Apple received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to sell the iPhone XR in the United States, ahead of pre-orders slated from October.

The company can now remove the following fine print from the iPhone XR product page on its website, although it has yet to do so:

iPhone XR has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. iPhone XR is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained.

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This qualifies as pretty nifty.

When Yale’s parent company purchased August Home in 2017, it promised to ‘create the future of smart residential doors.’ Yale is currently taking the first step in that direction with two new Yale locks incorporating August technology.

The nifty bit: While Yale has made HomeKit-compatible smart locks for a while new, its new models are the first to include an auto-unlock feature. This allows a deadbolt to automatically open as you approach, using Bluetooth authentication and a powered motor.

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Apple’s latest iOS 12.1 beta apparently introduces support for the eSIM, or a digital SIM that lets you activate a cellular plan from your carrier without needing to use a physical SIM card. In the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, the eSIM pairs with the included nano-SIM to enable dual-SIM functionality.

The eSIM feature was not available for the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max at launch, with Apple stating it would activate this function at a later update. The update seems to be in the works for iOS 12.1.

eSIM settings are available by going to the Cellular section of the Settings app and choosing “Add Cellular Plan,” which is the method used to add another cellular provider via the eSIM.

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If you’ve installed macOS 10.14 Mojave and the font rendering seems a bit off, you’re not alone.

Apparently, Apple adjusted the subpixel antialiasing process, makes non-Retina displays appear somewhat blurry.

Thankfully, one Alexander Yakusik has come through with a fix that he posted to the mighty GitHub. Simply enter the following command into Terminal and reboot your Mac to turn off the subpixel antialiasing and restore the same font appearance as before:

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macOS 10.14 Mojave is out, it’s in the wild and across the world, millions of Mac users are deciding it they love it or hate it.

Over at Ars Technica, Andrew Cunningham has published an incredibly complete review of the new operating system, including its positive aspects, its negative aspects and its respective warts.

The end result is pretty satisfying. In short, Cunningham points out that for macOS 10.12 Sierra and macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Apple was overhauling a lot of underlying technologies, especially where its core file system was concerned.

Per the review:

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Every time Apple overhauls its Safari web browser, there’s always a few days, weeks, or months of kerfuffle as developers catch up.

In the case of Safari 12, it appears that a number of third party extensions within Safari may be disabled for the time being.

A series of reports on Reddit and GitHub have noted that uBlock Origin, a popular third party Safari extension, may be disabled in Safari 12.

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It may not be the most exciting thing in the world, but it’s pertinent.

At its Ignite event in Orlando, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac, alongside a test version of Files on Demand which allows users to see all their OneDrive files on the Mac desktop, and only download what needs to be used.

Per Microsoft Office 2019 will include a number of features that had been added to Office 365 ProPlus, its cloud-connected version, over the course of the last three years.

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If you’ve been hankering for Mojave, it’s here.

Apple release macOS 10.14 Mojave on Monday.

The free operating system update include a system-wide Dark Mode interface, Quick Actions in Finder windows, and more.

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Here lies the fate of Beddit.

Sleep tracking product company Beddit, which Apple acquired last year. is officially killing off its cloud service on November 15, 2018. As of Friday, September 21st, new users were unable to sign up for Beddit Cloud.

In addition, existing users have until November 15, 2018 to use it before the Beddit Cloud service will completely stop functioning.

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The Apple Watch Series 4 is out and cool cat Jeff Gamet from The Mac Observer has released a completely spiffy unboxing video to show you what to expect once the box arrives.

In spite of his semi-epic struggle with the watch band, he highlights the larger displays, ECG heart monitoring sensors and does it in style while wearing a spiffy garment from SnarkFish T-Shirts.

Take a gander and see what you think.

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