Apple Products Articles

Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-18-2022

The Apple TV streaming device and iCloud.com are two of the ways you can access many of your Apple One services. Get the most out of your Apple TV’s Siri remote control and discover the best web browsers to use with iCloud.com, ensuring a better consumer experience.

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Music is a vital part of most movies (even non-musicals), setting the tone for your video, and Apple iMovies are no different. You can add music to your iMovie as a background score. Even better, you can also add other sound effects to movies in iMovie.

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Your movie may not be complete without a voiceover. Fortunately, you don’t have to hire a professional to record a voiceover in Apple iMovie. You can narrate a movie and add your voice anywhere you want in your video.

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Adding still photos inside your movie is a great way to show off your artistic prowess in Apple iMovie. You can even add motion effects to those pictures in what is known as the Ken Burns effect (named for the famed documentary filmmaker). Here’s how:

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

No matter what the topic of your movie, you need a decent title to hook an audience, and perhaps even closing credits. Because adding titles is so easy in Apple iMovie, why not give yourself credit for your great movie?

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

You can find music for your Mac's version of iTunes at the iTunes Store, where people have downloaded more than five billion songs since Apple opened it. Buying music online is useful because you have more selection, and every song in the iTunes store is always “in stock,” and you can start listening to the music you buy inside iTunes seconds after making a purchase. So just how do you find a song you like on Apple iTunes?

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Sometimes you need to display data in chart form. Snow Leopard’s Numbers application gives you the ability to use the data you add to a spreadsheet to generate a professional-looking chart. Follow these steps to create a chart in Numbers:

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Snow Leopard’s Numbers application offers plenty of formatting options for the data in your spreadsheet. After you enter data into a cell, row, or column, you may need to format it before it appears correctly. Number formatting determines how a cell displays a number. For example you might want data to appear as a dollar amount, a percentage, or a date. Characters and formatting rules, such as decimal places, commas, and dollar and percentage notation, are included in number formatting. So if your spreadsheet contains units of currency, such as dollars, format it as such. Then all you need to do is type the numbers, and the currency formatting is applied automatically. To specify a number format, follow these steps:

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Snow Leopard’s Numbers application lets you add shading to cells. Shading the contents of a cell, row, or column is helpful when your spreadsheet contains subtotals or logical divisions. Follow these steps to shade cells, rows, or columns:

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Mac OS X Snow Leopard lets you create email rules — automated actions that Mail can take based on what is included in the email. With rules, you can specify that actions, such as transfering messages from one folder to another, forwarding messages to another address, and highlighting or delete messages, be performed on email that meet certain criteria. To set up a rule, follow these steps: