No. 223

iCreate

The magazine for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad

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Welcome
A lot can happen in a month. After the unfortunate events detailed in this editorial last issue, the proceeding four weeks have seen a massive improvement in my personal health (I know how you worry), and during that time we have also been applying t
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Meet The Experts
Our iOS expert shows you how to tame the updated Facebook app by finding out all of the information that the app knows about you and tailoring your personal news feed. Our resident tech specialist shows you how to take a day off from Apple Fitness an
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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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Will We Get More M1 Macs In 2021?
IN 2020 APPLE INTRODUCED ITS FIRST ARM-BASED SYSTEM ON A CHIP DESIGNED BY APPLE FOR ITS BRAND NEW MACBOOK AIR, MAC MINI AND MACBOOK PRO 13-INCH. There are rumours that Apple will refresh more of its range in 2021, including the iMac and other sizes o
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5 Things We Learned This Month
The popular media centre software, Plex now works with the Apple TV app, letting Plex users keep track of the television shows and movies that they are watching in the ‘Up Next’ section. The new feature, however, doesn’t access all of the content tha
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Press Start
The global videogame industry is said to be worth more than $150 million and its popularity doesn’t appear to be waning. In recent months we’ve seen gamers patiently waiting to get their hands on the latest consoles as demand far outstrips supply. We
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ICandy IPhone 7 (2016)
The tenth generation of iPhone featured a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera with quad-LED ‘True Tone‘ flash, widened f/1.8 aperture and optical image stabilisation – previously exclusive to Plus models. ■
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Replicate DSLR Camera Effects
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Experienced Digital SLR users can manually adjust their camera’s settings to produce a range of looks and effects. By opening up the aperture to a wider setting they can create a narrower
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Create Comic Book Looks Using IMovie
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available One eye-catching way to share the highlights of a family activity is to display a collection of clips in a comic book format. Thanks to iMovie’s Comic theme you can showcase multiple clips
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Create Animated And Textured 3D Text
Developer Apple Inc Time needed Difficulty Download available One way of creating a more eye-catching title sequence for your productions is to add animated and textured 3D text to your clips. Working in 3D can be tricky, but thanks to presets we can
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Discover Audio Unit plugins
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Once you master using native plugins within GarageBand, you realise the deeper power the software has. It’s possibly when most move into ‘expert’ territory and start to look outside the box for wider possibi
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Speed-read Documents And Web Pages
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The Summarise feature built into macOS is not new. In fact, it’s been part of the Mac operating system for many years and yet it is so easily overlooked because Apple decided to remove it as a default keyboa
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Producing Pro Voice-overs
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available The work from home and podcasting sectors have seen unprecedented expansion over the past few months, meaning that more of us are having to incorporate some aspect of media production into
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Monitor Your Mac With Stats
Developer Serhiy Mytrovtsiy Difficulty Time needed Activity Monitor is good for monitoring what is happening under the surface of the Mac user interface. With an iMac, its window can be placed in the corner of the screen to keep an eye on CPU and RAM
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Enhance Your Mac’s Sound
Developer Bitgapp Ltd Difficulty Time needed Apple Music has a built-in equaliser that enables you to customise the sound and enhance it to suit your ears and the room it is being played in. However, there is no way to enhance and control the audio f
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Convert Images Into A PDF
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The Portable Document Format, more commonly known as PDF, is a universal and well-used standard. It allows content to be neatly packaged into a compact and portable format. The files are also easily shared a
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Add A Startup Sound Effect
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Way back in the early 90s, you could have fun personalising your Mac by assigning sound samples (our choice of the time being Robocop) to the startup, shutdown and pretty much any keyboard command you wanted
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Link Notes With Your Calendar
Developer Eduard Metzger Difficulty Time needed The holy grail of organisation is being able to link your calendar, notes, meetings and tasks in a seamless way that feels natural. Many app solutions are available that attempt to allow this and some w
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Stay Safe With Your IPhone
Our iPhones are used to bail us out in a multitude of different areas on a daily basis. We can text loved ones to let them know we’ll be late home, order food or transport or even quickly look up information to settle petty disputes. But our iOS devi
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Analyse Your Mac’s Disk Space
Developer Nektony Limited Difficulty Time needed You may find that the drive in your Mac is nearly full after a year or two’s use if it is a small to medium capacity unit. Do you wonder where all the space is being used? Although you can see a simple
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Enter Data Using Forms
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Big fingers and small screens make using Numbers spreadsheets on an iPhone awkward. If you have ever tried to enter data into cells you will know the problem. It just isn’t fun. However, it could be and ther
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Go Cash-free With Apple Pay On Your IPhone
