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HELLO! Welcome to this sample of Swipe: the iPhone magazine. We’ve put together a taster of what each edition offers, with all the hottest iOS news, reviews of the latest apps and accessories, plus expert advice from the people that bring you Tips & Tricks – iPhone Secrets. We hope you enjoy this small slice of what Swipe has to offer, and don’t forget to check out the full free trial on the App Store. Happy reading!
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f you’ve wanted to get your hands on Apple’s iMovie, iPhoto and iWorks apps without paying for them, you may not have to wait too much longer. App Advice says the latest developer builds of iOS 7 show a pop-up menu when you first visit the iTunes Store inviting you to download several
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Apple apps for free. Only now the menu includes iMovie, iPhoto, Keynote, Numbers and Pages – apps which have previously only been available to buy. Making the apps free would make sense, not least because Apple is currently beta testing iWork for iCloud, a free online productivity suite launching this fall. n
iWork for iCloud beta
BUDGET IPHONE
FACT OR FAKE?
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he hardly-ancient iPhone 4 may already be available at low cost or for free on many carriers on both sides of the Atlantic, but that hasn’t stopped Apple watchers getting into a lather over rumors of a new ‘budget’ iPhone. The latest news from Techdy Blog seems to point to a device with a
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APPS MAIL APPS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN BOXER / MAILBOX / MAIL PILOT REVIEWED LIMBO / TEEVEE 2 FORESEE / SIEGECRAFT TD THUNDERSPACE
GET A BETTER HOME SCREEN #5
EMAIL CLIENTS Replace Apple’s default apps with our pick of the best alternatives
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ypically, frustration surrounding the iPhone’s default apps stems from restrictions and limitations they impose, and the fact alternatives perform certain tasks in a superior manner. In the early days of iOS, Mail was one of the few Apple apps that really bucked the trend, providing users with a mobile-friendly, broadly usable, and quite feature-rich email client. But with iOS 6, the updates were hardly revolutionary, and even with iOS 7’s interface revamp and new gestures, it remains to be seen whether Mail will take a tiny step forward or make a gigantic leap. Perhaps Apple has to be conservative, in order to satisfy the widest possible audience. That said, some email clients
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show you can make fairly radical changes in terms of usability and efficiency — even within much the same framework as Apple’s Mail app offers. With this in mind, our round-up concentrates on clients that we think better Apple’s in important ways, mostly regarding usability or in terms of email management. When considering >
Mail provides access to folders, and filing is quick and straightforward
replacements, be aware they don’t work with every type of email service — some require a very specific service (such as Gmail), while others demand certain protocols (like IMAP). Anyone using POP should stick with Mail. >
Mail supports multiple accounts, but folder access is awkward, via the Mailboxes screen
Boxer Taskbox PRICE $4.99/£2.99
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SIZE 12.3 MB
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eneath its minimal interface, Boxer provides a range of genuinely useful features. First and foremost, it has support for a wide range of services (including Gmail, Yahoo!, Exchange, iCloud and IMAP) make it suitable for a wide range of users. However, we think that even if >
The ‘quick’ action is great; the ‘like’ one, not so much.
you’re a steadfast Mail user, Boxer is well worth installing. The really big draw is Dropbox support. Link your account and along with providing share links, you can pull documents directly into the mail client
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Attach a file! How we wish every iOS email client did this
HAPPY BIRTHDAY The history of the iPhone so far as it turns six years old
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n June 29th, the iPhone celebrated its sixth birthday. It’s sometimes hard to remember this iconic and paradigmshifting device is, in technology terms, still in its infancy. By comparison, YouTube and the Xbox 360 are eight years old, Facebook over nine years old, and the world wide web is well into its early 20s. > Steve Jobs announcing the first iPhone
And yet in one swift motion, the iPhone reinvented the telephone, the portable computer and arguably photography, too. In the same way that the iPod wasn’t the first portable digital music player, the iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone – that honor goes to Ericsson’s GS 88, released in 1997. However, the seamless amalgamation of operating system and hardware meant that it was the first phone people could actually use and enjoy with the minimum of compromises.
In the beginning
Back in 2004 Steve Jobs made a huge decision. Work on Apple’s new tablet device, which would later become the iPad, would be halted, allowing technological innovation to catch up
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with his vision. Instead, focus would shift to making a smartphone – and so ‘Project Purple’ was born, a super-secret group of Apple’s most talented engineers and designers recruited by Scott Forstall, then head of iOS. “We’re starting another project, but it’s so secret I can’t tell you what the project is,” Forstall would say to potential recruits. The team then took over a building on the Apple campus with almost governmental levels of security. > The original had only 8 GB of storage
HOW-TO AIRPRINT WIRELESS PRINTING
TOP 5 SECURITY TIPS
Q & A YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
AIRPRINT GET TO GRIPS WITH WIRELESS PRINTING
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he dream of the paperless office edges ever closer, but there are times when you still need to print things out. Once, it was enough to have a printer tethered to a computer via a cable, but now even iPhone apps are capable of enabling you to create documents. The tiny snag: getting printers working with a PC or Mac typically requires, at the very least, downloading and installing drivers – something you can’t do on an iPhone. >
Find a Printer APPLE’S SOLUTION IS AirPrint, an iOS feature that gives you hassle-free wireless printing. If you have a compatible printer, and it’s on your Wi-Fi network, your iPhone will pick it up and enable you to print to it. On AirPrint’s debut, such printers were in embarrassingly short supply (a whole dozen options!), but now there are over 700 AirPrint-compatible printers to choose from. > There’s now loads of printers available, such as this one from HP
That still leaves two problems: the first is figuring out what to do if you don’t have an AirPrint printer - we’ll look at that in Part Two of this feature next issue; the second is working out how to print at all. There is no File > Print option in iOS. Instead, the print command is found in different locations. In Apple apps, this is usually the share menu (although in Mail, it’s the reply menu).
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