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MAPGB1404D1P_210x297+5_XX_46L.indd 1 11.03.14 12:33 MAY 2014 • MACWORLD 3 MAY 2014 Contents 7 Karen Haslam Will Apple discontinue the Mac mini? 8 News 8GB iPhone 5c launched, iPad 4 rereleased, and iOS 7 updated 12 Guide to iLife Get more from iPhoto and iMovie 28 Apple TV guide Get more from Apple’s set-top box 32 Tune into TV on demand We look at alternatives to Apple TV 35 Next 30 years of Mac What’s the future for the Mac? 36 Customise your Mac Trick out OS X with our tips 38 How to: iMovie for Mac Use the Precision Editor 40 How to: iPhoto for Mac Give photos a professional finish 42 How to: GarageBand Mac Learn to play the guitar 44 NAS drives 46 Asustor AS-604T 47 Seagate Business Storage 48 Synology DS1513+ 49 WD My Cloud EX4 12 44 28 003_004 Contents.indd 3 21/03/2014 11:00 4 MACWORLD • MAY 2014 52 Reviews 52 Apple Mac Pro six-core/3.5GHz (late 2013) 53 Fujifilm X-T1 53 Samsung NX30 54 StarTech Thunderbolt laptop docking station 54 LaCie Fuel 55 Philips 234E5QHAW 55 HP Colour LaserJet Pro M177fw 54 Nuance Dragon Dictate for Mac 4 57 The Banner Saga 58 Mac Gems Low-cost software for your Mac 62 Help Desk Answering your Mac questions 67 David Price No iPhone left behind 68 News & Noteworthy The best new kit for your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch 70 iOS Gems Software for your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch 72 iPhone photography 10 rules for taking shots on an iPhone 80 Find an app for any task We ensure you get the right app 83 Funny things to ask Siri Discover Siri’s funny side 84 iTunes Guy Answering your iOS questions 87 Ashleigh Allsopp Apple should make a bigger iPhone 88 How to: iMovie for iOS Put together a trailer of a home movie 90 How to: iPhoto iOS What’s new in iPhoto 2 92 How to: GarageBand iOS Ensure your songs sound fantastic 94 Buyer’s Guide The best hardware and software products and buying advice Contents 52 72 68 53 003_004 Contents.indd 4 21/03/2014 11:00 The world’s most mind blowing feature fi lms, television commercials and music videos look amazing because they are fi lmed with digital fi lm cameras! The new award winning Blackmagic Cinema Camera is unlike a regular video camera or DSLR camera because it’s a true high end digital fi lm camera! You get a true Hollywood cinematic look with 13 stops of dynamic range, interchangeable lenses, high quality RAW and ProRes ® fi le recording plus much more! Dramatically Better than DSLR Video The Blackmagic Cinema Camera includes a large 2.5K sensor for super sharp images that eliminate resolution loss HD bayer sensors suffer from, while creating manageable fi les that are not too big! The large screen LCD allows easy focusing and the high speed SSD recorder lets you record in ProRes ® , DNxHD ® and RAW fi le formats for Final Cut Pro X and DaVinci Resolve! Super Wide Dynamic Range The Blackmagic Cinema Camera captures an incredible 13 stops of dynamic range so you can simultaneously capture the brightest highlights and the darkest shadows all at the same time into the recorded fi le! This means you capture more of the scene than a regular video camera can so you get more freedom for color correction for a feature fi lm look! You also get a full copy of DaVinci Resolve! Film Industry Quality Every feature of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera has been designed for quality. With 2 separate models, you can choose from the world’s most amazing EF or MFT lenses from crafters such as Canon ™ , Zeiss ™ and more. For extreme high end work, you can shoot full 12 bit CinemaDNG RAW uncompressed fi les for incredible creative range in DaVinci Resolve color correction, as well as the world’s best chroma keying! Accessories Built In High end cinema cameras often require thousands of dollars of extra accessories to make them work, however the Blackmagic Cinema Camera includes accessories you need built in! You get a large 5 inch monitor, super fast SSD RAW recorder and professional audio recorder all built in! You also get UltraScope software, used via the built in Thunderbolt ™ connection, for on set waveform monitoring! Blackmagic Cinema Camera Includes DaVinci Resolve Software £ 1,295 Lenses and accessories shown are not included Shoot the next Hollywood blockbuster with the world’s most amazing digital cinema camera! *SRP is Exclusive of VAT Learn more today www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/cinemacamera [...]