Apollo for Reddit (have literally tried all the other reddit apps, and this is still the best).
Rick Steves Audio Europe - free audio walking tours in some European cities. Are professional quality and come with maps. Amazing travel app if you travel solo.
Pocket Casts- beautiful app, and i like podcasts
lire - best payonce RSS app on iOS atm. Can also sync and fetch text for offline use without extra charges (just a bit slow).
NordVPN - tried a few big names, this is the best. Can even fool Netflix.
OSMAnd maps- useful if you travel alot. Can save offline maps of cities/countries. Since you wont find data everywhere. I understand googlemaps can do it too but its way more cumbersome if you travel multiple cities,
I'm using NordVPN since they're based in Panama. I was using Private Internet Access but I read recently that it's not a good idea to use a service that's based in the US since they could be susceptible to the US's shady spying nonsense.
The story thus far:
Note that nothing has actually changed for 99% of customers, since CR's non-recommendation was based on a bug with a developer setting that the vast majority of Safari users would never touch.
Curiously, CR makes no mention of this developer setting in their re-endorsement, instead implying (falsely) that the cache bug would affect average consumers.
Here are CR's final test results, for those who are curious:
This is not as sinister as it sounds.
I'm from India. Allow me to clarify. The app is called DND or Do Not Disturb. It's a service by the Indian government where you can lodge complaints against marketers calling you without your permission. These marketers then have their mobile connections disconnected and a heavy fine levied so that they don't indulge in this kind of a thing in the future.
The reason you need the app is because with it, lodging a complaint becomes super easy.
Here's the deal. Installation of the app is completely voluntary. It's just a separate app on the Play Store (only available there. It doesn't come packaged with the phone. It's a separate app you need to install). Having said that, you can freely lodge a complaint even without the app. How do I know? Because I lodge at least 1 complaint every week with TRAI and I only use Apple devices. However this process is cumbersome for the government agency (TRAI) because it has to check call records from service providers to verify the complaint. This takes time. Since anyone who installs it from the Play Store on their android phones (voluntarily) give the agency the right to read call data, it becomes easier to verify the complaint.
Therefore the government just wants to make it available to users to install from the AppStore. Right now that's impossible with Apple's privacy rules.
That's all there is to it.
The government won't record your calls. Jesus.
This is the app on the play store. Take a look - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=trai.gov.in.dnd&hl=en_US
(Edited for grammar and clarity)
I contribute to OpenStreetMap, which is the Wikipedia of maps. The reward is a free map that anyone including Apple can use. In my area, it is the most accurate and up to date map that exists, thanks to millions of tiny improvements by thousands of volunteers.
This was my first major programming project and I wanted to build something that I would find useful. Even though this is an Apple subreddit, some of you guys might be interested in using BuildCores to research/build a computer for gaming, work, or maybe even hackintosh.
I would love feedback or suggestions for future features! I have a small community at r/BuildCores if you want to stay updated.
Edit: thanks for letting me know the currency change is bugged and the unnecessary push notification request at launch! I’ll try to fix and submit a new update later tonight!
If you want to see the Android version that was built with Flutter, it's on Google Play.
According to Apple's website:
>Working with iPhone, Apple Watch continually checks against the definitive global time standard with the same precision found in GPS satellites.
So it seems the Watch gets its time from the iPhone.
If this isn't a case for Apple's version of Spotify Connect, don't know what is.
As it stands now, you can't use your iPhone's Music app to control Apple Music on Alexa devices, Google Home/Nest devices, and now PS5.
Ok, so you need to look deeper to find the real problem and it was not Consumer Reports.
Consumer Reports runs through server loaded webpages, 10 of them that are locally stored on a server. This prevents things like site server load, ad changes etc to affect the test from day to day.
They turn off Web Caching so that the test subject sees each load as a totally new web page, much like browsing various web sites. They do this because after the 10 is cycled everything is loaded locally and it really throws the test off since the device isnt really processing anything server side, everything is local.
