Playing smartphone games does not result from a desire to take part in any shared activity or to achieve any fantasy. Their gratification derives from a change of mental state, a sort of detachment. To select the app and start the game, no investment is required, no thought or intention, but merely the urge to play.
The urge appears just as hunger or thirst does. Like them, it requires no handling in depth and no thought process. Our primitive urges arrive from lower-level areas of the brain, such as the limbic system, which is involved in emotions and motivation.
“I think Apple is doing something pretty great with these student scholarships. It motivates students to continue developing for Apple products by giving them first hand looks at all the new technology,” Thumaty said. “One thing that I heard directed to the group of scholarship winners a lot was ‘You guys are the next generation of Apple.'”
For Thumaty, it was one of the design workshops he attended at WWDC that made him a loyal iOS developer. There are a number of different workshops open to all attendees during WWDC, but the design workshop is by far the most coveted one “because Apple is one of the biggest tech companies that puts a huge emphasis on design,” Thumaty said.
If you’re a MacBook user, you’re losing an average of 1 hour of total battery life by using Chrome. Firefox is a little better, but Safari is the clear winner. You’ll want to use Safari if you want to get the most battery out of your laptop.
The company’s newest project is Tap For News, an app that consists of a single red button users can tap (ad infinitum, if they so choose) to watch a collection of very lightly curated 15- to 30-second videos on topics ranging from breaking news to science to entertainment. There’s no being paralyzed by the paradox of choice here — just one button.
Sources familiar with Apple’s plans tell BuzzFeed News that the company intends to announce its next-generation Apple TV in September, at the same event at which it typically unveils its new iPhones.
Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of the LawFare blog, suggested that Apple could in fact face that liability if it continued to provide encryption services to a suspected terrorist. He noted that the post was in response to an idea raised by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., in a hearing earlier this month.
The authors didn’t say what exactly they wanted Apple to do instead. Wittes tweeted after publishing the post that he is “not sure at all that Apple is not doing the right thing by encrypting end to end.”
It’s one thing to lose your phone on the street, in the back of a cab or anywhere on dry land where a good Samaritan might come by and decide to help find its owner. But after one guy watched his phone sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean back in March, he figured that thing was gone for good. Enter: scuba divers going for a swim who just happened to find his device in the waterproof bag it had sunk in.
This is what a full moon rising over Mount Hood looks like pic.twitter.com/AvJR2rUHNk
— Earth Pics (@EarthPicturz) July 31, 2015Thanks for reading.
Buried in city documents filed this spring are previously unreported plans for a new visitor’s center — complete with a store and viewing platform. Apple’s 2013 approvals for the massive project included the ability for Apple to build a visitor’s center, but a detailed project description had not been submitted until April.
The plans show a super-modern glass-walled structure topped by a carbon-fiber roof with extended eaves, punctuated by large skylights. On the ground floor: A 2,386-square-foot cafe and 10,114-square-foot store “which allows visitors to view and purchase the newest Apple products.” Stairs and elevators take visitors to the roof level, about 23 feet up. There, they’ll be able to behold the multi-billion-dollar campus, a kind of monument to the late co-founder Steve Jobs and Apple’s tremendous money machine.
Activity trackers like FitBit evolved out of spreadsheet computer logs that the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports started keeping in the 1990s, to create better records of the fitness of American citizens, and establish national averages against which they could compare themselves. As a fat middle-school student, I huffed and puffed through the Presidential Fitness Challenge in sheer terror of that spreadsheet.
By the turn of the millennium, however, it had become possible to automatically monitor such activities and to integrate monitors into wearable personal equipment. And so, today, we must confess that we are too fat and too slow not to our gym teachers but to ourselves.
Thank you to the thousands of Hong Kong customers who joined the celebration for our new store on Canton Road! pic.twitter.com/VWaWhKA80U
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) July 30, 2015"Canton Road is like Fifth Avenue in New York, Regent Street in London and Wangfujing in Beijing. We had to be here," Richard Hames, Apple's marketing director for greater China, said on Wednesday.
Marketed as "live video texting without sound," Livetext is a bit like FaceTime, but instead of talking to each other as they would in a face-to-face conversation, users communicate through facial expressions and typed text.
Molecules by Theodore Gray is a superb iPad app for chemistry students, or for anyone interested in learning more about the compounds and substances that make up the objects around us, from rocks to plastics to living creatures. It is both informative and fun, chock-full of little-known facts, lucid explanations, and gorgeous 3D animations.
We live in a world where the entire Windows 10 operating system is a free upgrade, but Solitaire is now a freemium game.
— Rob Griffiths (@rgriff) July 29, 2015Apple today announced a Snapchat account for Apple Music that initially provides a behind-the-scenes look at Beats 1 Radio and its personalities while also showing off segments of the cities it operates from with some music playing in the background.
But it turns out that through Connect and Beats 1 Radio, Apple Music has built a strategy that attracts debuts from the biggest artists in the world and makes them available to everyone for free.
This in turn attracts users to Apple Music’s free trial. Plus it’s a lot more friendly to listeners.
Turns out, if no pacifier is handy you can always just borrow Maggie's pic.twitter.com/2coD646kqb
— Cabel Sasser (@cabel) July 29, 2015Thanks for reading.
Tens of thousands of health apps are on the market, with different levels of specialisation from the simple Fitbit, which measures your activity, to others monitoring blood pressure, heart rate and foetal activity. A smartphone has been used to automatically detect wriggling parasites in blood samples. Most of these are untested and unregulated. The Breast, a journal covering research on breast cancer, had a recent study showing that less than 15% of breast-related apps were regulated or had any professional input.
Yet some have a clear health advantage – particularly in weight loss. Two recent randomised trials showed that mobile strategies that make use of apps lead to better patient outcomes than traditional programmes (pdf). In one study the participants in the mobile group lost 3.9 kg more than the standard group.
Revealed this week by security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri from Vulnerability Lab, the persistent injection flaw, deemed critical, is an application-side input validation web vulnerability. In an advisory, the researcher said the vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject malicious script codes into flawed content function and service modules.
According to Mejri, an attacker can exploit the flaw by manipulating a name value (device cell name) within the invoice module through an exchange of malicious, scripted code. If a product is purchased in Apple's stores, the backend takes the device value and encodes it with manipulated conditions in order to generate an invoice before sending it on to the seller.
Less than three years after Hills posted the the touchscreen video, his life is dramatically different. He no longer needs to spend thousands of dollars on new, quickly obsolete devices to use an iPhone or iPad and is no longer forced to rely on a caregiver for tasks like typing an email. He is now an Apple-certified Final Cut Pro editor and has his own video production and editing business that he runs out of his house. And his YouTube page is home to dozens of videos geared toward educating others about accessibility tech, including Switch Control. In his spare time, Hills speaks to training and support groups and writes guest blog posts about his experiences and how to best take advantage of assistive technology.
Features like Switch Control work in practical and measurable ways to lower costs for the disabled and work to bring more and more people not only online, but further into a culture that overlooked their technological needs. Giving more people the necessary tools means not only offering up the vast and rich world of internet and all that modern software and hardware have to offer to a wider audience, it also means widening the spectrum and potential of innovation through inclusion. “I like to think about this kind of technology less like a light switch and more as a set of possibilities,” Ellcessor said. “Accessibility is about creating the possibility for those with particular bodily impairments to participate and engage in culture and in whatever ways they want to.” That possibility, and the participation that it fosters, ultimately mean adding more diverse voices into the culture.
For two years, Boxer has been your inbox for Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, and more, but the app received a huge update, bringing calendar and contact integration.
Though each feature is (theoretically) seamlessly integrated into the Music app and iTunes app for users, the licensing on the back-end is far more complicated: Each service has a different catalog of music it can play, which makes transitioning between them a bit tricky. When you listen to a show live on Beats 1, you're listening to a catalog of music covered by Apple's radio agreements; when you play back any post-show content on Connect, it's all covered under the Apple Music licensing agreement, which has access to a different subset of albums and songs.
When a big name like Apple jumps in the fight for equal rights for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender employees, it reverberates across the spectrum.
But Apple’s recent support of The Equality Act of 2015 is just one of the bold headlines in a long-fought battle for equal rights that has had hundreds of Texas companies rallying support.
We had a need to introduce 96 MacBook Pro’s for our product testing. Our requirements included Retina displays, small form factor, low power, cool running, Apple branded hardware, high density design, i7 CPU’s, 16GB RAM, etc… This is what I came up with.
Indeed, there’s a case to be made that some of the loveliest small pleasures in life come from the joy when bad things stop. Who doesn’t adore that special quality of indoor silence when a houseguest who’s outstayed his welcome finally leaves? It’s not just that I’m glad he’s gone; I’m glad he stayed, too, otherwise I’d never have been able to relish his departure.
"Wake up wake up wake up wake up"
"Ugh. What is it?"
"You're reeeeally tired"
"...Thanks brain."
"You're welcome :D"
— Mink ette (@mink_ette) July 29, 2015Thanks for reading.
Maybe it’s calling someone in 15 minutes. Or sending an update in a few hours. Or making it to the post office before they close. Those small time sensitive things that just don’t work well in something OmniFocus. Before I never forgot to do these things, but I often did them much later than I would promise.
I call them my short-term memory tasks and they are amazingly well suited to Due. There’s one simple reason for this: Due doesn’t ever let me forget. As long as I don’t cheat (by telling Due I did something when I did not do it), Due will pester me until I do what I said I wanted to do.
Spendee offers a way for you to not only track your finances, but show you your habits so that you can make smart monetary decisions.
