MacLife - UK (2020-02)

40 TRAVEL THE WORLD

Stuck at home, or anywhere with internet,
you can explore the world on your screen.
Quality varies, but many feeds now are Full
HD or even 4K — a far cry from when
Cambridge boffins with a 128px camera
pointed at a coffee machine in 1991.
Search YouTube for ‘live webcams’ or
‘live cam streams’, or check out YouTube

Live’s Animals category and the Explore

Live Nature Cams channel. Third–party

sites like worldcams.tv curate feeds in

categories such as Cities, Mountains, and

Transport. EarthCam (earthcam.com) hosts

a variety of high–quality streams; the

app charges to unlock them all, but the

website is free.

Appreciate art

Art museum websites like

nationalgallery.org.uk, rijksmuseum.

nl, guggenheim.org, and moma.org

display high–res images of parts of

their collections. You can also

browse art dealing platform artsy.

net for thousands of contemporary

works from famous and not–so–

famous artists.

Dissect a frog

An unlikely choice for

Apple’s 2018 iPad App of the Year,

Froggipedia uses iOS’ ARKit

augmented reality framework to

explore amphibian anatomy. Biology

teachers will find the content offers

limited depth, but you get a virtual

dissection experience with no frogs

harmed. OK, maybe one frog.

MAKE YOUR OWN FONT

Calligraphr lets you create a

handwriting font by printing

a template, writing on it and

scanning it. But you can do it all

in iPadOS with Pencil.

In Safari, go to calligraphr.com

and register with your email.

Under ‘Your first steps’, tap

‘Create a template’. Add Minimal

English, Minimal Numbers and

Minimal Punctuation, then tap to

delete a few characters to reach

the limit of 75. Tap Download

Template, and proceed with the

default settings. The template

appears in a new tab. Tap the

Share icon at top right, and pick

Markup. Draw your characters in

black. Tap Done, and save the

file anywhere.

In the original Calligraphr tab, tap

My Fonts, Upload Template,

Choose File, Browse, and pick your

template from Recents. Tap

Upload Template. When the Result

window appears after a few

seconds, scroll down and tap ‘Add

characters to your font’. Tap Build

Font, name your font and tap Build.

Long–press the OTF link, and tap

Download twice to get your font;

tap Safari’s Downloads icon, then

the magnifier to reveal it in your

Downloads folder. Open this file

on your Mac to install the font,

or install it in iPadOS using a font

manager app such as iFont (free).

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