Edit - While this is not ideal, it is closer to reality than leaving it enabled. While a webpage uses similar resources across the domain, there are a ton of other things that are loaded. Causing a total refresh on every loop it is a worst case scenario, but more realistic than loading the same page over and over because literally no one ever does that. The alternative is CR caching thousands of webpages and cycling through those, which is likely something they have or will be looking into.
Apple had a bug in MacOS that, when this developer setting is tripped, causes another reload bug not related to the test that caused the wildly inconsistent results.
CR disables webcaching on ALL tests, for ALL PC's including older Macs. I am interested to see, since Apple released a patch for the bug, what it does with the setting enabled as per all their other tests.
TL;DR - It was an Apple bug that caused the issue, not CR's testing techniques.
Mac OS has a really good built-in summarise tool. Use it on large texts to get the general gist of the article. I use it heaps for research papers and articles.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/summarize-text-using-hidden-mac-tool/
One of my favorite menubar apps:
<strong>Caffeine</strong> is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menubar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers
Collection of all iOS stock wallpapers courtesy of /u/SheepKid12.
Well they did spend $3.4 Billion on R&D last year. It's not as much as Google or Microsoft but they're still top 20 in the world for R&D. They just make that much money that it looks small.
Haven't seen Spectacle mentioned here but I would highly recommend it.
That said, there is absolutely no reason not to have this as native functionality.
I would actually understand the absence of this more for Windows than OSX. We have hot corners, custom shortcuts and other desktop management features so why not reasonable window management?
John Poole (Geekbench creator), who this YouTuber cites as an expert, is finding the i9 to perform worse than the i7 in his testing...
https://imgur.com/gallery/Q1JDlZD
Edit: this is a CPU taxing only test he is running here too.. and to clarify this is relative to the upgraded i7.
Edit2: details of this new test he is using are found here. It’s a new one he wrote to strain the cpu for an extended period of time.
It's down, but of course the System Status page says everything is a-okay!
They really should take down this page if they're not going to use it when it matters.
EDIT: Yes, hours later they decided to update it... Usually they wait until the downtime is over to put a notice, or never put one at all. This downtime seems to be long enough that they updated it mid-downtime.
From https://www.apple.com/macos/monterey-preview/
Available on MacBook Pro (2018 and later), MacBook Air (2018 and later), iMac (2019 and later), iMac Pro (2017), Mac mini (2020 and later), Mac Pro (2019), iPhone 7 and later, iPad Pro (2nd generation and later), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), iPad (6th generation and later), and iPad mini (5th generation and later). Older iPhone, iPad, and Mac models may share content at a lower resolution to supported Mac models when “Allow AirPlay for” is set to “Everyone” or “Anyone on the same network” in Sharing preferences.
> I really wish this Linux variant is optimized for the M1 chips
Luckily that is precisely the goal! This tweet is an important step on the way there.
More info: https://asahilinux.org/
And also, long term this project is not meant to be a “Linux variant”, the goal is to get M1 support for most Linux distributions by contributing M1 patches into the upstream Kernel and other projects.
These people aren't "the 2048 guys". And I don't mean in the sense that the others are saying, that 2048 "copied" Threes. Ketchapp literally just took the open source game created by Gabriele Cirulli and released it on iOS before he made an official version.
To put it in perspective, the original iPad sold just 300,000 in its first day in the US. (https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/05Apple-Sells-Over-300-000-iPads-First-Day.html)
The original iPhone sold 270,000 in its first 30 hours in the US(http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/apple-sold-270-000-iphones-in-the-first-30-hours/)
If this article is accurate, Apple Watch may be Apple's most successful product category launch.
Edit: Credit to u/LoDaRu for the Google Photos album
The green button in OSX continues to baffle me. It seems to do whatever the fuck it feels like.
Fortunately, moom made it all good.
Edit: Geez, I should be getting kickbacks for this!
These linked articles ignore the fact the original CR report explicitly states that they did a second run of the tests using Chrome as the browser, and the result were much more consistent. Since their policy is to use the system default browser on their standardized testing, it's Safari that's at fault (what's new!) and not the battery itself.
CR also stated they'll happily rerun the tests once Apple releases a software update that fixes the issue with Safari.
