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Mossberg weighs in on Apple’s app shortcomings of recent years

There’s a pretty interesting piece over on The Verge in which the mighty Walt Mossberg cites some apparent shortcomings in Apple’s apps in recent years. He points out that Apple’s products are often considered the best you can buy and that this is part of the Mac and iOS user experience. “In the last couple […]

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1Password 6.2 for iOS released, adds array of new features

The cool cats at AgileBits have just released 1Password 6.2 for iOS, adding in a heaping helping of changes along the way: Smarter Searching: The company’s made changes to the Search tool, and you can now search from the Favorites and Organize tabs, in addition to the Categories tab. Users can also use a Search […]

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QuickShot 2.0 app adds multiple folder support, search and sorting options

ThinkDev’s QuickShot was nifty and version 2.0.1 might be niftier still. Per developer comments, the company has added the following new bells and whistles to its screenshot and image management application for OS X: We’ve got a lot of feedback from users who liked our app, but simply wanted it to do more. So, with […]

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Apple announces OS X 10.11 El Capitan, plans for fall release

The torrent of news and announcements from this year’s WWDC keynote starts here. It starts with El Capitan. On Monday, Apple announced OS X 10.11 El Capitan, the next version of its operation system. The updated OS will feature new versions of multiple stock apps, including Safari, Mail and Notes, improved Spotlight search with natural […]

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Apple confirms existence of “Applebot” web crawler, says program indexes the Web for Siri, Spotlight

Sometimes it’s the Web traffic logs that really let you know what Apple is up to. Last fall, a number of webmasters began seeing web crawler visits from IP addresses starting with 17, an IP address block owned entirely by Apple. Apple has now officially confirmed in a support document that it is operating its […]