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A funny thing happened this month. Playing dad taxi to my daughter and a gaggle of her friends, I happened to be playing Green Day’s seminal American Idiot album on the car stereo when, during Dearly Beloved (the fourth part of the ‘Jesus of Suburbia

Download available All the assets you’ll need to get creative with our projects. Look out for the above icon to see if there are downloads available. Discover how to get more out of your devices with a selection of iOS and macOS video guides from Mac

Apple faces another lawsuit regarding the iOS App Store. As noted by AppleInsider, class-action lawsuit filed against the company in California claim that Apple is engaged in anti-competitiv behaviour by limiting devices that use iOS to only using iO

The second generation of iPod Shuffle could be considered Apple’s first wearable tech, as it neatly clipped onto your clothing. Four new colours, in addition to silver, came the following year. ■

It’s that time of year again, iCreate folks. All the Apple events are done for the year, and we now know what the next generation of iPhones and iPads looks like. And what a line-up it is! As Apple aficionados we’re blessed to have the very best choi

Photos Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed By default your iPhone’s Camera app attempts to capture a photo featuring accurate colours and tones. The latest iPhone 13 models have a new Photographic Styles feature that subtly adjusts the look of

iMovie Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Movie makers can create an attractive clip by having their star in focus while blurring the background. They can also tell stories by pulling focus between background and foreground subjects to highli

Final Cut Pro Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available An effective way to make titles and captions look more eye-catching is to create animated three-dimensional letters that look like they are part of a clip’s location. We’ll d

Garage Band Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Tempo is undoubtedly one of the most pivotal building blocks of song composition. Measured in beats per minute, it dictates overall timing. This will in turn direct the speed and the feel. Garage

Logic Pro Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Pioneered in Akai’s famous MPC range of drum sequencers in the 1980’s, Note Repeat is a really handy feature when programming drum parts, especially if you’re into making trap or

macOS 12.0 Monterey Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Now that the big macOS update has finally arrived, it’s time to take a minute to explore the various new features and special effects that Monterey brings to your Mac desktop. For the mai

Safari Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed If you had experienced the various beta releases of macOS Monterey you would be aware that the tab design in Safari had dramatically changed. It was a contentious design update and one that is still a

macOS 12.0 Monterey Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Focus is a new addition to macOS Monterey and iOS/iPadOS 15 that expands the Do Not Disturb feature that you will already be familiar with. Focus allows you to block off periods of the da

Word-Counter / Word Counter Pro Developer Tamas Iuliu/App Tyrant Group Difficulty Time needed It may feel like a perfectly normal feature on a Mac, to be able to count words and characters, but in reality it is a facility that is only available in Pa

Pages Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed If you want to create eBooks for people, either free or paid, Pages is a great app for creating them and it has some useful features to help you. For example, you can create a cover for them, either fr

Apple has always prided itself on the intuitiveness of its operating systems, so much so that conventional instruction manuals have never been bundled with its hardware. Of course, the ‘Help’ option is ever-present in your Mac’s menu bar and it is fr

Pages Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The latest versions of iOS, iPadOS and macOS have built in translation capabilities and any text you select can be converted to any one of a dozen foreign languages with a few taps or clicks. We will l

Mimi Hearing Test Developer Mimi Hearing Technologies Difficulty Time needed AirPods and other wireless headphones can be expensive and one of the main requirements for any user has to be good audio quality. It follows that the more you spend, the mo

iOS 15 Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Dragging and dropping files between apps feels like a natural process. We do it all the time on our Macs and we’ve been making use of such functionality on the iPad since 2017. Only now, however, can

Most people purchase a new iPhone, or indeed any tech product, and they leave the settings set to the defaults laid down by the manufacturer. This is a perfectly acceptable routine and no problems are likely to appear because of this, but there are t

Safari Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed One of the best new features of Safari in iPadOS 15 is the ability to group open browser tabs into groups. This superb addition – called, catchily enough, Tab Groups – can help you avoid having to wad

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed So many people seem to settle for using the default ‘Note’ tone for Messages and Mail alerts on their iPhones and iPads that it is often hard to tell if the telltale ping is coming from your device

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Many of us have indoor and outdoor cameras, with video doorbells proving very popular. If your devices are HomeKit compatible (check the instructions that came with your device or search online to f

Facebook iCreateMagazine Twitter @iCreateMagazine Instagram icreate_mag Email icreate@futurenet.com The place to come for key terms made easy This refers to a feature in iOS that lets you view all of the apps currently open on your device. When in th

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Pages Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The latest Pages and Numbers updates bring interesting language capabilities and you can choose the language and region for a document. Previously, dates, currency and number formatting were automatica

News Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Apple has tweaked its News app for the release of macOS Monterey, starting with a new design that makes it easier to browse and read stories. It has also added a ‘Shared with You’ section to the sidebar

Price £75.99/$99.99 Requirements Apple M1 Chip or Intel processor • macOS Catalina (10.15) or later • 4 GB RAM Learn more acdsee.com Available from acdsee.com The Colour Wheel can be used to target Saturation, Hue and Contrast New Colour LUTs can be

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