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A s more and more of our lives becomes digital, we

need to be increasingly conscious of our security,
online and off. Both our online accounts and our devices
4 Boost your security and privacy on iOS
Keep your data safe on iPad and iPhone

are full of personal information, and so need robust 12 Prepare for iOS 11s app-ocalypse
passwords and multiple layers of authentication. Make sure your apps are ready to upgrade
It can all feel a bit stressful but it doesnt need to be
as hard as you might think. You only need to take a few key
steps to lock out would-be hackers, and our easy guide this 14 Get more from albums in Photos
issue shows you exactly what to do. Organise and share your pics
Elsewhere this issue, weve got a quick look at how to
check whether your apps are ready for iOS 11. Apples 16 Format messages in Mail
making a change that means older apps that havent been Make your emails and replies easier to read
recently updated may stop working as of iOS 11, but theres
an easy way to see if any of yours are vulnerable, so that
you can get your data out of them before problems arise. 18 Start a diary with Moleskine Journal
Weve also got a guide to using Mails message Its easy to record your life with this app
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> as the iPad and iPhone
have become invaluable
for many people not
just because of the dollar value of
the hardware involved, but more
importantly because of the massive
amount of often extremely personal
or condential data stored on them.
Thats why its more important than
secure as possible, and that the
chances of someone being able to
swipe your data are minimized.
Over the next few pages well show
you how to use iOSs many built-in
features to do exactly this and
offer some tips on what to do if the
unthinkable happens and your iPhone
or iPad is physically stolen.

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HOW TO Switch to a stronger passcode or a complex password
Find the setting
Open Settings and go to Touch ID
& Passcode (or just Passcode on devices
that lack a ngerprint sensor). When you
are asked for it, enter your existing
passcode. Youll be taken to a new page
containing various security options.
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unlocked at this page and someone else
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Code or Custom Alphanumeric Code. iOS
warns if your code is riskily short. If you
use an alphanumeric code, try to include
at least one special character in it.
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Locking
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Auto-Lock is set to a short time.
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if unlocking using
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Conveniences Disable voice dialing Reason to keep it on

To make life easier, iOS permits
access to Today view, Notication Centre,
Siri, HomeKit accessories, and more at
the Lock screen. Set the switches under
Settings > Touch ID & Passcode > Allow
Access When Locked as you want them.
Recent iOS versions restrict Siris
ability to retrieve info such as contacts
details until you unlock your device.
However, calls can still be made; turning
off Voice Dial, located above the switches
mentioned in step 1, avoids this.
A reason to keep Siri accessible is
that someone who nds your device can
ask Whose phone is this? to reveal your
contact details. With Voice Dial enabled,
they can tell it to do things like Call
Mum if youve taught Siri her details.

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> First-line defence for your
Apple ID and iCloud account
>>> You cant create separate
user accounts on an iPhone or
iPad, which makes it harder to
keep information private on
these devices than on a Mac.
Well deal with that in more
detail momentarily, but rst
you can ensure your account
settings stay locked and
important security precautions
arent overridden especially
if you have a young child who
may not fully understand what
theyre doing when tapping and
swiping. This is done in Settings
> General > Restrictions.
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passcode, which should be
different from the one that
unlocks your device, only you
and whoever else knows it is
able to change certain settings,
even if another person gains
access to your device in its
unlocked state.
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this page is Accounts, which is
listed under Allow Changes
near the bottom. By disallowing
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iPad. If you want to check any
of the info behind that row, or
alter things there, return to the
Restrictions page, tap Disable
Restrictions, and enter the
corresponding passcode. Make
your changes, and remember
to re-enable Restrictions
immediately afterward.
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Need to
sign out
somewhere?
You can tell Apple you trust a
web browser with your Apple ID.
To revoke this for all browsers
at once, go to iCloud.com,
click Settings, and nd
the command under
Advanced.
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Check 2FAs status
If youre not on iOS 10.3, an easy
way to check if 2FA is enabled is to sign
in at appleid.apple.com; if not prompted
for a code from a trusted device, 2FA is
disabled and youll be signed in right
away. 2FA can be enabled under Security.
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includes a web browser, so its a way to photos and videos to your written
lock down and access online accounts. words in a digital journal, the ability
Its master password protects more than to protect what might be some of
just credentials; for example, notes are your most private thoughts with your
automatically locked away, saving you ngerprint is a really good reason to
the worry of doing so manually. ditch paper in favor of this app.
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digitize documents, in place of a atbed Amazon. Enable Touch ID for its app
scanner. You can add annotations, scan in Settings > Amazon, and block its
text to make it searchable, lock selective website: in Settings > General >
documents behind a password and Restrictions > Allowed Content >
Touch ID, and have unlocked ones auto- Websites, tap Limit Adult Content
lock themselves after 1, 5, or 30 minutes. and add Amazon as never allowed.
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AirDrop
privacy
As well as notications popping
up unwanted info on your screen,
AirDrop can show previews of
photos and web pages. Most
of the time its best to set
AirDrop (in Control Centre)
to Contacts Only, or turn
it off altogether.
> Track your iPhone or iPad
>>> This service enables you
to track the location of your
device, or at least its last
known location. See opposite
for more on this; for now,
its important to know what
to do if you nd the service
was disabled when your
device went missing.
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change your Apple IDs
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stored in Settings at iCloud.
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 iOS Prepare for iOS 11

