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Why did you dump your Samsung Galaxy for an iPhone 6?
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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A lot of our readers who switched from Android to iPhone came from the super-popular Samsung Galaxy S line of phones. Were you one of them? When I first asked why people dumped their Android phones for iPhones, I figured most people who replied would come from having a Samsung Galaxy S. Samsung just always seemed like the iPhone placeholder. In other words, the phone you get when the iPhone isn't yet on your carrier or doesn't yet come in the display size you want. Now the iPhone is on almost every carrier, however, and has bigger and better screens. Turns out the reasons were broader and more varied than I imagined. So, why did our readers switch to iPhone? Over …
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Facebook revamps community guidelines, shows what the social network will take down
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Facebook has revamped the social network's community standards and guidelines to show what registered accounts can (and more importantly, cannot) share on the service. Changes made to the guidelines also clarify the company's position on bullying, threats of violence and even hate speech. In a new blog post, Facebook's Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Chris Sonderby, Deputy General Counsel, go into some detail about prohibiting harassment, threatening violence, and any hate speech against someone because of their race or religious beliefs. The new standards are fairly light to read through too. For example, according to the new guideline…
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Yahoo wants you to forget your password, announces 'on-demand' login service
by Guest Harish Jonnalagadda- 0 replies
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Yahoo's new "on-demand" system will tie your phone number with your Yahoo account, sending you a one-time verification key to your iPhone every time you want to login. Yahoo has announced its take on password security with a service that removes the password altogether. With its on-demand service, the software giant will deliver a one-time key every time a user needs to log in to their account, with a "send my password" button displayed instead of the password text box. Yahoo has detailed instructions on how you can enable the service, which is now available to customers in the U.S.: 1) Sign in to your Yahoo.com account. 2) Click on your name at the top r…
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No on-device screenshot needed for Apple Watch app submissions
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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Looks like Apple corrected some confusing language on the submission-side of Apple Watch apps. When iOS 8.2 first went live, Apple's developer upload portal, iTunes Connect, referenced a requirement for an on-device screenshot rather than simulator-only screenshots. That would mean you had to have Apple Watch hardware in-hand to get that specific screenshot and be able to upload to the App Watch App Store. As of Friday, however, it seems like the language has been corrected to reflect that simulator-only screenshots are fine for submission. (That said, with something as new and different as the Apple Watch, while some genius developers may be able to nail it flying …
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Transforming your business in the Systems of Intelligence Era
by Guest Judson Althoff- 0 replies
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Customers today have access to a massive amount of data. The challenge they face is gaining meaningful insights from that data and making it actionable for their employees. During his keynote at Convergence http://news.microsoft.com/convergence2015/ Satya Nadella spoke to attendees about the evolution of business systems, and how the business process transformation has gone hand in hand with advancements in technology. Today, we announced more tools that push the edge of what’s now possible. Tools that will enable organizations and its people to more effectively make sense of data, and make insights actionable at greater speed and accuracy. How does this all come to…
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Secret Apple TV controls: Fifteen button combos to power up your viewing!
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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Your Apple TV remote can do far more than the simple set of buttons make it seem! Apple has just reduced the price of the Apple TV to $69 and that means it's less expensive than ever to pick up one — or pick up additional ones — and get all your iTunes and other content onto your big screen TV. With AirPlay you can even stream most video and audio right off your iPhone or iPad, and mirror the display of your iOS device or Mac in your living room or conference room. It makes a personal experience into a group experience — and if you know all of these controls, it makes it easy! $69 - Order now Basics Press the Up, Down, Left, or Right to move between…
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Why I'm optimistic about gender equality in tech
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"But most women aren't really interested in programming." When someone says that, I can relate. That's exactly how I felt about girls playing sports when I was 15. Title IX, the landmark 1972 U.S. civil rights law that mandated equal funding for both genders in educational programs — including athletics — was a hot topic during my high school years. At the time, the major sports for girls at my school were track, gymnastics, swimming, and tennis. I remember thinking, "How will they spend the same amount of money on girls' sports as they do on boys' sports? Girls don't even want to play basketball or soccer." It didn't even occur to me that the demand might be there …
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What would you change about Notification Center?
