Cult of Mac Magazine: Cool tricks for Apple Music, running with Apple Watch, and more

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More tips for Apple Music headed your way this week.
More tips for Apple Music headed your way this week.
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This week, we’ve got a ton of even more great stuff for you all in one place. Check out our guide to getting Apple Music on your iPhone so you can listen without burning up all your data on streaming, our beginner’s guide on running with the Apple Watch, a profile on one of the best sports photographers out there who also happens to use an iPhone, a hilariously true interview with the developers behind, yes, the Farty Troll game, and the straight skinny on iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan public betas.

Get all that (and more!) in this week’s Cult of Mac Magazine. Download and subscribe right here, too.

How to listen to Apple Music without burning your data

Apple-Music-Offline-640x419Apple Music is at heart a streaming solution, designed so that you can listen to any of the tens of millions of songs in its library at any time, assuming you have a data connection. Here’s how NOT to burn through your monthly data plan.
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Running with Apple Watch, a beginner’s guide

beginners-guideIf you bought an Apple Watch hoping it would help you get fit, but you haven’t been on your first run yet, maybe you need of a little more encouragement. So here’s some advice from a reformed couch potato. The first workout is the hardest. It gets progressively easier and more rewarding from there.
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Brad Mangin is one of sport photography’s best shooters – even with an iPhone

Mangin001-640x846Brad Mangin’s friends gave him a good ribbing as “the last photographer on the planet” to carry a flip phone. They all had iPhones and couldn’t believe it took him so long to not only own one but discover the picture quality of the phone’s camera.
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The unbelievable true story of Farty Troll‘s struggle to release

Farty-Troll-640x424Apple has a history of blasting fart apps from its App Store. But when is a fart just a fart, and when is it art? Scott Kurtz, artist and writer of popular webcomic PvP, and his business partner Cory Casoni decided to find out with Farty Troll, a Flappy Bird clone about propelling a flatulent, blue giant named Skull through a maze of coffee cups using nothing but his own wind.
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You can now install the El Capitan and iOS 9 public betas

el-capitan-640x3591-640x3591-640x359Along with releasing the first ever public beta of iOS 9, Apple has also opened up OS X El Capitan to the public for beta testing as well. The new operating system which was announced at WWDC, has been in the hands of developers for a month, but Apple is expanding testing by opening it up to anyone who registers for Apple’s public beta program.
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