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Although apps such as TikTok would have you believe that your iPhone is capable of all manner of black magic, taking a feature that has been lurking in plain sight for eons and dressing it up as some kind of revolutionary hack, there is definitely mu

APPLE HAS ADDED AN ENTIRELY NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE HEADLESS COMPUTER TO ITS DESKTOP LINEUP, AIMED AT PROFESSIONALS WHO NEED RAW GRUNT FOR TASKS SUCH AS 3D RENDERING, CODE COMPILATION, IMAGE PROCESSING, OR INTENSIVE VIDEO ENCODING. Mac Studio looks much

Apple made history after CODA landed three Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with wins for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Siân Heder. The winners were revealed a

Supporting full 1:1 1080p playback on a 1920×1200 pixel screen, Apple’s Cinema Display made our Macs look marvellous ■

If you use apps that involve gestures, such as swiping up in TikTok, head to Settings>Accessibility> Voice Control, turn ‘Voice Control’ on, and then tap Customise Commands>Custom>Create New Command. You can then enter a command, draw the action and

Photos Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Professional photographers use Digital SLR cameras for a host of reasons. They can use them to swap lenses to suit their subject. They also enable pros to shoot in RAW format to capture as much detail

iMovie Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available Many news and documentary programmes contain interviews. To make a standard ‘talking head’ style interview look more interesting, you need to shoot cutaway shots. As well as adding

Final Cut Pro Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Download available The acronym GIBO (Garbage In Garbage Out) certainly applies to the quality of your production’s sound. Although Final Cut Pro can reduce unwanted background noise the ‘fixed’

Garage Band Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Guitarists love GarageBand and rightly so, it’s great. However, usable heavy sounds take time to find. Loud, high-gain tones can feel harsh if you use default Library patches. This is where Nembr

Logic Pro Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Packed with tools to make arranging your songs easier, Logic is a veritable Swiss army knife when it comes to producing music. Nowhere is this more evident than in the main Tracks area, where the b

Time Machine Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed When you no longer need a file, it is a good idea to delete it. This not only frees up space on the disk, but it is also good for privacy and security if the file contains sensitive information

System Preferences Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed What are the first things you should do when you get a new Mac? Whether you’ve just got a new Mac Studio M1 Ultra or a MacBook Air, there are plenty of ways in which you can personalise an

macOS Monterey Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The Mac’s Dock shows icons for common apps and just works. What more is there to it? Quite a bit actually. There are some useful ways to customise it and you can change the appearance and make

Edge Developer Microsoft Difficulty Time needed Are there websites that you access a lot? Convert them into apps that run on the desktop in their own resizable window. Accessing websites in a browser like Safari means that there is unnecessary clutte

Terminal Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed To get information about a Mac’s hardware and the software installed, clicking the Apple logo and ‘About This Mac’ is straightforward. If you need more details though, there is a useful command call

Numbers Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Spreadsheets are usually thought of as number crunchers, performing statistical calculations on numeric data. They are also good at handling text, too. For example, you can store names, addresses and

Apple provides a nice collection of apps with a new Mac and extra ones can be downloaded from the App store, such as Pages, Numbers and others. The apps are excellent and they are free, but they are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to free s

A road trip is about much more than filling your car up with fuel and setting off for a long drive. There is a surprising number of things you need to organise and research before you set off, but with your Apple products you have all of the tools yo

iOS 15 Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Screenshots are useful if you want to copy your iPhone’s screen for reference. Sometimes, however, you want to draw attention to a specific part of the screen. You could crop the section of screen you

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed One of the most useful aspects of iCloud Keychain is its ability to securely store your usernames and passwords and make them available across all of your Apple devices. Since it makes use of end-to

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed How many times have you typed a message and ten seconds after you sent it, the realisation dawns that you made a typing slip, or even worse, the iPhone changed a word into something else? You can fi

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed You can remember your last purchase on the iPhone, but what was your first? Can you remember what you bought in July 2018 or March 2014? Your iPhone can. Apple records all apps purchased on the iPho

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed The iPhone’s stereo speakers are rather good – it’s possible to turn it up loud and listen to songs without investing in a Bluetooth speaker (although they’re still recommended). Indeed, from iPhone

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed We don’t usually give iOS’ keyboard a second thought. But why not consider a change? Companies such as Microsoft SwiftKey, Grammarly, Typewise and Fleksy produce great keyboards. They add powerful d

Settings Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Being able to swipe from the corner of the screen to invoke the Quick Notes feature or take a screenshot has proven useful. All you need to do is swipe with your finger or Apple Pencil from the bott

iPadOS 15.4 macOS Monterey 12.3 Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed Universal Control is an unusual new feature in the world of iPadOS and macOS, in that it is almost invisible when activated. It is actually hard to notice in use, but this is

Apple Watch Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed There are many reasons why you may want to control your Apple Watch without physically touching the screen. Perhaps you have limited motor functions or limb differences. Maybe you’re wearing glov

Apple Watch Developer Apple Inc Difficulty Time needed We’d hazard a guess that many Apple users haven’t fully embraced shortcuts, but they’re certainly useful. They let you automate app actions, making it easier to get things done. There are also lo

EZ Plus Developer Behrang Nosrat Makouei Difficulty Time needed EZ Plus is a digital signage app, which lets you display slides on your Apple TV. Each slide can have a title and summary and they continue to roll around, advertising products and servi

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£44.99/$44.99 amazon.co.uk If you use your MacBook with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse then this sleek, vertical aluminium stand will suspend it away from spills while making it look like the slimmest desktop Mac on the market. It’s well cra

Price Free Requirements AmpliTube 5 (5.4 or later) • IK account Learn more ikmultimedia.com/tonenet Available from ikmultimedia.com You can interact with fellow musicians, share tones and more New tones appear as ‘cards’ in a continuously updating fe

• System on chip: Apple A6 • CPU: 1.3 GHz dual core 32-bit ARMv7-A “Swift” • GPU: PowerVR SGX543MP3 (triple-core) • Memory: 1 GB LPDDR2-1066 RAM • Storage: 8, 16 or 32 GB • Display: Four-inch (16:9 aspect ratio) Retina multi-touch display, 640×1136 p