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The Hackintosh has become a phenomenon in recent years, despite knotty ethical questions, because Apple’s neglected superfans won’t stop thinking different…

Barry Diller: Apple ‘prancing around’ Hollywood, but those who chase Netflix are fools; no one can get to Netflix’s level of subscribers

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:30 amTuesday, February 19, 201930 Comments

Before he became a tech mogul, IAC and Expedia Group chairman Barry Diller was a media mogul…

Apple’s iMac was last updated 602 days ago, longest span ever between updates

Friday, February 15, 2019 11:42 amFriday, February 15, 201939 Comments

It has now been 602 days since Apple last updated its iMac lineup…

Security hole in macOS Mojave allows rogue apps to access your Safari browsing history

Thursday, February 14, 2019 10:24 am5 Comments

An attempt by Apple to protect your Safari browsing history in macOS Mojave has a security hole…

Mac Shootout: $3,500 iMac 5K vs. $1,700 Mac mini

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 3:47 pm15 Comments

The first computer that comes to mind for an Apple desktop for best performance…

MacTech launches 2019 MacTech Pro event series in ten U.S. cities

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 2:00 pmNo Comments

Held around the country, MacTech Pro is a single-track seminar that is specifically geared to serve the needs of professionals…

What has changed in macOS Mojave 10.14.3 Supplemental Update?

Friday, February 8, 2019 1:32 pmFriday, February 8, 20192 Comments

A memory corruption issue in Foundation which could allow an app to…

Apple releases macOS Mojave 10.14.3 Supplemental Update

Thursday, February 7, 2019 8:54 pm4 Comments

Apple today released macOS Mojave 10.14.3 Supplemental Update…

How to set up and run the easy-to-use media server Plex on a Mac

Thursday, February 7, 2019 11:32 amThursday, February 7, 20192 Comments

Think of Plex as iTunes, but for everything you didn’t buy from Apple…

Should Apple’s power over Facebook worry the rest of us?

Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:25 amThursday, January 31, 201927 Comments

At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program…

Big surprise: Google is also abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate system to collect extensive data on users

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 3:55 pmWednesday, January 30, 20192 Comments

It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps …

Apple blocks Facebook from running all of their internal iOS apps by revoking distribution certificate

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 3:27 pmWednesday, January 30, 20198 Comments

Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps…

Apple’s earnings report shows company is more than just an iPhone maker

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:55 amWednesday, January 30, 201924 Comments

Despite soft iPhone sales in the holiday quarter, Apple topped Wall Street’s profit target and reported record earnings…

Apple bans Facebook’s ‘research’ app that paid teens to install VPN that spies on them

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:25 am4 Comments

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install…

Apple’s Swift 5 will make many iOS apps smaller

Monday, January 28, 2019 3:25 pmMonday, January 28, 20195 Comments

The most significant change to Apple’s developer ecosystem this decade has been the introduction of…

macOS Mojave 10.14.4 enables automatic Dark Mode on websites with black themes

Monday, January 28, 2019 10:27 am3 Comments

Safari on the macOS Mojave 10.14.4 beta, which was released last week, permits websites to automatically adapt…

I was a Windows PC diehard. Here’s why I now own Apple products across the board

Friday, January 25, 2019 3:32 pmFriday, January 25, 201925 Comments

I remember when 3.5-inch floppy disks seemed cutting edge and an eight-megabyte video game seemed like a software behemoth…

He reports on data privacy for The New York Times, that why he uses an Apple iPhone

Friday, January 25, 2019 11:01 amFriday, January 25, 20192 Comments

Nick Confessore, an investigative reporter who has written about social media and data privacy, has changed his tech habits…

Apple’s Mac App Store welcomes Microsoft Office 365

Thursday, January 24, 2019 1:30 pmThursday, January 24, 201911 Comments

Today, Office 365 is available for the first time on the Mac App Store…

As Apple Macintosh turns 35, Android, Linux, OS X users get to run its classic apps

Thursday, January 24, 2019 12:05 pmThursday, January 24, 20195 Comments

Run old Mac apps compiled for Motorola 68000-series CPUs on modern hardware…

Apple CEO Cook on Macintosh’s 35th anniversary: ‘We love the Mac’

Thursday, January 24, 2019 8:55 amThursday, January 24, 201936 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook today tweeted on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Macintosh…

AMD Radeon Navi GPUs spied within MacOS Mojave code

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:35 pm2 Comments

Thanks to some MacOS beta programming code, we might have been given a hint…

It’s time for Apple to separate Apple Music from iTunes on the Mac

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 2:02 pmTuesday, January 22, 201916 Comments

Since Apple Music first launched in 2015, one of the most common requests from Mac user…

Apple’s management doesn’t seem to want Nvidia support in macOS, a bad sign for the next-gen Mac Pro

Friday, January 18, 2019 10:39 am31 Comments

In October 2018, Nvidia issued as public a statement as it ever does…

Hidden documents reveal how Facebook made money by bamboozling children

Friday, January 18, 2019 9:41 am5 Comments

Two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child whom they refer to as a ‘whale’ – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders…