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  Watch out for future events

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 02/09/2015

  » Apple will hold a major event on Sept 9 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco. It is expected that, whatever name or number they give it, Apple will announce the next iPhone and other products.

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  Flexible iOS devices and a mix of speculation

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 05/08/2015

  » This week, my friends have been trying out their new iPad mini devices. Neither of them has totally switched to the newer models, partly because of content. In one case, it is due to the downloaded music videos on the older iPad mini. The other friend has been exploring the ability to draw, having found Pencil by Fifty-Three: the stylus I examined in February this year.

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  Arrivals: Apple Music and a MacBook

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 08/07/2015

  » Last Tuesday evening, Apple updated iOS8 and OS X to include the latest versions of Music and iTunes to bring Apple Music to users. I updated my iOS devices first and signed up for the three-month free trial. The fee for users here is $4.99. Lower rates than the US rate apply in other countries, too. Some images that came with advertisements for Apple Music indicate new colours for iPod nano, iPod shuffle and iPod touch.

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  Apple's earnings, watches and more updates

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 15/07/2015

  » On Tuesday, Apple announces its Third Quarter earnings, at 2pm Cupertino time, just after Wall Street closes.

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  Lovely New iDevice arrivals in Bangkok and elsewhere

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 22/07/2015

  » Apple has been busy as of late and yesterday the latest quarterly figures were announced. I am writing this a few days before, so the results will be online elsewhere. Apple's predictions and those of Wall Street suggest that this was expected to be another good quarter. Already reports have shown that Mac sales have increased by 16% in a shrinking PC market and that Apple takes the lion's share of profits for smartphone sales.

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  Managing storage with newer Macs

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 10/06/2015

  » Last week, a proof of concept attack that could affect some older Macs when they wake from sleep was made public. The information was not shared with Apple beforehand, so there was no time for a patch, while online reports became more hysterical with each retelling. For the paranoid among us, shutting down (instead of sleep) will avoid this particular problem until it is fixed.

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  Scraping the barrel

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 17/06/2015

  » Last week Apple held its Developer Conference (WWDC) for 2015, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I watched the event live via the feed on Apple TV taking notes and again the next day (but more slowly) when I added some important points I had missed. Many commentators were disappointed because there was no hardware: no iPhones or new Apple TV that had been rumoured.

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  Laptop fixed, care of Apple

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 24/06/2015

  » One of the 2015 Helen Keller Awards was given to Apple for breakthroughs in accessible technology. The award was specifically for Apple's VoiceOver technology that provides "spoken and Braille descriptions of items on the computer screen".

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  Apple's Swift U-turn

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 01/07/2015

  » With its Music service becoming available this week, Apple walked into a lot of criticism over the decision to make the first three months free: from independent music labels and (to great publicity) Taylor Swift. As she noted when withholding permission for iTunes to handle her latest album: free means no royalties for performers.

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  Ordering a new Mac mini for my office

  Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 29/04/2015

  » Last weekend, a local user pointed me to a report on the Ars Technica site about the latest Flash Zero Day exploit, one of several already this year. Dan Goodin writes that although Windows users running Flash in Firefox or Internet Explorer are mainly at risk, the CVE-2015-0313 security bug is present in Flash for Macs and Linux.

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