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Way back in 2012, Apple began phasing out optical drives from its Macs, beginning with the MacBook Air in 2008 and ending with the Mac Pro in 2013 (though a legacy MacBook Pro remained available until October 2016). But if there are still times when you wish your Mac had an optical drive, you can get one for just $60 today.

Amazon’s Woot is selling Apple’s USB SuperDrive External Optical Drive for $60, a savings of $19 on the MSRP. It has a built-in USB-A cable,... Читать дальше...

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Apple released the iOS 17.5.1 update earlier this week, fixing a bug–a potentially embarrassing one–that would suddenly recover photos that were deleted long ago. The fix comes as a relief to many, but users who put more thought into are left wondering, was the bug within iOS on the iPhone, or was it an iCloud issue? And if it was iCloud, what the heck Apple–why are you holding on to photos deleted long after the 30-day waiting period? Is Apple secretly keeping our photos... Читать дальше...

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We’ve been hearing for years that Apple is working on a large-screen folding device that’s more likely to be an iPad than an iPhone. And now a new report sheds some new light on the project–which could arrive in 2026.

According to a Medium post by Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is looking to ship a large-screen folding MacBook by 2026. That’s a slightly more aggressive timeline than has been previously rumored and could represent an acceleration of the project. Kuo claims Apple... Читать дальше...

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• Pre-installed on all Macs for free
• Automatically launches when viewing supported files
• Minimalistic user interface that won’t overwhelm
• Wide range of handy tools for image and document manipulation

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• Exclusive to the Mac with no dedicated iOS and iPadOS apps
• Doesn’t support text editing in PDF files
• Image crop button requires an unintuitive workaround to... Читать дальше...

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Apple’s M3 MacBook Air finally got settled into the Mac lineup, but Apple is already looking ahead with the M4 MacBook Air. Reports on the future laptop are starting to appear, though it’s not expected to ship until next year.

We’ll see more rumors between now and the M4 MacBook Air release. This article will keep track of what’s being reported, as well as offer a perspective based on Apple’s current lineup.

M4 MacBook Air: Release date

In an April 2024 report... Читать дальше...

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Some software is hard to go without, but paying every month for the programs you rely on isn’t easy on the budget. If you need apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you can replace Microsoft 365 with a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows for $49.97 during this Memorial Day sale.

This license comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams (free version), OneNote, Publisher, and Access, and there are no recurring payments of any kind. This... Читать дальше...

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Email started as a way to send a file between early internetworked computers with little checking about who was sending what. Despite the 60-odd years that have passed, that’s more or less what happens between modern mail servers when you send and receive messages. Email is, at its heart, a text file that is transmitted by your email app telling a mail server in plain text who the message is from and to whom it’s going.

The recipient has to be valid for the message to be received, but not so for the sender. Читать дальше...

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If you have a WordPress website, ChatGPT can provide a powerful boost, helping you with SEO and adding new front-end features that could greatly help site visitors.

Fortunately, you can easily upgrade your site’s functionality and visitors’ experience with a lifetime license for Mind2Matter’s ChatGPT plugin. Ahead of Memorial Day, this ChatGPT plugin is price-dropped to $49.97 (reg. $299) through May 31.

Developed by one of Upwork’s top-rated software development resources... Читать дальше...

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With macOS 13 Ventura, Apple performed a major overhaul to the System Preferences interface and changed its name to System Settings. The change was an attempt to better unify it more with the design of Settings in iOS, but it ended up creating consternation with users due to the illogical placement of some settings. Two years after the change, Apple is going to tweak the System Settings interface even further with macOS 15–hopefully for the better.

According to a report by AppleInsider... Читать дальше...