The pledge calls on participating companies to eliminate just shy of 6 billion tons of carbon pollution through 2030. Other companies involved include Alcoa, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Cargill, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, UPS, and Walmart.
To prove an antitrust violation, the FTC would first need to demonstrate that Apple has monopoly power. But Android is a ready competitor to iOS, and—as Spotify’s email to subscribers make clear—users can get the service for less by not going through Apple’s App Store. “The question,” says University of Baltimore law professor Robert Lande, “is what happens to Apple’s share of the music streaming market” in the coming months or years.
Apple Music had a lot of promise. The idea of integrating the music you own with the music you rent is excellent. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work.
Behind much of podcasting’s growth, though, is the embrace of ads in which hosts gush over products or even do reporting for advertising spots. That has led to a clash between those coming from public radio and those with a commercial radio background, with some expressing concern that journalists, who rely on trust, are using their position of confidence to push products.
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— Jared Spool (@jmspool) July 27, 2015Thanks for reading.
The EarPods that come with the iPhone, iPod touch and other iPods sound great but don't fit everyone the same. And why should they? Everyone's ears are different. Fortunately a few accessory makers have filled the gap with gadgets that help EarPods fit your ear better.
The safest, most sensible course of action for users is to just keep their music libraries away from iTunes Match and Apple Music. We’ll all just know not to order that fish, and many of us won’t use Apple Music at all because its integration into our local libraries feels too unsafe.
And that’s too bad for everyone, because Apple Music is pretty great when everything works and you can figure out where everything is.
PowerPoint 2016 for Mac is, as I say, pleasant to use, not to mention powerful. If it had feature parity with the Windows version, Dropbox and iCloud support, and a Magic Move-like transition, it would be nearly perfect—and I’d love to see that happen.
In a 2012 examination of 1,500 health apps that cost money and had been available since June 2011, the New England Centre for Investigative Reporting found that health apps in general fail to follow established medical guidelines. Worse, the centre found few had been tested through the kind of clinical research that is standard for other treatments.
In the time following WWDC, we spent a couple of weeks watching conference sessions and looking through both the software and all this documentation. The research gave us a sense of some of the under-the-hood changes that are coming for developers this fall alongside the shiny, new operating systems.
One month after Apple Inc. started selling Apple Watch at its own stores, the company said it will bring the device to Best Buy stores in August.
Apple said its smartwatch will be available at more than 100 Best Buy stores in the U.S., expanding to over 300 outlets before the holiday shopping season. Best Buy will be the first major U.S. retailer beside Apple to sell the device.
Going on a hike, got all my gear pic.twitter.com/CTnjEGCs42
— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) July 26, 2015Thanks for reading.
When Apple Watch users ask Siri for help, she'll either reply with serious feedback or watch-specific jokes. For example, ask her if you're wearing the Dick Tracy watch and she'll say, "No, but I'm ready to get into trouble if you are."
Apple has taken great pains to make sure that Apple Music users don't accidentally increase their cellular data bills. Toward that end the company has cellular data turned off by default.
However, if you want to download music via your cellular connection you can do so quite easily and I'll show you how in this tip.
To maintain security, we're going to train you to type your password into random modal dialogs periodically. pic.twitter.com/n0FUtsqGNw
— Brian Mastenbrook (@bmastenbrook) July 24, 2015It now appears Twitter is using its legal authority to crack down on these tweet-stealers. A number of tweets have been deleted on copyright grounds for apparently stealing a bad joke.
You can be funny in virtual forums — say, on Twitter — and quantify a joke’s value in favorites, likes or retweets. But the only real metric that matters to a joke-teller ought to be laughter in his or her presence.
That is the crux of why the ghost trains still exist. A more official term is “parliamentary trains”, a name that stems from past years when an Act of Parliament was needed to shut down a line. Many train operators kept running empty trains to avoid the costs and political fallout – and while this law has since changed, the same pressures remain.
“I guess I don’t need the Windows software disk for that printer I threw out 8 years ago.” - me in the basement, growing as a person.
— Moltz (@Moltz) July 25, 2015Thanks for reading.
The app, called Canary, allows users to determine whether they’re in a suitable condition to drive. It runs through a battery of tests: remembering a sequence of numbers, balancing on one foot, playing a digital whack-a-mole game, and then estimating a time period of 20 seconds. By comparing the results against a personal baseline or a collective average, users receive a green, yellow, or red light assessing their level of functioning.
For $999.99 (the steepest price for an app that Apple allows), a purchaser would gain access to the app, which was nothing more than a glowing, red orb. But having the ruby on your screen meant that you were rich — clearly, you had to be, to afford to pay $1,000 for something so utterly useless.
Which one are you, too rich or too stoned?
Smart Folders are essentially canned searches, where you can save custom search queries and quickly restore them. They are relatively simple concept, so the real question of how to use smart folders really boils down to: How do you search your Mac?
Though there are some examples of iPhone apps being impacted, the biggest movements both during and after the adjustments were among those apps built for iPad. That could indicate that Apple was looking to better its rankings for those who are building specifically for Apple’s tablet, and possibly rewarding the better iPad apps in the process.
It’s been an interesting and confusing day. I arrived at Apple this morning to talk to them about my issues with Apple Music and to hopefully fix my problems. The good news is that I have about 99 percent of my music back.
Getting one of these for my house. pic.twitter.com/owm7vBU2Vh
— Elizabeth Galle (@drinkerthinker) July 24, 2015Thanks for reading.
Members of Congress introduced sweeping legislation today that would outlaw discrimination against LGBT people under federal law, and the world’s most valuable company is throwing its support behind the bill.
Yes, I'm unlearning decades of muscle memory, but when I started to just think about it like an iPhone, it became incredibly fast and fluid to use. It might be the first trackpad that's as fast and precise as a mouse.
Accessibility rights are human rights. Celebrating 25yrs of the ADA, we’re humbled to improve lives with our products. #ADA25
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) July 24, 2015Apple will apply an instant credit in the amount of $199.95 to cover the full cost of the Beats Solo 2 On-Ear headphones in gloss black, white, red, blue, gray or pink. Apple is also offering the option to upgrade to Beats Solo2 Wireless On-Ear Headphones in space gray, silver or gold for $100 extra, which is the remaining balance after the $199.95 credit is applied.
Triller is a new iOS app that is trying to turn anyone with an iPhone into a music video director by automating the most difficult part of making any video: the editing process.
There’s a ton of totally vexing behavior that seems to be ill-spirited towards Mac developers, but also a ton that seems to hold iOS developers in low regard. I think this speaks to the likely truth that Apple is, more than anything, under-staffed and not well situated to deploy solutions to both platforms in tandem.
Apple's product assortment is always changing — and it recently scaled down on the number of items it is offering in stores — but the removal doesn't come as a huge surprise as the company looks to promote the incoming flux of HomeKit-enabled devices.
A federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled yesterday that somebody who accidentally calls somebody else isn't protected by a right to privacy; whatever the person on the other end hears is fair game. Having a mobile device that everyone knows can trigger calls accidentally means you can be snooped on when the gut-wrenching mistake occurs, the panel of judges decided. Having a butt has never been more dangerous.
In 1984, a researcher named Roger Ulrich noticed a curious pattern among patients who were recovering from gallbladder surgery at a suburban hospital in Pennsylvania. Those who had been given rooms overlooking a small stand of deciduous trees were being discharged almost a day sooner, on average, than those in otherwise identical rooms whose windows faced a wall. The results seemed at once obvious—of course a leafy tableau is more therapeutic than a drab brick wall—and puzzling. Whatever curative property the trees possessed, how were they casting it through a pane of glass?
Cats seem unpredictable until you realize that their primary goal in life is to be on top of warm things. pic.twitter.com/v7Jdj7vIGY
— Allen Pike (@apike) July 24, 2015Thanks for reading.
I trusted my data to Apple and they failed. I also failed by not backing up my library before installing Apple Music. I will not make either of those mistakes again.
I’m going to listen to what’s left of my music library, and try to figure out all of the songs I have to buy again. I’ll also download Spotify and reactivate the account I cancelled with them a couple of weeks ago.
What those outages did is point out that with all the great convenience of having the world’s music library at your beck and call, if the servers go down when you want to listen to music, you’re out of luck. If Apple wants people to embrace streaming their music, and embrace Apple Music as the service that provides them with that music, its services need to be reliable.
Apple needs to change its priorities for the Mac App Store or just shut the whole thing down. As it now stands, developers who are tired of being second-class citizens are making that decision for them and leaving on their own.
Users and developers are both reporting that Game Center has removed active game data from various games.
Update: My LetterPress games were restored after two days of outage.
Given this history, the question to ask about the Apple Watch isn’t how well it has sold so far, but how well Apple is following that script. Is it moving quickly to address the early criticism of the watch and to expand access to and functionality of the device?
The answer here is far more definitive than the murky sales figures: So far, Apple is following exactly the same playbook for the watch that it did for the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. If it sticks to that pattern — trying to add new capabilities to the device while perhaps lowering prices and expanding distribution — the future of the Apple Watch could be bright. The only catch is that determining success will take months, if not years.
Microsoft has launched a new take on email, Send, for iPhone. Send approaches email as though it were instant messaging, focusing on quick conversations, without the need for subject lines or other trappings of normal email.
Apple Music and iTunes Match both offer access to iCloud Music Library, an uploading-and-matching service that lets you access all your Mac's songs from up to 10 of your devices. If you'd prefer not to use iCloud Music Library as part of your Apple Music subscription, however, here's how to go about it.
