iPad User Magazineの Issue 53 の目次

Manage tabs quickly Tap the tabs icon (the two overlapping squares) to see all open tabs in a grid; tap one to view it. In the normal view, you can close one tab by tapping the X on its right. Hold a finger on the tabs icon for options to close the current tab or all tabs, or open a new regular or private tab. Step back in time Accidentally closed a tab? Hold a finger on the + (the icon you normally tap to open a new tab) to access a list of recently closed tabs, then tap the one you want to reopen it. To return to a page previously viewed in the current tab, hold a finger on the back arrow and choose from the list. Tabs…

1 Select Moments to use The Photos tab takes you straight to pics grouped by when they were taken. Thanks to your iPhone’s geotagging ability, your Moments will also be labelled by the locations where they were captured. 2 Display the assets Tap the grey > icon at the far right of a Moment’s name. This creates a Memory of it. Scroll down to see a summary of the Moment’s shots and even a map showing where they were snapped. 3 Make a Memory Tap the Memory’s play icon to preview a slideshow with music, text and transitions. Tap again to choose a different style – this changes the font and music. Change duration to add more of the Moment’s shots to the slideshow. 4 Edit the slideshow Tap the…

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to add new fonts to your iPad apps YOU’LL NEED AnyFont plus some font files Every iPad comes with a great range of fonts, but sometimes the style you want just isn’t there. That’s where AnyFont comes in. It enables you to add new fonts to your iPad, and those fonts are then available to any app that uses the system’s library of typefaces: Pages, Keynote, drawing apps or anything else. You can add fonts to AnyFont in two ways: first by installing font files you’ve already downloaded, such as fonts you’ve bought from a font library website; or by unlocking the bundled fonts that come with the AnyFont app. If you’re installing font files, the app supports TrueType, OpenTypeFont and…

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN To make Shortcuts that create QR codes that contain useful info YOU’LL NEED iOS 12, the Shortcuts app Shortcuts is a new app in iOS 12, and its handy uses are nearly infinite. Every shortcut is built around actions. An action is a single step. For example you might get a URL from Safari or an image from Photos, a location from Maps, or text from the clipboard. This is your input, and once you’ve got it you can then tell Shortcuts what to do with it: email the URL, upload the image, etc. In recent versions of iOS, Apple added the ability to scan QR codes in the Camera app. These bitty images encode text information, so someone who scans them…

IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to take an episode of your show from draft to final cut YOU’LL NEED iOS 11 or later (for the Files app), Anchor, an internet connection Last issue, we showed you the basics of recording and assembling audio clips into a podcast episode using the app  Anchor. But to be really pro about your show, it’s likely that you’ll need to do some tidying up, so that it sounds great. Similar to writing a document, recording your ideas is just part of the job – editing them into a form you want to present is more challenging. With a podcast, getting that right is critical to your show making a good impression and keeping listeners coming back. We recommend creating a…

Tribit XSound Go £27 tribitaudio.com For a bargain price, this budget Bluetooth speaker gives you expansive sound, excellent battery life and a rugged IPX7 water-resistant body. It may not be much to look at, but it gets loud enough to fill a medium-sized room, and at full volume there’s only a little distortion on the highs. The overall tonal balance of the speaker is very mid-forward, so vocals have a nice emphasis and texture. Highs are extended, but lack the air of more powerful speakers. Bass is good for a speaker of this size, but don’t expect it to shake your table. An incredibly good deal. Satechi Type-C Mobile Pro £59 satechi.net The use of USB-C as the port on the new iPad Pros opens them up to great accessories.…

Speedy typing With Settings > General > Keyboard > Enable Caps Lock turned on, you can double-tap the key to lock typing to upper case. Tap that key to revert to normal. To type an upper-case letter, rather than tap then the letter, slide your finger instead, then release. That works for .?123 and symbols, too. Hidden characters Hold down keys on the on-screen keyboard to access extra characters. For example, hold the ‘e’ key to access accented forms: è, é, ê and so on. Slide your finger to the character you want to type, then lift it. In Safari, hold the .co.uk key for .com and other popular domains to save typing them. Trackpad mode Place two fingers on the keyboard together and it turns into a kind of…

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to organise shots by where and when they were shot, and to share Moments as Memories YOU’LL NEED The Photos app, a range of pictures To help you manage your ever-growing collection of clips and stills, your iPad’s Photos app can automatically gather photos  taken at a particular time and place into Moment-based collections. These Moments in time and place can then be presented as Memories – slick movie slideshows of videos and photos that feature mood enhancing music and descriptive text. These slideshows can also be shared with friends and family easily, as we’ll demonstrate. Memories are movies that feature mood enhancing music and text The Photos app on iPad is organised into four tabs (visible at the bottom): Photos,…

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to borrow free ebooks and audiobooks from your local library YOU’LL NEED Libby, iOS 9 or later It has always amazed us that UK library services don’t do more to publicise the fact that you can go online and borrow  ebooks and audiobooks from your local library completely free of charge. Admittedly, the process hasn’t always been easy; the app you needed to use – originally called OverDrive – was a bit tricky to install and set up. However, the company behind OverDrive recently launched a new iOS app, called Libby, that is much easier to use. Your local library will only have a limited stock of ebooks and audiobooks, and you might have to join a waiting list to borrow…

1 Split some audio If you only need some of a recording, you can split it. In the library, tap the ‘…’ (three dots) on it, then Split Audio. Drag the top of the black playhead to fine-tune, tap Play to check, position it again, then tap ‘Save & split’. 2 Library versus episode It’s a good idea to rename the parts: tap the ’…’ on one, then ‘Rename segment’. Drag one from the library into your episode. You can further split and rename segments there, if you want, without affecting the copy in the library. 3 Trim your audio Instead of splitting a recording, you might want to lose only the start and/or end. Tap the ‘…’ on a segment in the library or an episode and pick ‘Trim…