As Paris gears up for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Apple is rolling out a series of updates and features to help attendees and fans worldwide stay connected and engaged with the events. These enhancements include updates to Apple Maps, TV coverage, and a range of featured apps, ensuring a comprehensive and immersive experience for all […]

OWC this week knocked the price of the popular 14-Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock down to $99.99, from its original price of $279.99, and this deal is still around this weekend. This is a match of the all-time low price on the accessory, which we last tracked way back in April.

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Besides this dock, you'll find a large collection of accessories on sale at this time on OWC, including USB-C hubs, external drives and enclosures, and internal memory upgrade kits for Mac.

$180 OFFOWC 14-Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock for $99.99

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TrendForce reports that shipments of foldable phones are expected to reach 17.8 million units in 2024, making up only 1.5% of the smartphone market. However, the research group says not to expect a foldable iPhone in the near future. 

Apple’s (struggles in the initial months of 2024 have been swept away by a string of developments that helped the company reclaim the spot of the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalization of over $3.5 trillion.

According to research conducted by Finbold, Apple’s stellar rise in recent months propelled the effective value of each of the tech giant’s employees to over $22 million as of July...

Apple’s (struggles in the initial months of 2024 have been swept away by a string of developments that helped the company reclaim the spot of the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalization of over $3.5 trillion.

Apple’s (struggles in the initial months of 2024 have been swept away by a string of developments that helped the company reclaim the spot of the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalization of over $3.5 trillion.

According to research conducted by Finbold, Apple’s stellar rise in recent months propelled the effective value of each of the tech giant’s employees to over $22 million as of July...

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We love our laptops, but we have to admit they’re kind of short on ports, aren’t they? Well, here’s where the OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock comes in, turning one port into 14 for just $99. This 25 percent discount is the best we’ve seen for this particular model, which means it’s the perfect time to add it to your cart.

The OWC 14-Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock offers power delivery with up to 85W to charge your MacBook, along with two high-powered USB Type-A ports for additional devices. This means you’ll easily keep your gadgets charged at all times without needing any extra wall bricks. Display support includes up to one 5K display at 60Hz or two 4K displays at 60Hz, so you can have the monitor set-up for your dreams.

For those who frequently transfer media, the dock features SD and...

Apple’s ecosystem kept its devices safe from the widespread Crowdstrike/Microsoft outage.

Apple’s pro-grade earbuds has dipped to a low and more affordable price. Today, the AirPods Pro 2 is down to just $168.99 from its original price of $250 on Amazon. The AirPods Pro 2 features USB-C charging, up to twice as much noise cancelling technology, adaptive audio, and personalized Spatial Audio. The proprietary H2 chip […]

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Apple’s upcoming MacBook lineup will have the M5 chip and smaller camera modules, according to Ming-Chi Kuo. In an investor note, Kuo said that Apple will use a next-generation M5 chip and a new compact camera to go with it. For this to happen, the Cupertino-based company will have Sunny Optical produce the CCMs, with […]

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As part of a new digital exhibit, the Steve Jobs Archive has released a video of Jobs addressing designers at an industry conference in Aspen. Although it’s interesting to look back at the time, it’s also fascinating to see how accurate his predictions were.

Germany’s smartphone shipments rose 13% year-over-year (YoY) in the first quarter of 2024, as the market finally returned to growth after eight consecutive quarters of decline, according to Counterpoint Research’s Q1 2024 Market Monitor Shipment Tracker. And it was good news for Apple.

This is Germany’s first quarterly YoY increase in shipments since Q3 2021, suggesting a turning point in the market. Samsung was the key driver, rising 32% YoY to account for three-quarters of market growth. Google’s shipments more than doubled as the company strives to grow its Europe business.

Apple’s growth was modest, but its product mix was much improved, with a significantly higher share of Pro models shipped during the quarter, according to Counterpoint Research. iPhone sales were up 5% year-over-...

WaterField Designs’s Shinjuku Messenger now includes a 16-inch MacBook Pro size and a new colorway: navy, traditional waxed canvas with chocolate full-grain leather. 

Here are the features according to the folks at WaterField Designs:

• Rugged traditional waxed canvas or waterproof X-Pac® X11 canvas form the base of the slim messenger.
• Luxurious full-grain leather flap secures with strong N35 rare-earth magnets.
• Zippered flap pocket grants easy access to frequently used items like tickets, phones, AirPods etc. 
• Pleated compartment under the flap lies flat when empty and expands to provide extra storage; two organizational pockets and a key...

WaterField Designs's Shinjuku Messenger now includes a 16-inch MacBook Pro size and a new colorway: navy, traditional waxed canvas with chocolate full-grain leather. 

Privacy and security company Proton has launched Secure Links in Proton Pass, a new feature enabling users to share items easily and securely with anyone, including non-Proton Pass users. 

