Dave Hamilton and John Martellaro join host Kelly Guimont to discuss Smart TVs and Apple TV+ and if you really need an Apple TV box anymore.
Lees meerIf you’re in he habit of using any Lightning cable you come across to charge your iPhone, take heed. One accessory, the O.MG Lightning cable spy, looks almost exactly like Apple’s official accessory. On the inside, however, it hides all the componen…
Lees meerOprah Winfrey interviewed Mariah Carey for Apple TV+ series “The Oprah Conversation” and the episode is set to debut on Thursday (via THR). The Meaning of Mariah Carey Ms. Carey’s interview is a deep dive into her upcoming book “The Meaning of Mar…
Lees meerCalendar app Fantastical updated to version 3.2 which adds support for iOS 14 widgets, iPadOS Scribble, new iOS 14 date and time pickers, and fixes bugs. Fantastical 3.2 The update add 12 widgets, ranging from small ones to show the date, medium o…
Lees meerRicky Mondello works on app and website authentication as well as password management at Apple. They recently created a shortcut that lets you quickly access iCloud Keychain. It uses a settings URL hooked into the Passwords section in Settings. Sepa…
Lees meerTuesday was National Voter Registration Day and Apple News has a section to help people register to vote, how to become a poll worker in your state, and more. Voting 2020 To start, open Apple News and tap on the Following tab on the bottom. If you…
Lees meerKurzgesagt is a science channel on YouTube that creates education videos for people. They recently partnered with Wait But Why to create the Universe in a Nutshell app. It lets people explore size by zooming between scales of 10^-35 meters to 10^26 …
Lees meerDr. Mac's Rants & Raves Episode #401 Apple held another of its product introduction events last Tuesday. While the brief (for Apple) 1-hour broadcast focused on hardware, it also included a couple of surprising announcements about Apple’s subscript…
Lees meerApple's Books app in iPadOS OS 13 and iPadOS 14 has an interesting interface quirk that can display your book's text in two narrow columns like a newspaper. Maybe you like reading your books in newspaper columns, but if you're like me you went scram…
Lees meerWe have a deal on TOKK CAM C2, a tiny camera that can be used as a security camera, a wearable body cam, or a dashcam for your car. With this portable, ultra-compact Wi-Fi camera, you can instantly stream and/or record crystal clear video in 1280x72…
Lees meerWidgetsmith lets you create iOS 14 widgets and customize them to suit your needs and Home Screen theme. The app includes a variety of widget categories like weather, calendar, timezone converter, and others. Widgets can even by scheduled to appear o…
Lees meerLinksys Velop Tri-Band Routers now support Apple’s HomeKit through a free update available in the Linksys app. Through HomeKit, Velop users can choose to firewall off HomeKit accessories to prevent them from communicating with other WiFi devices…
Lees meerApple has ordered a comedy series called “High Desert” that stars Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette and directed by Ben Stiller. High Desert ”High Desert” follows the character Peggy, a former addict who decides to make a new start after her …
Lees meerApple has updated Pages, Numbers, and Keynote with new updates, the most notable of which is support for the iPadOS 14 Scribble feature that works with Apple Pencil. iPadOS 14 Scribble Scribble lets you use an Apple Pencil to write in any text fie…
Lees meerJohn Martellaro and Bryan Chaffin join host Kelly Guimont to discuss a Series 6 Watch teardown, plus Bryan and Kelly’s love of Ted Lasso.
Lees meerPassword generator 1Password is teaming up with Privacy.com to let customers generate virtual credit cards right in the browser. Virtual Credit Cards With Privacy.com, people link their banking account to generate unlimited virtual credits cards p…
Lees meerYouTuber Anil Pal dives into iOS 14 Spatial Audio to explain what it is, how it works, what devices it runs on, and where you can find content that supports it. Spatial Audio is a feature for AirPods Pro that can give you “surround sound” without ne…
Lees meerThe Wizcase security team discovered a Microsoft Bing data leak due to an unsecured server. The server was protected with a password until the first week of September, then it was removed. The team alerted Microsoft on September 13 and the company q…
Lees meerTim Cook was remotely interviewed as part of The Atlantic Festival, talking about privacy, Apple’s ongoing antitrust investigation, his views on the Trump administration, and more. “I think that big companies deserve scrutiny. And I think that’s not…
Lees meerDave Hamilton is the co-founder of The Mac Observer, publisher, and co-host of the legendary Mac Geek Gab (MGG) podcast, having done over 800 shows with our John Braun. He’s an Apple—and router—guru. Dave and I opened the show with an extensive disc…
Lees meerApple Watch Series 6 has larger batteries than the Apple Watch Series 5, according to iFixit's teardown on Apple's new devices. The company also found that the Taptic Engine is slightly larger than its predecessor, and that the case is ever-so-sligh…
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