iPad User Magazineの Issue 83 の目次

Books on iPad IN-DEPTH While downloading books from Apple’s Book Store is likely to be the main way in which you add them to the Books app, it’s not the only way to add content. We’ve already seen that you can import PDFs to Books and read them in the app. The other way to get documents into Books is to publish them in the EPUB format – an open standard that Books uses for electronic books. Sounds complicated? It’s not at all. In fact, you can export Pages documents as EPUB documents and use Books to read them. You can even publish your own books on Apple’s store this way. Books also enables you rate and review books, ask Apple to suggest similar books more or less often, or…

REVIEWS › Free (£6.99/month or £48.99/year) › FROM algoriddim.com/press › MADE FOR iPhone, iPad › NEEDS iPadOS 12 or later A major new update has just dropped for this popular Mac and iOS DJ app that introduces a next-level AI based Digital Vinyl System (DVS), which enables DJs to power their entire performance through their iPhone or iPad while using professional analogue turntables and mixers. Eradicating the need for laptops, the new technology allows DJs to connect their iOS device directly to their mixing system, with the optimised user interface automatically adapting when the hardware is connected. Also being introduced for the first time is the new Neural Mix Vinyl, which offers isolated stems for any song right on the B-side of the control vinyl. Users simply drop the needle…

TUTORIALS Access your Mac remotely IT WILL TAKE › 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN › How to remotely control your Mac YOU’LL NEED › You’ll need an iPad/iPhone and your Mac Picture the scene – you’re miles away from your Mac, and you need to access something on it that isn’t stored in iCloud or another cloud storage service. What to do? If you have remote-access software, you can connect via your iPad, iPhone or another Mac to access and edit files remotely. There’s no shortage of remote-access options for Macs, and they range from built-in (but a little techy) SSH access in macOS’s System Preferences > Sharing > Remote Login to dedicated remote-access solutions, such as MSP360, Splashtop and others. However, one of the simplest options is completely free:…

IT WILL TAKE › 20 minutes YOU WILL LEARN › How to use storyboards, how to use Magic Movie YOU’LL NEED › An iPad, the latest iMovie app, some footage Magic Movie lets you choose videos or pictures and have iMovie identify the best bits iMovie is free for every iOS user to download, although the screens of larger iPads make it a better platform for movie-making. The app offers a quick and easy way for you put together footage and music, without the advanced features of Final Cut Pro, and it’s also much more accessible for beginners. It’s able to capture video directly from your iPhone or iPad’s camera in the highest quality, and it can also import footage via the Files app or Camera Roll, which is a…

REVIEWS › Free (Premium £14.49, Premium Lifetime £44.99) › FROM user.camp › NEEDS iOS 14 or later Penbook aims to combine the tactile feel of a real notebook with the smarts of modern tech Pairing an iPad with an Apple Pencil is something that’s often been thought of in terms of enabling artists to create art, which of course they do. Another, somewhat overlooked application is for creating a digital version of a notebook or sketchbook, for jotting down notes or sketching ideas. This is possible in iPadOS’ Notes app of course, but only in a fairly basic form. Penbook takes this idea several steps further, aiming to combine the tactile feel of a real notebook with the smarts of modern tech. Although you can draw in this app using…

Books on iPad IN-DEPTH Apple’s Book Store doesn’t get the attention of its App or Music stores, but it has plenty of bestsellers and new titles on offer, and at pretty reasonable prices. And there are lots of free books, too. It also doubles as an audiobooks store. When you buy a book, it’s downloaded to the device on which you buy it and becomes available on all the devices signed into your iCloud account. When you start reading, your progress is then synced with your other devices, so you can pick up on one where you left off on another. You can also set targets to incentivise yourself to read more, and monitor your reading progress in the app. As well as downloading books and audiobooks from the store,…

1 PDF thumbnail › Whether created on the iPad, downloaded from the web or saved from the Mac, PDFs appear as thumbnails in the Files app. Tap to view the PDF document or long-press to access the menu. 2 Quick Look › This is the PDF viewer and selecting it is the same as tapping the thumbnail icon. Open a PDF in Quick Look to annotate and highlight a document, lock it with a password, add or remove pages. 3 Markup PDF documents › Markup features can be accessed through this menu or by tapping the icon in the toolbar at the top when Quick Look is used. Draw on the document, highlight text, translate it, and add notes. 4 Share options › This does more than share PDFs. A…