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Printable Live Photos Watch your photo prints come alive with LifePrint LifePrint prints out the photos you’ve uploaded to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks – but so what? Well, it can also print videos. Called HyperPhotos, each one comes on a small photo card similar to those you’ve been able to get developed on the high street for years, yet it contains an augmented reality element. Point your iPhone’s camera at it and the video plays on your phone’s screen, and you can share it on LifePrint’s social network. It’s like holding a QuickTime window in your hand, and is a fascinating merger of photography old and new. $149 (about £105) INCLUDES LifePrint printer, 60 sheets of LifePrint photo paper WEBSITE lifeprintphotos.com WORKS WITH iPhone 5s or later…

CLASSIC APPLE FACTS 93% APPLE’S RENEWABLE ENERGY GOAL Apple’s spring event kicked off with a look at the company’s commitment to recycling and renewable energy. Vice president of environment and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson, stated that Apple is just 7% shy of a 100% renewable energy goal in its ‘operations’. iTUNES 4.1 THE FIRST iTUNES MADE FOR WINDOWS In October 2003, iTunes expanded beyond the Mac and on to a far wider Windows audience, signalling the demise of jukeboxes like the popular MusicMatch to sync iPods with PCs. $23,700 WHAT AN APPLE LISA’S COST WOULD BE TODAY Launched in 1983 at a cost of $9,995, the Apple Lisa sold only around 100,000 units. The equivalent cost today, adjusted for inflation, buys you nine entry-level Mac Pros! MacBooks could be set…

In association with Rumours about Apple’s move into the automotive industry simply won’t go away. But, what car would you like Cupertino to make? Now’s your chance to tell us! In association with uMake, the amazing free 3D app for iPad, you could win a year’s subscription to the Pro version and an iPad Pro to use it with! Simply download uMake from the App Store onto your iPad and mock up what you think the Apple Car might look like. MacFormat and uMake willthen pick a winning entry. To stand a chance of winning uMake Pro and an iPad Pro (Wi-Fi, 32GB), simply create your 3D model in uMake and export four transparent PNGs of it (using the far-right option in the top toolbar). Then send your design to…

The Home Thermostat can turn off the heating if it doesn’t detect anyone moving in your home For even more smart home advice subscribe today! See page 46 Momit Home Thermostat Starter Kit £99 momit.com 1 The very first edition of Apple Home (see MF296) looked at the money-saving potential of smart thermostats. We talked to Momit back then, but the Spanish company has only recently started selling its offerings in the UK. You can begin at quite modest cost with Momit’s Home Thermostat Starter Kit. At just £99, it’s one of the most affordable smart heating kits we’ve seen so far. Its Wi-Fi connectivity lets you control the thermostat using the Momit app on your iPhone or iPad. This includes quick on/off controls, as well as scheduling options so…

While many of the new smart gadgets available in our homes have been designed to work with the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch – often using HomeKit – the Mac is far from being neglected. Apple, of course, sells its own wireless devices, both in terms of Bluetooth peripherals such as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Mouse 2, as well as its AirPort Extreme and AirPort Extreme Time Capsule wireless routers. Then there are initiatives such as AirPlay and AirPrint. AirPlay, of course, enables you to send music to compatible speakers, and video to Apple TV, while AirPrint enables you to print wirelessly from your Mac (or iOS device) to a huge range of compatible printers. There’s a list of those at apple.co/1Y5BXwu. There’s also a huge…

Your Mac is probably stuffed to the gills with all sorts of media. A few easy steps is all it takes to make them available to other people. Let’s start with iTunes. Open its preferences and click Sharing, then turn on ‘Share my library on my local network’ to allow streaming of all kinds of media to other computers running iTunes, optionally restricted with a password. Click the ellipsis then Edit at the top-left corner of iTunes, and turn on Shared Libraries. Switch libraries using the new icon there. Home Sharing does the same job, but also allows media to be copied between the libraries of up to five PCs or Macs. This requires Home Sharing to be enabled on each computer: go to File > Home Sharing > Turn…

