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Featured articles from around the web. Apple headlines for the week ending July 22, 2016 The summer makes for a slow news season. The big news this week was the release of updates to the iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Public Betas. Apple also put out updates for iOS 9, OS X El Capitan, watchOS, tvOS, and iTunes. While you’re waiting for those updates to install, ...

Featured articles from around the web. I use Flickr right now as a way to show off my images on an Apple TV but this would allow me to keep up with any edits I may make to them. ∞ Read this on The Loop Read more at The LoopThe Loop

Featured articles from around the web. I’m away on vacation this week and too far away from my servers to make our last two NetInstall episodes work, so this week we’ll take a look at QuickBooks Self-Employed. Next week it’s back to the NetInstall service. It’s been about a year and a half since I last looked at QuickBooks Self-Employed, Intuit’s business finance app aimed directly ...

Featured articles from around the web. Natasha Scott asks about finding a simple way to work between two different versions of Pages: Pages ’09 (version 4) and Pages 5. She writes: From my research online it appears that they do not work compatibly together; I need to be able to open the documents he sends to me and edit them. I was also curious if there was ...

Featured articles from around the web. Speaking of Jason Snell, his Six Colors website did a bang up job on coverage of Apple’s quarterly earnings call today. Not only does Six Colors make pretty charts, Jason’s knowledge and vast experience covering Apple make his commentary some of the best there is. It’s nice to see iPad results improving. I hope this translates into Apple putting ...

Featured articles from around the web. A few years ago, Apple made a very interesting decision to pursue sapphire screens for use in iPhones. The reason is that sapphire is virtually scratch proof and one of the hardest materials next to diamonds. They had struck a deal with CT Advanced in Arizona who had proven to them they had the type of furnaces that could ...

Featured articles from around the web. Photos has long been a snooze of an app in iOS, and when its OS X complement arrived in Yosemite, it was underwhelming. Through many small releases in El Capitan, Photos’ stability improved and features expanded. Now, in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, Photos is poised to be much more useful for the most common task after sharing: searching. Apple ...

Featured articles from around the web. My pal PowerUser82 has found another ‘pearl’ to share with me: New Backdoor Allows Full Access to Mac Systems, Bitdefender Warns → A new piece of malware, dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor by Bitdefender researchers, exposes Apple systems to cyber-espionage and full, clandestine control from malicious third-parties. The backdoor is embedded into a fake file converter application that is accessible online on reputable sites offering Mac applications ...

Featured articles from around the web. What happens when a technology gets as good as it can? It’s an interesting question, and not necessarily as far-fetched or ill-timed as you may imagine. Consider the world of digital audio. As a musician, music lover, former music equipment industry journalist and self-professed audiophile, I admit to caring a lot more about audio than most, but there are certain facts ...

Featured articles from around the web. In my very first post to this site, I linked to an article about how the original “Star Trek” USS Enterprise model had been moved out of the Smithsonian for a loving restoration. Seeing that model was the highlight of my childhood trip to the Air & Space Museum, despite all the historic, non-fictional stuff on display there. Anyway, the ...