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GAMING
Steam Link
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5 11PC gamers who own an
iPador iPhone have
reasonto celebrate
now that Steam
Link is finally
available for iOS.
Last year, Steam
releas ed its highly
popular app for
Android, allowing
you to stream your
library of PC games to your mobile device. However,
Apple controversially banned the app from its stor e on the
grounds that it represented “business confli cts”. Unlike the
Android version, the iOS app won’t let you buy games from
the Steam stor e, bu t you can play Steam games
on your phone or tablet whil e connected over a
5GHz Wi-Fi network or wired Ethernet to a host
computer runningSteam. Steam Link suppor ts
the Steam Controlle r, MFI controllers and more.CAMERA
Pixtica
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5.1
Most of us have a
variety of camera
apps on our devices
for differen t
purposes: one for
adding nice-looking
filters, one for
recording GIFs, one
for scanning QR
codes and so on.
Pixtica aimsto be
the one app to rule
them all by bringing
together many of th e abilities you find in other standalon e
apps. It also provides manual controls – including ISO, shutter
speed, focus, exposure and white balance – as well as
panorama, hyperlapse and slow-motion
functions. It’s a nice idea and well designed, but
the free version loses points because it can’t
take full-resolution shots – for that you needto
pay a subscription of £1.25 per month.
AUGMENTED REALITY
Playground:
Pokémon
Detective
Pikachu
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8If the younger
members of your
household have had
their enthusiasm for
Pokémonreignited
by the recentDetectiv e Pikachumovie,
they’ll love this new app, which brings
their favourite pocket monsters to life
in all their uncannily photo-realistic
glory. It’s basically a new Pokémon-
themedPlaymoji pack for Google’s
Playground app, which lets you take
AR photos and videos with animated
charac ters including Pikachu,
Charizard, Jigglypuff and Mr Mime.
You’ll needthe latest
versions of Playground
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ARCore (bit.ly/arcore476)
instal led for it to work.GAME
DumbWays To Draw
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5 10
RememberDumb Ways To Die – the
cheerily fatalistic animation that tu rned
out to be a public se rvice messag e
about rail way safety? Well, the cute
(but ultimately doomed) bean-shaped
charac ters live on in this simple yet
enjoyable puzzle game. Or at least they
do if you manageto protect them from
a series of deadly hazards by swiping
on screen to create safe platforms and
guide them to safety.
The base game is free,
but you can pay to
remove ads and unlock
further feat ures.
TOOLS
Easy DND
bit.ly/
easydnd476
9While Android
has its own ‘Do
not distur b’
options built in,
Easy DND is an
attempt to bring
some much-
neededflexibility
and accessibility
to the party. It
achieves this by adding a simple,
colourful interface and tons of
customisation options. You can toggle
full ‘Do not distur b’ mode on oroff, or
opt for a wide variety of other modes,
including ‘priority calls’ on ly, messages
only, alarms and more. The downsi de is
that the app’ is cu rrently in
beta and is available only
for phones and tablets
runningthe latest version
of Android, Pie.This fortnight’s top free and paid-for apps
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