Apple products are expensive. Even the cheapest laptop costs a thousand bucks and even if you settle for an older iPhone 12 you’ll need to fork over at least $699. The cheapest Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Series 3, will still cost you $199. Bu…
Lees meerIt’s tenuous, but the phrasing of Apple’s macOS Ventura system requirements appears to suggest that the company plans to release a new 12-inch MacBook in the near future. Near the bottom of its Ventura preview, Apple has posted a list of Macs t…
Lees meerWe may not like it, but sometimes software implementation decisions are a tradeoff between features and performance. And this week some people are hot about it. When Apple announced Stage Manager for iPadOS 16 last week, it noted that the featu…
Lees meerYou’ll probably never need to worry about Lightning cables, adapter plugs, or wall chargers sometime in the not-too-distant future. Sure, Apple will likely create a half-dozen new charging connectors and configurations by then (especially if the E…
Lees meerParallels allows us to run a Windows VM on macOS. On older Macs, we were able to run Windows on Boot Camp, which was an alternative to a VM. Interestingly, if we install Windows on Boot Camp we can, from macOS Parallels, run that Window…
Lees meerLet's assume I want to add this string to a preference domain: a'b"c Can I accomplish that with the defaults command? These won't work (shell waits for further input): defaults write testdomain testkey a'b"c defaults write testdomain t…
Lees meerWondering what the name of the latest macOS version is? Curious about the versions of Mac OS X that came before? Here we’ll fill you in on the names of the different versions of the Mac operating system in order: from the newest macOS to the first…
Lees meerWhen iOS 16 lands on your iPhone this fall, it’s going to bring a ton of awesome new features. But you don’t have to wait until September to try them out. If you’re brave, you can download and install the iOS 16 beta–just expect there to be some b…
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