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Apple Axes EV Project
APPLE HAS CANNED Project Titan, its decade–long project to develop an autonomous electric vehicle (EV). The nearly 2,000 staff working on the project were informed at the end of February, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported. He believes some will be lai
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Edit And Share Your Movies
VIDEO CLIPS (OR REELS) seem as popular as photos when it comes to sharing stories on social media sites such as Facebook or Instagram. To help your clips stand out from the crowd, you can use iMovie’s post–production tools to add bells and whistles s
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ASK TECH SUPPORT & TECHSPLANATIONS
KEEP A WATCH on how much memory the Finder uses while you’re browsing images and other files with custom thumbnails or icons, and you’ll see that increases steadily. Browse or select hundreds of files, and it can rise to GB. Many had assumed that’s a
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Satechi SM1 Slim keyboard
$99.99 From https://satechi.net Features Bluetooth 5.0, 2.4GHz USB receiver, USB–C, backlighting, 16.5–hour battery life (backlit), fold–out legs, brown switches, 12.2in x 4.7in x 0.8in, 16.6oz SATECHI’S FIRST MECHANICAL keyboard, the SM1 Slim, is a
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STM BagPack
$79.95 From www.stmgoods.com Features 15L capacity, for notebooks of up to 16 inches, made from 210D nylon, empty weight 1.1lbs, available in black and coffee colors DO YOU HAVE some of those grocery bags that fold away into their own pockets and zip
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Other Cool Stuff You Can Do
NATURALLY, YOUR iPAD isn’t limited to the tasks we’ve outlined so far. There’s a wealth of apps designed to increase your productivity. Arguably the most productive thing you can do on your iPad is to use the App Store efficiently. Remember, the sear
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Photography & art
THE iPAD IS ideal for creating digital art, especially if you have an Apple Pencil, and is also good for photo editing. In fact, the Photos app — bundled with iPadOS — includes a powerful photo editor that helps you really get the most from your snap
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Share Your Location
YOUR iPHONE AND iPad make it easy for you to let other people know where you are. In the Me tab of Find My, turning on Share My Location will enable selected contacts to see where you are in the Find My app or to share your Live Location in Messages.
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Soundcore Space One
$99.99 From https://soundcore.com Features Bluetooth with AAC, LDAC; 40mm drivers; quoted battery — 40hrs with noise cancellation SOUNDCORE IS A division of Anker, which is well–known for its Mac–friendly docks and other accessories. The new Space On
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Best Mac Utilities… Ever
WHILE MACOS HAS most bases covered when it comes to core apps and utilities, third–party tools can add a host of extra features and go a long way to improving your Mac experience and enhancing your productivity. In this feature, we’ll guide you throu
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Master The Weather App
WATCHOS 10 IS a brilliant upgrade for the Apple Watch, and one of our favorite updates is the massively overhauled Weather app; instead of a few little tweaks, Apple has completely redesigned it to deliver much more information in a much clearer way.
