No. 249

iCreate

The magazine for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad

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Welcome
Apple’s iCloud has undergone many evolutionary stages over the years, transforming from a basic settings syncing service to a fully fledged cloud storage facility, collaborative tool and a means of tracking people and lost devices. New features are a
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Leaked Images Reveal New IPhone 15 Features
LEAKS AROUND THE iPHONE 15 SEEM TO BE ARRIVING THICK AND FAST AT THE MOMENT, WITH THE LATEST IMAGERY REVEAL FOCUSING ON THE MOST EXPENSIVE PRO MAX MODEL – AND THERE ARE A FEW CHANGES FROM THE CURRENT MODEL TO DISCUSS. The reveal comes courtesy of ren
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5 Things We Learned This Month
Apple has celebrated a groundbreaking year in entertainment, with the number of apps downloaded, songs, TV shows and movies streamed and games played across its systems swelling considerably throughout 2022. In the past 12 months, more people than ev
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Give Your IPhone Portrait Photos The Professional Touch
Professional portrait photographers produce great-looking people pictures due to a combination of experience in directing people how to pose, and a range of assets such as lighting kits and studio backdrops. You can get pro-looking portraits armed on
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Enhance The Sound Quality Of Your IMovie Projects
Our iPhone is usually able to capture high-quality video footage in a variety of locations, but in some situations it might struggle to capture comparably good sound. We took the iPhone 14 Pro Max to a noisy beach where the wind and wave-driven pebbl
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ICloud MASTERCLASS
Keeping all of your Apple devices in sync, the iCloud service enables you to access key files and documents from anywhere. Every Apple ID is allocated 5GB of free online storage space, which is about the bare minimum one requires for basic use, but a
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How To Get Glitch-y In GarageBand
Across every platform, GarageBand has introduced loops and patches for trending sounds, with ‘Glitch’ being one of them. Glitch as a genre rose to prominence in the 1990s but has since found a place in modern EDM and Pop music, giving rise to Glitch
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Get In The Moment With Clever Compositing
Final Cut Pro’s Keyer effect enables you to make a clip’s green (or blue) background become completely transparent. By adding a clip to the layer below the green screen clip, you can make your subject appear in a new location. You can use this keying
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Make Your Tracks Explode With Our Solo And Mute Power Tips
The concept of Logic’s Track Mute and Solo buttons is based around the same features you’d find on a real mixing desk – the Mute button removes a track from the mix and stops it sounding, while Solo removes everything other than that track from the m
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Enable Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
System Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty ● ● ● Time needed 15 The documents, backups, app data and other files stored in iCloud are encrypted for security. However, with the standard data protection, Apple has a copy of the encryption keys use
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Forward Emails And Set Vacation Responses
Mail Developer Apple Inc Difficulty ● ● ● Time needed 15 There is huge pent-up demand for holidays and it’s likely you’ll be away from work and home sometime soon. What about emails when you are away? Do you ignore messages or spoil your holiday by d
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Speed Up The Web With Some Simple Safari Tweaks
Safari Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed 10 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 possibl
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Turn Back The Clock With A Retro Text Editor
Created at Washington University in 1989, Pico text editor has been around for so long, yet hardly anyone knows it exists. It is bundled with the Mac and is a little-known utility included in macOS. Pico includes state-of-the-art features and functio
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Install And Manage Fonts With Font Book
Many apps were updated when macOS Ventura was released, but Font Book looks more like a complete rewrite than a few simple tweaks to an existing app. If you use fonts in design or writing apps, from TextEdit to Pages, get to know the new Font Book an
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Create Your Own Memoji For The Login Screen
Memoji are fun characters that can be used in Messages conversations on the Mac, iPhone and iPad, and you can even create your own custom designed Memoji using the built-in editor. Each new version of macOS, iOS and iPadOS has brought new features to
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10 Essential Mac Maintenance Tasks
The Mac does not need a lot of maintenance and it can run trouble-free for a long time. However, occasionally it can benefit from some simple tasks. For example, if you are one of those people that never turns off their Mac, make sure to restart it o
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Stay Focused With Ventura
Computers are troves of distractions. With a deadline bellowing warm, coffee-infused breath down your neck, all it takes is a notification or bouncing Dock icon to send you careering off track into a chasm of procrastination. Thankfully, there are pl
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Discover The Secret IPhone Call Hacks!
Making and receiving calls on the iPhone is easy, but it is also possible to customise the settings and tweak them a little to your tastes. In both the Phone and Accessibility settings there are a few features that you can play around with. You can e
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Record Your IPhone Screen With Sound
