The release of new MacBook Pro models makes it a good time to review how to back up your Mac. See also: How to trade-in or sell your current MacBook. If you are planning to bring home one of Apple's new MacBooks, then you have two ...
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Apple's new Touch Bar adapts to show custom controls for any app, and Adobe Photoshop will take advantage of the technology by the end of the year. The new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar can be used for things like controlling paintbrush size or ...
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Rumor had it that the focus of Apple's October event would be on its new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and sure enough it was, with a new, entry-level 13-inch MacBook with standard functions keys thrown in as a bonus. But if you were hoping ...
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It seems like only yesterday that Apple hosted its iPhone 7 circus, and now we're back for the company's MacBook 2016 launch, a much smaller event at the company's headquarters. The event started with a video highlighting the ...
You're probably wondering if the new MacBook Pro's fancy new secondary screen will eat away at the laptop's battery life. We are, too. But I wouldn't worry -- it's an OLED screen, and OLED screen technology can be surprisingly efficient ...
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1. It cuts out the middleman. The TV app is a basically a "meta-app" -- a one-stop shop for all of the supported video apps on your Apple device. The best part of it is the top line of the main Watch Now page, called Up Next. It lists ...
The first time I saw the Touch Bar on Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops, I thought: hey, there's a little strip of an iPad grafted onto that Mac. Macs don't have touch. At this point, they're the outliers in the computing world. Windows and ...
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David Grissam was worried he'd have to quit his job. Grissam had steadily been losing his hearing, which was a serious problem for the 911 dispatcher based in Norman, Oklahoma. It had gotten to the point where normal hearing aids didn't ...
Apple TV single sign-on became available Thursday night to those with access to the tvOS 10.1 and 10.2 betas. Apple revealed the single sign-on feature in June, but when tvOS was released the feature was nowhere to be found. Single ...
Back in April, I declared using 3D Touch on the App Store icon to quickly update all apps was the most amazing use of 3D Touch ever. And it was! Until a few days ago when I accidentally discovered what I now consider the best use of Apple's ...
Apple's fingerprint tech, Touch ID, is no longer limited to its iOS devices. The new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar features a Touch ID reader embedded in the power button, just above the Delete key. Using Touch ID, you can do things like ...
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The Apple TV box has only gotten better since its debut in 2015, with thousands of new apps and plenty of usability improvements via software updates. Even more improvements -- single sign-on for some cable and satellite providers and the ...
These days just about every major entertainment app is available on just about every living room streaming device. You probably have five ways to stream Netflix. There are a couple of major exceptions -- Amazon Video isn't natively on ...
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For the past six months I've been in the market for a new laptop, and like a lot of people, I put off making a purchase until Apple unveiled its redesigned MacBook Pros, which were officially introduced in late October and shipped last ...
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Apple aims to make it easier for you to use the video apps included in your cable or satellite TV subscription. The company on Tuesday launched a new single authentication tool that allows iOS and Apple TV users to enter their account ...
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