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MacLife
EDITORIAL EDITOR Nick Odantzis PRODUCTION EDITOR Rachel Terzian CONTRIBUTORS Paul Blachford, Alex Blake, Matt Bolton, George Cairns, Andrew Cottle, David Crookes, Cliff Joseph, Philing, Carrie Marshall, Rob Mead-Green, Howard Oakley, Ian Osborne, Ale
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MacBook Air 15–inch (2024)
$1,299 From www.apple.com Features Apple M3 chip, 8GB unified memory (16GB/24GB available), 15.3in Liquid Retina display (2,880 x 1,864), 256GB storage (512GB/1TB/2TB available), Wi–Fi 6E (aka 802.11ax Wi–Fi), Bluetooth 5.3, 2x Thunderbolt/USB 4 port
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The Team
Art Editor Andy reckons Inkulinati (p75) looks like a lot of fun, and evokes fond memories from his teens — playing quirky strategy games like Age of Empires, Populous and Utopia. Production Editor Perhaps an iPad plus Apple Pencil is what Rachel nee
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Pep Up Your Mac: Quick Fixes
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND the first thing you do when bringing your retired Mac back into service is wipe its internal drive, reinstall its operating system and start again. See the guide later in this article for instructions. But if you don’t wish to d
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Macbook Air Gains M3
APPLE QUIETLY LAUNCHED a new MacBook Air earlier this month (check out our in–depth review on p62). No doubt the lack of fuss was intentional: this is last year’s model with an M3 chipset to replace the M2 version, which in fairness hasn’t been aroun
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Make Sense Of Notes
NOTES IS A great app, but it’s very easy to lose your work amid a plethora of lists, ramblings and jotted half–ideas. You can search for notes, yes, but what if you can’t remember exactly what you need? The answer is to use tags (#) and Smart Folders
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Productivity Boosters
> Free > www.alfredapp.com > Needs macOS 10.14 or later This universal search app could change the way you use your Mac, offering a wide range of power features to boost your productivity. Core search functionality is similar to Spotlight, bringing u
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Multitasking For Greater Productivity
ON YOUR iPAD, there are several ways you can multitask. The most obvious is Split View, whereby you divide the screen, with one application on one side and another on the other. You can then drag content between them, quickly and easily. You can even
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Backup And Maintenance
> From $39.95 per year > https://cleanmymac.com > Needs macOS 10.13 or later There are many system–cleaning and maintenance apps available for macOS, but CleanMyMac X is a lot smarter and more user–friendly than most. It’s an all–in–one tool that can
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Music & video
THE iPAD HAS always been an excellent device for enjoying music and videos, but as it grew in power and scope, it became a superb tool for creating media too. Popular everyman–level apps such as the iMovie video editor and GarageBand music creator we
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Next Month
GENIUS GUIDE Flummoxed by a plethora of problems plaguing your Mac? We’ve got fast fixes for all the most common issues, to help you get your Mac back on track Keep your old Mac up and running (pt2) Get readyfor a second round of amazing ways to help
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Photoshop Elements 2024
$99.99 From www.adobe.com Needs macOS 12, macOS 13 (13.4 or later) THE FULL MONTHLY subscription version of Adobe Photoshop features many tools that the casual photographer won’t require. As a result, it is a challenge for the Photoshop novice to wad
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MacOS
My Mac has an external disk named Mac User. Can I create an alias to it in the Volumes folder so I can also access it using a different name? Sadly, it’s not as simple as that, as the top–level Volumes folder can’t be changed by the user, only by the
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> THE SHIFT
WHEN APPLE ANNOUNCED that it would be handling the EU’s new rules forcing it to allow sideloading and alternative App Stores by introducing a review/approval process for any apps someone makes, not just those sent to its store, a lot of people I spok
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Screens 5: VNC Remote Desktop
$2.99/month, $24.99/year, $79 lifetime From https://edovia.com/en/screens Needs macOS 14.0 or later, iOS/iPadOS 17 or later THERE’S STILL SOMETHING magic in checking documents on your Mac when you’re hundreds of miles away, or sorting out your mom’s
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Find Files Faster With Finder Tags
AS SOON AS you start building a collection of files on your computer, you run into the problem of organization. Sure, you can divide things into folders and endless subfolders, but shouldn’t there be a quicker, more visual way to find what you want?
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Pages, Numbers & Keynote
APPLE’S iWORK SUITE for iPad — that’s the Pages word processor, Numbers spreadsheet, and Keynote presentation app — have gone from strength to strength. While the iPhone versions of the apps are fine for viewing and editing docs on the go, the larger
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Mobile Pixels Geminos
$1,000 From www.mobilepixels.us Features Dual 24–inch stacked monitors, 1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution, 60 Hertz refresh rate, 2x USB–A, 2x USB–C, 2x HDMI ports, built–in webcam, speakers and microphone, 65W USB–C pass–through charging, adjustable he
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Never Be Late Again!
APPLE PACKS PLENTY of great stuff into iOS, but the alarm setup inside the Clock app is about as basic as they come. It took until iOS 17 for Apple to allow us to set multiple timers at the same time, after all. If you’ve been crying out for somethin
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