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Apple News: First HomeKit devices confirm Apple TV’s limited role in home automation CES 2015 has given us a deluge of new HomeKit announcements. Thus far, we’ve seen several smart outlets, a garage door opener, light bulb adapters, a door lock, and a power strip from vendors such as iDevices, iHome, GridConnect, Chamberlain, Schlage, and Incipio. Elgato announced an entire range of HomeKit sensors while Insteon introduced a full-on hub…

Apple News: Apple Might Be About To Kill Off The iPod Shuffle Apple has made some moves that make it look like it might be preparing to stop selling the iPod Shuffle, as supplies of the device are starting to run low. 9to5Mac is reporting that supplies of the cheap iPod are “dwindling,” a sign that Apple has plans for the product. Apple has reportedly warned its retail employees that…

Sony succeeded in making it very difficult to update the GPS Assist Data on their GPS enabled cameras using a Mac or Linux. Sony supplies a windows-only software for downloading and updating the GPS almanac on the camera. The supplied PMB Portable software runs on Apple’s OS X, but it does not support downloading the GPS almanac. Here are the steps to do so manually on any OS:

Apple News: 7 things Steve Jobs would have hated about Apple today A lot has changed at Apple in the years since Steve Jobs died. While much of it is good (record-breaking iPhone sales, work on the new Apple campus, the stock-split leading to new share price highs), it’s unavoidable that one or two (or, indeed, 7) things would slip through the cracks, which Apple’s notoriously perfectionist late CEO would…

Apple News: Open letter to Tim Cook: Apple needs to do better This subject was addressed by us in a MacDailyNews Take on the Monday before Christmas and also last October. In case you missed it, we post them here, combined as an open letter and with certain additions, subtractions, and language adjustments, to Apple CEO Tim Cook: Dear Mr. Cook, “It just works.” That’s getting tougher and tougher for…