While Proton Pass already offers robust password sharing through shared vaults for groups that want to share multiple passwords and keep them up-to-date for all members, this new feature provides added flexibility by allowing secure sharing with those who aren’t Proton Pass users or only need access to a single password for a specific time, says Son Nguyen, product lead for Proton Pass. 

Users receive a unique link to share a single item, which can be set to expire after a period ranging from 1 hour to 30 days. The inviter can also set how many times the link can be viewed. When recipients open the link, they will be taken directly to a web view of the shared item, including any additional fields like notes or...

Mireille Enos (“Hanna,” “The Killing”) has joined the Season 5 cast of Apple TV+‘s “For All Mankind” as a new series regular, reports Deadline.

Season 4 of the science fiction series picked up eight years after the events of Season 3, when Happy Valley rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. And here’s how Deadline describes season 5: Now 2003, the focus of the space program turns to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they were working towards.

Enos will play Celia Boyd, a member of the Peacekeeper Security Force on Mars. She joins a cast that includes Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi,...

If you’re looking to unlock an iPhone, security firm Cellebrite may not be able to help you. A series of leaked documents claim that Cellebite software used by law enforcement agencies cannot unlock any more recent models than 2018’s iPhone XR if they’ve been updated to iOS 17.4. Cellebrite, which has always kept its iPhone […]

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Enlarge / Apple seeks to continue to augment its library of original films like Argylle with films from other studios.

Apple TV+ has carved a niche for itself with strong original programming, and while it's still far behind the likes of Netflix in terms of subscribers, it has seen a fairly strong initial run. To build on that, Apple is talking with major studios about ways to complement its slate of original programming with films from other companies in order to expand and extend the service's appeal.

That's according to Bloomberg reporters Lucas Shaw and Thomas Buckley, who cite people...

Online backup service Backblaze will soon increase the fee it charges to restore data by shipping you a USB hard drive from $189 to $279. However, the change is largely moot since the company refunds the full amount when you return the drive.

Come 2025, Apple may adopt a new compact camera module (CCM) supplier for its next-generation MacBook notebooks, which will be powered by its upcoming M5 chip. Per noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, in his latest investor note on Medium, Kuo said Apple will turn to Sunny Optical for the CCM in its M5 MacBooks. The […]

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Apple has made its iPadOS 18 and iOS 18 beta software available for public testing. It’s the first time Apple has made both software available to download for the public since announcing them during this year’s WWDC event. To date, Apple has released three developer betas until now, with the public beta content having the […]

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The HomePod mini has gained a new color variant in the form of Midnight. Apple recently announced the launch of the new Midnight HomePod mini, replacing the Space Gray option previously offered. All in all, the HomePod mini can be bought in Yellow, White, Orange, and Blue. It’s worth noting that the regular HomePod is […]

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The hit emulator for retro game enthusiasts on the iPhone, Game emulator Delta, is now accessible for the iPad with the version 1.6 update. Delta gained massive popularity since it made its debut. The emulator is constantly ranking in the Top Charts in the App Store, with gamers downloading the app to play retro games […]

The post Retro game emulator ‘Delta’ arrives on iPad appeared first on iLounge.

Ming-Chi Kuo, renowned Apple analyst, asserts details that optical zoom is continually being refined until iPhone 19 pro’s release in 2027, and has information as well on the 2024 iPhone 16 Pro lineup. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the only iPhone to feature a tetraprism camera, providing increased capability of the optical zoom feature, […]

The post iPhone 16 Pro through iPhone 19 Pro Max to feature tetraprism cameras appeared first on iLounge.

Apple has opened the public beta program for its forthcoming 2024 operating systems. Remember, these aren’t meant for everyday use. Only install them on devices that you can dedicate to testing!

Apple has updated a support document with helpful advice about how to identify and report social engineering attacks such as phishing messages, phony support calls, and more. Share it widely!

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Adds support for generating QR codes for Wi-Fi networks. ($35.88 annual subscription, free update, 4.8 MB, macOS 10.15+)

PDF editing app adds a new home screen and improves visibility of export options. ($179.99 new, free update, 561.2 MB, macOS 10.14+)

In a surprising turnaround, Apple has approved the UTM SE app. This allows users to emulate classic software and games on iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS devices. This decision comes weeks after the tech giant initially rejected the application and barred it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the European Union. UTM SE is […]

The Unofficial Apple Weblog, an early player in the Apple blogosphere that has been defunct for a decade, has been revived as an AI-powered site that rewrites content from other sites. iLounge suffered the same fate. Avoid both sites from now on.

