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Smart professionals know—maybe many learned the hard way—never to keep data in a single location. Although the temptation exists—insidiously alluring with its seduction of ease—to simply store files, especially work in progress, on a Mac desktop or in a local documents folder, phones are lost, iPads are stolen and Mac drives can fail. With such ...
Apple surprised everyone with the announcement of a second fall event at which it released several new products, but it was the 2021 MacBook Pro that stole the show. The new MacBook Pro has all the usual upgrades you’d expect from a new generation of laptop: better screen, improved memory, faster hard drives and the ...
Apple’s new M1 chips make MacBook Pros and iPad Pros faster than ever. But is there a big difference between the two? Find out in this free PDF download from TechRepublic. From the download: Advertising doesn’t always match true street performance. To achieve a published acceleration rate for a specific car, for example, you might ...
Apple announced the first set of Macs to be powered by the company’s new ARM-based M1 system-on-chip (SoC) at its ‘One More Thing’ event in 2020. The initial lineup of M1 machines were the M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. At the company’s 2021 Spring Loaded event, it unveiled a completely redesigned M1 ...
Apple announced its Apple Watch Series 7 during a live event Tuesday, with COO Jeff Williams touting it as “the most durable Apple watch we’ve ever built.” This Apple Watch Series 7 PDF download from TechRepublic includes details about the smartwatch, including features, pricing information and more. In the download: What is the Apple Watch ...
iCloud is Apple’s cloud file storage and services platform. The service permits users to leverage secure and highly reliable cloud computing features and capabilities to store and share a wide variety of files, locate lost equipment, and synchronize information across multiple devices. Apple’s iCloud includes multiple features and components. The features included with iCloud are ...
Apple announced the iPhone 13, the update to its flagship iPhone, at a digital-only event on Tuesday, Sept, 14, 2021. The trend continues with the iPhone being segmented into different model configurations: the iPhone 13, iPhone 3 mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, with each model containing slightly different spec variations. The ...
Objective-C has won the hearts of many developers. It started as a programming language that bundled object-oriented programming (OOP) with the likeness of the C programming language. Objective-C called NeXT and Apple home where it was the default programming language for NeXTSTEP, OS X, and iOS. In 2010, Apple started developing Swift, a new programming ...
During the keynote of Apple’s WWDC21 conference on June 7, 2021, the company announced its long-awaited new macOS: Monterey (also known as macOS 12). Like WWDC 2020, this year’s week-long conference aimed at developers around the world is virtual and free to the public via Apple’s website, the Apple Developer app, the Apple TV app ...
Living and working in an always-connected world means the quality and reliability of your network connection is vital to practically everything you do on your computer or mobile device. Maintaining a quality network connection, and troubleshooting a connection that fails, are basic skills that everyone should, at the very least, be familiar with. It doesn’t ...