Prepare for the iOS 11 update

Discover which of your apps wont work in the next iOS and replace them
IT WILL TAKE After updating your iPhone
15 minutes or iPad to iOS 10.3, opening
certain apps and games may
YOU WILL LEARN have presented you with a
How to keep your warning that they need to be updated to
apps working in iOS 11 work with future versions of iOS. You can
keep using them with iOS 10, but if you plan
YOULL NEED to upgrade to iOS 11 (expected to be released
iOS 10.3 or later in the autumn), now is the time to take action
for any apps you depend upon.
You need to find out which of your apps
are affected. Expect many of them to be
games, which you may still enjoy playing,
but its more in the case of productivity
apps that you should be concerned about;
if youre dependent on any of those apps
and plan on using iOS 11, youll need to find
replacements. For example, if youve got
important documents stored in them, you
dont want to lose access.
Theres no need to laboriously open
each app to discover which be definitively
incompatible with the next iOS, though. In
addition to the warning upon opening an app,
iOS 10.3 can show you a list of all affected
apps that are currently installed. Note, though,
that it wont tell you about apps youve deleted
to make room for something else.

Redownload first
So, before following the steps below, and
assuming your device has enough space,
redownload apps you may want to use again:
open the App Store and tap Updates followed
by Purchased.
If youve disabled auto-downloading of
apps in Settings > iTunes & App Stores on
any of your devices, youll need to follow this
tutorial on each device to be certain you
arent overlooking an app thats on your
iPhone, say, but not your iPad.
Alan Stonebridge

HOW TO Check apps for updates or replacements

1 Check the list

In Settings > General > About, if theres
no arrow at the right of the Applications
row, none of your apps require immediate
action (though thats no guarantee they
wont have other issues). If there is an
arrow at the top of the row, tap it.
2 Check for updates
Tap an apps row to go to its store
page, if its still there; you may see an
Update button if youve disabled auto-
updates in Settings > iTunes & App Store.
If theres an update, download it and see
if iOS ags up its compatibilty.
3 Ask the developer
If the apps delisted, check if an
upgrade is available as a new purchase:
search for the developers name in the
App Store. Failing that, ask directly
through its website if there are plans
for an update or a replacement app.

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 APPLE APPS Get more from albums

