New phone: who dis? Better yet, who’s going to upgrade? Anytime a new iPhone is announced, millions of current iPhone owners wonder: “should I trade in my old one for the latest?” The new operating system is packed with features that will impress some users and frustrate others. The answer depends less on Apple’s…
LONDON — The summer holidays are here and many of us will heading off on trips to hot and sunny destinations, and bringing our electronic devices along. But don’t forget that phones, tablets and other electronics are vulnerable to extreme heat. Southern European nations like Spain, Italy and Greece have been baking under the sun,…
Developers of Unite, an app that offers customized web app management on Mac, on Monday released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem. The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things. Its goal is to…
Your smartphone can do much more than text, take photos, and check the weather. In an emergency, it can call 911, notify your family, and share your location, even if you cannot press a single button. But these features must be turned on ahead of time. Here is how to set up Emergency SOS, medical…
The average person stores roughly 2,800 photos on their smartphones and the number is only growing. We use our smartphone camera to take hundreds of photos throughout the year. The process of deleting photos we don’t want or need is a huge undertaking so the temptation is just to keep them on the phone. But…
Microsoft finally released a macOS app for Copilot, its free generative AI chatbot. Similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, Copilot enables users to ask questions and receive responses generated by AI. Copilot is designed to assist users in numerous tasks, such as drafting emails, summarizing documents, writing cover letters, and more. There’s also…
During its first year of existence, the Vision Pro kept getting better, adding spatial personas, an extended Mac Virtual Display, and a raft of quality-of-life updates with visionOS 2.0. I’m not worried about this fundamentally speculative and impractical device not being something everyone should rush out and buy; I’d get worried, though, if it seemed…
Runestone on Vision Pro, framed by Shareshot. Tailscale One of my persistent quests over the years has been making it easy to access all my devices no matter where I am. I’ve played with everything from SSH and SFTP to remote screen sharing and VPNs. 2024 was the year I added a new tool to…
OpenAI launched more integrations of ChatGPT with desktop apps on Apple devices Thursday (Dec. 19), saying these offerings will help users automate more of the work they do on desktops. The new additions include ChatGPT support for several coding and note-taking apps on macOS devices, the company said in a Thursday post on LinkedIn. OpenAI now offers expanded…
By Jason Snell December 6, 2024 5:12 PM PT I took piano lessons when I was a kid, and always hated practicing. I can blame it on the cold room we kept the piano in, but part of the reason I hated it was that most of what I played was boring. (I didn’t love…