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Maybe iTunes Has Always Been the Perfect TV Model
Like many other forward-thinking techies, I have been thinking about unsubscribing from cable for a long time. Services like Netflix and Hulu are increasingly my go-to places for all my television needs. There are a few things I still a few shows that I can't stream, and I usually buy those
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TUAW Editors Return to the Web with Apple World Today
Steve Sande, Dave Caolo, and Kelly Hodgkins are back to writing about the world of Apple at Apple World Today. The trio used to work at TUAW which was shut down last week. If I'm being totally honest, I had stopped following the site a couple years ago. I thought they had lost
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Sling TV adds AMC to It's Lineup
Dish announced that they are adding AMC to their Sling TV service "Soon".
Dish’s Sling TV, the low-cost cable-TV-on-the-Web experiment, just got a little more interesting: The service is adding the AMC network, the channel that delivers cable hits like “Mad Men” and the “Walking Dead.”
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Yup, You can Set Your Desktop Background from Photos for Mac
Not a huge deal, but it took me a bit to find where it was in the app.
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Nerdy First Impressions of Photos for Mac
After reading a some great overviews from Serenity Caldwell for iMore, Casey Newton for The Verge, and David Pogue for Yahoo (that still feels weird to say), I thought I'd give a more nerdy first look at what Photos is and how stable it is at the moment.
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Photos for Mac
Apple unveiled the new Photos app for Mac today. It's built into the next point release of OS X, and is the replacement for iPhoto and Aperture.
There seems to be some trepidation about this, but I am bullish on the prospects of the app. To my eyes, the previews I've
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Apple is Building an Android App
9to5Mac reports that Apple is working on Beats Music, and intends to keep up Android comparability. And this isn't just keeping the old app around, they're building their own Android app in-house.
Apple engineers are currently working on an Android app for the new Apple-branded service. Contrasting with former
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Speed Testing an iPad vs a Mac
You don't often see speed tests between a Mac and an iPad, so I thought I would put together a little video. There's also some commentary on the state of mobile hardware.
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Data Density on the iPad
I picked up an iPad Air 2 this week and am just putting it through its paces. After quite extensive, totally necessary testing, I have confirmed that it is indeed a great Hearthstone device. But can it do more? Oh yes it can.
After setting up and logging into a ton of apps, I am
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Samsung is Unbundling TouchWiz
Via SamMobile
It has been reported that Samsung is working on optimizing its software for the Galaxy S6 to near-Nexus levels, and we now have exclusive info that the company is removing every add-on feature that can be downloaded as an application, and slimming down the software by a wide margin in the
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How We Use iPads at Work
Are iPads really just a fad? That's the question that has been asked a few times this week as we just hit the 5 year anniversary of the original iPad unveiling. Sales are leveling out, and some of the grand visions we had for tablets have not quite come to pass. Are iPads
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App Review: Shifts for iPhone
Shifts seems like it's an app made just for me. Unlike a lot of the "work assist" apps that get a lot of play in the tech blogger community, this app can actually help someone like me! I don't freelance often and I don't have a nine-
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Wild Speculation on Apple Watch Pricing
I was listening to the latest episode of Resolve, in which Abdel Ibrahim and his guest Mark Gurman discuss the Apple Watch at length. If you follow, Abdel on Twitter, you've surely seen him go on at length about the Apple Watch. As opposed to most other people who are only talking about
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It's Really Not That Hard to Sell Tech to Women
Belinda Lanks at Bloomberg Businessweek
Women are the early adopters of all kinds of technology. We talk on our phones and send more text messages than men, spend more time using location-based services, and own the vast majority of Internet-connected devices, including e-readers and health gadgets.
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Yet the tech industry continues to
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Why the new iPhones Seem Big
I have been reading and listening to a lot of Apple-centric pundits go through a roller coaster of emotions over the past few weeks as they come to terms with the "enormity" of the new iPhones. While I find it a little humorous since I have been using a big phone for
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An iPhone User's Take on the Moto X
I've been using an iPhone everyday since the iPhone 4 and have been very happy with each one. I have my quibbles, but overall I think that the best phone on the market is still the iPhone. Still, I have seen the great strides Android has taken and am planning on making the