... was to be thought-provoking and to start a conversation, which I’m glad it has.” MAY 2014 • MAcworld 11 008_011 News.indd 11 21/03 /2014 10:01 Features iLIFE 12 MACWORLD • MAY 2014 012_026 iLife.indd 12 17/03 /2014 10:20 What you should know about iLife How well do you know iPhoto and iMovie? Here are quick primers on both BY CHRISTOPHER BREEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY I LOVE DUST MAY 2014 • MACWORLD 13 012_026... stop playback, press the spacebar again may 2014 • macworld 21 012_026 iLife.indd 21 17/03 /2014 10:21 Features iLIFE Import from iPhone Importing video from an iOS device is just like doing it from a camcorder With some devices – such as a digital camcorder connected via USB – the preview may take a long time to play, or it may stop and start Some connected devices may display no preview window To import... ESPN, the UK Apple TV users have definitely drawn the short straw Hopefully Apple is working on bringing more on demand services (such as iPlayer and 4oD) to the Apple TV here in the UK Roku: There are a collection of Roku boxes available, including the Roku 3 32 MACWORLD • MAY 2014 032_033 Apple TV Alternatives.indd 32 21/03 /2014 10:09 (£99.99) and the new Roku Steaming Stick (£49.99) Each offers UK users... course, stream some on-demand content via your iOS device to your Apple TV – iPlayer can be streamed using AirPlay Hopefully Apple will soon launch a new Apple TV and update the software on the existing units If the update doesn’t feature these on-demand channels, there will be a lot of disappointed Apple fans in the UK MAY 2014 • MACWORLD 33 032_033 Apple TV Alternatives.indd 33 21/03 /2014 10:09 All you... on to the audio-adjustment line Drag these points up or down to increase or decrease, respectively, that portion of the audio May 2014 • Macworld 25 012_026 iLife.indd 25 17/03 /2014 10:21 Features iLIFE Noise reduction and equaliser: Although iMovie is not a full-featured audio-editing application, you can use it to enhance your audio in a couple of ways Click this adjustment and you’ll see two options... slowing down and speeding up the action (and audio) respectively The first gives you options for slowing down the video by 5 0-, 2 5- or 10 percent The Fast Forward submenu lists 2-, 4-, 8- and 20x adjustments When you apply an effect from these groups, a chrome dot appears in the top-right corner of the clip, indicating that the speed has been adjusted You can then play with that adjustment by dragging... top-right corner of the clip This command’s submenu offers options of 10 0-, 5 0-, 2 5- and 10 percent; the numbers refer to the speed of the resulting replay At 100 percent, the clip plays at the same speed as the original At 10 percent, it runs 10 times as long (and 10 times as slow) as the original The Rewind effect appends a reversed copy of the clip to the end of the clip and plays it at 1-, 2- or... Keyboard, or any Mac- or iPad-focused keyboard with media-playback keys (Play/Pause, Previous, and Next), you can use them to control media playback 4 Use any remote with the Apple TV You can also use a universal remote to control the Apple TV (it has to be a universal remote – chances are your existing remote won’t suffice) To connect this, go to Settings → General → Remotes MAY 2014 • MACWORLD 31 028_031... levels, Sharpness can translate into harshness Adjust pane If Quick Fixes and Effects don’t get the job done, the adjust pane should One-Click fix iPhoto’s one-click (left) and manual (right) black-and-white adjustments De-noise tries to smooth out overly pixelated or too-sharp images You might use it if you took an underexposed shot (indoors without a flash, say), increased the exposure and then found... rewind live TV, watch Sky channels, seven-day Catch Up TV, and view hundreds of on-demand movies and shows, as well as anything on Netflix (subscription) You can also access UK on-demand channels including BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and 5 Demand Unit prices depend on your subscription package YouView: A YouView box gives you access to any of the UK s free catch-up TV channels including iPlayer, ITV . world (14 issues) £125 £125 MAY 2014 • MACWORLD 7 007 Karen.indd 7 21/03 /2014 15:18 News 8 Macworld • MaY 2014 buttons rather than the old rectangular buttons. The full-screen images that previously. albums. MAY 2014  MACWORLD 17 012_026 iLife.indd 17 17/03 /2014 10:21 18 MACWORLD  MAY 2014 If you hate the automated changes, click the Undo button at the base of the pane. Fix Red-Eye: If. DUST BY CHRISTOPHER BREEN What you should know about iLife MAY 2014 • MACWORLD 13 012_026 iLife.indd 13 17/03 /2014 10:21 14 MACWORLD  MAY 2014 than SD, you can buy a memory card reader that plugs