Source: http://www.consumerreports.org/laptops/macbook-pros-fail-to-earn-consumer-reports-recommendation/
Yes, this widget's really handy for getting quick answers to the inevitable questions that interrupt some other task: "Which weekday is Sept 3rd again?" "When's Thanksgiving this year?" I don't want to open another app; a quick glance at a desk calendar is all that's needed.
I use Fantastical, whose menu widget has taken on this task for me. If Fantastical's overkill for you, I recommend Itsycal which has a similar menu bar feature (minus Fantastical's NLP magic for adding appointments) for the built-in Calendar app.
f.lux has been available for jailbroken phones for a while. It's just a shame iOS is so restrictive that we have to wait for Apple to add these features themselves...
Some websites block popular VPNs like Private Internet Access. The websites block the VPN IP addresses and will tell you to disable it before continuing. Google's captcha also becomes a lot more annoying if you use popular VPNs (i.e. 5 or more different confirmation puzzles instead of just 1).
It's hard to foster a failing business strategy. Motorola lost more than one billion dollars in 12 months despite their phones getting rave reviews under Google. Tech pundits and the internet might have loved the Moto phones but it definitely made for a terrible business.
> decided to let Safari pick it
Using a password manager is good, but make sure you have access to your AppleID password independently of Keychain. Either remember it, or write it down somewhere secure. You never want to end up in a situation where you're trying to setup a device, but don't have Keychain accessible to pre-fill it for you.
Also, check your old password here. That will let you know if your password has been seen in known public security breaches. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
IINA is basically mpv + a decent UI. The stock UI of mpv is extremely minimal, as it is mostly controlled via the keyboard. These keyboard commands appear to also work in IINA.
Both are preferable to MPlayerX which has been known to bundle adware/malware via its installer.
Actually, the same company that develops Proton for Valve, Codeweavers, makes a similar product called Crossover that uses the same underlying compatibility layer (WINE)—except that it allows you to install whatever games and other Windows apps you want.
Actual compatibility varies widely depending on what you try to run, and only some apps are officially supported, but it’s still pretty cool. And they have a database of what works ad what doesn’t, including user feedback. It even works on Apple Silicon via Rosetta 2.
In the release notes, it says:
> Manage iCloud Passwords on Windows > > Access and manage your passwords saved to iCloud from a Windows device with the new iCloud Passwords app. Included with iCloud for Windows.
Doesn’t specify authenticator codes, but at least passwords are now synced.
Not the same, but another interesting thing is to use an IFTTT applet to keep an eye out for premium apps that go free.
https://ifttt.com/applets/68211692d-get-notified-when-a-top-app-becomes-free-in-the-apple-app-store
Absolutely correct. Im the founder and CEO of SurfEasy VPN - we were acquired by opera last year and are powering the new iOS VPN. I wrote a blog post about this and the trade off of free vs paid VPN solutions. Free isnt for everyone - neither is paid.
Happy to answer any questions.
Thanks
Not implying this will be true of your mom,... but I hadnt worn a watch for 20+ years until I bought the LG G Watch (and now a Moto360) and I wear it everyday/allday and have found many uses for it. Really looking forward to see what Apple Watch unfolds/evolves.
EDIT... to answer the question:... "What do I use it for?"
getting real-time notifications of incoming calls is pretty handy. I work in an IT Dept and if i'm 3 or 4 cubes away from my desk.. and I get an incoming call.. I can just look at my wrist and tell whether it's worth responding to or not.
being able to read SMS and Emails on it is also pretty handy. If I'm in a position where I cannot use my phone (like pulling cables under a desk, or driving, or whatever).. and I get a SMS or Email that says something like "Lunch at Ramen Master! - 11:30am"... then i don't have to pull out my phone for that.
I found/downloaded the "Weather Watch Face" ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pizzaentertainment.weatherwatchface&hl=en ) ... which gives me Time, Date, Weather, Battery-life.
