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Happy Memorial Day from O’Grady’s PowerPage!

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Memorial Day and the staff of O’Grady’s PowerPage will be taking the day off to spend time with friends and family as well as pay respect to our nation’s veterans for their service. We’ll be back tomorrow, so get together with some friends, put the Macs and devices aside for a […]

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Continuation patent points to Apple’s renewed interest in virtual keyboard technology for upcoming products

It looks like Apple is continuing its development work regarding a virtual keyboard technology. The company, which has filed for patents for virtual keyboards on MacBook notebooks as far back as 2009, has recently had a continuation patent application published today shows that the company is still exploring the idea. The virtual keyboard made headlines […]

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Apple posts directions for watching the WWDC 2017 keynote, conference sessions

Apple won’t be televising its WWDC, albeit you can live-stream it to your heart’s content. The company has confirmed that users will be able to live-stream the keynote for the Worldwide Developers Conference. Appleā€™s first event of the year is scheduled to kick off with a keynote on Monday, June 5 at 10 a.m. PT. […]

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Stanford study hails the Apple Watch’s heart rate monitoring function, points out shortcomings in calorie counting feature

The good news is that the current Apple Watch features one of the most accurate heart rate monitors on the market. The bad news is that its calorie counting feature could use some work. A new medical study from Stanford University published in the Journal of Personalized Medicine on Wednesday sought to determine the validity […]

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Apple launches Swift development curriculum aimed at high school, college students

If you or anyone you know is looking to get into Swift coding, this might be your thing. Apple has just launched a new app development curriculum, available on the company’s iBooks e-reader app, that aims to let anyone in high school or community college learn to code in Swift and create apps for iPhone […]