You can use the dictation feature without having to be online all the time or worry about your words flying to and from Apple’s servers. To do so, switch to the Enhanced Dictation option in the OS X settings. You will need to install about a gigabyte of additional software, but the update itself is free.
The text expansion app now excludes most single dictionary words when suggesting snippets, and it adds a new preference for receiving notifications about snippet Suggestions.
I’ve been ranting about this for years.
YOU DO NOT NEED JAVASCRIPT TO SHOW ME STATIC CONTENT ON THE WEB. We did it from 1993 to 2010.
— Brian P. Hogan (@bphogan) July 21, 2015All of the broccoli in #InsideOut was swapped w/ green peppers for Japan. Peppers are 'Disgust' there, not broccoli! pic.twitter.com/EuK0Ld5Fk7
— David Lally (@davidmlally) July 22, 2015The proof-of-concept attack Esser included with his post is known as a local exploit. The typical scenario where these types of vulnerabilities are exploited is by developers of malicious applications who want to elevate privileges without prompting end users to enter a system password or by developers of remote exploits that on their own can execute malicious code as a regular user but not as root.
WiFi-enabled devices can handle these security requirements, but it seems devices running over Bluetooth LE are having some issues. The intensive processing demands for generating and sending these security keys is what’s likely causing these lag times, said Monica.
Apple will soon let manufacturers in its Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) licensing program include charging pads for the Apple Watch directly in their accessories, according to sources. Currently, dock makers can only offer charging by making unsightly openings in their docks for Apple’s official charger to sit, forcing users to bring their own cable and install it, and compromising an ideal design and user experience in the process.
On top of this, Apple has already assumed for accounting purposes that a lot of the cash has come home, suggesting that the impact of cash repatriation on future earnings would be minimal. At the end of its latest fiscal year, Apple estimated that bringing home the $US69.7 billion in earnings on which it hasn't taken a charge would cost about $US23.3 billion in US taxes.
I am having problems with the Messages app by Apple these few days. I have a surprising number of texts were send using SMS instead of iMessage, even though it seems to me the internet connection is fine. Also, a few texts from my wife failed to reach me.
When my podcast pauses before the phone rings, I think to myself, "There's a storm a-comin'."
— rstevens № ³ (@rstevens) July 22, 2015Thanks for reading.
Apple broke quarterly records with $10.7 billion in profit and $49.6 billion in revenue, compared to $7.7 billion in profit and $37.4 billion in revenue in Q3 of 2014. Its gross margin was 39.7 percent. These results easily beat Apple's guidance for the quarter, which predicted revenue between $46 billion and $48 billion and profit margins between 38.5 and 39.5 percent.
Speaking during the company's third quarter results call, Cook said that Apple is preparing to expand channel availability, hinting at an increase in points of sale and/or inventory.
"We're convinced that the Watch is going to be one of the top gifts of the holiday season," Cook said.
Every quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook talks to financial analysts for a little while after the company’s earnings are announced. This quarter was no different. Presented here, a transcript of everything Cook said on the call.
There should be a unit of sales for products whose sales you're bragging about but not disclosing. Let's call it a Kindle.
— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) July 21, 2015With all the effort and expense it takes to attend a concert, a smart person makes the most of it—starting far before the concert happens and extending well after the final encore. In this column, you’ll learn how to use your Mac to milk every last drop of enjoyment from your concert experiences.
“As a twenty-something, we are all constantly combating the impulse to just eat-out or pick something up,” Homan told Boston.com. “But Tender gets you psyched about the prospect of making food, and it makes it easy to do so.”
The app provides users not just with an endless scroll of the Internet’s food porn, but also their corresponding recipes.
Testers running Apple's fourth iOS 9 beta, currently for developers only, are able to access the iOS App Store as usual, but no longer have the ability to post reviews. Attempting to do so now results in an error pop-up that reads, "This feature isn't available. You can't write reviews while using a prerelease version of iOS."
Don't feel like making choices today? Easy. Setup your vacation responder like this: pic.twitter.com/MvTNc7pAmB
— Oscar Godson (@oscargodson) July 21, 2015Five hours later, Charles got a call from an Apple rep claiming that Tim Cook personally asked her to call about his photo order—and bumped his order delivery date up to Wednesday, July 22.
What was the secret to Apple’s success? As the map above suggests, part of the recipe was Apple's tendency to try things out over and over again and let its ideas evolve in a better direction -- like it has also done with its products.
The FTC has launched an investigation into Apple’s dealings with competing music streaming services in its App Store, according to multiple sources. The investigation is targeting Apple’s 30 percent fee charged to subscription services who sign up new users through the App Store.
If you use Spotify, it knows what you like and what you don’t like. It knows you like alt-rock, that you love the country songs you claim you hate, and that for all the game you talk, you never listen to that deep-cut Dylan record.
To prove it, Spotify is introducing a new feature today called Discover Weekly. It’s a completely personalized playlist (updated, you know, weekly) full of songs Spotify is pretty sure you’re going to want to hear. Some hits, some new stuff, that Foreigner song you’ve never been able to get out of your head. My first 29-song list has a little more girl-pop than I might have picked—but I’m digging it.
A new study from Northwestern Univ. proposes cell phones may be great monitors for depression, and researchers are in the midst of exploring how mobile apps can be used to treat the mood disorder.
This confuses me on an almost daily basis. pic.twitter.com/ibIGEoYrET
— Steven Frank (@stevenf) July 21, 2015Thanks for reading.
Use that thing as it is intended before you even start to think about modifying it to work like something else — you may find that you like that thing better as it is.
At the very least you will know that you gave the software a fair chance to succeed. And it’s fine if you don’t like the way the software works, but it’s unfair for disliking software because it doesn’t work like X — it was never intended to work like X go begin with.
The same can be said about movies, books, or almost about any creative work.
Apple may have created their own island as a mark of ownership. Maps remain huge business, with Google’s $2bn acquisition of crowdsourced traffic app Waze regarded as a move to protect their own dominance in that space, and it is probable that Apple Maps is full of tiny mistakes designed to make proving copyright infringement easy. If only they’d been able to use this explanation back in 2012 when the mistakes were rather more than ‘tiny’.
For those still deciding on whether the first Apple Watch makes sense, I have no reservations in saying that it’s the best wearable I’ve ever used. However, at the same time I find it hard to recommend this first-generation Apple Watch. It’s clear that there are far too many obvious areas to improve upon, areas where Moore’s law will help to dramatically improve the experience. In the case of smartphones, Moore’s law made it possible to deliver true all-day battery life and fluid app performance. After spending a few months with the Apple Watch, all I can see is a need for more compute and battery life, like what happened with smartphones.
While the program doesn’t support some of Yosemite’s more important, user friendly, and bacon-saving features—such as Autosave—the overall user experience is superb. In short, Microsoft Word gets the job done without getting in the way, If Word is your primary tool for getting work done with words, run, don’t walk to upgrade to Word 2016.
If you want to quickly assemble a sleek website without too many bells and whistles, RapidWeaver provides an excellent option. If you want to do even more with your site, Rapidweaver can help you there, too—but it’ll cost you a good deal extra.
This new app takes your Twitter feed and arranges it by user. So, you will not see an infinite number of tweets, but instead a list of those you follow along with their recent tweets.
By forcing me to think very carefully about types, I find that my Swift code is better designed and easier to maintain. I feel more confident in the correctness of my code, and for some strange reason writing it is also more fun!
Apple Inc. is recruiting experts from the auto industry, a signal that its efforts to develop an electric car could be gaining ground.
Last month, eagle-eyed Apple TV users might have noticed a subtle change to their Journal app. Its icon, which for years had been the grey-and-green “WSJ Live,” was replaced with one reading simply “WSJ Video.” The change follows a May announcement by the Journal that it was canceling three of its scheduled live programs. The WSJ was becoming less “live” — a shift mirrored by other outlets.
Ever wondered where deep-fried Mars bar came from? Well, now you know.
The first time someone with an apartment available asked me for my Twitter handle , I laughed; the second time, I became confused; and by the third, I was perplexed and annoyed. Logistically, this made no sense. I have a distinctive last name and am easily found via a quick Google search. Couldn’t they just creep on me silently, like a normal person? I wondered, perturbed and embarrassed, realizing that my most recent tweet was a joke about penises and my most recent Instagram post was a selfie of my recently dyed purple hair.
One long-held theory has been that people become socially isolated because of their poor social skills — and, presumably, as they spend more time alone, the few skills they do have start to erode from lack of use. But new research suggests that this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the socially isolated. Lonely people do understand social skills, and often outperform the non-lonely when asked to demonstrate that understanding. It’s just that when they’re in situations when they need those skills the most, they choke.
Captured the Milky Way from Tunnel View, Yosemite. pic.twitter.com/cY3mAWSVrv
— Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky) July 20, 2015Thanks for reading.
The nature of travel involves long hours of sitting, so it is good to have a variety of apps that have staying power. Look for apps that spark creativity, tell a compelling story or offer a series of puzzles. Travel also heightens kids' interest in learning about new places, making it a great time to introduce geography apps. Here are some of my favorite new apps, with suggestions of when to use them on your trip.
Luxe, for instance, offers parking in several city centers, and acts as an on-demand valet, picking up your car at a point you ask them to, and delivering it again anywhere in its service area. PayByPhone focus on meters, and lets you avoid fumbling with coins or a credit card to park on the street and be warned when your time is nearly up—with an option in some cases to extend without penalty.
