HomePod The HomePod Is Slated to Debut in Japantidbits.com It’s official: after appearing in stores in Canada, France, and Germany in June 2018, the HomePod is slated to debut in Japan on 23 August 2019 (via …
Google News Please Vote in the TidBITS 2019 Reader Survey!tidbits.com Our last reader survey ran in late 2015, when we were starting on the major site redesign and Internet infrastructure transition that finally came to …
Parallels Desktop 15.0tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Addresses issues with Insider Preview beta releases of Windows 10 and Office for Windows. ($79.99 anual subscription for standard edition, $99.99 …
Microsoft Microsoft Office for Mac 16.28tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Monthly maintenance release brings new features to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. ($149.99 new for one-time purchase, $99.99/$69.99 annual …
Apple Card How to Get the Most from Your Apple Card Benefitstidbits.com - Josh Centers Apple is slowly rolling out its new Apple Card across the United States. If you’re an early adopter, here’s how to maximize your cashback benefits.
Apple Music What It’s Like to Be Banished from Apple’s Gardentidbits.com When Luke Kurtis, the IT manager for the online publication Quartz, bought an iTunes gift card from discount site MassGenie, he didn’t know that it …
Lightroom Lightroom Classic CC 8.4tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Adds accelerated image editing with GPU support for smoother performance. ($9.99/19.99 monthly Creative Cloud subscription, free update)
Mac App Store GraphicConverter 11.0.1tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Major new release for the Swiss Army knife of graphics programs adds macros and improves RAW image editing. ($39.95 new, free update, 151 MB)
MacBook FAA Warns Airlines about 2015 15-inch MacBook Prostidbits.com Lithium batteries recalled by the manufacturer/vendor must not be carried aboard aircraft or packed in baggage. Battery-powered devices recalled …
Startups Mailplane 4.1.4tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Brings compatibility with the macOS 10.15 Catalina public beta, plus adds support for the Simplify Gmail extension and the DEVONthink 3 public beta. …
OCR Keyboard Maestro 9.0tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Major update for the automation and clipboard utility adds Dark mode support, OCR for text in images, and JSON. ($36 new, $25 upgrade, 25.8 MB)
Siri Why Can’t Users Teach Siri about Its Mistakes?tidbits.com With the recent fuss about Apple contractors listening to some of our Siri conversations (see “Apple Suspends Siri’s “Response Grading” …
Earbuds CES 2019 Reviews: iPhone/MacBook Battery, Mac Equalizer App, and AirPods Alternativestidbits.com Mid-year greetings from TidBITS’s intrepid Consumer Electronics Show reporter (see “CES 2019: CES Unveiled Kicks Off the Annual Gadget-fest,” 8 …
USB 2.0 Buy the Best Lightning to USB Adapter for iOS 13tidbits.com While at an Apple Store recently, I decided on a whim to grab a Lightning to USB Camera Adapter. Testing iOS 13 gives me a couple of excellent …
OCR DEVONthink 3.0 Public Beta 6tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Sixth public beta with another round of extensive improvements and fixes for the information management app. ($99/$149/$499 new, free update, 90.5 MB)
Mac App Store 1Password 7.3.2tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Maintenance release focused on improving the password manager's stability. ($64.99 new, free update, 51.3 MB)
Unique ChronoSync 4.9.4tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Maintenance release for the synchronization and backup app with a smattering of bug fixes and improvements. ($49.99 new, free update, 66.8 MB)
Mac App Store BusyCal 3.6.9tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Adds the capability to display an attached graphic on all days of a multi-day event in Day view. ($49.99 new, free update, 22.2 MB)
Netflix Avoid Netflix AutoPlay Previews on the Apple TV with Reelgood and WatchAidtidbits.com After Josh Centers looked into the Reelgood and JustWatch video discovery services (see “A Million Streams and Nothing to Watch? Reelgood and …
Apple Music Apple Music for Artists Opens to All Artiststidbits.com Apple has opened up its Apple Music for Artists program for all musicians who have music on Apple Music and iTunes.
Batteries Apple Starts Locking iPhone Batteries to Thwart Independent Repairtidbits.com iFixit has discovered that Apple has locked the batteries in the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max, so that if anyone other than Apple or an Apple Authorized …
Hulu Disney Will Bundle Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ for $12.99 Per Monthtidbits.com Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced that the company will bundle its three streaming services—Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+—for $12.99 per month, on par …
FileMaker Retakes the Claris Name after 21 Yearstidbits.com FileMaker Inc. has announced that it will once again be known as Claris, indicating a larger vision for the Apple subsidiary.
Color Management Sip: Smart Color Management for Your Mactidbits.com - Timothy Buck What if there was a single place to pick, store, and organize colors on your Mac that also made it simple to use those colors in design apps, for …
Equifax Equifax Cash Settlement Backtracking Leaves a Bad Tastetidbits.com Last month, the Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with the Consumer Financial Protection Board and all 50 US states, announced a settlement of …
iOS A Look at the Health App in iOS 13tidbits.com My husband and I started our “fertility journey”—as infertility nightmares are euphemistically called—just before the iPhone era began. Every …
Text Editors BBEdit 12.6.6tidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Adds basic support for C++ raw strings and changing the alert behavior when searching for text and no appropriate match is found. ($49.99 new, free …
Firefox TipBITS: Switch between Multiple Accounts in Twitter’s Redesigntidbits.com Twitter has redesigned its Web interface, and as is always the case with such radical redesigns, many people aren’t happy. If you dislike the new …
Apple Apple Suspends Siri’s “Response Grading” Eavesdroppingtidbits.com - Josh Centers Apple has temporarily suspended its Siri “response grading” program that had contractors listen in on Siri recordings. That’s good, but it’s …
MacBook Pro macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Updatetidbits.com - Agen Schmitz Addresses an issue that could prevent certain Macs from waking from sleep properly. (Free, 954.8 MB)
