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56% off Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3XL Water Resistant Wireless Bluetooth Speaker – Deal Alert

The OontZ Angle 3XL was designed and engineered by Cambridge SoundWorks to be their most powerful, best sounding speaker yet. Features a powerful 40 Watt AMP, delivering 20 Watts RMS loud enough to fill even large rooms with high quality sound. Perfect … Continue reading

60% off HDMI 2.0 High Speed 4k-Ready Gold Plated 6ft Cable – Deal Alert

If you’re looking for cables that can keep up with the high demands of today’s video tech, you may want to consider this cable from SecurOMax, currently discounted 60%. This heavy duty, high quality 6ft HDMI 2.0 cable will drive … Continue reading

RapidWeaver 7 review: Great new features but neglects existing gaps

RapidWeaver 7 ($100, $60 upgrade) offers several smart upgrades to its website-building toolkit. Unfortunately, it also inherits the central limitations of its predecessor. Between the increased price and the features that either aren’t present or cost extra, RapidWeaver 7 still … Continue reading

Why Apple didn’t ditch the headphone jack just to help sell wireless Beats

At first glance, Apple’s removal of the 3.5mm audio jack on the newest iPhone 7 seems like a way to boost sales of the wireless headphones. And it just so happens that Apple also owns the largest maker of wireless … Continue reading

The difference between backing up an iPhone to iCloud and iTunes

Recently I was hiking in the Adirondacks with my iPhone in my pocket when I got caught in a torrential rain storm. I’m not a crazy case guy, so, as is always the, uh…, case, my iPhone was naked. I … Continue reading

How to better organize your classical music in iTunes 12.5

As a classical music listener with a large iTunes library, I have long lamented the way iTunes manages this type of music. iTunes considers every track to be a “song,” and as classical music fans know, this isn’t always the … Continue reading

iPhone 7 review: Its speed and camera are crazy-good, but it still drives me crazy

Every year, Apple releases the best iPhone ever, but the iPhone 7 feels different somehow. All of its major details leaked ahead of time, not to mention a good handful of rumors about next fall’s iPhone, which could be a … Continue reading

How LG uses fuzzy math to label some of its LCD TVs as 4K

By replacing every fourth red, green, or blue subpixel with a white one, LG boosts the brightness of its 6100-, 6500-, and 6800-series models. The trick works, but it sacrifices resolution.

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The Week in Mac Apps: Byword 2.7 goes all in with the new macOS Sierra

New Mac apps of the week Sierra is here, and this week’s roundup of new Mac apps features a collection of Sierra-ready apps—including Byword, one of our favorite text editors. Read on! Byword 2.7 Byword (Mac App Store Link), Metaclassy’s … Continue reading

Hands-on with the new Photos features in macOS Sierra and iOS 10

Photos has long been a snooze of an app in iOS, and when its OS X complement arrived in Yosemite, it was underwhelming. Through many small releases in El Capitan, Photos’ stability improved and features expanded. Now, in iOS 10 … Continue reading