In this roundup, I’ve broken down parking apps into several categories for clarity, because few of the apps overlap the kinds of parking for which they assist. Many apps are exclusive to iOS or iOS and Android, but some work via multiple platforms, web apps, and even SMS.
I discussed this issue with some knowledgeable people, who helped me understand what happened in my case, and with many other users. Seeing the conditions that caused it made me realize that it was a limited problem. However, there is no solution, and it does raise a couple of questions as to why iTunes and iOS acted the way they did.
A new ribbon isn't going to have Mac users in businesses badgering their IT managers to upgrade them to Office 2016. However, this makeover for the ribbon isn't simply a cosmetic change. The more streamlined interface does make Word, Excel and PowerPoint feel less cluttered and easier to work with. And, by providing a look and feel that's consistent with other versions of Office, Microsoft is helping to ensure that users can remain productive by getting straight down to work regardless of where they are and what type of device or operating system they're currently using.
The company is first to market with a kitchen scale which connects to an interactive iPad recipe app in order to give step-by-step cooking instructions.
Code42 Software has released CrashPlan 4.3 with added support for installing the Internet backup software on a per-user basis, which is ideal for backing up data for multiple individual users who are logging into the same computer (such as in multi-user desktop environments).
I’m aware that this is a rather idealistic sketch and not a trivial goal to achieve. I’m not even saying this is the right solution. But one thing is certain: the web platform we have today is already bloated, does not suit our needs and severely limits innovation. I’m confident that the way forward is to - one way or another - climb out of this hole we’ve been digging for way too long called a web browser.
The company's newest ad, titled "Amazing Apps" and put on YouTube today, attempts to sell the iPhone by simply touting the number of apps available on the App Store.
Of the prominent app makers that are missing from Apple Watch, several echo Facebook in saying they are still trying to determine how to make the most of their apps on the device’s small screens, the largest of which is about 1.3 inches by 1.65 inches. For example, at a technology conference in May, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s chief executive, said he did not find the watch compelling.
I am not entire sold on the idea that success or failure of Apple Watch will corelate with the number of third-party apps.
When Apple Music does arrive on Apple TV, I hope there will be cool visualizers accompanying the new Apple Music channel. I am a bit tired of the list of current screensavers.
— Ben Nicholas (@BelgianBoolean) July 19, 2015
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Apple is looking to capture the Indian market's attention with the release of its first-India specific television commercial. The iPhone 6 advertisement released on Friday is based around the immediately identifiable ritual of the great Indian wedding.
It’s not that Whistle is inaccurate—hardly. It’s just that when you’re not there, actually seeing your dog, the reports don’t spell out the entirety of what’s happening. Sure, she still meets her activity goals, but Whistle doesn’t record how she slipped on a stair. I can see that she’s still eating her dinner, which is fantastic, but the device can’t show me how confused and panicked she seems when she wakes up—all very obvious differences now that, despite her relative health, are startling. I was somewhat lured into thinking everything was fine, that I would come home to my dog, the ageless wonder. Because on paper (or, screen, rather), that’s what I’d convinced myself she was.
So who are iPods for? They're for people who don't have a smartphone, and that's about it. This makes complete sense, though. The smartphone came in and ate so many products' lunch. Apple's iPhone can do everything these iPods can do and do so much more as well. A smartphone is almost essential if you're a young to middle age adult these days, so you probably already have one in your pocket. For that majority of the population, iPods are redundant, and they don't even think about them most of the time.
iPods remain somewhat relevant amongst the very young and very old. But once again, the rise of affordable tablets has made even those markets shrink by the day. It's hard to think the iPod line is going to do anything but continue shrink even with this refresh.
Your Mac OS X uses Keychain to store the configuration details of the WiFi network and we can use the BSD command “security” to query anything stored inside Keychain, including the Wi-Fi password.
The point of Beme, though, is to erase some of what Mr. Neistat sees as the facades created with social media in its current forms, stripping away the identities people consciously produce with the perfect Instagram filter or the cutesy doodles on a Snapchat photo.
“How would I look if I were just talking to myself in the mirror?” Mr. Neistat said in an interview. “If I’m in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?”
All too often mobile forms make use of dropdown menus for input when simpler or more appropriate controls would work better. Here's several alternatives to dropdowns to consider in your designs and why.
@atpfm @daringfireball Safari is the new… pic.twitter.com/yruwCSe6H7
— Kārlis Dambrāns (@janitors) July 17, 2015Okay, I haven't played a DVD for a long time. Until today, when I switched on "Toy Story" for a visiting relative... and I was momentarily confused when advertisement came on.
Yesterday a line of tourist Segways rolled by and I remembered how cities were supposedly going to be redesigned for them. Now we have Uber.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) July 18, 2015Thanks for reading.
We are so grateful the iPad helps him stand tall and be heard. People with a “special” someone in their lives know what they have to offer. Others around us and in the general population sometimes get it, but many times they don’t. They tend to associate speech with ability.
These days, when Kevin speaks, people listen.
When you have an iPad in your hands, how do you convince people to look away from it? Apprentice Architect addresses this by balancing informative graphics with tasks forcing the user to physically move around the space. To complete the photo-taking game, for example, I had to find six specific parts of the building. In this way the app encouraged me pay attention to the gallery, not through facts and figures but through exploration and play.
This means that to erase those names would feel like an attempt not just to erase these people, but to erase some part of myself. Perhaps these reminders will in some way make me do a better job with all those other contacts, over the course of whatever life we have left. Even if that proves to be wishful thinking, I’d rather live with these entries than make them disappear. What Steve Jobs’s former colleagues have decided to carry is in some sense a trace of his life. To me, that sounds like something worth keeping. What I’ve lost is part of who I am. So is what I choose to save.
There’s something satisfying about listening to music or spoken word on a device that is so self-effacing. You clip it on, plug in the earbuds or headphones, and listen.
Real books have only one purpose, unless you count their usefulness at squashing bugs and propping up air conditioners -- and maybe, to be determined, beating back swarms of ravenous sharks. There are no other apps, no email, no games, no finger movements that summon up yet another distraction in a world overwhelmed by them.
But if you spend most of your working day at a desk, the M1 is appealing not only because it is a smart desk that encourages you to move, but it’s also just a great space to work. If you do have $3,000 to spend on a desk, the M1 is a very good one, and it just might make you marginally healthier, too.
Scientists estimate that we Britons spend 60 per cent of our waking hours sitting. This rises to as much as 75 per cent for those who work in offices. Sedentary jobs have risen by 83 per cent since 1950.
Little wonder, then, that so many of us are suffering, on the most basic level, from neck and back problems. Indeed, I’m one of those afflicted by the ‘sitting disease’ that’s sweeping the nation.
Thing is, I’m all that not sure I really want to get to my feet.
The Earth Primer iPad app is a fun, interactive introduction to the internal and external structure of our planet, and the processes that drive its geology and weather. The app is highly interactive: With the touch of a finger, you can, for example, make volcanoes erupt, tectonic plates crash, and glaciers advance and recede.
What is so tough for regulators here — other than that they are using relatively arcane laws that probably never anticipated the innovation now going on in the tech sector — is that the streaming companies really do have a lot of ways to reach consumers. They can sell it over the Internet. And they all offer apps on Google’s store, which actually serves more customers around the world than Apple does.
So is Apple’s behavior truly anti-competitive?
Today I learnt that when a bluetooth earphone advertise itself as being able to be paired with two different devices, it doesn't mean I can hear audio from two different devices at the same time.
"It looks like they're facetiming" -@allyssary pic.twitter.com/oYk77kEmg7
— Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle) July 17, 2015Thanks for reading.
As simple as the concept might appear, approaches to today’s playlists are varied in a way that’s reminiscent of music itself. Computer algorithms or human curators? Editorial professionals or amateur compilers? Lesser-known upstarts or major-label stars? “The new radio,” as some have gushed, or just the latest repackaging of old formats? How it all shakes out could have long-term ramifications for the music-listening and music-making alike.
Ultimately, the best solution for me—and I stress, for me—has proved to be Numbers, for a few reasons. Firstly, it’s already on all my Macs and iOS devices. Secondly, while it may not be on par with the likes of Excel, it is remarkably powerful. And thirdly, well, it’s pretty and has a pretty gradual learning curve.
One thing I left out of my earlier post about iCloud Drive’s file deletion issue—but which is mentioned in the original source of the link—is that you can actually recover deleted files on iCloud Drive. But it’s not an obvious feature, because you can’t do it from the Finder, where iCloud Drive lives, or from your iOS device.
Coda 2.0 also introduces Panic Sync, for keeping your sites, clips, and credentials up to date between devices.
The text editor has added support for .DOCX file export, as well as several new options for backup to keep your work safe.
All in all, I’d say that — especially in Word, Excel and PowerPoint — the benefits of parity with Windows outweighs the loss of Mac distinctiveness. But unless you use Exchange, you might want to skip Outlook and use another email client, until Microsoft makes it friendly to people not employed at Goldman Sachs.
It’s an oft-repeated adage that with a camera phone, anyone can make a movie, but few filmmakers have lived up to the potential of the phrase quite like Sean Baker. His film Tangerine, the story of two friends who also happen to be transgender prostitutes, wowed audiences at Sundance and won over critics in the past few weeks with its theatrical release.
The ruling, from U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, is part of a 2013 lawsuit alleging Apple should compensate thousands of store employees for the time taken to search their bags to ensure they did not steal any merchandise.
The entire universe of Chinese songs are classified into just two generes in Apple Music: Mandarin and Cantonese.
