Over the few years, home automation has become a big deal. But, despite all the talk by Amazon, Apple, Google and others, the reality of creating a smart home is…
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How to control your Apple Watch from your iPhone
Apple has been quietly adding new accessibility features to each generation of iOS. iOS 16 now allows you to control an Apple Watch, running watchOS 9, from your iPhone. Here’s…
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Apple will be forced to bring USB-C to the iPhone by 2024
The European Union has been telling gadget makers, including Apple, to prepare for a future where USB-C will be the one connector for all device charging. We now have a…
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Apple News Roundup – 3 October 2022
It’s a new month and that means the soothsayers are making predictions for a potential Apple event. But even if there’s no event this month, we can expect lots of…
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The messy transition to USB-C
Technology continues to march forward. Back when I started using a computer printers and other peripherals used a variety of different cables, connectors and standards to communicate. We had serial…
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Original AirPods Pro get Adaptive Transparency
Adaptive Transparency is a new feature that everyone thought would be exclusive to purchasers of the new AirPods Pro 2 that were announced at the Far Out event in September…
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Apple Watch Ultra Battery Life
After a few days with my Apple Watch Ultra I’ve now started measuring Apple Watch battery life in days and not hours. When I picked up my Apple Watch Ultra…
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Apple Watch Ultra – the iFixIt teardown
The team at iFixIt has completed its teardown of the Apple Watch Ultra and says that Apple failed to mention what they thought was the most important new feature. Like…
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Apple backtracks and adds Stage Manager to older iPads
Stage Manager is one of the centrepieces of the next version of iPadOS. Although the offical release of iPadOS hasn’t happened yet – the release version will actually be iPadOS…
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My favourite note-taking app: Notability
A huge part of my work involves talking to people and writing. Notability has completely replaced paper and pen as my preferred way to capture information. What is Notability? A…
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