Create an image like this in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote (macOS or iPadOS). It consists of three (3) items — two shapes and the swan is text (an emoji). Each item has a shadow applied.
Further details in AUSOM News, May 2023 page 29.
When out shopping and collecting receipts after each purchase, instead of keeping a receipt that fades over time, scan it into your iPhone. The receipt becomes digitised and never fades. Receipts can also be kept this way for any warranty needs.
Continue reading “Using Notes.app to Scan Receipts and Documents”Soon everyone will need to prove their vaccination status to enter some business premises. This can be done in multiple ways. We will cover the best way for an iPhone which is to link the certificate from the Medicare Express Plus app with the Service Victoria app. This means you can prove you have checked-in and are vaccinated by scanning the QR code. Easy.
Continue reading “Link Vaccination Certificate to Service Victoria app on Your iPhone”Sometimes when we write we need to know how many words or characters we are writing. There might be word limits on an assignment submission or we just want to control the size of what is being written. Some software have a word count tool. Some software doesn’t. This universal word count can be used in TextEdit and Notes or anywhere that text can be selected.
Continue reading “Universal Word Count”
Learn how to draw yourself as a Peanuts character in Pages with the help of The Snoopy Show storyboard artist Krista Porter and Anthony from Today at Apple.
Continue reading “Today at Apple”
Do you find the text within AUSOM News too small on your iPad? Reading it within Safari or if you are reading it within the Books app you will initially be faced with a full page with text that may be too small.
One way of enlarging the area within most of the 2-column articles is to double-tap on the area you would like to expand.
In the image above double-tap in the area circled results in the image below.
A double-tap on the ‘expanded’ screen will take you back to a full-page view.
If the double-tap method does not work you may need to place two fingers on the screen near each other. Spread them apart to zoom in, or move them toward each other to zoom out.
While reading AUSOM News on your Mac you might need to quickly magnify part of the screen.
Move your cursor to the paragraph you want to read and either choose “Show Magnifier” from the Tools menu, or simply press the ` (backtick) key.
You can move the magnified area or press the backtick key again to hide the magnifier.
This is not only useful for reading PDF documents.
You might like to try this when looking at one of your photographs within Preview.
Read even more in the July edition of AUSOM News available here.
An AUSOM member wrote the following after reading the article — ‘Using the iPad app Distressed FX‘ — by Bill Oldham in AUSOM News, June 2020 (here).
“I watched three Youtube tutorials on Distressed FX. Two by the creator.
“I really like the fact that it is more about creating an artwork from your photographs. It is not about manipulating a photo to correct, enhance or fabricate a new reality. It is pure creativity in producing a piece of artwork. There are no rules or paradigms.”
Are you enjoying the many, many talks and tutorial sessions available via Zoom?
One of the BIG advantages of ‘watching’ a presentation on you Mac is that it is EASY to take a ‘screenshot’ at any time.
At least one AUSOM member said how delighted she was to learn about ‘screenshots’.
NOW is the perfect time for EVERYONE to locate three keys: Command Shift and the number 3.
To take a screenshot Press those 3 keys. You may press Command and keep holding it down while you press Shift with another finger — do that with your left hand — while holding down those 2 keys press the number 3.
You will hear a ‘camera click’.
Do that as often as you like during the Zoom session.
After you finish you will find many files on your Desktop. Delete those you do not want and rename and/or file the others for later reference.
