Hardware 
The Week in iPhone and iPad Cases: X-Doria’s Revel lets you dress your iPhone 7 like your favorite animal
New iOS cases of the week Looking for a screen shield? Want to leave your wallet at home? This week’s roundup of new iPhone and iPad cases brings you a mix of protective designs and functional materials, from elegant wooden … Continue reading
Apple Music and Spotify add unofficial DJ remixes to be more like SoundCloud
For some music streaming subscribers, having access to 30 million songs wasn’t enough if they couldn’t listen to their favorite remixes that were unreleased by the major record labels. Now, Apple Music and Spotify have begun adding unofficial DJ remixes … Continue reading
Court reinstates $120 million patent award for Apple in Samsung case
A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a $119.6 million award for Apple in a long-running smartphone design patent dispute with rival Samsung. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday that two Apple smartphone design patents, one … Continue reading
French software developer sues Apple, seeking improvements in iOS browser
Software developer Nexedi is so keen to see Apple improve the rendering engine in its iPhone browser that it’s filed suit against the company in a French court. Nexedi develops cross-platform business apps in HTML5 that can run unchanged on … Continue reading
Comcast’s 1TB data cap starts rolling out across the U.S.
Comcast said bandwidth caps would be back before 2019, and now the company’s living up to its promise. The cable provider recently announced that its 1 terabyte bandwidth cap for Xfinity Internet subscribers would start rolling out more broadly. Comcast’s … Continue reading
Adobe After Effects CC (2015.3) review: This one’s all about performance
It’s fair to classify Adobe After Effects CC as that rare breed of software coveted by artists who depend upon it for a living, but largely overlooked by the majority of average users. And you’ve no doubt seen what After … Continue reading
If you upgrade to two-factor authentication, you can’t log in to your Mac with an iCloud password
A few releases of what was then called Mac OS X, Apple added an option that seemed a convenient way to reduce the number of passwords you had to remember. While setting up a system (or later via the Users … Continue reading
How to use Photoshop Elements to combine images like a pro
One of the most exciting projects you can tackle in image editing software that supports layering—Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator, etc.—is to combine images in interesting ways. Whether you’re crafting a surreal piece of art or swapping heads, the process … Continue reading
Apple’s war on buttons: What’s next on the chopping block?
Keep it simple. That’s been Apple’s design philosophy for ages. Whether it’s buttons or ports, the history of modern Apple design makes it clear that Apple is a company that looks at every product and asks, “Could there be less … Continue reading
Travelers: Keep your data secure by using a virtual private network
Even when your goal is to get away from it all, sometimes necessity requires that you stay in touch with the outside world. This can take a lot of forms: chatting with your loved ones on FaceTime, shuttling project files … Continue reading