The job listing is for a “Program Manager, Search Engine Optimization.” The description of the job makes it clear that this is about marketing.
That it isn’t really an elephant — and I won’t tell you what it is — is of a perfect, witty piece with these performers’ self-dismissing, self-deconstructing style. In theory, a Penn and Teller show is spoiler-proof because they make a point of spoiling their own deceptions, and even encourage you to go online to find out more about them, but they are also showmen to their toes who like to surprise stylishly.
Reminiscing about the days when you could move from the couch to the chair without having to transport a bevy of life simplifying equipment.
— Laura Silverman (@LauraJSilverman) July 15, 2015Thanks for reading.
Apple went all out with the iPod touch, giving the device the A8 chip, the same one used in the iPhone 6. Apple told me yesterday that the CPU in the new touch is six times faster than its predecessor and 10 times faster in graphics performance.
Apple also made some significant changes to the cameras in the iPod touch. In addition to an 8 Megapixel camera, Apple updated the image sensor processor and added burst and slo-mo modes to the iPod touch.
The shaping and refining of the iPod touch over the last couple of years has spelled out what Apple feels the iPod is still great for. It’s no longer a ‘music player’, it’s a gaming platform and a camera. This usage has played out right in front of me, as my daughter uses her touch as a (prolific) photography tool, shooting pictures of herself, our dog, us, the back of our car seat…you get the picture. There’s a case to be made that the iPod touch could be positioned as a standalone camera, much in the way that the original iPod was positioned as a media player.
At its heart, though, this is probably an issue regarding priority and time. Apple needed to write a software update for both the nano and the shuffle to recognize and use Apple Music; instead, they get a new paint job and that's about it. (The nano is still using the iOS 6 UI, which is kind of horrific when you think about it. Jony, you really let this out of your lab?) I suppose there's a small chance that Apple could take the time to update the device's software in the future to allow for this, but I'm skeptical.
Word from a few little birdies is that what remains of the iPod software team is now working on Apple Watch — the Nano UI wasn’t updated to look like iOS 7 because there’s no one left to do it.
If you allow me to draw wild speculations just for a little -- perhaps the next iPod nano and iPod shuffle will be using the watchOS?
TfL advises users that, as with other smartphone payment systems including EE’s Cash on Tap, Apple Pay only works if a device has power. It warns that, if the battery runs out in the middle of a journey, a user will not be able to tap out, which means they could be charged a maximum fare.
TfL also lists having both an iPhone and an Apple Watch as a potential issue – with a risk of being charged twice. It also warns that receiving a call while attempting to touch into or out of the gates will also cause issues, and that users with multiple cards on their account must remember to use the same one or potentially be charged twice.
Looks like Apple need to add a Subway Mode to go alongside with Airplay Mode. :-)
Listening to a song on Apple Music and want to sing along without messing up the words à la “Hold me closer, Tony Danza”? Just swipe from the top of the screen of your iOS device and check Musixmatch’s Today widget in the Notification Center.
The upshot for most users, especially those who only use Apple software and software purchased or obtained through the Mac App Store, is that there will be no difference whatsoever. The vast majority of software used by the vast majority of people doesn’t need access to or play around with files or processes.
For users who customize their systems with utilities and like to make full nightly clone updates of their systems, there will be change ahead. Developers are going to have to rethink some of their products.
Gnemmi said that what distinguishes Apple is that it tries to make money and builds high-quality products. That profit margin helps "with the quality of the product, so I'm not fooling around with it," he said.
I have a 'problem' with Touch ID - it works too fast. Sometimes, I just press the home button with the intention of just bringing up the lock screen so that, for example, I can press on the 'rewind 30 seconds' button.
But, by the time my finger reach the 'rewind 30 seconds' button, Touch ID has confirmed my other finger which is still on the home button, and I am bounced off to the home screen. Now, instead of pressing the 'rewind 30 seconds', I launched an app instead.
(If you are curious, the app that sits in that location on my iPhone is Day One. These accidental launches didn't prompt me to write more in my journal, thougn.)
Client: What if no one gets it?
Agency: We'll explain the gag in subhead
C: Won't that ruin it?
A: We'll use brackets pic.twitter.com/2JUxbUM9YK
— Stu Royall (@stu_bot3000) July 15, 2015Thanks for reading.
This report will explore how well the watch works when it’s exposed to water. I’ll also make some recommendations for Apple to improve the usability of its Workout app, especially when tracking water sports.
Few seemed to pick up on that nuance.
It’s that last line that should give Gruber, or anyone else complaining about crappy websites, pause. After all, if iMore respects their readers, the only alternative explanation is that their development team is incompetent. Unless, of course, iMore, along with the vast majority of ad-supported sites on the web, have basically no choice in the matter.
“‘I can’t support this, you need to pay us from the first stream,'” Borchetta, the CEO of Big Machine Records, says he told Apple execs. “And those conversations led up to the weekend where Taylor posted the blog.”
According to Borchetta, he hadn’t spoken to Swift earlier in the week, and was caught by surprise when she let him know about her letter.
“We’ve always been very clear that we’re talking about U.S. online sales. We’re not projecting other channels,” said Agarwal. “Anytime we send data to reporters, I was the first to say, ‘Look, it could be sales are shifting online to in-stores.’ That’s how we present it.”
For everyday folks who want to build a website but don’t know how, Sandvox offers a friendly all-in-one solution. Web design pros who need powerful, versatile tools won’t find them, however.
But if you take careful steps to protect yourself, it’s possible to communicate online in a way that’s private, secret and anonymous. Today I’m going to explain in precise terms how to do that. I’ll take techniques NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used when contacting me two and a half years ago and boil them down to the essentials. In a nutshell, I’ll show you how to create anonymous real-time chat accounts and how to chat over those accounts using an encryption protocol called Off-the-Record Messaging, or OTR.
Cloud storage is a brilliant idea, but the way Apple has implemented it is reckless and irresponsible. People’s data is sacred, and Apple makes it really easy to just vaporize it, forever.
Global Human Resources Chief Denise Young Smith said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech on Tuesday morning that Apple’s next “diversity report” will come “sometime this summer” and will reveal some progress on recruiting diverse employees. “We did have some movement in our hiring or women and hiring of minorities,” said Young Smith, noting that about 35% of Apple’s recent recruits are women. The upcoming report, which Young Smith claims will have “more transparency” than its report last year, will show an uptick in hiring African-American and Hispanic recruits as well.
But the worst case scenario that's developing here is that we're going to let Apple and Facebook control the means of distribution simply by pitting readers who don't want to pay for content saddle with slow, hard-to-navigate web pages against publishers who are operating businesses with thin profit margins. The list of publishers already working with Apple News is long, with titles from big conglomerates like Condé Nast and Hearst already on board. And again, given the financial climate in publishing, I do not blame them.
The 5 world religions. pic.twitter.com/dBhB2EF5hd
— Karin Kosina (@kyrah) July 13, 2015Thanks for reading.
This includes fixing a problem that caused some matched tracks to be listed as Apple Music tracks by mistake.
I installed the update, and it hasn’t fixed anything for me.
If you’re subscribed to Apple Music, why does the Store only play previews, not the full song?
— Ben Millett (@benmillett) July 13, 2015We don’t need managers to impose time discipline upon us—we do it ourselves because we’re so busy. It seems the only option in the face of the demand-and-expectation tsunami hitting us each day. So we schedule and cram our time, squeezing all the efficiency we can out of each day. Time management, we believe, is the solution to our busyness: if we could organize our time better, we’d be less overwhelmed, happier, and more effective. We are completely wrong on all three counts, and it’s damaging our lives and our careers.
Dr. Steiner-Adair is especially concerned about parental failure to pay full attention to their children “at critical times of the day, like when taking children to and from school. This should be a cell-free zone for everyone — no Bluetooth for parents or devices for the kids. The pickup from school is a very important transitional time for kids, a time for them to download their day. Parents shouldn’t be saying, ‘Wait a minute, I have to finish this call.’ ”
Likewise, she said, when parents come home from work, “they should walk in the door unplugged and use the first hour they’re home as time to reconnect with the family. Kids hate the phrase ‘just checking’ that parents frequently use to justify a very rude, infuriating behavior.”
Nine months after its release in the U.S., Apple Pay will be available to iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch users in the UK on Tuesday, local time, with support from more than 250,000 retail locations and eight major banks.
It seems Apple Pay's UK debut didn't go off without a hitch on Tuesday, as HSBC customers are not able to use service despite the bank's status as an official launch partner. In a related development, Barclays did an about face and announced upcoming support for Apple's contactless payment solution.
Here’s a brilliant – and infuriatingly addictive – way to lose a few hours in the app-osphere: the new (and free!) iPhone and iPad app from London Sinfonietta and Touchpress dedicated to Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. OK, so it’s not based on a behemoth of classical music like the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony app, one of Touchpress’s previous iOS blockbusters, but Clapping Music is arguably an even better fit for interactive technology.
This update adds a new kind of brush stroke called Dynamic Touch, which simulates pressure sensitivity by examining the size of the finger input that touches the screen. Larger surface area produces thicker strokes on the canvas. Similarly, using just the tip of a finger results in fine lines in the app.
With the Internet running out of standard 32-bit IP addresses (known as IPv4), the switch to IPv6 – which offers 128-bit addresses – has been quietly underway for some time. Apple says this work has now progressed sufficiently for IPv6 to be considered mainstream, and it is prioritizing the use of the new addressing system in the public betas of both iOS 9 and OS X 10.11.
