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Apple has announced Everyone Can Create and Schoolwork with educational institutions in mind.

Everyone Can Create is a new, free curriculum designed to make it fun and easy for teachers to integrate drawing, music, filmmaking or photography into their existing lesson plans for any subject. The new curriculum joins Apple’s Everyone Can Code initiative as programs for teachers and students. Everyone Can Create is designed to take advantage of the new 9.7-inch iPad and Apple Pencil.

Apple has released a new 9.7-inch iPad with support for the Apple Pencil with pricing starting at $329. The revamped iPad also sports a Retina display, the A10 Fusion chip and advanced sensors that help deliver immersive augmented reality, and all-day battery life.

FxFactory has released XEffects Smooth Glass Slideshow, a new set of Final Cut Pro X plugins.

Developed by partner Idustrial Revolution, the plugins are a pack of effects, transitions and titles that build beautiful glossy slideshows for images or video. They can be used variety of projects, from broadcast show openers, social media projects, and more. Editors can stack as many traveling glossy bars as they wish on the timeline to produce eye-catching results, according to Peter Wiggins, plugin developer at Idustrial Revolution.

Ergonis Software has released KeyCue 8.7, a new version of the keyboard shortcut “cheat sheet” for the Mac.

KeyCue displays an instant overview of the currently available keyboard shortcuts; application-specific menu shortcuts as well as system-wide hotkeys and user-defined shortcut descriptions. Version 8.7 is a maintenance release for KeyCue 8, while Ergonis is already preparing to release KeyCue 9 later this year.

IK Multimedia has added 3D mic positioning and other Cab Room features (www.ikmultimedia.com/cabroom) for AmpliTube Custom Shop, the free version of their AmpliTube guitar amp and effects modeling software.

Previously only available for AmpliTube 4 users, these premium features are now available at no extra cost to all users. AmpliTube is guitar and bass tone software for the Mac and PC.