There are just five days till Christmas, but if you’ve forgotten someone special on your list, you can still score a great deal. Here are three fantastic prices on Apple gear that you can get delivered and wrapped in time to put under the tree…
Lees meerOver the past couple of months, Apple has released two firmware updates for the AirTag that had no release notes. Now Apple has finally told us what actually happened when our trackers updated. In a support document, Apple detailed the chan…
Lees meerChristmas season is here, and there are lots of ways to get into the spirit of the season. One way is to watch a Christmas special on TV, and one of the best is “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” For decades, it aired on broadcast TV, but that’s no …
Lees meerThe year is winding up and the holidays are upon us. As this is an extra busy time for this be-horned beast (ever try wrapping packages with hooves?), let’s take a quick look at several stories that caught the Macalope’s eye this week. Firs…
Lees meerIf you’ve been anxiously awaiting the launch of the Apple silicon Mac Pro and dreaming of the fastest Mac ever, you might be in for a disappointment. A report this past weekend from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple is having major probl…
Lees meerAs 2023 approaches, too few of us know what we really want for the future. But most of us know what we don’t want: Another year of the same old rut. More days pushing back against the tide of daily tasks that keep us from achieving our goals. …
Lees meerHey, have you ever heard of OnePlus? Well, okay, the typical Macworld reader probably has, because they tend to be into tech more than most people. But in the general Apple community, it wouldn’t be surprising that a majority have not heard of…
Lees meerEven if you know next to nothing about VPNs, using one on your iPhone and iPad is utterly simple. Although you may have spotted the VPN menu in the Settings app, there’s no need to venture in and configure settings: modern VPN apps do it al…
Lees meerIf there’s one product everyone wants to see in 2023, it’s the redesigned Mac Pro with Apple silicon. And a new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg makes things even more interesting with a mix of good news and bad news. First the good new…
Lees meerSolid-state drives – aka SSD – used to be really expensive, but prices have really fallen in the last few years, and you can now pick up fast, reliable SSDs that cost only slightly more than their hard drive counterparts. As well as being f…
Lees meerYou may be thinking that you’d like an AirTag, or you may be considering giving one as a gift, but before you go ahead and buy one you’ll probably be wondering just what you are going to use the AirTag for. There are the obvious things lik…
Lees meerThe 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro are the best laptops Apple sells, even with the older M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. Apple introduced the M2 chip in the 13-inch MacBook Pro in June, so we know the next generation of the larger, more powerful, Ma…
Lees meerApple’s current Mac Pro was introduced in 2019, but since then Apple has transitioned every other Mac to its own chip architecture, starting with the M1 in 2020 followed by the M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, and eventually the M2 in early 2022. The…
Lees meerFor the first time in years, Apple sells two standalone monitors for the Mac, a 27-inch Studio Display with a camera and Spatial Audio support, and the high-end Pro Display XDR starting at a whopping $4,999. According to a new report, Apple is…
Lees meerIf there’s one product everyone wants to see in 2023, it’s the Mac Pro. And a new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg makes things even more interesting with a mix of good news and bad news. First the good news. In his weekly Power On news…
Lees meerThe end of the year is nigh, and with it comes a host of pieces looking both back at the year that was in Apple news, and forward to the year that will be. And who am I to eschew such a trend? 2022 was dominated perhaps, more than anything …
Lees meerAirPlay 2 upgraded the streaming protocol supported by Apple and some third-party devices to allow a host device, like a Mac, to select multiple speakers or audio output devices simultaneously. This offers you flexibility, like using an array …
Lees meerThere’s no denying that cloud storage is a convenient way to keep files over the long term. At times, though, it’s not always secure. Which is why, for a better solution all around, you might try adding CloudMounter to the mix. And especially …
Lees meerWelcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which includes all of the Apple news you missed this week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s coo…
Lees meerApple last week announced a series of Advanced Data Protection tools that bring powerful encryption for numerous iCloud services for the first time, including Backup, Photos, and Notes, but Mail was notably excluded. Now Google has announced t…
Lees meerThere are a lot of apps out there that try to make our devices do things that we never thought we needed. (And sometimes, frankly, we don’t.) Then there are the refreshing ones like Toolify, which gives you all the basic things you really need…
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