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Adobe Creative Cloud 2020

Earlier this week, Adobe launched the latest version of the Creative Cloud suite, CC 2020. While we plan to offer a more detailed look at a later time, including the possibility of a couple competitive reviews (think Affinity apps), this article provides a quick overview. Overall this release is more about the improvement of existing functions and added stability and less about headline features. While that’s not as exciting to the average user, this approach is not a bad thing. For years, many long-time users complained that Adobe fell victim to the “feature bloat” trap. They perennially released new features that were designed to wow people (i.e., were easier to market) but which were either not often requested or not fully “baked.” In the meantime, many existing, commonly used features were not evolving.

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New Features in Pages 8.2 for Mac

While there has been a lot of coverage of the new features in Apple's operating systems – primarily macOS Catalina, iOS 13, and iPadOS 13 – some of Apple's productivity apps have also gained functionality recently. Today we'll take a look at some useful new features that appeared in Pages 8.2, which became available on September 30th, 2019.

Unicode: Adding Thousands of Characters to Your Mac

Our Mac keyboards have a limited number of characters on them, primarily letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and a few special characters like the Apple logo mark () that can be typed using keyboard combinations like Option-Shift-K. Through the use of a computer industry standard called Unicode, it's possible to type any of 137,994 characters! Today we'll show you how that's done using Unicode and the Option key.

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Catalina Quick Tip: How to Use Screen Time

macOS Catalina brings Screen Time, a previous iOS-only feature, to the Mac. It creates usage reports that show you how much time is being spent on your computer, which apps are used most, and how many notifications are received.  With...

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Catalina Quick Tip: How to Unlock Apps Using Apple Watch

With  macOS Catalina, you can use your Apple Watch  to authenticate passwords or approve app installations when you double tap on the Side button. This is especially handy on Macs that don't have Touch ID, which is all desktop Macs,...

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Catalina Quick Tip: How to Use Gallery View and Share in Notes

The new Gallery View in macOS Catalina’s Notes displays your notes as visual thumbnails, which makes it easier to find a specific note. The app also gets updated Share features. To see notes in Gallery View, launch Notes and go...

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