Apple Related news

We post interesting news items we find about Apple below. We hope you find them as interesting as we do.

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How Apple is making apps launch instantly in watchOS 3

Rene Ritchie: When Apple first released the Watch there were a lot of unknowns. So, the company was conservative. They used less memory than they had to, and they conserved battery life at the expense of everything else. Now, over a year since launch, Apple has a much better idea of the resources apps require, […]

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iOS 10 Review from MacStories

MacStories: The first of these features is called Memories, and its goal is to cluster photos together based on people involved, dates, locations and other data, in order to remind you of old memories in a poignant and meaningful way. The feature will not only gather the photos and videos together for you in a […]

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Apple Announcements at WWDC 2016

Apple made a number of announcements at their Worldwide Developer Conference on June 13, 2016. The announcement basically laid out Apple’s plans for the operating systems for the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, and the Apple Watch. What’s new? Quite a bit actually. More syncing and coordination between our Macs and iOS devices. More content […]

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Tim Cook on Mad Money with Jim Cramer

Tim cook was on Mad Money with Jim Cramer today. He talks a lot about China as well how optimistic he is about the market in India. He also talks about Apple Stock, Apple Services, the Apple Watch, and more. I always enjoy listening to Tim Cook talk about what’s going on at Apple and […]

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A travel database in my photo library

Here’s a great tip by Jason Snell from Sixcolors on how you can use your photo library as a searchable travelogue. But it turns out that I do carry a database of my travels with me wherever I go: my photo library. Whether you use iCloud Photo Library or Google Photos or Amazon, you’ve got […]

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Interview with Bill Atkinson

Leo Laporte had a great interview with Bill Atkinson recently. If you are not familiar with Bill, he started at Apple in 1978. He is one of the first 30 members of the Apple Macintosh team. He created MacPaint and designed Quickdraw. He also designed Hypercard (the idea of Hypercard came to him while he […]

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iPhone Service Pricing

Do you have an iPhone that needs repair? Are you not sure how much it would cost to fix by Apple? The following prices are for Apple repair service. Pricing and terms might vary at other service providers. All prices are in US dollars and are subject to tax. We’ll add a $6.95 shipping fee […]

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Phishing & Other Suspicious Emails

Good advice from Apple. Phishing refers to an email that attempts to fraudulently acquire personal information from you, such as your Apple ID, password and/or credit card information. On the surface, the email may appear to be from a legitimate company or individual, but it’s not. As a general rule, never send credit card information, […]

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Inside Liam, Apple’s super-secret recycling robot

I’d like to see other companies copy this. If you don’t know what Liam is, take a look a the video. Pretty cool! Unlike its many patents and proprietary features, Liam is one effort Apple says it hopes its competitors will copy. As of now, no one else (that Apple knows of) is disassembling tech […]

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Keyboard Settings in iOS 9

John Gruber of Daringfireball.net has a couple great tips for using the keyboard in iOS 9. Apple changed how the Caps Lock works as well as the keyboard preview on an iPhone. If you’d like to change them back to how they worked in iOS 9, I recommend taking a look at his post. iOS […]