Hardware

A good deal: Apple offers special Pro Apps Bundle for the education market

Apple’s iMovie and GarageBand are great apps for the general consumer to edit video and audio recordings on a Mac. However, if you want to take your production to the next level—we’re talking professional level—you need the tools found in … Continue reading

LG’s fixing its 5K monitor to work near Wi-Fi routers

LG has ended its silence on the router proximity problems for its 5K Mac monitor that rolled out in late 2016. The company recently told Recode that 5K monitors manufactured after February 2017 would add extra shielding to prevent them … Continue reading

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a provocative and heart-pumping dungeon-shooter

These days, keeping up with games can be a full-time job. So how do you separate the signal from the noise, the wheat from the chaff, the Temple Runs from the Temple Jumps? Allow us to help by regularly selecting … Continue reading

33% off CanaKit 5V 2.5A Raspberry Pi 3 Power Supply / Adapter / Charger – Deal Alert

2.5A is now a requirement for the Raspberry Pi 3. The CanaKit 2.5A Raspberry Pi power supply / adapter has been specially designed and tested for the new Raspberry Pi 3 and incorporates an inline noise filter for highest stability … Continue reading

Connecting an Apple LED Cinema Display to a USB-C MacBook or MacBook Pro? Here are the adapters you need

Apple has rarely released sales figures on particular models of products they offer, but I have to imagine they shipped at least hundreds of thousands of its two Apple LED Cinema Displays (24-inch and 27-inch) based on the number of … Continue reading

Apple to start assembling iPhones in Bangalore by April

Apple plans to start assembling the iPhone in Bangalore by end April under a contract manufacturing arrangement with Taiwan’s Wistron. The move by the company comes even as it awaits approval from the federal government for some of its proposals … Continue reading

How to make Facebook and Twitter more pleasant in difficult times

In a time of political turmoil and polarization, you may want to keep friends, family, and colleagues with whom you have fundamental disagreements from seeing some of your routine social media postings, wherever they occur. Some argue that compartmentalizing what … Continue reading

The bad news: iPhone sales are up

If you didn’t hear, Apple’s results from last quarter were pretty good (apart from the iPad). But that was last quarter. “Apple reversed its iPhone slump. But what’s next?” (Tip o’ the antlers to Philip Speicher and Paul Lefebvre.) Yeah, … Continue reading

Apple has just patented an Apple Watch battery band

Here’s further evidence that Apple wants to develop “smart bands” for Apple Watch. According to a recently published patent, Apple has developed a way for Apple Watch bands to incorporate a wearable battery that could charge the device on the … Continue reading

Watch War of the Worlds: Siri and Alexa are frenemies, China stops stupid drones and more

Will Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant ever be able to talk to each other? Is broadband internet as important as water and electricity? We have it out on these topics and others in War of the Worlds, our new weekly video … Continue reading