I wasn't sure originally that I'd use it.. but the Steps-tracking and Heartbeat-tracking of the Moto360 has turned out to be something I'm now interested in and keeping an eye on.
getting Ingress notifications on the watch is pretty handy ;)
I found an app named "Look Behind"... that sends your smartphones Camera view live-feed to your Watch... so for example if you need to look behind a refrigerator or behind a desk to read the label on a wall-jack.. .you can just slide your smartphone back there (where you can't normally see).. and the camera sends to your watch on your wrist.... it's very "Dick Tracy" feeling...
Those are the big ones that come to mind...
Supported Macs (currently from the macOS Monterey preview page):
iMac: Late 2015 and later
Mac Pro: Late 2013 and later
iMac Pro: 2017 and later
Mac mini: Late 2014 and later
MacBook Air: Early 2015 and later
MacBook: Early 2016 and later
MacBook Pro: Early 2015 and later
I am not at all surprised by this article.
For people who have no programming experience / never used Node.js, here is a (small) guide on how to use the program.
1) Visit the Github repository as linked in OP's post 2) In the top right corner press the green 'Clone or Download' button and select 'Download Zip' 3) Go to your downloads folder and extract the zipped file 4) Got to nodejs.org and download the latest version (either will do but I always prefer the LTS version) at: https://nodejs.org/en/ 5) After installation go back to your downloads folder where you have your extracted zip directory. 6) (If you know how to use the command line you can skip this step) Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services and select the 'new terminal from directory' 6) Right click the directory and select the newly activated service: 'open terminal from selected directory' found in the services tab of the right click context menu. 7) type "npm run install" and hit enter 8) wait for the installation to be completed and copy paste some examples into the terminal: e.g. "node index.js --zip=012345" and hit enter (changing the zip code of course)
If you come back later and want to run it again you only have to right click the directory in your download directory and select the 'open new terminal screen from directory' and you can run the examples again
Man, Apple's stuff looks really familiar ... I just can't put my finger on where I've seen this before ...
Everything is a copy of everything.
Bit more than a year, but yeah.
I'm like APPL's second to smallest shareholder.
"The things you can't see mattered to Apple." Stems from Steve Jobs dad telling him that even though people don't see the backside of the fence it should look just as good from the front. He talks about it in his biography and is one of the reasons he was crazy about every little detail being right.
Edited to add a source.
“I thought my dad’s sense of design was pretty good,” Jobs told Isaacson, “because he knew how to build anything. If we needed a cabinet, he would build it. When he built our fence, he gave me a hammer so I could work with him.”
Fifty years after the fence was constructed, Jobs showed it to Isaacson, still standing and recalled a lesson about making things of quality that he learned from his father. Touching the boards of inside of the fence, he said that “He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn’t see.”
He said that his father refused to use poor wood for the back of cabinets, or to build a fence that wasn’t constructed as well on the back side as it was the front. Jobs likened it to using a piece of plywood on the back of a beautiful chest of drawers. “For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
https://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-obsession-with-the-quality-of-the-things-unseen/
Not a great solution but the guy behind better touch tool created Keyboard Clean Tool which will fully disable the keyboard while the computer is on so you can clean it.
Funnily enough apple wouldn’t let him put it on the Mac App Store because it didn’t “provide value”
Amphetamine (Free, Mac) - A Caffeine replacement, but better. Why? It is actively developed (Caffeine was last updated on 2010 -- that is five years ago -- if the Mac App Store is to be believed.); and it has far more useful options, like WiFi triggers (I set it to turn on when I'm connected to our office's WiFi), and battery level triggers (toggle off when battery falls below a certain point). You can set-up a keyboard shortcut to toggle it on/off. You can also choose between 4 menu bar icons, one of them being a coffee cup in tribute to Caffeine (I use the Amphetamine pill icon which looks unassuming.)
MPlayerX is way better than VLC on mac. VLC is buggy, audio comes out of sync often etc. etc. MPlayerX has the same universal file support but is actually polished and reliable. http://mplayerx.org/
Transmit is my personal favorite FTP client, it's a paid app.
Here's the link to Ars Technica's liveblog - they always do a great job.
edit: Ars, as well as The Verge, are getting killed. So far, engadget is holding up well.