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The beta-testing cycle for Apple's latest operating system updates is in full swing—earlier this week, the third developer betas rolled out for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia, and the rest of this fall's updates. The fourth developer beta ought to be out in a couple of weeks, and it's reasonably likely to coincide with the first betas that Apple offers to the full public (though the less-stable developer-only betas got significantly more public last year when Apple stopped making people pay for a developer account to access them).

Many of the new updates' features are present and available to test...

Open-source file transfer app adds support for versioning of files edited in external application. (Free, 149.6 MB, macOS 10.13+)

If Slack on the iPhone displays “Only some people can post.” in channels where you should have posting permissions, force-quit it to fix the problem.

Apple is exploring new suppliers for OLED-on-Silicon panels, likely signaling the development of a more affordable headset destined to sit alongside the Vision Pro, The Elec reports.

The Korean website has apparently detected a shift in Apple's supply chain management for OLED-on-Silicon (OLEDoS) panels, a key component in the Vision Pro headset. Currently, Sony provides these high-resolution microdisplays, but its limited production capacity of up to 900,000 panels per year and lack of expansion plans have prompted Apple to seek alternatives for the future. Apple has apparently issued a request for information (RFI) to Samsung Display and LG Display to evaluate their capabilities in producing larger OLEDoS panels, ranging from 2.0 to 2.1 inches in size with a display density of around 1,700 pixels per inch (PPI).

These displays would be larger than those currently used in the Vision Pro...

Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of June 24-28.

° The European Commission has formally announced  its preliminary view that Apple is in breach of the Digital Markets Act, and Apple has responded.

° Apple TV+’s “Presumed Innocent” and “Dark Matter” are both on the Reelgood top 10 streaming lists for June 13-19.

° Apple has told production plant managers to reduce the number of workers on iPhone assembly lines by up to 50% over the next few years.

° The iPhone 16 launch...

Enlarge / A Vision Pro on display at an Apple Store in Tokyo. (credit: Apple)

Apple's Vision Pro headset went on sale outside the United States for the first time today, in the first of two waves of expanded availability.

The $3,499 "spatial computing" device launched back in February in the US, but it hasn't taken the tech world by storm. Part of that has been its regional launch, with some of the biggest markets still lacking access.

Apple announced that the product would be sold internationally during its keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month.

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Adds new machine learning-powered Enhance Light and Color effect to Final Cut Pro and Motion. ($299.99/$49.99/$49.99 new, free update, various sizes, macOS 13.5+)

Updates support for new cameras and lenses, including the front and back cameras of the recently released iPad Air and iPad Pro. ($9.99/$19.99/$59.99 monthly Creative Cloud subscription, free update, macOS

If you’re living in Europe and wish to repair your own Apple hardare, you’re going to like this. Apple on Tuesday announced that the Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair are now available in 32 European countries. When you take a faulty device to an Apple Store, or an Apple authorized service provider, they are […]

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Enlarge / Don't get your hopes up—this iOS version of Doom was ported from open source code, not run via a classic PC emulator. (credit: Tom Kidd)

Earlier this year, Apple started officially allowing "retro game emulators" on the iOS App Store without the need for cumbersome jailbreaking or sideloading. But if you want to emulate retro PC games on your iOS device, you are apparently still out of...

Using the Art Authority Museum app for the Vision Pro, you can virtually wander among many masterpieces of Western art. Michael Cohen reports on his explorations.

Slack will be reducing its data storage needs and trying to incentivize free teams to upgrade by deleting data older than a year from free workspaces. Only the last 90 days of data is visible anyway; the change affects only those who upgrade to a paid plan and would previously have recovered all old data.

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Imagine squeezing your retina iMac screen down onto an iPhone 5. You can do it. It might look a bit silly and initially you might wonder why you'd bother, but it has long been possible to see and remotely control your Macs and PCs on even your iPhone. Now Google has released Chrome Remote Desktop for iOS and you can do it for free. You'll do it, too: try this once and you will forever keep finding other reasons why it's incredibly useful. It's fantastic when you forget a file, for instance, and can now just find and email it to yourself from afar. And it will save your soul, your sanity and yo...

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With over half a year remaining before Apple is expected to unveil its next-generation iPhone, a fresh rumor out of Taiwan suggests that the company may be considering a new dual-lens camera system and the addition of "Force Touch," the pressure-sensitive touch technology set to be introduced in the Apple Watch.

Ten years after giving away its first song, Apple has reportedly wound down the "Single of the Week" program that offered iTunes users a chance to download a free track from up-and-coming artists.

Makeover apps tend to be somewhat serious, and are generally geared toward adults. Instead of being a fun game, they tend to be more akin to photo-editing software, which is generally pretty complex and low on the amusement scale. Toca Boca, however, has stepped forth with Toca Hair Salon 2, a makeover game that offers a lot to younger gamers or future beauticians....

