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iOS 11.3 Arriving this Spring with AR Kit & More

Apple continues to update iOS regularly now beyond just major annual events with new features available on iOS 11.3, including power management for older iPhone models whose batteries are older. With iOS 11.3, Apple brings desired battery and performance settings so that iPhone users who have older batteries can make informed decisions about any CPU throttling. This update comes in response to outrage by some customers who were offended by the company’s process of throttling CPU performance on older devices as batteries deteriorate. The throttling process was put in effect...

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How You can Use AirPods with Apple TV

Apple’s wireless headphones make it easy to enjoy a little private TV time. Apple’s wireless headphones, AirPods, makes watching television privately, more enjoyable. AirPods are terrific for iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but often people are unaware that you can also use them with your Apple TV (4th generation or 4K). In fact, you can enjoy TV late at night or early in the morning with audio beaming wirelessly over the living room without causing any disturbances or waking anyone else up! Here’s how you do it. Pair AirPods with Apple...

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Apple to Invest $350 Billion Back in the U.S. with 20,000 New Jobs

Apple News: Apple’s Response to the New US Tax Act is to Invest $350 Billion Back in the U.S. with 20,000 New Jobs Just as Congress was finalizing the last details of the new US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced by President Trump, Apple promises large investment back into the economy. Tax reform was long overdue in the United States. Many companies including Apple have held overseas cash to avoid paying the exorbitant business tax rate, at 35%, which was one of the highest in the world. The new...

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How to Fix Meltdown and Spectre Security Flaws for Older Macs

Apple has recently released fixes for older Macs running macOS Sierra and OS X El Capitan that also face critical vulnerabilities through the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws. Both Spectre and Meltdown allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to data on computers that have microprocessors running speculative execution. Modern micropro-cessors all use speculative execution to predict next steps and have faster processing speeds. This is common in chips made by Intel and AMD as well as Apple’s A series SoCs. If the predicted path is not required, the instruction set...

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Keeping your Mac Safe

Macs are pretty safe in personal computer terms with “safety. built right in” as Apple likes to say. However, this is not to say Macs are invulnerable to various Malware the latest being the MaMi malware. The MaMi malware works by hijacking the DNS system on the Mac itself, DNS is used to route domain names so when you visit apple.com you are actually accessing an I.P address, the location of domain names are stored on name servers and routed via DNS often by your ISP. The first step in...

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Github link can cause crashes on Mac & iOS

A link to github sent to mac and ios devices via the messages app can cause restarts and crashes Don’t panic it’s not any link it’s a specific link to a github page “iabem97.github.io” if you received this link via the Messages app on your iPhone or iPad they can crash or restart, and the Messages app then becomes unusable. Interestingly the link can cause problems on both iDevices (iPads & iPhones) as well as Macs. Just receiving the link can cause issues due to the way the messages App...

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