Steve Sande

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you depend on your old MacBook, one of the most frustrating things you can run into is having a battery that doesn't hold a charge. MacBook batteries are the lifeblood of the devices, so it's fortunate that it is easy to determine whether a battery pack has life left in it or if it needs to be replaced. Today I'll show you how to check the health of a MacBook battery and provide some ideas on how to replace a battery that is no longer working.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Have a MacBook Pro with USB-C ports? Then you know how connecting a USB flash drive, reading an SD card, or hooking up to a big-screen display can be an expensive exercise in futility. You usually need to buy a collection of dongles to connect up to various systems, which can add up and still not give you the connections you need! These two <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/homespot-usb-c-hub-for-macbook-pro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HomeSpot USB-C Hubs for MacBook Pro</a> take two of your USB-C ports and add a variety of additional ports to the MacBook Pro, all for just $54.99 ($69.99 with HDMI). </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Most Mac users are happy to use the built-in web browser, Safari. It's fast, it's compatible and it is secure. Occasionally you may find a website that just doesn't "play well" with Safari, at which time it's not a bad idea to consider a second backup browser. Today I'll take a look at how to move your settings and bookmarks to alternative web browser.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you own a new iPhone or have one of the many other smartphones that use Qi wireless charging, you already know just how convenient wireless chargers can be. Rather than trying to aim a Lightning plug into the corresponding socket on the phone, you just lay the iPhone down on the charging pad. It's fast, it's convenient, and with the <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/q3-wireless-charger?utm_source=appleworld.today&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=q3-wireless-charger_062918&utm_term=scsf-291888&utm_content=a0x1a000003ne5b&scsonar=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zendure Q3 Qi Wireless Charger</a>, you can experience wireless charging without breaking the bank. We have it on sale for $19.99 in the Apple World Today Deals Shop. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Shark fins are everywhere around you, even if you're nowhere near an ocean. We're not talking about the type that are attached to our favorite apex predators; nope, Episode 3 of Tangible Tech is about those "shark fin" antennas that are on most modern cars.<br><br>Host Steve Sande wondered about where the old traditional telescoping car aerial antenna went, did some research, and used Tangible Tech to bring you the final word on shark fin antennas. Be sure to use this podcast as a way to amuse, inform, and befuddle your friends over the 4th of July weekend. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Readdle's <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/pdf-expert-for-mac?utm_source=appleworld.today&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pdf-expert-for-mac_062718&utm_term=scsf-291887&utm_content=a0x1a000003ne5a&scsonar=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>PDF Expert for Mac</strong></a> is an amazing app that wins awards year after year. It's been an Apple Editor's Choice seemingly forever, it's usually the top paid app in the Mac App Store, and it's been a candidate for App of the Year in the Mac App Store. Normally you'd pay $59.99 for this powerful way to work with PDF documents, but today it's available in the Apple World Today Deals Shop for $24.99.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Chargers -- you simply can't live without them in this day and age. A while back I reviewed a three-port charger from a name-brand vendor that cost quite a bit, and I recently found that it didn't work as advertised and I was stuck with just two ports. Fortunately, a PR person reached out to ask if I wanted to review a 3, 5 or 7 port ChargeHub charger from <a href="https://limitlessinnovations.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Limitless Innovations</a>, so I decided to give the 5-port model a try.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier this year I wrote about the <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2018/2/20/review-app-control-of-dslrs-with-the-miops-mobile-remote-and-mobile-dongle" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MIOPS Mobile Remote and Mobile Dongle</a>, devices that work with DSLRs from a variety of manufacturers to provide smartphone control of the complicated cameras. The company is back with a Kickstarter campaign for another accessory that DSLR photographers are going to want, the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nerotrigger/capsule360-worlds-most-versatile-motion-box-ever-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Capsule360 Motion Control Box</a>. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Viewers of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVONM6G3hHZgDRX7VgZDDJdqr6pyRPVdk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AWT TV video podcast</a> get to see screen mirroring in action every two weeks, as we use the built-in AirPlay technology built into iOS devices to display our iPhone and iPad screens on our Macs so you can see them as well. But sometimes it's necessary to show two or even more iOS devices on one Mac screen at the same time. Today I'll show how to use one app to mirror multiple iOS devices to a Mac, mention a second alternative, and also give you a refresher on how to mirror a single iOS device to a Mac.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Episode 2 of the <strong>Tangible Tech</strong> podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. Steve provides a roundup of some fascinating tech news for the week - hunting land mines with drones; a massive, planet wide dust storm on Mars is slowing down work for some of our robotic workers out there; researchers have come up with a lightweight sheet that can hide humans and equipment from sight in the infrared spectrum; and police aren’t going to be happy with the Supreme Court decision last week that keeps them from tracking cell phones without a warrant.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It had to happen: someone made an AirPod clone that at first glance looks exactly like Apple's wireless earbuds. <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/air-bud-wireless-earbuds?utm_source=appleworld.today&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=air-bud-wireless-earbuds_062518&utm_term=scsf-291886&utm_content=a0x1a000003ne5V&scsonar=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Neva Tech's Air Bud Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds</a> look very similar to Apple AirPods and come in a similar charging case that brings an extra five charges to your 'buds, but there's one important difference -- the price. Rather than shelling out $159.00 for a pair of AirPods, you can get Air Buds for only $19.99.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Macs come with mice or trackpads for a very good reason -- they make it easy to point at a specific small spot on a screen. However, there are cases where you want to keep your hands on the keyboard and stop reaching for the mouse or trackpad, and learning to use keyboard shortcuts is a fast way to improve your macOS productivity. Today I'm going to look at one variety of keyboard shortcut -- those that help manage Mac windows.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Not everybody likes Apple's AirPods, and there are fortunately a lot of different alternatives to the iconic white buds. Today we've got a deal on one of the better alternatives we've seen: the <a href="https://deals.appleworld.today/sales/cresuer-touchwave-wireless-bluetooth-earbuds?utm_source=appleworld.today&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cresuer-touchwave-wireless-bluetooth-earbuds_062218&utm_term=scsf-290993&utm_content=a0x1a000003nbu9&scsonar=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cresuer Touchwave Bluetooth Earbuds</a>. For just $42.99 for a limited time, you'll get earbuds that give you everything you need from wireless earbuds and nothing you don't.  </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Today marks the last day of the Apple World Today News Update podcast. Starting soon, I'll be doing a podcast that won't have a regular schedule or time, and might not even talk about Apple. The new podcast is called <strong>Tangible Tech</strong>, and it's designed to cover the entire realm of technology, not just Apple products. <br></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We're also moving to a new podcast host, Anchor.FM, and with that comes the ability to bring in guests, have listeners add audio responses to what we've said on the podcast, and a lot bigger potential audience.<strong> Read more about the changes in the show notes below!</strong></p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Ahhh, I love it when the best made plans about what we're going to talk about suddenly go out the door. Last night, Marty Edwards and Steve Sande were supposed to demo a few apps and do some "how to" tips. Well, that didn't happen. Instead, Steve and Marty were both interested in yesterday's announcement about the iPad version of <a href="https://anchor.fm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anchor</a>, and Steve had done his homework....so we talked about the app, future plans for audio podcasting, and Steve did a demo of the app.</p>