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> Why did you post this here /u/exjr_?
I did it because whatever Google announces for their next OS, can and will directly (or indirectly) affect Apple and iOS. We should "be together, not the same"
Website for Android 8.0 Oreo: https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/
Apple makes a 75% profit margin on an $800 item. That's the majority of their profits.
They kind of broke the idea of profit, and amassed over $140 billion dollars in cash and near cash reserves. The man managing it is said to run "the largest hedge fund in the world".
Russia just had to tap into their reserves due to the price of oil. They had an $80 billion dollar reserve and had to take $50 billion out.
So, when Apple talks about privacy, it's not hard to believe because their incentives align with it. They're already broken-profitable just selling the hardware.
That's a different incentive than a company like Google, for whom advertising makes up over 90% of all revenue.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-google-microsoft-where-does-the-money-come-from/
Holy crap, you're right. That's bananas. Too bad the 128 GB one isn't similarly discounted.
If enough of us submit complaints, they will fix this.
Let's all submit complaints to:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
I'm putting mine under:
Efficiency/Workflow
Applications/utilities
Feedback: https://www.apple.com/feedback/
Bug reports: https://bugreport.apple.com/
Make sure bugs actually get submitted to the bug reporter. On this sub, I've seen people tell people to submit bugs to the Feedback link. The bug reporter actually gets to Apple's development team, and they can actually respond and follow up about bugs there.
I suggest an app like Adguard Pro that implements a system-wide ad blocker. I've been able to play a lot of freemium games that would have otherwise shown a full-screen advertisement either after or in the middle of its gameplay.
Spotify has already spun off its radio stations into a separate app (Google Play link) (App Store link).
They were thinking of some kind of smart phone waaaay before then.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/13/original-apple-phone-concept-1983/
It’s actually pretty damned clever. Even if it were limited to just banking and contacts something like this would have been huge in the 80s.
And the iMac launched in ‘98, it was likely they were trademarking and purchasing domains for every i{noun} they could think of just in case.
To OP:
Apple made an in-ear headphone with balanced armature drivers. It's not bad. very very balanced. In fact, if you check out the measurements, it's damn accurate.
http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/AppleInEar2013.pdf
The measurements are almost perfect, but there some harmonic distortion in the 2-7Khz range (spike on the 5th graph) that's over 1% which means that these are better for softer listening. If you listen to them too loud, you'll start to hear this distortion. Still... they are VERY good from a technical standpoint.
https://www.apple.com/ipod/in-ear-headphones/ << link of the product, for anyone else curious.
The developer of Geekbench, John Poole, did some: https://twitter.com/jfpoole/status/1020411113177956353
https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2018/07/macbook-pro-mid-2018-throttling/
TLDR: MBP with i9 can ~~adequately cool purely CPU intensive workflows~~ only match i7 for CPU intensive, multi core workflows. It falls over for CPU + GPU workloads.
Edit: updated TLDR to more accurately reflect results
Spectacle is a similar app that I've found useful for the past couple of years: https://www.spectacleapp.com/
It's free, but not on the Mac App Store which might make people wary (although it is open source).
> Apple does not have a good record of resisting such pressure in China, for example, having moved Chinese citizens’ data to Chinese government servers. Even some democracies criminalize broad categories of hate speech and blasphemy. Would Apple be able to resist the demands of legitimately elected governments to use this technology to help enforce those laws?
This right here and PRISM is why I've always kept one eye open with Apple. I think there comes a certain point when they will or have to give in somehow. Possibly be given a gag order to not tell the public about something either.
Over the past couple years I've been leaning more towards open source software and now I am even more. I got onto FF a few years ago and don't have any reason to switch. I looked into and started using cryptee. I'm willing to give up convenience for privacy and personal security. I'm rethinking what software and apps I use and working on replacing them.
For a second I started to actually think that Apple really was for the user. What goes on in China and the latest developments show that they really are not.
For $1,299 you can get the 13 inch Macbook Pro instead of the Macbook.
I am literally begging you right now to not be coaxed in by the pretty new "Macbook", and spend your money on the better computer instead.
