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Featured articles from around the web. This post may ruffle some feathers. As I take as step back from Apple’s WWDC, I think a couple of observations are worth making. First, Apple is continuing their trend toward more openness with their platforms. The argument Apple is “closed” no longer holds much water. More importantly, a philosophy around this openness is starting to take form. While ...

Featured articles from around the web. Today is the big day! Today is the launch. Intego is excited to announce the release of our all-new X9 series of products, including the new and improved VirusBarrier X9. Our most advanced Mac antivirus, firewall protection, backup, and Mac cleaning utility software is now available and on sale! We are so excited about this, and we want to Read more at ...

Featured articles from around the web. Apple briefly announced “differential privacy” at this year’s WWDC keynote, but didn’t go into details as to exactly what that means. Cryptographer Matthew Green isn’t sure what Apple means either, but he is familiar with the concept of differential privacy, and in a blog post, explains the basics and how Apple could be implementing it. To make features like Spotlight ...

This is … the fourth straight release not to drop support for any older Macs, a refreshing change after several successive versions that kept trimming the support list. Leopard ended support for older G3 and G4 Macs, Snow Leopard dumped PowerPC entirely, Lion excluded 32-bit Intel Macs, and Mountain Lion dropped anything that couldn’t go entirely 64-bit. The minimum system requirements, which haven’t changed since ...

It’s been almost two years since Lightroom 5 was released, which at the time was a major update to the photo editing program’s look and performance. The biggest change in this version of Lightroom is speed. Lightroom 6’s performance is based heavily on your computer’s GPU and processing power, but Adobe is promising speed increases on most modern machines. Even if you’re using a ...

With the release of Photos for Mac in OS X 10.10.3, Mac users have not only a replacement for the much-maligned iPhoto but also access to iCloud Photo Library, an iCloud feature for syncing photos that Apple introduced in iOS 8.1. In theory, this feature should “just work,” magically syncing all your photos across all your devices. But like so many things in the ...

You’ve come to love 1Password as the handiest of multi-tools on all your gadgets: your computer, your phone, your tablet…and now, your watch. That’s right, 1Password for Apple Watch is here, ready to save the world (and, more importantly, your time)

Now-a-days, kids are far more technologically advanced than most of their parents were at the same age much less now. This is both a blessing and a curse for us as parents, though. I think it’s great that my 7 year old can pick up an iPad and get his reading and math homework done using a touch interface that he is already very ...

With Photos for OS X, all the pictures and videos you’ve taken on your iPhone or iPad, or imported into iPhoto or Aperture, will always be available to you on any of your Macs, as will any future pictures and videos you take or import, including your DSLR images, even in RAW. Add to that automatic, intelligent grouping based on time and place, and ...

▶ How to create mail merge documents with Pages and Numbers | Macworld: There is, although it’s not a feature directly built into either app. This is possible through the power of AppleScript (don’t worry, I’m not going to ask that you learn AppleScript in order to carry out this job). Instead, I’ll direct you to the Mac OS X Automation site. Here you’ll find ...