Although it may not seem that winter is drawing to a close, Spring isn’t that far away, and now is the best time to start planning your Spring cleaning. That’s an opportunity to give your Mac a good physical clean, and to catch up on software housekeeping as outlined in this article.
In another important way, though, how we listen has shrunk. Not in every instance, but often enough to be worthy of attention. The culprit is the single speaker—as opposed to a pair of them, like your ears—and once you start looking for it, you might see it everywhere, an invasive species of flower fringing the highway. Every recorded sound we encounter is made up of layers of artifice, of distance from the originating disturbance of air. So this isn’t an argument about some standard of acoustic integrity; rather, it’s about the space we make with music, and what (and who) will fit inside.
Apps distributed through both Apple and Google’s app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that’s being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It’s the “first known case” of apps infected with malware that uses OCR tech to extract text from images making it into Apple’s App Store, according to a blog post detailing the company’s findings.
Apple this week added parts and tools for all M4 Macs to its self-service repair store in the U.S. and many European countries. This includes parts for MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac mini models with M4, M4 Pro, and/or M4 Max chips.
The problem is that I rarely find myself needing to use the Vision Pro. It’s not that I don’t enjoy using it… in fact, every time I put it on, I find myself wanting to give myself additional reasons to keep on using it because it’s so much fun in there! But the impetus to find a safe place to sit, take off my glasses, slip on a VR headset, and jack into cyberspace doesn’t come along that often. There’s enough of a barrier there that it only happens maybe once or twice a week, at most.
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This is the current challenge of Vision Pro: It needs to give users reasons to use it, and it needs to have enough of them to keep them using it. Right now, putting on the Vision Pro tends to lead to a short session in which I do the one thing I wanted to do in there, and then I cast about trying to find reasons to stay… and then I give up. I need more reasons to stay—more apps, more experiences, more use cases. And I need reasons to put it on.
Apple may be hitting home runs with new iPhone apps lately, but it’s striking out completely when it comes to iPad support.
The MP3’s journey from revolutionary to nearly forgotten reflects how technology evolves and reshapes user behavior. While it was once essential for making audio accessible in the early days of the internet, today it’s just one of many tools in the vast ecosystem of digital media.
"When you forage, you use all your senses," shares Muskat. "This is one reason an app can fall short. Sometimes two plants or two mushrooms, only one edible, look very similar but smell or taste different. Apps do not smell things. They also don't look at the environment. They don't look at what the mushroom was attached to. There are mushrooms that look similar but one will only grow on wood, the other only in soil." He stresses, "There are dozens of details to pay attention to." So, if apps aren't a reliable tool for plant identification, what should you do instead?
Apple: Just press a button, and you are almost there with a cross-(Apple)-platform app.
Apple: New app! iPhone only!
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