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  • Apple retailer Simply Mac is shutting down

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    kendals said:
    wow!  I just got my Mac Studio from there about 1 month ago...good thing I got it or my $$$ would have been gone...
    I had a Mac Studio while I waited for my MacBook Pro to come in due to the Shanghai delay. It’s a pretty good computer. I almost kept it. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple simplified System Settings for macOS Ventura, moved many items

    skippingrockskippingrock
    Personally I am happy to see this. I really hated the grid layout of the System Preferences because with each iteration of macOS the location of each Preference was in a different location on the grid and in a different section and category. Yes there was the search that worked and the alphabetical drop-down menu, but yeah, this was long overdue for a overhaul. Listing by alphabetical is okay, but you still have to scan across and down the rows.
    This will also have the benefit of being more consistent and accessibly friendly.

    And yes, I've been using the Macintosh for a long time. Back in the Classic Mac OS days, getting to the right Control Panel was easy through the Apple Menu and the Control Panel's Hierarchical Menu to get directly to that Mouse or Clock settings. This I think is a return to that simplicity.
    bloggerblogAlex1Nmacguiwatto_cobrajony0

  • Hands on: Using the iPhone as a webcam with iOS 16 and macOS Ventura

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    indieshack said:
    Apple should hold a WWDC every few years and not feel the need to update MacOS or iOS every year - I thought yesterdays keynote RE: iOS and MacOS was pretty lame - the iPhone as a webcam is symptomatic of this.

    Remember that WWDC is firstly a Developers Conference to aide and assist 3rd party developers and to help them with the tonnes of changes, features and upcoming changes and features that they will have to account for and deal with. On the surface it might not look like there is a lot of new stuff going on, but there is a lot. Back in the days of real in person conferences there was so much to learn that you didn't have time to take it all in. At least being virtual allows for us to digest it over time. The Keynote is Apple's opportunity for a show and they will use it. It might not have everything that is of interest to a customer, but to a developer these things announced yesterday were huge and full of potential and innovation for 3rd party developers.
    roundaboutnowAlex1NStrangeDaysdewme

  • Apple orders sci-fi series adaptation of Blake Crouch's 'Dark Matter' novel

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    Darn I was excited and hoped it was Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie's Dark Matter that was picked up by Apple and brought back to life…
    JapheyOctoMonkey

  • Clarus the dogcow has been reborn in an iPhone keyboard easter egg

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    Moof! We love Clarus!
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