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[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Swift forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is hardly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory bod has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can relieve. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the assets part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional holder’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the hop …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Bimbo season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an picture of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that display off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

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[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Prompt forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Liquidate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can unwind. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Private Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Ditzy season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an picture of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what shows up to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday showcase Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Prompt forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the See, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can unwind. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to fully lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the assets part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional holder’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Stupid season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an picture of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what shows up to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that display off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Prompt forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is hardly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Liquidate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and individual status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can relieve. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the hop …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Private Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Ditzy season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an picture of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday showcase Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Observe, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and individual status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory assets has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can ease off. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to fully lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Foolish season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers desired to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Liquidate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can relieve. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional holder’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Bimbo season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that showcase off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Liquidate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the See, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory assets has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can loosen. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to totally lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the assets part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Private Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Ditzy season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Swift forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Liquidate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and individual status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can loosen. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Foolish season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Rapid forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers desired to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Observe, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory bod has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can unwind. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the hop …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Foolish season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I indeed want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday showcase Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Observe, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory bod has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can loosen. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Bimbo season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that display off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get embarked.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is hardly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and individual status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory bod has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can ease off. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to totally lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional holder’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Foolish season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that display off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the See, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory bod has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can loosen. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the hop …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Private Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Ditzy season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get embarked.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I indeed want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday showcase Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Swift forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Observe, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can loosen. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Ditzy season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what shows up to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that showcase off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman truly knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Swift forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is hardly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Observe, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and individual status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory assets has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can ease off. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Ditzy season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an picture of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Prompt forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers desired to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Liquidate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can loosen. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the assets part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the hop …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Bimbo season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that display off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday showcase Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Rapid forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and individual status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can relieve. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the assets part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Private Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Bimbo season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get embarked.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman truly knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Individual Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Observe, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and individual status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can ease off. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to totally lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the hop …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Foolish season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what shows up to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that showcase off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get embarked.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers desired to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the See, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can ease off. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Foolish season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that showcase off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Rapid forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory assets has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can relieve. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to totally lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Private Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Bimbo season is officially in total sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what shows up to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I indeed want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Prompt forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Liquidate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, puny (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the See, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory bod has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enlargened use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can unwind. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the bod part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to supply in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Individual Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Private Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content indicating gigs in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Foolish season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an photo of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman truly knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Rapid forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can ease off. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to downright lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t reminisce it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, reminisce to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t reminisce your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional possessor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be smacked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Private Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Stupid season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what shows up to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that demonstrate off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Rapid forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting lumps on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that thrusts the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the See, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain private content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory assets has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

Apple even joined the Wireless.

Enhanced use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software after security researchers demonstrated how effortless it was to crack some election machines at the latest DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas. “Despite its name, open-source software is less vulnerable to hacking than the secret, black box systems like those being used in polling places now,” Woolsey and Fox wrote.

Deadline’s looming. Breakfast at the desk. Lunch at the desk. Dinner at the desk. Coffee and a donut from the break room at the desk as you finish the proposal of whatever you’ve been working on all day long.

Now you can relieve. Maybe.

You look down at your keyboard and it’s covered with crumbs and all manner of the day’s food remnants. Cleaning this up is going to take a bit of time. Or is it?

KeyboardCleanTool to the rescue. Instead of having to meticulously clean inbetween each and every key, the free utility permits you to entirely lock your keyboard so that you can lightly wipe your keyboard clean. No unplugging or shutting down your Bluetooth connection.

When finished, simply press the button once again to reenable your keyboard.

To permit KeyboardCleanTool to accomplish this, you do have to grant the app.

An Apple patent granted today describes how the front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor found in existing iPhones could be used for health measurements.

The electronic device uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a bod part of a user touching a surface of the electronic device and one or more of the camera, the ambient light sensor, and the proximity sensor to receive at least part of the emitted light reflected by the figure part of the user. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

It also considers using extra.

You can switch the password that you use to log in to your Mac, or reset the password if you don’t recall it. The password of your user account in macOS Sierra is also known as your login password. It’s the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain switches, such as installing software.

If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can switch your password in Users & Groups preferences:

  • Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups.
  • Select your user name from the list of users.
  • Click the Switch Password button, then go after the onscreen instructions. If you’re using a password hint, recall to update the hint for your fresh password.