I’ve been hesitant to write this post because I worried people wouldn’t want to hear from a company that just went through layoffs. But, I hope someone will get value from hearing what we went through. I had never been through layoffs so I didn’t know what to expect.
I want to focus on the obligations that quickly emerged once we decided to shut down this part of our business.
From our perspective, we the computer scientists and mathematicians, the central obstacle is still that we don’t have a good definition of fairness.
Those affiliate groups, which include Tribune and Sinclair, are being told by the networks that if they opt in and offer their feeds, they will be able to share in the added revenue the Apple streaming product will produce, sources tell The Post.
“Apple has a lot of reach and this is a good opportunity,” said one network source.
Our printer is in the grip of existential angst. pic.twitter.com/yT2tKUZToX
— Katharine Houreld (@khoureld) July 13, 2015Thanks for reading.
For third-party developers – the folks who make the apps you use every day – the problem is compounded by the fact that their finished apps can be installed and run on an unfinished version of iOS/OS X and that users can leave regular, public App Store reviews for them. This is the core of an issue that presents itself every year.
I will not miss it if Apple removed the entire review feature in the app stores.
I won’t lie: this was a little bit terrifying, or at least as terrifying as any other experience you can have sitting at a desk. I checked my backups like four times and was still nervous I’d wake the next day to discover a missed checkbox has vanished my playlists, or sent my music to the big iCloud in the sky.
My end goal was to move all the music out of iTunes and leave things like Movies and TV Shows behind so I can still make use of my Apple TV. I don’t particularly care about things like Date Added and Watched status for these items, so I was free to handle this fairly simply.
Developed by buUuk, Klok isn't the first iPhone app to make different time zones available from a Notification Center widget. However, unlike similar apps I've used before, Klok allows for basic interactions in the widget, which can be useful when comparing different times at a glance without having to calculate differences between them.
Websites designers live in a bubble, they’re increasingly disconnected from users. Their work requirements include design (fonts, layouts elements), advertising (multiple ad serving and analytics), data collection (even though most sites collects way more data that they are able to process), a/b testings, and other marketing voodoo.
Then, when a third party vendor shows up with the tool-everyone-else-uses, the pitch stresses simplicity: ‘Just insert a couple of lines of code’, or ‘A super-light javascript’. Most often, corporate sales and marketing drones kick in: ‘We need this tool’, or ‘Media-buying agencies demand it’. The pressure can even come from the newsroom struggling to improve its SEO scores, asking for new gadgets “To better pilot editorial production”, or “To rank higher in Google News”.
Over the 1980s, Mr. Iwata worked on a number of the company’s biggest titles. He became company president in 1993, just after he helped put out the first installment of the Kirby franchise, Kirby’s Dream Land.
The game, which features a puffy, pink protagonist who gobbles up enemies and spits them out as projectiles, became a hallmark of casual gameplay for the mobile game device well before the era of smartphone games.
Similarly, simplicity and ease of use were the driving forces behind the motion sensor technology that made the Wii console so popular.
— Steve Gaynor (@fullbright) July 10, 2015
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It appears Apple's extension is a one-time deal, as the email notes users might need to reduce their reliance on iCloud storage if subsequent attempts for renewal fail.
The launch of Apple Music hasn't only included a new radio station, social network, and streaming service. Apple have also started creating their own original content. The company made Drake's amazing "Energy" video in-house, as well as Pharrell's "Freedom" and Eminem's "Phenomenal".
The third, maybe most important feature: Nobody owns RSS.
Steve Jobs on problem solving: (via @gmc https://t.co/RRgQCX83yH) pic.twitter.com/YqneLwXBFc
— Chris Dixon (@cdixon) July 11, 2015Pro tip: Keep the people who talk about building things away from the people who actually build things.
— rands (@rands) July 10, 2015If college was really about preparing you for a career, it would be nothing but 4 years of writing emails.
— alex watlington (@alexwatlington) July 8, 2015Officials assigned the trees ID numbers and email addresses in 2013 as part of a program designed to make it easier for citizens to report problems like dangerous branches. The “unintended but positive consequence,” as the chair of Melbourne’s Environment Portfolio, Councillor Arron Wood, put it to me in an email, was that people did more than just report issues. They also wrote directly to the trees, which have received thousands of messages—everything from banal greetings and questions about current events to love letters and existential dilemmas.
Awkward family photos SDCC style pic.twitter.com/EnFQg09rnL
— Steve Drew (@elquesogrande1) July 10, 2015Thanks for reading.
The idea that anyone can be creative and benefit from doing so is a concept we took forward when we formed FiftyThree and developed our app, Paper, which enables users to sketch, write, draw and visualise ideas on their iPad.
The city’s department of transportation has been redesigning intersections to make left turns safer by changing signals and incorporating other design measures. But Lander and Rodriguez got the idea to ask Google to help by giving its map users the chance to request a “reduce left turns” routing option. “We haven’t heard back yet,” says Rodriguez. “But we hope, knowing that Google is one of those good private entities, that Google can look at this.”
Want to use iTunes Match or Apple Music but have too many songs? Here's how to create a sub-library to use with the service.
The big iTunes news this week is the introduction of Apple Music, and the many changes it brings to iTunes. In this week’s column, I answer a number of questions related to Apple Music, and to other changes in iTunes 12.2.
If you’ve got a decently long history with the Mac, you’ll remember AppleWorks and ClarisWorks. When Microsoft Office was a high-priced suite, AppleWorks and ClarisWorks were inexpensive (and sometimes thrown in). Apple stopped selling the last version in 2007, but files linger. In this week’s column, Mac 911 helps a reader open ancient ’Works files. I also help with sorting, EPUB formatting, and a systemwide text replacement sync issue.
Lightweight word processor does what it says.
If your goal is only to learn, then write clean code. But if your goal is to build a successful business, then stop trying to impress your heroes. Learn as you go. Be messy. Don’t use new technologies. Don’t use new languages for their own sake. Don’t waste time trying to think of the most elegant way to break an egg.
Rumored HomeKit/HealthKit synergy: if you ignore Apple Watch’s “time to stand” reminders, it pulls the fire alarm and activates sprinklers.
— Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) July 11, 2015U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment of rival streaming music apps is illegal under antitrust law, according to three industry sources.
Apple's latest retail outpost in Hong Kong — thought to be the company's largest in Asia — went public this week with the unveiling of a huge, three-dimensional Apple logo in a somewhat unexpected place.
Finally: Oreo-flavored Oreos. pic.twitter.com/GZLiciWVZJ
— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) July 10, 2015Thanks for reading.
Office for Mac 2016 is available now with an Office 365 subscription. Office 2016 for Mac will become available as a one-time purchase option this September.
OneNote for Mac still lacks the kind of offline support offered in the Windows version, which can create new notebooks without an Internet connection and back notebooks up locally. The core Office for Mac applications of Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, can do just about everything their Windows counterparts can.
Mac preview participants provided us with over 100,000 pieces of feedback. Based on this feedback, we released seven updates in four months with significant improvements in performance and stability. We also added features like improved Mail Merge in Word, Propose New Time in Outlook and support for External Data Connections in Excel.
And the best news is that Office for Mac will continue to see ongoing improvements over time. We plan to release updates and new features for Office 365 customers at least once per quarter.
Both of today’s new advertisements end with the slogan, “If it’s not an iPhone, it’s not an iPhone.”
Though the public beta versions seem quite stable, they’re still pre-release versions of operating systems and need to be used with caution. If you’ve got a spare device, test on that. At the very least, be sure your Mac is backed up.
Also, it’s a beta! So be sure to report any bugs you find. Apple includes the Feedback Assistant app with every beta, and that’s the preferred way to give feedback about problems you encounter while testing.
I keep most of my smaller files in Dropbox or iCloud Drive, but on occasion I need to grab something like, say, a podcast MP3. There are a number of ways to do this—configuring an SFTP server, for example, or using Back to My Mac1—but the one I’ve found most handy is using OS X’s built-in Screen Sharing.
Now, this does take a little preparation, but the good news it that once you invest the initial time to configure it, you shouldn’t need to do it again.
Privacy is a big concern for many people these days, and one way to help protect your privacy is to change Safari's default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo. Unlike Google, DuckDuckGo does not track you or filter bubble your search results. And it's quite easy to make DuckDuckGo your default search engine in Safari in OS X and iOS.
Every new OS X release has its own special challenges, and OS X 10.11 - which I still have trouble referring to as "El Capitan" - is no different. And in our testing (which we commenced immediately upon availability of the developer preview), we found that we couldn't make a copy of an El Capitan disk due to the new system protection or rootless feature.
As a part of this abstraction, there’s now a new generic family name: -apple-system-font.
As it now stands, nobody in Congress has actually proposed a law mandating these backdoors. Instead, politicians are trying to guilt the tech sector into complying. And President Barack Obama's administration is mulling an encryption policy and could ask Congress for backdoor legislation in the coming months.
When you say, “It’s in the wiki,” I hear:
“RTFM. And good luck *finding* the FM. Loser.”
— Reginald Braithwaite (@raganwald) July 9, 2015Thanks for reading.
To restore those hidden tracks, you’ll need to fire up iTunes on your Mac or PC, and then access your account by clicking on your name in the title bar and choosing Account Info.
Has Apple released a user manual for Apple Music and iTunes yet?
The music service of the future requires the bandwidth of the future, the battery of the future, and the services and platforms of the future. All of those things will come true, eventually. They just haven’t yet. Until then, just give us a way to listen to music offline.
