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2022 has been a great year for Apple tech. The iPhone 14, especially the Pro series, brought us unbridled power, awesome innovations to the cameras and – in Dynamic Island – acute enhancement to the display that morphs into whatever you need it to be

The second generation of Apple TV came with a stylish, wafer-thin metal remote. We just wonder how many sofas have gone to landfill with one of these skinny remotes wedged down the side? ■

Arriving in time for the holiday season, Apple Music Sing is an extension of Apple Music that allows fans to sing along to tens of millions of songs. We were distraught when Sony ceased support for its PlayStation karaoke service, SingStar. How woul

As Apple shifted its focus towards digital music consumption (with CD-DR drives and iTunes), these iMacs came in ‘Blue Dalmatian’ and ‘Flower Power’ patterns to represent how music would look. ■

WE ALL HAVE OUR FAVOURITE APPS AND GAMES THAT WE ENJOY ON A DAILY BASIS, BUT DO YOU EVER HAVE THAT FEAR THAT THERE IS OTHER GREAT SOFTWARE OUT THERE THAT YOU MAY BE MISSING OUT ON? Apple’s annual App Store Awards were dished out at the start of Decem

DSLR camera users can manually choose a slow shutter speed to add creative motion blur effects to a shot, such as making light trails streak across the frame from a passing car, or adding ephemeral paint-like strokes to flowing water. The iPhone’s Ca

Creating a resolution to get fit and lose weight for the new year is an incredibly popular goal to set. Alas, giving up on the goal within a few days is also incredibly common. Being able to visualise your progress and to gamify your exercise and eat

As you’ll see from this issue’s iMovie tutorial, you can mimic the effect of lightning and thunder by combining practical on-location lighting effects with post-production sound. Final Cut Pro’s more comprehensive collection of special effects enable

Acore element that makes a professional movie stand out from an amateur production is the use of external light sources. Light effects add an extra level of colour and texture to a scene. With the appropriate light effects you can add neon glows, dra

EQ, or equalisation, is all about manipulating the constituent parts of an audio signal. It involves boosting or reducing the volume of frequency ranges or ‘bands’ to achieve a certain response. In practical terms, we might want to add brighter highs

Logic’s toolbox is full of goodies to enhance your editing workflow, but one of the most useful is the Fade tool, which allows you to draw crossfades between audio regions for smoother edits. If you chop up and rearrange audio regions, and/or unwante

Although modern games are amazing and your Mac is capable of playing a host of great titles thanks to services such as Apple Arcade and Steam, there’s a heap of fun to be had by delving into the past. With OpenEmu, you can do just that. Thanks to emu

Start Pages, click ‘New Document’ and a collection of templates appears, enabling you to get started quickly with various types of documents. What if your project does not fit one of the ready-made templates? You could start with the Blank template,

Audio on the Mac keeps on getting better, but even if you don’t have the latest M2-powered Mac, sounds are still pretty good. There are new ways to configure sounds in macOS Ventura, and it is easier than ever to customise the audio output and input.

There is a great new photo tool in macOS Ventura that enables you to erase the background of a photo, leaving just the subject as a cut-out. It works across several applications, like Pages and Numbers, but here we show how to use it in Keynote. Cutt

One of the most noticeable changes in macOS Ventura is the switch from System Preferences to System Settings. Certain features have been moved, redesigned, or even removed. Here we take a quick tour of the new Network section. VPNs are now in their o

Apple’s Find My service is a shining example of how to track devices. Thanks to the huge network of iPhones, you can see the location of AirTags and other Apple devices in the Find My app. However, one missing feature is location history – you can se

As Mac users, Apple’s Safari internet browser is a staple of our everyday lives. Whether it’s for checking Gmail, catching up on the latest news or watching YouTube videos, Safari is a simple and robust app for enjoying the best that the worldwide we

Imagine you’ve placed an order for a pizza on your iPhone. You may get a notification telling you that your order has been accepted, that it’s in the oven, or with a delivery driver. When keeping up with the latest scores, you may also be pinged when

The new Safety Check feature in iOS 16 is designed to do two things. First, it allows you to instantly cut ties – through data sharing, location-tracking, etc – with an abusive partner and help protect your personal safety. Second, it brings many of

Focus modes enable you to silence unwanted distractions when you do not want to be disturbed. Focus modes have been around for some time, but they recently acquired new features that make them even better thanks to iOS 16. Previously, Focus was able

Unfortunately, the iPhone’s battery is only designed to retain up to 80 per cent of its original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles. But how do you know how many cycles your iPhone has completed, given the information is not included in the Batte

Being able to check when someone was last seen on WhatsApp, or when they’re currently online, is rather useful. It helps you determine how frequently someone uses the app, or whether they are currently available to be contacted. But you may not wish

When Affinity Publisher arrived on the Mac in 2019, we were impressed. Not only was this desktop publishing app available for a one-off fee (no subscription needed!), it also gave Adobe InDesign a run for its money. The main downside was that, unlike

Developer Apple Inc Difficulty ●○○ Time needed 05 Upgrade your iPad to 16.2 or later and you will discover a new app has been added: Freeform. It’s billed as a way of bringing your ideas to life by handing you a blank canvas and letting you populate

Developer Apple Inc Difficulty ●○○ Time needed 02 Using Low Power Mode can make a difference to how long your device can go before it needs recharging. When active, it saves battery life by turning off features that you may not find necessary, such a

Developer Fifteen Jugglers Software UG Difficulty ●○○ Time needed 15 When you think about the weather and the conditions you need to contend with on a daily basis, it is likely that you do not often consider the behaviour of the sun. The fact is, how

Facebook iCreateMagazine Twitter @iCreateMagazine Instagram icreate_mag Email icreate@futurenet.com The place to come for key terms made easy This is a feature of macOS that can be used to display and manage your open windows and desktop spaces. Usin

Developer Apple Inc Difficulty ●○○ Time needed 03 When it comes to gaming, sometimes you may need a helping hand. Even the best players can find themselves getting stuck from time to time, unable to figure out how something is supposed to work or get

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Price £23.99/$26.99 Requirements iPadOS 13.0 or later Learn more pixaki.com Available from iPadOS App Store THIS APP PROVIDES iPAD OWNERS WITH A WAY TO CRAFT PIXEL ART. The style originated by necessity during the 1970s and 1980s, and might seem obso

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Future Publishing Limited, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA To email, enter firstname.surname@futurenet.com Editor Ryan Butt Art Editor Newton Ribeiro Production Editor Rachel Terzian Head of Art & Design Rodney Dive Group Art Director Jo Gulliv