Month: June 2024
How to back up and wipe your Mac
As slick and polished as macOS is, it can slow down over time, as you add file after file and program after program to your Apple system. After a few years of heavy use, the idea of wiping your Mac and starting again from a factory-fresh clean slate starts to…
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Google TV’s free streaming channels look set to get unskippable ads in the future
Great news for anyone who’s sat through the non-skippable ads on YouTube and thought, “Man, I really wish I could have this unpleasant experience on my TV”: Google is going to answer your prayers by bringing compulsory ads to free content on Google TV-powered accessories and smart TVs. The ads…
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The Top New Features in WatchOS 11 (2024)
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the Apple Watch, Apple is adding new health features like pregnancy tracking and a fitness training algorithm to watchOS 11. Source
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Fitbit Ace LTE Review: The Best Kid’s Smartwatch
Fitbit’s kids’ smartwatch is a location tracker as well as a gaming and communication device. It should keep my kids off phones for another few years. Source
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The Morning After: Everything Apple announced at WWDC
Apple’s annual developer shindig kicked off with its traditional keynote outlining all the new tricks its products will soon do. There are big changes for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia and watchOS 11, not to mention visionOS 2. Some highlights include a standalone Passwords app, better health metrics on…
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All three game console makers have now abandoned X
As of June 10th, Nintendo has officially discontinued support for the Switch console’s integration with X (formerly Twitter), making it the last of the current-gen consoles to do so after Microsoft and Sony disabled their own access last year. The integration was removed as part of the Nintendo Switch’s 18.1.0…
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