An animated series based Harriet the Spy is being produced for Apple TV+. Photo: Penguin Random House
Apple ordered an animated version of the children’s classic Harriet the Spy. It’ll star Golden Globe and SAG Award nominee Beanie Feldstein and Emmy winner Jane Lynch. The series will be produced by The Jim Henson Company.
Dropbox Passwords ensures you never forget another login. Photo: Dropbox
Dropbox today rolled out a number of helpful new features for paying subscribers, including a password manager, a secure vault for sensitive files, and new computer backup tools. You can start using them now.
Bag yours before they're all gone! Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac
Need an iPhone that will run iOS 14 this fall? You don’t need to splash your cash on the newest models. Pick up a refurbished iPhone 8 on Amazon right now and pay just $265!
Make learning Spanish easier with the help of Lirica. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals
For many English speakers, learning Spanish is a must. But it’s also a goal that plenty of us somehow fall short of. We take classes in high school, maybe play around on apps, only to stop practicing so we forget what we’ve learned. But remembering songs and lyrics is way easier, so that’s how this app teaches language.
The plan for implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting TikTok reportedly would take a two-pronged approach that could cripple the wildly popular app in the United States.
The executive order could ban TikTok from Apple’s and Google’s app stores, effectively stopping the video-sharing app’s wildfire growth. (The app has “reportedly been downloaded over 175 million times in the United States and over one billion times globally,” according to Trump’s executive order.) The move also could financially strangle the Chinese-owned app by forbidding U.S. companies from buying advertising on it.
Best Buy is offering certified refurbished AirPods Pro units for just $194.99 today only. That’s $55 off the regular selling price, with free shipping and a 90-day Best Buy warranty.
Tim Cook meets with a person working on the production line building iPhones. Photo: Apple
Apple manufacturer Foxconn said Wednesday that it plans to split its supply chain in two. One segment will service the China market, while the other will focus on the United States.
Foxconn chairman Young Liu said the manufacturing giant now operates 30% of its capacity outside China, up from 25% last June. In recent years, the company began moving manufacturing to other regions such as Southeast Asia to avoid possible tariffs on Chinese goods headed to the United States.
What could make Apple happier than Apple customers buying Apple goods on its Apple Online Store with Apple Card? Photo: Apple
Paying for your Apple Online Store purchases is easier than ever if you’re an Apple Card user. Starting Tuesday, Apple added the ability the pay for items with a dedicated one-click Apple Card option.
To pay with Apple Card, simply select the Apple Card option when you’re ask to complete your purchase.
A brand-new look for iOS 14. Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac
iOS 14 finally brings the ability to change your CarPlay wallpaper so that you don’t have to look at a blank background. Here’s how you can change yours in a few simple steps.
This camera-centric setup is easy on the eyes. Photo: Brandon Remler
This standup setup is definitely ready for its close-up. Artfully outfitted by Fujifilm North America salesman Brandon Remler, it sports a pair of laptops. But the real focus falls on Remler’s array of cameras, both film and digital.
“I do primarily use digital,” Remler told Cult of Mac in an email. “I did film for 20 years and it has a great feel and experience. Now moved on to Fujifilm GFX system. Gfx100 or Gfx50 — as well as our other Fujifilm x series (have one of everything so it’s not fair ;-).”
Niv Sultan plays the lead in Tehran, a thriller coming next month to Apple TV+. Photo: Apple
Apple’s fall TV season will kick off with Tehran, a spy drama about a young Israeli agent trying to destroy an Iranian nuclear reactor. Apple revealed on Tuesday that the series will debut Friday, September 25 on Apple TV+.
Why carry just an iPad stylus when the Adonit Note-M is also a mouse? Photo: Adonit
You can use a stylus with your iPad, or a mouse. Or you could try the newly unveiled Adonit Note-M, which is both.
One end of this accessory acts as a stylus on the iPad display. Flip it around, and a motion sensor on the other end lets the Note-M function as a mouse on almost any surface.
Martin Scorsese is the latest star to land at Apple TV+. Photo: Thomas Hawk/Flickr CC
The next Goodfellas or Taxi Driver might be an Apple Original. Cupertino signed Martin Scorcese’s Sikelia Productions to a first-look deal that will see him direct and produce films and TV shows for Apple TV+.
