The Kindle app is the perfect platform for reading e-books on iPad or iPhone. Photo: Ian Fuchs/Cult of Mac
Reading books. It’s something we’ve all done at some point in our lives. People read for fun, learning or taking a break. The trouble is, having a huge collection of books takes up space and can literally weigh you down.
E-books are the solution, and the Kindle app is an excellent way to enjoy the world of literature without straining your back or your physical space. With the Kindle app, you can carry an entire library’s worth of books on your iPad or iPhone.
A royal wedding is a traditional affair, but an iPad still made an appearance at the nuptials for the Duke and Dutchess of Sussex. Screencap: CBS
It would be going too far to say that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wouldn’t be married today if it weren’t for an iPad. But one of Apple’s tablets did have an important role to play in the royal wedding.
Bishop Michael Curry delivered a sermon halfway through the ceremony. The good prelate read from notes displayed on his trusty iPad during his address.
There are growing reports, tons of complaints, and a new petition claiming the butterfly keyboard in the new MacBook Pro has a critical design flaw that can’t be fixed. This episode we explore the issue with Matthew Taylor, creator of the keyboard recall petition, who tells us what’s going wrong with Apple’s butterfly keyboard, why it can’t be fixed, and why almost 26,000 people are demanding it finally be recalled.
Plus: stick around for a innovative new iPhone gimbal, a very cool throwback iPhone case, and the perfect green screen for your Twitch or Youtube streams in another tech-packed roundtable of our favorite new gadgets.
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Dashlane can store all your logins, and makes signing in to websites quick and easy. Photo: Ian Fuchs/Cult of Mac
How many logins and passwords do you have? If the answer is more than one, then ask yourself how many accounts use the same password? If that answer isn’t zero, you need Dashlane. Reused and weak passwords are one of the biggest vulnerabilities on the modern web, but remembering a bunch of unique and complex passwords is nearly impossible. What isn’t hard is using your thumb or face to open a password manager with all your strong passwords.
A new group of iPhone developers wants Apple to offer lime-limited free trials for everything in the App Store. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac
Four coders have come together to found The Developers Union, whose primary principle is “people who create great software should be able to make a living doing it.”
The group’s first cause is asking Apple to allow free trials for everything in the App Store. The union has plans to advocate for additional changes in the future.
Steve Jobs had ways of making you talk! Photo: Ben Stanfield/Flickr CC
Would you have liked to be the person to tell Steve Jobs that something about his company sucks? If not, you may not have enjoyed the experience of working with him.
In a recent Medium post, San Francisco-based marketing pro Andy Raskin relates a story overheard from a well-known (but unnamed) CEO. The CEO described the somewhat unorthodox, but effective, way that Jobs rooted out problems at Pixar, the company he ran alongside Apple. Here’s what he did.
This luxury apartment block is modeled on an iPod in its dock. Photo: James Law Cybertecture International
Are you enough of an Apple fan that your dream is to live in a building explicitly modeled after an Apple device? Quite possibly not — but, thanks to Hong Kong architect James Law, such an opportunity is there if you want it. Well, provided you can afford it, that is!
Siri's dumb-as-a-squirrel performance helped hold HomePod sales down to just 600,000 in Q1. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac
iPhone sells like gangbusters. iPad is at the top of the tablet market. But the HomePod is a very different story. Apple’s smartspeaker earned just a small share of the world market in the first quarter of this year, according to a market research firm.
No surprise, Amazon enjoys the largest piece of the pie. But it doesn’t dominate this market the way it used to.
Relonch Alfred plans to add cinematic style to its AI-fueled photo app. Photo: Relonch
In 2016, a startup called Relonch started a camera club and next-day image editing service that was largely panned online by photographers.
Who would pay $99 per month to use a camera they will never own plus $1 per professionally retouched photo? The iPhone and other capable smartphone cameras now dominate photography, helping novices and pros make great pictures instantly styled with the touch of an app.