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Apple released iOS 26.2 last week with important security fixes. At the same time, it also shipped iOS 18.7.3 for users who ...

If you have the X iPad app installed on your Mac, you can continue to use it (or at least use the parts that work) for now.

Since its release in 2009, it's been a continuing fallacy for pundits to hold up Mac OS X Snow Leopard as the perfect example of how Apple should update the Mac.

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Homebrew is a package manager that many Mac users have come to rely on. Using the command-line brew program, you can install a huge range of software, ranging from other command-line tools to ...

Apple today released watchOS 26.2, an update to the watchOS 26 operating system that came out in September. watchOS 26.1 ...

If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives.