Taylor Martin

Here’s Apple’s ‘fix’ for the iOS 11.1 autocorrect bug

An innocuous yet very annoying bug is affecting some users who have updated to iOS 11.1, which landed last week with hundreds of new emojis in tow. It happens when typing the letter “i.” Instead of auto-correcting to a capital, it’s instead replaced with the letter “A” and a unicode symbol. This bug is persistent …

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How to get the Material Design Google Calendar right now

Back in 2014, Google announced a shiny, new design language called Material Design that sought to unify the design and user experience across mobile, desktop and the web. For over three years now, Google has slowly been updating its products and services with newer, cleaner interfaces. YouTube got a long overdue facelift back in May. The latest Google product to get the Material Design …

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How to put a sleep timer shortcut on your Mac desktop

If you ever find yourself in a situation where you want to shut down your Mac after a time-consuming process has finished, such as downloading and installing updates, or exporting a video, what you need is a shutdown timer. A few applications for this exist in the Mac App Store, such as Timer Boom and the aptly named Shutdown Timer. But you don’t …

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How to disable the Bixby key once and for all

Samsung really wanted everyone to give its newest assistant software a go. So much so, it placed a physical button for Bixby on the left edge of the phone, just beneath the volume rocker. It’s hardly the first time a manufacturer has wanted people to use its software over Google’s own, but the placement of this button has made Bixby …

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How to disable Face ID on the iPhone X

Apple’s iPhone X ($285 at Amazon) stole the show last week with its sleek new design, lack of a home button and its host of new sensors up front. Those new sensors power not only the TrueDepth camera system but, more importantly, the security feature that replaces Touch ID (since there’s no longer a home button): Face ID. Face ID …

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How to preorder the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus

Following some of the most extensive iPhone leaks ever, Apple announced three new iPhones Tuesday: the iPhone 8 ($162 at Amazon), iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. While the iPhone X won’t be available until November, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus will start shipping September 22.  The new phones come with the newer A11 Bionic chip, which consists of …

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How to preorder the new Apple TV 4K

It’s been two years since Apple released the fourth-generation Apple TV, complete with more storage, a new remote and applications and games in tow. Surprisingly, the fourth-gen Apple TV was missing one very important feature: 4K. Today, Apple remedied that with the Apple TV 4K. Not only will it stream movies and TV in 4K, it also boasts some pretty …

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3 things the iPhone 8 can do that the iPhone X can’t

Almost immediately after the announcement of the iPhone 8 ($162 at Amazon) and iPhone 8 Plus ($212 at Amazon), Apple seemingly took the wind of out the sails of the two newest iterations of its ever-popular iPhone. With a new design, a new display and a handful of new features, the iPhone X ($285 at Amazon) casts a large shadow …

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iPhone X: 7 things it can do that the iPhone 8 can’t

Today marks a new first for Apple. Not only did it break the typical naming pattern, skipping over the iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus altogether, it announced a third phone that overshadowed what would have been its normal flagship models: the iPhone X. The iPhone X casts a very large and noticeable shadow over the iPhone 8 ($162 at …

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How to mute entire websites in Chrome

Now playing: Watch this: How to mute entire websites in Chrome 1:59 Google has made it easy to mute noisy sites in Chrome — just right-click the tab and select Mute Tab. You can also enable Tab audio muting UI control, which lets you click on the speaker-shaped audio indicator to mute a tab. (This setting is found in Chrome’s experimental …

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