MagSafe is one of the more underrated features of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13, mainly because most people don’t have any accessories to take advantage of it. You can change that with today’s deal: Amazon is selling the Anker PowerWave Magnetic 2-in-1 Stand for $34, a savings of $16 off the MSRP and the …
Apple markets its App Store as “a place you can trust.” But is it really? In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we talk about what the app store does right and what it gets oh-so-very wrong, and what we as customers need to do to get the most out of it. This is episode 775 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman Loyola. Listen …
Students and teachers have long enjoyed the benefits of Apple’s education pricing, which offers the latest devices at a lower price. And in the U.S., many non-students and teachers enjoyed it as well due to Apple’s extremely lax terms in its online education store. That won’t be the case anymore. Apple has finally brought the …
It doesn’t take a super expensive smartwatch to get the job done. The 1.75” HD Touch Screen Smartwatch is on sale for $53.95, and it does a lot more than just tell the time. This smartwatch comes with a long-lasting battery, an HD touchscreen, and many of the features that have made smartwatches so desirable. It has …
Just days after Apple patched a bug that could allow a hacker to send your iPhone into an endless loop of crashes, FingerprintJS has uncovered a Safari vulnerability that could expose your internet activity and personal data to an open website. The bug originates in the IndexedDB API, which is used for client-side storage of …
Apple offers robust support in macOS for Unicode, a standard that provides a unique number to represent characters and symbols. Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific notation, emoji, and other kinds of marks. The standard currently includes nearly 150,000 unique characters, each with its own number and description. Most fonts contain an …
Apple’s App Store promotional page proudly proclaims, in big bold letters: For over a decade, the App Store has proved to be a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps. But the App Store is more than just a storefront — it’s an innovative destination focused on bringing you amazing experiences. And a …
If you’re on the internet often, it may seem like you have to choose between having secure passwords you have to keep track of for every different account or convenient passwords you barely have to think about. LastPass is an easy-to-use password manager that won’t make you choose between convenience and security, and you can get a …
Once upon a time, you could watch a keynote presentation from any major computer chip company and rest easy in the confidence that the name “Apple” would never pass the lips of any presenter. The message always seemed to be, as per the classic Mad Men meme, “I don’t think of you at all.” But …
After the M1 revamp last year, we weren’t expecting much for the next iPad Pro—M2 chip, larger battery, better camera—but a new report could prove us wrong. 9to5Mac reports that while Apple has dropped its ambitious plans for a full glass back for the iPad Pro due to fragility concerns, it does hope to bring …