MacBook Pro (2018): First look, listen, and feel! (iMore)
First look: Apple’s 2018 13” MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (AppleInsider)
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“Wisdom that will bless I, who live in the spiral joy born at the utter end of a black prayer.” • — Keiji Haino
“The subject of human creativity is not an ethnic-centric, but a composite subject.” • — Anthony Braxton
“… It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” • — The Marquis de Sade
iMore: OS X El Capitan brings a smarter, smoother, more sophisticated experience to the Mac.
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Apple's climbing El Capitan, they say, to refine the OS X experience and improve the performance. So, did they make it to the top?
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- via theLoop:
Peter Cohen, writing for iMore, lays out a nice tip for disconnecting from your current network without toggling WiFi off and back on. More importantly, he talks about launching Apple’s Wireless Diagnostics, a built in utility to help you diagnose a troublesome network issue.
Good stuff.
iMore's OS X and Built-in Network Troubleshooting
arsTechnicaDOTcom :via theLoop:
"Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else."
That was Apple’s tagline for iOS 8 when the software was announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference back in June. Overuse of hyperbole is a pet peeve of mine, but after using iOS 8 for a couple of months, I have to say that they’re warranted in this case. iOS 7 was a comprehensive makeover for an operating system that needed to reclaim visual focus and consistency. iOS 7.1 improved stability and speed while addressing the new design’s worst shortcomings and most egregious excesses. And iOS 8 is the update that turns its attention from the way everything looks to the way it works.
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Rene Ritchie’s iOS 8 review:
Last year Apple stripped iOS bare in order to redefine how we do things. This year they build atop everything that came before in order to redefine what we can do.