Music

HomePod mini vs Amazon Echo: Which should you buy?

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ December 3, 2020
HomePod mini vs Amazon Echo

Apple introduced a tinier version of its popular HomePod called HomePod mini. This smart speaker is not only smaller in size, but also in price as compared to its parent. Both of these features put the HomePod mini more in the running as a direct competitor to the Amazon Echo.

Whether for yourself or a gift for a loved one, you might be trying to decide between the two (or three including the Amazon Echo Dot). To help, we have a comparison of HomePod mini versus Amazon Echo. Hopefully this will help you pick the best smart speaker for your home or someone else’s.

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“Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special” launching on Apple TV+ next Friday [trailer]

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 27, 2020

Apple recently announced that it will be adding a holiday special to Apple TV+ starring popular singer-songwriter and actress Mariah Carey, but stopped short of specifying a launch date to circle on the calendar. Deadline is now reporting that “Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special” is set to arrive on Apple TV+ on Friday, December 4 alongside a new single.

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The best music and radio apps for Mac

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ November 25, 2020
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If you love music, then you probably subscribe to Apple Music and jump right to it on your Mac when you’re in the mood to groove. But that may also mean that you dabble in more than one music source.

Maybe you also use Spotify to share playlists with pals who enjoy those services. Or perhaps you even pop on an FM radio station from the time to time just for something different or for a favorite radio show.

There’s no reason you can’t have more than one app on your Mac for songs and radio shows. So if you’re thinking of trying something new, check out this list of the best music and radio apps for your Mac.

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PerfectSpotify lets jailbreakers augment the Spotify app’s user interface

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 12, 2020

Those who swear by Spotify can come up with an endless list of reasons as to why it’s a better music streaming platform than Apple Music, but despite what Spotify fans tell you, there are still a myriad of different ways that the Spotify app itself could be improved.

PerfectSpotify is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak created by iOS developer Luki120 that permits any Spotify user wielding a jailbroken handset to augment their Spotify app with various customizations of their choosing, whether that means enabling a better song library interface, hiding unwanted elements of the user interface, or something else.

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Miss iOS 9’s Now Playing interface? This tweak resurrects it on jailbroken handsets

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated June 8, 2021

The iOS platform received a myriad of changes over the years, with many of those being functional changes and a smaller number being purely cosmetic. Perhaps one of the most iconic changes can be attributed to iOS’ Now Playing interface, which has evolved an awful lot since the days of iOS 9.

Unfortunately, not everyone appreciates all of the latest changes, and some even wish that the iOS 9 Now Playing interface would make an unlikely comeback. The good news, however, is that a new and free jailbreak tweak called NineMusic by iOS developer Minh-Ton can make this happen, at least on pwned handsets.

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