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  • At last Apple is dumping those pointless, wasteful stickers

    I put two on my car in 2006, they’re still there in perfect condition. Awesome. My recycle bin has 50, a work of Art.
    Alex1Nwatto_cobraKramTurner
  • Apple now has a good landing page to find manuals, specs, and downloads

    This is a really great idea, everything organised and easily accessible. It would be nice to see even the really vintage stuff. I’m currently recapping some Macintosh Classics, and making all the service documents and even software from the pre-Intel days, including PowerPC and 68000 (and 6502!) would be just amazing. I know (or read anyway) that Steve Jobs hated looking backwards, but Apple have such a rich history and legacy many of us love.
    watto_cobra
  • Review: Apple's new macOS Mojave polishes the Mac for iOS users

    A couple three of things I've noticed on my first day:

    1/ "Move to Trash" is now "Move to Bin". Probably a refinement of Regional Settings (New Zealand). I'm used to "Trash" as in "Trash Can" (American) but traditionally we call them "Rubbish Bins". Odd to be jarred back into my own regional dialect.
    2/ Shared network devices now moved to a "Network" icon under the Locations heading on the Finder sidebar. I think I like this consolidation already. Always a bit confusing for some of my customers to see a semi-random subset of network devices in the sidebar and having to select All to see the rest. 
    3/ An interesting carry-over from iOS is the Recent Applications on the Dock. I think we had that back in classic Mac OS too. 

    Hoping not more of the UNIX guts has been ripped out. I really like the ability to move between command line hard core and slick GUI stuff.

    Just as an aside, and way too late to boast prescience now, but I remember when Novell went Linux on the core side. And Apple too, with NeXT/Darwin. I thought, best thing Microsoft could do was ditch their kernel and put Linux in its place, and run the Windows GUI and libraries on top. Looks like that's indeed happening now slowly.
    Dan_Dilgerwatto_cobra
  • iPhone X impresses Windows executive, Android fans but bitter bloggers still hating

    My son took me through his campus building (Architecture in Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) today. Lots of students hovering over their laptops. Probably 95% MacBooks of various kinds, even though the department recommends Windows (for the software packages they use). So students use VMs. The first year Design students had an exhibition in another room - full of iMac computers and iPads. I don't see Apple spiralling into doomed failure here sorry Diaz.
    Rayz2016bb-15brucemcwatto_cobramagman1979
  • AppleInsider's official iOS app redesigned from the ground up with support for 3D Touch, p...

    No, it does provide an older version download. All go again! Great stuff guys, keep it up!
    watto_cobra