Microsoft has released Office 2024, the latest version in its suite of apps that includes Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. While the trend with software is to sell it on a subscription model, Microsoft offers customers the option to make a one-time purchase. Subscribers to Microsoft 365 automatically get the new version. Office 2024…
If you’re planning to buy an Apple product for a loved one this Christmas, you may want to start your shopping sooner than usual, because a perfect storm of logistical problems is likely to cause severe delays across the holiday season. In a detailed exploration of the factors, AppleInsider reports that Apple faces “giant challenges”…
Using heat to disassemble AirPods 4 [YouTube/iFixit] The teardown of the new AirPods shows it is still not repairable by end users, while the AirPods Max with USB-C are pretty much the same as the Lightning version it replaced. Continuing the teardown trend that follows after Apple's product launches, the AirPods range are the latest…
Transcriptions in Apple Podcasts Apple Podcasts is expanding its transcriptions into eight more languages, making the text of podcasts automatically available to more international shows. The transcripts feature has been a fantastic addition to Apple Podcasts since iOS 17.4. While initially only available for English, French, Spanish, and German shows, it's being enabled for even…
Unboxing the iPhone 16 Pro Max Police in India have arrested a man who ordered an iPhone and then killed the courier rather than pay the cash-on-delivery fee. The phone was ordered via Indian online ecommerce site Flipkart, which has previously partnered with Apple over sales promotions. In this case, it's not clear what reseller…
The best keyboard you can possibly get to go along with your Mac setup is the Apple Magic Keyboard, and luckily for you, it’s now on sale at Amazon for the best price we’ve seen in months. Now down to $176, you can save 12 percent off its $199 MSRP, a nice price for an…
While some are calling it boring, there are lot of great spec updates in iPhone 16 Pro Max with the most impactful being significant improvement to photography workflows that affect everyone. Iteration is only a sin if it isn't being useful, and iPhone 16 Pro Max manages to be a quiet leap over iPhone 15…
Verizon logo (Source: Verizon) Carrier Verizon claims to have restored service across the country, but iPhone and Android users are still waiting to be told what happened — and how it can be prevented from happening again. Verizon's service was disrupted for approximately eight hours on September 30, 2024, with some hundreds of thousands of…
Analysts say the iPhone 16 series costs Apple a few more dollars to produce than its iPhone 15 counterparts thanks to rising component costs. Aside from physical teardowns of the latest iPhone models, there are also cost breakdowns. One such analysis of Apple's iPhone 16 range pricing up individual components has determined that the new…