No. 204

iCreate

The magazine for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad

iCreate3 min readTelecommunications
Say Hello To IPhone 11
The global market has dwindled, and with it the urge to upgrade every 12 to 24 months. Customers are more savvy than ever, preferring to keep handsets for longer – you can easily get three or four years’ life out of a premium smartphone these days –
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5 Things We Learned This Month
Apple Watch 5 is now out and the headline feature is an Always-On Retina display that makes it easier to read the time and view notifications. New location features help users better navigate their day, while international emergency calling allows cu
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Become An IOS 13 Genius
Understanding the main changes in iOS 13 is easy because Apple ensures that they receive the attention and marketing that they deserve. This is not the whole story, however, because in every new iOS release there are many changes in the background th
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Improve Composition
Sometimes problems with a photo are down to the photographer’s handling of the camera, such as the tilted horizon in this tutorial’s start image. Other problems can be beyond our control while on location, such as the presence of unwanted people in a
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IMovie On The IPad
Tap on a clip to target it and drag the start and end yellow handles to trim its duration. Tap the ‘+’ icon to add it to the timeline. You can trim a clip in the Media browser or fine-tune the trim in the timeline. Tap this icon to access extra layer
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Edit In IMovie On The Go
The iOS version of iMovie is well worth a look, especially if you source your footage on a mobile device such as an iPad. While on holiday you can use iMovie to trim and arrange clips to present your holiday highlights and even use layered effects su
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Superhero Speed Effects
Superheroes on TV such as The Flash and The Six Million Dollar man could run at tremendously fast speeds thanks to some post-production tinkering with frame rates. It’s a simple job to give characters the power to run at superspeed by retiming the fo
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Automate Key Changes With The Transposition Track
Think about how your favourite songs make you feel. The very best ones tend to evoke an emotional response, be it uplifting or melancholy and everything between. This is achieved in no singular way, of course, but most often through changing key. Gar
iCreate2 min readTechnology & Engineering
Use The Crossfade Tool To Fade Audio Regions
When working with audio, one of the most important things to bear in mind is what can happen when you make an edit in the middle of an audio waveform. If you split, trim or join two regions together anywhere other than where the waveform crosses the
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Manage Your Screen Time On Multiple Devices
Screen Time has been a feature in iOS for some time and now it has come to macOS courtesy of Catalina. The difference here is that you can use the feature to check your screen, and overall device usage, for any compatible Apple product connected to y
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Initiate Sidecar Mode And Enjoy Two Screens
Sidecar is an unusual name, but it is a feature you will absolutely love if you own a compatible iPad. In essence it turns your iPad into a second screen for your Mac and it does so in such a natural way that you may soon feel like your iPad is part
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Set Better Reminders In MacOS Catalina
Reminders had a slow start and was typically sparse in terms of features and visual tricks which is what we tend to expect from Apple. However, most Apple solutions are improved over time to the point where they become indispensable to the user. Remi
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Master The Music And Apple TV Apps
When you consider its influence and the way it shaped digital content, iTunes was a legendary app; but truth be told it was time for a change. It simply did not fit the visual way in which Apple apps have developed over time and TV and Music have arr
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Turbo Charge Your Mac Clipboard With Paste Queue
What is the most used feature on the Mac? For many people it is the clipboard – we copy and paste within apps like word processors, spreadsheets and photo editors, and we copy between apps like web pages and text or image editors. Yet the clipboard i
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Automator Apps For Safari
Automator is a great tool for creating small but useful utilities for the Mac and it is the simplest way to create standalone apps. Start Automator, click ‘New document’ and select ‘Application’ for all but the last of the apps here. Then just browse
iCreate2 min readInternet & Web
Master Pocket And Save Web Articles
Safari lets you save web pages to read later in the Reading List sidebar. It is useful for storing a small number of web articles, but if you add too many it becomes hard to find items later because there are few features. Pocket is a free Mac app an
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Search The Web And Plant A Tree
Google is a great internet search engine, but it is not the only one and some alternatives offer better privacy. For example, DuckDuckGo is a popular choice; but there are even more, like Ecosia. It is almost ten years old, but has been flying under
iCreate10 min readInternet & Web
30 Best Safari Secrets
As Mac users, Apple’s Safari internet browser is a staple of our everyday lives. Whether it’s for checking Gmail, catching up on the latest news or watching YouTube videos, Safari is a simple and robust app for enjoying the best that the worldwide w
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Control IOS Using Your Eyes
The way we communicate with our devices is evolving. We can use touch gestures, bark commands at Siri and use our faces or fingerprints to unlock. Now, developers at Hawkeye Labs have introduced eye-tracking, allowing devices to be controlled using y
