No. 238

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Welcome
There’s something about a spring clean that is immensely good for the soul. The whole ‘out with the old, in with the new’ ethos in conjunction with mother nature teasing out fresh new flora outside makes us feel ready to tackle anything. Apply the co
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Meet The Experts
Our iOS expert will show you how to turn your handwritten messages into notes and create unique GIFs in Twitter. He’ll also show you how to make your own games on Mac. Our tech expert will help you power-up all of your Apple devices by clearing out t
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Free With Your Magazine
Download available All the assets you’ll need to get creative with our projects. Look out for the above icon to see if there are downloads available. Discover how to get more out of your devices with a selection of iOS and macOS video guides from Mac
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IPhone 14 Could Mark The End Of ‘Mini’ Models
IF YOU WANT TO BUY A SMALL PHONE – SOMETHING WITH A DISPLAY UNDER SIX INCHES – YOU GENERALLY HAVE TO TURN TO APPLE.BUT WITH THE iPHONE 14, IT SEEMS LIKE THE END IS NIGH FOR THE MINI MOBILES. We’ve heard plenty of rumours now that insinuate there won’
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5 Things We Learned This Month
Apple TV+ has won another award, this time specifically for Adam Scott’s role in Severance. Scott has picked up a Webby Best Actor award, it has been confirmed. Severance has become a beloved Apple TV+ show since its recent season one finale and the
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ICandy
The original MacBook featured the first MagSafe power connector, Gigabit Ethernet, mini-DVI, Firewire 400, two USB 2.0 ports, audio in/out and a Kensington Security Slot. ■
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POWER UP Your Mac, IPad & IPhone
The notion of spring cleaning is a term that has been in use for hundreds of years and it is not merely a practical activity. It is seen as a way to cleanse the mind as well as a space, and to this day it is seen as purely beneficial around the world
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Styles And Filters To Simplify Your Photo Editing
Photos Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed When you snap a shot with the Camera app, it’s usually a case of ‘what you see is what you get.’ It automatically adjusts colours and tones to capture a scene’s true colours, such as warmer or cooler
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Capture Your Fun Day Out In A Sophisticated Sequence
iMovie Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Thanks to your ever-present iPhone, you can capture and share family activities via social media sites. One way to make your videos generate more of those endorphin-inducing likes i
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Get The Hollywood Look With A Slick Cinematic Sequence
Final Cut Pro Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Devices such as the iPhone 13 Pro range are powerful movie cameras – capable of capturing 4K footage with a High Dynamic Range (HDR). We’ll show you how to make HDR footage v
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Rock-out With The Wham And Wah FX Units
Garage Band Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Guitar effects come in two varieties, the stomp box and the expression pedal. The latter allows for more technique during a performance. GarageBand models several of these within its Pedalboard p
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Work With Apple Loops In Your Logic Pro Projects
Logic Pro Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed As well as shipping with dozens of fantastic software instruments, Logic comes complete with a library of nearly 15,000 Apple Loops to use in your tracks. Apple Loops are pre-recorded MIDI or audio
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Get Started With The Console App In MacOS
Console Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed When a problem occurs on the Mac, a message on the screen may notify you of the fault. However, only the most critical errors are displayed. Many minor errors are ignored or dealt with by macOS. Ther
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Use The DuckDuckGo Browser And Get More Privacy
DuckDuckGo Developer Duck Duck Go, Inc Difficulty Time needed DuckDuckGo is well known for (a) having a rather daft name and (b) for being a search engine that doesn’t track you. Now it’s attempting to corner the browser market by offering a privacy-
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Create And Store Secure Private Notes In Keychain
Keychain Access Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed One of the new features in the latest version of macOS is the ability to store notes with passwords. This means that if you have stored the login details for online banking, for example, you
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Create Public Calendars And Subscribe To Them
Calendar Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The Calendar app is essential for organising your work or personal appointments, holidays and so on. It is hard to imagine life without its helpful reminders. However, calendars are also great for g
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Print Calendars Straight From Your Mac’s Calendar App
Calendar Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The Calendar app is an essential tool for organising your work and personal events and appointments. It is universal across Mac and iOS/iPadOS and can be viewed with a few clicks or taps on the scre
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Rediscover Past Versions Of The Mac’s System Software
Safari Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed How long have you been using an Apple Mac? If you are a long-time user, do you remesmber running System 7.5 on an Apple Mac II? Maybe you used even older hardware and software, like System 7.0 on a hi
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Create Interactive Experiences Using RichCast
RichCast Developer Panivox Limited Difficulty Time needed Have you ever played a text adventure game – “get bread”, “give to rat”, etc? With RichCast, you can produce similar experiences but instead of typing commands, you can have players click butt
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MAKE YOUR iPHONE COMPLETELY PRIVATE
During the height of the COVID pandemic, unsubstantiated rumours were flying around that the vaccine contained micro chips that could be used to track us once they were injected into our bodies. This was complete nonsense, of course, but if unscrupul
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Use Visual Lookup To Get Info On Photos
