You have to admit, 20 years is a good run for a messaging protocol. After 20 years, AIM, the AOL Instant Messenger protocol, will be shut down on December 15th, 2017. The announcement was made by Oath, the Frankenstein merger of AOL and Yahoo! creat…
Lees meerEvery so often after a major operating system update, Apple releases a supplemental update to sort things out. This is one of those times. On Thursday, Apple released macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update. The update, a 915 megabyte download t…
Lees meerApple has apparently acquired/hired the staff of Init.ai, a small, six person startup known for its customer service automation software. Init.ai’s product is described as the following: …a smart assistant for customer representatives to parse and g…
Lees meerApple’s watchOS 4.0.1 update is out and it works to improve the reliability of LTE cellular connections without an iPhone nearby. Apple Watch owners can now download watchOS 4.0.1 via the official Watch app on a paired iPhone. Release notes accompan…
Lees meerYou can’t say Apple isn’t quick with its updates. On Tuesday, Apple released iOS 11.0.2. The update, a 277 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes for supported iOS devices: – Fixes an issue where crackling sounds may occur during …
Lees meerIf you had a Yahoo account in 2013, there’s a 100 percent chance that you were hacked. Yahoo’s parent company has revealed that the massive data breach that occurred in August of 2013 affective all three billion Yahoo accounts that existed at the ti…
Lees meerDuring the iOS 11 beta I noticed a strange bug: I’d turn off Wi–Fi in Control Center and it would turn itself back on. After doing this multiple times, I filed a bug. Turns out that it wasn’t a bug, it was working as intended. This is problem for me…
Lees meerYou can’t say Apple isn’t quick with its updates. On Tuesday, Apple released iOS 11.0.2. The update, a 277 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes for supported iOS devices: – Fixes an issue where crackling sounds may occur during …
Lees meerApple’s next financial earnings report is slated for November 2nd. The company announced that it will hold its Q4 2017 earnings call on November 2nd with a call following shortly thereafter at 2PM PT/5PM ET. Apple reported revenue of $45.5 billion l…
Lees meerIf you’re feeling curious or brave this week, Apple has released the first public betas of macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, iOS 11.1, and tvOS 11.1. It doesn’t look like there are major changes in these beta releases and instead seem to be bug fixes and m…
Lees meerIf you enjoy monitoring all aspects of your Mac, you’re going to like this. On Monday, Bjango released version 6.00 of iStat Menus, its popular system monitoring software. The new version offers tools to keep track of CPU, memory, disk, network, tem…
Lees meerFollowing up on renewed pressure from the National Association of Broadcasters urging Apple to the FM radio capabilities built into the wireless modem of every iPhone, FCC chairman Ajit Pai has stated that he hopes Apple will “reconsider its positio…
Lees meerApple Pay Cash, Apple’s upcoming person-to-person payment feature that was announced at WWDC this past June, looks to be scheduled for release in late October. Apple Pay Cash will allow Apple Pay users to quickly send and receive secure payments bet…
Lees meerApple has announced that it’s working on a fix for some of the “static” and “crackling” sounds some users have experienced from the newly-released iPhone 8’s earpiece. The company offered the following statement: “We are aware of the issue which is …
Lees meerThere’s always a software update to be had. And this is a good thing. Only one week after Apple’s release of its iOS 11 operating system, the company has issued its first incremental software update. As of Tuesday, iOS 11.0.1 is now available to ins…
Lees meerApple on Monday released macOS 10.13 High Sierra, its latest operating system for Macs. The update, which is available via the Software Update function in the Mac App Store, weighs in as a 4.89 gigabyte download and is compatible on the following Ma…
Lees meerThis is a bit of good news, even if it lacks a specific date as to when it will be implemented. Following up on news that the first version of macOS High Sierra limited the Apple File System to Macs featuring all-flash built-in storage and excluded …
Lees meerIf you’re curious about the internal components of the iPhone 8, the cool humans at iFixit have already performed a full teardown and posted their findings to the Internet. The teardown revealed a True Tone Retina display, Qi wireless charging suppo…
Lees meerThe very first pre-ordered iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4K units have begun to arrive in the hands of customers living in Australia, New Zealand and Asia on Friday, local time, while Apple retail stores in those regions began sales of…
Lees meerRidesharing service Uber may have gotten itself in hot water again. A recently released screenshot of the company’s latest patch notes for the app has revealed that Uber may be taking credit for iOS 11’s improved control over privacy and location in…
Lees meerThis may be another case of having to wait a little bit for an iOS 11 feature that was shown in a demo but not released as of yet. Apple’s “Messages is iCloud” feature, which was touted at the 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference event, was removed …
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