Amazon is offering a 29% discount on a 4-pack of AirTags 2, the second generation of personal trackers. These are wildly useful for many purposes whether you’re tracking a bike, pet, bag, or whatever else you want to keep track of on the Find My network. AirTags 2 – 4-pack – $69.99 (down from $99) … Read More

You may find yourself in a situation when you need to boot into Safe Mode while troubleshooting a MacBook Air, MacBook Neo, or MacBook Pro. Safe Mode boots a Mac without loading third party login items, system extensions, and non-system fonts. Additionally, Safe Mode runs a disk check to verify the startup disk, clears system … Read More

Apple has launched two all-new touchscreen MacBook Pro models, with 14″ and 16″ OLED display sizes. This marks a notable reversal from Apple against their longstanding resistance to touch screen laptops due to ergonomic issues. The new MacBook Pro features a redesigned enclosure, M5 Pro or M5 Max chip options with up to 128GB RAM … Read More

Apple has released a series of hardware updates this week, including an updated iPad Mini with A20 chip and OLED display, an iMac with M6 chip, and a 14″ MacBook Pro base model with M6 chip. These products were announced ahead of the “Pro and Tell” event set for tomorrow, which is expected to launch … Read More

MacOS Tahoe 26.7.2 and MacOS Sequoia 15.8.2 are available now as security software updates for Mac users who are continuing to run those operating systems. Those users will also find Safari 27.2 available as an update. These updates include hundreds of security patches and fixes making them recommended to all users who are running macOS … Read More

Apple has released iOS 27.2 for iPhone, and ipadOS 27.2 for iPad. These updates include new Siri AI features, along with Siri AI support in new languages, unspecified bug fixes, and security patches, making them recommended for all iPhone and iPad users to install. Additionally, Apple has also released MacOS 27.2 for Golden Gate users, … Read More

Apple has released MacOS 27.2 Golden Gate, the update includes new Siri AI features and support for Siri AI in additional languages, along with miscellaneous nonspecific bug fixes and security patches. Release notes are included below, along with download links for the full installer and IPSW file for MacOS 27.2. Separately, Apple has also released … Read More

I ran into a peculiar issue recently where the ‘dasd’ process had been consuming 100% CPU for several days straight. Since dasd is a system process, my initial assumption was that there must be some important background task that was going on. But, after a few days of no change and dasd constantly hovering between … Read More

Visual Intelligence offers a set of AI features that can be used to identify objects and items in photos or things on screen, and a neat new feature available in MacOS 27 Golden Gate allows you to interact with Siri and Visual Intelligence from just about anywhere on your Mac. You can use this to … Read More

If you have been shopping for a high end M5 Max MacBook Pro 16″ model with 36GB RAM and 2 TB SSD and waiting for a whopper discount, now might be time to act. Amazon is cutting a whopping $900 off the retail price of this top-of-the-line MacBook Pro, or a more modest yet still … Read More

The Edge Light feature of FaceTime for Mac enables a virtual ring light on your screen during FaceTime calls, which helps to more evenly illuminate your face. This is particularly useful in lower light conditions, and it can improve the appearance of a FaceTime call quite a bit. Ring Lighting is commonly used in media … Read More

One of the more compelling new subtler features introduced iOS 27 pertains to the ability to use full screen Widgets on iPhone. Full screen widgets can effectively turn a Home Screen page into a full mini-app of whatever the full screen widget is. For example, you can have the full screen Weather widget, which shows … Read More

The Mac mini and Mac Studio are both increasingly popular, not only as desktop Macs, but also for local AI setups. Amazon is taking up to $150 off the Mac mini configs, and $200 off a well-equipped Mac Studio: M6 Mac Mini – 16GB / 256GB – $779 (down $120 from $899) M6 Mac mini … Read More

Siri Suggestions is a feature in Spotlight search for iPhone and iPad that suggests apps to open. The apps shown in this list are based on a few factors, including frequency of use, time of use, recency of use, and other algorithmic factors, but there are times the apps shown are not helpful, not in … Read More

Apple has set an event for next week, October 28, using the tagline “pro and tell” to describe the “special Apple experience” that select influencers and press were invited to. The “pro and tell” tagline certainly seems to suggest that Pro products will get updates, which is in line with rumors that suggest MacBook Pro … Read More

Apple has issued the first Release Candidate builds of iOS 27.2, MacOS 27.2 Golden Gate, and iPadOS 27.2, for users who are in the beta testing program for Apple system software. A Release Candidate (RC) build typically matches the final version of the beta testing process, absent any last minute issues or changes. Aside from … Read More

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. … Read More

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 … Read More