I use Hyperdock(USD$9.95)! It also provides window management tools like snapping. Also, you get to have bubbles above your dock icons showing previews to the windows. Especially useful if you minimise your window into the apps.
Edit: thought I would add on another useful tweak/app/tool. Bartender Helps to organise that overcrowded status bar. Also, I insist my icons are monochrome so this tool helps me hide those awful odd coloured icons.
It's definitely possible to play 4k content and you should have no problems on a 2017 MBP. Although VLC is a popular player, it's not really built for performance.
If your comfortable with the command line then you can use brew to compile MPV (https://mpv.io) or alternatively checkout IINA which is a native GUI for MPV (https://lhc70000.github.io/iina/) both are open source and are capable of scaling native 4k content.
> Since when have VPNs become the go to for privacy? So many of these VPN services are huge scams. So many people signing up to willingly and directly port all their internet activity via unknown servers sold to them by individual companies based in uncontrolled locations around the world.
Right? Like NordVPN is super opaque about who actually owns it, but after some digging some people found that it was owned by a Russian internet mogul. Unfortunately, I'm in China so I have to use it now, but no way in hell I'm using it when I get back
iOS currently doesn't support any form of dual audio, aside from a physical splitter. You can't, for instance, listen to Lightning/3.5mm audio while listening to Bluetooth headphones at the same time.
You could always use a headphone splitter - the audio quality diminishes quite a bit but for movies I think you'll be just fine.
If you're happy to settle for one headphone each, you could also enable mono audio and use an AirPod each.
(edit: You could also pick up a transmitter like this which supports outputting to two Bluetooth devices simultaneously. It's a little pricey, but I imagine you could find something equivalent for cheaper.)
Don't even need a DVD or any kind of "install disc" these days.
It's all done by the (uefi) bios.
Saved me a bunch of times.
The camera currently protrudes by more than 0.2mm. By 0.77mm to be exact. If they manage to eliminate the protuberance, it'd be due to more than the new casing. Perhaps because of the camera itself becoming thinner.
Yeah, you can't publicly tout having the most advanced desktop operating system in the world, allow it to have sideloading, and also tout having the world's most advanced mobile OS whose security would be compromised by the same sideloading.
EDIT: Looks like Apple no longer refers to iOS in any marketing material as the best in anything anymore. Interesting.
It's been like that every year. No one fact checks past Apple rumors so these guys don't have a problem to sell their bullshit. There was Apple Rumor Tracker but unfortunately it's dead since a while. Read some older rumor posts for some laughs. My fave is still the iPhone nano with 9 Home Screen icons.
So this is the death of iTunes as a media hub, eh? That sucks. There’s a lot I’m going to miss.
Maybe some of those features will make it into the new Music app. But given how it’s built with Marzipan I’d doubt it. RIP iTunes. You may have felt like a poorly optimized Electron app sometimes, but you've served me well.
They tested with Safari with the screen at 100 nits of brightness IIRC.
Edit: I am reporting on how Consumer Reports does their test. This comment is not an expression of my approval of their testing methods and whether they actually make sense.
Yeah... there is a really good breakdown on this page.
https://www.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/AppleTV_Product_Environmental_Report_2012.pdf
Here is a good example... Streaming a movie uses about 2W (Not to include the juice used by your TV, or modem too) That means (@ 14 cents per kW/h) you could have the AppleTV playing a movie 24hrs a day, 7 days a week... at a cost of about $2.50 per year.
Or, lets say your ATV was on for a year, but never used (not a great example, but just for shits and giggles)... it would be sleeping and uses .20 W - So, a full year of the ATV sleeping, would cost about a Quarter... probably just enough to light that pulsing LED.
I’ve had to do it once or twice. Check your old password on https://haveibeenpwned.com, large companies now monitor breach dumps and if they find your password in the list, force a password change. If your pass has been breached, make sure you change it everywhere you might have used it because it’s no longer safe.
No, realize that all of your traffic goes through the VPN, and the connection is only as secure as the host. I would not use a google or amazon vpn because they would be monitoring that connection for every bit of data they could get.
