On amazon.co.uk this week, one of the bulbs LIFX offers is on a deal now on Amazon UK. The LIFX WiFi bulb comes in two models: B22 and E27. One is for the edison screw and one for baynet fitting. The LIFX range of lights are unique as they connect directly to your home WiFi with no hub required. They work with Apple HomeKit, the ‘Works with Nest’ system and […]
Later this year, in September Microsoft will be ending the support for the older version of Skype, with version 8.0 replacing the older ‘Classic’ 7.0 version. The company is urging customers to upgrade at some point between now and September 1st 2018, which is the cut off date. Earlier this month, on July 16th – Microsoft released Skype 8.0 for Windows desktop and this will now replace Skype 7.0 and […]
On amazon.co.uk this week, Amazon has Logitech’s Circle 2 camera on sale, down from £169.99 to £119.08. The Circle 2 works indoors and outdoors and integrates with Apple’s HomeKit as well as Amazon Alexa for voice control. Check back weekly for more deals, on alexandtomstech.com/deals [amazon_link asins=’B072BWHV22′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’alantosteadan-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’6f2d47a4-8cf3-11e8-ae61-b1b1a4f1d30a’]
Apple has long maintained the iTunes Remote app for iPhone and iPad for nearly 10 years now, and today the app has received its first update since sometime last year, in 2017. Today’s update finally adds support for the iPhone X, we get a new look icon and it now supports Apple’s upcoming iOS 12 OS. Also, iPad Pro resolutions are now fully supported. With iTunes Remote 4.4, Apple is […]
While the next generation of macOS was announced last week at Apple’s annual WWDC developers conference, macOS Mojave isn’t coming out until the Autumn so we are still getting some minor updates to the current, macOS High Sierra. Today, Apple has released the second beta version of macOS 10.13.6 to registered public beta testers, this is just a day after it was to released to developers for testing. macOS 10.13.6 […]
iOS 12 is a big release for this year, with many performance improvements added especially for older devices including the iPhone 5s, which was actually launched in September 2013. With this release, Apple really wants to focus on speeding up the overall experience you have with your phone, so the keyboard loads quicker, apps launch faster and the camera opens much faster. So Apple is really helping users with older […]
Along with all the updates we had yesterday from Apple to iOS 12, FaceTime made a somewhat unexpected appearance on stage, with probably some of the services biggest new features added today since it was launched in 2010 with the iPhone 4 and iOS 4. FaceTime now for the first time supports multiple users, but up to 32 simultaneous callers in the same FaceTime chat, even Apple Watch users can […]
macOS Mojave is the next big version software for the Mac, which is coming later this year. But we did have a few surprises, Apple is now bringing News, Stocks, Home and Voice Memos all to the desktop and in terms of looks, they all look pretty similar to their iPad counterpart. Like on iOS, Stocks now integrates with Apple News to provide business related news and News now includes […]
With iOS 12, which is coming out later this year – CarPlay is gaining support for third party navigation apps. In the slide fro the keynote, Google Maps, Waze as well as a Chinese app were featured. For Apple, this is a good move – since Apple Maps was launched with iOS 6, in 2012 it hasn’t been the most popular app that Apple bundles with iOS and while every […]
Kevin Lynch did a good job on stage today at WWDC going over all the new features for Apple Watch which are coming later this year with watchOS and one of those big features, was Walkie Talkie. Apple Watch Series 3 includes integrated cellular support for a 4G LTE connection, and this works great with the new feature which as the name suggests makes the Apple Watch behave like a […]
