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  Beyond The Basics: Eight Safari Tricks That Actually Matter

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  Most people treat Safari as their standard browser which leads them to overlook Apple’s hidden features that enhance their browsing experience through better speed and enhanced protection and improved daily functionality. The system contains functions which people can use for their daily operations because these functions work as standard functions on both macOS and iOS platforms. The user must learn how to operate these functions because it transforms the browsing experience despite their belief that they already possess complete knowledge about Safari.

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  Why “Are You Dead?” Topped China's Paid App Charts

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  Early in 2026, a rather ordinary utility app bearing an attention-grabbing moniker reached the top ranks of sold applications in the iPhone App Store of China: Are You Dead? or, in Chinese, Sǐ le ma. The app only briefly turned out to be China's top-selling application, having easily elbowed aside the popular commercial productivity application lineup and video games. Its meteoric rise was not cheered by vigorous marketing or celebrity endorsement, but by pure word of mouth and social media talk. The app was downloaded by many simply out of curiosity through the existence of such a provocative name, only to discover that behind that even more provocative name was a very simple idea targeted toward the increasingly social reality in China.

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  Three Budget-Friendly Open-Source Replacements of My Purchased Apps

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  The idea that professional software must be expensive is deeply ingrained, largely because many commercial tools market themselves as indispensable. Nevertheless, the open-source world has evolved to the extent that there are tools which are unknown to the public and offer the same services for free and even better than for-pay services. I have been paying for many years for numerous tools and replaced a few with open-source ones and found them to be very efficient.

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  How the iFixit FixBot Democratizes DIY Repairs

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  For ten whole years, iFixit had been absent from the app stores; banned, after Apple pulled its developer account back in 2015 due to a controversial iPad teardown. But on December 9, 2025, the legendary repair resource finally made its triumphant return—and this time, it's not just bringing back the guides. The new iFixit app introduces FixBot, an AI repair assistant that transforms the intimidating world of device repair into something approachable, even for those who have never opened a gadget in their lives.

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  5 Apps Using Apple Intelligence to Transform Your Daily Life

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  With the launch of iOS 26, Apple is making its native generative models—the backbone of Apple Intelligence—available to third-party apps through the new Foundation Models framework. What this means is that your AI capability on your iPhone no longer lies in Siri and system features alone—it can also lie in the apps you interact with every day, but keep private and execute without uploading your data to distant servers. Following are five real, modern-day iPhone apps that now use Apple Intelligence to make your daily life smarter, more personal, and more productive.

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  5 AI Sidekicks for Next-Level Virtual Meetings

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  Even though remote collaboration has become the standard of the day, online meetings are still fragmented, chaotic, or dull. Be it international teams you manage or virtual classes you take, the appropriate AI-enabled solutions can make any call efficient, engaging, and action-packed. The five exceptional tools listed below provide tangible functions, none of the puffery, none of the nebulous benefits, just practical improvement that you can implement right now.