CAPTCHA’s are those annoying “prove you are a human” tests that are common on the web, making you do things like select all the motorcycles, crosswalks, or cars in a series of images, or type out a series of fuzzy characters to match, before you can proceed to login or access a particular website. The point of CAPTCHAs is to prevent automated attacks, brute force attempts, and other common web-spam activity, but the most obvious consequence to CAPTCHAs for the average user is annoyance.

Thanks to a little feature that is included on the iPhone and iPad however, you can automatically verify CAPTCHAs, and skip them entirely. Rather than be annoyed by CAPTCHAs, if you’re on a modern version of iOS and iPadOS you can skip and bypass CAPTCHAs on the web.

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Homebrew is a fantastic package manager for the command line on Mac, but something that is perhaps less fantastic for some individuals is that Homebrew defaults to enabling ‘analytics’, which means your Mac will transmit data from your Mac to Homebrew about Homebrew usage. No thanks!

The Homebrew analytics include everything from user agent, Google Analytics version and other information, and a Homebrew analytics tracking ID and user ID. The data is said to be anonymous, but as we all know about metadata, “anonymous” is relative, and perhaps not so anonymous after all. So if you are a Homebrew user, you may be interested in disabling the analytics feature, which is turned on by default on every Homebrew installation.

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Pixelmator is arguably the best photo and image editing app for Mac, other than the much more expensive Photoshop anyway. If you bought Pixelmator Classic some time ago, and you haven’t yet went for the upgrade to Pixelmator Pro (or perhaps you don’t need the new features), then you may be interested in downloading and installing Pixelmator Classic onto a Mac, whether it’s a new M1/M2 Mac, or a clean install on an older Mac.

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Want to get ahead of the curve and run watchOS 10 beta on your Apple Watch? WatchOS 10 features freshly redesigned apps, a new smart stacks feature, new watch faces, and other refinements to the Apple Watch operating system, and some advanced users may be interested in trying out the newest watchOS on their wrists.

Much like how anyone can now install iOS 17 beta, iPadOS 17 beta, or MacOS Sonoma beta, any user who enrolls their device in the free Apple Developer program can also run watchOS 10 beta on their watch. Of course, it’s an early developer beta, so users should have full expectation of bugs, quirks, suboptimal performance, and potential compatibility issues, making this really only appropriate for advanced users who understand the ramifications of using beta system software on any device, let alone their watch (which can not be downgraded).

We’re going to walk through the steps on installing watchOS 10 beta onto Apple Watch, using the free developer beta program.

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Apple has released MacOS Monterey 12.6.7 and MacOS Big Sur 11.7.8 for Mac users who are continuing to run those versions of MacOS, rather than Ventura.

Additionally, macOS Ventura 13.4.1, iOS 16.5.1, iPadOS 16.5.1, iOS/iPadOS 15.7.7, and updates to watchOS are available.

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iOS 15.7.7 and iPadOS 15.7.7 have been released for older iPhone and iPad models that are not running iOS/iPadOS 16, of which iOS 16.5.1 and iPadOS 16.5.1 updates were just released.

iOS/iPadOS 15.7.7 include important security updates, and are recommended to install.

Separately, Apple has also released updates for iOS 16.5.1, iPadOS 16.5.1, MacOS Ventura 13.4.1, macOS Monterey 12.6.7, macOS Big Sur 11.7.8, and updates to watchOS.

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Apple has released iOS 17 beta 2 and iPadOS 17 beta 2 to users actively participating in the beta testing programs for system software.

Anyone can install iOS 17 beta or install iPadOS 17 beta right now by enrolling in the Apple Developer program, which is now free.

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The second beta version of MacOS Sonoma has been released to users enrolled in the developer beta testing program for Apple system software.

MacOS Sonoma, versioned as macOS 14, includes a variety of new features for Mac, like new screen savers, a new Lock Screen, the reintroduction of widgets to the Mac, new Messages features, Safari Profiles support which allows for unique profiles for things like work and school, FaceTime video messages support, and many other various changes and improvements.

Technically, any user can enroll their Apple ID to participate in the Apple Developer program which gives them access to be able to install MacOS Sonoma beta on a Mac, but this should be limited to advanced users, and for secondary hardware. A public beta will be released next month.

