Hi all, just a quick update this afternoon.

As you all probably know, iOS 9 will be out in the early hours of Thursday morning.

In case anyone has forgotten, Apple's main focus in iOS 9 was across four key areas: Apps, The iPad Experience, Intelligence and 'Foundation'.

In terms of apps, there are multiple improvements to the built in apps, with a much improved notes app and improvements to mail and ...

Early this morning Apple held its 'Hey Siri, give us a hint' event. As the last minute rumours swirled, here in Australia those of us willing to sacrifice our sleep were waiting up for the live stream to start at 3am. We were treated to an interesting keynote focusing on the iPad, Apple TV and iPhone.

The keynote started off on a different note this time. There was no time for Tim Cook's usual 'updates' on store openings and marketshare. Instead we were straight ...

As I watch Apple announce the next version of iOS at every WWDC, I usually start trying to think how much useful each announced feature will be, and almost every year I overestimate the usefulness of certain features by the time the software is actually released. So with the release of iOS 9 just around the corner, I thought I'd look over what major iOS 8 features I thought I would use, and compared what I thought to how much I actually used them.

Photos - New Tagging, Search and Editing features.

When iOS 8 was announced, I doubted I would use any of these new photos features. I ...

Welcome to the Thursday Morning News Roundup, covering the last week and a half of news.

Last Thursday saw the biggest news we’ve had in recent times - Apple sent out press invitations for its much speculated September event. The iPhone 6S, a new Apple TV in addition to the release of iOS 9 and possibly OS X 10.11 are rumoured to be highlights of the event. The ...

Good evening MacTalkers, Oldmacs here with your Friday night news update.

As the spring public release of El Capitan draws closer, yesterday saw the release of OS X El Capitan Developer beta 7. Alongside the developer beta, Apple relaunched the El Capitan developer beta 5. Apple had presumably accidentally pushed out the 5th public beta on Tuesday, as the update briefly ...

Hi everyone. As some of you would know, SRG is on a break from the news desk with the birth of his daughter so I'm going to try and do the news until his return, so feedback is welcome, I'm not very good at this sort of thing.

To start off today, I'll do a quick recap of the last couple of days, then I'll do morning news as I can.

The 6th beta of Mac OS X El Capitan (Build ...

Part of this morning's WWDC 2015 was Apple's preview of its upcoming update to OSX.

To introduce OSX 10.11, Craig Federighi who is Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, took to the stage to highlight Apple’s focus on two areas, ‘Experience’ and Performance.

The experience component of El Capitan include a number of small improvements including:

• Improvements to

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Well its that time of year again! WWDC 2015 or as I put it, Christmas in June for Apple fans.

True to the title of a developers conference, and despite some earlier rumours of Apple TV refreshes and possible new Macs, no new hardware materialized. Todays focus was completely on software.

Apple’s main announcements were of iOS 9, Mac OSX 10.11 El Capitan and WatchOS 2, with a focus upon refinement and evolutionary ...

Meet the MacTalkers

Welcome to our much overdue next edition of 'Meet the MacTalkers'. Apologies for the delay with this one!

The last MacTalker that we got to know was Lawrencium, so today we get to virtually meet his requested interviewee, Nibbles. Nibbles is one of Mactalk's moderators, who works hard to ensure Mactalk is a great site for everyone. So happy reading Mactalkers:

Nibbles

What does your username and avatar mean?

A nibble, more than a bit, less than a byte and it’s actually a unit of measure Nibble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. My avatar is slightly less interesting, It’s my initials in an Adobe CS4 icon style.

Occupation?

I’m one of about 10 code monkeys employed at a local company. The rest of my time is spent flying aeroplanes and doing computer sciencey stuff at the University of Wollongong.

Location?

Flight level 360

What's your poison?

Poison? I don’t drink alcohol if that’s what you mean. ...