I've spend so much time trying to figuring out Apple Music's offline feature, and I still do not know if I am just not getting it right, or if the app and/or service is buggy.
Apple Stores are already beginning to sell third-party accessories with packaging co-designed by Apple, giving the company even greater control over the presentation and marketing of products sold in its retail outlets.
It evaluates the context of your current work state, whether you’re in a web browser, or selecting a file in the Finder, or editing a document in Photoshop, and it enables you to add comments to the context of your work.
Programming is a constant struggle between "What is harder: Implementing it myself, or understanding the existing, undocumented solution?"
— mcc (@mcclure111) July 8, 2015Spotify is trying to raise awareness around the fact that it's cheaper to subscribe on the web instead of through Apple's App Store. The leading subscription music service plans to email iPhone customers [a] note encouraging them, if they haven't already, to start paying at Spotify.com and save a few dollars.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't one of Apple's rules for the App Store is that in-app purchase prices cannot be more expensive than prices outside of the app?
"In the near-term, we’ll run a more effective and focused phone portfolio while retaining capability for long-term reinvention in mobility." The new job cuts follow 18,000 over the past 12 months that Nadella originally announced nearly a year ago.
If I ran a hospital gift shop I’d stock lightning and mini-usb cables. Just saying.
— Scott McNulty (@blankbaby) July 8, 2015Thanks for reading.
Instapaper has been one of the most recommended apps for iOS users since the App Store first debuted, and it’s no accident. It was one of the first apps on iOS to demonstrate the truly transformational power apps can have on a mobile device. Holding “the web in your hands” means something very different when you’re not just passively browsing that web but picking and choosing what parts of the web you want to hold and read comfortably on your couch. Other apps may do a better job of parsing images or organizing articles, but Instapaper does the best job of presenting the text of the things you want to read in the format you most enjoy reading. And that’s why it’s our favorite read-it-later service for iOS.
Me? I use both Instapaper and Pocket. Two lists for two differnet purposes, one for articles I want to read in the evening, and one for articles I just want to keep until when I really have time to sit down and just read. Both services work great.
One of my co-workers has the saddest screensaver ever. pic.twitter.com/RksodH2OTc
— Ina Fried (@inafried) July 7, 2015I love how well it integrates with my own personal music collection, and recommends great music throughout the day, but there are too many bugs and frustrations to battle.
When I was re-entering the tech workforce 18 months ago, I ran into several problems:
Nobody cared that I had worked as an engineer for Google or shipped 2 very technical products while starting a company. I was still put through the technical whiteboard wringer when interviewing.
- My old salary was too high for my local tech market.
The reaction to Beats 1 suggests people appreciate, or miss, the communal listening experiences offered by traditional radio. Listening to personalized playlists, sharing songs and getting album recommendations have their rewards, and people will continue to want those features, but streaming services should venture beyond their original charters. After the rise of one-to-one streaming, it appears we've come full circle and returned to one-to-many broadcasting.
Dr. Scott Fahlman invented a playful keyboard shortcut that is now used more than six billion times a day. But he hopes to be remembered for something a bit more substantial than a smiley face.
“A Mac is something that keeps its value,” she added, pointing to a gleaming 27-inch screen.
The Apple Music free trial made me realize that I don't care that much about music anymore.
Museums are different in Denmark. pic.twitter.com/jU83NclhEJ
— You had one job (@_youhadonejob) July 2, 2015Thanks for reading.
As I pointed to at the beginning of this article, the Apple Watch is a modern day convenience and should be understood as such. It is a convenience in the same way a dishwasher or washer/dryer or a microwave is. None of the items are absolutely necessary, yet so many of their owners can’t imagine life without one. This is what my week without the Apple Watch taught me. Of course I can get by without it but, given the number of conveniences I’ve been able to quantify in the flow of my daily life, I can no longer imagine life without it.
After a second computer failure left him without a means to record his album and no money to buy a replacement, Prince finished recording the vocals and backing instrumental tracks for his new album entirely in that one Apple Store.
In response to a tweet about the removal of Home Sharing for music, Cue tweeted "We are working to have Home Sharing in iOS 9."
The company is gearing up to revamp its third-party accessory selection across all of its retail stores by next week by reducing the amount of accessories available in stores to ones sold in packaging co-designed by Apple. Apple has been working with select third-party accessory makers over the past six months to redesign boxes so that the experience more closely matches the boxes of Apple’s own products.
The idea behind the app, which was developed by a team inside Microsoft's Outlook division, is to make it easier to find a place where everyone in a group wants to go to, say, eat after work or just hang out.
The new Cloud Drive app offers a more Dropbox-like experience, allowing users to view, manage, and share all of the content they have stored in the service.
This week, Mac 911 focuses on OS X and things that are missing or migrating. I answer questions about deauthorizing software on a Mac before a migration, where to find old Wi-Fi utility software and firmware, deleting a Fusion drive’s extra partition, and a small array of Migration Assistant questions.
The power of Pixar: I felt like crying just by listening to a podcast where people were discussing the Inside Out movie.
Not the most helpful update from #Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/R9Kk1frUcG
— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) July 6, 2015Thanks for reading.
And though he remained the same mercurial, rash, dangerously unpredictable, and impetuous Steve Jobs who had been driven out of Apple in 1985, he had learned two important pieces of wisdom in the interim: (1) Build a company that rewards risk rather than punishes it; and (2) Never forget that all successful enterprises, no matter how big and wealthy, are an aggregation of teams large and small, loyal and renegade, stabilizing and anarchistic, from the lowliest engineers to executive row—all of them working, sometimes in harmony and sometimes at cross-purposes, toward the success of the company.
When Beats 1 was announced, it seemed ordinary and unremarkable -- and it would have been if Apple had followed the common path, which is to create a separate radio station for every genre. Instead, Apple came out with one station. In doing so, it set that station apart from all others in a major way.
Apps can be a great way to broaden your kid's perspective on the world. With just the tap of your finger, you can whisk your child away to explore a farm, a city, or even the woods. With the right apps, children learn about each new location by playing inside it, including driving a tractor, sampling food trucks in a city park, and watching a deer cavort in the forest. Here's a closer look at three outstanding digital field trip apps.
Apple’s lack of engagement with the broader web community has also been damaging to their reputation. By not making the effort to attend meetups, write blog posts, or set up forums for feedback, it’s no wonder developers are left with the impression that Apple doesn’t care about the web. Even just sending a developer evangelist to a few meetups to smile, nod, and answer questions politely would do wonders for their public perception.
Furthermore, Apple’s lack of boots on the ground at everyday developer soirées means that they’re increasingly out of touch with what developers want from the web platform. The fact that so many meetups and conferences have sprung up recently, and the fact that the web is fast becoming the world’s most advanced cross-platform application runtime are not isolated incidents. Developers like myself are getting excited about the web precisely because it’s supplanting all the old application paradigms. But as I pointed out above, the “appy” aspects of the web are exactly where Safari tends to falter.
The limitations of algorithmic curation of news and culture has prompted a return to the use of actual humans to select, edit, and explain. Who knows, this might spread to another less traditional media: apps.
We know what you're thinking, and to answer your question: "No, it's not fake."
The original NYT motto was so much better. pic.twitter.com/zMHlGX9rgc
— Neil King (@NKingofDC) July 3, 2015Thanks for reading.
Worldwide. Always On. One hundred countries. Listen to Beats 1 for more than a few songs and without fail someone will get on a mic to remind you the global reach of Apple Music's tentpole radio station. But while the ambition is there, does Beats 1 translate globally? Turns out, The Verge is also worldwide and always on. So we tasked some of our writers both in the US and internationally — specifically London, Tokyo, and Paris — to listen to the first 24 hours of Beats 1 radio.
Though there are a number of ways to listen to music online, you might consider starting with a new, empty playlist you can use to accumulate your offline tracks.
Alex Fishman, a former software engineer for Apple and an investment strategist for Goldman Sachs, wondered whether it would be possible to use big data to sort out the dizzying, often intimidating world of wine. In 2012, he founded Delectable, which has become one of the leading apps for identifying and sharing information on what you drink, used both by amateurs and some of the most influential voices in wine, including critics like the writer Jay McInerney and musicians-turned-wine bar owners like James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. This week, the San Francisco-based company is releasing statistics showing how drinking patterns among its users are changing, based on more than 1 million unique submissions since the first quarter of 2013.
Focus on habits, not goals
Learning alone is painful
- Build things.
As I take the commuter train, I look at everyone on their smartphones. I imagine there are others also scrolling through pictures of their families, just as I am with photos of Iain. I see a message from a lady, a new friend, whose husband also died of a brain tumour a few days before Iain – we’ve never met but have shared such a similarly traumatic story that we’re linked to each other now. As I go to reply, I’m aware that we’d never have connected if this had been 1915, not 2015.
programming tip: when you encounter mixed tabs and spaces, hide swear words in there for the next maintainer to find pic.twitter.com/1xAPBWXLTu
— codl (@codl) June 30, 2015Apple appears to be planning to enable its Apple Pay iPhone mobile payments service in the United Kingdom on July 14th, according to sources at multiple retailers. Apple has informed some Apple Retail employees in the U.K. that Apple Pay support will go live on that Tuesday, while an internal memos for supermarket Waitrose plus an additional retail partner indicate the same date.
They don't have elevator music at NPR, they just play NPR.
— Alex Duner (@asduner) July 5, 2015Who wants their babies kissed or their yard signs autographed anymore? This is the Selfie Election. And if you are running for president, you have no choice but to submit.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. pic.twitter.com/DjCSBaW44t
— Gautam Trivedi (@Gotham3) July 3, 2015Thanks for reading.
