Posts

Apple’s Senior VP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller tweeted a link to a National Geographic feature in which photographer Jim Richardson used his iPhone 5s for a photo feature on Scotland in the definitive landscape photography magazine. Richardson said that the transition from his usual Nikon kit wasn’t an easy one. — Philip Schiller (@pschiller) October 8, 2013 But that using it over four days, he came to be impressed … In choosing the camera for the 5s, Apple made the brave decision to increase the pixel size rather than boost the megapixels....

Well-known game developer Platinum Games has announced that they have received a capital investment from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent. Platinum Games is a prolific studio known for action games such as the Bayonetta series and Astral Chain. Tencent is a Chinese company that has been involved in the video game market since the early 2000s and became the largest video game company in the world in 2018. One of its most notable subsidiaries is popular developer and creator of the massive League of Legends, Riot Games....

Earlier this summer Plex announced its new Live TV feature that works with its DVR function to turn the app into a traditional TV replacement. After initially rolling out in beta, Plex has announced new updates to Live TV and DVR including the feature exiting beta on Apple TV… The Live TV feature works alongside Plex’s DVR functions too so you can record live content and rewatch it all from the Apple TV app....

The Apple Watch was released 8 months ago and it has been met with a wide array of responses from users. The device presented a new dilemma for Apple. Instead of something like an iPhone, which while meant to be used daily, is not meant to necessarily be constantly sending you notifications, Apple Watch’s purpose is to keep you alert 24/7. As I’ve learned over the last 8 months, that has its own benefits and drawbacks....

We’ve run three opinion pieces recently addressing Apple’s decision to remove all but USB-C ports from the new MacBook Pro – and each has attracted literally hundreds of comments. I started the ball rolling by arguing that while I do fully appreciate the pain involved in the transition, it’s a trade-off. Buying a few new cables or adapters today versus ending up with too few USB-C ports when the new standard has taken over a year or so down the line....

Philips is releasing a major new version of its iOS app this month that gives the smart lighting controller an updated look while restoring some missing features. The new version includes 30 new lighting scenes and brings back a feature that lets you turn photos into lighting scenes. Hue says it consulted lighting designers, UX experts, and customers in developing today’s 3.0 update: Hue 3.0 isn’t a total redesign from scratch either — more so a refinement — so it shouldn’t be overwhelming for users like previous upgrades....

Apple’s summer-long tour of Up Next Live concerts concluded yesterday evening in Washington, D.C. with a performance by artist Khalid at Apple Carnegie Library in Mount Vernon Square. The series, created in partnership with Apple Music and Today at Apple, brought free concerts from rising musicians to major Apple Stores across the world through July and August. Khalid’s performance on the historic steps of D.C.’s Carnegie Library followed similar events from musicians Bad Bunny, Omar Apollo, King Princess, Lewis Capaldi, Daniel Caesar, and Ashley McBryde in Milan, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Paris, London, and Chicago....

There’s a reason why Obsidian is seen as one of the best RPG developers in gaming. While The Outer Worlds stole the show in 2019, other recent releases like Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire have long showcased the veteran studio’s skill in the modern day. Deadfire now has a complete edition, which brings the sequel to consoles complete with its additional content. Pillars of Eternity II was first released in 2018....

Pixelmator has today released a new update for the iPad version ($9.99) of its popular image editor. Version 1.1 includes a brand new watercolor painting feature, which can be used to create brand new pieces of art from a blank canvas or add stylistic additions to existing images and photos. Brushes overlay new colors additively with soft radiuses to create beautiful blends and shading. Pixelmator says they spoke to real artists to help design the brush strokes....

A new investigation from TechCrunch today reveals that some iPhone apps are using services like Glassbox, a “customer experience analytics firm” to track the taps and swipes you make. Apps such as Hollister, Air Canada, Expedia, and Hotels.com are using this framework, and in some cases they inadvertently reveal sensitive information. Glassbox is one of the so-called analytics firms that employ “session replay technology.” This allows developers to record displays and review how users interacted with their app....

