Apple has revealed the winners and finalists of the 2025 Apple Design Awards with formal recognition coming during WWDC25. The company says the 12 stand-out apps and games set a high bar in design with development teams from around the world selected for excellence in innovation, ingenuity and technical achievement. The awards recognise one app and…
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How to create a new iMovie Library
Creating a new iMovie library is a great way to organize projects and to make it easy to transfer iMovie projects between different Macs. Anthony CaruanaAnthony is the founder of Australian Apple News. He is a long-time Apple user and former editor of Australian Macworld. He has contributed to many technology magazines and newspapers as…
Using iMovie with two Macs
If you’ve worked in Apple’s ecosystem for a while, you’d be familiar with how easy it is to seamlessly start a task on one Mac and then move to another and pick up from where you left off. But I’ve discovered all is not simple. I was working on an iMovie project on my MacBook…
Apple injects Apple Intelligence into Final Cut apps
Apple Intelligence has been plugged into Final Cut Pro for Mac and iPad as well as Final Cut Camera. While looking like a mere point upgrade, Apple has added many new features to these apps. The big change is support for Image Playground – Apple’s AI-driven image creation tool. But there are a bunch of…
Apple Invites – a new app for organising events
Apple has introduced a new app for iPhone that helps users create custom invitations to gather friends and family for any occasion. Apple Invites enables users to create and easily share invitations, RSVP, contribute to Shared Albums, and engage with Apple Music playlists. Apple Invites, which was codenamed ‘Confetti’ while in development, can be downloaded…
Apple adds Recent Notes menu or you could create a Smart Folder
I used Apple’s Notes app every day – it’s where I draft almost every post that goes on this site. There are days when I flip between several notes as I work on different stories and ideas. To make life a little easier, Apple added a Recent Notes option to its app. Here’s how to…
Apple to spread “Confetti” to help event and meeting planners
It looks like a new app, called Invites, will be release by Apple in the coming days. Invites will help people organise parties, meetings and other functions. Reports say the new service, codenamed ‘Confetti’ will be tied to iCloud, signalling Apple’s continued focus on adding functions to its fast-growing service business. While Apple’s Calendar app…
Aussie developer creates new smartphone sleep test
Australian medical technology company Optalert says it has developed test for sleep issues that takes just 10 minutes on a smartphone. The Owl Eye app was developed with data from Monash Medical Centre, the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and the Institute for Breathing and Sleep (IBAS. Optalert says the app is able to detect sleep…
Apple’s acquisition of Pixelmator – Adobe will pay
Apple recently acquired image editing powerhouse Pixelmator. This is an app that emerged as a result of Adobe’s high prices and shift to costly and inconvenient subscriptions. With Apple buying Pixelmator, the team from Cupertino have filled a huge gap in its creative software arsenal. Apple was, for many years, the software leader in creative…
Apple has broken SuperDuper’s ability to create bootable backups
Shirt Pocket Software, the maker of the excellent Mac system cloning tool Super Duper, reports that Apple has broken the software’s ability to create bootable backups. Bootable backups of a system can be incredibly useful. If your Mac fails a bootable backup means to you can grab another Mac, boot from the backup drive and…