No. 219

iCreate

The magazine for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad

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Meet The Experts
Our iOS expert shows you how to stop apps and web pages from tracking you, completely hide your photos and stream your favourite Xbox games to your iPhone. This month, our tech specialist guides you through the process of recording, editing and publi
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Welcome
It’s fascinating to watch a new Mac operating system slowly grow and evolve over a series of beta releases, having a front-row seat to every tweak and refinement along the way. And the changes came thick and fast over Big Sur’s gestation period, with
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Free With Your Magazine
Kit macOS out with some stunning wallpapers Discover how to get more out of your devices All the assets you’ll need to get creative ● Over 15 minutes of expert iOS and macOS video guides from MacMost ● This issue’s creative tutorial files to follow a
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Apple Launches New M1 Processor Macs
BACK IN JUNE, APPLE PROMISED THE WORLD THAT THE FIRST MAC WITH A NEW APPLE SILICON PROCESSOR WOULD ARRIVE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. Now Apple has made good on that promise as the first Macs to feature Apple’s new M1 processors have just been announ
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5 Things We Learned This Month
Apple has introduced the M1 processor to its MacBook Pro line-up for the first time, starting with the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. With the new M1 processor, the new Pro’s CPU is 2.8x faster than the previous version, and is 5x faster when it comes to g
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The Mac Mini Has Returned
The Mac mini hasn’t been off sale since it introduced in 2005, but it hadn’t been updated for so long that many of us feared it might be discontinued. W that’s all changed as Apple has released a brand new version of the Mac mini 2020 featuring its n
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iCandy MacBook Air 13-inch (2018)
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Become a macOS Big Sur GENIUS
With Big Sur, Apple has literally turned macOS up to 11 with a fresh look and plenty of new features. After nearly 20 years of macOS 10 (or Mac OS X), Big Sur is the operating system that marks the transition into macOS 11 and we’ve got all of the in
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Remove Unwanted Objects
Developer Apple, Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available We can’t control every object in the frame when we snap a shot. Lamp posts can poke up from behind the subject’s head or unwanted people may ‘photo bomb’ the shot. Thanks to the Photos ap
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Have Fun With Filters And Grading
Developer Apple, Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available You’ll find iMovie has all the tools you need to manually adjust (or grade) a clip’s colours and tones. This enables you to add more contrast (and therefore impact) to a clip with flat wa
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Use The New Smart Conform Feature
Developer Apple, Inc Time needed Difficulty Download available Most professional filmmakers shoot their subjects in a horizontal 16:9 format. However you may need to re-frame your edited widescreen projects to suit various social media platforms. For
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Record A Demo In Music Memos
Developer Apple, Inc Difficulty Time needed For the uninitiated, Music Memos is an iOS Apple app that offers an essential partner for GarageBand or Logic Pro X. Intended as an equivalent to Voice Memos, it allows guitarists, pianists and songwriters
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Using Logic’s Auto Sampler
Developer Apple, Inc Difficulty Time needed Multisampling is the process of creating playable instruments from multiple samples of single notes. This would traditionally involve playing notes on your chosen instrument at different velocity levels and
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Achieve Superhero Synth Tones
Developer Fingerlab Difficulty Time needed Recently named by Apple as a favourite App Store pick, Fingerlab’s Flynth has been trending on Mac and iOS platforms and has become known for its ease of use. Delve deeper however and the app also packs a se
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Extract Parts And Export As Loops
Developer Algoriddim Difficulty Time needed Algoriddim’s Neural Mix Pro is a clever piece of kit. Boasting AI-powered features, Neural is both a music player and editor that enables on-the-fly separation of musical parts. Skilled record spinners, pro
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Power Up Your Reminders
Developer haha Interactive Difficulty Time needed GoodTask has to compete in what is possibly the most competitive area of the Mac and iOS App Stores. With so many well known apps available, some of them with influential marketeers onboard, it is qui
iCreate3 min readInternet & Web
Protect Privacy With Hide.me VPN
Developer eVenture Difficulty Time needed VPNs have seen explosive growth this year, partly fuelled by more people working from home. A VPN performs several tasks and one is to add an extra layer of privacy and security to your Mac when accessing the
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Use Video Clips In Pages
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed A picture is worth a thousand words it’s said, so how many is a video worth? A video clip can make a document, story or eBook more interesting, it can explain topics, provide additional visual and audio info
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Create And Publish Your Own Podcast
You can in theory create and publish a new podcast with just an iPhone. Using a selection of apps it is now possible to complete the end to end process in the palm of your hand, but to do so may result in a show that does not quite compete on a techn
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Prevent Apps From Tracking You Outside Of The App
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Apple has announced a change in how third- party apps can access your data. Rather than let them blithely use in-app advertising to track users via Apple’s IDFA (or Identifier for Advertisers), you have the
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Enhance Your Voice Memos
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Voice Memos is a great app on the iPhone and you can quickly record thoughts, ideas, things to do, sounds around you, and bits of information you may need later. You could use Notes, to write them, but somet
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Manage Your Passwords