Sparrow, an efficient and minimalistic email application for the Mac, has been updated today with useful new features, including integration with the popular cloud storage, Dropbox. Upon authorizing your free or paid Dropbox account for use with Sparrow, you can attach and sync any file from your Dropbox by dragging and dropping it onto the compose window. Dropbox integration ensures that email attachments are not lost upon sending. The previous version of Sparrow also brought us support for CloudApp so Dropbox integration is a welcome addition that works towards strengthening the program’s cloud storage capabilities....

For the past 15 years, director Paul W.S. Anderson and actor Milla Jovovich have somehow done the impossible: they’ve made a profitable video game movie franchise. All told, the Resident Evil series has grossed over $900 million at the box office, making it the most successful film franchise based on a video game of all time. Later this month, the sixth and final Resident Evil movie, fittingly titled The Final Chapter, will enter theaters and likely push the franchise past the $1 billion mark....

PDFelement 8 brings you useful new features, functional improvements, and performance enhancements you’ll appreciate. You can create and edit, annotate and comment, and sign and secure your PDF documents using this all-inclusive application. Let’s walk through all that’s new with PDFelement 8. PDFelement 8 Features Before we delve into what’s new in the latest version, let’s dive into the basics of what you can do with PDFelement. Create PDFs and Forms With PDFelement 8, you can create a PDF from an existing file, a scanned document, or a blank PDF....

Last Updated: January 13, 2020 Here’s what to expect from Pennyworth season 2. Created by Gotham writers Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, the Batman prequel series airs on Epix and centers on the origin story of Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, played by Jack Bannon. The show’s 10-episode first season takes viewers back to 1960’s London with Alfred as a former SAS soldier living with his parents and trying to get his new security firm off the ground....

In Pet Sematary, Jeté Laurence plays Ellie Creed, the daughter of Louis and Rachel (played by Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz). In the film, Ellie will face the biggest changes out any other member of the family in this new iteration of the famed Stephen King novel. We got the chance to talk to her during SXSW, the day after the film premiered. So, Jeté…Hi! How are you doing? Jeté Laurence: Hi!...

ABC announced on Tuesday night during the Bachelor in Paradise reunion episode that they’ve chosen their next lead for The Bachelor season 24. Bachelor Nation matriarch Chris Harrison announced that Peter Weber from Hannah Brown’s season of The Bachelorette will be the franchise’s next lead. To say that Weber was a frontrunner during Brown’s season wouldn’t be entirely accurate because Brown had strong relationships with a number of the men on the season, but Weber was one of those four core relationships that The Bachelorette lead was torn between....

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part literally builds on the first film, exploring how a bright and positive hero like Emmet deals with a world in which everything is not actually awesome. Screenwriters Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who also directed the first LEGO Movie, shared how our hero’s choices act as a critique on toxic masculinity as well as how they themselves expanded on the legacy of the franchise’s previous films....

What is a Pipe in Linux? ‘pg’ and ‘more’ commands The ‘grep’ command The ‘sort’ command What is a Filter? What is a Pipe in Linux? The Pipe is a command in Linux that lets you use two or more commands such that output of one command serves as input to the next. In short, the output of each process directly as input to the next one like a pipeline. The symbol ‘|’ denotes a pipe....

A few weeks ago Shifty Jelly updated its Pocket Casts podcast player for iPhone to version 6.0 with a major overhaul including a new dark mode, playback features, and multitasking, and now Pocket Casts 6.1 is out with support for Apple’s CarPlay infotainment feature. Pocket Casts joins a list of other podcast players to work with CarPlay including Apple’s Podcasts app, Overcast, and Downcast. You can find our list of best CarPlay apps here, and our latest look at Apple’s CarPlay feature in iOS 10 here....

Poco officially pulled the curtains on their latest M series smartphone, the Poco M3. It was launched officially on the 24th of November, but most of the specifications of the smartphone were already leaked or tweeted out by the company before the release. This was a highly anticipated device in the budget segment as the M series from Poco is very well taken, specifically by the Indian demographic. In this guide, we will show you the real image of the UFS ISP pinout and test point for the Poco M3 Citrus....