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  • It’s New (Old) iPad Day

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    If you don’t want to waste time at an upcoming event by talking about updates to old products that nobody will think about for too long, you do it in a press release. As rumored, that’s what Apple has done with this press-release update to their iPad lineup. The iPad Mini has been updated for the first…

  • Musish is Better Than iTunes for Apple Music on Windows, Linux, and macOS

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    If you use Apple Music, the streaming music service from Apple that gives artists pennies instead of dollars, and want to listen on your computer, Musish is open source, runs in your web browser, and a much better alternative to running the full desktop iTunes instance if you don’t need to listen to a locally-stored…

  • Jason Snell’s 2018 MacBook Air and Mac Mini Reviews

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    Jason Snell has reviewed the 2018 Mac Mini: Apple has witnessed how the Mac mini has gone from being the best Mac it could build for $499 to one that’s a vital tool for professional and home users in a variety of contexts. And so, after a long time in the wilderness, the Mac mini…

  • Apple Special Event October 2018 Notes

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    Last month we had new iPhones, this time Apple has announced a new set of 11″ and 12.9″ iPad Pros, a new Mac Mini, and a new Retina-blessed MacBook Air. This event was held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in New York City. Tim Cook started out the show by talking about what creative…

  • The Deal With The iPhone XR

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    That iPhone XR came out and it has almost the exact trade-offs we discussed before. The XR is like the XS and XS Max in many ways, except the XR is missing the 2nd telephoto camera system of the X and previous Plus-sized devices which can be useful for composing shots or getting superior “portrait mode” photos…