Get more from albums

Organise your shots more effectively with the Photos apps albums
IT WILL TAKE In the days of analogue film
15 minutes cameras we were limited to
shooting on rolls of film that
YOU WILL LEARN produced a maximum of 36
How to create and photos at a time. Most people would only use
add pictures to an a handful of rolls of film each year to record
album, how to manage special events such as holidays, weddings and
albums, and share birthdays. The best images from these
their contents occasional shoots would be mounted in photo
albums, repositories of precious family
YOULL NEED memories that would be dusted off and viewed
iOS 9.3.5 or later, a few times each year by a handful of friends
Photos and family.
In these digital days, were never without
a camera, courtesy of our iPad and iPhones
Camera app. As well as shooting birthdays,
holidays and weddings were likely to
document ordinary daily activities as a series
Photos uses of clips and stills. Unlike our analogue
ancestors, we have thousands of digital
the metadata photographs and video clips to manage and
stored in our share. Fortunately, our iPads Photos app has
all the tools we need to take control of our
digital images ever-growing collection of digital assets.
and video clips Photos uses the analogue album model to
organise our digitally sourced shots and clips.
to gather Analogue albums had to be filled manually, but
related les Photos uses the metadata stored in our digital
images and video clips to help gather related
files together automatically. An images
metadata can tell Photos about where and
when a shot was taken and what type of
shooting mode was used (such as Time-Lapse).
If you use your iPads front-facing camera to
snap a shot, then Photos presumes that youre
taking a self portrait. A self-portrait will
automatically be stored in a Selfies album in
Photos, so you can find all your best poses
in an instant. If you have set your iPad and
iPhone to upload to the iCloud Photo Library
(in Settings > iCloud) then youll also find
Photos albums that store Panoramas,
Time-lapse and Bursts automatically.
Custom albums
Automatic albums are a springboard to finding
specific types of files fast, though youll find it
more useful to create themed albums from
scratch. Well show you how to create albums,
add photos to them and even merge multiple
albums together to simplify your collection,
if you find yourself with too many on the go.
Youll also learn how to share album-based
content with friends and family so that your
precious pictures will find their audience.
George Cairns

HOW TO Create a custom album

1Label custom album

In Photos, tap the Albums icon to view
albums that gather photos automatically
using metadata. To create a custom
album manually, tap the + icon at the top
left. Enter a name in the New Album text
field. Tap Save.
2Add photos
Youll be taken to Moments, where
you can browse your pictures by date.
3View custom album
Scroll to a particular Moment and tap on
the photos that you want to add to your
album. Drag your finger to add multiple
shots quickly. Tap Done.
Youll now have a custom album full
of photos in the Albums section. Tap on
its icon to view its contents. Tap on a
thumbnail to view it full size and swipe
through the contents of the album to
enjoy them.

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 Get more from albums APPLE APPS

HOW TO Organise albums

1Delete an album
As with physical albums you can
re-arrange your digital albums, which is
handy if the Albums pane is cluttered.
Tap the Edit button. Tap on the X by an
album to delete it. The contents of the
album will still be accessible in Moments.
2Re-arrange albums
While the X is still present, tap and
drag an album to re-order the list of
albums to suit your preference. Press
Done when youre happy and the X will
disappear. The re-arranged albums will
be locked into their new positions.
3Merge Albums
In an album, tap Select, then Select
All. Tap Add To. In the Add to Album
page, tap the album you want to merge
with. The selected photos will be added
to it. With all the photos placed into the
second album, you can delete the first.

HOW TO Share album content

1Share a slideshow
Turn your iPad into a digital picture
frame by viewing an albums contents as
thumbnails. Tap Slideshow. Tap Options.
Choose a Theme such as Origami (which
adds picture-in-picture and Ken Burns
effects). Hit Play to view it.
2Share to web
In an album, tap to select shots that
you want to share online. Tap the Share
icon at the top left. Tick more of the
albums content if necessary. Tap an icon
such as Facebook to share the selected
shots to a gallery. Click Post.
3Add extra share options
As well as sharing selected shots
via Mail or Messenger, you can tap the
More button. If you have suitable apps
installed such as Skype, then you can
toggle these on so that they will appear
as a sharing destination.

Share via iCloud

Export an album to select family and friends
Go to Settings > iCloud. Tap Photos. Scroll down to iCloud Photo Sharing and turn
it on. Go back to Photos and select the thumbnails that you want to share. Press
the Share icon, then tap iCloud Photo Sharing. Photos will prepare upload-able
versions of the shots to be shared. In the iCloud window, type in a comment and
tap Shared Album. Tap + New Shared Album and label it. Tap Next. Type in the
email of the recipients of your shared album, and tap Next. Now hit Post. The
album will appear in the Shared section of you and your friends Photos app.