Congratulations, Apple: You’ve made us all talk about music again.
But each of the five tabs of Apple’s revamped Music app is like an app itself, a digital smorgasbord of tracks, albums, playlists, recommendations, charts, channels, programming schedules and more. It’s like eating a five-course meal, only each course is a trip to the buffet. It’s very rich — and it might be too much.
Yes, Apple Music has a DRM component. Yes, it sucks, but it's similar to every other streaming service. No, it does not overwrite the files on your Mac to make all your music DRM-laden. For those Googling in a panic, here's the deal.
eSpark creates iPad-based curriculum for students. But their curriculum is solely made up of iOS resources and apps that have been vetted by former teachers, and are individualized for student's learning based on tests and student engagement. This method helps free up time for teachers who want to dive into edtech, but aren't sure where to start.
Today, the App Store is basically your delivery truck that takes cash on delivery. We wouldn’t blame a delivery truck for our business failure. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s not a delivery truck’s responsibility to ensure that there’s a market for our products. That’s what market research is for. It’s not a delivery truck’s responsibility to advertise our products or introduce them to customers. That’s what marketing is for. And it’s not a delivery truck’s responsibility to prop up prices in the market place. That’s just not it’s role.
"I've set the wedding date. I've not asked her out yet."---how software projects are managed.
— Venkat Subramaniam (@venkat_s) July 3, 2015Ordinary Greeks who are accustomed to using international services such as Apple’s AppStore and PayPal are now finding that they can non longer use popular paid-for internet services due to the financial restrictions.
We live in a world where even trash cans can kernel panic. pic.twitter.com/5iNwob2806
— Ben Nunney (@BenNunney) April 6, 2013Thanks for reading.
I use the “Like” system in my music services all the time because I want it to learn from my listening habits and be more personalized for my tastes. However, it seems that every service uses this system in different ways, so I talked to Apple about how you should use likes with Apple Music.
Zane Lowe’s debut on Apple’s Beats 1 radio reminded me of what has been missing from my iTunes music collection: Personality.
His discography originally appeared on Apple Music, which launched on Tuesday, but has since been pulled from the library.
Fireworks and other loud noises account for nearly 20% of missing pets, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). To help pet owners cope with a missing dog or another pet as a result of noisy July 4 celebrations, thunderstorms and natural disasters, the ASPCA has created a free smartphone app for iOS and Android.
Possibly the nerdiest joke ever.. pic.twitter.com/jCh7BqJHFZ
— Paul Grenfell (@evilpaul_atebit) July 2, 2015Although many are celebrating the long-awaited arrival of Trim support for third-party SSD storage that can be enabled by users, Apple's implementation of it should be considered preliminary, and comes with an unusual and strongly-worded warning that offers no support if the user should experience problems. In addition, some popular SSD models, notably Samsung's 840 and 850 lines, may be subject to a data-destroying bug if Trim is activated.
The case will become a thorn in Apple’s side if the workers win class-action status, said Michael Risch, a law professor at Villanova University School of Law in Pennsylvania.
“I assume they would take a $75 million hit plus bad publicity seriously,” Risch said in an e-mail. “Chump change for Apple, but nothing to sneeze at.”
Connect wants to be about connecting artists with their listeners, but at the moment, it falls short.
My most common iMessage over the past three days: “Are you listening to Beats 1 right now!?”
— Shawn King (@ShawnKing) July 2, 2015Thanks for reading.
Apple is right when they say nothing like this has been attempted before: an international radio station, with the scope to do seriously innovative, far-reaching things. Finally getting to grips with the station made those possibilities seem infinite. Zane's return to the air was only a taster - but with shows by St Vincent, Pharrell and other stars still to check out, plus a rare Eminem interview from Zane incoming tomorrow, it seems Beats is going to take some beating in the streaming wars.
When you match and download files from iCloud Music Library (without having an iTunes Match subscription), however, you get files with DRM; the same kind of files you get when you download files from Apple Music for offline listening.
Scanner Pro, one of the best document-scanning apps for iPhone, has hit version 6.0, getting a redesign and giving you more control over your scans. The app will now automatically search for documents in your photo library, and will also begin scanning new documents on its own.
ProCamera has long been true to its name: a camera app that provides professional-grade tools. And it continues to be so with the release of its latest update, which makes for even more pro-level capabilities.
I've long felt that we as a community let our enthusiasm for building something we love and stories of days past blind us to a simple fact that other industries realized long ago: being independent is hard and many of us that try will not succeed.
Our community will not be an exception to that rule.
And in the end thats OK.
The good news and the bad news are the same: we’re extremely lucky to be paid to do this. In our careers as software designers and developers, we’re able to create and share things we love, and we’re able to make a decent living. With luck, we’ll still be able to do both at once.
While Apple's latest iOS 8.4 update has brought the much anticipated Apple Music and Beats 1 to the world, a number of users are reporting one glaring issue: Home Sharing for music on iOS has seemingly disappeared.
Apple could be preparing to refresh its aging iPod lineup with new colors, according to a new image found inside of yesterday’s iTunes 12.2 update for Apple Music. With the new update, when a user plugs in an iPod for the first time, the above image showcasing a dark blue iPod touch, a gold iPod nano, and a dark pink iPod shuffle appear.
One decade ago this weekend, millions of iPod owners woke up to a quiet change to the iTunes software they probably didn’t even notice. The really revolutionary updates usually have nice, round numbers—iTunes 3.0 invented the personalized playlist, 4.0 introduced the Music Store, 11.0 gave us iCloud—so it was somehow fitting that even mighty Cupertino didn’t seem to realize they were launching, yet again, a powerful new category of media with iTunes 4.9: Podcasting.
New iPods coming soon? Surely, that's because Apple is updating the iPods to support Apple Music, right?
Can’t wait for the Apple TV service where people will discover “channels” with programmed shows airing at particular times.
— Scott McNulty (@blankbaby) July 2, 2015Thanks for reading.
Apple knows a lot about my musical tastes. It knows what I’ve bought from the iTunes Store, and it knows what’s in my iTunes library through its Genius feature. So it should get a lot better than that.
But you will have noticed that there is no “Apple Music” feature in either the iOS Music app, or in iTunes.
In a reply to a user on Twitter, Cue said that a new beta of iOS 9 will be available next week with Apple Music integration.
My search for Apple Music's worst playlist of them of all is paying dividends, big time pic.twitter.com/y58awJYGLS
— Connor Tomas O'Brien (@mrconnorobrien) July 1, 2015The new TRIM support enables the OS to enhance file cleanup operations on the attached SSD to keep the system optimized and running without issue.
Apple has released Mac EFI Security Update 2015-001 for OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion and 10.9.5 Mavericks, which prevents a malicious application with root privileges from modifying a Mac's EFI flash memory.
Apple has issued Security Update 2015-005 for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks, mirroring many of the security fixes that are included with the concurrently released 10.10.4 Yosemite.
Also new in iOS 8.4, Audiobooks have been moved to iBooks following the Music redesign. With a distinct collection in their iBooks libraries, users will now be able to start listening to audiobooks in iBooks through a new media player that offers gesture support, a sleep timer, and speed controls.
Apple Music Connect artists can, say, create a sample of a melody that they just thought of and make it available on Connect to get feedback from fans. Or an artist can offer previews of new singles that are about to drop. It's another way for artists to cultivate a community on Apple Music.
Apple has reached a partnership with mobile connectivity company GigSky to expand Apple SIM cellular data plans to over 90 countries and territories around the world. iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 users that have Apple SIM installed can now purchase short-term data plans while traveling in a long list of countries throughout Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, South America and other regions worldwide.
If we can start building a vibrant ecosystem of web applications where Apple is not invited, then maybe they’ll be forced to pull a Microsoft and make their own penitent walk to Canossa. Otherwise we’ll have to content ourselves with living in the web of 2010, with Safari replacing IE as the blue-tinged icon that fills web developers with dread.
When designers talk about their process, they often talk about things like sketching and wireframing and usability tests. But it has recently occurred to me that this is not what I usually start out with. The first thing I typically design is the application’s data model.
Write the apps you want to write in your free time and out of love for the platform and for those specific apps. Take risks. Make those apps interesting and different. Don’t play it safe. If you’re not expecting money, you have nothing to lose.
Could the do-it-for-love era — with the creative freedom that that brings — bring us back to the days when we downloaded apps that weren’t from Facebook and Starbucks and Funded Company X, and we told our friends about our exciting finds?
I hope. I have hope.
web design.
have we all lost our minds? pic.twitter.com/EmkEmXagr5
— Trent Walton (@TrentWalton) July 1, 2015Now I know why Apple started making taller phones. Seriously? pic.twitter.com/a25gjTxYmm
— Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul) June 30, 2015A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a judge's ruling that Apple Inc had conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, in a win for the U.S. Justice Department.
The larger point is that the rule of reason is a plea for antitrust common sense, which has been notable by its absence during the Apple e-books farce. The High Court ought to rebuke lower courts that are embracing premodern antitrust and flouting its instructions.
In other words, instead of being able to piggy-back on the market position of its publishing partners in order to gain entry into this new market, Apple hitched its e-book wagon to an industry that was already actively engaged in collusion over prices—and desperately trying to resist the future. And ultimately it was the giant electronics company that got crushed under the wheels of that wagon.
My son needed an empty piece of paper, so he opened a blank Word document and printed it out. We're doomed.
— EdwardPickering (@EdwardPickering) June 29, 2015Thanks for reading.