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HANDS UP WHO CAN REMEMBER A WORLD WITHOUT APPS? IF YOU CAN, YOU’RE MOST LIKELY TO BE  IN THE MINORITY. The App Store was launched in 2008 and its impact on modern life is hard to exaggerate. Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and i

There is no doubt that the Apple Watch tracks fitness brilliantly, but the Activity app can be difficult to follow at times. Activity++ takes the data from your watch and presents it in a simplistic way that should help you get fitter than ever befor

Puzzle Kids is about more than just jigsaw puzzles. Included in this Mac app is a series of drag and drop games that will help younger children learn and enjoy themselves for hours. It shows that great games are possible on macOS. It is hard to cram

The iOS interface has barely changed over the years, but with Launch Center Pro you can add to it and make the interface unique to you. There are countless customisation options included which literally let you change every single aspect for selectin

You likely do not need us to explain what Adobe Lightroom does, but if you take the time to subscribe to the service and use it on your Mac you will be able to produce some stunning results. Every control is perfectly created and presented. It is ar

At first glance this app looks quite dated, but then you realise that it is a versatile tool that will help you learn a new language in the quickest time possible. Many languages are covered and it has been proven to work time and time again. We all

Autumn’s russet red leaves provide attractive photo opportunities for photographers, especially in rural locations. However we may not always get the chance to visit a suitable site before the leaves fall and the trees become bare as winter draws in.

Unless there’s street lighting or a strong moon, when you’re filming at night your subject may disappear into darkness. If the camera uses a high ISO speed to make it sensitive to low light this can make the clip look grainy. Many film makers shoot t

The split-screen effect is as old as cinema itself. By filming somebody in one half of the screen and then filming them in the other half you can combine the two clips to create the illusion of identical twins. To make the effect look more believable

Logic’s MIDI plugins are a mysterious bunch – huddled away in their own submenu away from all the other plugins, they’re often overlooked and little-used as a result. Get to know them, however, and you’ll find that they’re capable of some pretty usef

With GarageBand it is very easy to move song projects across all of Apple’s platforms. Thanks to iCloud, users can centralise project access before importing special versions between devices. In this tutorial we explore the demo-sharing prowess of th

First introduced with Mojave, the screenshot utility is a little-known feature of macOS that gives you complete control over taking screenshots of your Mac’s desktop. This feature is, of course, still present, correct and unchanged in Catalina so we

When you start Safari to browse the web, what do you see? Your favourite home page like Google or DuckDuckGo? Why go there when searches can be performed from the address box anyway? There are several ways to customise the content that appears when a

Did you know you can edit photos on your Mac using your iPhone or iPad? The Photos app syncs photographs and you can edit them on either device of course, but with macOS Catalina and iOS 13 there are new ways of working and your iOS device is like an

The iPhone can be backed up and synced with your iCloud account and mostly this works fine. You can replace the iPhone or erase it, log into iCloud and most things are put back exactly as they were. However, it is also possible to back up and sync wi

Google Earth’s Voyager feature from 2017 allowed experts to tell their own stories using locations across the globe. Now, Google is allowing the rest of us to produce interactive tours by providing a set of features for projects that can be shared wi

The Music app is a simple and effective means of playing and enjoying music on your iOS device and the experience is heightened greatly by an Apple Music subscription that places hundreds of thousands of songs at your fingertips. There are also plent

Scientists reckon that the human brain can hold as much as 2.5 petrabytes of information but we still end up forgetting people’s birthdays and other such vital details. It’s why many iPhone users make good use of the Reminders app which, as of iOS 13

Apple revealed in August 2019 that it was allowing contractors to listen to the voice recordings of Siri users. After it came to light, Apple apologised and explained that it granted such permission in order to grade Siri requests so that it could ma

With previous versions of iOS, you could take photos of documents or scans, which are really just special photos, and attach them to emails. In iOS 13 this process is streamlined by enabling you to scan documents from within an email you are writing.

There are some apps in iOS we may forget are even there. One app that teeters towards the unused is Measure. It was added in iOS 12 and makes clever use of augmented reality (AR), using your iPhone camera and layering on tools for making quick and ea

Apple TV is both a store for purchasing and renting content and also a place to watch Apple TV+ shows and there are some brilliant ones. The library of TV+ content available to stream is still quite small, but it is steadily growing all of the time a

Apple provides a varied selection of ‘stock’ apps on your iOS devices. There are the essentials, such as Mail, Notes and Calendar, but plenty of others such as Home, News and Stocks, that you may not use. In fact, there are very few stock apps that A

There is no doubt that iPads tend to be used in the home by the majority of users and by others at work and when out and about. We do not, however, tend to think of the iPad as a device that can be used in the car, but when you really think about it,

To keep track of the time without constantly looking at your Apple Watch face, you can now ask the wearable to tap your wrist and play a chime at regular intervals. In many ways, it’s a throwback to those old digital watches which would beep on the h

With so much content available on your Apple TV, it’s important that the right apps and content are positioned where you want them. You don’t want to keep scrolling through loads of icons to find Netflix or Apple TV, for instance – indeed, you may wa

Before Apple Music came along, Spotify was the uncrowned king of music streaming. It was possible to listen to songs from this popular service on your iPhone, iPad and Mac but, if you wanted to do the same on your television, you needed access to Ama

I keep losing my Apple TV remote. Is it true that I can use my iPhone to control my TV? Yes, just download the Apple TV Remote app from the App Store and then you can link it to your Apple TV. For easy access, go to Settings>Control Centre and then