NEW SECTION! Your new-look guide to getting more from your Apple kit RESCUE LOWQUALITY VIDEOS p58 Understand iOS gestures A tap is a brief contact of (usually) one finger on your device’s screen. To drag is to move a finger across the screen to scroll or pan around content. Swipe means move one or more fingers across an item or the screen, then let go. A flick is like swiping, but it’s quicker, and is often used to scroll content more quickly. Pinch means move two fingers together or apart, usually to zoom in or out. Touch and hold means lightly rest your finger on an item and wait for a reaction. Master Mac keyboard shortcuts • When you see a shortcut like hold all but the last key, then…

Software quick-fire questions Is POP better when using two or more email clients? > No, it would be worse. POP delivery services automatically delete messages from the server once delivered to a client. So, a message downloaded onto your iPhone would be removed from the server, and your Mac wouldn’t see it at all. Some email services provide an option to keep messages on the server, though. Would running my own server deal with these issues? > Not really, as the server would still have to run the standard IMAP protocol. OS X Server is inexpensive, but it’s not trivial to set up as a mail server, on top of which you would have to keep your Mac running and connected to the internet at all times for it to…

Hardware quick-fire questions How do I find apps compatible with older iOS versions? > Apps on the App Store state the minimum version of iOS needed to run, but there’s no way for you to filter search results to show only those that work with a specific version. However, findoldapps.com will let you search back as far as iOS 3.1.3. Each result links back to the App Store, so it’s easy for you to install the desired app directly. Is there an iPad joystick cabinet I can buy instead? > Yes! At least there used to be. Ion Audio doesn’t make the iCade anymore, but you can still find refurbished models easily on eBay for around £40. It uses Bluetooth to communicate with the iPad, and has eight buttons and…

£289 FROM Libratone, libratone.com FEATURES Touchpanel control, carry handle, Bluetooth/AirPlay/Spotify Connect Danish audio firm Libratone has impressed us before with good sound quality and style, but can it win at multi-room setups? The new Zipp and Zipp mini carry on Libratone’s philosophy of a wireless speaker that’s made to be easily moved between rooms. They sound great and room-filling for their size. By supporting AirPlay with Apple Music, Spotify Connect and Bluetooth, your playback methods are all catered for, but it’s the freedom of what they now offer that makes these speakers first class. It’s all about creating SoundSpaces through the Libratone app – a new way of grouping speakers. Register each Zipp and they show up in the app as circles. Then drag one onto another to form a…

£60 FROM D-Link, dlink.co.uk FEATURES 802.11ac, Gigabit LAN port, traffic prioritisation Although it looks like a rather standard black box, the DWR-118 has a little trick up its sleeve. It can share a 3G or 4G connection as well as the more standard Ethernet that you might get in an office or from a cable modem. Rather than have its own SIM slot, the router enables you to plug in a USB mobile broadband dongle. There are two reasons you might want this duality – as a backup or second connection if your broadband is flaky or slow, or to share your 4G mobile connection between several devices in a home, shared space or office (but only pay one 4G contract). However, if you’re only after the latter, you might…

£63 FROM Dog & Bone, dogandbonecases.com FEATURES Bluetooth, 128-bit encryption, weatherproofing With the rising popularity of smart home accessories that apply wireless functionality to relatively mundane items, it makes sense that the humble padlock would be next. And so Dog & Bone has created a keyless Bluetooth padlock that you can unlock with nothing more than your iPhone. The lock itself is a hefty piece of kit, with a tough stainless steel shackle and a die-cast Zamak-3 zinc alloy body, giving the padlock high tensile and impact strength. On the bottom is a red rubber flap that opens up to reveal a micro-USB port for charging the device, as well as a button that you’ll need to press to sync the lock to your phone or wake it. In terms…

