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If you are a teacher, Easy Grade is for you. If you know a teacher, you can help them out by telling them about Easy Grade.

Easy Grade is a free iOS/Android app that gives teachers the ability to quickly calculate grades on their students’ tests and quizzes. Configuring it is super-simple. It lets you calculate grades based on the number of questions right or wrong. You can show grades rounded to whole numbers or tenths. If you give partial credit, you can calculate grades based on half-points as well (available via In-App Purchase).

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Maybe this is the key to not losing that new $79 remote.

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The new Apple TV is now available for pre-order. The 32 GB model is $149, with the 64 GB for $199. Apple hasn’t made a strong case for the need for the bigger storage option, but I opted for it as I plan on using this device for a long time.

As an extra Siri remote is $79, I’m really hoping my kids don’t lose the new remote, but I know in my heart how this will end.

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Autumn used to be a little more colorful for Apple fans.

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Live from the Release Notes Conference, it’s a new episode of Clockwise with Jason Snell, Myke Hurley, Underscore David Smith and me:

Anticipating Apple TV, Google’s new YouTube Red service, iOS stability and bug fixes, and a Magic Devices shopping list.

Be sure to stick around for the bonus question. It’s a good one.

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Tamara Warren:

“If it wasn’t for Back to the Future, would we recognize the DeLorean DMC-12? In the first film, the DeLorean’s acceleration to the magic speed of 88 miles per hour marks the moment when everything changes: Marty McFly and Doc Brown leave 1985 and land in October 21st, 2015 for the sequel’s opening scenes in the future, where we find ourselves today.

In its time, the DeLorean Motor Company was an epic failure, but its sole enduring product has earned more pop cultural cachet than any other vehicular flop of the 20th century. Out-of-business automakers Packard, Tucker, and Studebaker have nothing on the DeLorean brand power. History is made from these instances of perfect timing — and perhaps the DeLorean’s offbeat resonance had something to do with a car stumbling upon its time.”

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Don’t forget this step:

Start up from the Software Restore disc or use the Extensions Manager control panel to start up the computer with the Mac OS All 9.x extensions set. If OK, troubleshoot extensions. If the pointer doesn’t move, replace the mouse.

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Myke is on a plane, so it was just me and Ticci this week:

This week, Stephen and Federico talk about iWork, Notes and HomeKit before being greeted by Federico’s plumber.

Come for the show, stay for the creepy image in the show notes.

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I’ve used Apple keyboards for as long as I’ve had a Mac. While I never owned one of 2000’s Apple Pro Keyboards when it was new, the keys felt way better to me than the keyboards that shipped with the iMac G3 family of machines. The 108-key keyboard shipped in both black and white, and featured a foot that could adjust the height of the keyboard.

It looked super cool in black with the G4 Cube:

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Benjamin Mayo:

The new Apple TV includes several choices of screensaver, including Aerial, an exclusive set of slow-moving HD video of various landmarks and places in the world. What’s most interesting is that the displayed video actually changes over time, as the Apple TV downloads new videos periodically from an online location.

He’s parsed the data coming from Apple, hijacking it to show on this page instead of an Apple TV. I love that someone at Apple has the job to source these things. Beautiful stuff.

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The Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance Starter Kit is a fun little product.

In short, it’s a set of three LED bulbs and a bridge that allows them to connect to your home network. Once the dead-simple setup is compete, the Hues app allows you to select pre-designed “scenes,” control the lights individually, or even design new scenes based on photographs. Want to re-live your Tahiti experience? Load the photo into the app and you can be back in that magical place.

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Eternal Storms Software provides these Mac and iOS applications crafted with care: Yoink, a Mac app that simplifies and improves drag and drop; Glimpses, an app that turns your photos and music into stunning still motion videos; ScreenFloat, an app that lets you keep a floating image reference to just about anything visible on your screen; Transloader, an app that lets you start downloads on your Mac remotely from your iPhone or iPad and flickery, the flickr desktop client for Mac.

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