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 APPLE APPS Format Mail messages

Format messages in Mail

Make your emails and email replies easier to read with Mails formatting
IT WILL TAKE Apple is famous for stripping
5 minutes things back to the bare
essentials, and thats
YOU WILL LEARN something its clearly done in
How to format the iOS Mail app: where other email apps are
messages and replies packed with all kinds of features, Mail is
almost Zen-like in its simplicity. That means
YOULL NEED you dont get much in the way of formatting
An active email options: unlike the desktop mail app in macOS,
account on your iPad you cant mess around with different fonts or
colours, and you cant turn ordinary messages
into eye-popping extravaganzas.
There are some options you can use to
make text stand out, though. You can apply
formatting to make a word or block of text
appear bold, italic or underlined, and you can
adjust the levels of quoted text or make
normal text look like quoted text by adjusting
the quote level. In this tutorial well show you
how to do both.
Where other On Macs you can specify whether to send
email apps are messages in plain text or as formatted text,
but iOS doesnt give you that option: instead, it
jam-packed sends in plain text unless it spots formatting in
with features, your message. If it does, the message is then
sent as a formatted message using the HTML
Mail is Zen-like standard. If you want to send formatted
in its simplicity messages all the time, create a signature in
Settings and make it bold or italic. That will
force Mail to send every message as an
HTML-formatted one.
Say what you want to see
There are other changes you can make too. If
you go into Settings > Mail > Preview you can
adjust how much Mail shows as a preview of
each message in the current folder, and in
Settings > Mail > Flag Style you can change the
colour and style of the flags you apply to
messages. Settings > Mail also enables you to
disable the loading of remote images if you
want to protect your privacy remote images
are often used to track whether people have
received messages or just to reduce your
data usage.
One of the most dramatic changes you can
make in Mail is to turn off Organize By Thread,
which once again youll find in Settings. When
its on, it organises conversations by keeping
related messages together, and if Complete
Threads is enabled, by showing all messages in
a conversation no matter which Mailbox
theyve been filed in; when its off it shows
your messages in chronological order from
the current folder only.
Gary Marshall

HOW TO Format text in Mail

1Select your text

Press and hold the word you want to
highlight, and drag the blue dots at either
end if you want to expand the selection.
When you let go you should see the
toolbar above. Tap BIU to get to the
formatting options.
2Pick an option
BIU means Bold, Italic, Underline. Tap
the appropriate option and youll see the
results immediately on your highlighted
text; tap the same option to undo. You
can tap on one, two or all three options
if youre feeling fancy.
3Change quote levels
Mail colours messages you reply to
and adds a small indent, to indicate
theyre a quote. To increase or decrease
the quote level and make a section more
or less indented, select it and tap Quote
Level > Increase or Decrease.

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 APP STORE APPS Start a diary

Start keeping a diary

With Moleskine Journal, its simple to start recording your life
IT WILL TAKE If youve ever used a Moleskine
30 minutes notebook, youll have an idea of
what to expect from Moleskine
YOU WILL LEARN Journal. Created to be a digital
How to use Moleskine version of the real-world notebooks,
Journals different sketchbooks and planners, Moleskine Journal
modes to add content allows you to write and draw on your iPad in a
and sync with Evernote virtual Moleskine.
You can also import photos and sync notes
YOULL NEED with Evernote or back them up to Dropbox.
iPad, Moleskine If you choose to type rather than write
Journal by hand, Moleskine Journal supports the full
range of iOS fonts, with the ability to resize
them on the page. If you would rather work
by hand, you can use either your finger or a
stylus, including the Apple Pencil. You can
choose from paintbrush, pencil, pen or
highlighter and the colour picker means you
You can have full control over the colours in your
writing or drawing.
choose to type There are two modes for writing.
or write in by Productivity mode allows you to type on the
iPads on-screen keyboard which includes
hand, using controls for choosing a font, setting the size
your nger or of the text, and styling it as bold, italics,
underline, strikethrough or highlighted. You
a stylus such can also set the colour of the text here, as well
as Apple Pencil as indent it or choose a bulleted or numbered
list. Creativity mode is for shorter, prettier
text and allows for larger, fancier typefaces.
Alternatively, you can draw or write
on-screen using your finger or a stylus.
Just choose your instrument (pencil, pen,
highlighter or brush) and start drawing.
Theres also a scissors tool that acts like the
lasso selection tool in Photoshop, allowing you
to draw around something on page and cut or
copy it to elsewhere.
You can swap between Productivity and
Creativity modes whenever you like on a page,
and can set the paper style (plain, lined,
squared, weekly planner or storyboard) from
the Tools palette.
One of the real-world Moleskine
notebooks best-loved features is the pocket
tucked inside the back cover, and thats also
here in the digital version, allowing you to
store snippets of text and images.
Perhaps the best news of all is that if
youre one of the many people who have
bought a Moleskine and never written in it for
fear of ruining it by making a mistake, the
digital journal has multiple levels of undo. So
if you write or draw something you dont like,
just tap the back arrow in the toolbar.
Kenny Hemphill

