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Apple welcomed 100 students, aged 18 to 60, to its first Developer Academy this week, located in Detroit. The academy offers students courses on coding, design, marketing and project management.

It’s “an effort to address systemic racism and expand opportunities for communities of color across the country,” the Cupertino tech giant said Thursday.

The only thing worse than getting the “Storage Full” notification on your iPhone or Mac is witnessing your device slow down and become unusable as a result. Thankfully, you can avoid both of those situations forever with Smart Cleaner for iOS.

And, for a limited time, a lifetime subscription to this lifesaving app is on sale for just $39.99. That’s a huge 73% discount off the regular price of $149, and a priceless addition to your digital arsenal.

Knowing you can improve yourself — or the world around you — and actually doing it are very different things. As much as you might want to learn new skills or upgrade your technology, actually figuring out how to do it can be the most difficult part.

So, isn’t it great that you can get a running start toward hacking your productivity and improving your technology with these really great (and really time-sensitive) deals on software and e-learning?

Maybe it’s the impending iOS, iPadOS and macOS updates, but in checking out the App Store this past week, everything seemed to be “bug fixes and stability improvements.” Those are great things to have, but they aren’t as cool or exciting as fresh features or hot new apps!

Fortunately, a long-awaited feature is finally coming to the YouTube masses. Plus, I found another email app worth checking out. And, if you’re hoping to become an influencer, we’ve got an app to help you level up your videos in this week’s Awesome Apps of the Week.

Your iPhone can be so many things: a way to talk to friends, to kill time, to do research. And now it can also be your office. iScanner packs a whole corner office into one app, so you won’t have to fiddle with outdated scanners, deal with clunky file editing software, or wait for big files to attach to emails people don’t check often enough. For $39.99, you can get lifetime access to this all-in-one office app, and you definitely won’t miss waiting in line for the scanner. 

If you’ve started and stopped trying to learn a new language multiple times, then you know how hard it can be. Learning a language isn’t just about mastering new words. It’s picking up new grammar, new ways to move your mouth you haven’t had to before — even new ways of structuring how you think. And all that’s really hard to learn without individualized instruction and a lot of chances to practice.

Babbel is the No. 1 way to pick up a new language — 14 new languages, actually. During the Babbel is Back promotion, you can get a lifetime of Babbel Language Learning for just $199. 

On Thursday Warner Bros. launched its DC: Batman Bat-Tech Edition app for iOS, aimed at kids aged 6 to 12 (but who’s counting?). The app comes loaded with exclusive Batman content, mini-games, augmented reality (AR) filters and digital comic books.

You can now send disappearing images and videos on WhatsApp that can be viewed only once. The new feature, aptly named “View Once,” takes cues from similar disappearing message options from the likes of Snapchat.

The right software can make the difference between your Mac or iPhone being a diverse tool for any situation or a really expensive paperweight. The problem is that finding high-quality apps and software can be really hard. And what you find might end up being more expensive than you’re willing to pay.

With that in mind, here are some affordable apps that you will find useful every day. And they’re all 60% off if you use the code ANNUAL60 during our Semi-Annual Sale event! 

How annoying is it when you think you’re about to get an important call, but it turns out to be spam? Think of how much time you’ve lost — and how much stress you’ve gained — from thinking you’re getting a call from work or family, but it’s actually some spammer asking if you’re satisfied with your car insurance.

RoboKiller Spam Call and Text Blocker will eradicate those time-sucking spam calls from your life. For a limited time, you can get two spam-free years for $39.99. That’s 24 solid months without robots asking for your credit card information every day.

Plus, with RoboKiller’s answer bot, you can flip the script and start wasting spammers’ time for a change!

This post is brought to you by Wondershare, maker of PDFelement.

Wondershare’s PDFelement, now available in version 8.0, vies for the title of best Adobe Acrobat alternative and prides itself on being a PDF editor “built on simplicity,” whether you use it with macOS or Windows. We’ve seen nothing in our use of the Mac version of the utility to quibble with any of that. It’s powerful and easy to use.

With all the sweeping changes of the last year, one thing seems to be sticking around (and maybe for the better): remote work opportunities. It seems that one out of four Americans will continue to work from home — and by 2025, approximately 36.2 million Americans will work remotely.

That’s an 87% increase from previous years! And while the added flexibility and increased work/life balance that can accompany remote work might be beneficial, not having immediate access to common office machines can certainly decrease productivity. Luckily, you don’t need to spend a lot of money on office equipment: This iScanner App: Lifetime Subscription allows you to easily scan, edit and organize documents, books, receipts, forms and more, right from your iPhone or iPad.

