Apple fixed its faux pas with the Studio Display firmware earlier this week, but the 15.4 firmware update may have done more than provide some fixes—it may have revealed a new Mac that’s coming soon. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith pointed out…
Lees meerWhen I started working for MacUser magazine in 1993, I was assigned to a gray cubicle with an old Mac IIci inside. (The summer intern didn’t get the latest and greatest.) I don’t know how that was nearly 30 years ago, but here we are. Over the …
Lees meerYou see a mysterious message in a window on your Mac’s screen when trying to connect to Wi-Fi: “Paused” with a big blue Pause button. Additional text reads, “Your device has been paused.” At the bottom of the window, you see a domain, captive.appl…
Lees meerThe Apple Watch Series 7 wasn’t quite what we thought it would be. It has a slightly bigger display, a few new colors, and slightly faster charging, but otherwise, it’s identical to the Apple Watch Series 6, from the chip to the sensors. So that m…
Lees meerIf you listed Excel on your resume, does that mean you can insert a row in a table or change the color of your text, or do you really know Excel? Serious Excel users need to understand how to create formulas, develop macros, and perform functions …
Lees meerUpdated 04/12/22: Updated this guide with the most recent information about Apple Cash. When iOS 11 landed in 2017, it came with Apple’s first major foray into financial transactions: Apple Cash. Similar to Venmo or Cash App, Apple Cash lets y…
Lees meerApple’s list of currently available content for Apple TV+ continues to grow, but there’s an even faster-growing list of projects in the works. Films, limited series, specials, and multi-season series, Apple’s got lots of irons in the fire for all …
Lees meerUpdate 04/12/22: The DuckDuckGo browser for macOS has been released, but is currently available to a waitlist of beta testers. DuckDuckGo started as a simple idea: A search engine site that respects your privacy. It doesn’t remember your search…
Lees meerUpdate 04/12/22: The DuckDuckGo browser for macOS has been released, but is currently available to a waitlist of beta testers. To join the waitlist, you have to download the DuckDuckGo browser for iOS, head to Settings (within the app), and the Du…
Lees meerAchievement badges are a funny thing. You know they’re just a simple little bit of visual flair, they don’t even do anything, and yet for some reason you just have to collect them. Achievements are great motivators, and the achievement badges for …
Lees meerVideo recording is so easy and convenient on the iPhone that users are making more videos, whether it’s to capture brief moments in time or to tell longer stories. To make it even easier for users to put together a series of clips, Apple on Tuesda…
Lees meerA new Mac mini may be on the way, but you can grab an excellent deal on the M1 model right now: Amazon is selling the 256GB Mac Mini for $570 when a $99 discount is automatically applied at checkout, a savings of $129 the lowest price we’ve ever s…
Lees meerThe Apple Watch Series 7https://www.macworld.com/article/547360/apple-watch-series-7-review.html might not have introduced any major new health features, but Apple is planning much bigger changes for the Apple Watch Series 8 that will ship later t…
Lees meerApple fixed its faux pas with the Studio Display firmware, which did more than provide some fixes for the display—it may reveal a new Mac that’s coming soon. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith pointed out on Twitter that the Studio Display 15.4 f…
Lees meerApple has reportedly been working on adding blood-pressure monitoring to the Apple Watch for many years but a new report from Bloomberg says it’s not arriving this year, either. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reports that Apple has “hit some snags” w…
Lees meerAfter Apple accidentally posted information about a new dual-port power adapter that’s supposedly on the way, we now have our first look at the new device. Images posted by ChargerLAB on Twitter show a slim square design with prongs that fold o…
Lees meerApple announces its big yearly operating system updates at WWDC in June. No platform is bigger, or more important to Apple and its users, than the iPhone and thus no OS update is more important than iOS. After a fairly successful reception to iOS …
Lees meerApple began including screen sharing nearly 20 years ago in its Mac operating system. If you have multiple Macs in your home or office on the same local area network (wired, wireless, or both), you can observe or control another Mac on that networ…
Lees meerCertain recent events have the Macalope reminiscing about some of his favorite hot takes that have come and gone over the years. And by “favorite” the Macalope means the most hilariously bad. Let’s just limit this to the last 10 years, otherwis…
Lees meerIf you aren’t careful, your Mac’s hard drive can start looking like a Minnesota porch in January, buried in unwanted, unneeded debris and paralyzed to the point that it’s unusable. Every computer accumulates loads of junk files like half-finished …
Lees meerApple rolled out Picture in Picture mode on the iPhone in iOS 14 and the iPad with iOS 13, but you wouldn’t know it by using the YouTube app. While the feature has technically been around for the better part of a year, it was limited to Premium su…
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