HOW TO Import photos

1A clean page
Open the journal in which you want to
import a photo and tap the arrow at the
right of the screen to move to a new
page. Tap the Tools palette at the top of
the screen, next to the colour picker to
see its menu.
2Take or choose
In the Tools palette, tap Camera if
you want to take a new picture at that
moment, or tap Import Image to import
one. Once youve authorised access to
your photo library, youll see a list of
albums appear in the menu.
3Select your pic
Navigate to the photo you want to
import and then tap it. It will appear on
the page. You can now use two fingers to
resize it by pinching in or out, and rotate
it. Use one finger to drag it into position
on the page.

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 Start a diary APP STORE APPS

HOW TO Sync with Evernote

1Sign into Evernote

Tap the Tools palette and then tap
Settings. Slide the switch next to
Evernote Login to the right and, when
the window pops up, type your Evernote
login details into the username and
password boxes. Tap Sign In.
2Authorise Evernote
On the next window, choose how
long you want to authorise Moleskine to
authorise your Evernote account for and
tap Authorize. Now go back to the Tools
tab and tap Export. Tap Evernote to
export the notebook.
3Export to Evernote
Youll see a list of your Evernote
notebooks in the Tools window. Navigate
to the notebook you want to export and
tap it. Tap Left page, Right page, or
Both pages to tell Moleskine Journal
what to export.

HOW TO Use the inner pocket

1Add an image
Tap the top right of the screen to open
the pocket. To add an image from your
photo library to the pocket, tap the
picture icon at the bottom of the screen.
To add one from the camera, tap the
camera icon.
2Add text
To add creativity text to the text
section, or an image from the main
3Pull from the pocket
notebook, tap the text or image and
choose Pocket from the menu. To delete
an item from the pocket, tap the pencil
icon, tap the item and tap the bin icon.
To place an item from the pocket
onto a notebook page, tap and hold it,
then drag it onto the page. Re-size it and
drag it into position, then double tap it to
set it in place. To move it again, tap it,
tap Lift, and drag it.

Expanding your options

Add more notebook types with In-App Purchases
Moleskine Journal has three options for in-app purchases. They cost 2.99 each
and are designed to replicate the Passion Journals the company produces for
its real-life notebooks. The three digital versions currently available are a wine
journal, a recipe journal, and an interactive travellers journal. Each has specially-
designed pages for its subject the wine journal has sections for different types
of wine and space for you to record the names of wines and your notes on them.
When you buy one, its added to the notebooks view in Moleskine Journal.

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 APP STORE APPS Create animated GIFS

Create easy animated GIFs

Make simple animations that catch the eye with Folioscope
IT WILL TAKE Folioscope puts the fun back into our step-by-step guide opposite is proof
15 minutes animation. Feature-packed, positive of that and while theres support for
high-end apps are all well and 3D Touch on iPhone and Apple Pencil on iPad,
YOU WILL LEARN good for hobbyists and Folioscope works just as well with your finger.
How to use professionals, but who wants to spend a week Once youve mastered the basics, dig a
Folioscopes frame-by- trying to get to grips with a series of over- little deeper and go for something more
frame drawing tools complicated tools just to produce some fun exotic, separating elements over two layers
animations? Those who just want to sit down and animating them independently of each
YOULL NEED other. Finished results can be exported to any
Folioscope (free, app via animated GIF or video file too, so
ad-supported), You dont need any artistic theyre easy to share with friends, or Disney.
iOS 8 or later Nick Peers
skills our guide here is
proof positive of that!
and have a bit of fun either solo or with a
friend or younger family member should
check out this fun app.

Animation without the hassle

Folioscope makes creating small cartoons
as simple as possible and you can create
striking animations with just a handful of
frames. You dont need any artistic skills

THE BASICS
1 3
Clipboard 1 Settings
Tap the Tap here
selection tool to to enable
select, copy and transparent
paste an object layers, 3D Touch
between layers support and
and frames. 2 visual aids (such
as grids and
onion skinning).

