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How-To: How to close all your open Safari tabs at once

This qualifies as one of the coolest iOS shortcuts I’ve heard about in a while. For people who want to close all their Safari tabs at once, you can pull this off on your iOS device by pressing and holding the new tab (double square) button. That’s it, it offers to close all your open […]

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Apple releases Safari Technology Preview release 22, includes CSS, JavaScript, Web Inspector improvements

It’s not a huge update, but it’s fun to play with. Apple’s experimental web browser, Safari Technology Preview, was updated on Wednesday with a variety of bugs fixes and performance improvements impacting CSS, JavaScript, Web Inspector and more. Safari Technology Preview 10.2 release 22, packs in a series of patches including enhanced JavaScript and CSS […]

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Consumer Reports retests 2016 MacBook Pro, now recommends the notebooks

Following a retest, Consumer Reports has given the 2016 MacBook Pro its recommendation. The change comes after retests wherein the publication and Apple worked together. fter becoming aware of a Safari bug that may have impacted results, Consumer Reports recently started retesting on a newer build of macOS Sierra in which the bug was supposedly […]

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Apple, Consumer Reports find smoking gun that caused variable life in initial review

Apple and Consumer Reports may have figured out what caused the poor battery test results that Consumer Reports highlighted during its review. On Tuesday, both companies released reports stating that a developer setting had been activated that typical users don’t use during testing, and also that the same setting has a bug that affects performance. […]

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Safari-get.com URL leads to new malware strain for macOS-based machines

You’re going to need to be a little more careful when surfing the Web on your Mac. For the past few weeks, people have been tricked into visiting a phony website embedded with malware that can freeze Macs, according to a report this week by the cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The new malware, which can be […]