You might occasionally find yourself in a situation where you need to know the IP address of a Mac. Once upon a time, in Mac OS X users could instantly see their IP address when selecting the “Network” preference panel, but that is no longer the case in modern MacOS versions that have System Settings. Now, you’ll have to dig a little deeper to retrieve your IP address on a Mac, but it’s still pretty simple.
Here’s what you’ll want to do with a modern MacOS version, including MacOS 27 Golden Gate, 26 Tahoe, 15 Sequoia, 14 Sonoma, and macOS versions with “System Settings”.
While Apple is mostly sold out of November 13 delivery HomeView’s and is providing early-to-mid December deliver estimates, it appears that Amazon is not. In fact, Amazon is not only still accepting pre-orders for HomeView, but they’re also offering some color models at a small discount. Currently the $10 discount applies to the Starlight and Rose Pink models, but stock and pricing changes quick on Amazon.
The HomeView is an interesting new home device introduced by Apple. With a 7″ screen that shows widgets, clocks, and photo slideshows, and a Home Screen complete with Safari, Music, Messages, FaceTime, Reminders, and support for Siri AI assuming your connected iPhone or iPad supports Siri AI anyway. It has an on-screen keyboard for when you need it, and some neat features like Safari having a capability to convert any webpage that is a recipe into a full-screen swipeable cookbook. HomeView is available in Silver, Starlight, Rose Pink, and Space Grey color options, and there’s also a wall mount version that does not include the speaker base.
HomeView is almost certain to be a popular gift this holiday season for people who are heavily in the Apple ecosystem, as those who are Android users without iCloud probably won’t get as much utility out of the device.
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Whether you had the original iPhone or just dreamt of one, you can step back in time 19 years(!) and re-experience the original iPhone running iPhoneOS 1.0 in an emulator within any modern web browser. Play around with the original apps on the original iPhone experience, which all function as they should, though the emulated Safari does not have the ability to connect to the internet. You’ll quickly recall that many of the original iPhone apps were quite different and had names; Music was called iPod because Apple still made iPods at the time, Messages was called Texts because iMessage hadn’t debuted yet, there was no App Store or third party apps, there was no iCloud yet, and lots of other interesting little reminders of the first iPhone experience, before iPhoneOS was renamed iOS, and before many other features even existed.
Aside from a trip down memory lane and the nostalgic factor, there’s not a lot of utility to this, but it sure is fun to see how far iPhone and iOS has come. All you need is a web browser, then simply swipe to unlock, and click around.
iPad has many uses, either as a touch device, or even as a pseudo-laptop of sorts with the Magic Keyboard, or as a desktop-like device with an external mouse and keyboard, and for better or worse, iPad is always running iPadOS. While many Mac users wish iPad could also run MacOS, a completely different and new option outside of the Apple ecosystem is available for the adventurous; running Linux on iPad, with the help of the new LinPad app.
If you’ve ever wanted live video wallpapers on your Mac, the Phosphene app will bring your MacOS desktop to life. But that’s not all, Phosphene is also able to add your own videos to the native wallpaper and screen saver pipeline on the Mac, letting MacOS play your own videos on both your desktop, and your Mac lock screen.
The Apple HomeView might have just been announced, and it’s already a good deal at $299, but Amazon is making it even better by offering a little discount on a pre-ordered HomeView for just $289.99 for the model with a speaker and swivel screen.
The HomeView is sure to be a popular holiday gift this season for people who are deep in the Apple ecosystem, and as of now only Amazon is offering a discount on pre-orders.
While you can get a wall-mounted version of HomeView, it’s the same price as the model with the speaker base and stand, so we’d mostly recommend the speaker base model unless you have a very specific utility for the wall mounted variation.
Amazon is showing a delivery date of November 13, which is the official launch date of HomeView.
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Apple used their “Welcome Home” event to unveil a handful of new and updated devices geared towards a smart home ecosystem, with a brand new product category called HomeView, and notable updates to Apple TV and HomePod mini. All of the devices are heavily integrated with Siri AI and Apple Intelligence, and the Apple ecosystem.
HomeView is particularly interesting, and could turn into a popular home accessory device, while the updates to Apple TV and HomePod mini are more iterative.
Apple continues to march along with new beta 4 builds of iOS 27.2, MacOS 27.2 Golden Gate, and iPadOS 27.2, available for all users enrolled in the beta testing programs for Apple system software.
iOS 27.2 beta supports several new languages for using Siri AI, and there’s a newly redesigned Health app that includes insights and longevity scores gathered from Apple Watch data. While no bugs are specifically mentioned, there are sure to be bug fixes included with iOS 27.2, MacOS 27.2, and ipadOS 27.2 as well.
The all new Siri AI and Spotlight search experience in MacOS 27 is significantly more powerful and capable than prior versions of Siri and Spotlight, but Spotlight Search has a neat trick up its sleeve where you can change it to ask ChatGPT instead, directly from Spotlight search on the Mac. And you don’t even need a ChatGPT account to use this feature, though you can connect it to your OpenAI credentials if you’d like to keep the interactions in your ChatGPT history.
Here’s how to use this super handy quick ChatGPT access on Mac, and yes you will need MacOS 27 or later.
