Activation from iPhone/iPad/iPod
On the Mac, the program you download gives you the full Universalis features for a one-month trial period. To make it work for ever, you need to activate it.
This page tells you how to activate the Mac program by using the Universalis application for the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The procedure is straightforward: the Mac program asks you to type in a code that's displayed at the bottom of a particular page on the iPhone. Here is what you have to do. You don't need an active Internet connection.
- Start the downloaded Universalis program on your Mac.
In
the downloaded Universalis program you have opened, select Universalis
> Preferences from the menu. This will open the Preferences window.- The Preferences window has three tabs: Calendar, Translations, and Activation. Select the Activation tab.
- Press the button marked "Activate".
- Look at the window that's asking for the registration code, and make a note of the date that is shown at the bottom of the window. For example, 28-Feb-2017.
- Leave the window open. This is important because if you close the window and open it again, it may ask about a different date.
- On your iPhone/iPod/iPad, open Universalis and go to the date that you've noted (for example, 28 February 2017). Do not select today's date. Do not select 28 February 2017 (it was only an example). On the iPhone and iPod, you do this by going to the calendar display and tapping on the date picker icon at the top right. On the iPad, you can use the date picker that you see at the bottom of the calendar display.
- Now you need to get out of the calendar display. On the iPad, this is automatic; on the iPhone and iPod Touch, press the "Read" button at the top right.
- You need the About Today page. If the page you see is not About Today, press the "Hour" button at the top right and select "About Today" from the list.
Scroll
down to the bottom of the About Today page. You will see a message that
tells you a registration code. The code will be a mixture of letters and
numbers.- Back on your Mac, in the window you left open, enter the code that was displayed by the iPhone. It won't be F9F-5AA-3FA: that was only an example.
- Press the button marked "Done".
- Your copy of Universalis is now registered.
There is no need to make a note of this synthetic registration code. If you ever need to re-register your copy - perhaps because your computer crashed and you had to reinstall everything - then you will need an iPhone/iPod/iPad with Universalis on it so that you can go through this procedure again.
If the registration code isn't accepted, check that the date you're viewing on the iPhone is the same as the date that your registration page is asking for. Also check that your system has the right idea of what date it is today. Big computers usually do, but a palmtop whose battery has run down completely can sometimes find itself back in 2005 without you noticing.
