Make the Google App Read Articles Aloud on iPhone or iPad To get started, open the Google app on your iPhone or iPad. Then scroll down the feed under the Search bar to find an article. Or search for an article you want to be read to you. If the site supports the Read Aloud feature, you’ll see an icon of a person speaking at the top-right corner. Tap on it....

Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying and managing 100s of Macs and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple’s products work at scale, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for students. Every couple of years, I make a large purchase with Apple for my school....

Over time, your Mac will likely build up a large amount of networks that it has connected to. Whether you want to do some general tidying up, or have a specific network you want to forget, follow along below. In addition to manually forgetting wireless networks, we’ll dive into how to adjust your Mac’s settings on how it handles discovering and connecting to new networks. We’ll also look at how to set priority levels for networks....

There have long been rumors of a replacement for the MacBook Air. This 13-inch machine is likely to adopt the same form-factor as the existing 12-inch MacBook, and will probably drop the Air branding. A new email received from Apple suggests that the new model will indeed be announced at its event on October 30 … A K-12 education customer recently placed an order for a MacBook Air, iPad and Apple Pencil....

It’s been a week since iOS 10 debuted on iPhone and iPad, and now it’s the Mac’s turn with macOS Sierra. OS X is officially no more; long live macOS (version 10.12 to be precise). As its name cleverly suggests, macOS Sierra brings Siri to the Mac for the first time since the voice assistant was introduced in 2011 with the iPhone 4s. You can free up space on your Mac with a new optimized storage feature, sync your clipboard (and desktop and documents folders) between your Apple devices, watch videos from Safari with picture-in-picture, and use Apple Pay on the web to easily make purchases....

Cox Communications provides customers with cable TV, internet and home phone service. It is the third-largest cable television provider in the country, with around 3 million customers. If the breach impacted you, you should receive a letter from Cox notifying you through snail mail. In the meantime, read on for details on the breach and ways to protect your data. Here’s the backstory The company has been relatively tight-lipped as to what exactly happened, only divulging that an impersonator accessed its systems....

Director M. Night Shyamalan reveals he has started working on a brand-new sci-fi movie. The master of the twist ending’s most recent release was superhero thriller Glass - the crossover-sequel to Unbreakable and Split that many critics deemed inferior to its predecessors. Though bad reviews for Glass made Shyamalan cry, it seems the director has now bounced back from the disappointment with the new film he has in the works....

Picaso Lab is for a limited time offering a leather iPad or MacBook sleeve signed by Woz, the affectionate nickname of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. The signed sleeves are available for a wide range of iPad and MacBook models. You do of course pay a premium for the signature, but every single penny you pay will go to two charities helping to deal with the California wildfires … I tested the Picaso Lab leather MacBook Pro sleeve earlier in the year, and concluded it was a better option than the official Apple one, for less money....

Security researcher Ulf Frisk has shared details of a vulnerability in macOS 10.12.1 and lower that allowed anyone with physical access to a locked Mac to quickly and easily obtain the password simply by plugging in a $300 Thunderbolt device. Frisk notified Apple back in August, when the company confirmed the issue and asked him to withhold details pending a fix. He reports that the vulnerability is no longer present in macOS 10....

The New Mutants star Maisie Williams doesn’t know when the movie will debut despite an August release date because the reshoots haven’t been filmed yet. Williams rose to fame as a key cast member on HBO’s wildly successful fantasy drama Game of Thrones, but she joined another massive franchise in 2017 when she was cast in The New Mutants. A spinoff from 20th Century Fox’s larger X-Men universe, The New Mutants follows a group of teenage mutants from the Marvel Comics....

If anyone is looking for a feel good reality series to watch over the upcoming holiday season, a la The Great British Baking Show, be on the look out for Making It, a crafting competition from everyone’s favorite Parks & Recreation stars Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman. The show pits a crew of gifted “Makers” against each other in whimsical crafting challenges. Making It provides all of the fun of a creative-based competition like Project Runway or Top Chef with none of the cutthroat behavior....

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The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars television series, airs exclusively on Disney+ this November and fans are already getting a tease for the series at Star Wars Celebration Chicago. Seen on the show floor in front of the main Star Wars Celebration stage at Chicago’s McCormick Place is the screen-used speeder bike the title character (played by Pedro Pascal) of The Mandalorian uses in the series Screen Rant is sending a team to the event for 2019 and we snapped some photos during today’s preview period....

Apple has just released version 10.6.8 of Mac OS X Snow Leopard ahead of the July launch of OS X Lion. Mac OS 10.6.8 prepares Macs for the Lion upgrade through the Mac App Store and squashes some bugs. The update also improves IPv6 and VPN support, and also removes more known versions of Malware. Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion Resolve an issue that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit Improve support for IPv6 Improve VPN reliability Identify and remove known variants of Mac Defender

Apple’s MacBook keyboard replacement program solved one problem: customers would no longer have to pay for a fix for an Apple design failure. But, as I wrote recently, it still left many of us with another one: the hassle of living without our machine for a week – even those of us fortunate enough to have a backup machine. I suggested a solution, and it’s one that Apple has now implemented …...

Before going to the topic, let’s take a look at the compatible device list. Also Read How to Fix Echo Dot Stuck in Setup Mode Fix: Firestick Connected to WiFi, But No Internet How to Use Alexa as an Intercom Best Games to Play with Alexa If the recipient doesn’t have an Echo device (or not enabled the service), Alexa will do anyone thing from below options: It will call the Alexa app on the recipient phone or dial the number associated with the contact....

PDFs are the file type of choice for contracts, proposals, and a host of other common documents. So why aren’t they easier to work with? The fact is, the protections that keep these files secure are the same ones that keep you from doing simple things like correcting a line of text or adding annotations. Small wonder, then, that PDF editing tools are everywhere these days, but few pack as much functionality as PDF Agile....

I am sure you eventually discovered it was rogue security software that was trying to scare you. Hopefully you did not pay for the malware removal service it was trying to sell you. This article will detail what rogue security software is and will explore what it can do to systems, real-world examples of rogue security software, and what the strongest defense against threat is. My personal anecdote Years ago, before my major security epiphany, I was one of the least security-minded individuals around....

While almost all aspects of M1 Mac performance are greatly improved compared to the Intel Mac predecessors, one notable downside has been reduced support for external displays. In what looks like some exciting news, it appears Apple may be underselling the M1 Mac external display functionality. Apple says in its tech specs the M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook only support up to 1 external display up to 6K at 60Hz....

[Update: Apple has now released the second public beta of macOS 10.13.5.] Apple has released the second developer beta version of macOS 10.13.5 for testing. The beta version includes Messages in iCloud which works with iOS 11.4 beta. Aside from testing Messages in iCloud, the latest update is light on user-facing features and likely focuses on bug fixes. The update follows last month’s macOS 10.13.4 update to High Sierra which includes the ‘Ink Cloud’ wallpaper previously only offered on the iMac Pro, enhanced support for external GPUs, and more....