Amazon is offering some giant discounts on the M5 MacBook Pro models, knocking up to $600 off some of the higher level configurations in both 16″ and 14″ display sizes.
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Homebrew now has an official MacOS GUI app for visual package management, offering a graphical alternative to the popular command line tool. The Homebrew GUI app makes it easy to install new packages, update existing packages and casks, manage packages, and find new Homebrew packages, and is a worthwhile addition for Mac users who use Homebrew anyway.
The Homebrew GUI app will obviously require you to have installed Homebrew already on the Mac. If you haven’t done that, or if you have no interest in Homebrew as a package manager or command line, this won’t be of particular relevance to you. But if you’re a Homebrew user, and you want to use the official Homebrew GUI app (as opposed to third party alternatives like Applite), here’s how to install it.
If you’re looking for a great desktop Mac, the Mac Studio and Mac mini are both fantastic. Amazon is offering the latest Mac mini and Mac Studio at some nice discounts, taking up to $200 off the Studio and $150 off the Mac mini in select configurations.
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A somewhat rare reason that MacOS can feel excessively slow is due to a runaway process in the background, in this particular case; rpcsvchost. You might find this in Activity Monitor or another resource monitor, consuming an unusually large amount of RAM and/or CPU, in which case you’re probably wondering what this process is, and whether it’s safe to kill it.
If you were wondering, yes, rpcsvchost is a legitimate system process for MacOS, but it can still occasionally misbehave and contribute to unusually high CPU usage or excessive memory consumption (enough to swap and use virtual memory), both of which can make a Mac feel notably slower.
Let’s dive a bit into what rpcsvchost does, why it might be using excessive system resources, and how to troubleshoot the problem.
Amazon is discounting just about every M5 MacBook Air model in 13″ and 15″ sizes, all color options, and various storage configurations, taking $200 off the retail price.
If you’re still running MacOS Sequoia on your Mac, it’s probably for good reason. Whether that’s due to specific app compatibility, workflow, preference, or whatever else, if you have chosen not to install MacOS 27 Golden Gate let alone MacOS Tahoe 26, you’ll likely want to continue to stay on MacOS Sequoia. But Apple’s Software Update settings panel is fairly aggressive with the upgrade pitch to MacOS 27 Golden Gate, just like they were for Tahoe, and if you’re running MacOS Sequoia and would like to simply update MacOS Sequoia without installing MacOS 27 Golden Gate, read along to understand how this works.
And to be clear, MacOS 27 Golden Gate is a pretty good operating system, and for most users it’s an upgrade over MacOS Tahoe, and some even for Sequoia. This is simply aimed at users who have determined that they want to stay on MacOS Sequoia, and apply updates to MacOS Sequoia.
Apple has announced some sort of event for October 13, where the company will presumably unveil new and updated products.
Apple’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Greg Joswiak posted a short video on X/Twitter (you can follow us there too) for the announcement, posted below, where a graphic says “Welcome Home” and shows two women embroidering a retro rainbow Apple logo.
The ‘home’ reference has led to much speculation about the event being geared towards their Home line of products, and the possible debut of a long rumored new HomePod device which is said to have a screen and speaker and vaguely resemble the classic lampshade iMac, and that device can apparently be used for things like FaceTime and Siri AI. There are also assumptions that Apple will update the current HomePod speakers lineup with new specs and capabilities.
Separately, a new Bloomberg report claims that Apple will launch a touchscreen MacBook Pro, updated MacBook Pro, and new iPad mini later in October, though it’s unclear if those products will be announced at the October 13 event or at that yet-to-be-unveiled later date.
If you have an older Mac that’s still perfectly usable, as most older Macs still are, then you might be interested in running a modern web browser on that Mac, and that’s what Momiji is for. Momiji is based on Firefox, so it includes up to date security patches, and support for modern web browsing features and capabilities.
The Momiji web browser brings a modern browser with support for OS X Lion 10.7, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, MacOS 10.12 Sierra, MacOS 10.13 High Sierra, and MacOS 10.14 Big Sur, which covers a lot of Macs built all the way back in 2007.
If you’re not familiar with downloading apps from Github, go to “releases” and then download the most recent DMG or PKG installer file. While Momiji is open source, you most likely do not want to download the source code.
Having a modern up to date web browser on an older Mac can be the difference in continuing to have it be a usable computer or not sometimes, particularly if a critical site is not compatible with the older browser. And that’s really what makes apps like Momiji so useful, allowing you to continue to get usage from an older Mac, even if Apple has long ago stopped supporting it, and every other major browser also long ago gave up releasing supported versions for those older MacOS and OS X versions.
If you try out Momiji, or have a preferred alternative modern browser for older Macs and MacOS versions, share it with us in the comments!
The Liquid Glass interface offers a fresh look for the iPhone and iPad interface, with plenty of translucency across the operating system. With iOS 27 and ipadOS 27, Apple has introduced a new feature that lets you adjust Liquid Glass, allowing you to control the level of translucency and transparency considerably.
Whether you want maximum Liquid Glass look, or you find the transparency effects distracting or difficult to read, the Liquid Glass slider lets you adjust the interface to exactly how you like it, from more clear, to tinted.