Paying for a VPN that guarantees the connection is private is the best route. and express vpn both have total private contracts.
1-5 million is an irrelevant figure itself. The equivalent sony app has as much as apple's, and barely no one moves to sony. The equivalent samsung app has 10-50 million downloads.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.android.easyMover
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.xperiatransfermobile
Seems a little optimistic for being "in the pits", doesn't it?
Go deep enough in Windows 10, and some of the UI still looks straight out of Windows 98
Windows 98: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYHICnJTe04jSYqzm1y4mTdVgr3WM8TmLuydH8IpeaPWW9RwoL
Windows 10: https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/regedit_new_address_bar.jpg
I get that MS probably has their reasons for not changing things. But it’s still super jarring going from a modern, touch-centric UI, to one that hasn’t had any major updates in 20 years.
>Apple is no longer choosing to promote the content by listing it in its own directory.
Being in a directory isn't promotion.
This is promotion: https://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/images/podcast_hero_hardware_large.jpg
For what it's worth.
Early 2011 15" here. 2 GHz i7 with the Radeon 6490M discrete chip.
Was fine for just over 2 years. Then froze one day, required a restart and distorted screen. Wouldn't reach password screen, either on laptop screen or external display.
Went to Apple Store. I was about a week outside of the EU 2 year warranty. Genius mentioned this, but then stated "but we don't care - we will fix this free of charge". New logic board fitted and, touch wood, all OK for now.
My store genius/manager made the call that many think Cupertino should be making. Awful for those who didn't get such good service. I was a lucky one.
Hazel by Noodlesoft might be a good way to keep organised if you give yourself time to set it up. It's basically a WYSIWYG editor for automating files and folders. I've got mine set-up to automatically sort my work and college files based on keywords, where they were downloaded from and such. Also, it automatically puts video's in my video folder, documents in documents.. you get the idea.
And I've got a "temporary folder" set-up that trashes anything that's inside it after 24 hours. Especially handy when e.g. downloading and watching a series and having it gone the next day. This temporary folder is actually the most handy thing I've ever come up with as a way to prevent cluttering. Definitely give it a shot!
Your Mac will keep fast & snappy by itself (or have you noticed any slowndowns?), but if you want more hands-on control you can use OnyX. OnyX is a GUI for running script/routines that your mac usually runs automatically when it thinks it's necessary.
> Since all of your data is fully encrypted before it ever leaves your device, only you have access to it. Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data, even if we wanted to. Your data is sealed with end-to-end AES-256 bit encryption, salted hashing, and PBKDF2 SHA-256.
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Flux. Great for nighttime use since it changes the color temperature of the screen from blue to red so it doesn't disturb your ability to go to sleep. Also has a setting that will automatically toggle the dark mode for night time and switches back to the light mode for daytime.
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It’s not quite what you are asking for, but YNAB is what I use for budgeting. With it, you can add a monthly goal for savings on a specific category. I would definitely recommend checking it out.
The official Apple Widget Browser hasn't been updated in forever. It still uses the pre-Lion scrollbars and kinda fits awkwardly with the newer website layout. So yes, it's safe to say Apple has pretty much forgotten they exist.
macOS emulates a BSD layer, and it comes with a lot of tools. They're somewhat out-of-date but you can remedy that easily with MacPorts, Homebrew, or some other package manager. Zsh, Vim, Bash, Ruby, C, and Python all work pretty well, as does SSH (basic tunneling works, but I'm not sure what you're doing). Access to the kernel is much more limited and not advised, but there are ways to interact with it if you're willing to write code and dive into poorly documented Mach APIs.
There’s an app called procreate that does this, if I’m understanding you correctly. It’ll record all of your drawings and play them back as a Time-Lapse video of the process. It’s probably my favorite drawing app, and definitely the one I use the most. I highly recommend it if that’s what you’re looking for!
The Apple Music Family Membership requires iCloud Family Sharing (1). It's 6 Apple IDs. The Family Sharing limit is 10 devices per account, 5 of which can be computers (2).
