Get your stunning Forté stand at a sweet discount. Photo: Twelve South
Give your beloved Apple Watch one of the prettiest charging stands money can buy and get $10 off for a limited time.
Inspired by the best Apple products, the Twelve South Forté fuses shiny chrome and luxury leather for a positively premium look. And it works with any Apple Watch and any band.
YouTube Music and Waze are now friends. Photo: Google
The latest move by the Waze navigation app to make driving a little more fun involves built-in controls for YouTube Music. This allows drivers to make changes to the music streaming through their iPhone or Android without leaving the Waze app.
Have you upgraded yet? Photo: Ian Fuchs/Cult of Mac
Apple is picking up the pace on its iOS 13 development by seeding the eighth beta build of the upcoming software release to developers today.
iOS 13 beta 8 and iPadOS 13 beta 8 arrive less than one week after Apple released the last beta build to developers. It’s a clear sign that the last of the bugs are getting squashed in order to ready the big update for the public launch next month.
Opting out of Apple Card arbitration is easy. Photo: Apple
The Apple Card is now potentially available to anyone in the U.S., so you’ll soon be able to use your (tough titanium) credit card to defeat locks, scrape paint, and open beer bottles. But it’s not all good news. Your Apple Card contract includes something called arbitration, and that’s a very bad thing. The silver lining is that you can easily opt out. Here’s how to opt out of Apple Card arbitration, and why you definitely should.
Spending big on star power for Apple TV+ is really smart. Photo: Apple
On the surface, Cupertino’s decision to spend massive piles of money on its upcoming Apple TV+ streaming service seems crazy.
Is this a company with too much money being suckered? Is it a huge display of hubris (as some say of Apple Park)? Or is it, just possibly, a clever strategy that could win Apple the streaming war?
Here’s why I think that third answer is the correct one. Dig a little deeper, and Apple’s spending spree looks nothing short of brilliant.
While not a literal crystal ball for seeing the future, the EEC database gets close when it comes to Apple products. Photo: Jennifer Hubacher/Pexels CC
Multiple new MacBook, Apple Watch, iPod touch and iPhone models are coming this fall, according to a database that’s so far been very accurate about upcoming products. It belongs to the Eurasian Economic Commission, which become a gold mine for information on Apple computers that are right around the corner.
Finger crossed for Apple Pencil support. Photo: Olixar
Accessory-makers are already preparing cases for Apple’s next-generation iPhone lineup, including an “iPhone 11 Pro” that will support a brand new Apple Pencil.
Is that titanium? "Nice!" Photo: Universal Studios/YouTube
The Apple Card is the newest status totem and that gave one YouTuber and fan of the 2000 film American Psycho an idea for the re-editing of one scene.
The scene shows cocksure investment banker Patrick Bateman and his yuppie, Italian-suited colleagues vainly comparing the designs of their business cards, each whipping their’s out so to speak.
Get your hands on the third and final preview today. Photo: Microsoft
Microsoft Edge is now “ready for everyday use.”
The next-generation version of the browser, built on Chromium, is still in beta for Windows and macOS. But Microsoft says it’s stable enough to become your primary window to the web.
The battle for our ears. And listening dollars. Photo: Spotify
Streaming giant Spotify’s history shows a company that rose from nothing to take on Apple — and won. Well, kind of. At least, that’s the story that may be told in a new screen adaptation of Spotify’s rise to prominence.
While it’s not yet in production, the UK division of Swedish film and TV company Yellow Bird (the company behind the Swedish Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) just acquired the adaptation rights to the recent book Spotify Untold.
Think of it as The Social Network, only about the world of streaming music.
Kazakh government wanted to create a method to monitor what users were typing. Photo: Cult of Mac
Apple, Google and Mozilla have joined forces to stop the Kazakh government from creating an internet surveillance system that uses their respective web browsers.
Safari, Chrome and Firefox will all block a government encryption certificate. This certificate would make it possible for the Kazakh government to read anything typed inside a browser, including passwords.
This app makes capturing and editing images and video from your desktop a cinch. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals
Whether you want to share content with colleagues, demonstrate an app or process to your audience, or just remember something for later, being able to record your Mac desktop is handy.
Newton documentary will be accompanied by a Q&A from original MessagePad team. Photo: Love Notes to Newton
Love Notes to Newton, a documentary about Apple’s ill-fated but influential Newton MessagePad, is getting a big screen showing. The documentary will be shown at the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle, Washington on September 28.
It’s accompanied by a Q&A session with several members of the original Newton team who worked at Apple. If you’re an old-school Apple fan, this is a great opportunity to get the inside story.
BOE Technology could join Apple's supply chain next year. Photo: Apple
Apple is said to be “aggressively testing” OLED screens from other suppliers ahead of a 2020 iPhone refresh.
Cupertino reportedly wants to diversify its supply chain next year. It currently relies heavily on Samsung for OLED panels, with LG Display making only small contributions for the iPhone XS lineup.
The account was originally created back in April, but only this week went live with its very first tweet. It looks like its primary purpose is to promote Apple Card, rather than to offer customer support.
Changes have been criticized by some developers. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac
Apple is delaying a change in rules for kids apps, banning them from using external analytics software and their ability to sell ads.
While Apple still believes the decision is the right one, it is pushing back its implementation. That’s to give time to developers to make the necessary changes.
Apple TV+ might allow subscribers to take a few shows with them offline. Photo: Apple
When it debuts this fall, Apple’s streaming video service will reportedly let viewers download episodes of shows to be watched without taking up their mobile data. Or even viewed when completely offline.
It’s not surprising — many rival services offer this capability. Today’s unconfirmed report is just evidence that Apple TV+ will have this feature too.
Apple is paying for top talent, like Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell, to make The Morning Show a hit. Photo: Pikachu/Mega
Apple’s original series The Morning Show has yet to air a single episode and already, the show has made television history.
Apple TV+, the upcoming streaming service, is reportedly spending more money to produce a single episode of the morning news drama than HBO did for episodes during the epic final season of Game of Thrones.
The new Apple campus in Cupertino. Photo: Google Maps
It seems like Apple just completed its move into Apple Park just recently but apparently, the iPhone-maker is growing so quickly it already needs a major office space expansion.
Local news outlets in the Bay Area recently reported that Apple just gobbled up another two giant office complexes in Cupertino, giving the company over 200,000 square-feet within throwing-distance of the new Apple HQ and the old Infinite Loop campus it still uses.
Stealing someone’s Apple Card number is designed to be very hard. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac
The new Apple Card offers some unusual security features, all designed to prevent this credit card’s number from being used without authorization, either in a store or online.
The fact that the card number isn’t printed on it anywhere is just the start. “The real key to the enhanced security here is happening behind the scenes,” said Craig Vosburg, President of Mastercard North America.
Dust off your Terminal to use these great hacks. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac
By using commands in your Mac’s built-in Terminal app, you can quickly change settings you probably didn’t even know existed.
Some of these Mac settings are just shortcuts — you can enable them in the usual way, using the mouse. But Terminal makes things simple. Instead of opening the System Preferences app, then finding (or remembering) a setting you want to change, and then searching further until you actually find the right checkbox, you can just type (or paste) a command, then hit return.
Most of these are secret settings, though. They are impossible to change without Terminal. Let’s check them out.
The YubiKey 5Ci security key provides 2-factor hardware authentication for iPhone or Mac. Photo: Yubico
The YubiKey 5Ci is the first security key that combines USB-C and Lightning connectors in a single device. It provides iPhone or Mac users with very strong security access to Dashlane, 1Password, LastPass and other password storage apps.