Being able to record the screen of your device is very useful, and before it was incorporated into iOS, the process had to be carried out using the QuickTime Player app on your Mac (which you can still use). The screen recording feature is particular
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Follow Your Favourite Football Team In News
Scroll through the Apple News app and you will probably see a few stories about major sporting events. However, you can see a lot more of the news stories that interest you by following your favourite football teams in the app. Give teams that are ra
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See Public Transport Costs In Maps Directions
The steep rise in fuel costs, clean air zones, congestion charges, increasing traffic and lack of parking in big cities makes it undesirable to own a car. Public transport is often the best option. Whether you live in a city or just plan to visit, th
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Master The Calculator App On IPhone
Are you making the most of the Calculator app? Plus, did you know you don’t always have to launch the app itself? For example, you can actually perform calculations directly from Spotlight Search and see the results at the top of the screen. You can
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Create Workspaces On Your IPhone
The Notion app is a great tool for creating online spaces for work, with productivity that will sync across all devices. The app offers templates for customisation, which are under categories such as Life, Student, Product Management, and many more.
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Perform A Reverse Image Search On Your IPhone
Sometimes you’ll come across a photo online and wonder where it has come from. You may like to use it but you don’t want to infringe anyone’s copyright; perhaps you simply want to know what the image is showing, or quickly find similar examples. A re
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Manage ICloud Shared Files And Folders On IOS
The sharing features in iCloud enable you to let other people view files and even whole folders and their contents. They can even be given editing access so they can open and work on documents on their own iPhone, iPad or Mac. You will probably manag
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Get The Most Out Of Quick Notes On Your IPad
Quick Notes is a great feature that allows you to take notes, or even sketches, from anywhere on your iPad, almost instantaneously. You can create a Quick Note with an Apple Pencil or similar stylus, by typing on the iPadOS keyboard, or even with you
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Create An Adventure Game Using RichCast
RichCast is a curious tool that’s well worth exploring. It lets you create and share linear interactive stories that can be played by tapping buttons or verbally issuing instructions. It also has a host of built-in tools to make the development proce
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Turn Your Apple Watch Into A Notepad
As Apple doesn’t currently offer the Notes app on your Watch, the Notebook app is a great complication to add to your watch face to collect your thoughts and ideas. The app allows you to use the scribble keyboard as well as an option to voice record
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How To Manage Your Apple Watch Storage
There’s a limit to how much stuff you can store on your Apple Watch – install too many apps or make use of large amounts of media and you’ll likely discover that you’ve run out of room for more goodies. Indeed, having too little free space also means
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Use SharePlay On Apple TV To Watch Content With Others
SharePlay has made FaceTime even more fun, allowing you to stream content from your Apple devices with other people. With iOS 16, Apple added the ability to use SharePlay within the Messages app too, making the feature even more accessible. The idea
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Klipsch The Sevens Powered Speakers
Key features Bluetooth 5.0 • HDMI-ARC • 39-25kHz • 192 kHz/24-bit decoding Learn more klipsch.com Available from richersounds.com IF YOU’RE AN APPLE MUSIC SUBSCRIBER WHO IS KEEN to greedily stuff the highest-quality audio into your ears, then Klipsch
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Creative Sound Blaster X5
Key features Dual-DAC design • Bluetooth 5.0 • RCA in/out Learn more creative.com/SBX5 Available from creative.com THE SOUND BLASTER X5 IS CREATIVE’S AUDIOPHILE-ORIENTATED USB sound card based on a dual-DAC design to deliver high-resolution, lossl
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Accessories
£27.99/$29.99 amazon.co.uk With connection ports for USB-A and USB-C, you can charge two devices simultaneously, be it Apple devices, e-readers or digital cameras. The plug provides 30W of power, so you can enjoy fast charging via the USB-C connectio
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Genius Bar
Facebook iCreateMagazine Twitter @iCreateMagazine Instagram icreate_mag Email icreate@futurenet.com The place to come for key terms made easy This is a place to go to see all of your notifications in one place. Swipe down from the top of your iPhone
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Affinity Photo 2 For IPad
Price £19.99/$19.99 (for iPad) £169.99/$169.99 (Affinity V2 Universal Licence) Requirements • iPadOS 15.0 or later • 1.6GB Learn more affinity.serif.com Available from iPadOS App Store Choice cuts You can pop the subjects out of images and place t
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Marshall Middleton Bluetooth Speaker
Key features Bluetooth 5.1 • 50 Hz – 20,000 Hz • 20 hours playtime Learn more marshallheadphones.com Available from amazon.co.uk THOUGH BY NO MEANS A SLIP OF A SPEAKER, Marshall’s Middleton ticks all the right boxes for a summertime of big tunes i
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Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
• CPU: 250 MHz PowerPC 603ev • Memory: 32MB onboard RAM plus two slots for 168-pin DIMM RAM (maximum 128MB) • Storage: 2GB • Display: 12.1-inch active matrix LCD monitor • Graphics: 800x600 or 640x480 at up to 16-bits • Connectivity: 1.4MB SuperDrive

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