Popular email app Spike, which strips down emails to make them more like chats or test messages, just added audio and video calls. The update means Spike users can readily communicate in real time — and skip switching to Zoom, FaceTime or another videoconferencing app.

There are many ways to celebrate the Fourth of July: family barbecues, vacations at the beach or lake, and something that hopefully involves fireworks (or at least a sparkler). 

The annual Apple Design Awards honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in iOS and iPadOS application and game design. A dozen winners were named Thursday in categories ranging from outstanding Interaction to apps that are just fun.

Calling all DJs, singers, composers, songwriters, music educators and other music enthusiasts. If you’ve spent too much time trying to manually split a song or remove the vocals, it’s time to upgrade your technology. The EasySplitter Pro Vocal Remover will split any song into four separate STEMs — vocal, instrumental, drums and bass — and now you can get a lifetime subscription for only $39.99. That’s a huge discount off its regular price of $599.

There are plenty of moments where you need to use your data or internet connection — like during your morning commute to check on a work email or when connecting to a new flight in-between destinations. Unfortunately, a myriad of bad things might happen along the way, whether you’re using a public or private Wi-Fi connection (or even your own data).

Shield yourself from hacking attempts, spying and more when you browse the web with this KeepSolid VPN Unlimited: Lifetime Subscription, available now for just $39.99, 80% off its list price.

Space: the final frontier. And kinda sorta the theme of this week’s roundup of new and updated apps.

We’ve got an app that brings Star Trek, NASA and Tetris faces to Apple Watch. A free iOS game that will get arcade fans flashing back to Asteroids. And an audio app for women that blends erotica, meditation and ASMR for a trip deep into inner space.

I’m not sure how Godzilla and Kong fit into the space theme, but they crash onto the scene as well. (If only we had SpaceGodzilla.) Three … two … one …

We’ve got a mix of “new” new and “old” new in this week’s roundup of the best apps for iOS devices and Macs.

A new scoring app frees board game players from pesky pens and pencils, and a new avatar app gives users a futuristic way to establish and secure their online identities. Meanwhile, upgrades to well-known apps Brave (a fast web browser for privacy freaks) and Carrot Weather (a sarcastic weather app for masochists) gain interesting new features. Image-editing app Photo Sense and Luna Display also got big upgrades.

It’s Sunday, and you’re staring at your computer. What’s it gonna be? Work or fun?

Some of the new and upgraded apps in this week’s roundup put an array of clever tools at your disposal if you’re feeling productive. You can free up space on your Mac’s hard drive, download YouTube videos or give your Home app a makeover.

Others focus on fun. They give you new ways to flex your creativity and stay entertained — and maybe even get paid while doing so. Time to dig in!

Have you ever spent hours scouring YouTube for an accurate instrumental or vocal track from your favorite song? If the answer is yes, you know just how difficult it can be to find a particular isolated track.

EasySplitter is the perfect solution to this problem. The app (iOS or Android) seamlessly splits the vocals and instrumentals from any recorded song. Valued at nearly $600, a lifetime subscription to EasySplitter Pro is now available for just $39.99. That’s a small price to pay for a lifetime of remix freedom.

Between work and keeping up with the latest news, it can feel like there’s too much information to consume. Luckily, there’s a way to multitask and make the most out of the hours in your day — and tackle your reading list at the same time.

The Elocance Audio Reading App is highly rated, receiving 4.4 out of 5 stars on the App Store for its ability to convert all written content into audio that you can listen to while multitasking or on the go. And you can get a lifetime subscription on the cheap!

Humans enjoy plenty of options for keeping our minds occupied, from binge-watching Apple TV+ to winding down with a meditation app. But what about your dog?

If you have a pooch that suffers from separation anxiety, you know that sometimes a treat or toy isn’t enough to keep them preoccupied while you’re away. But a lifetime subscription to DogTV can deliver sights and sounds that keep your pooch calm.

Learning a new language doesn’t need to be tedious and time-consuming. The Speakly language app uses a proven methodology that combines science and computational algorithms to teach you the 4,000 most statistically relevant words of your target tongue in order of their importance.

And while that might sound intense, the app actually makes language learning fun and engaging.

We all wish we had more time to sit down and read. But when even book summaries won’t cut through your massive reading list, you need to bring in the big guns.

Thankfully, there’s an app out there that’s made for all you multitaskers. This drastically discounted lifetime subscription to the Elocance Audio Reading App lets you convert all your work articles, documents and emails into an easy-to-listen-to podcast.