Issue #371 for February 4, 2016
The MacMost Newsletter: Issue #371
February 4, 2016

Find and replace is useful tool for writers, editors and anyone who works with large word processing documents. You can use a variety of special find features in TextEdit to refine your searches. If you know the right techniques, you can swap words and search for patterns. In Pages searching isn't as powerful, but Microsoft Word has even more advanced features.

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Live Loops is a new feature of GarageBand for iOS that makes it easy and fun to create music. You can use one of the provided set of loops, or full in cells in a grid with recordings or loops to create your own. Then you can play Live Loops in real time and record. When you are done, you can go into the normal GarageBand interface to add more or fine tune.

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Wireless charging is a joke, but it doesn’t have to be. Have you seen those commercials for Samsung’s wireless charger? The claim is that you don’t have to deal with a cable mess. But you still do. The cable still runs from the wall to the charging pad. And you have to stick the phone directly on the charging pad. So is the experience any better than just plugging the phone in? Slightly. Very slightly. Lots of cool 21st century tech to go from “plug” to “place.”

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If you decide to buy a used iPhone or iPad, be sure to check to make sure that the previous user disabled activation lock so you can take over ownership of the device. Visit Apple's Activation Lock Checker page to be sure.


Here is an app that you might want to check out:

Blocky Football
Here's a simple quick game you can play during breaks in the action on Sunday.




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