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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Notification Center is a way to collect all your widgets and alerts all in one place. Since its debut in iOS 5, Apple has included first-party widgets, removed them, then added support for third-party widgets. Apple has added a missed tab and then taken it away. Apple has added predictive widgets — Notification Center can now tell you how long it will take to get to your next likely destination — but they haven't expanded on the concept. Apple also added Control Center to iOS 7. Instead of bundling toggles sliders, buttons, and shortcuts into the top-down Notification Center, they created a new, separate bottom-up drawer instead. iOS 8 did a lot of clean up, and add…
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An "Activity" app appears on your iPhone when you pair an Apple Watch
by Guest Derek Kessler- 0 replies
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When you pair an Apple Watch with an iPhone running iOS 8.2, it looks like a new "Activity" app miraculously appears. We've seen a lot about the Apple Watch so far, there are still a few surprises in store. Take the Apple Watch app that appeared after updating to iOS 8.2 — it's not the only new app there. There's also an "Activity" app designed to work with an Apple Watch, but it doesn't appear until after you've paired a watch. The app was uncovered by iOS developer Hamza Sood on Twitter: So the Fitness app does exist on 8.2, it's just hidden until you connect an Apple Watch pic.twitter.com/R1BgnKYRHe — Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) March 12, 2015 Here'…
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Star Blazers and the transformative power of anime
by Guest Peter Cohen- 0 replies
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Every so often something comes along that changes your life and stays with you forever. For Charlie Jane Anders and me, it was Star Blazers. Charlie Jane Anders' love letter to Star Blazers is one of my favorite pieces on the Internet this week. I encourage everyone to read it. I'm in my mid-forties, and I'm squarely in the first Star Wars generation. I was seven when that movie came out, and my friends and I all collected the action figures and played Star Wars in our back yards, pretending we had light sabers. But there was a sci-fi TV series that meant more to me even than Star Wars, and it was Star Blazers. Anders explains the psychology behind the show — s…
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Today, we’re releasing the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.2, which includes increased security protections to improve your security posture. You can download EMET 5.2 from microsoft.com/emet or directly from here. Following is the list of the main changes and improvements: Control Flow Guard: EMET’s native DLLs have been compiled with Control Flow Guard (CFG).
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Live video streaming app Meerkat gets kneecapped by Twitter
by Guest Derek Kessler- 0 replies
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Meerkat, a new live video streaming app, has been hobbled by the ever-frustrating Twitter. It launched just 2 weeks ago and has risen in prominence thanks to exposure at SXSW. Meerkat works simply: log in with your Twitter account, hit the stream button, and it immediately starts broadcasting video from your iPhone onto the web and posts a link onto Twitter. The stream is only available while it's live — once you stop, it's gone. Ephemeral live video, if you will. It's a straightforward service, and while it's not yet widely used, the exposure it's seen at SXSW Interactive has dramatically raised its profile. While you might question the value of live video streami…
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iMore show 448: Apple Spring forward event wrap up!
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple! On this episode — Apple's Spring forward event Apple's Spring forward event is over but the analysis has just begun! Serenity and Rene talk MacBook and Apple Watch FUD, Force Touch and the future, how important ResearchKit might me, women on stage, and whether our Watch picks have changed! Subscribe in iTunes: Audio Subscribe in RSS: Audio Download directly: Audio Show notes MacBreak Weekly 445 Spring forward event MacBook Apple Watch ResearchKit Hosts Serenity Caldwell Rene Ritchie Continue reading...
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How to fix a broken headphone jack in an iPhone 5
by Guest Allyson Kazmucha- 0 replies
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Issues with your iPhone 5 headphone jack? No problem! We'll walk you through how to replace it in less than one hour! Have an iPhone 5 with a broken or jammed headphone jack? If you're within your warranty period, just head to your local Apple Store to swap your device for a new one. However, if your warranty has expired and you aren't ready for a new iPhone yet, we can help you DIY repair the headphone jack for a fraction of the cost. If you're experiencing crackling audio, no audio at all when headphones are plugged in, or if something's stuck in the headphone jack, this guide is for you. Follow along and we'll not only walk you through the repair step by step, but l…
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The elite of iPhone 6 Plus screen protectors is on sale today for just $8.95
by Guest Brent Zaniewski- 0 replies
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These bad boys aren't just your average protectors; they're made from the same material used to shield the front of vehicles from abrasive elements and provide unmatched scratch protection. Ultra thin and optically clear, the UltraTough ScreenGuardz are virtually indestructible. [/url] Continue reading...