Photos Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The Photos app on the iPhone is more powerful than you think. It can analyse a photo and determine what the subject is and what objects it contains. That feature has been around for some time – you ca
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Turn Recipes Into Shopping Lists On The IPhone
Notes Developer Ale Inc Difficulty Time needed First, the iPhone could recognise objects and scenes in photographs and we could search for ‘dog’ or ‘beach’. Then, we were given the ability to recognise text from in photos and copy and paste it into o
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Access Your Account Features In Maps
Maps Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed One of the new features in iOS 15 is a user account in the Maps app. This is designed to make it easier to configure most of the settings by putting them all in one place. Many features and settings are
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Digitise Handwritten Messages In The Notes App
Notes Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed One of the best new features introduced in iOS 15.4 makes it easier than ever before to scan your documents. Called ‘Scan Text’, it lets you capture handwritten or printed text from your iPhone’s camer
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Set Apple TV & YouTube Video Quality On IPhone
Apple TV Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Are you seeing the best quality video that the iPhone can show? The settings for popular video apps like Apple TV and YouTube may not be set to the maximum and you might be able to tweak the setting
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Create Your Own Unique GIFs In Twitter
Twitter Developer Twitter, Inc Difficulty Time needed GIFs have long proven to be a popular way to engage with others on social media. They let you convey all manner of emotions, from anger to laughter, and they’ve become something of a creative artf
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Create Manga Characters Using Machine Learning
Google Arts & Culture Developer Google Difficulty Time needed Manga is a comic style, which developed in Japan in the late 19th century. It is hugely popular across the world, with sales of manga books and magazines running into billions. But have yo
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Instantly Identify Songs Using Shazam
iOS 15 Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Apple bought the Shazam music recognition app back in 2017 and now it has been built into iOS, making it easy to quickly identify a song and the artist. All you have to do is add the Music Recognition
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Make Your IPad Read Out Text For You
Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed There are numerous reasons for wanting Siri to read out text on your iPad’s screen. Although the feature was created by Apple to help people with a visual impairment, it also comes in handy if you’r
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The Best Widgets For Your IPad
A The term ‘best’ is obvious in most situations, but for widgets on an iPad it is more a case of balance that is needed. Some widgets offer lots of detail in a small space while others are designed to bring real-time information, with others purely a
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Translate Languages On Your Apple Watch
iTranslate Converse Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Summer is here and that means holidays For many people, it also means going where English isn’t the first language and where you may struggle to make yourself understood. But with an Appl
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Control Your Heating From Your Wrist
Hive Developer Centrica Hive Limited Difficulty Time needed You likely already know that your Apple Watch can be used for a huge number of day-to-day tasks, but the reality is that most owners stick to the default apps with only the occasional third-
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View Live Video In Apple TV’s Picture In Picture Mode
tvOS 15.4 Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed So you’re settling down to watch a movie or you’re about to play a game, but you want to ensure you catch the postman, watch over your property or look out for friends approaching your house. Rathe
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Genius Bar
Contact us today Facebook iCreateMagazine Twitter @iCreateMagazine Instagram icreate_mag Email icreate@futurenet.com The place to come for key terms made easy This is a relatively new feature on Mac and iOS designed to make users aware of how much ti
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Technics A800 Wireless Headphones
£299/$349 Key features Active Noise Cancelling • Bluetooth 5.2 with LDAC compatibility Learn more technics.com Available from amazon.co.uk THERE’S A TIME AND A PLACE FOR BREAKING NEW DESIGN GROUND, and it’s emphatically not when designing a pair of o
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Nanoleaf Shapes Limited Sonic Edition
£299.99/$299.99 Key features Works with Apple HomeKit • 32 light panels • 16M+ colours Learn more nanoleaf.me Available from currys.co.uk TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2, Nanoleaf has devised an altogether classier type of movie tie-
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JOBY Wavo Air Wireless Microphone
£215/$249 Key features 50Hz – 18KHz • Bluetooth • 50M range • Six-hour battery Learn more joby.com Available from amazon.co.uk IT MAY BE BEST KNOWN FOR ITS GORILLAPOD TRIPODS, but JOBY has boosted its audio lineup in a big way with the launch of five
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Harman/Kardon Citation Amp
£529/$720 Key features 20Hz – 20KHz • AirPlay • Bluetooth 4.2 • HDMI ARC Learn more harmankardon.co.uk Available from richersounds.com THE CITATION AMP IS A SLEEK, compact amplifier that is designed to power bookshelf, floor-standing, in-ceiling and
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Software
Price £299/$299 Requirements 64-bit processor • macOS 10.10 or later Learn more ikmultimedia.com Available from ikmultimedia.com/products/modobass2 The physically modelled electric bass goes next level A MUCH-EXPANDED EDITION of IK’s industry-first,
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iPod Classic (U2 Edition)
Release date: October 2004 Capacity: 20 GB Connection: FireWire or USB Minimum OS to sync: 10.1.5 Supported audio: MP3, AAC and Apple Lossless Extras: Exclusive U2 poster, iTunes Music Store coupon for $50 off The Complete U2 digital box-set, earbud
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Editor Ryan Butt Art Editor Newton Ribeiro Production Editor Olivia Weaver Head of Art & Design Rodney Dive Group Art Director Jo Gulliver Art Director Brett Lewis Photographer Phil Barker (Future Photo Studio) Mark Billen, George Cairns, Dave Clews,

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