Google has expanded its Chrome Remote Desktop app to include iOS compatibility. Now available for download on iTunes, iOS users can now orchestrate accessing their desktop computer for free by downloading the accompanying Chrome browser app. Chrome Remote Access has been available for Android users since last year....

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy A7, the latest entry in the company's premium all-metal Galaxy A series that brings a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display, 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 8-core application processor.

The Los Angeles Unified School District's failed iPad deployment was botched early on, according to a review by the US Education Department. The federal agency says that it first of all put too hard an emphasis on using Apple hardware and software, ignoring cheaper options that could have saved money for the District and taxpayers. In July the USD said it was shifting to a strategy involving Chromebooks and Windows devices, such as the Microsoft Surface....

It's a different world. You might be the sort who would never take photo from a website and use it in your own book, but today if an image is online, it's as if the world sees it as fair game. Maybe that's a peek into our base immorality and the ultimate cataclysmic self-destruction of humanity, or maybe it's just that cut and paste is easy. Whatever it is, though, it's happening and you cannot stop it – not even with an application like this: but if PhotoWatermark can't prevent the copying of images, it can help photographers and artists considerably by adding identifying text to your image...

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A good magic trick, even in the 21st century, will still get people to stop and watch and try to figure out how it is done. Over the weekend, Apple retail stores around the US debuted a new window display showcasing the company's iPad line and Smart Cover accessory on a thin tabletop that features a line of the products, with the Smart Cover opening and closing itself to demonstrate the magnetic latch feature that wakes or sleeps the machine automatically....

Apple is now seeding a fourth beta of iOS 8.2 via the company's developer portal, and as an over-the-air update for existing beta users. The build is listed as 12D5461b, and follows a little less than a month after beta 3, which was issued December 18. That build was 12D5452a. Accompanying the beta is a new version of WatchKit, the SDK and framework needed to build Apple Watch support into iOS apps....

Spotify is continuing to enjoy rising user numbers, with the popular music streaming service announcing it has reached a total of 15 million subscribers. At the same time, reports claim that the majority of Spotify streams stem from mobile listeners, with 52 percent of listening taking place on smartphones and tablets rather than desktops....

The 2016 model of the Chevy Volt will support Apple's CarPlay, at least if an early demonstration version is accurate. The car is on display at this week's North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and its dash system shows options for both CarPlay and MirrorLink connections. Google's Android Auto is notably absent, but since the 2016 Volt isn't due to go on sale until mid-2015, there may be time to implement it....

Spotify will not include support for Google Cast any time in the near future, the company has revealed. Rather than allow for its apps to connect to the audio streaming technology Google Cast, Spotify will instead reportedly continue to work on its own competing Spotify Connect audio system, one which allows users to stream music to a number of networked speakers and audio equipment....

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"Attackers can exploit these issues to bypass certain security checks, execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser, and cause denial-of-service conditions; other attacks are also possible."

BusinessMan is a modular, FileMaker-based customer relationship management (CRM) system that includes integrated email and communications, document management, quote generation, order processing, and more.

Objective Development's content management system for web sites adds CKEditor support, improvements in supported server configurations, better PHP 5.3 support, a fix for a problem with borders in the Gallery and Loop Elements, and other changes.

The XHTML editor adds keyboard navigation for its new tabbed interface.

This release of the SDK includes a simulator for the new iPad and tools for building iPad applications.

This release of the data mining tool brings more accurate predictions when using Similar Patterns modeling, improved export to Excel for regression models, and a new prediction project.

Rhapsoft's image editor adds flip transformations, a shadow effect, an option to import images from other devices (including iPhones, scanners, and cameras), improved accuracy when working at the pixel level, enhancements for drawing tools, and more.

The keyboard update "improves battery performance of the 2007 aluminum Apple Wireless Keyboard when used in combination with other bluetooth devices (eg. Magic Mouse, some bluetooth headsets)" and also addresses an issue with key repeats.

"While all the world is still talking about holes in Internet Explorer and Flash, Adobe has casually closed two critical security holes in Shockwave that allow attackers to inject and execute code."

MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Controller Card adds two 6GB/second eSATA ports to any Mac Pro (or PC) with an available PCIe 2.0 slot.

The multi-channel audio editor and recorder adds a 64-bit version, the ability to automatically split a sound file by detecting silences, export to iPhone ringtone files, and other changes.

Acclivity's small business management and accounting package adds integration with Enstore web store software, tracking of additional item information, a Show Profit Analysis function (gross profit, margin, and cost for each item and for the entire invoice), and other improvements.

We've added an addendum to cover some tips and questions brought up by readers in response to our in-depth review, which examines the $999 Mini Server product product from Apple, which combines a dual-hard-drive Mac Mini with a full version of Snow Leopard Server (unlimited client license). We look at everything from web services to performance, along with security, installation, admin utilities and more.

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