I’m sure most of us have at some point had Windows- and Android-using friends ask us why we pay the ‘Apple tax’ – the price difference between an Apple product and what they perceive to be an equivalent competitor product. A large part of the answer, of course, is that the competitor product isn’t equivalent at all. You can’t compare a MacBook with its premium materials, build-quality, high-spec components, screen quality and aesthetics with a low-end Windows laptop with plastic casing, low-spec innards and cheap and cheerful display....

A new report says that the idea for Oprah Winfrey’s Apple TV+ show focusing on mental health came from a conversation with Britain’s Prince Harry, aka The Duke of Sussex, and that the Duke is heavily involved. The Telegraph spoke with Prince Harry. Prince Harry believes the show could save lives. The series will focus on breaking down the stigma and shame surrounding mental illness — showing examples of the “human spirit fighting back from the darkest places,” as the Duke puts it....

These days, there are so many different streaming services for people to choose from when they’re looking for something new to watch. With so many different streaming services that all have their own original content, a lot of which can’t be watched anywhere else, it can be tough to decide which ones to subscribe to or what to watch. But, it also means that people have a ton of options for what to watch when it’s time to kick back on the couch and binge a new TV show....

Last week a team of developers released the first untethered iOS 7.1.1 jailbreak, dubbed “Pangu.” At the time, the application only ran on Windows and the entire interface was in Chinese. However, a Mac version of the software was promised, and today that promise has been kept. Pangu 1.1 was released on the dev team’s website earlier today and brings a handful of changes. Most importantly, the software now supports Mac OS X and sports a new English UI....

Neither approach can be said to be objectively better. There’s a scale from ‘really smart and very intrusive’ on one end to ‘really dumb and very safe’ at the other. Every company creating an intelligent assistant has to decide where on that scale it wants to sit, and every user has to decide what trade-off is the best fit for them. Google sits pretty close to the ‘really smart and very intrusive’ end....

OPPO has unveiled its new smartphone Oppo A72 back on April 21. It comes with a 6.53 inch IPS display, Snapdragon 665, 4/8GB RAM, 128GB ROM, quad rear cameras, and runs on Android 10. The device will receive the official Android 11 (ColorOS 8) update. In this guide, we will show you the real image of the ISP pinout and test point for the Oppo A72 CPH2067. By using the ISP PinOUT, you can easily restore the stock ROM, bypass FRP lock, or reset user data on your device via UFi Box....

New updates are added on July 28, 2020: Finally, the wait is now over, as the Chinese OEM Oppo has pushed the long-awaited Android 10 based ColorOS 7 update for the Oppo R15 Pro. The update is arriving via OTA in batches. As per the official post, the update has a limited quota of 10000 users in India, Thailand, and Malay. The official version of the Android 10 ColorOS 7 update is arriving with version number F....

Oppo is a Chinese smartphone brand that has a huge portfolio of devices ranging from budget to premium devices. Oppo Reno series devices have been appreciated by users across the globe for their good price-to-performance ratio. Oppo introduced the Reno Z smartphone sports two cameras and a mid-range chipset. Although the Oppo Reno lineup packs impressive specs and features, the Oppo Reno Z misses out on these. However, the phone is a decent buy, back in 2019 for the price tag it carries....

Page tables The role of page tables is to provide mapping from Virtual Address to Physical Address in Random Access Memory (RAM) and to determine that what pages for a specific process are swapped to disk. Remember that continuous virtual address does not necessarily map to continuous addresses in RAM and thus can randomly point to any location in RAM (I am assuming here that the reader’s know how paging works....

For years, there have been iPad applications that allow remote access to your Mac from anywhere in the world. Parallels Mobile, for example, was launched back in 2011 and allowed you to view your Mac and Windows virtual machines on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad (and later discontinued). But these apps have always been a huge turn-off for the majority of users, since OS X isn’t built for touch screens....

Parallels announced an update to Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac today that introduces experimental support for OS X Mavericks. That means developers with access to Mavericks will be able to run Parallels Desktop 8 on the OS and also install the OS X 10.9 preview in a virtual machine. The company has an article available to walk devs through getting Desktop 8 for Mac running on Mavericks and another outlining best practices for installing it as a virtual machine....

Back in April of last year, when a luxury model of the Apple Watch was still a vague rumor, I wrote an opinion piece in which I expressed the view that Apple could indeed pull this off. I went further, and suggested that it could even create an entire range of luxury versions of its existing products, from iPhones to Macs. Ten months on, with the Apple Watch Edition now real, and the general expectation that it’s going to cost several thousand dollars at least, I thought it was time to revisit that idea....

Anyone from a jealous ex to a scammer can use people search sites to find out more about you. It’s a free for all. Fortunately, you can fight back. Tap or click here for our growing list of people search sites with detailed instructions on opting out. For this entry of our weekly Opt-Out Tuesday series, we’ll show you how to remove yourself from TruePeopleSearch. Here’s the backstory Don’t ever pay for any people search service....

Apple has just released new updates to their iWork suite across iOS, macOS, and the iCloud webapps. The updates today includes the ability to open password-protected documents using Touch ID on the new MacBook Pro, iPhones and iPads, alongside new editing features for all the applications. The updates released today come with new features for all apps bundled in the iWork suite. Most notably is the ability to unlock password-protected documents using Touch ID....

Emperor Palpatine returned in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker so Kylo Ren didn’t have to be the film’s main villain. One of the more shocking moments in The Last Jedi is when Kylo Ren kills Snoke and appoints himself as the First Order’s new Supreme Leader. While the sequel trilogy played up Kylo’s internal struggle, that appeared to be when he reached the point of no return and fully committed himself to the dark side....

A report from a reliable leaker says Apple will launch a HomePod mini this year, with the announcement likely taking place during next week’s iPhone 12 keynote. I think that’s the right move to boost sales of Apple’s smart speakers, but it’s essential for the company to get its marketing right – which is something it hasn’t really achieved with the existing model … Please excuse me quoting myself at length from two previous pieces, but before we talk about a HomePod mini, it’s crucial to understand what the current HomePod is – and what it is not....

Tim Cook yesterday described the Trump administration’s new policy of separating children from the parents of asylum speakers and suspected illegal immigrants as ‘inhumane’ – and the leaders of a long list of other tech companies are expressing similar views … Buzzfeed rounded up statements from the CEOs and spokespeople of a long list of tech giants. Airbnb Apple eBay Facebook Google HP Lyft Microsoft Mozilla Postmates Salesforce Tesla Twilio Twitter Uber Yelp Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for example, echoed Cook’s comment that ‘it needs to stop....

Outcast for Apple Watch was one of the first podcast players to offer a good experience on watchOS, and now Outcast is showing off how podcast chapters can work on the Apple Watch. Apple brought its own Podcasts app to the Apple Watch in watchOS 5, but it doesn’t support skipping between chapters. Chapter support comes to Outcast version 3.1: The new feature works as advertised with chapters displayed prominently when included on a podcast episode....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by5C34nldTo] We love this add-on to the Mac Mini that turns it into more of a pro-device (and a cube!). The business up front is a DVD-R drive (not sure about BluRay) and an SDXC card reader that complements the one on the back of the mini. On the rear, you get a high power USB source for quick-charging an iPad as well as a few USB 3.0 ports that require separate drivers....

Mac Podcasts app concept Yesterday in my WWDC wish list I included a request for pulling Apple’s podcast player out of iTunes and promoting it to a dedicated app on the Mac just like it is on iOS. iTunes in its current form can be a mess as a music player, but at least that tries to be its primary function; being a good podcast player is hardly the focus of iTunes....