300 GREATEST EVER MAC TIPS For MacFormat’s biggest milestone we bring you our biggest-ever feature! 300 of the best tips for OS X. ALSO INSIDE… Discover how to use HomeKit Make your own AirPrint receiver Smart gadgets for the garden Reviewed: the new iPhone and iPad ISSUE 300 ON SALE 10 MAY 2016 DON’T MISS IT – SUBSCRIBE TODAY! IN PRINT & ON YOUR iPAD Our print and digital bundle gets you the paper magazine as well as our iPad edition myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/macformat ON YOUR MAC Read on the big screen: subscribe with Zinio at zinio.com/macformat Zinio subscriptions do not include a print copy of the magazine.…

GET INVOLVED! The iPhone is the world’s most popular camera, but it takes a bit of work to get a truly excellent shot. Why not show us your creations? Simply email us at photos@macformat.com and your work could be showcased on these pages! Magnificent Antarctica EQUIPMENT iPhone 6s So easy to shoot and so convenient, this was taken on the spur of the moment from the stern of the MS Zaandam in Antarctica in February 2016, with no tweaking or editing. I normally shoot video with a semi-pro camcorder, but I decided to try a pano shot on my new iPhone 6s. I’m delighted with the result. For me, it captures the magnificence of a location that few of us have the privilege to visit. The colours are sharp and…

The possibility of content becoming obsolete is older than electronics Kindle or Nook? Ebooks were mostly one or the other, until, in March, the book finally shut on Nook. With losses spooking investors, the platform’s owner, Barnes & Noble, said it would no longer sell Nooks or books in the UK. Users who chose it are stuck with devices that can’t access new content. In short, it’s a tick-tock trap for Nook book pickers tricked by fickle Nook book backers – bad news for everyone but Dr Seuss fans. The possibility of content becoming obsolete is older than electronics. Around the turn of the 20th century, hand-cranked wax cylinder recordings could only be played on the appropriate machine, which in turn was useless for cylinders in the new formats that…

What’s inside 22–25 SMART LIGHTING Shine a light (or 50) on your smart home in one of millions of colours 26–27 TUTORIAL How to get the mood just right in every room all through the day 28–29 HOME GADGETS Essential kit to elevate your abode from ‘home’ to ‘smart home’ Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Get the latest subscription offers at macformat.com NEW SECTION! The smart home is here – live the Apple dream today! Let there be light! And groovy colours, and remote control, and Siri too! The latest smart lights can set the mood and save you money One of the first applications of smart technology in the…

Ever since Apple introduced AirPort in 1999, it has been at the forefront of wireless technology, making it easy to shuttle files back and forwards between all your devices cable-free. It’s hard to imagine using a Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch without it. Wireless technology hasn’t stood still in the years since then. The original AirPort brought us the IEEE 802.11b networking standard with a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 11Mbps, and since then we’ve had 802.11g (54Mbps), 802.11n (600Mbps), and now 802.11ac (1.3Gbps), found in all new Mac and iOS devices. 802.11ac brings more than just a huge boost to transmission rates. It’s also more robust over longer distances and when passing through walls and other obstacles, so you’re less likely to experience dead zones around your home. Most…

IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to work with Contacts to track information about friends and colleagues. YOU’LL NEED OS X 10.11. Details in Contacts. An iCloud account. Smart Groups can help to ensure email reaches all the right people The idea of creating groups of digital objects is as old as the Mac, but manual organisation can be time-consuming and inefficient. A cleverer method is to use so-called ‘smart’ collections, such as Smart Folders in Finder, Smart Playlists in iTunes, or Smart Mailboxes in Mail. In the Contacts app, this idea is realised as Smart Groups. Rather than manually adding people to a group of contacts, Smart Groups are populated according to which of your contacts match conditions you specify. Their contents even update as you…

IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to improve the overall look of videos shot using your iPhone or iPad’s camera. YOU’LL NEED An iOS device running iOS 9.0 or later, VideoGrade, and some video clips. Besides going all ‘Hollywood’, you can make subtle changes to improve the look of videos One problem with shooting videos is that the world can be uncooperative. You might capture a perfect moment, only to later discover it looks like your video was filmed in a cave, or that a serene living room scene was set on the surface of the sun. VideoGrade (£4.49) is a tool for applying colour grading to your video recordings that can radically alter the way they look. But along with going all ‘Hollywood’, you can use…

What’s inside 67 MAC SOFTWARE Take paper records into the digital realm for easier working 68–69 MAC OS X Sage advice to help you overcome the worst Mac maladies 70–71 MAC SOFTWARE Ease your app-fuelled anxieties and get your productivity on track 72 iOS SOFTWARE Swipe away your touchscreen troubles and love iOS once again Contact us Email your queries and your questions to genius@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Get the latest subscription offers at macformat.com NEW SECTION! Our resident expert solves your Mac and iOS problems Q I received 30 printed pages of itemised billing, which I want to enter into an Excel spreadsheet for analysis. Asking for this to be sent in electronic form would incur further…

iOS software quick-fire questions What’s the best way to sync and read PDFs on iOS? >To read PDFs using the iBooks app, load them into the OS X version of iBooks and sync them using iTunes. For more ephemeral use, there are many apps which will read PDFs loaded via iCloud, including the official reader from Adobe, GoodReader and PDF Expert. With iOS 9.3 and OS X 10.11.4, PDFs and ebooks can be synced to iBooks on all your devices via iCloud. How can I back up my iPhone fully without iCloud? > The official alternative is to connect your iPhone to a Mac or PC over USB, then use iTunes’ backup feature. Third-party tools, such as Syncios, only work with certain models, and their backups may not be as…

Share with other people 1Make a new shared album To share beyond immediate family, click the Share button, choose iCloud Photo Sharing, then New Shared Album. Name it, then click + next to Invite People or enter email addresses in that box. 2 Manage album settings You can add or remove people from a shared album at any time. There’s also an option, enabled by default, that determines whether people other than yourself can add things to the album. 3Go public Turning on Public Website reveals a web address people can use to view the album in a browser. Though the page would be hard to stumble upon, note that you can’t restrict access with a password. You can share photos on various social networks or other methods. To post…

$29 (about £20) FROM iQunix, iqunix.com FEATURES Micro suction cup-based pads, aluminium body This is a simple idea that works surprisingly well. It’s a very well-made aluminium iPad stand that holds your tablet using a sticky pad. But it’s not a chemical adhesive – it uses micro suction cups to hold the smooth back of your iPad tight just using physics, so it leaves no nasty residue afterwards. Just press the iPad to the black pad (fairly firmly, but it doesn’t take much effort) and it will stay right there – this means it works with any iPad, even the Pro. Getting your iPad off easily requires learning a bit of a technique (pulling from one corner first), but is no hassle. It’s also got a pad on the stand’s…

£3.99 FROM Bloop, airmailapp.com MADE FOR iPhone, iPod touch, Apple Watch Email is rather like capitalism: it’s pretty awful, but the alternatives are all worse. But it needn’t be a burden. All you need is the right tool – and on the iPhone, that tool is Airmail. You may already know Airmail as an OS X app with powerful filters and customisation. On iOS it’s much the same, with support for multiple accounts (Gmail, Exchange, IMAP and POP3), integration with third party services such as Evernote, Wunderlist and Dropbox, HTML composition and PDF creation. It supports 3D Touch for quick actions and viewing content, syncs with the Mac version via iCloud and uses the iOS 9 search API so you can quickly find documents and messages. Airmail is packed with…