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Password management has been improved in iOS 14 and your iPhone can now tell you if a password is too easily guessed, if one has been used on two or more sites or services, if a password has been leaked in a
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Completely Hide Your Photographs
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Sometimes you may have images that you just don’t want anyone else to see – private moments or sensitive data that you’ve photographed for reference. Apple has long understood this which is why it introduced
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Stream Xbox Games On Your IPhone
Developer Microsoft Corporation Difficulty Time needed While iOS and iPadOS have a huge library of games for you to enjoy, you may still want to play a console title. Now, thanks to Microsoft’s new app, you can stream any game developed for the Xbox
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Create A Unique Home Screen
Developer Joel Bernstein Difficulty Time needed The popularity of widgets in iOS 14 has likely surprised even Apple in how quickly people have rushed to create their own Home Screens. It has extended to the point of creating new icons for apps, but,
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Send Messages Between Devices Using Intercom
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed As well as being perfect for listening to music and asking Siri to dish out facts, the HomePod – and new HomePod mini – can now make use of a new Intercom feature. Also working across iPhones, iPads, Apple W
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Festive Apps For Christmas
After a freakishly tough year that sees many of us approach Christmas with a reduced budget and the possibility of far fewer loved ones around our dinner tables then we’d like, we could all do with some festive cheer around about now, and thankfully
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Add Some Polygonal Style To Your Keynote Presentations
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed With the latest update to Keynote (10.2), Apple added the ability to quickly and easily add geometric shapes to presentations. These, along with the new themes, templates, and the image browser added in 10.0
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Master The New Features In Pages For IPadOS 14
Developer Apple, Inc Difficulty Time needed The recent update to iPad OS 14 brought with it some interesting new additions to Pages (which sits at version 10.2 at the time of writing). While there were no massive changes, what we got were interesting
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Use Shortcuts on your Apple Watch
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed One of the best new features of watchOS 7 is its support for Siri Shortcuts. They’re a perfect fit since they allow you to make light work of many a task and they simplify otherwise complicated processes by
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Add YouTube Music to your Apple Watch
Developer Google LLC Difficulty Time needed YouTube Music has to work hard to compete against some fierce competition and especially on the Apple platforms. With Apple Music seamlessly working across every device from one account it is not the easies
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Share Audio To Two Sets Of Headphones
Developer Apple, Inc Difficulty Time needed Watching or using content on your television can be distracting for other people in the room and that’s why a pair of wireless headphones can prove invaluable for keeping the peace. But what if someone else
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Genius Bar
Contact us today Facebook iCreateMagazine Twitter@iCreateMagazine Instagram create_mag Email icreate@futurenet.com The place to come for key terms made easy This refers to a group of settings on Mac and iOS that allow you to customise your device to
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Ruark R3 Wireless Music System
£629/$790 Key features aptX Bluetooth receiver • DAB/DAB+, FM • CD player Learn more ruarkaudio.com Available from amazon.co.uk WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS to enjoy music these days, it’s rare to have a music system that caters for every sonic medium
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Grado GT220 Wireless Earbuds
£249.95/$259.00 Key features Bluetooth 5.0 • aptX, AAC & SBC codecs • 36 hours playback Learn more grado.co.uk Available from amazon.co.uk DESIGNING AND MANUFACTURING headphones out of Brooklyn, New York since 1953, the GT220 earbuds are Grado’s firs
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Nextbase 622GW Dash Cam
£249/$399 Key features Ultra-clear 4K recording • Digital Image Stabilisation • Wi-Fi Learn more nextbase.com Available from amazon.co.uk PACKED WITH INNOVATION, Nextbase’s new flagship dash cam model is an in-car smart hub that is easy to install an
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Accessories
£169.99/$169.99 brydge.co.uk Crafted out of premium aluminium and with adjustable, backlit keys, the Brydge Pro is a real treat for typists looking to give their iPad Pro a MacBook-style makeover. Your tablet slots securely into clips and can then be
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Canvas X Draw
DOING THE WORK OF OTHER CREATIVE APPS COMBINED, Canvas X Draw is a very intuitive, one-stop program for sketching, painting, technical drawing and anything else that involves creating visuals. It can handle 2D vector graphics, raster graphics, text,
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South Of The Circle
Price Arcade subscription Requirements iOS 13.0 or later • 2.3GB Learn more www.stateofplaygames.com Available from App Store IT’S GAMES LIKE THIS THAT MAKE APPLE ARCADE SO important in opening people’s eyes to things they wouldn’t normally play, une
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Ludwig by Primephonic
Price £20/$20 Requirements N/A Learn more www.primephonic.com/ludwig/home Available from www.primephonic.com IF YOU WANT TO DISCOVER classical music but don’t know where to start then Ludwig is the perfect crash course to take you from naught to ‘cla
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Podcast
A cosy listen at this time of year, this podcast serves up tips for a stress-free holiday and explores the origins of some of our most-loved traditions. Perfect for unwinding after a bad year. AC/DC £8.99/$8.99 In these uncertain times it is good to
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iPhone 8 Plus
Release date September 2017 ● System on chip: Apple A11 Bionic ● CPU: 2.39 GHz hexa-core 64-bit ● Memory: 3GB LPDDR4X RAM ● Storage: 64, 128 or 256GB● Display: 5.5-inch Retina HD, LED- backlit IPS LCD 1920x1080 px (401 ppi) ● Rear camera: 12 MP with
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