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The Apple Xserve lives on (kinda) in the rack-mountable Mac Pro

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 8:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This year’s WWDC conference was probably the most memorable in years, and it’s all because of three little words: The Mac Pro. This modular, extensible machine is strongly reminiscent of the Power Mac G5 (remember that?) and is easily the most powerful Apple computer money (can’t yet) buy. This machine, which boasts tremendous CPU and graphical capabilities, is available as a desktop computer, as well as in a rack-mounted option. Interestingly, it is also the first rack-mounted computer available from Apple since January 31, 2011, when it discontinued the Xserve. And while they both enjoy similar form-factors, the two can’t…

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iOS 13 brings support for 22 Indian languages and a Hindi predictive keyboard

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 8:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, India


Apple today unveiled its new iOS 13 at its developer conference. While there are tons of exciting features like dark mode and the new photos app, the company has introduced a bunch of features specifically for India. The new version of iOS will bring support for all 22 official Indian languages. Plus, you can specify during the setup if you speak more than one languages, and the phone will tune keyboard, dictation languages, and preferred languages accordingly.  Apple has also introduced a romanized Hindi and English bilingual keyboard that supports predictive text. What’s more, iOS 13 also has a Hindi keyboard in Devnagri…

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SwiftUI is an expressive UI framework for iOS, MacOS, and more

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 7:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


Apple launched its Swift programming language almost five years ago. It was designed to supplant Objective-C with something that’s powerful, expressive, and crucially, as easy for beginners to grasp as Python. While it largely succeeded, one hindrance was the underlying MacOS and iOS APIs, which weren’t nearly as intuitive. Enter SwiftUI, which is Apple’s newest UI framework. SwiftUI is available across all of Apple’s menagerie of devices: phones, tablets, TV boxes, watches, and computers. It allows developers to create UI elements with an expressive, simple declarative syntax. Crucially, this can be done without writing mountains of code. Yes, this is…

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The Apple Pro Display XDR is an ultra-expensive, ultra-powerful HDR monitor

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 7:06 pm
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The new Mac Pro is unabashedly aimed at visual creatives: videographers, photographers, and the like. But what good is a souped-up machine if it’s paired with a naff monitor? Enter the new Apple Pro Display XDR, which will arrive this fall, retailing at $4,999. Pricey, but when you compare it to professional reference monitors, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars, it’s not too bad. The 32-inch 6K Apple Pro Display XDR is Cupertino’s first monitor since it killed the Thunderbolt Display back in 2016. This sexy panel is capable of displaying HDR content, with support for P3, 10-bit,…

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Apple reveals Catalina, the latest version of macOS

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 7:01 pm
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From the desert to the ocean: Apple today revealed its latest macOS update today: Catalina. The new OS comes with a host of new features, including accessibility updates, the death of iTunes, and more. Possibly the most exciting update is Project Catalyst, a development feature that allows app creators to make Mac apps based on existing iOS apps. One dev team would be able to develop an app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS with relative ease. It’ll be available for developers on Catalina today. Aside from killing iTunes, Apple revealed it’d be updating iPhone syncing. Now the sync options are on…

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