In this far-reaching issue of TidBITS, we cover a pair of announcements: Amazon’s long-rumored Fire Phone, with a 3D interface and streamlined shopping, and Apple’s new entry-level iMac, which trades significant power for its lower price. The second- and third-generation Apple TVs don’t support iTunes Extras, but Agen Schmitz shows you how to watch them on Apple’s streaming set-top boxes. Yahoo and AOL have taken drastic new measures to enhance security, but at the cost of breaking mailing lists and email forwarding — Adam Engst explains the highly technical details. In Take Control news this week, Charles Edge looks at enabling file sharing in “Take Control of OS X Server,” and we’re particularly pleased to publish Glenn Fleishman’s new “Take Control of Your Apple Wi-Fi Network” to answer all your wireless networking questions. Don’t miss the 70% discount on Live Interior 3D in this week’s DealBITS drawing, and if you’re fluent in Dutch or Japanese, we could use some translation help! Finally, in FunBITS, Josh Centers strolls down memory lane with SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition for Mac, an updated edition of the classic city simulator for modern Macs. Notable software releases this week include LaunchBar 6.0.1, Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5.5, OmniFocus 2.0.1, and Typinator 6.0.
Apple has introduced a new, cheaper iMac, but do its tradeoffs outweigh its lower price?
Amazon has announced the Fire Phone, and while it sports some impressive specs and a few unusual features, what really sets it apart is how it makes buying from Amazon easier than ever before.
To answer all your Apple Wi-Fi networking questions, we’ve just published Glenn Fleishman’s “Take Control of Your Apple Wi-Fi Network,” the latest in Glenn’s series of best-selling books spanning the past decade.
See who won copies of Live Interior 3D in last week’s DealBITS drawing, and if you’re not among them, read on to save 70 percent on BeLight Software’s home and interior design software.
One of the most common uses for a server is to share files among a small workgroup, but in today’s world, that workgroup might be a family or a class. In this week’s addition to “Take Control of OS X Server,” Charles Edge explains how to turn on file sharing and configure appropriate permissions.
If you can read English and write in either Dutch or Japanese, we need your help in translating TidBITS!
When you buy a movie with iTunes Extras from the iTunes Store, there’s no way to watch those goodies on your Apple TV. Agen Schmitz digs deep to find a solution to stream these bonus features to his Apple TV.
A tiny change by Yahoo and AOL in April 2014 has caused significant problems for people who forward their email from one domain to another and for mailing lists with Yahoo and AOL subscribers. Adam Engst dives into the alphabet soup of email deliverability technologies to explain what happened, and why there’s little that can be done about it.
The classic SimCity 4 has come back to the Mac, bringing the ultimate city simulator to a new generation of Mac users. And, thankfully, we finally have the necessary hardware to give SimCity the performance necessary to enjoy the game fully.
Notable software releases this week include LaunchBar 6.0.1, Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5.5, OmniFocus 2.0.1, and Typinator 6.0.
This week in ExtraBITS, we ponder the Apple TV as the hub of your connected home, the U.S. Supreme Court deals a blow to software patents, we learn that OS X Yosemite’s Handoff feature will require Bluetooth 4.0, your Synology NAS device might be mining someone else’s Dogecoin, YouTube gets tough on indie music labels, and Apple settles with states and consumers over ebook price fixing.