Rumor has it Apple could be ready to breathe new life in the old Air. MacBook Air that is.

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April 30, 2018: New rumors suggest the updated MacBook Air might not ship until fall 2018

Rumors about rumored products are as sketchy as they get. But, due to the availability of components or the need to finalize software, Apple has pushed back several products in recent years, both internally and publicly. So, it wouldn’t be surprising if the supposed new, updated MacBook Air was caught up, for example, waiting on Intel.

From DigiTimes:

The sources said that Apple has informed supply chain partners that mass production of its new notebook model for 2018 will not kick off until the second half of the year, yet without explaining the rescheduling move. Some partners speculated that the postponement might be caused by problems with some key components such as processors.

The planned new MacBook Air will have a slim design, and come with Retina hi…

It’s go-time on iOS for Fortnite

The battle royale hit Fortnite for iOS is now ready to download to everyone who has an iOS device. Whether you’ve been lucky enough to have the game since the invite event started, or you’re just downloading it right now, you may be wondering what it’s all about.

Here’s everything you need to know about Fortnite Battle Royale.

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April 30, 2018: Fortnite Season 4 starts tomorrow!

After a few weeks of guessing when it was going happen, Fornite announced that tomorrow start Fortnite Season 4! Will a meteor hit? Will superheroes be running around? Will the map change drastically? We will have to wait and see!

April 26, 2018: Fortnite Season 4 announced, possible superhero theme inbound

From Windows Central:

The end of the Fortnite Battle Royale Season 3 Battle Pass is almost upon us, and with just four days of that remaining, Epic Games has officially announced the new season.

Battle. Adapt. Win.Season…

Philips Hue may offer one of the best smart lighting systems on the market, but its smart light strip has some worthwhile competitors.

Philips Hue’s smart lighting line can give you everything you need from smart bulbs to smart accent lighting, but there’s one place where its product line fails to — pardon the pun — shine: Its smart light strip. The 80-inch LED light strip is fine but for its price, it’s not great. For about $90, you get a strand of LEDs that light in one color. There are alternative, similarly priced strips that offer more functionality and alternative, lesser priced strips that offer the same functionality. If you’re looking to save a little money while adding smart accent lighting to your home, check out these alternatives!

LIFX Z Smart Light Strip
Sylvania Smart+ Light Strip
YEELIGHT Smart Light Strip
LIFX Z Smart Light Strip

The $90 LIFX Z smart LED strip is easily my choice for the best Philips Hue alternative. This 6.6-foot strip has eight ind…

Limited-time offers.

Best Buy has launched a new one-day sale that includes a bunch of Apple’s best hardware at up to $500 off. Whether you are in the market for a new MacBook, a Series 3 Apple Watch, or even the previous-generation 128GB iPad, there’s something here worth buying. The 12-inch MacBook is $350 off right now, and the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro is currently $500 off.

If you want something a bit more portable, the 2017 iPad 9.7-inch is $100 off if you opt for the 128GB model. Sure, the newer model is already out, but if you don’t need Apple Pencil support, this is a great way to save a few more bucks.

For your wrist, you can grab the Apple Watch Series 3 for as little as $280. This deal is also available at Costco, if you’re a club member. All of these prices are good for today only, meaning that you don’t have a ton of time to order the ones you want.

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Grab what you need.

Amazon has a huge selection of computer gear down to low prices for one day only. The sale features a variety of major brands like Toshiba, HyperX, Logitech, and more. Items include portable hard drives, new headsets, mechanical keyboards, and more.

Here’s a few of the other items on sale:

WD My Passport 2TB portable hard drive for $62.99 (from $100)
HyperX Cloud Revolver gaming headset for $79.99 (from $110)
TP-Link Archer C2300 wireless router for $79.99 (from $150)
Razer BlackWidow Chroma V2 RGB mechanical keyboard for $129.99 (from $170)
The full sale has even more awesome stuff on sale.

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Apple is reportedly working on a new, cross-platform iOS and macOS development framework… but we likely won’t see it until WWDC 2019.

Apple has a problem. The teams working on its apps increasingly have to develop and maintain features across iOS and macOS. Sometimes that causes work to go more slowly than anybody would like. Sometimes it causes a lack of feature parity that nobody likes.

That problem is echoed throughout the third-party developer community as well. It results in fewer Mac apps with fewer features updated less often. Or not at all.

So, what to do? The answer, it seems, may be ’Marzipan’.

April 30, 2018: ’Marzipan’ isn’t ’Marzipan’, but it’s coming 2019… as part of a new UI

John Gruber, writing for Daring Fireball:

There is indeed an active cross-platform UI project at Apple for iOS and MacOS. It may have been codenamed ”Marzipan” at one point, but if so only in its earliest days.

I just assumed Marzipan was the name for one of the candidates for this p…

One of Amazon’s daily Gold Box deals features a selection Pelican cases and luggage. These cases come in a variety of sizes, prices, and purposes. Some are waterproof dry boxes, some are filled with foam for tight packing, and some are designed to fit in standard overhead bins. This is a one-day only sale.

Here’s a few of the ones on sale:

Pelicase 1610 for $202.49 (from $270)
1300 Camera Case for $37.54 (from $50)
1510 Case with Foam for $119.96 (from $160)
No matter the case, Pelican covers them all with a lifetime warranty. Check out the full sale for all the other possibilities.

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