By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Need Internet access but your home connection is down? Here’s how to get started tethering your MacBook and iPad to your iPhone’s data connection, allowing you to get online from anywhere with cellular service.People who …
By news@appleinsider.com (Victor Marks) There’s plenty of life left in second-hand computers, especially if you happen to be shopping for an affordable student computer before the school year begins. With many districts implementing remote learning, the student computer is more important than ever, but how do you know if what you’re buying is any good?A typical 2017 Macbook Air for saleBefore anything else, check a used Mac for iCloud lock, firmware passwords, and MDM…
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Amazon has fixed an issue with its Flex contract delivery driver app that allowed savvy drivers to pick up more orders for delivery than others, a trick to game the system that involved hanging an iPhone on a tree near Whole Foods stores….
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Even the simpler Wi-Fi numbering system doesn’t help explain the technology, speeds, and limitations all that well. This essential guide will explain all you need to know about the names and terminology of Wi-Fi networking.A Linksys router with four Wi-Fi antennas. For most people, their knowledge of Wi-Fi extends about as far as entering the network password from their Internet provider’s router into their iPhone or iPad. In many cases, that’s all anyone should care about, but that all changes when you have to go into making your own Wi-Fi network….
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple would have liked you to associate August 2020 with it reaching $2 trillion in valuation, its new iMac launch, or with its Apple Music radio revamp. Unfortunately, it did also get into a little scrap with Epic Games which will take years to resolve in full.Shown on the new 27-inch iMac. Left: Tim Cook. Right: A shot from Epic Games’s “1984” parodyThroughout August, it was practically impossible to avoid hearing Epic Games’s decrying about Apple, Apple’s decrying of Epic, and countless pundits weighing in one side, the other, or occasionally both. Both sides seemed immediately intractable, yet the points and the disagreement moved about a lot while still staying fundamentally the same….
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) Apple on Friday regained a market valuation above $2 trillion after briefly losing it Thursday in a large-scale tech industry stock sell-off.Apple bleeds more than 8% and loses $2 trillion market capitalization.The AAPL share price closed at $120.96 at end of trading, up 0.066% on the day. Apple’s stock price hit a low of $111.17 in intra-day trading on Sept. 4, representing a 7.44% bleed since trading began….
By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) Apple holds sales on iTunes content every week, and this week we look at deals from Studio Ghibli, the wizarding world of Harry Potter, and the latest premium home release “Mulan.”iTunes Movie DealsMovies release every Tuesday or Friday, and this is AppleInsider’s new movie pick of the week. New movies can only usually be purchased without a rental option, or if it is a movie theater early release, it can only be rented for a premium….