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  • Happy Thanksgiving from O’Grady’s PowerPage!

    Happy Thanksgiving from O’Grady’s PowerPage!

    It’s that time of year again, Thanksgiving is here, and the staff of O’Grady’s PowerPage will be taking the day to spend time with friends and family.

    Have a safe and happy holiday filled with family, friends, food, and football, and we’ll be back tomorrow with nifty Black Friday through Cyber Monday sales in tomorrow’s news as we find them. That being said, stay safe, spend some time away from your devices when you can, touch grass, and enjoy the day.

    And finally, please remember the WKRP Turkey Drop, as nothing summarizes this holiday (and the fact that turkeys can’t always fly) better than this moment in history.

  • AirPods sticker prank posted, gets laughs

    Sometimes a prank is just plain awesome.

    Twitter user Pablo Rochat printed life-size AirPod stickers and placed them around his neighborhood to gauge people’s reactions to finding them.

    He’s also included a free template to allow others to print AirPod stickers of their own.

    Here’s the prank in action:

    Via Twitter

  • Apple unleashes the funny to open WWDC with “Apocalypse” ad

    Prior to the beginning of Monday’s WWDC keynote and the tons of hardware and software announcements, Apple let loose with its “Apocalypse” ad, a commercial which shows what a combination of unplugging a roomful of servers, the App Store crashing, Christopher Cross’ “All Right” and a world without apps can lead to.

    It’s brilliantly done, it’s funny and it shows just how attached to our devices we kind of are…

  • The 2016 MacBook Pro “Dongles conspiracy” might be true

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    For those of you who were wondering what Apple was thinking with the 2016 MacBook Pro and the need for dongles, a former engineer discusses his time on the product team…