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Apple Store locations bring in external contractors to help with backlog of iPhone battery replacement

Apple has struggled to keep up with the demand for iPhone battery replacements and it looks like the company has begun bringing in both AppleCare employees and external contractors to work in retail stores on iPhone battery replacements specifically. The deluge of repair requests follows Apple’s admitting to assorted battery-related iPhone slowdowns/unexpected and the reduction […]

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Apple incorporates 13 major WebKit changes into Safari 11.1 update

It’s on the technical side of things, but Apple recently detailed the 13 major WebKit changes applied in Safari 11.1 when macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra hit last week. The changes are as follows: Service Worker API The Service Worker API enables scripts that run in the background to handle generalized processing for web pages. Service […]

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Handbrake 1.1.0 released, improved user interface, 4K video, other new features added

Following its release of Handbrake 1.0 almost two years ago, The Handbrake Team has released Handbrake 1.1.0 of its Mac utility that can convert video files to several different codecs, it can even rip DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Version 1.1.0, released on Sunday, includes the following hefty list of fixes, changes and new features:

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Smile releases PDFpen 10.0, PDFpenPro 10.0, adds watermark, batch OCR, assorted new features

An extremely handy utility just received a pretty decent update. On Tuesday, Smile released PDFpen and PDFpenPro 10.0, a new version of its all-purpose PDF editing tool for Mac. The new version adds the following fixes, changes and new features:

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Some iPhone 8 users experiencing errors after upgrading to iOS 11.3 after third-party screen repairs

A number of iPhone 8 owners who had their screens replaced with third party aftermarket screens have found that the iOS 11.3 software update essentially killed their devices. Per a report published on Tuesday by Motherboard, the release of iOS 11.3 has killed the touch functionality in “thousands” of iPhone 8 devices with screens repaired […]