Shopping for some Apple gear this holiday season? Why not save some cash and take advantage of Amazon’s ongoing deals for Apple hardware. We’ve rounded up a handful of great deals on the M3 MacBook Pro 14″ & 16″, M2 MacBook Air 15″, iPad Air, iPad mini, AirTags, Apple Watch Series 9, external hard drives, and more.
Zoom lovers and Zoom telecommuters rejoice, you can now join and start Zoom meetings directly from your Apple TV. That’s right, Zoom now has an Apple TV app, allowing you to participate in Zoom meetings from your couch and put your videoconferencing on the big screen.
All the standard Zoom features are included, including the ability to start and join Zoom meetings, calendar integration, ability to send invites, you can read the in-meeting chats, join breakout rooms, and all the other major Zoom essentials.
This is a cool little convenience feature that is not widely known; the Messages app on iPhone and iPad will prompt you to send photos if someone asks for them.
The Messages app has become significantly more intelligent in the latest versions of iOS and iPadOS for iPhone and iPad, and now, alongside the usual QuickType text suggestions, emoji suggestions, and auto-correct suggestions, your iPhone will also prompt you to ‘Choose Photos’ if someone sends you a message requesting photos or pictures.
iOS 17.1.2 has been released for iPhone users, along with iPadOS 17.1.2 for iPad. The small software update includes security fixes and is recommended for all users to install onto their eligible devices.
It is unclear if any bug fixes are included in the release, as none are mentioned in the release notes, which are included further below.
Separately, Apple has also issued macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 update for Mac.
macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 update has been released for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system. The software update includes unspecified bug fixes and security enhancements, and is recommended for all Mac users running Sonoma to install. Full release notes are included below.
Separately, Apple has also released iOS 17.1.2 update for iPhone, and iPadOS 17.1.2 update for iPad, both of which also include security updates.
Dark Mode is a popular visual option for many Mac users who wish to change the appearance of their computers interface. If you’re new to the Mac, or even just new to the more modern operating systems like Sonoma and Ventura that use System Settings, you may not be familiar with how to activate and enable Dark Mode in macOS.
If you’re wondering how you can set the default web browser in macOS Sonoma to something else, maybe to Chrome, Firefox, Brave, or perhaps even back to Safari, you’ll find that it is relatively easy to do so. However, like so many other adjustments and tweaks to the latest macOS versions, it is different compared to prior versions of macOS and Mac OS X and what you may be accustomed to.
Apple has released another round of betas for their operating system suite, with iOS 17.2 beta 4 for iPhone, iPadOS 17.2 beta 4 for iPad, and macOS Sonoma 14.2 beta 4 for Mac, each being available to users participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software.
Some new features are coming with iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, and macOS Sonoma 14.2, including the ability to add stickers to your iMessages from contextual menus, and the inclusion of the Journal app in iOS 17.2 for iPhone. The typical round of bug fixes and security enhancements are expected to be included as well with the final versions of iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, and macOS Sonoma 14.2, when those are released likely next month.
The latest versions of iOS for iPhone default to enabling a feature called SharePlay, which allows you to easily share Spotify, Apple Music, Podcasts, and many other media experiences, easily with whoever you’re having a FaceTime audio or FaceTime video call with. While this feature can be convenient for the intended purposes, it can also be annoying and frustrating, as you’ll be prompted with pop-ups to use SharePlay anytime you’re on a FaceTime call with another person, usually for whatever the last multimedia app experience you were engaging with involved. Or, if you’re listening to something on say Spotify, and you get an incoming FaceTime call, you’ll get the SharePlay pop-up appearing, whether you want to or not.
If you don’t have any interest in using SharePlay on iPhone and you’re annoyed with the SharePlay pop-ups on iPhone, read along to turn the feature off completely on iPhone or iPad.
Amazon is celebrating Cyber Monday tons of discounts on everything under the sun, and included in that are some fantastic deals on Apple products that we know and love.
The command line grep tool is incredibly powerful and useful for searching for matches in files, sorting text and data, finding strings in large files, and so much more. One common situation many command line users may find themselves in, is seeking to grep match for two different strings in a single line.
You can use grep in the Terminal in MacOS for this, or any other unix-based command line prompt, whether that’s Linux, Windows WSL, any version of MacOS / Mac OS X, or even a rooted iOS/iPadOS if you’re into that kind of thing.
Cyber Monday is here and Amazon is already offering incredible deals on many Apple products during their Cyber Monday sales. If you missed the Black Friday Deals, no sweat, Cyber Monday deals are here are also fantastic.
From great deals on MacBook Air, iPads, AirTags, AirPods, Apple Watch Series 9, MacBook Pro, external hard drives, and so much more, shop on!
The Instacart app for iPhone is convenient in that it allows you to shop for groceries and other items and have them delivered (if you live in a major city anyway), but like an ever-growing number of iPhone apps, it defaults to pelting you with annoying sales, promotional, and marketing notifications that are completely unrelated to your delivery or order experience.
Chances are decent that you don’t want to receive these promo notifications from Instacart, so let’s go about disabling the Instacart marketing/advertising promo notifications on your iPhone, while still keeping notifications that are actually useful for Instacart, like delivery and order updates.
Did you know your iPhone will let you know if a wi-fi network is available to join nearby? This feature of iOS is relatively new, and it’s interesting in that it will specifically focus on public wi-fi networks are popular and being used by others that are nearby.
Black Friday is here, and Amazon is offering fantastic deals on a broad range of Apple products.
From AirPods, AirTags, Apple Watch, iPad models, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro, there are fantastic deals, and even more, enjoy these Black Friday discounts.
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It’s not unusual for those of us who are the “family geek” to spend time with less tech savvy people during the holidays, so why not use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to assist or improve the tech lives of loved ones? Express your thankfulness and gratitude with some helpful tech tips!
You may already be using ChatGPT, the phenomenally powerful and useful AI tool, but the free version is based on GPT-3.5. GPT-4 is said to be ten times more advanced, with enhanced creativity, reliability, up-to-date information, and an ability to interpret more nuanced instructions, so it’s understandable why users would like to explore and experience GPT-4, but not everyone is able to pay the $20 monthly fee to access GPT-4 through OpenAI. Fortunately there are some other options out there, giving you access to use GPT-4 for free.
Black Friday may be a few days away, but Amazon is ahead of the game and offering giant discounts and great deals on Apple products for Black Friday right now.
If you’re shopping for Apple gear this holiday season, whether for someone else or to treat yourself, why pay full price when you can take advantage of these great discounts from Amazon?
