s2z Mac Nerdery

I just bought a JBL Charge 3 bluetooth speaker.

Wanting to use not just my iPhone with it, I wondered how I could connect via bluetooth to my 15" MacBook Pro running Sierra 10.12.2, with my 200+ gig iTunes music library in iTunes version 12.5.4. 

After some googling and another article elsewhere on the forums at apple I realised that, the instructions weren't that clear on the JBL manual. Opening my bluetooth preferences I could see a device which might have been the my speaker but I wasn't sure?

That device starting with SMA001d, was I thought, my JBL Charge 3 Speaker. So I tried pressing the button I thought was the correct one to pair it with my laptop.

But really I'm still not sure. Even after repeated pressing of what I thought was the pairing button on the top of my speaker it still wouldn't connect.

So I dug up the JBL Charge 3 speaker again and had a closer look. This image on this page, page 2 is important.

The bluetooth symbol itself [first on the left] is how you pair to other devices, not the other infinity type symbol [fouth from the left] Once I had worked this out the speaker then appeared in my bluetooth preferences list. See this picture  below. Note that device starting with SMA00 is still there?

Some handy tips for OS10+

OS X’s Finder is your window onto the documents, spreadsheets, photos, and other files you’ve tucked away on your Mac and other connected computers and drives. One often overlooked Finder tool is the sidebar, the left-hand section of every Finder window where you see small icons and names for folders or other items. The sidebar is intended to give you one-click access to the items you use the most. To make sure it does, tweak the way the sidebar displays and what it contains.

Trying to find a particular piece of text on a web page?

Use the command key plus the f key to search the page.

You can easily set your mouse to operate like a PC using the right mouse button extra functionality, secondary click.

Open System preferences.

Click on the mouse picture and choose whether you use you use the left or right side of the mouse for right click functionality.

The central point for controlling the way your macintosh is run is called system preferences. Here you can change the appearance and functionality of your mac to suit your skil set and style of using the computer.

Accessing it is achieved via the applications folder or the apple in the top right corner of your computer screen.