MacValley News and Advice Monday 10-1-2018

Wireless 5G Broadband out of the lab and onto your desktop.

 

Somewhere in Los Angeles…you can get 5G Cellular Broadband for $70/month. $50/month if you already have a Verizon Wireless plan.

 

Go here to see if you can get it at your place.

 

If you can get it, Verizon will offer you a free Apple TV or a Chromecast.

 

It’s not available where I live. I’ll stick with ATT for now.

(h/t to Appleinsider)

 

The new screenshot and screen video options in macOS Mojave

 

Appleinsider explains the features now available for taking screenshots and screen videos with macOS Mojave. Some of this in the past, you either used the venerable Grab app in Utilities or a third-party tool. I know that Preview had screenshot options, including timed shots, hidden.

 

Now you can access screenshots and video in one place.

 

Replicating the Dynamic Desktops

 

Apple’s marquee effect with Mojave is the Dynamic Desktop. You set it up in Desktkops and it tracks the progress of the day and night. Very cool.

 

Apple, though, only offers two of these dynamic desktops. If you want to make your own, well, Appleinsider has instructions on how to replicate them.

 

They don’t promise an effect as show-stopping as Apple’s. Apple put time (and money) and effort (and more money) and used professional photographers (cha-ching!).

 

But try it out. We stand at the early stages of this. Someone will figure out how to do it better, quicker, and cheaper as we go along.

 

Net Neutrality..About which no one is neutral.

 

California has enacted a strict net neutrality law. It goes into effect January 1, 2019.

 

The Justice Department promptly sued, holding that the Feds have sole authority over interstate commerce and communications.

 

Why can’t we settle these things with a head-to-head battle of Fortnite? Instead of months and months of paper generation? Just asking…

 

Controlling your child’s device usage…Macworld checks 3 options

 

Michael Simon of IDG checked to see which device usage controls worked the best. More important, which ones his 7-year-old son couldn’t outwit.

 

Apple scored high, but not in first place.

 

Tim Berners-Lee tries to take back our privacy

 

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the World Wide Web in the first place, has some ideas on taking back our privacy.

 

Sir Tim wants to set up an option for us called “Solid”.

 

We could store it at our homes or place of business.

 

Sounds interesting. Read about it here.

 

Apple Hardware Coming in October?

 

9 to 5 Mac considers which Macs and iPads Apple could update. The iPad Pro, the iMac, even the lowly Mac mini (which I’m waiting for)

 

I love my mid-2011 Mac Mini. I’ve upgraded its RAM and its storage and its displays. I won’t toss it aside for another model until (A) I have the cash in hand and (B) Apple makes it worthwhile. Even then, it’ll become my music server.

 

Tom Briant

Editor, MacValley Blog