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Apple has released iOS 16.5.1 as a software update for iPhone users running the iOS 16 operating system.

iOS 16.5.1 and iPadOS 16.5.1 includes important security fixes for iPhone and iPad, along with a bug fix to resolve an issue with charging the iPhone with a Lightning to USB camera adapter.

Updates are also available for MacOS Ventura 13.4.1, older macOS releases, older iPhone and iPad models, and Apple Watch.

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MacOS Ventura 13.4.1 has been released as an update for Mac users running the Ventura operating system.

The MacOS Ventura 13.4.1 update includes bug fixes and security enhancements, making it a recommended update for Mac users running that operating system.

Software updates are also available for macOS Monterey and Big Sur, along with iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

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You can easily monitor and view the temperature of an Apple Silicon equipped Mac with the help of a free app called Hot. Hot displays the Mac’s CPU temperature in the menu bar, allowing you to keep an eye on thermal conditions on the Mac. And while we’re focusing on the Apple Silicon Macs here, Hot works to see the temperatures for Intel Macs too.

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If you gave into the temptation of installing iOS 17 beta onto your iPhone and now regret doing so because of incompatibility issues, bugs, or performance complaints, you may be interested in downgrading iOS 17 beta back to stable iOS 16 release.

We’ll show you how you can downgrade and remove iOS 17 beta from iPhone, returning back to a stable iOS 16 release on your device.

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Many Mac users are interested in downloading the full installer for MacOS Sonoma beta, but when they go through the typical process of installing the MacOS Sonoma beta and downloading the update from System Settings, they’re given only a smaller stub installer that can not be used for things like making a USB boot install drive.

If you’d like to download the full and complete MacOS Sonoma beta installer, which is about 13GB in size, you can do so with one of two ways; using a direct download link from Apple, and also by using the Terminal. Separately, we will also link to direct download links from Apple for MacOS Sonoma IPSW files.

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Any interested Apple TV user can install the tvOS 17 beta onto their Apple TV right now. Thanks to a recent change in the Apple Developer program, which has opened up access to all developer betas to anyone who enrolls in the free dev program, tvOS 17 beta is available, along with iOS 17 beta, iPadOS 17 beta, macOS Sonoma beta, and watchOS 10 beta.

tvOS 17 includes support for FaceTime on Apple TV by using Continuity Camera from an associated iPhone or iPad, karaoke, and a feature that lets you find your remote by using your iPhone, amongst other smaller features and changes.

While beta system software is not intended for casual users due to bugs, compatibility issues, and performance issues, some advanced users may still be intrigued enough to want to install and run tvOS 17 beta on their Apple TV right now, and that’s what this walkthrough will show you how to do.

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File sharing is one of the quintessential features of just about every networked computer, and if you’ve got a Mac on a local network then you might be wondering how you can seamlessly share files over local networks with other Macs, Windows PCs, and Linux PCs. Thanks to MacOS support for SMB and Windows File Sharing, you can easily network and file share a Mac with other a diverse range of other computer operating systems.

We’ll show you how you can enable file sharing on your Mac running macOS Ventura or newer.

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iPadOS 17 includes a snazzy new wallpaper that you might appreciate using on your devices to spice up the wallpaper or desktop background picture, and you don’t even have to install iPadOS 17 beta to get it.

Linked below are the two iPadOS 17 default wallpapers in full resolution 2400 × 2400, available in both Light and Dark versions.

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Apple has released the third beta versions of iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, and macOS Ventura 13.5 to users who are still running betas of the current generation of system software.

No major features or changes are expected in these versions of system software, as the majority of Apple’s developmental effort is likely being placed on the iOS 17 beta, iPadOS 17 beta, and MacOS Sonoma beta, each of which is available to download and run now by any interested user.

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Want to run MacOS Sonoma beta in a virtual machine on your Mac? It’s pretty easy thanks to the free Viable tool, and if you followed our recent guide on installing Ventura in a Viable VM, you can easily upgrade that Ventura VM to run MacOS Sonoma beta in a virtual machine.

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