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Create A Pages Document Using Siri
One of the great benefits of Shortcuts is the ability to streamline menial processes so that you’re not forever tapping at the screen to get things done. If you’re a user of Pages, for example, and you want to get down to work, you don’t need to sear
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Edit EXIF Data In IPhone Photos
Hidden within the file structure of photos is a lot of interesting information called EXIF data. The iPhone, for example, stores the time, date and location a photo was taken, the ISO rating, focal length, flash usage, aperture setting, shutter speed
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Master Passwords In The Apple Notes App
Notes is a handy app for storing all manner of information, including text, images, PDFs, tables and lists. Notes that contain personal or private information that you don’t want anyone to see can be locked with a password. This is useful if someone
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Scan And Save Documents In Dropbox
Dropbox users can make good use of their online storage space by scanning and saving paper-based documents using their iPhone. The app’s in-built scan feature lets you call up the camera, snap an image and instantly convert it into a readable documen
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Instantly enable Night Shift
Our iPhones are so addictive that many of us struggle to put them down, especially at night where we like to check emails, messages and news right up to the point at which we close our eyes and descend into a peaceful slumber. But how peaceful depend
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Find The Location Of Friends On Your Watch
Have you ever been on a night out and spent a good chunk of it sending messages back and forth to ask where your friends are and how long they’re likely to be? Or have you wondered when you should be putting the kettle on for a friend who is popping
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Get Your What3Words Location On Your Apple Watch
Postcodes and GPS coordinates are familiar to us all but they’re not perfect. The former usually relates to a fairly wide area (and sometimes takes you off the beaten track as you may have found when entering one into a sat nav) while the latter can
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Use your AirPods with Apple TV
Today we’re increasingly consumed within our own digital worlds. A family can sit in the living room engaging with numerous screens – so the trick is going about your own business without being disturbed or disturbing others. If you’re watching telev
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Genius Bar
How do I access the Markup tools in macOS Mojave – I haven’t needed these so far but thought I’d have a play? Eric Kibwi While in Finder, find and highlight the file that you would like to edit in Markup mode and then press the spacebar. This will
iCreate1 min readTelecommunications
Apple Expert
I tried to update my iPhone 7 to iOS 13 but now it is totally screwed up! I can’t connect to Wi-Fi, I can’t erase it (the option just freezes) and loads of other apps don’t work. What can I do? First, connect your iPhone to your Mac and launch iTune
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Cambridge Audio AXA35 Integrated Amplifier £299/$349
35 Watts • 5Hz–50kHz (-3dB) • Moving magnet Phono stage cambridgeaudio.com richersounds.com WOW – THE AXA35 IS A good-looking beast. Unboxing it for the first time, we fell in love with its minimal frontage, sleek dimensions, dark grey finish and,
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Edifier R980T Multimedia Speakers £59.99/$69.99
Active speaker system • 70Hz–20kHz (± 9dB) • Dual RCA inputs edifier.com amazon.co.uk EDIFIER’S EXTENSIVE RANGE of speakers allows you to beef up the sound of your Mac on a modest budget. The R980T active speaker system is distinctly no-frills whe
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Vifa City Bluetooth Speaker £129/$169
Bluetooth 5.0 • USB-C • 78Hz–20kHz@+/- 3dB • 12 hours playtime vifa.dk amazon.co.uk GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT with portable Bluetooth speakers seems to be an ongoing conundrum. The best ones are usually the biggest, which sometimes stretches the t
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Mixcder E7 ANC Wireless Headphones £49.99/$59.99
Active Noise Cancelling • Bluetooth 5.0 • 25 hours playtime mixcder.com amazon.co.uk MIXCDER HAS JUST launched this new version of its popular E7 Active Noise Cancelling wireless headphones at a very pleasing price. The re-issued sets feature an e
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Accessories
From £29.99/$39.99mous.co As much as we like Apple’s official Lightning charge cables, they’re just not built to last. The same cannot be said of the Flexline Ultra Strong Charge Cable from Mous. Designed to withstand over 10,000 bends and durable
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AmpliTube Brian May £110/$133
macOS 10.7 or later • 64-bit processor • 2GB ikmultimedia.com ikmultimedia.com BRIAN MAY’S RED SPECIAL guitar is a genuine one-off. Designed and built with his father from an old fireplace mantle it is responsible for Queen’s distinctive sound as
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Clocker Free
macOS 10.12 or later • 64-bit processor • 7.9MB Mac App Store abhishekbanthia.com THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT that macOS can do a lot better with its clock interface. The menu bar item simply displays the day and time and there are precious few other
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Apple Arcade £4.99/$4.99 Per Month
iOS 13 or later • macOS, iPadOS, tvOS App Store apple.com/apple-arcade THE APPLE ARCADE SUBSCRIPTION service has finally gone live so we thought we’d take a look to see if its worthy of your cash. You can access Arcade through the App Store – tap o
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JAWS.io Free
iOS 9.0 or later • 446.2MB App Store jaws.io IN THE MARKET FOR SOME cheap, throwaway nonsense to entertain you and hone your reflexes during a time out from the serious business? Then look no further than JAWS.io, an addictive distraction that has

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