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October 24, 2018

Video, transcript: ‘This is surveillance’ warns Apple’s Tim Cook in EU speech

‘Rogue actors and even governments have taken advantage of user trust to deepen divisions, incite violence, and even undermine our shared sense of what is true and what is false. This crisis is real. It is not imagined, or exaggerated or crazy,” Apple’s Tim Cook warns.

Apple / ARKit / Featured / iOS / iPad / Mac

October 16, 2018

Apple wants you to know iPads are professional computers

Adobe will publish Photoshop for iPad in 2019 while Apple and the graphics software company focus deeply on the big cultural shift they expect will be generated by creative expression and AR.

Apple / Featured / iOS / iPad / iPhone / Tips

October 2, 2018

The quick and easy iOS 12 guide

A quick and easy introduction to some of the most interesting iOS 12 features, including Siri Shortcuts, security and privacy, Dual SIM, App Limits and Screen Time, Group FaceTime and a whole bunch of other features.

Apple / Featured / Mac / Tips

September 25, 2018

The quick and easy macOS Mojave guide

If you’ve just upgraded to MacOS Mojave, this article will show you how to get more from Dark Mode, handle QuickView, create your own QuickActions, use News, Stacks the new Screenshots feature and many more tasks…

Apple / Featured / Mac / Tips

August 8, 2018

Spotlight search tips for Mac users

Spotlight is the powerful search tool built right inside your Mac, which you can use by pressing Command-Space. These tips will help you get so much more out of Spotlight, making the feature indispensable.

How and why Apple users should switch to DuckDuckGo for search July 18, 2019
Like liberty for all, privacy demands vigilance, and that’s why Apple users who care about those things are moving to DuckDuckGo for search.Why use DuckDuckGo? Privacy is under attack.It doesn’t take much effort to prove this truth. At time of writing, recent news is full of creeping privacy erosion: We’ve seen video conferencing solutions that […]
Alexa wins the Apple App Store as voice control takes over July 17, 2019
We are all spending more time talking to our computers. This is a changing interaction with machines. Amazon’s meteoric climb up the Apple App Store charts should be all the proof you need that the age of voice is here.Hey Siri, speak to Alexa While most of the tech press involved itself in writing endless […]
How to take control of Face ID (with tools you may not know exist) July 15, 2019
If you travel frequently and use an iPhone or iPad, then you simply must familiarize yourself with these two tips – they’ll make it much easier to secure your device and its contents when you are on the move.In praise of Face ID I’ve become very used to using Face ID. It’s seamless.On the iPhone, […]
Apple’s AR glasses may be coming sooner than we think July 12, 2019
There’s a claim Apple has canned development of AR glasses. This makes no sense to me – I think it means they are coming sooner than we thought.Through an (augmented) glass darkly “Apple has suspended the development of head-mounted display (HMD) AR/VR headsets, and already disbanded its team for the development of AR/VR HMDs,” Digitimes claims […]
One day you’ll wear your Mac like sunglasses July 10, 2019
What happens if your AirPods become your primary connection with all your computing devices, accessed in the cloud?What if you could interact with remote systems using Voice Control? That’s a nice dream, I guess, but the big challenge to developing voice-based user interfaces is authorization. How does a computer know who you are?Nuance just might […]
How Apple is improving iCloud this year July 9, 2019
Apple quite evidently plans many interesting improvements in its iCloud service this year. So, what’s going on?What we know so far about Apple's iCloud plans Apple at WWDC made several announcements that will be reliant on iCloud – these include obvious things like new services and support for new functions, and less evident topics around […]
How to use your iPad as a second Mac display with Sidecar July 8, 2019
We’ve already looked at many of the multitasking features you’ll find in iPadOS, but one of the most useful may be the Mac-compatible Sidecar mode, which lets you use your Apple tablet as a secondary display.What is Sidecar? Available to Mac users who have iPads running the most current edition of the OS, Sidecar enables […]
The big picture on Apple's vision for computer vision in iOS 13 July 3, 2019
Apple has been firmly focused on photography since the introduction of the first iPhone in 2007, and this devotion comes into its own with the on-device computer vision AI it brings in iOS 13.On-device image intelligence Apple has developed powerful image intelligence features in its devices, creating tools iOS users and developers can make use […]
How to replace Back to My Mac now that Apple has killed it July 2, 2019
Now that macOS Catalina public beta testing has begun, Apple today made good its promise to disable its Back to My Mac remote access feature for all versions of its Mac operating systems. What alternatives exist?What has Apple done? Back to My Mac allowed users to connect directly to one or more Macs to get […]
The age of iApple is over July 1, 2019
Once upon a time there was a company with a few weeks left to live in desperate search of leadership and a good idea. That’s the Apple story that got us here:Change is here The Apple that gave us the iMac reflected a time when liberal individualism was at its highest point.In this context, it […]