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Trying something new It’s easy to become a slave to routine – I know I’ve been guilty of it for long periods over the years. When we know how to do something (or even just think we do), it’s common to fall into that rut and just do it the way we always have. And equally, it’s easy to not think about the things we could do a little differently to make our lives easier, because we’re focused on what we do already. Our big feature this issue aims to help break those habits. Macs are incredibly versatile machines, and gain new abilities all the time. Partly it’s about maybe re-learning tasks you already do, in a way that’s faster and more efficient; partly it’s about picking up new things that can just make your life easier. Making things faster and more efficient is also the principle behind our guide to making your own Fusion Drive. Flash storage is easily the biggest upgrade you can make to an older hard-drive-based Mac – the speed improvement is fantastic. But not all Macs can be upgraded easily, and even if yours is, you might still want the high capacity the hard drive offers compared to flash storage. That’s why a Fusion Drive works so well – it keeps the large hard drive for long-term storage, and just puts your most-used items on a smaller (and therefore cheaper) solid-state drive. And if you’ve got a Mac with USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt ports, you can add an external SSD to create your own Fusion Drive, with just a bit of tinkering. Getting everything you need will cost a little over $100, but getting a new Mac to replace one that’s feeling a little slow would cost well over 10 times that, so you might find it to be a bargain in the long run. There’s a little bit of Terminal magic going on, but don’t worry if you’re not confident about that kind of thing – our guide goes through it all piece by piece and, as long as you’ve backed up to a separate drive first, you don’t need to worry about losing any data in case anything goes wrong. Of course, there’s lots more to learn about and see this issue – as a video nut, I’m especially excited about our guide to shooting and editing 4K movies. I hope you enjoy it!
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I’ve been a loyal subscriber since the early MacAddict days. I love almost every issue of your great magazine. One thing I’d like to see more coverage on is safeguarding Apple users’ privacy. As an American, I sometimes feel like I’m living in East Germany with Stasi – AKA Google – watching over my every online move. I’ve learned a few privacy protection tricks over the last few months but I’d like to see Mac|Life devoting more space to privacy protection. Apple has pledged to never track its customers. I hope you can teach us more about how to protect our privacy and not feel like we live in the Soviet bloc. For example, one product I now use is Disconnect.me; can you tell us how safe such products are? B. Jutu, Ph.D. You might have seen that we’ve included a few articles around encryption recently, and there will be more, but you’ve actually touched on one reason why it’s difficult: if we recommend something, we need to be sure that it’s truly secure and private, and that’s not always easy – and sometimes just isn’t possible. We’ll always err on the side of your safety!
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Does Apple Music represent value for money?
I just concluded a conversation with Apple Tech Support regarding Apple Music. My biggest concern is iTunes Radio, apparently it now costs $9.99 per month, equating to roughly $120 per year. Now the only service I listen to is iTunes Radio, nothing else. A bit of a background on Beats/ Apple Music… a service that was once free now costs money. The only true service that Apple provides is music. Now let’s compare Apple’s crap Music to, say, Amazon Prime costing $20 less a year, roughly. Amazon provides movies, music and two-day shipping… probably other services as well. Now let’s throw in Netflix at roughly $9.99 per month… that’s a lot of movies. Total cost monthly is now, approximately, $18.50. Now let’s keep rolling, know a friend with cable and you can use their login
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credentials to access a plethora of channels. What about XM Radio at $6.95 per month, if you barter. It has taken me since 2007 to realize that Apple could not care less about their customers. People spend hundreds, if not thousands, on Apple devices only to be offered a shoddy music service. I myself have spent about $9,000 on their products. I can truly say that Apple has lost touch with their customers. They’re acting more like Google day after day. S/R It’s true that Apple has made the previously free iTunes Radio part of Apple Music, which costs $9.99 per month, and that’s a shame. It’s worth noting that SoundCloud and other services are picking up that mantle – you can still get cool free internet radio stations.
Safari’s private browsing wasn’t as private as you might’ve hoped…
We’re not sure if your Amazon comparisons are quite fair, though: Prime includes music, but only around a million songs, versus 30 million from Apple Music. In any case, the $9.99 cost appears to be largely set by the record labels.
Not so secret? In your February 2016 issue of Mac|Life, on page 99, you have a short discussion entitled “Can I Keep a Secret”? You say that “… Safari doesn’t keep any logs to begin with, so there isn’t anything to recover.” You may want to rethink this answer. There are articles indicating that Safari does, in fact, record every site visited in a hidden library file. This file can be deleted, but will re-establish and start from scratch every time you use Safari. You would also have to delete every copy of this file from your Time Machine backups. Eugene Patterson We’ve tested, and this bug seems to have been fixed in OS X 10.11 as far as we can tell – but it was true of 10.10 and earlier, so thanks for the warning, Eugene! You can read up about it at bit.ly/1xhBtKJ.
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Has Apple been keeping an eye on Microsoft’s HoloLens…?
Why it’s time for Apple to get into VR Virtual reality is coming, and Apple can’t let the future pass it by BY Michelle fitzsimmons
We’ve done this dance before: Will Apple enter the [insert whatever product category you like here] market, or won’t it? It happened with the Apple Watch, and it’s happening right now with virtual reality. During Apple’s quarterly earnings call in January, CEO Tim Cook said this about VR: “I don’t think [VR] is niche. It’s really cool and has interesting applications.”
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He’s right: VR is really cool, and it does have interesting applications, but perhaps his most telling comment was that it isn’t niche anymore. We could be reading too much into it, but perhaps Cook was preparing investors for what’s to come. He made similar comments 18 months before the Watch’s launch. Regardless of Cook’s intentions with his comments, though, now is the perfect time for Apple to get into virtual reality for a number of reasons. A device like the Samsung Gear VR that uses the iPhone could help reinvigorate Apple’s slowing handset sales. Or if it does a standalone VR device, that would likely be put in Apple’s small yet growing “Other Products” group, which includes devices like the Apple Watch and Apple TV. Revenue is paltry when compared to the iPhone, but it’s home to some of Apple’s most innovative products. VR is still maturing, but it’s sitting on the cusp of breaking through in the public imagination. Microsoft’s HoloLens is wowing people in demonstrations. We’re waiting for Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive Pre to hit the market, and though signs point to Google building its own VR hardware,