Apple started a new switcher campaign for the Mac with several video ads. Under the name “Mac does that” (somewhat rumpel German translation: “Yes, the Mac does it”), the group wants to once again move into the MacOS warehouse. The iPhone is also used, which is also increasingly widespread among PC users. The project is … Read more
Apple made almost $ 100 billion in sales in the past year alone-a almost quarter of total sales. This means that services have now become the second most important pillar behind the iPhone and also much more lucrative than hardware business. Streaming services such as TV+, Apple Music and iCloud serve as the figureheads, but … Read more
The open source tool whiskey loses the main developer: Whiskey should no longer receive any further functional innovations, as the developer Isaac Marovitz announced. So there will be no upgrade to newer Wine versions and no more important adjustments to better perform Windows games and applications on the Mac. Accordingly, it is possible at any … Read more
The Apple air becomes thinner for the remaining Intel MACs: the manufacturer is now classified the new Mac Mini in 2018 as a “vintage product”, as from one Support document for the services after the warranty period has expired. So far, the change has only been recorded in the English version of the document, the … Read more
This article is primarily intended to stimulate experiments and show the feasibility. Because even with powerful hardware, you have to accept some restrictions and performance hurdles. That was the reading sample of our Heise Plus article “MacOS in the Docker container: This is how it works with the virtual Mac”. With a Heise Plus subscription … Read more
By default, MacOS does not come with a single app that can play all used film and audio formats. Quicktime is not able to reproduce MKV files-and the finder or the TV application from Apple. If you want to enjoy more multimedia formats, you need additional tools. Next to the VLC player should Iina the … Read more
Because of an injury, I wanted to deposit another finger for Touch ID. However, MacOS refuses this, although only one of the three possible fingerprints is occupied. Other users of the same Mac were able to scan several fingers. What is going wrong? There is no software problem here, but a hardware restriction. The MAC … Read more
Apple is about to release new Macs and iPads with M5 processor. Of it goes Mark Gurman from the financial news agency Bloomberg out of. In his newsletter from the weekend, he wrote that the iPad Pro is with the new chip “in advanced tests before a start of sales this year”. The internal code … Read more
Cutter and video filmers should take a look at the update function of the App Store: A large update for Final Cut Pro has been available for download since Thursday evening. Both the MacOS version (now 11.1) as well as Final Cut Pro for the iPad (now 2.2). Among other things, Apple has implemented new … Read more
The menu bar from my MacBook is quite full, especially on the right side of the notch. I don't need some entries such as the fast user change, others like the keyboard brightness are missing. You can easily configure the menu bar by pulling out unwanted icons down with pressed CMD button. If you are … Read more