Type faster with a text expander that can autofill your most frequently used information

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Typing the same thing over and over is tedious. You shouldn’t have to repeatedly enter your address or contact details and waste valuable time typing.  You should be able to type “address” or “contact details” and have your computer automatically fill them in for you. It’s 2018, people. You have robots to do things for you. A text expander app like TypeIt4Me for Mac is exactly what you need.

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Every Apple user needs these three accessories in the new year

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While some of you unicorns out there may have been wishing and praying to find a baby mop or a selfie drone under the tree this year, the vast majority were probably thinking AirPods or bust. And if someone really loves you, you may have even scored a new iPhone X or MacBook Pro — and are preparing to be the envy of the office (naysayers be damned).

But like any new Apple device owner, you’re likely discovering some inconvenient changes those sneaky Apple developers popped into their machinery. No USB-A port on your MacBook? No headphone port on your iPhone X? Yep. No turning back now. Read more…

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Apple’s iMac Pro is a love letter to developers

Apple iMac Pro The iMac Pro exists because it turns out that there is a lot of air underneath the aging Mac Pro and above the incredibly popular MacBook Pro. A single-digit percentage of Mac customers buy the Mac Pro and, in recent years, Apple had been seeing a major rise in “pro” customers of all shades purchasing iMacs because of their incredible screens, all-in-one form factor and overall ease… Read More

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Every new MacBook Pro owner needs this gadget to solve Apple’s USB port problem

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If you’re in line to be gifted a MacBook Pro this holiday season (even if it’s from yourself), you’re most likely equal parts excited and apprehensive. Why apprehensive, you ask? With every new Apple product comes the inevitable disappearance of something or other—and this time it’s the trusty USB port.

If you currently own a MacBook Pro, you already know how frustrating it can be to vie for USB ports among all of your devices. But with the new version, they’ve done away with the USB A functionality altogether, leaving you in a bad, bad place when you’re looking to plug in your favorite keyboard or tried-and-true hard drive. Read more…

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Every new MacBook Pro owner needs this gadget to solve Apple’s USB port problem

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If you’re in line to be gifted a MacBook Pro this holiday season (even if it’s from yourself), you’re most likely equal parts excited and apprehensive. Why apprehensive, you ask? With every new Apple product comes the inevitable disappearance of something or other—and this time it’s the trusty USB port.

If you currently own a MacBook Pro, you already know how frustrating it can be to vie for USB ports among all of your devices. But with the new version, they’ve done away with the USB A functionality altogether, leaving you in a bad, bad place when you’re looking to plug in your favorite keyboard or tried-and-true hard drive. Read more…

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This upgraded toolbar is a welcome relief from one of Mac’s most annoying features

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Peep almost any Apple forum or blog these days and you’ll find a similar sentiment: The Mac Dock has got to go.

As it turns out, getting rid of that pesky bar of app, document, and folder icons sitting at the bottom or side of your Mac’s screen is easier than you’d think: Simply replace it with the uBar 4, an upgraded Mac taskbar that gives you the freedom to customize your dock orientation and desktop theme.

Beloved by engineers at Google, Facebook, HP, LinkedIn, and Tumblr, uBar helps you get the most out of your Mac with features a-plenty, including tab grouping options, window previews, in-dock reminders, a favorites area, app activity monitoring, CPU and memory usage analysis, and track position detection in multimedia apps like iTunes and MPlayerX — all on a single, simple interface that can be displayed on one or all of the monitors you’re using.  Read more…

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