This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Stacks are useful. Dark Mode is fun. The new screenshot tool and the more fully functional Finder are also welcome additions with MacOS Mojave, but my favorite new feature of Mojave is something tiny but hugely important: Safari …
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MacOS Mojave is out, but if you’ve been using the beta and grown accustomed to Mojave’s new spot for system updates, then you may have missed the memo. You won’t find the update if you check System Preferences. Nor will you find it listed on the Updates tab of the Mac App Store. Where does a beta user go to …
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I have a secret pride. Android turned 10 years old this week, and I was one of the first people in the entire world to use it. In fact, the very first Android phone ever was my first smartphone, too — and I’ve never wavered in my Android loyalty since. That may not seem like a big deal now Android …
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With MacOS Mojave, Apple introduces new security features to Safari that make it harder for shady web trackers to follow you and new privacy controls that let you restrict apps from accessing your Mac’s webcam and microphone. Previous iterations of MacOS let you set permissions for apps accessing your location, contacts, photos, calendar and reminders. MacOS Mojave adds the camera …
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At WWDC 2018, Apple took the name for its Mac operating system down from Northern California’s majestic mountains and moved southward to the Golden State’s famed desert. After a run of mountain themes — Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra — Apple has named the next version of MacOS (version 10.14) after California’s Mojave Desert. MacOS Mojave (version 10.14) is available now …
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If you want to step back from Chrome, the Vivaldi alternative browser just grew up a notch with the addition of cross-computer sync and other improvements in version 2.0. Vivaldi, with about 1 million people using it each month, doesn’t have anything like the visibility or clout of Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox or Apple’s Safari. But if you’re looking for …
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Hot on the heels of its dual iPhone XS and XS Max teardowns, device repair specialist site iFixit headed back to the workbench on Monday to pull apart the new Apple Watch Series 4. The disassembly delivered good news — the battery is bigger, though still smaller than the original Apple Watch’s. Plus, it gave us a glimpse into the workings of the …
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It’s Apple by a nose. Windows 10 will soon have a dark mode, but Mac users can get a system-wide dark mode now with MacOS Mojave. Here’s how to enable dark mode and what it does and doesn’t do to your Mac’s UI. Now playing: Watch this: Apple MacOS Mojave is here, but we’re still waiting for… 2:08 Mojave dark …
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In nearly a decade and a half covering the tech industry, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing companies go all out when showing off their new products. One of the more awkward is the image of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin on Rollerblades gliding up to the stage to talk about the T-Mobile G1, the original Android phone. From …
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The T-Mobile G1 is an iconic device. But with its slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and a thick chin, it isn’t an attractive one. When it debuted a decade ago, the original Android smartphone was seen as a bulky, awkward product. Critics loved the slick Android operating system it ran, but the hardware didn’t prompt the universal praise its contemporary, the …
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