(1) Number 2 at the bottom of this page - http://www.apple.com/music/membership/
(2) Bottom of this page - https://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/
Hi all - Im the founder of SurfEasy, part of Opera Software - we built and are managing the VPN solutions that power the iOS application.
There's lots of important questions here about our Free VPN and the trade offs associated with using a Free or Paid solution. I wrote a blog post about this that might be helpful:
Happy to answer questions.
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> The hardware in NO way justifies the price.
Because it's not just hardware alone.
That "$500 Apple-tax".. you're paying for the cumulative total of all the 100's or 1000's of little tiny "polishes" and improvements that Apple puts into the entire machine (design, manufacturing, materials, hardware, software, tight integration, Cloud services,etc,etc)
If you read the article about Steve Jobs dad teaching him how to paint a fence: https://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-obsession-with-the-quality-of-the-things-unseen/ .... is a perfect example of the philosophy that paying attention to the tiny details (even the ones you can't easily see).. is just as important as the big obvious stuff (screens, keyboards) that you can easily see.
That attitude of "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole" .. is exactly why the price is worth it. It's not about individual components or individual software features or individual integrations. It's about cohesiveness and the performance and smoothness you get because all those different facets are all designed to work together smoothly.
You yourself proved that .. by trying a multitude of non-Apple machines.. and then coming back to Apple literally because of the attention to detail that makes everything run smoothly and easily.
>iFixit staff analyzed each smartphone, awarding a replaceability score between zero and ten. Ten is easiest to replace.
>How we replace devices:
>Apple knows all the talking points to convince you to upgrade. Battery less than 100%? Upgrade. Screen protector has a bubble under it? Replace. Device is more than a year old? Upcycle. Visit any of our Apple Store locations and an army of well-groomed young people will happily take your money and congratulate your excellent taste.
...and then every iPhone gets a perfect 10.
Heres the adoption report from Mixpanel. They have the X at about 9% of iPhones and the two 8s combined at 12%. This time last year the two new 7s were combined for just over 25% of new iPhones. So the adoption of new iPhones has actually decreased. https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/iphone_8_X
> As measured by the App Store on September 19, 2015.
Must be all those people downloading Peace. But seriously, someone who just upgraded iOS is more likely to visit the App Store. This puts it at 29% on September 19.
The main problem is that it uses this feature: https://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/
>All new iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases initiated by family members will be billed to the organizer’s account
Fantastical does exactly this and in my opinion is a better designed app than MagiCal or iStat Menus. As to why something similar isn't built in - I suppose Apple is more interested in core apps. (hardy har har)
Developers are doing a fine job filling any niche gaps.
Thanks a lot :)
We’re on our way to add a lot more features this month. Here’s the roadmap: https://spaces.do/roadmap
Anything you need just let us know. There’s Reddit, Twitter or here: https://spaces.kampsite.co
Or just send a mail :)
If you have an IFTTT, then add the following applet. You can configure for all apps, or if you are only looking for specific categories, you can really narrow it down. (If you don't have an account, just sign up for one.).
Here is an easy applet: https://ifttt.com/applets/68211692d-get-notified-when-a-top-app-becomes-free-in-the-apple-app-store
The Parent: https://ifttt.com/appzapp
My recommendation to this question is always the same: Sublime Text 2.
It makes coding really easy, it has syntax highlighting and code hinting for all the major programming languages, a file explorer so you can easily work within your project folder, it looks amazing, it has brilliant distraction free full screen mode, as well as the ability to view files side by side, etc.
It's definitely worth checking out - it's full of features that speed up your workflow dramatically, it even helps you type code faster.
Judging him on his personality implies the OP actually knows something about him. He's judging him based on the reputation of his former employer but curiously not on the reputations of Nissan and Toyota, where he worked before.
Yes. Here’s an example:
http://appshopper.com/productivity/pages
The updated it September 19, 2014, the exact day of release of the iPhone 6/6 Plus. This update included support for 6/6 Plus at native resolutions.
From my understanding you can turn an iPad into a second monitor (like what Duet Display does), and also use it as a drawing tablet instead of something like a Wacom Cintiq.