What’s inside 8–10 RUMOUR & NEWS The core Apple news you need to know about 11 APPS & GAMES Our top picks of the month for Mac and iOS 12 APPLE FACTS Amazing stats from the world of Apple 14–15 NEW APPLE KIT The low-down on the iPhone SE and iPad Pro 16 OPINION Adam Banks on digital content’s shelf life 18 SPLIT VIEW The team’s views on the latest Apple tech Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com Keep up to date by following us on Twitter @macformat Join the conversation at facebook.com/macformat Alan says… I’m also eager to see how OS X’s graphics features evolve in its next release Apple’s March event saw no talk of updated Macs in any shape or form. It’s now…

1 £1.97 per year If you were to fully drain and then recharge an iPad Pro every day for a whole year, this is the princely sum it would cost you – less than making a cup of tea every day. 2 49.6 million Apple sold nearly 50 million tablets in 2015, giving it the largest slice of the tablet pie. Samsung came in second with 33.5 million sales, according to market analysts TrendForce. 3 437 GRAMS The weight of the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, making it almost 300 grams lighter than the first-generation iPad. 4 16.12 million The number of iPads sold in the first quarter of 2016. Although less than the 26.04 million sold in Q1 2014 (the record quarter for iPad sales), it marks a large increase…

Thermostats > > Manually switching the heating on and off, up and down is so last century. Thanks to devices such as the Netatmo Thermostat (£150, apple.co/1QTDDcS) and Hive Active Heating (£250, apple.co/21Hzyu0) you can do it from your iPhone, iPad or Mac instead. Netatmo’s version uses Apple’s HomeKit technology (apple.co/1QTEv1d) to monitor and set your heating using partner apps for iOS, while the Hive Active Heating sensor lets you take charge of your heating and hot water using iOS and your Mac. The Nest Learning Thermostat (£134, amzn.to/1QTFjDb) can even tell when you’re at home and adjust your heating accordingly. All of them allow you to monitor your energy use too. Smart security > If you want to know what your pets are up to when you’re out and…

Li-Fi uses light to transmit data up to 100 times faster than Wi-Fi As wireless tech becomes faster and more readily available, we’re finding a growing number of uses for it, from being able to shuttle 4K video around our homes to controlling our heating, lighting and more. Thanks to initiatives like the Internet of Things, even more of the devices we use every day, from cookers to vacuum cleaners, will become connected, so our hunger for bandwidth is only going to grow. The problem is we may be already getting close to choke point. The Wi-Fi Alliance predicts there’ll be 38.5 billion connected devices by 2020. Providers in the US, at least, have already begun ringing the alarm bells about the lack of available radio spectrum. Luckily there are…

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to record ideas, add accompaniment, and share your efforts. YOU’LL NEED iOS 9.1 or higher. Music Memos. This clever app works out the tempo and pitch of your recordings 1 Your ideas Tap this to go back to the list of all your recordings, where you can add names and tags to aid looking up ideas later on. 2 Editing tools Use these tools to trim your recording, add a text note and change timing and chord information, and to share ideas with people and other apps. 3 Your recording See how the app has detected pitch and timing, and drag the playhead to listen to different sections of your recording. 4 Rhythm section Tap the bass or drums icons to…

Mac OS X quick-fire questions How can I check the permissions of a Property List? > Select the file in Finder, then choose File > Get Info. At the foot of the window that opens you’ll see Sharing & Permissions, which lists access rights only for what you selected. Click the padlock at the bottom-right corner of the window, provide your password, then edit the permissions. How can I change the app that’s used to open a file type? > Select a file of the type you want to open with a different app, on this occasion and in future, then choose File > Get Info. In the ‘Open with’ section of the window that appears, select the app you want to use (choose Other and browse to the app,…

NEW SECTION! Inspiring ideas for revamping old Apple kit For as long as they’ve existed, I’ve wanted to own an original cabinet for Defender and Gauntlet. They were the best video games of their time, 1981 and 1985 respectively, by a wide margin. Every 10p I had as a teenager went into them. Eventually, home video games overtook the arcade, but the nostalgia value of those early masterpieces left its hooks deep in my brain. Those cabinets go for around £2,000 on eBay, but there are too many amazing new toys to buy without chasing every childhood dream as well. On the other hand, my old first-generation iPad takes up little space and has more computing power than an entire 1980s arcade. Instead of selling it for £50 and putting…