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Why bother leaving the house with items that you don’t need, when all you do need is your iPhone? A pocket full of shrapnel, crumpled notes and even a wallet are relics of a past life, a life before COVID-19
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View Personal Data Gathered By Facebook
Developer Facebook, Inc Difficulty Time needed In 2018, it emerged that the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users had been improperly shared with the political consultancy agency Cambridge Analytica. In response, Facebook sought to make it
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Read The Latest News On Facebook
Developer Facebook, Inc Difficulty Time needed Originally launched in the US in June last year, Facebook News is now available in the UK. It means more users can read stories from national and regional brands as well as broadcasters and magazine publ
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Maximise Your IPhone Photography
Developer Moment Inc Difficulty Time needed You will likely be aware of the sheer power and innovative thinking that has gone into making your iPhone camera. The improvements year on year over the past decade have been staggering and they have comple
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Label Your Bluetooth Devices On IPhone
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Apple doesn’t want to blast your eardrums with excessive noise so it will send you a notification if you’re wearing a pair of headphones and the audio is too loud. Trouble is, iOS can’t always correctly iden
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Take Your Photos To A Whole New Level
Developer Visual Supply Company Difficulty Time needed At its heart VSCO is technically a photo editing app, but when you look at the editing tools on offer you may be forgiven for wondering why there is a subscription charge. It is true that the too
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Create A Never-ending Digital IPad Notebook
Developer Moleskine Studio Difficulty Time needed You may think that the Flow app is just another notebook solution for the iPad, but there is a lot more to it than that. Not only do you get the opportunity to create as many digital pages as you need
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AirPods Pro tricks
You may think that a pair of wireless in-ear headphones simply require putting them in your ears and enjoying the entertainment, but that would be to ignore the clever chip inside and the way Apple has tweaked the software to ensure you can set them
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IPad Teaching Resources
Millions of parents have had to get used to homeschooling over the past year and for many it has been difficult. Besides the technical challenges of ensuring that their children have access to online classes with their normal teachers, they also have
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Maintain Your Streaks
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Up until recently it has been impossible to preserve a fitness streak when you are sick and need to take a day off from exercise, and this can be demoralising because through no fault of your own you would l
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Find Your IPhone
Developer FRE Studios Difficulty Time needed The Find My app is an efficient and useful way to find your iPhone from your Apple Watch when you need to, but it is arguably somewhat basic. All you get to do is to open it, tap a command and wait for you
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Set Up HomePod As Your Apple TV Speaker
Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Whether you have a single, original HomePod or use a couple of them for stereo sound, you can hook them up to your Apple TV 4K. This ensures the TV device will always make use of the HomePod when you’re enjo
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Genius Bar
The place to come for key terms made easy This picture format is exclusive to iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max models and combines the information of a standard RAW format along with iPhone image processing, which gives you more flexibility when editing the
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Majority K2 Soundbar & Subwoofer
£79.95/$89.95 Key features 75W output x2 • Bluetooth • +/- 3dB • HDMI ARC • FM radio Learn more majority.co.uk Available from amazon.co.uk IT’S GOOD WHEN THE HARDEST PART of setting up a new sound system is figuring out how to open the packaging. Whi
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AKG Podcaster Essentials
£249/$249 Key features AKG Lyra USB mic • AKG K371 headphones • Ableton Live 10 Lite Learn more soundtech.co.uk Available from amazon.co.uk IF YOU’RE PASSIONATE about something (like Apple tech, a band, a movie series…) then why not consider setting
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Accessories
£9.99/$15.00 firebox.com Fans of Doc and Marty’s movie exploits will love this low-cost desk accessory. While waiting for the spinning beachball to vanish on your Mac screen, you can push your digits into the futuristic footwear and then magnetically
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Ulysses
IF YOU PLAN ON HUNKERING DOWN TO SOME WRITING, then the free-to-download Ulysses app provides the perfect, distraction-free environment in which to craft your first novel. You can use all of the features free for 14 days, but after that you’ll need t
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Sneaky Sasquatch
Price Arcade subscription Requirements iOS 13.0 or later • 294.6MB Learn more rac7.com Available from iOS App Store PERFECT FODDER FOR WHILING AWAY A FEW minutes here and there, Sneaky Sasquatch lets you live the life of Big Foot. You start off sneak
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Scenecuts
Price Free Requirements macOS 11.0 or later • 1.5MB Learn more nehayward.github.io/Scenecuts Available from Mac App Store THIS SIMPLE MAC UTILITY, provides a handy menu bar item that allows you to access and manage your HomeKit devices and scenes. Wh
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IMac Pro
Release date December 2017 • Processor: 8, 10, 14 or 18-core Intel Xeon up to 4.5GHz Turbo Boost on the LGA2066 socket • Memory: 32GB (configurable to 64, 128 or 256GB) • Hard Drive: 1TB PCIe-based NVMe SSD (configurable to 2 or 4TB) • Display: 27-in
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ICreate
Editor Ryan Butt Art Editor Newton Ribeiro Production Editor Catherine Hood Head of Art & Design Rodney Dive Senior Art Editor Jo Gulliver Photographer Phil Barker (Future Photo Studio) Mark Billen, George Cairns, Dave Clews, David Crookes, Shaun McG

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