If you don’t recall your password, or it isn’t working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But very first attempt these simpler solutions:

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable fresh apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be fresh, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

The Genesis Augmented Reality Manual (Genesis Virtual Guide) is now available for the two thousand seventeen Genesis G80 and Genesis G90 as a free download on the Apple App Store. It’s a modern take on the traditional proprietor’s manual, permitting consumers to use their smartphone or tablet to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Using 2-D and 3-D tracking technology, the Virtual Guide is able to produce in-depth levels of information related to specific parts of Genesis vehicles. The manual will be compatible with two thousand eighteen models later this year.

Hirshmania! has introduced .

Prolific Apple developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has messed around with the tvOS Simulator and coerced it into running at twice the standard HD resolution, 3840×2160, more commonly referred to as 4K. A fresh hardware box has been rumored for later this year, with 4K as a headline addition.

tvOS seems fit and ready to run at this currently-unsupported resolution with text, app icons and other system assets scaling cleanly to the higher-res. We have a duo full-res screenshots after the leap …

A federal appeals court affirmed the April two thousand fifteen inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that permits anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That process was held by a company called Private Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in latest years,” reports Ars Technica. From the report: Back in 2013, Individual Audio began sending legal request letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal, lest they be spanked with a lawsuit. Some of those efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla paid about $500,000. As Individual Audio began to build up more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, stepped in and said that it would challenge Individual Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content signifying scenes in a serialized.

Monday August 7

Ditzy season is officially in utter sway. On Monday, blogs lit up when Evan Blass, known for his accurate smartphone hardware leaks, joined the “iPhone 8” rumor fray by posting an pic of a digitally rendered device enshrouded in what emerges to be an Urban Armor Gear case. Rumor mongers are interpreting the “leak” to mean case makers are betting on designs that display off iPhone’s entire screen. just like every smartphone case ever made.

News Scanner, MacTech

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Along with the fourth public beta of iOS 11, Apple has seeded the fourth macOS High Sierra and tvOS 11. The finished versions are due in the fall.

If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but recall: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims against Apple. The purpose is to finish the investigation within forty five days.

In January, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, the world’s superior supplier of baseband processors, alleging the chip supplier demanded unfair terms for its technology. However, Qualcomm denies the allegations.

In a statement regarding Apple’s lawsuit, Qualcomm said: “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is fairly clear that Apple’s claims are baseless. Apple has intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as well as the enormity and value of the technology we have invented, contributed and collective with all mobile device makers through our licensing program. Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks on.

Podcasts might be liking a resurgence, but they’re not exactly designed for social networks. Are your friends indeed going to notice the link to your latest scene when there’s a adorable cat movie beckoning? Anchor might have a way to capture their.

A fresh device can begin repairing bruised organs in seconds, heralding a major breakthrough for life-saving medicine. Developed at Ohio State University, the technology known as tissue nanotransfection (TNT) uses a puny coin-sized silicone chip that.

In a note to clients — as noted by AppleInsider — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the “iPhone” eight will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus,” however — as you could have guessed — quantities may be limited. The key points in his note:

All three smartphones will be announced at the same time in September, and will share the same launch date (albeit it’s uncertain exactly when that will be).

The iPhone 8″ will be in utterly brief supply at launch, with the supply chain expected to produce inbetween two million and four million units this quarter. The good news: production should ramp up quickly, reaching inbetween forty five million and fifty million units this year.

Apple will produce inbetween thirty five million and thirty eight million Four.7-inch “iPhone 7s” units, and another eighteen million to twenty million Five.

Hot on the high-heeled shoes of a fifth developer release, Apple on Tuesday issued a fourth public beta of iOS 11, available to anyone with a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Also out are fourth public betas of tvOS eleven for the Apple TV, and macOS High Sierra.

KGI Securities is out with a fresh report suggesting fresh predictions for the upcoming iPhone launch expected as soon as next month. KGI expects Apple will announce all three fresh iPhones (Four.7-inch LCD, Five.5-inch LCD, Five.8-inch OLED) in September and launch at the same time after previously believing the OLED iPhone could arrive later. Despite debuting at the same time, KGI predicts the OLED iPhone will be severely supply constrained at launch…

I would cheerfully do a Kickstarter campaign to fly The Publisher of The Loop to Detroit so he can make a vinyl record of his music that we could all buy!

Apple has released the fourth macOS High Sierra public beta for Mac. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of macOS with fresh features for free.

Today’s macOS High Sierra public beta goes after yesterday’s fifth developer version.

I didn’t witness Letterman for the last few years of his last demonstrate but I’ll undoubtedly want to check this out.

Rumors about an “iPhone 8” delay may have been unfounded, as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated on