20:03:27 That's a… Let's bring up the App Store and find out.
20:03:37 Come on.
20:03:50 Uh, smart renamer, easy renamer… renamer… as you can see, there are lots of companies out there that have that.
20:03:55 Apparently, yeah.
20:04:03 Uh, because it's a common problem, and people want to do it.
20:04:03 Um… a bunch of them at a time.
20:04:07 So let me go out and bring out my… a better finder rename.
20:04:16 is by public space.
20:04:22 And… Apparently it's not on the App Store.
20:04:26 I think I did this because, again, I was working with photographs, and I have millions. You'll see their example is from, uh, photographs.
20:04:34 Yeah, that's very powerful. That's a…
20:04:34 I…
20:04:37 Well, it's scripted and also it'll also do sequential, so if you have a bunch of things that have.
20:04:44 similar names, it'll just go through and name them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
20:04:47 Oh, that's great, yeah.
20:04:50 Um, it's, um, it's really, really quite powerful. But it's, it's also not free.
20:04:54 Um, I recently scanned… 7,500… slides.
20:05:01 Wow.
20:05:02 And, uh, about 4,000. Flat photographs.
20:05:09 So, and the scanner, I wanted to do it in a hurry, so I just said, do it. And so it named some things like image… uh, 1456, image 1457.
20:05:20 And then I have to look at it and figure out what it is.
20:05:24 Um, and this is, um… huge time saver for me.
20:05:28 Um, because, again, I've been… I've seen people's. machines where they have just.
20:05:34 decades of documents, and they're named things like Document 1, Document 2, Document 3.
20:05:40 Document 543. Um, there's one.
20:05:46 this one guy, he's allegedly an attorney. And I say allegedly, because I don't have any proof of it.
20:05:53 who's been using computers forever. his files were named Document 1, Document 2.
20:05:59 Document 3, Document 4, Document 555. And I asked him about that, and he said that he was not aware.
20:06:08 you could name the documents. How you could use a machine for decades and not learn that when it puts up that little.
20:06:19 Fox asking for the document name. You just don't have to press return.
20:06:22 You don't have to leave it named. document. You can change it.
20:06:28 Um… But it makes it much easier to search and find things if they have, uh… uh, useful names.
20:06:38 Um, any questions on anything I've said? I've actually talked about a bunch of stuff.
20:06:42 So, I'm. more than willing to entertain… Oh, also, I haven't given…
20:06:47 No good. I have a quick question. Um… when… when we go… this new system, the 26 on my iMac.
20:06:57 All the file folders… in documents come up this real dark color, almost black.
20:07:04 Is there a way to get them back to light blue like they used to be?
20:07:10 I just find it annoying.
20:07:10 Yes. Uh, yes. I'm going to paste into the chat window, I'm going to paste in a link to the registration form.
20:07:19 Which I should have had you look at, uh, earlier.
20:07:22 But, uh, um. If you go into… let's quit out of that… Quit out of that… Um, go into Settings.
20:07:34 In Settings. Um… Where is it located?
20:07:43 appearance, you can have it as. Um, you can have auto, light.
20:07:52 Mm.
20:07:51 or dark. And if you have it as light, it's light, and if you have it as dark, then everything is dark, and auto will do it during times of the day.
20:08:00 So in the daytime. Um, it'll be whatever it thinks is good for the daytime, and at nighttime, it'll be something else, but.
20:08:09 This was set at auto because that's the way that it's set up, so you'll notice everything has a black background.
20:08:14 But if you want it light, which is the way it used to be.
20:08:18 press that, and it makes it light.
20:08:18 So, the file folders, it'll make those light.
20:08:24 The file folders, you actually have, like, the regular file folders for years have been blue.
20:08:27 Yeah. Right.
20:08:29 You can come along, you can click on that, and you can make it orange if you want.
20:08:33 And you can customize it so the neural and all the same. So you can have some that are orange, and you can have some that are green, and some that are blue. You can.
20:08:40 you're no longer stuck with a single color. Um, you can change it now.
20:08:52 Mm-hmm.
20:08:51 You, yes, um. You just… You just pick the color you want, and.
20:09:01 It'll go back to, um… In this case, it says multicolor, but you can have it as light blue if you want that.
20:09:08 But if… in particular, if you give it… if you tag it… so, for example, if I want to tag this.
20:09:14 Mm-hmm.
20:09:15 as something important. now this one, uh, it won't… it doesn't look like it now, but you notice the name now has a tag.
20:09:23 This is something you didn't used to be able to do that.
20:09:23 I see.
20:09:26 So you can say that this is an important one, or you can just come through and just make the entire.
20:09:31 Uh, folder. I don't know why it made it disappear. It's not supposed to be transparent, but it'll make the entire folder disappear.
20:09:34 Hmm.
20:09:38 red or blue, or whatever it is that you want it to be.
20:09:40 You can also change the. The widgets, these are all multicolor widgets, you can make them all darker.
20:09:47 clear or whatever. You have a lot more change.
20:09:50 you have a lot more, uh, control over the interface than you did.
20:09:55 Before, a lot of people don't like the transmit menu. You notice the menu up here at the top.
20:09:59 Right.
20:09:59 I can actually see the background through it. Well, a lot of people, for whatever reason, don't like that. And you can come through, and you can make it tinted.
20:10:03 I don't.
20:10:07 In which case, now it's actually… it's actually got a… a tent like it did before.
20:10:13 But I like being able to see the background. I don't like being boxed in.
20:10:18 Um, so lots of things. You can tint the windows in the background with wallpaper colors and.
20:10:24 Mm-hmm. Okay, great, thank you.
20:10:25 all kinds of things. But that's… that's under, uh… appearance. Keep in mind that.
20:10:32 Appearance and accessibility, to some extent, do the same things. Like, if you went to.
20:10:38 You went to have a larger text. You might think that's under.
20:10:42 Parents, but that's actually under accessibility. Because, again, it's designed to.
20:10:49 appearance is, is… kind of personal preference, whereas accessibility is a general problem that you're trying to solve.
20:10:56 I recommend everybody go and turn on Zoom, for example.
20:10:54 Right.
20:10:59 Because being able to just do. Command plus, uh… Um, to blow things up is just… really handy.
20:11:06 Great, thank you, Lawrence.
20:11:10 Just to show you how I normally set my display.
20:11:13 Because normally I like seeing a lot of stuff at once.
20:11:15 Normally, I have it set like this. And I doubt any of you can read anything off my screen.
20:11:22 But, uh. I have to remember that for meetings, it's probably nicer to have at a larger size.
20:11:29 Uh, and if I don't have it a larger size.
20:11:33 Remind me.
20:11:38 I have two screens right now. Because I'll… I'm one of these people who.
20:11:43 might have, like, 15 documents open at once.
20:11:49 The life of an historian. Any other questions?
20:12:02 Uh, one of the questions that was sent to me that I did not have a chance to, uh… demonstrate because I'm not showing things on an iPad.
20:12:09 How do you reveal the app menus at the top of an iPad screen?
20:12:15 Anyone know the answer to that?
20:12:18 Could you repeat the question?
20:12:22 How do you reveal the app? menus at the top of the iPad screen.
20:12:26 The iPad didn't normally have. menus up at the top. Now it does.
20:12:30 You draw your finger down slowly. From the top.
20:12:31 If you don't see… or you just touch the top.
20:12:38 in the menus will show up.
20:12:46 Um, but that's… it used… it used to be that sometimes you had to.
20:12:50 depending upon who wrote the app, you had to search around for.
20:12:53 how to change options and menu items and so on and so forth. And they've tried to, uh.
20:13:01 One thing to note is that this trick only works if some… Nobody bothered to write their program to follow Apple's standards, so it works with Apple's programs, but it may not work with somebody else's program.
20:13:13 Similarly, you can run. some… iPad and iPhone applications on the Mac now.
20:13:22 But a lot of them do not have things like.
20:13:24 Like, you can't do Command-Q to quit out of them because.
20:13:27 There is no iPhone or iPad equivalent to that.
20:13:32 So if you want to quit, you have to go up to the manual.
20:13:35 Bar and select quit.
20:13:39 They… there's a limit as to how much you can… you can make things compatible between the interfaces.
20:13:49 Any questions? Please fill out the attendance form.
20:13:56 Where is it?
20:13:55 Because that's useful to me. Um, and, um… One more question that I have for you guys is, are we going to have a meeting in December?
20:14:08 Where is the attendance form?
20:14:12 Uh, I pasted it into the chat window.
20:14:16 And I pasted it in again, in case. You know, chat window's hiding.
20:14:19 Ah, okay.
20:14:25 Chat? Oh.
20:14:26 I would suggest no meeting for December. It's a really busy month for us.
20:14:35 everything.
20:14:33 It's a really busy month for. For me, too.
20:14:38 I would thicken that. I'd have a hard time showing up for…
20:14:37 Uh, because I work for a church.
20:14:43 A December one.
20:14:46 Yeah, well, I work for a church and. I don't even know what I'm doing in December, because.
20:14:52 They plan, you know, we're going to have… we're going to have a celebration of.
20:14:57 some theological thing that I'd never heard of before.
20:15:00 Um, are you available? Well, I guess so.
20:15:06 Hmm.
20:15:06 So, next January?
20:15:10 Yes. Think about what you want to do for next January. How's that sound?
20:15:13 Good.
20:15:15 Send me suggestions. And if I can figure out a way to demonstrate things on my phone without having my.
20:15:23 phones show up on the internet, I'll give that some thought.
20:15:31 Yeah, thank you, Lawrence. Thank you.
20:15:33 Didn't I?
20:15:28 Okay. Bye, everybody.