From adding CarPlay to your vehicle to MagSafe iPhone mounts and the best charging cables for car rides, we’ve got must-have recommendations that make great gifts — even if you’re shopping for yourself.
Apple CarPlay
CarPlay has been a specialty of mine since Apple’s car-friendly feature launched on the iPhone in 2014. Here’s a throwback to the very early concept for CarPlay that was…
Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro demand to ‘disappear’ as Apple misses shipment goal by 20 million units
November 30, 2022
The supply and production issues plaguing the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are no secret at this point. A new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today offers additional details on the impact of these shortages, saying that iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max…
How to improve iPhone 14 battery life: Why your battery is draining and 7 tips to boost it
November 30, 2022
If you’re seeing faster battery drain than expected with iPhone 14 or 14 Pro you’re not alone. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem with your phone. Here’s a look at 7 tips and tricks to improve iPhone 14 battery life as well as why you might be…
Audible has updated its iOS app today with a nice addition – Alexa support. That means you can now use voice commands to start listening to a book, ask questions, or get help with anything else Alexa is capable of.
Audible shared the news in a blog post today:
“While listeners have long enjoyed Audible on Alexa-enabled devices, this development will allow voice control right in our app…
Google has added a nifty feature to Chrome for iOS that gives you the option to quickly open external links from other apps using Incognito. It’s especially useful on shared devices.
The default behavior loads links alongside other open tabs where your cookies and account…
Urban Armor Gear (UAG) is out with its newest iPhone accessory. The Lucent Power Battery with Kickstand is a MagSafe-compatible power source with a useful kickstand neatly integrated into its clean design.
UAG has jumped into the magnetic power bank game quite a bit after…
After honoring the start of the 2022 World Cup, the latest animated Google Doodle highlights some of the final phases of the initial group stage at the world’s biggest sporting event.
With all 32 teams having now played at least two matches at the World Cup in Qatar, this abstract animated Google Doodle features soccer cleats jumping up and down in colors that at least appear to represent…
An apparent official press render has lifted some of the mystery of the upcoming affordably priced Samsung Galaxy A14.
The high-resolution render shared by Evan Blass AKA @evleaks and published in the lesser-known blog Gadget Gang shows that Samsung is homogenizing device…
The first post-Android 12 update is rolling out to the Chromecast with Google TV 4K today, and it brings devices to the October 2022 security patch level.
STTE.220920.015.A1 is a 148MB update with the October 2022 Android security patch level and “Other bug fixes and…
Android 13 is more widely rolling out on Samsung tablets and follows Android 12L earlier this year. The taskbar was that update’s biggest addition, and we hoped to see more tablet UIs — namely a two-column notification shade and lockscreen — but that’s not the case with Samsung’s Android 13 update.
Samsung (11-inch Tab S8 shown below) continues to use its single-column notification…
