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MacworldApple best test of iOS 18.3 began less than a week after the release of iOS 18.2. Its not yet clear when we can expect this release to into wide release or what features to expect in it, but it will surely be the first major iOS update of 2025.Apple Intelligence has been the focus of most iOS 18 updates so far, and were still waiting on the big Siri overhaul that adds personal context using the data on your phone and scores of new app intents that allow Siri to perform actions in apps. Those features are generally expected to come in iOS 18.4, which most believe will be released in March or April. If true, then iOS 18.3 would focus mainly on tweaks and improvements to existing features and will pause the gradual rollout of Apple Intelligence features.Update January 7: Apple has released the second beta of iOS 18.3 to developers.iOS 18.3: New featuresRobot Vacuum support: The Home app gains support for robot vacuums (Roomba et al.). The vacuum has to support HomeKit or Matter, of course.Calculator repeating operations: The calculator app once again allows for repeating operations when you keep pressing the equals button.iOS 18.3: How to install the developer betaYoull need to be registered as an Apple developer. You dont need to be in the $99 per year developer program to access the developer beta. A free developer account will do. You can get one via Xcode or the Apple Developer app in iOS. Heres how to do it via the Apple Developer app:Download the Apple Developer App from the App Store.Open the app.Tap on Account.Sign in using your usual Apple ID.Registered developers can choose to get the Public Beta instead by selecting iOS Public Beta in the Software Update screen. It may take a little time after registering as a developer for the option to appear in Software Updates.iOS 18.3: How to install the public betaThe public beta isnt out yet, but we expect it will arrive in a few short days. If you want to be among the first to test iOS 18.3, you can sign up for the public beta test. The process for installing a beta has changed in iOS 16.4. Heres how the new process works now:Click Sign Up on the Apple Beta page and register with your Apple ID.Log in to the Beta Software Program.Click Enroll your iOS device.Open the Settings app, tap General, then Software Update.In the Beta Updates section, select the iOS Public Beta.It may take a few moments after registering for the beta option to appear in Software Update.

MacworldAt a glanceExpert's RatingProsOffers a wide variety of editing and annotation toolsHas a modern user interface and is intuitive to operateIncludes a free trial and multiple subscription packagesConsMonthly plan is relatively costly, and theres no lifetime optionDoesnt offer iOS or iPadOS clients for mobile editingAccount deletion requires contacting customer supportOur Verdict If you have short-term PDF editing needs its not ideal, due to its high monthly price, and theres no iPhone client, but it supports editing, adding and removing images, inserting links, watermarking, deleting or reorganizing pages, and includes a optical character recognition (OCR) engine. Price When ReviewedThis value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefinedBest Pricing TodayBest Prices Today: PDNob PDF Editor for MacRetailerPriceTenorshare$15.99View DealPrice comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwideProductPricePrice comparison from BackmarketIn an increasingly digital world, PDF editors have become essential for numerous Mac users. While macOS offers an Apple Preview app for viewing and annotating PDFs by default, thoroughly editing these documents requires third-party software. Tenorshare PDNob PDF Editor for Mac is one of the options you may come across when hunting for a compatible application. Is it worth the recurring fees, though?Pricing and availabilityTenorshares PDNob PDF Editor (we can hear the Brits sniggering at the name) is only available on macOS 10.15, Windows 10, and newer versions of the two operating systems. So, unlike many similar apps, the company doesnt offer an iPhone or iPad client for editing on the go.To help you evaluate the service, Tenorshare offers a 14-day free trial that unlocks PDNob PDF Editors toolsalbeit with typical limitations, like watermarks and whatnot. Once the period elapses, you can pick between 1-month, 1-year, and 3-year licenses that renew automatically. At the time of writing, these subscriptions cost $15 (approx 11.99), $36 (28.87), and $46 (36.78), respectively. Notably, theres no lifetime tier for those who prefer to pay once for unlimited access. At the time of this review Tenorshare has an offer that indicates the 1 month licence is free, this appears to just be to access the 14-day trial though. Find out how PDNob PDF Editor compares to the other Mac PDF editors in our round up. We also look at the best free PDF editors for Mac. First impressionsFoundryPDNob PDF Editor has a sleek user interface, featuring modern buttons that easily convey their associated actions. When you first load the app, you get to open files via Finder or create a new PDF document from scratch. The service also offers 20GB of cloud storage, and you can similarly pick from files youve previously uploaded.To activate your paid perks, however, youre required to create an account. If you change your mind later on, there appears to be no way to delete your account and its associated data from Tenorshare servers. Instead, the privacy policy suggests you contact support to request deletion. Contacting