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Apple Announces iPhone 15 Lineup, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2

Posted by Adam MacLeod on Dec 27, 2023

September is here, and with it, Apple’s latest iPhones and Apple Watches. At its Wonderlust event on September 12, Apple threw back the curtains on the new iPhone 15 lineup, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2. These devices all provide incremental improvements that make them attractive to people planning to purchase a new iPhone or Apple Watch, though they may not be irresistible upgrades for those still happy with older models. You can pre-order any of them starting September 15, with delivery and in-store availability on September 22. Alongside the announcement, Apple revealed that iOS 17,...

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New Back Tap Feature in iOS 14 Provides Two Customizable Shortcuts

Posted by Laurie Berg on Dec 14, 2020

We all have things we do regularly on our iPhones, whether it’s checking the weather, searching Google, or invoking the magnifier. Apple has long provided ways of making your most common actions easier to access. You might put an app on your Dock, open Control Center, or take advantage of the triple-press Accessibility shortcut.

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Stop Snoops with Private Browsing and by Clearing Your Web Browsing History

Posted by Laurie Berg on Nov 04, 2020

With so many of us working at home these days, it’s worth remembering that spouses, children, and housemates may have easy physical access to your Mac. And, particularly if you share a Mac with them, you might want to consider how you protect your browsing privacy.

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Make Your Finder Window Columns the Right Size

Posted by Laurie Berg on Nov 02, 2020

We’re big fans of column view in Finder windows (choose View > as Columns). You never have to worry about missing icons that are outside the window, everything is sorted alphabetically, and selecting a file shows a preview.But the column widths can be too thin, such that they cut off file and folder names, or too wide, forcing you to scroll unnecessarily.

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Scribble: Why the Pencil Is Mightier Than the Finger in iPadOS 14

Posted by Laurie Berg on Oct 28, 2020

With iPadOS, you have to remember that it shares most of its capabilities with iOS. So if it seems that iPadOS 14 doesn’t have as many major new capabilities as iOS 14, that’s not quite fair—many of iOS 14’s new features also appear in iPadOS 14. You’ll get pinned conversations in Messages, cycling directions and city guides in Maps, privacy reports and translation capabilities in Safari, and much more.

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