Apple recently acquired image editing powerhouse Pixelmator. This is an app that emerged as a result of Adobe’s high prices and shift to costly and inconvenient subscriptions. With Apple buying…
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Apple has broken SuperDuper’s ability to create bootable backups
Shirt Pocket Software, the maker of the excellent Mac system cloning tool Super Duper, reports that Apple has broken the software’s ability to create bootable backups. Bootable backups of a…
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Who’s next as Apple continues sherlocking apps
Apple’s ongoing practice of sherlocking, where it ‘gains inspiration’ from apps and utilities others have developed and added them as features into its own platforms, has been going on for…
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Health app showdown – Athlytic v Welltory
While the Apple Watch has many different use-cases that make it a great companion to the iPhone, one of its most powerful applications is as a health monitoring tool. With…
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Zoom to stop support for old versions of macOS
Zoom, the videoconferencing system no-one had heard about until the pandemic, has announced that the most recent release is the last that will be updated for older versions of macOS….
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Apple Notes is on the cusp of ‘sherlocking’ many note-taking apps
When Apple Notes arrived as one of the original 15 apps on the first iPhone, it was a very basic app. Note-taking on the Mac was dominated by Evernote and…
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Bye bye Evernote – it was great while it lasted
As a long time user of Evernote, it’s very disappointing to learn that the app’s new owners, Bending Spoons, has shut down its USA and Chilean operations and is shifting…
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The App Store ‘monopoly’ is coming to an end
Get ready for the Google Play Store for iOS. Or the Amazon Appstore for iOS. Governments around the world are getting ready to break Apple’s hold on how apps are…
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Apple to shut down My Photo Stream
Apple is shuttering the My Photo Stream service on 26 July 2023. The company says new photo uploads to My Photo Stream will stop a month before, on June 26. Photos…
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UPDATED: ChatGPT releases official app for iOS
There have been a few app developers who have released their own take on a ChatGPT app for iOS. None of those have been endorsed or supported by OpenAI, the…
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