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THE iPAD IS another product that will go down in Apple folklore. Even if we’d seen the last-ever iPad built and sold, it would leave a legacy behind that few products could imagine. But, although worldwide tablet usage is slowly declining, Apple stil

Back in the days of analogue film cameras we limited our photo shoots to special occasions such as birthdays and holidays. We would then pop our prints into physical albums and share them with visitors to our home. In these digital days we always hav

Many movies and TV shows use compositing techniques to enhance a scene. Compositing involves removing an object’s background, adding it as a separate layer and animating it. In this way we can make a vintage plane on one layer fly past a person on a

Many programmes feature interviews in which the subject talks about their experience or area of expertise. However, these statically framed ‘talking head’ style interviews run the risk of being boring. They can also be tricky to edit as any cuts can

For all of GarageBand’s innovation, it retains credible versatility as traditional music production software. Below the surface sheen of progressive new tools, there are certain underlying features that are well worth discovering for advanced compose

Working with vocals, whether spoken-word or sung, presents its own set of challenges, and Logic Pro X contains plenty of built-in EQ, compression and other tools for tackling these. However, if you use too many dynamics plugins, or if the vocal is po

Catalina will be the biggest update your Mac receives since Mojave and the whole operating system will be replaced. Despite the magnitude of these annual macOS updates, they usually proceed without errors or problems of any kind. However, that does n

There are many ways to share files and folders between Macs and if they are your own, then iCloud is brilliant. Sharing with someone else is not so easy and is limited with iCloud, even with Catalina’s folder sharing. Resilio Sync is a more powerful

Preview is probably one of the most used apps on the Mac, partly because it can do so many things, from editing photos to viewing PDF documents. However, it has features that are not obvious and Apple seems to have hidden them. For example, images ca

Sometimes you want to share one or more files with other Mac users and you can AirDrop them to other Macs and they can AirDrop back to you, but really this is quite limited file sharing. What if you want to work on the same files, such as sharing doc

Your Mac’s Downloads folder can soon become a long and disorganised list of files, making it hard to find the items you need. One way to combat this is to automatically categorise downloads by type and you can open Finder, create subfolders for diffe

Security company Malwarebytes reported a 60 per cent increase in Mac malware for Q1 2019. Don’t panic, it is mostly from adware, which is more of an irritation than a security issue. However, Apple recently had to silently remove a security threat ac

The Photos app is great for correcting exposure problems with photographs, but that is as far as it goes and it does little beyond this. If you want to add special effects to your photos and use more advanced tools and features, Photo Image Editor Pi

Do you share files with work colleagues or friends? You can securely AirDrop them if they have a Mac and are on the same local network, but what if they are somewhere else and you have to email files or share them using some other means? How can you

You don’t have to wait for the official release of iOS 13 to see what the new features will be like and you don’t need to sign up for a developer account to test the very latest release. Apple’s Public Beta program lets you install the correct profil

When using Safari, it’s easy to find yourself with multiple tabs at your fingertips since they do not automatically close when you leave the browser. Indeed, if you so wish, you can open as many as 500 tabs in iOS’s Safari but if you do and you decid

As you install more apps, finding content using Spotlight can become a jumbled mess. You may be searching for a specific term in an email, for instance, only to find Spotlight is throwing up results contained in videos, music, maps, books and marketp

Apple hasn’t yet included its Notes app on the Watch but that doesn’t mean you’re left with no means of capturing ideas on the go. There are numerous note-taking apps available which bridge this gap and Google Keep’s recent availability on Apple Watc

Apple Watch will automatically back up its data to your iPhone, helping to protect your settings and information in case you lose your wearable, develop a fault or seek to upgrade. By storing the data locally on your iPhone, you can quickly restore y

When watching TV, many of us reach for our iPhones during those tedious advert breaks, specifically social networking apps such as Twitter, but what if you want to avoid spoilers for the shows you’re watching? Whether it’s Game of Thrones or Love Isl

I have heard that there is a Mac trick to go straight to the top of the office printer queue – is this a thing or have I misheard? It is, indeed, a thing. Go to System Preferences>Printers & Scanners and then select all of the shared printers in you

Whenever I try to import a double-CD into iTunes it appears as two separate entries in my library – one for each disc. Is there any way I can make both discs appear as one entry to keep things neater? There certainly is, and it just involves adjusti