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Help contribute to the Best Mac Games list
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Everyone has their own idea of what the best game should be. Here's your chance to participate. Best app lists are by their very nature arbitrary; they're usually one person or a small group's opinion. A new focus on crowdsourcing a Best Mac Games list is encouraging everyone to chime in. Ric Molina at MacGamerHQ is taking this approach to help develop awareness in Mac users about how great Mac gaming really is. Information regarding Mac gaming is so sparse, everyone just assumes that one cannot play good great, recent games on a Mac at high settings! And the best way to fight this lack of awareness is to inform Mac users with an amazing list with all the be…
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Microsoft is planning to distribute future Windows 10 updates using a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. While Microsoft has traditionally uses Windows Update to deliver OS and some application updates from a single source, the latest leaked build of Windows 10 reveals that the company is moving towards P2P. A new option allows Windows 10 users to enable "updates from more than one place," with the ability to download apps and OS updates from multiple sources to obtain them more quickly. Crowdsourcing updates Apps and OS updates can be downloaded from Microsoft and PCs on a local network, or a combination of local PCs, internet PCs, and Microsoft’s traditional Windows Upd…
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Apple Watch and digital unleashed
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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I was having lunch today when my iPhone buzzed in my pocket. I wasn't alone, and the gentleman I was having lunch with was telling me a story involving Heineken and Goldfish crackers, so I didn't want to be rude and reach into my pocket and find out why. Because of my job and my settings, however, I know that if my iPhone buzzes, it's probably important. So then I had to decide what I was going to do — ignore the person in front of me or ignore the notification. Then, as I was deciding, his iPhone buzzed too. We looked at each other and laughed — he far louder than I — and both noted that if we had Apple Watches, we wouldn't have this problem. We imagined the same l…
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Here's a transcript of Tim Cook's surprise Mad Money call
by Guest Serenity Caldwell- 0 replies
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Apple CEO Tim Cook surprised Mad Money anchor Jim Cramer on the air Thursday with a sweet tenth anniversary wish for the show, which turned into a lively seven-minute conversation about ResearchKit, Apple Pay, and the Apple Watch. Below is a transcript of their conversation. Cramer: Let's take a call: go to Tim in California. Tim. Cook: Hey Jim, I'm calling from Cupertino, California, to be exact. This is Tim Cook at Apple, and I want to congratulate you on ten great years of Mad Money. Cramer: Wha — wow! That's even cooler. I want to congratulate you for running the greatest company on Earth and for creating such amazing wealth and the best products on Ear…
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How to search for specific collections in the App Store
by Guest Allyson Kazmucha- 0 replies
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Don't know exactly what you're searching the App Store for? Let collections help you find the perfect app! App Store search can be hit or miss depending on what you're looking for. If you know an app's name, you can of course search for that. But what if you don't? And instead you want an app that has a specific feature or characteristic? Try aiming for an app store collection instead. Here's how! Searching collections in the App Store seemed to appear for me sometime after iOS 8.1. The feature it a little finicky at present but it does work for more broad and general searches. For example, you have to search for a specific category of app or a feature of iOS. If …
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Check-in app Swarm adds messages, updates its look in version 2.0
by Guest Jared DiPane- 0 replies
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Foursquare's check-in app, Swarm, has just received an update that introduces a new feature, messages, and moves a few things around as well. The popular check-in application that allows users to share their location with other users of the application now allows for users to send messages to nearby friends. In addition to adding messages, a few other changes have been made as well. Check out the list below for the full set of changes: Introducing messages! In this release, we've added the ability to message your nearby friends (even if they don't have Swarm) to quickly and easily meet up. We also moved some things around. The check-in button is now closer …
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Enlight for iPhone is a comprehensive photo editor from the developers of Facetune
by Guest Joseph Keller- 0 replies
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Enlight is a new image editing app for iPhone by the developers of Facetune that packs in a wealth of tools, and hopes to be the only mobile photo editor that you need. There are a wide variety of tools available in Enlight, all divided into sections. For instance, your Canvas section holds tools to help you manipulate the size and orientation of your image, such as cropping and skewing. The Image section is all about adjusting color, exposure, and clarity. There's a dedicated section for filters as well. You can add different stylistic touches to your photos as well. You could make an image look like a painting or a sketch, you can doodle on it with the drawi…
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NSFW: 'Power Users' need to shut up
by Guest Peter Cohen- 0 replies
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I've had quite enough of "power users" who think they're too good for the new MacBook. I've been using a Mac for 30 years. I got my first one in 1985. I sell Macs on the weekends and write about them during the weekdays. I am, by any definition, a "power user." Yet I detest that term, and I react viscerally whenever I hear someone else use it. So it'll be no surprise at all that I rolled my eyes this week at every proclamation from self-described "power users" who lament the direction of the new MacBook from Apple. I'm so excited about it I can barely contain myself. But then again, I was the same way about the new Mac mini when it came out last year. Because it's…
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Best Touch ID apps for iPhone
by Guest Allyson Kazmucha- 0 replies
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Keep your apps conveniently protected with these awesome Touch ID compatible apps for iPhone! Touch ID lets you unlock your iPhone or iPad and buy App Store apps faster than ever. App Store apps also have the ability to integrate Touch ID if they choose. Considering we store lots of personal and sensitive information on our iPhones, password protecting certain apps are a necessary evil. Luckily, Touch ID does a great job of balancing protection and convenience. These are some of the best iPhone apps that do a great job of integrating Touch ID for your protection: 1Password One time purchase password protection If you're only concerned about keeping one a…
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'Titan' Apple Car project reportedly based in Sunnyvale
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Apple is reportedly working on their "Titan" electric car project in facility in Sunnyvale, California. Apple has had a presence in Sunnyvale for some time, renting out 215,000 square feet of office space there in 2012. For the last year or so, however, a number of auto-related renovations have been made to the campus, possibly pointing to Apple's 'Titan' project. AppleInsider: It is unclear if this secondary campus is ground zero for "Titan." But AppleInsider can confirm that Apple does indeed have a large presence at the location, and that numerous automotive-related renovations, including an "auto work area" and a "repair garage," have been constructed on the …