Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited. Stationery Pad doesn’t get much attention these days,…
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A Complete Guide to Apple’s New AI Writing Tools
Writing Tools is one of the main Apple Intelligence features that’s available in the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 betas for developers and public beta testers. As the name suggests, Writing Tools are meant to help you write. This guide goes over everything you can do with Writing Tools, where you can use them, and what…
Adobe Takes 40% Off Creative Cloud All Apps for Your First Year
Adobe this week is offering first-time subscribers of the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan a 40 percent discount on the service. With this sale, you’ll pay $35.99 per month for the plan, down from $59.99 per month, and this price will last through your first year. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe. When you click…
Apple’s New AI Tool Can Bring Images to Life with Your Descriptions
Apple has made another addition to its growing AI repertoire with the creation of a tool that leverages large language models (LLMs) to animate static images based on a user’s text prompts. MacRumors image made with DALL·E Apple describes the innovation in a new research paper titled “Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design Using Large Language Models.”…
Adobe Introduces New AI Features in Photoshop and Illustrator
Adobe today updated its Illustrator and Photoshop Creative Cloud apps, introducing a range of new features that streamline productivity. Many of the additions take advantage of generative AI and machine learning to save creators time. Photoshop has a new Selection Brush Tool for selecting areas by brushing over them without having to use the Quick Mask mode….
Instagram Launches ‘Edits’ App to Compete with CapCut
Instagram has unveiled a new video editing app called Edits, which aims to fill the void left by CapCut’s removal from U.S. app stores following federal restrictions on ByteDance-owned applications. The announcement came from head Adam Mosseri, explaining that Edits as a “full suite of creative tools” for mobile video creators. According to Mosseri, Edits is…
Apple Purchases Photo Editing App Developer Pixelmator
Apple has reached an agreement to acquire Pixelmator, the company behind popular photo and image editing apps Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval, according to an announcement made by the Pixelmator team on Friday. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, Pixelmator has developed a suite of well-regarded creative tools that compete…
Setapp to Debut as One of the Initial Third-Party App Stores for iPhone in EU
MacPaw today announced that Setapp will be available as an alternative app marketplace on the iPhone in the EU starting in April. Those wanting access to the beta version can join a waitlist, and developers interested in the platform can apply on this page. Alternative app marketplaces are among the several changes that Apple is implementing in the EU with iOS 17.4, in…