No. 224

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The magazine for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad

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ICreate 224
What, you didn’t expect me to update my photo to tie in with the new-look iCreate, did you? This was never going to happen as, thanks to the endless lockdowns, I now resemble a dishevelled man from the hills, not unlike Michael Sheen in Staged which,
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Meet The Experts
This issue, our iOS expert shows you how to create your perfect iPhone Home Screen, connect your iPhone to a Windows PC and record iOS videos with background music. Our resident tech specialist shows you all of the key iOS and Mac apps you need to wr
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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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Apple announces WWDC 2021
APPLE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT ITS WORLD WIDE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE (WWDC) WILL TAKE PLACE JUNE 7-11 AND WILL BE AN ONLINE-ONLY EVENT. The 2020 WWDC also took place entirely online so, although we had hoped for an in-person event this year, it’s not entire
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5 Things We Learned This Month
Here’s some good news for subscribers to Apple Arcade. Apple has introduced two entirely new game categories and added more than 30 titles to its popular gaming subscription service for players of all ages. Apple Arcade enables you to access a collec
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68 iOS & Mac PRO TIPS
Apple prides itself on producing intuitive devices that anybody can pick up and use, young or old. The Mac has always been far more user-friendly than a Windows PC, and the touchscreen of Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices has become synonymous with spe
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Edit On The Go With IOS Photos
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Thanks to iOS Photos’ comprehensive suite of tools you can fix a range of picture problems without needing to edit images on your Mac. You can improve composition by cropping, reveal missing detail in contra
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Combine Different Clips Of Your Pet In IMovie
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Most of us have been filming our pets’ antics for years. As a result we’ll have clips that differ in size and quality. If you place an old iPhone’s small resolution (320 x 240) clip beside
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Creative Cutting Without Relying On Transitions
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Modern video editing apps such as Final Cut Pro enable you to drag a transition into the timeline to wipe or mix between two separate clips. Transitions help link clips shot at different t
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Perfect Your Audio Timing Using Flex Markers
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Getting musical timing tight is a big deal in music production. Often referred to as making music to a ‘grid’ or timeline, software makes it easy to perfectly match a strict tempo. Both a blessing or curse,
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Create Random Drum Fills With Logic’s Arpeggiator
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Programming drums can be tricky at the best of times, but getting great-sounding fills is one of the hardest things to pull off. Trying to analyse what part of a drummer might be hitting w
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Run MacOS Big Sur From An External HD For Faster Results
Disk Utility Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Mac speed issues are usually resolved by stuffing in more memory, but what if you have reached the limit or own one of the late 2015 21.5-inch Retina 4K iMacs that cannot be upgraded? The soluti
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Speed Up The Web With Some Simple Safari Tweaks
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed No matter how fast computers become, the web always seems slow. Web pages are growing in size and complexity which can make them slow to appear. What can be done to speed up the web? Is it possible? Yes. A n
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10 Ways To Protect Your Mac
A recent security report revealed that Mac threats increased 1,092% in 2020 and that amounts to an average of 1,847 threats every day. Don’t panic because that is a drop in the ocean compared to the number of threats on you-know-who’s operating syste
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Scan And Email Documents On Your Mac
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Some services have gone paperless, but there are still a lot that rely on paper documents. When you need to send them to someone over the internet, such as by email, you need to scan them in and attach them
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Combine PDF Documents On The Mac
Preview Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed PDF documents come from many sources; if you scan documents using an iPhone for example, the scans are saved as PDFs. Instead of having lots of PDF scans, such as receipts, they could all be combined
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Collect And Organise Stuff With Anybuffer
Developer Ameba Labs, LLC Difficulty Time needed Anybuffer is a place to store and organise text, lists, images, URLs, videos and more. In some ways it is similar to Apple Notes in Gallery view, but it has more features for organising the contents, f
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Write A Novel On Your Mac
Just the thought of writing a novel is tiring in itself for most people, but, if you have the talent and patience to do so, some help will be needed. The fact is that it is close to impossible to simply sit down and start writing, and to then continu
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Create Your Perfect IPhone Home Screen
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The days when an iOS Home Screen was just a collection of individual app icons have long gone. At first, Apple allowed users to place apps in folders. Then it let us make use of widgets. Together, it means t
