Advanced Mac users may wish to manually increase the VRAM allocation on their Apple Silicon Mac for performance reasons when engaging in graphics intensive tasks like running LLMs locally, AI models, or any graphics heavy applications, whether for gaming or video editing. This is possible because Apple Silicon chips offer unified memory architecture, meaning the … Read More

If you’re an iPhone or iPad user, you might appreciate a feature that automatically switches your devices appearance from Light Mode to Dark Mode, and vice versa, automatically. Furthermore, you can set the automatic enabling of Dark and Light mode to follow sunset and sunrise, or a custom schedule, whichever you prefer.

If you’ve ever wanted to browse your photo library a bit more efficiently, adjusting the thumbnail size in the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad can make a big difference. Whether you’re looking to see more images on the screen at once, or you prefer larger previews for easier viewing, changing the thumbnail size … Read More

Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2 may have been released all the way back in 2002, but thanks to the InfiniteMac project, you can also run Mac OS X Jaguar on your modern Mac right now with just a web browser. Sure you might even have an old dusty Mac laying around in a closet that … Read More

Have you ever downloaded an app to your Mac and been unable to open it? Typically if this happens you’ll get some kind of alarming message, stating something to the effect of “App Not Opened. Apple could not verify (app name.app) is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy” with … Read More

Apple has released iOS 18.4.1 update for iPhone, along with iPadOS 18.4.1 for iPad. The software updates include a few bug fixes and important security patches, making them recommended to update. Additionally, iOS 18.4.1 includes a bug fix for a particular issue with CarPlay not connecting properly in some situations. If you have been experiencing … Read More

Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1 as a software update for Mac users running the Sequoia operating system. The update focuses exclusively on security updates and bug fixes, and contains no new features. Separately, Apple also released iOS 18.4.1 for iPhone, iPadOS 18.4.1 for iPad, and updates to tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, and those updates … Read More

The latest versions of Safari for Mac have changed how a person might find SSL certificate information for a particular website, something that is commonly needed in web development, information security, and developmental web work in general. While in prior versions of Safari you could simply click on the little padlock icon next to the … Read More

If you’re the type of person who likes to maintain Inbox Zero, or who recently went and tidied up their Gmail inbox to get every email marked as read, you may come across a frustrating situation where Gmail shows 1 unread message, and you simply can’t locate that unread email message in Gmail. If you … Read More

New betas are available as iOS 18.5 beta 2, MacOS Sequoia 15.5 beta 2, and iPadOS 18.5 beta 2, for users who are participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. No notable new features or major changes are expected in these beta versions, at least thus far, suggesting they’re likely focused on … Read More

If you follow AI news, or even tech news, you might have heard of DeepSeek by now, the powerful Chinese Large Language Model that has capabilities rivaling ChatGPT while having dramatically lower training costs. DeepSeek is designed for advanced reasoning, with general purpose natural language and ChatBot abilities, task competency, research, while also being excellent … Read More

One of the more interesting features to arrive on iPhone lately is the Ambient Music player, which, as the name implies, plays ambient music. This neat audio feature was introduced with iOS 18.4, and the Ambient Music Player offers four different ambient music types to play; Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing. While the Ambient Music … Read More

Perhaps you recently saw that Apple had released the iPhone 16e and drooled with envy at the iPhone 16e default wallpaper, which sort of looks like a drop of Liquid Metal (why did macOS Sequoia autocorrect capitalize “Liquid Metal”? Who knows, but it did it again, so let’s go with it) or maybe a water … Read More

The Mail app for iPad has been updated to include the Mail Categories feature with iPadOS 18.4. The Mail Categories feature is intended to automatically sort your email inbox within the Mail app into particular email categories, including “Primary”, “Transactions”, “Updates”, and “Promotions”, along with a mostly hidden “All Mail” option. While the intention may … Read More

Apple has brought the controversial Mail Categories feature to the Mail app on Mac, and you will find that it is enabled in the Mail app by default. The idea behind Mail Categories is that your inbox is now sorting itself automatically into four categories; Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. There’s also a hidden “All … Read More

Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 and MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 as security updates for Mac users running Sonoma and Ventura operating systems. These updates are security patch focused and do not include new features that are otherwise available in the latest MacOS Sequoia 15.4 update that was released simultaneously. Separately, you’ll find software updates available … Read More

While iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 updates were just released for modern iPhone and iPad devices, Apple has also released a bevy of software updates for older iPhone and iPad devices. Each of these updates include important security fixes and are therefore recommended for all eligible users and their devices to install. Specifically, you will … Read More

Apple has released iOS 18.4 for iPhone, along with iPadOS 18.4 for iPad. These updates include a few new features, as well as bug fixes and security enhancements. iOS 18.4 for iPhone includes new emoji icons, an ambient music generator, a Priority Notifications feature for Apple Intelligence, and various bug fixes and security patches. iPadOS … Read More