support, however, has been unfruitful, as the company continues to send generic, irrelevant emails instead of actually terminating the account. Different users have different standards when it comes to data and privacy, but I personally stay away from services that dont offer a direct account deletion buttonespecially when customer support isnt helpful and there are plenty of other alternatives out there.FeaturesFoundryWhen it comes to its actual functionality, PDNob PDF Editor offers a decent set of tools that help users manipulate PDF file content. For annotation, Tenorshare lets users insert shapes, highlight text, leave comments, doodle, strike through, add stamps, and more.Similarly, the app supports most of the PDF editing utilities youd find elsewhere. These include fully editing the text, adding and removing images, inserting links, watermarking, deleting or reorganizing pages, etc.PDNob PDF Editor packs other neat features, such as an optical character recognition (OCR) engine for converting photographed documents to text, password protection, compression, conversion between popular file formats, merging, automatic indexing, and more.FoundryBeyond that, PDNob PDF Editor also packs an AI assistant, but it failed miserably when I attempted to use it. After uploading the file to the cloud, it automatically stated what the document was about but then failed to answer any of my follow-up questions. It didnt hallucinate or provide false informationit simply couldnt comprehend what my (very) basic questions meant and continued asking for further clarification.Is PDNob PDF Editor for Mac worth it?FoundryIn theory, Tenorshares PDNob PDF Editor is excellent for those with basic to intermediate needs. While it doesnt necessarily cater to advanced PDF editing workflows, the tools it offers shouldfor the most partwork reliably during casual sessions. However, there are certain downsides you may want to consider before paying for the software.For example, if you have short-term PDF editing needs, Id advise you to look elsewhere. You can easily find better solutions that cost less than $15 per month. The 1-year and 3-year plans are more fairly priced than the monthly one. Similarly, if youre seeking a PDF editor with a mobile client, a functional AI chatbot, or better data practices, then Tenorshares app is not it.Ultimately, if youre still unsure about this software, you can try it for free and see for yourself.

Satechi's new OntheGo system provides portable ways to recharge an iPhone and AirPods, with power banks and wireless chargers you can keep stowed away in a bag.Satechi OntheGo Power Bank with Stand 10K - Image credit: SatechiThe new collection of Satechi OntheGo power banks consist of the 10K and 5K, with capacities of 10,000mAh and 5,000mAh respectively. Each power bank can output up to 15W of fast charging to an iPhone or AirPods, as well as other connected devices.They are capable of simultaneously charging up to two devices using magnetic wireless charging, using Qi, Qi2, or MagSafe, or over USB-C. They include heat dissipation to keep the chargers cool while providing a high-speed charge. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Prolific computer storage maker LaCie has released its latest portable drive during CES 2025, debuting the Rugged SSD Pro5 with support for Thunderbolt 5.The new Thunderbolt 5-equipped LaCie SSDThe new drive, arriving in their flagship orange alongside a striking blue and black, has a familiar design by Neil Poulton. It has a rugged silicone exterior with the LaCie logo right in the center. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Get lectured continues today with a look at the going-on this semester for students and faculty at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo College of Architecture and Environmental Design in the Winter 2025 academic term.The school shares: "The 2024/25 Hearst Lectures is a series of discussions with designers, activists and professionals of the built environment whose work interrogate ecological, societal and material crisis. URGENCIES is a project that was organized to motivate conversations across the five CAED departments: Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Construction Management."Guest speakers for the term include Lola Ben-Alon, the director of the Natural Materials Lab at Columbia GSAPP (January 17); Mireia Luzrraga, the founder and principal of TAKK (January 24); David Benjamin, Founding Principal of The Living (January 31); and distinguished multihyphenate author and academic Mabel O. Wils...

The Fantastic Four will debut in Marvel Rivals on January 10th with the arrival of Season 1: Eternal Night Descends. The first gameplay trailer for the acclaimed superhero family is now available, and it focuses on Reed Richards, aka Mister Fantastic. Check it out below.As a Duelist, Mister Fantastic stretches his arms to strike opponents at exceptional ranges. He can also grab two enemies to slam them together, catch projectiles (including Ultimates) and send them back, and bulk up to deal more damage. His Ultimate is also appropriately absurd as he bounces around, slamming on opponents multiple times.Alongside Mister Fantastic, The Invisible Human, The Human Torch, and The Thing will join the roster. Stay tuned for their dedicated reveal trailers to learn more about their abilities.Marvel Rivals is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. Check out our review here. Since launching last month, its crossed over 20 million players. Its also surpassed Overwatch 2 in viewership on Twitch in recent weeks.

