OS X El Capitan Available as Free Update Tomorrow

CUPERTINO, California — September 29, 2015 — Apple® today announced that OS X® El Capitan, the latest major release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, will be available on Wednesday, September 30 as a free update for Mac® users. El Capitan builds on the groundbreaking features and beautiful design of OS X Yosemite, refining the Mac experience with updates to window management, built-in apps and Spotlight® search,...

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Google Maps for Android lets you save maps to an SD card

Trying to use Maps without a data connection doesn’t work unless you downloaded the region ahead of time, but that’s now a lot easier too. If you’re tight on internal storage space, you can load maps directly to an SD card if you have one. As Google points out, “entry-level smartphones come with internal storage as low as 4GB … [so] you’ll never have to choose between snapping more food photos or...

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Google Maps for Android lets you save maps to an SD card

Trying to use Maps without a data connection doesn’t work unless you downloaded the region ahead of time, but that’s now a lot easier too. If you’re tight on internal storage space, you can load maps directly to an SD card if you have one. As Google points out, “entry-level smartphones come with internal storage as low as 4GB … [so] you’ll never have to choose between snapping more food photos or...

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Apple Updates iMac Family with Stunning New Retina Displays

The idea behind iMac has never wavered: to craft the ultimate desktop experience. The best display, paired with high-performance processors, graphics, and storage — all within an incredibly thin, seamless enclosure. And that commitment continues with the all-new 21.5‑inch iMac with Retina 4K display. Like the revolutionary 27‑inch 5K model, it delivers such spectacular image quality that everything else around you seems to disappear....

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Fender is working on guitar apps for beginners and pros alike

Fender Tune is available for iOS devices free of charge, and like other options that are already available, it provides guitarists of all levels a way to keep an instrument in tune without having to carry a separate piece of gear. The company says that unlike those other apps, Tune helps beginners learn the importance of tone, from basic strumming to setting up an amplifier. There are both automatic and manual tuning tools, with the...

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