At the Core from Serenity Caldwell gets to the heart of what makes iPhones, iPads, Macs, and the Apple community tick. Weekly videos, op-eds, comics, and the occasional song or two — you have to tune in to find out.
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Future-proofing the Mac
The new MacBook Pro trades convenience for reparability
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In an age where Macs look more and more like iPhones and iPads, how do you future-proof $2000 laptops?
RIP tiny computer
An ode to the 11-inch MacBook Air
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The 11-inch MacBook Air is no more. I’ll miss you, little buddy.
Wish list
The Surface Studio makes me want Pencil support for Mac
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Who needs a multitouch Mac when a display could support Apple Pencil (and creative professionals, in the process)?
Spin that clickwheel
The enduring legacy of the iPod
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Fifteen years ago, Apple introduced the iPod, and Serenity thinks about her first experience with one in 2001.
Frustration thy name is Google Sheets
On the iPad, Google has made itself a second-class citizen
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Google Docs and Sheets are must-have tools for many people—but their app-implementations leave much to be desired.
Nine months later
How I'm using my Apple Watch now
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Apple's smartwatch isn't perfect by a long shot, but here are the features I'm still using every day.
Apple TV Nitpicks
Six features I wish tvOS had shipped
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The new Apple TV is pretty stellar. Mostly. Unfortunately, I've also had some time to bump up against some of tvOS's rougher 1.0 edges. These aren't deal-breakers for me, but in the interest of making the couch-potato evenings of myself and many other new Apple TV owners just a bit better, here are some things I wouldn't mind seeing improved upon in subsequent updates.
Apple Watch wishes
Hermes has a custom face; could third-party faces be next?
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The Hermès-branded Apple Watch not only comes with a custom band, but a custom clock face, too. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Apple's developers built whatever Hermès asked for—even if that included new complications. But I can't help but hope that it's also a hint that custom watch faces are possible—and possibly coming in watchOS 3.
Treat people like a friend
Why I loved CocoaLove (and how I came back to Twitter)
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This past weekend, I attended and spoke at my last conference of the year: CocoaLove. It's the fifth year in a row I've been to conferences on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. I've essentially been going to these intimate, wonderful three-day experiences since I first started working in the tech sphere, and attending always feels like an anniversary of sorts: A reminder why I love this...
Let's find out together
A salute to Apple's One to One program
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There's a sad rumor going around that Apple plans to discontinue its retail One to One service: a $99 add-on that gave them a year's worth of weekly 30-minute and hour-long tutoring sessions on anything Apple-related they wanted to know. What makes it so sad? As a former One to One instructor, let me tell you how great the program was, and why I'll miss it.
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So you can create ePub 3 ebooks in iBooks Author now
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I hadn't been able to open up iBooks Author in the weeks since the June 30 rollout, due to this tiny little thing called Apple Music you probably haven't heard of. Today, I did. And boy was I surprised to find that not only can iBooks Author create its special Made for iBooks projects, but it now has two ePub templates. Which, yes, create ePub 3 books.
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Why we're still talking (and writing) about the Apple Watch
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I can't help but keep coming back to the Watch: There are problems to solve, challenges to face. Why not write about them? I've seen a number of complaints lately while browsing Twitter — and even iMore's own forums — about the sheer volume of Apple Watch coverage undertaken by this site and others. Though we've done these kinds of massive rollouts before for the iPad, and the iPhone...
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On the Apple Watch and Morse code
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We communicated across wires in dits and dahs, once. Why can't we use it to communicate across Apple Watches? When I first learned you could transmit taps on the Apple Watch, I immediately started to wonder about its potential as a device for sending Morse code. My grandfather was (and my dad still is) a longtime ham radio operator, and while I never learned Morse to either of their...
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How the Apple Watch changed my health for the better
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The Watch has done for me what no other health gadget has: tracked my full-contact sport and kept me accountable. One of the chief reasons I've been so excited for the Apple Watch these past few months is the possibility of using it to properly track my movement and exercise day-to-day. Four nights a week I play roller derby, a full-contact sport on quad roller skates, which has proven...
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The true magic of the Watch is what it knows it can't do
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The Apple Watch isn't designed to do everything, and that's okay — that's why you have an iPhone, too. As I get more comfortable with my Apple Watch during day-to-day activities, I've started to figure out what tasks I like doing on it, along with the ones better suited to a larger screen. What I appreciate most about the Watch is that even as a 1.0 product it knows its limitations —...