See the Sprawling Secret Passageway Built for Florences Elite 450 Years AgoThe 2,500-foot-long Vasari Corridor impressed guests of the Medicis and other leaders that followed (including Benito Mussolini). Now, its reopening to the public The passage connects the Uffizi Galleries to theBoboli Gardens. Uffizi GalleriesIn 1565, a simple, elegant hallway was built atopPonte Vecchio (or the Old Bridge) in Florence. The passage was restricted to Florentine elites, who used it to easily traverse the Arno River without mingling with passersby on the bridges lower levels. Now, after years of restoration and repair, the once-secret hall has reopened to the public.The passagewayknown as the Vasari Corridorconnects Florences lushBoboli Gardens to the world-famousUffizi Galleries, an art museum boasting works such as Sandro BotticellisThe Birth of Venus and CaravaggiosMedusa. The passage sits atop Ponte Vecchio, a bridge that spans the Arno River in Florence. Uffizi GalleriesAccording to astatement from the Uffizi Galleries, the 2,500-foot-long Vasari Corridor was commissioned by the second duke of Florence,Cosimo I de Medici of the infamousMedici family, which controlled Tuscany for much of the time between the 15th and 18th centuries. As Alessandro Giuli, the Italian culture minister, says in the statement, the Medicis would walk the Vasari Corridor en route from their home,Palazzo Pitti, to their workplace,Palazzo Vecchio, the government headquarters.The corridor is named for its designer,Giorgio Vasari, a Renaissance artist, architect and writer. Vasari modeled the passage on a similar structure in Rome. Entrants descend 58 steps from the second floor of the Uffizi to a covered brick walkway alongside the rivervisible through porthole windowsbefore continuing across Ponte Vecchio, according to CNNs Julia Buckley.The panoramic aspect has certainly always made the passageway interesting, as art historian Simona Pasquinucci, a curator at the Uffizi Galleries, tells theGuardians Angela Giuffrida. It was interesting for Cosimo to more or less check what was happening in his city from these windows. Back then, the river was much livelier, with all the fisheries, mills and other activities on and around the bridge. The windows in this part of the passage were expanded in the 1930s. Uffizi GalleriesPer the Guardian, the Medicis used the Vasari Passage to impress guestsa practice that would continue through the 20th century. In fact, the large windows that line the passageways bridge section werent actually added until the 1930s: Benito Mussolini had them installed before welcoming Adolf Hitler to Florence in1938.The Vasari Corridor was last restored in the 1990s, per the statement. Officials closed the hallway in 2016 because it didnt meet safety regulations. In 2022, an approximately $10 million restoration project began, which ended in late 2024. The elevated passage runs alongside the river before crossing over. Uffizi GalleriesThe corridor is a parallel city within the city that has remained a mythical place for the Western world, as Uffizi director Simone Verde tells CNN. He adds that the corridors construction illuminates the role of culture in the Medicis rule.This was new to the Renaissancethe cultural element of government, says Verde. The culture created here was the motor for all the courts of modern Europe.Restricted for centuries to aristocrats, officials and eventually study groups, the Vasari Corridors views are now available to ticketed Uffizi visitors for 18 (around $19) in addition to the galleries 25 (about $26) entrance fee. As Giuli says in the statement, Accessibility, safety and energy sustainability define a route that, through its intricate historical, urban and monumental layers, allows visitors to admire Florence in all its splendor.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fascism, Florence, Italy, Museums, Political Leaders, Renaissance

Paleontologists and volunteers excavate dinosaur trackways in Oxfordshire, England, uncovering the biggest find of its kind in the United Kingdom. University of BirminghamAbout 166 million years ago, dinosaurs ambled across a shallow lagoon in modern-day Britain. Some of the Jurassic giants took their sweet time, moving in fits and starts; others might have skulked more urgently. All made the mud squelch beneath their toes as they tromped here.At the time, such an occurrence was just a mundane event of dinosaurs on the march. But the terrain preserved these fleeting crossingsthough the dinosaurs are long gone, the impressions they left behind remain. Now, researchers and volunteers have uncovered the entire trackway where these Mesozoic monsters came and went. Containing around 200 marks in total, the site is the largest collection of fossilized footprints to have been discovered in the United Kingdom.This is one of the most impressive track sites Ive ever seen, in terms of scale, in terms of the size of the tracks, Kirsty Edgar, a micropaleontologist from the University of Birmingham in England, tells Rebecca Morelle and Alison Francis of BBC News. You can step back in time and get an idea of what it would have been