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John and Claire are eyeing Synology devices, while Kimberly is headed back to school and has to make some decisions about office programs.

Ren takes a break from vacation to talk with Stephen about Wi-Fi Calling, IP cameras and more.

Chas has concerns about two-factor authentication, while Ben is looking at leaving macOS and Windows behind for an iPad. In the Speed Run, it's all backing up, all the time.

Michael wants to keep his location private on social media, Neal is looking into iCloud Family Sharing and Max just wants to keep his AirPods clean. Then, a fix for a forgetful Spotlight and the country Ren calls home.

iCloud Photo Library can have a serious impact on your backup strategy, as Matthew, Dave and Ryan have learned. Then, Ren and Stephen talk about task managers, help Alex pick out a drawing app for the iPad, and discuss gaming PCs.

Cloud Photo Library automatically keeps every photo and video you take in iCloud, so you can access your library from any device, anytime you want. Any changes you make to your collection on one device, change on your other devices too.

With apps and extensions for 10 platforms, your tasks are always there: on mobile devices, web browsers, inboxes, and more.

Zapier connects web apps, allowing powerful automation to take place online.

While Reminders will never replace a sophisticated "getting things done" app, it is a pretty great "getting started" app for those new to to-dos.

PCalc is the powerful choice for scientists, engineers, students, programmers, or indeed anybody looking for a feature rich calculator.

Calcbot is an intelligent calculator and unit converter for the rest of us. Featuring an easy-to-read history tape, expression view, intuitive conversion, and much more!

Soulver is a revolutionary calculator replacement app. Its powerful UI lets you do calculations over multiple lines, and use can also use words alongside numbers, so that they make sense.

When inspiration happens, put it on Paper. Paper is the best way to capture and connect your notes, photos, and sketches. Create checklists, spotlight details in photos, and sketch diagrams with unbeatable speed and ease — Paper is like a wall of sticky notes for everything that inspires you.

Modern drawing apps are powerful, but they can overload you with hundreds of choices. Constant adjustments to brushes, colors, and layers wastes time and adds friction. Linea takes a different approach and gives you just the right balance of power and control to sketch effortlessly. The focus stays where it belongs: on your ideas, not the tools.

Ren's review of Linea, the Iconfactory's new app for sketching, writing, and idea-building.

Apple Design Award winner and App Store Essential – Procreate is the most powerful sketching, painting and illustration app ever designed for a mobile device.

Boot Camp comes with your Mac and lets you install Microsoft Windows. No need to download anything yourself — just open Boot Camp Assistant and it will guide you through the rest.

The Corsair One is the gaming rig for those of us tired of or uninterested in being responsible for every little component that goes into their machine. It’s the "it just works" gaming PC, with all the maxed-out specs gamers demand enclosed in a sober exterior that their housemates and loved ones can tolerate.

This buyer's guide walks through the best PC VR experiences for consumers.

This week, Serenity and Stephen help Tyler with some personal hotspot concerns and share their excitement over iOS 11's features. Then, they tackle Mac backups for Richard, help Doug make a cinemagraph and pick out an iOS device for Daniel.

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Stephen really likes Apple's support website.

Certain apps and features that require a Wi-Fi connection might not work while using a Personal Hotspot. For example, you might not be able to make an iCloud backup or upload photos to iCloud Photo Library or Photo Stream.

If you have a Wi-Fi only iPad, or any internet capable device, you can easily use your iPhone's personal hotspot feature to get online.

Apple SIM gives you the convenience of choosing a cellular data plan from carrier partners right on your iPad.

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With iOS 11, iPhone and iPad are the most powerful, personal, and intelligent devices they’ve ever been.

This feature blocks all notifications, messages, and calls to help avoid distracted driving.

Apple Music is coming out of its shell a bit with iOS 11, becoming a little more social by allowing you to connect to your friends who also subscribe to the service.

Announced as part of iTunes 10 in September 2010, Ping was a music-oriented social network. It didn't go very well.

SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless.

When disaster strikes your hard disk, you can boot from your backup and keep working.

Capture, edit and create professional quality cinemagraphs on-the-go with your iPhone or iPad.

MaskArt is a free video effects and converter app that helps you create high quality GIFs and Live Photos.

With PICOO Camera, you can highlight and animate the topic spot on your photo, let your static photo contain dynamic movements, so your object in the photo really moves.