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In a sentence contained in a blog post, Microsoft confirmed that the next standalone perpetual version of Office for Windows and MacOS will arrive in the second half of 2021. This version of Office, which is not based on a subscription model, is the follow-up to Office 2019, which can be purchased as a one-time free offer. Still on the …

Max is a graphical environment for music, audio and multimedia. Max has been in use for over twenty years by artists, composers, artists, researchers, teachers and students, and is the way to get your computer to do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams. Version 8.1.6: New features: Event Probing: reset / clear Event Probing: transforms the last event …

Apple’s upcoming Fitness + is the first training experience built for the Apple Watch, and it comes this year. Apple Fitness + intelligent … Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that the first batch of mini-LED screens arriving by the end of 2020 will be for an iPad Pro … Shares rose and the dollar rose to new heights on Wednesday, with …

An increasing number of people are finding a wide range of websites – including ours – requesting permission to allow downloads to your Mac from googlesyndication.com … The problem is a junk ad that has gotten through to the Google ad network, which is used by many sites. If you allow downloading, it’s just a harmless text file, but it’s …

The time itself has been under attack this year with infamy. In some ways, 2020 has felt like an eternity, but somehow it’s shocking that we’re nearing the end of it. Our days have lost so much of the structure and rhythms we are used to, resulting in some people in days that are long and inactive, while others are …

Microsoft: Microsoft is ready to launch the beta version of the Edge browser on Linux next month! Launching Microsoft Ignite 2020, the technology giant announced that it was one of the ways it hopes to empower individuals and organizations in the work environment to the new standard. Microsoft’s plans for Edge on Linux were announced a few months ago, and …

Sportsfan widget helps you keep track of your favorite sports teams by providing all the information you need in one small, easy-to-use widget. View the current scoreboard, complete results from previous days, the upcoming schedule (playing times are displayed in local time) or the current division and position. The module supports baseball (MLB and minor leagues down to Class A), …

This week we saw the debut of Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s documentary, Kiss the ground on Netflix. It is both enlightening and inspiring. It provides an important look at the state of climate change and our environment. But while many documentaries of this type make you feel depressed and scared to death, Kiss the ground is a movie that lets …

The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to brief Attorney General General this week on his forthcoming plans to sue Google. Tony Romm for The Washington Post: The timeline puts federal competition watchdogs on track to sue Google potentially next week, limiting a comprehensive investigation by the technology giant and the extent to which its sprawling corporate footprint harms rivals …

Spinning disks are slow and SSDs (SSDs) are used to cost a digital arm and a leg. This led many people to stick to hard drives or buy Macs with low-capacity SSDs – such as 250 GB or 500 GB – because the next increase increased costs by many hundreds of dollars. (I’m sitting here with a 2017 iMac with …