iPhone 15, Mac Pro, and iPad rumors are running wild!
January ended with a flurry of rumors about Apple products. And it wasn’t just about Apple’s reality headset, which we covered in episode 823. The rumor mill is churning out speculation about just...
View ArticleThunderbolt adapter guide: How to connect anything to a USB-C Mac
Apple equips its Macs with Thunderbolt ports that are compatible with USB-C. The MacBook Pro comes with either two or three of these ports, depending on the model you pick. A new MacBook Air has a...
View ArticleHow to manage multiple Time Machine backups on and off your Mac
Apple lets you use Time Machine to create a backup from your Mac of all the data files, apps, and other stuff that’s not part of the macOS system installation. (Before macOS 11 Big Sur, you could back...
View ArticleMacBook Air: Buy now or wait?
The MacBook Air is Apple’s most popular laptop, and for good reason. It’s thin and light, performs very well, and is the most affordable laptop Apple sells. At the end of 2020, it got its first major...
View ArticleEven with the M2 Pro, Mac gaming is as bad as it’s ever been
Now that the Mac mini is available with an M2 Pro, Apple is making the case that it’s a great gaming computer. As the Mac mini site states, you can “jump into graphics-intensive AAA games like No...
View ArticleTop 25 Mac games for 2023
Unfortunately in recent years a number of great games for Mac have declined because many are no longer supported. Every new version of macOS tends to break a few games, but macOS Catalina in 2019...
View ArticleThe Apple Watch Ultra is again rumored to get a next-gen microLED display
When the Apple Watch Ultra arrived last year with a 49mm display, it was Apple’s biggest watch yet at a full 4mm larger than the 45mm Apple Watch Series 8. When the 2nd generation model arrives, it...
View ArticleApple reportedly axes the position of design chief in major company shift
Ever since Steve Jobs rolled out the iMac to a captive audience in 1998, Apple’s head of hardware design has been one of the most prestigious and important roles at the company. Now in a major policy...
View ArticleThis short film about time travel was shot entirely on an iPhone 14 Pro
Apple has a long history of producing amazing short videos and films that were shot on iPhone. Its latest is maybe the most ambitious yet, a 30-minute short film titled “Fursat” from director Vishal...
View ArticleApple’s Q1 2023 earnings show first revenue decline in nearly 4 years
Apple on Thursday posted its first quarterly revenue decline since 2019, bringing in $117.2 billion which is down 5 percent year over year. Mac sales were hit particularly hard, down about 30 percent...
View ArticleAn original sealed iPhone is expected to sell for as much as 50 iPhone 14 Pros
The iPhone 14 Pro may be the phone everyone wants, but an iPhone from 2007 is expected to fetch 50 times as much at an auction this weekend. Cosmetic tattoo artist Karen Green is selling an original...
View ArticleWhat does Apple Mail’s ‘Load Content Directly’ button do?
The message “Unable to load remote content privately” may not offer enough advice on how to proceed even though a Load Content Directly button appears. But the explanation isn’t insidious. Rather,...
View ArticleForget a new HomePod, Apple needs an assistant that’s actually smart
Voice assistants aren’t perfect, and it would be unreasonable to expect them to be. The technology to recognize words themselves in a huge range of accents and tones is incredible, and further...
View ArticleDown is up: iPhone slumps, iPad soars, and a huge quarter is too small
If you were bored of all those stories every three months about Apple’s quarterly financial results setting records and posting one banner quarter after another, I’ve got great news! Apple’s first...
View ArticleSave up to $500 on the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro in Amazon fire sale
The new M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro hit are fantastic laptops, but with a starting price of $1,999 for the 14-inch model and $2,499 for the 16-inch one, they’re not exactly a bargain. But you still...
View ArticleBest NAS drives for Mac 2023
There are three types of storage you can use with your Mac. External storage devices like SSDs and hard drives can plug into your Mac and be used to back up your data or to extend your storage. There...
View ArticleBest USB-C hubs and adapters for Mac 2023
USB-C is a newish standard of USB that allows transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps, as opposed to the maximum 5Gbps rate available with the older USB-A, while it also offers faster charging times. It’s no...
View ArticleApple says interest in the ‘richer, larger’ HomePod is at an all-time high
It might seem strange that Apple launched a 2nd-gen HomePod speaker that’s nearly identical to the first one, but there’s a simple reason why: People wanted it. In an interview with Men’s Journal,...
View ArticleBest cloud storage service for Mac
These days cloud storage is all the rage, offering the convenience of access to your digital files without having to clog up your mobile devices’ storage. Provided you’ve got internet access,...
View ArticleApple Arcade FAQ: ‘Castle Crumble’ is now available
Gaming subscription services are all the rage now, but Apple Arcade isn’t quite like Google Stadia or Xbox Game Pass. So if you’ve got questions about it, we’ve got plenty of answers. Updated...
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