like, these massive creatures just roaming around, going about their own business.The dinosaur stomping ground was first discovered by quarry worker Gary Johnson while he was operating a mechanical digger. As he stripped back the clay from the ground, he felt unusual bumps underneath his machine. These might not usually be anything to gape at, but it was their repetition that caught Johnsons attention. Every ten feet or so, he would find a similar hump.Johnson had historical precedent to suspect that the regular impressions could be of paleontological significance: In 1997, a dinosaur crossing with 40 footprints was discovered nearby. He wondered if the holes on the ground could be another hotspot for dinosaur traffic. To find out for sure, he called in the experts.I thought, Im the first person to see them. And it was so surreala bit of a tingling moment, really, he tells BBC News.Last June, researchers from Oxford University and the University of Birmingham led a week-long excavation at the quarry site. More than 100 or so students and volunteers searched the ground for the footprints, then liberated them with brushes.The team uncovered five trackways in the rock, each made by a different dinosaur. Four of them came from the footfalls of some herbivorous sauropod, likely a Cetiosaurus. These behemoths grew up to 59 feet in length. The final set of footprints were tellingly three-toed, belonging to a fearsome predator: the more than 20-foot-long Megalosaurus. As a species, Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur fossil to ever be named and described, and its study in 1824 kickstarted modern-day paleontology. A three-toed track left by Megalosaurus, a Jurassic predator. Dr. Luke Meade, University of BirminghamThe longest of the sauropod trackways spans 490 feet in length. But the footprints disappear under a cliff at the edge of the quarry, which has yet to be fully excavated. So, according to a statement from Oxford University, the series of tracks could extend much farther.Dinosaur footprints are an uncommon sight, and for good reasonit takes very specific circumstances to maintain them. The recent find was in one of the lucky areas. Its rare to find them so numerous in one place and its rare to find such extensive trackways as well, Emma Nicholls, a paleontologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, tells the Agence France-Presse. The research team suspects a storm piled sediment on top of the footprints and protected them from erosion.The tracks preservation is so exquisite that scientists were able to cobble together snapshots of dinosaur behavior. One set of the sauropod tracks intersects with those of the Megalosaurus. From the shapes in the ground, the researchers conclude that the sauropod came by before the carnivore. Perhaps the predator was tracking its potential target, they suggest, though its impossible to say for sure. Elsewhere, one of the footprints on the largest sauropod track is out of sequence; researchers think the behemoth could have paused to look back over its shoulder.The preservation is so detailed that we can see how the mud was deformed as the dinosaurs feet squelched in and out, says Duncan Murdock, an Earth scientist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, in another statement. Along with other fossils like burrows, shells and plants, we can bring to life the muddy lagoon environment the dinosaurs walked through.Modern analytical tools and digital recording equipment will help scientists glean more insights about the dinosaurs day-to-day lives. During the dig, the team created molds from individual footprints and took more than 20,000 photos. These will help researchers create 3D models of the individual markings, as well as the terrain. The data will help inform scientists about the makers size, gait and walking speed, as well as how they might have interacted. Using computer models, the researchers can potentially recreate the scenes of dinosaurs on the move.Prehistoric footprints might not be as glamorous as a dinosaur skeleton, but they give beholders a different kind of view into history. Bones provide largely static informationlike shape and anatomybut footprints are records of life, when the dinosaurs were still moving.To me, dinosaur trackways are much more alive than fossilized bones, which can only be from dead animals, says Emily Howard, an Oxford University earth sciences undergraduate student, in the statement. She was involved in the efforts to excavate the tracks last summer. Similar to when you see human footprints on a path ahead of you, a dinosaur track gives the impression that the creature could be miles away in the direction the tracks march on but was here only a moment ago.Taken together with the bones, howeverand with some help from modern technologythese earthen imprints give a holistic picture of the prehistoric creatures that sashayed along in their heyday, oblivious to the puny mammals of the future who would gawk at their footprints millions of years later.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: Cool Finds, Dinosaurs, Discoveries, England, Fossils, Paleontology