In a testament to how quickly time moves, 20 years ago Steve Jobs gave his famous Stanford commencement speech. If you haven’t heard it before, set aside the time to listen, it’s about 15 minutes long and arguably one of the best commencement speeches ever given, if not one of the best general speeches ever … Read More

MacOS Tahoe 26 is here, and right from the start you can see the difference with the all new Liquid Glass interface appearance and styling, with it’s heavy use of translucency, shiny icons and buttons, and all around revamped appearance. Of course MacOS Tahoe is much more than skin deep though, and there’s many new … Read More

iOS 26 for iPhone and iPadOS 26 for iPad has been announced by Apple, and the first beta versions are available to users partcipating in the developer beta programs. With the beta for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, users can get an early look at the nifty shiny new Liquid Glass interface and it’s redesigned … Read More

Apple has enthralled the world with some pretty significant visual overhauls to the iPhone and iPad system software, featuring the all new Liquid Glass appearance style. With a new look, plus many new features, it’s no wonder that so many Apple users are curious about downloading iOS 26 beta and installing it right away. And … Read More

If you’re a regular Apple user, you likely didn’t bother spending over an hour of your day to watching the WWDC 2025 keynote, where Apple announced the naming convention change for system software moving to year designations, along with the introductions of the new Liquid Glass interface, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS … Read More

Apple announced iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, and if you’re a registered Apple Developer, you can now download and install the first iOS 26 beta onto eligible iPhone models. iOS 26 includes a new Liquid Glass interface which is basically just more transparent and shinier with a slightly less bleached neon look, and includes various … Read More

Apple announced the next major version of MacOS, called MacOS Tahoe, versioned as MacOS 26, at WWDC 2026, and now the first beta version is available to download. For Mac users who are enrolled in the developer beta testing program, MacOS Tahoe 26 beta 1 can be downloaded right away through the standard software update … Read More

Apple has announced MacOS Tahoe, versioned as macOS 26, jumping 11 versions ahead from the current versioning of MacOS 15. This versioning number change is congruent with the new year-based versioning system that also arrives on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and the rest of the Apple operating system suite. MacOS Tahoe features an … Read More

Apple has debuted iPadOS 26 today, complete with some notable new features and changes to the iPad operating system. First to notice is the new numerical versioning system, with iPadOS 26 jumping many version numbers ahead of the current iPadOS 18 version, following a numerical system much like Microsoft used to use for Windows (remember … Read More

Apple has announced iOS 26, the next version of system software for iPhone. And yes you read that correctly, it’s iOS 26 – twenty six – jumping way ahead from iOS 18, to follow year numbers. It’s not just iOS that is facing the numerical versioning change, it turns out that Apple is labeling all … Read More

If you’ve been a reader of OSXDaily for a while you almost certainly have seen us mention some of the fun web apps that allow you to run full fledged versions of operating systems in your web browser, from Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8, or Mac OS 7, to even Windows 1.0. Many of … Read More

If you’re a Mac gamer and you love free games, you won’t want to miss out on this deal; Borderlands 2, the classic popular first-person action RPG shooter, is free to download this weekend on Steam (until the morning of June 8 at 10am PDT). And because it’s on Steam, you’ll be able to play … Read More

Father’s Day is coming up, so perhaps you’re shopping for that, or shopping for yourself. In any event, don’t miss these great deals from Amazon, whether you’re getting a gift for yourself or a loved one. With great deals on the latest iPad mini, MacBook Air, AirPods, AirPods Pro with Hearing Aid functionality, Apple Watch, … Read More

CodeEdit is an increasingly popular, free, open source native code editor for Mac that offers a super lightweight and speedy alternative to other code editors for Mac like Xcode, Zed, Visual Studio Pro, and other similar apps and IDEs. CodeEdit offers a fast experience that feels like it was built for MacOS, with many of … Read More

Font Smoothing is a longstanding feature in MacOS that aims to make rendered screen text more legible, and it works by subtly blending the edges of display fonts with the background by using anti-aliasing. The idea is to reduce the jaggedness of screen text, but in practice nowadays it basically makes screen fonts on the … Read More

iCloud Private Relay is a fantastic privacy feature that is part of the iCloud+ subscription that helps to protect your internet activity and browsing by obfuscating your IP address (via using a temporary IP address) and encrypting your DNS lookups, so that third parties can’t see what websites you’re visiting. The end result is that … Read More

Amazon isn’t letting up on the great deals, with the M4 Macbook Air 13″ model now being offered at just $812 for the base 13″ model with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and Midnight color. You can also get great deals on other colors, but the cheapest by far is the dark Midnight color at the … Read More

If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever opened Activity Monitor to explore why your Mac might be feeling slow, it’s likely that you’ve seen a few processes running that could be using a lot of CPU, energy, or memory, in particular cloudd, cloudphotod, photolibraryd, and nsurlsessiond. So what the heck are these processes that … Read More