How to Use Drum Machine Designer in Logic Pro

Logic Pro’s Drum Machine Designer (DMD) allows you to easily assemble and operate a handpicked drum kit. You can source your sounds from the stock electronic drum kit library in Logic, third-party software instruments, and even your own samples to build up the perfect kit for your audio. Once you’ve become accustomed to the flow and process of creating and refining your drum kits in the DMD, you’ll find little reason not to use it in most of your percussive productions....

June 7, 2025 · 6 min · 1244 words · Alexis Jacobs

How to Use the Temperature and Humidity Sensor in Apple's HomePod mini, HomePod

How to Use the Temperature and Humidity Sensor in Apple’s HomePod mini, HomePod While Apple’s HomePod mini and HomePod are great ways to rock out with the music you love and even interact with Siri, there is a unique smart home feature you might not know about. The HomePod mini and second-generation HomePod offer a built-in temperature and humidity sensor. We’ll show you how to access that information and how it can be used as part of a smart home....

June 7, 2025 · 4 min · 713 words · Andrea Murphy

How you use the Photo Unblur on your Google Pixel smartphone

Android is home toexcellent photo editing software. Most of it works acrossthe latest Android tabletsand phones and is further improved by the prevalence of artificial intelligence. AI is used to schedule our daily tasks and improve productivity. It can also enhance our photos. Like many other companies, Google is privy to this and has incorporated AI into its software. For example, Magic Compose, a feature within Google Messages, uses AI to adjust the tone of messages to each recipient....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 342 words · Jennifer Crawford

I Don't Recommend Buying These 6 Apple Devices Right Now

Quick Links With the holiday shopping season here, you may be excited to add some Apple products to your shopping or gifting list. However, there are some Apple products I wouldn’t recommend buying since Apple will likely refresh them in the near future. 1iPhone SE The iPhone SE is by far the most cost-effective way to enjoy everything an iPhone has to offer. However, Apple last updated in early 2022, and the device features a small 4....

June 7, 2025 · 4 min · 781 words · Michelle Price

LA Times Crossword June 16, 2025 Answers (5/3/25)

Our LA Times Crossword June 17, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The LA Times Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle published in the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest newspapers in the United States. It is highly regarded by crossword enthusiasts for its challenging clues and clever themes. It is a traditional-style crossword, with a grid of black and white squares, and clues in both the across and down directions....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 357 words · Richard Mendoza

LA Times Mini Crossword August 21, 2025 Answers (7/23/25)

Our LA Times Mini Crossword July 16, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The LA Times Mini Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle published in the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest newspapers in the United States. It is highly regarded by crossword enthusiasts for its challenging clues and clever themes. It is a traditional-style crossword, with a grid of black and white squares, and clues in both the across and down directions....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 363 words · Patricia Stone

LA Times Mini Crossword June 02, 2025 Answers (7/6/25)

Our LA Times Mini Crossword August 08, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The LA Times Mini Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle published in the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest newspapers in the United States. It is highly regarded by crossword enthusiasts for its challenging clues and clever themes. It is a traditional-style crossword, with a grid of black and white squares, and clues in both the across and down directions....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Daniel Nichols

Marvel's Newest Scarlet Witch Story Is A Brutal Reminder Of What The MCU Missed Out On

Scarlet Witchhas been an important character in theMarvel Cinematic Universebeginning inAvengers: Age of Ultron, but a new story gives a harsh reminder that the hero could have been used so much differently in the universe. Scarlet Witch’s death inthe main MCU timelinecaused considerable outrage, especially asit seemed the character was just finally about to reach her potential.Relegated to a background position in the universe, Wanda Maximoff was criminally underused for most of her time in the MCU....

June 7, 2025 · 5 min · 1046 words · Jonathan Robinson

Motorola's bendy smartphone is a futuristic dead end

You don’t just come toMobile World Congressfor smartphone announcements andGalaxy Ring teases. Half the fun of trade shows comes from concept devices, gadgets thatcouldinfluence the products of tomorrow, shown off in a phase well before development truly kicks off. We’ve seen this sort of jump before — after all, it wasn’t all that long ago thatfoldables weren’t much morethan Samsung’s display concepts held behind glass cases, unable to be tried and tested by general audiences....

June 7, 2025 · 5 min · 950 words · Clayton Price

New Adobe Creative Cloud Subscribers Should Check Out These Excellent Free Resources

Quick Links A learning curve is inevitable when using Adobe Creative Cloud apps, but you can learn more quickly with several free online resources. Below is our pick of the best resources for Illustrator, InDesign, and several other Adobe platforms, including online communities, YouTube playlists, and online courses. 1Learn Adobe Illustrator on Udemy Udemy has a handful of free courses for all kinds of subjects, and you’ll find a couple of excellent resources for Adobe CC apps....

June 7, 2025 · 6 min · 1180 words · Thomas Mccarthy

NYT Connections Answers for June 29, 2025

NYT has debuted another new game called Connections, which is officially in its beta phase, so we will have to wait and see if it becomes part of the full NYT Games rotation in the future. The game is described as “group words that share a common thread.” If you’re looking for NYT Connections Answers for June 17, 2025, we have the answers for you! Don’t forget to check out ourNYT Crosswords,NYT Mini Crosswords,NYT Spelling Bee, andNYT Wordlecoverage....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 339 words · Aaron Michael

NYT Mini Crossword Hints August 06, 2025

Our NYT Mini Crossword Hints for July 18, 2025 puzzle will help you move through the grid if you’ve found yourself stuck on a clue. The New York Times Mini Crossword is a smaller, quicker version of the paper’s famous daily crossword puzzle. It’s designed for solvers who want to exercise their brain without spending a lot of time on a single puzzle. The mini crossword is just as challenging as its bigger counterpart, but with fewer clues and a smaller grid....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 402 words · Yvonne Wallace

OnePlus: How to use the Screen Recording feature

Most Android phones have a built-in screen recording feature, and OnePlus phones are no different. All OnePlus phones, includingour favorite foldable, the OnePlus Open, come with a screen recorder that allows you to record your screen without installing third-party apps. We show you how to record the screen on your OnePlus phone and offer tips for making the best recordings. How to record your screen with the OnePlus screen recorder OnePlus phones come with a preinstalled screen recorder....

June 7, 2025 · 4 min · 652 words · Jason Griffin