It’s the latest high-profile pact signed by Apple execs as they seek to corner the market on the world’s most talented visual creators. The company continues to hustle, buying big-name properties and signing directors, actors, producers and other top Hollywood talent to exclusive deals.
Speidel’s leather band and case bring a semi-casual look and extra protection to your Apple Watch. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac
Your Apple Watch is always with you, which exposes it to occasional rough treatment. The Speidel Light Brown Leather Luxury Watch Band comes with a case that wraps around all the edges and corners of your wearable, protecting it from bumps.
I tested this case, and the Watch band it comes with. Read on to see how they stood up to daily life.
Planning to pick up a new iPhone before iOS 14 drops this fall? Check out Woot’s latest deal on brand-new iPhone XS Max units. They ship within 24 hours, pack 512GB of storage, and cost $500 less today!
Apple’s newest MacBook Pro is a worthy upgrade for anyone who wants rid of the problematic butterfly keyboard. It’s also more powerful than ever before. Bag yours today and get $200 off the usual price!
Kanye West wants to be the next president of the United States. Photo: Mark Azali/Flickr CC
Noted Apple fan Kanye West is blaming the iPhone’s clock for his failure to turn in the correct nomination signatures on time in Wisconsin for his U.S. presidential bid.
State laws say the papers had to be filed “not later” than 5 p.m. local time on Monday. Unfortunately, West’s campaign submitted them 14 seconds after the 5 p.m. deadline. West’s lawyer argues that, because it was before 5:01 p.m., the paperwork should still be admitted.
Power through book summaries on hundreds of topics in just 12 minutes each. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals
Books are one of the best things humans ever came up with. But let’s be honest — not every one of them requires days of your attention. Why devote precious hours to reading when it makes more sense to spend a few minutes getting the gist?
A catalog of amazing apps, one small monthly fee. Photo: Setapp
Setapp, the brilliant app subscription service from MacPaw, has finally landed on iOS. The service offers eight titles at launch, including task-management app 2Do and wonderful writing tool Ulysses.
A small monthly fee gets you complete, unlimited access to every app in the catalog, with more being added on a regular basis. And if you’re already a Setapp subscriber, you may get the iOS apps for free.
The Apple Sainte-Catherine store in Montreal will be closed “until further notice” due to COVID-19 conditions.
“We take this step with an abundance of caution as we closely monitor the situation and we look forward to having our teams and customers back as soon as possible,” Apple said. The company would not confirm whether there was a positive case of COVID-19 at the store
Apple's App Store rules are under fire again. Photo: Apple
The EU’s antitrust investigation of Apple is looking into how Cupertino made it tough for fellow tech giants Facebook and Microsoft launching their own streaming gaming platforms on the App Store. These include the Facebook Gaming and Microsoft’s Project xCloud apps.
Google was a big winner on iOS in July. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac
As the company behind Android, Google is frequently positioned as one of Apple’s biggest enemy when it comes to smartphones. But it’s actually doing incredibly well thanks to iOS — as a new Sensor Tower report makes clear.
Published Monday, the report notes that Google was the no. 1 mobile publisher in the App Store for July 2020, based on total number of installs. Google’s top apps include YouTube, Google Hangouts, Gmail, Google Calendar, and others.
The iPhone 12 isn’t out yet, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has yet to fulfill his ambition of landing on Mars — but Russian luxury firm Caviar is getting ahead of the game.
This week, it announced a new limited series of 19 “Musk Be On Mars” iPhone 12 Pro handsets. Rather than being blinged out with gold and diamonds like previous Caviar iPhones, these special-edition units will feature “a piece from the SpaceX spaceship that was in space,” bas relief of the Dragon spacecraft, and a laser-engraved Musk signature.
Running Windows on a Mac just got better. Again. Image: Parallels
Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac launched Tuesday, bringing new features and performance enhancements that mean the virtualization software delivers the “ultimate Windows-on-Mac experience,” the company said.
The update also preps the popular software for the upcoming release of macOS Big Sur. That required a major effort from Parallels’ engineers.
“We had to re-engineer all of the (kernel extensions) that we would need from scratch to work with the new macOS kext that’s integrated into the product,” said John Uppendahl, Parallels’ VP of global communications, during an online briefing about the software. “And to give you context, that alone took 25 man-years of engineering work.”