Best answer: The short answer is no. Beats Solo3’s are not meant to work with the PS4 as a headset. I’d recommend you get the PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset instead.

Amazon: PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset ($80)

Why the Beats Solo3 don’t work on PS4

The short answer is the Beats Solo3’s are a non-supported device on PS4. PlayStation makes official headsets for the PS4 that obviously work perfectly well, and there are some licensed third-party manufacturer’s out there as well; however, Beats is not one of them.

There are a few dongles out there that claim to let you use any Bluetooth headset with your PS4, but these dongles are not licensed to work with the PS4, so trusting them to be reliable is risky.

I saw a YouTube video that said Beats Solo3’s worked on PS4

If you do a quick Google search, you may see that some people claim to have Beats Solo3’s to work as a headset for the PS4. However, it’s very unclear whether or not it may work for you specifically.

Supposedly, th…

Best answer: Philips advertises most of its current lineup of Hue smart LED bulbs, including the White and Color Ambiance bulbs, as lasting around 25,000 hours.

Amazon: Philps Hue White and Color Ambiance Smart Bulb ($49)

A Philips Hue bulb should last around 25,000 hours, but what does that mean?

Like most LED bulbs, products from the Philips Hue line should last you quite awhile. Where a lot of incandescent light bulbs last between 1,000 and 3,000 hours, Philips rates its bulbs at around 25,000. This means that if you were to keep your bulbs lit for 24 hours per day until they died, it would take just shy of three years for them to do so.

But most people aren’t lighting their homes 24/7, so your Philips bulbs should need replacing much less often. Let’s say, for instance, that you have a standard Hue White and color ambiance bulb, a fairly standard bulb, and each of your Hue bulbs is only on for a few hours per weekday, and more on weekends. This means that within a year, those…

It’s hacky as all hell and your battery life will be terrible. But it works.

While testing the Apple Watch Series 3 GPS + Cellular last night, I floated a crazy idea past iMore editor-at-large Rene Ritchie: What happens if you set up the Apple Watch on an iPhone, then swap that iPhone’s SIM card over into an Android phone? Would the watch recognize that its paired iPhone SIM was no longer in an iPhone and stop working? Would it still work over a carrier’s LTE connection? And more importantly: If it worked, what could it do?

Well, because we embrace insanity here at iMore, we tried it. And, barring a bit of hacky behavior, it works.

I’m going to preface this write-up by saying that I personally think this is a terrible way to use the Apple Watch. Your battery life will most certainly be nonexistent because the watch solely relies on an LTE connection. You won’t be able to get any fitness data on your Android smartphone. And you likely won’t be able to access certain features li…

Everyone uses a calendar in one form or another, whether to write down your important meetings and dates in an agenda book or using a calendar app to manage all your interviews and appointments. The problem is most calendar apps are made for the masses and you want a calendar app that works specifically to your needs and keeps track of your entire life.

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There are plenty of calendar apps that cost money (sometimes even require a monthly subscription) that just don’t give you the flexibility and utility to do it all. Lucky for you, BusyCal 3 for the Mac is one of the best calendar apps you can get!

Right now, through iMore Digital Offers, you can get BusyCal for only $20! That’s not a subscription either, that’s $20 for lifetime access to an award-winning calendar app.

Just check out some of the many features BusyCal offers you:

Display your calendar in Day, Week, Month, Year, or List views
Boost your productivity with smart filter…

Your gorgeous Apple Watch was made to be accessorized, but if you’ve already dropped hundreds of dollars on the device itself, then there may not be much left over to buy Apple-made bands or some of the ridiculously priced Hermès bands. Check out these third-party options, keep the bank unbroken, and go forth in style!

Note: All of these bands will fit every Apple Watch. Just be sure you pick the correct size (38mm, 40mm, 42mm, 44mm) before checkout. 38mm bands fit the 40mm Apple Watch, and 42mm bands fit the 44mm watch.

Best-reviewed

Genuine leather band

This leather band is gorgeous and features white stitching as an accent. The inside of the band is soft for comfort, and you find the band in either black or brown. For the 44mm and 42mm Apple Watches.

$14 at Amazon

Stylish leather

Genuine soft leather band

If you like a leather band, but want something a bit outside the norm, then check out these inexpensive leather bands, which come in three colors and have extr…

After wearing Apple Watch Series 4 for 2 weeks, it’s time for a quick re-review.

I’ve now been wearing and using Apple Watch Series 4 for about 2 weeks, since just after the September 12 event at the Steve Jobs theater. I did my initial, deep dive review after a week of fairly frenzied testing. I’m revisiting it now after a second week of somewhat more typical usage — travel, transactions, tracking workouts and tasks, keeping up to speed with my life and staying connected.

So, let’s take a second look.

1. Gold is the new ceramic

I spent most of the last two weeks on a 44mm space gray Apple Watch Series 4. I’ve used the Sport, as they were previously known, and the Nike+, off an on since Series 0 and I’ve always liked them. They’ve always had the best price and the best taptic performance.

View this post on Instagram A brief history of #AppleWatch. Black steel 0, Hermès 2, Ceramic 2, Hermès 3, Ceramic 3, gold steel 4. ⌚️㈁…

’Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information.’

Terrific, predictable, horrifying reporting from Gizmodo:

Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people’s contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I’ve come to call ”shadow contact information.” I managed to place an ad in front of Alan Mislove by targeting his shadow profile. This means that the junk email address that you hand over for discounts or for shady online shopping is likely associated with your account and being used to target you with ads.

Facebook is not upfront about this practice. In fact, when I asked its PR team last year whether it was using shadow contact information for ads, they denied it. Luckily for those of us obs…

Keep up to date like Gordon Gekko with the Stocks app, new to macOS Mojave.

With the release of macOS Mojave comes the Stocks app for Mac. Like on iPhone, you’ll be able to search for all of the stocks you’re invested or interested in, checking out updates in real time, as well as business news as it comes down the pipe.

Here’s how to do all the things in Stocks for Mac!

How to add stocks to your Watchlist
How to view stock trends over time
How to view price changes and company worth
How to view business news in the Stocks app
How to rearrange stocks in your Watchlist
How to remove stocks from your Watchlist
How to add stocks to your Watchlist

If you want to open the Stocks app and immediately view all of the stocks that are most important to you, you can add them to your stocks Watchlist.

Launch the Stocks app from the Finder.
Click the Search bar on the top left of the window.
Type in the name of a company or stock.
Click the stock you’d like to add.
Click the green add button…