4
2 Layer tools
Undo/redo Tap here to
You can use choose which
these buttons to layer to work
selectively undo with, plus switch
and redo recent background and
changes to your 3 4 foreground
animation. layers.

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HOW TO Produce your rst animation
1Create first frame
Launch Folioscope and tap the +
button. Start by drawing the first frame
of your animation on the white canvas
you can pinch to zoom in and out. Start
with a simple shape, like that shown in
our screenshot.
4Make changes
You can edit individual frames by
tapping them at the bottom of the
screen. From here, tap the dot button on
the right to change pen size, the circle to
change colour. Tap the pen icon to access
an eraser tool.
7Add background layer
Spice up your animations by creating
a background (animated or static) tap
the layer button in the bottom right to
switch to the back layer, draw your
background, then copy and paste it to
other frames.
Create animated GIFs APP STORE APPS
2Draw second frame
Once drawn, tap the + button
beneath the picture to create a new blank
frame. Youll see an outline of your
previous frame use this to trace your
next frame, making subtle changes to
provide some animation.
5Copy object
Another way to animate is to copy
and paste. For example: select frame one,
then tap the pen icon and select the
square select tool. Tap and drag around
the object you wish to duplicate, then tap
the copy button.
8Play animation
Tap the play button on the left to
run through your animation in a loop. The
default speed is 3x, but tap this to alter
the speed from 1x up to 6x. Tap on the
animation to stop playback and return
to the edit screen.
3Finish basic animation
Tap + again to draw your next frame,
and so on and so forth until you have at
least four frames done (the more the
better). Use the slider at the bottom to
move back and forth between frames to
watch a preview.
6Duplicate and paste
Tap the close button, then tap to
create a new frame. Youll see the paste
button appear tap this to paste your
object into the new frame, then drag it
into position. Repeat for as many frames
as you want.
9Save and share
Tap the X button to close your
animation tap Untitled to give it a
name, then tap the Share button. You can
share it with other Folioscope users or
create an animated GIF to share via
Facebook or another app.
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good trade-off. The screen is brighter too, though that
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shame there are no camera or speaker improvements,
but this is truly fantastic iPad for the money.

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The Omna camera itself is fairly straightforward, with
1920x1080 resolution that provides very good image
quality, and a 180-degree wide-angle lens. The Omna also
includes an infrared night-vision mode, and a motion
sensor. It can stream live video to your iOS devices at any
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your videos youll need to insert a microSD card. Its
expensive, but works well, and HomeKit is handy.

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and use on iOS devices. The hook design n stops the
headphones falling off your head, but me eans that the seal
in the ear isnt always total; the hook pressing against the
outside of ones ear can prize the buds out slightly, so
noise isolation isnt perfect. Bass response is tight rather
than booming, but can still overwhelm on n occasion. Its
perfect for a workout, less so when you wantw a more
laid-back, relaxed listen. Battery life is great too. They
do a lot right, but for the money, we expe ected more.

Google Wi
+++++ From 129 store.google.com

outers and range extenders are over the

R future is Wi-Fi mesh networks. Each Google Wifi
unit a tiny, unassuming cylinder with a simple
white LED band in its centre is capable of the same
functionality, so any of them can function as the router,
spreading its connection to the others, forming one huge
network, eliminating dead spots. Its super-simple to set
up the app scans the QR code on any new Wifi points
you want to add to the network and you can monitor
usage from the app. Its also cheaper to get into than
competitors such as Netgears Orbi system.

Mass Fidelity Core

+++++ 479 massfidelity.com

his boxy speaker offers a Bluetooth connection

T as well as optical audio in. Theres no AirPlay,
but you do get awkward multi-room support.
You need to press a button on the Core to enable it to
broadcast to your connected device, then select
multiroom as the input on any other Cores you want
music to play through. Its a nice-sounding speaker, too
tracks have definition and clarity, and the stereo
separation is impressive. At louder volumes, the sound is
rich and full, and doesnt disappoint. But while the Cores
sonic ability is good, its lack of AirPlay or the ability to
retain multiroom pairing holds it back.

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