54 amazing projects

Make travelling more friendly, craft comics, and research your ancestors

Fix the web

24 Safari Extensions and content blockers can completely transform your online experience. Vinegar (£1.79) strips the ads from YouTube and gives you more control over how videos play. Adblock Plus (Free) gets rid of pop-ups and other irritations, Social Fixer makes Facebook less annoying and Stop The Madness, the only one here that’s a paid product (£6.99), stops sites from disabling key features such as copy and pasting, dragging and dropping and so on. It also gets rid of extra tracking bits from web links for easier and clearer sharing, and removes most of the privacy invaders you’ll find on commercial websites. All the extensions mentioned here are available from the Mac App Store.

Make your own comic book

25 Holy Apple Pencil, Batman! There’s an iPad app for making comic books! In fact, there are lots. But if you’d like to do things the easy way, Comic Life 3 (£4.49) for iPhone or Mac or Comic Draw (Free, offers IAPs) on iPad are great fun, and the latter works well with Apple Pencil.

Organise everything for a trip away

> tripit.com

26 Say goodbye to travelrelated stress such as trying to remember flight numbers or dig out etickets or reservation confirmation codes.Tripit does all for you to take the ‘aaagh’ out of travel.

Tripit comes in two flavours: a free app, which makes it easy to organise all the things you need to keep and remember for your travels, and a paid-for pro version (£38.99) that adds real-time flight status alerts, tells you how busy the security lines are likely to be and includes airport maps so you won’t get lost. And because it works across Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch it’s available on every device you’re likely to have on your travels, ensuring that everything you need is right there when you need it.