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See Podcast Privacy Issues Before Subscribing
Overcast Developer Overcast Radio Difficulty Time needed Apple is committed to increasing privacy and decreasing tracking through a range of measures. One of these is to clearly display which apps collect information about you and what they do with i
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Manage Podcasts Space On Your IPhone
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Podcasts are a great source of entertainment and information. They can be listened to while you are doing something else, like travelling, gardening, in the gym or out for a run. However, a mis-configured Po
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Connect Your IPhone To A Windows PC
Thy Phone Developer In The Hand Difficulty Time needed Yes, these are Windows 10 screenshots in a magazine devoted to Apple devices but there’s a good reason. Not everyone owns a Mac and, even if you do, there may come a time when you’ll find yoursel
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Record A Video Accompanied By Background Music
Camera Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Imagine watching Jaws without John Williams’ terrifying theme or Stranger Things without the synth-wave sound. It’s fair to say that both would significantly lose their impact so why not enhance your
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Create Photo Grids With IOS Shortcuts
Shortcuts Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Collages are a great way to show off multiple photos and there are many apps for the iPhone that can do them for you, but one you may not have thought of is the iOS Shortcuts apps. To be fair, it i
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Catalogue Your Music Collection Like A Pro!
Discogs Developer Discogs Difficulty Time needed Whichever physical format of music is your passion, you can get super-nerdy by cataloguing your collection into the Discogs app, getting an overall value and then watching that value fluctuate in accor
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Transcribe Meetings And Conversations In Real Time
Group Transcribe Developer Microsoft Corporation Difficulty Time needed Group Transcribe makes use of speech and language AI to not only work out who is talking but create transcriptions that follow the course of a meeting in real time – without part
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Digitise Your Handwritten Notes In Seconds
Nebo: Note-Taking & Annotation Developer MyScript Difficulty Time needed There is something extremely satisfying about writing your notes with an Apple Pencil on an iPad. It blurs the lines between traditional and modern in a way that few other produ
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Learn How To Draw With An Apple Pencil
ShadowDraw: Learn How to Draw Developer Shadow Draw Inc Difficulty Time needed Many of us have pondered the idea of learning to draw and the process can seem daunting if you believe that you have little artistic talent. For some it just does not come
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Use Overcast To Listen To Your Podcasts
Overcast Developer Overcast Radio Difficulty Time needed Overcast is considered to be the best app for listening to podcasts on your Apple Watch. The developers have overhauled the app so it’s easier to use and packed with more features. These includ
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Set Up A New Apple Watch
Watch Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed When setting up a new Apple Watch the key is to get the basics right and explore extra features later. Concentrating on how you will wear it and how it will be used should enable you to complete the se
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Manage What Can Be Viewed On Apple TV
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Not the only user of your Apple TV? Then you may want to consider restricting what others can do with the device. For starters, it’s a good idea to prevent children watching or listening to content aimed at
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iRig Pre 2 Mobile Microphone Interface
Key features Built-in XLR connector • Adjustable gain • +48V phantom power Learn more ikmultimedia.com Available from amazon.co.uk THE iRIG PRE 2 IS A POCKET-SIZED MIC PREAMP AND INTERFACE that lets creators, musicians and journalists, easily use XLR
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Edifier TWS NB2 Wireless Earbuds
Key features Hybrid Active Noise Cancelling • 20-20KHz • Bluetooth 5.0 Learn more edifier.online Available from amazon.co.uk EDIFIER HAS REALLY HIT THE SWEET SPOT with its latest set of wireless Active Noise Cancelling earbuds, they look and sound fa
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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 one of the default Mac apps that allows users to automate pretty much any task in m
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Edifier D12 Stereo Bluetooth Speaker
Key features 70W RMS • Bluetooth 5.0 • 54Hz-20kHz • AUX • Line-in Learn more edifier.online Available from amazon.co.uk EDIFIER’S NEW BLUETOOTH BOOKSHELF SPEAKER CAN REALLY KICK IT OUT, serving up 70 watts RMS of distortion-free power and delivering
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Accessories
£149/$169 foodmarble.com This digestive breath tester aims to take the guesswork out of diagnosing your digestive problems. It works by measuring the levels of hydrogen in your breath, which comes as a result of bacteria breaking down undigested matt
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DxO PureRAW
Price £115/$129 Requirements Intel Core i5 or higher • macOS 10.14 or later • 4GB RAM Learn more dxo.com Available from https://shop.dxo.com In just a few clicks, you can remove digital noise and other lens defects You can render batches of RAW files
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iBook G4 ‘Snow’ (14-inch)
Release date October 2003 • Processor: 933 MHz or 1GHz PowerPC G4 • Memory: 256MB of 266MHz PC2100 DDR SDRAM (expandable to 1.12 GB) • Hard Drive: Up to 60GB • Graphics: ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of SDRAM • Display: 14.1-inch TFT XGA active matrix di

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