Alongside iCloud Photo Library in Photo’s preferences, and in Settings on your iOS devices, is My Photo Stream. This is an older method of getting photos taken with your iOS devices onto your Mac without using a cable, and it remains useful on older devices that can’t use iCloud Photo Library. You can think of My Photo Stream as a legacy feature, but it isn’t defunct yet, and won’t be for some time. If you aren’t ready to install at least OS X Yosemite on your Mac, or you have an device that’s stuck on a version of iOS prior to 8.3, it allows you access to your recent snaps, just in a way that’s slightly less convenient than iCloud Photo Library. It can be used as the screen saver…

NEW SECTION! Our revamped reviews help you make more informed choices Manifesto – our ratings explained Our reviews are totally independent; we’re not affiliated with Apple or anyone else, nor are we influenced by advertisers. You can trust us to give an honest assessment of a product’s worth. The prices quoted for products are correct at the time of writing and are the best we can find from a reputable online dealer, excluding delivery. A brilliant thing in all regards, and worth every penny Strongly recommended; any flaws are only minor concerns Worth considering, though there may be better options Fundamentally flawed; look at alternatives as a priority A waste of your money and everyone’s time; do not buy! The MACFORMAT Awards Awarded to a five-star product we believe is…

£273 FROM Synology, synology.com FEATURES Celeron N3050 1.6GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 2x SATA II/III HD bays (max 16TB) The DS216+ should be well supported and developed for a long time to come The Synology DiskStation range is aimed at people looking for a network hard drive that does more than provide a convenient place for everyone to back up their files to. You do have to factor in the cost of supplying your own hard drives, but in return you get a NAS that’s more of a mini computer than a simple hard drive. Synology’s rather large range is split into four, and the DS216+ sits at the bottom of its second tier, the Plus Series. It’s aimed at demanding home users and small offices, with a price tag to…

£20 per Tile FROM Tile, thetileapp.com NEEDS Bluetooth 4.0, iOS 7 or higher Fob features and types Tile comes in just one type and colour: a square, white key fob. It’s both slightly larger and thicker than the circular TrackR bravo. Cleverly, its only button is the ‘e’ in its logo, which can be double-tapped to act as an iPhone finder. Alert effectiveness Tile (Gen 2) is louder than the original at 90 decibels, so it’s still audible when buried at the bottom of a bag, as long as ambient noise levels aren’t too high. We preferred its musical tone over TrackR’s pulse, too. Range and findability For the Find Your Phone alarm to work, you need to be in Bluetooth range (around 100ft); you would already have located it…

Welcome to MacFormat’s Store Guide, the place to go to find out about all the Apple kit that matters – updated this issue to include the new iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro. We’ve chosen our top products from Apple’s product line-up, plus the best third-party kit that meets our quality standard. Whether you’re a recent convert or a seasoned Apple user, we highlight a model of each product that’s ideally suited to your needs. So, check our handy tables to see which Mac, iPad or iPhone is best for you. We’ve also highlighted the gold standard in audio, storage, cameras, and many other categories to complement your Mac or iOS device with the best accessories. Who’s it for? ENTRY LEVEL You’re just getting started in the world of Apple…

Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com LETTER OF THE MONTH! ACCESS (SOME) AREAS I have a number of small Access databases from a Windows computer, which I would like to be able to open, edit, run queries and print on my MacBook Pro. I have searched through the Mac App Store and various forums but have not found a definitive solution to this problem. Can you offer any suggestions or advice as to which is the best app or solution? This is not something that I use regularly, so I don’t feel the need to spend too much. I do have Microsoft Office 365 on my MacBook Pro, but this does not offer Access as part of it. Any help would be appreciated. by DOUG SPOONER…