Make no mistake: The iPad Pro is not the tablet for cheapskates. It’s the tablet for people who have specific needs and the budget to accommodate those needs. Of course, everybody likes a deal, am I right? And for a limited time, Best Buy’s got one of the best ones ever: The iPad Pro 10.5 …
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Late last year, Google changed the name of its wireless carrier service from Project Fi to Google Fi, opened up to more Android devices and launched a beta program for iPhone ($899 at Amazon) users. If you’ve signed up for Google Fi with an iPhone, or are thinking about it, here’s what you need to know about setting up an …
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Apple’s App Store started off 2019 with a bang. Apple says that the App Store broke records during the holiday season. In a blog post, Apple shared that customers spent over $1.22 billion between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Day alone customers spent $322 million, setting a new record for the App Store’s biggest single day. …
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I absolutely love the blocky, petite iPhone 5S. Second to the discontinued 4-inch iPhone SE, the 5S is one of the last truly small smartphones. But Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away. Despite discontinuing the iPhone 5S/SE form factor, the company gave iPhone 5S users a glorious gift: iOS 12. In the past, if you had an old iPhone, updating …
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On Wednesday, Apple released its iOS 12.1.1 update. As the name suggests, this update is an incremental step up from iOS 12.1, which came out at the end of October. iOS 12.1.1 brings mostly bug fixes and small changes, but some of these changes are much needed. For example, if you used FaceTime on iOS 12 you may have noticed that …
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If your kid will unwrap an iPhone ($899 at Amazon) this holiday season, then you will need to find a time to pry it out of his or her hand and set up an Apple ID along with some restrictions in iOS against the wilds of the Internet as well as the App Store. And unless your child is preternaturally …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If your workflow requires taking regular screenshots on your Mac, then you’ll need to know three keyboard shortcuts. Two of the three have been around forever, and MacOS Mojave added a new screenshot tool and keyboard shortcut. Let us review your screenshot options on a …
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In the late 1990s, one of the original portable music file formats — the MP3 — was causing quite a bit of bother mainly due to user’s illegal sharing over Napster. While MP3 eventually prevailed, there is an even better choice for high-quality music downloads, and it’s playable on your favorite device. It’s even in your music streams. FLAC (Free …
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Preorders for the iPhone XR have begun. The iPhone XR will start shipping on Oct. 25, with first shipments expected to arrive by Oct. 26. The XR features a 6.1-inch LCD screen, an aluminum body in a rainbow of color choices, a single rear-facing camera and the same IP67 water resistance as the iPhone X last year. The iPhone XS …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. One of Apple’s more intriguing and perhaps undervalued updates in iOS 12 is to Siri. The personal assistant is now more proactive on what you might want or need to do, and with some of your help, Shortcuts allow Siri to complete complex …
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