If you have more than one iOS device using the same Apple ID, let’s say an iPhone and an iPhone, you may have noticed that if you download an app on the iPhone, the same app will simultaneously download and appear on the iPad, and vice versa. This i…
Lees meerApple has released the sixth beta version of iOS 11.2.5 for users enrolled in the iOS beta testing program. iOS 11.2.5 beta 6 arrives just several days after beta 5 of the same iOS version was released, perhaps indicating the final public version wi…
Lees meerSee post for details on SoftRAID 5.6.4 from release notes and press release. SoftRAID now reports total bytes written for most SSDs, and a work-around for a macOS bug that caused a kernel panic when Apple's Disk Utility was used to erase a SoftRAID…
Lees meerDo you enjoy being pestered with annoying “Show Notification” requests from the many websites you visit from Chrome? Maybe you do, or maybe you don’t. You’re likely familiar with the Chrome message that pops up intrusively on so may web pages, readi…
Lees meerApple has released macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Beta 5 to users enrolled in the Mac operating system beta testing program. The new beta build likely includes various bug fixes and enhancements to the High Sierra release, marching towards the inevitable…
Lees meerApple's MacBook Air turns 10. Seven More Mac Features You Should Take for a Spin. Developer News - Beta 5 of macOS 10.13.3 (17D39a). Going to Sundance? Stop by the OWC Lounge for a chance to win a ThunderBlade V4, Envoy Pro EX Thunderbolt 3 and …
Lees meerFreeware VM VirtualBox v5.2.6 (see Change Log). Dolby Vision Firmware Updates for select Sony HDR TVs (see post for details). Review of Crucial MX500 SSD (500GB).
Lees meerIf you frequently use AirDrop on the Mac to send and receive files between Macs or to and from iOS devices, you may appreciate having ultra-fast access to AirDrop by having it readily available from the Dock of Mac OS. By using a little file system …
Lees meerYou’re out to lunch with tech-savvy friends, one of whom picks up the check and says, “Just send me your share via Apple Pay Cash.” Say what? Apple Pay Cash is Apple’s new person-to-person payment service, designed to make it easy for individ…
Lees meerApple is running a handful of new commercials, one for iPhone X, and two additional commercials for the iPad Pro. The new iPhone X ad focuses on the devices Portrait Lighting camera feature, which uses software to attempt to mimic various portrait l…
Lees meerLooking for some nice subtle wallpaper to space up your device background? How about a spin on that classic good old water droplets default wallpaper from way back in iOS 4? Well that’s exactly what these reader-provided high resolution images of wa…
Lees meerDid you hear about the battery-related controversy swirling around Apple at the end of 2017? There has been much hue and cry about how, starting with iOS 10.2.1, iOS has been slowing down iPhones with old, weak batteries to avoid unexpected sh…
Lees meerWhile Siri is perhaps best known as the voice assistant bundled on modern Macintosh computers and iOS devices, Siri can also be interacted with by typing out good old text commands. By enabling Type to Siri on the Mac, you can use Siri sort of like …
Lees meerJohn sent notes and benchmarks from a Radeon R9 280X in his Mac Pro 5,1 (dual 3.46GHz) running macOS 10.12.6. Also used in his 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 running 10.12.6. (He's now ordered a Radeon RX 580 8GB for the Mac Pro 5,1.)
Lees meerIf you need to burn an .img image file to an SD card from a Mac, you may have discovered that there isn’t a particularly obvious way to do so with a default GUI app like Disk Utility. Not to worry though, an excellent free third party solution exist…
Lees meerApple has released iOS 11.2.5 beta 5 to iPhone and iPad beta testers, just a few days after releasing beta 4 of the same system software version. The accelerated beta release pace could indicate that an important bug was discovered in the prior rele…
Lees meerFlaw lets you log into App Store preferences with any password. 10 Mac Features You Probably Don't Use But Should. Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player. Dev News - Beta 4 of macOS 10.13.3, iOS 11.2.5, tvOS 11.2.5, watchOS 4.2.2. Be…
Lees meerAbout the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, Security Update 2017-002 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-005 El Capitan (rev Jan 11th). About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs (rev Jan 9th). About the sec…
Lees meerIf you’re an Android user and you wish you had iMessage on your device, you’ll be happy to hear about there is a solution that effectively brings iMessage onto an Android device. It’s called WeMessage, and it’s a third party effort that uses an inte…
Lees meerApple has released the fourth beta version of iOS 11.2.5, macOS 10.13.3 High Sierra, tvOS 11.2.5, and watchOS 4.2.2 for users enrolled in the beta testing programs. The new software updates appear to primarily focus on bug fixes, security enhancemen…
Lees meerSecurity updates available for Adobe Flash Player. Dev News - Beta 4 of macOS 10.13.3, iOS 11.2.5, tvOS 11.2.5, watchOS 4.2.2. Prevent High Sierra from Downloading Automatically and Turn Off Notification. OWC PR on ThunderBlade V4, ThunderBay 4 …
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