Category: technology
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“Would you buy the new Apple devices?”
This is the other question I get asked after new products are announced at an Apple event. Here’s the answer. iPhone 6s/6s Plus tl;dr Yes.The new upgrades are actually more significant than usual for an “s” release. 3D Touch, twice the RAM, Live Photos, and more. 3D Touch is extremely compelling to anyone who wants…
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Will Smith Departing Tested
Will Smith (one half of the awesome duo behind Tested.com, not the actor): About six years ago, I pitched my idea for Tested to the folks at Whiskey Media. My pitch was simple, let’s make a technology site that’s about having fun with technology instead of showing people how snarky and cool we could be.…
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Attack code exploiting Android’s critical Stagefright bugs is now public
Dan Goodin: Attack code that allows hackers to take control of vulnerable Android phones finally went public on Wednesday, as developers at Google, carriers, and handset manufacturers still scrambled to distribute patches to hundreds of millions of end users. The critical flaws, which reside in an Android media library known as libstagefright, give attackers a…
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“What Happened in the Apple Event Today?”
That’s a question I get asked, here’s the answer: Apple Watch OS 2 got a release date, September 16th. That’s the one with the native apps instead of the apps running on the iPhone and displaying on the Apple Watch. There are two new colors of Apple Watch, gold and rose gold. The big iPad…
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Cmd-Number Shortcuts For Safari 9
Daniel Jalkut: If you’re a Safari user and you’ve updated to the Safari 9 or OS X 10.11 beta, you may have noticed a minor change in the default keyboard shortcuts for the app. In Safari 8 and earlier, keyboard shortcuts combining the Command key and a number, e.g. Cmd-1, Cmd-2, Cmd-3, would open the…