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What is LiDAR? (& Why is It on Apple Devices All of a Sudden)

If you’ve seen some of Apple’s new commercials around the iPad Pro, you’ve undoubtedly seen them touting their new LiDAR sensor on it and maybe you wondered, just for a sec: what is LiDAR? Well, in this Decodr episode, my explainer series here on the channel, let’s talk about this clever little measurement tool. What is LiDAR? So, firstly LiDAR isn’t new and has been around for a while.  It’s mainly used by scientists, usually …

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How to Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor (Windows & Mac)

I have another tip and trick video for you guys. This one is for anyone who owns an iPad and who might have thought about getting a second portable monitor for their computer to help them be more productive. Instead of buying that second monitor, you can easily turn the iPad into one instead. And this will work on Mac but also Windows PCs, as well. Use it on a Mac So let’s start with …

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Apple iPhone SE 2020 Complete Walkthrough (w/ Camera Comparison & Battery Test)

Apple finally did it. They brought back the iPhone SE, the smaller iPhone that so many people have been asking for (and reluctantly upgrading to newer bigger iPhones in the interim, unfortunately).  Retaining some of the compact nature along with lower price tag people are obviously curious if the new SE is what they were hoping for all that time. Well since the iPhone SE that I bought finally arrived let’s check it out and …

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Apple iPad Pro 2020 Complete Walkthrough: The Computer Replacement

Apple has tried to tell consumers that they can replace their computers with an iPad for a while now. But along side the latest iPad Pro that was just released, they finally gave in to giving it a feature that might really help that concept. They gave iPadOS mouse support and even launched their own new Magic Keyboard cover with a trackpad built-in. Well, while the Magic Keyboard isn’t coming for a while, I did …

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iPhone 11 Pro Real-World Test

I put the new iPhone 11 Pro through a real-world test. I did a camera test and put it up against some other flagship phones so you can do a camera comparison between them all and a battery test by checking in on the battery throughout an entire day to see how it did. Let me know what you guys think!

iPhone 11 Real-World Test

In this video, I take the new Apple iPhone 11 and put it through a real-world test. Let’s put the iPhone 11 camera up against some of its top competitors (as well as an older iPhone to see how far we’ve come) and test the iPhone 11 battery throughout the day, as well. And there you go! Let me know what you think in the comments below and make sure to subscribe to my weekly …

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iPhone 11 Pro Max Real-World Test

In this video, I take the new Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max and put it through a real-world test. I’ll use it throughout the day as I normally would but do a battery test and camera test while we go. Let me know what you think in the comments!

Everything Announced At the Apple Event

Sept is back and so is the Apple event. As usual with these, let’s cut to the chase. For anyone who didn’t feel like watching the entire live stream, I put together a bulleted list of all the things you might care about: the new toys. Let’s get started, shall we? Apple Arcade Unlimited games on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV Exclusive games for Apple Arcade New games added every month It’ll be a specific section …

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How to Share Your Location the Right Way (& With Anyone on Any Phone)

Sometimes it’s just so much easier to share your location with someone than trying to tell them to meet you or how close you are, etc. Thing is it’s not that apparent as to the best way to share your location. iPhones have their own way that doesn’t work with Android phones, you should use one that lets you easily revoke or even have the location access expire, and you want one that’s easy to …

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Do Gaming Phones Really Make Sense?

From the original Razer phone up till now, we have seen a rise of gaming phones from various companies all touting how much better their phones are at playing games are than others are. But, considering a lot of these have the same processors, RAM, specs, etc. for the most part I’m curious: do we really need gaming phones? Why wouldn’t you just use any flagship phone to play games on instead of purposely buying …

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Backup iPhone Locally Using These

How to Back Up Your iPhone Locally While You Sleep

We’ve all been there. Something happens to your iPhone and it’s then that you realize the last time you backed it up was over 6 months ago–all those photos are gone. There is a way to avoid this, of course, and that’s by doing daily backups, you can do these through iCloud wirelessly automatically which is great, but what if you want to back them up to somewhere locally. Say on a hard drive that …

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iPhone XR Complete Walkthrough: The Best iPhone for the Money

In a strange move, Apple launched two phones and then a third, budget-friendly phone, one a month later (although maybe not that strange after the iPhone X launch last year, I guess). And while I did my complete walkthroughs already on the iPhone XS and the XS Max, the new iPhone XR was just released today and so I figured I’d try and get a complete walkthrough done on that for you guys as well. If …

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Apple Watch Series 4

Apple Watch Series 4 Complete Walkthrough: The Apple Watch Design Has Matured

Alongside the new iPhones, Apple launched a new Apple Watch. The Series 4 Apple watch is turning out to be the biggest change in design to the lineup since it came out (even if it’s not massive changes it’s finally changed). I managed to get my hands on one and figured I’d do a complete walkthrough for you guys on it. If you aren’t familiar a complete walkthrough on my channel is where I try …

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Best Antivirus Software in 2018?

Someone recently asked me about the best antivirus software in 2018, and honestly, I wasn’t quite sure which one to recommend–there are a lot of them out there. Turns out though, there is one that seems to be at the top of each list according to a ton of sources. So I decided, I’d check it out myself and run some tests and see how it does. From PCMag to TechAdvisor, to TechRadar, there seems …

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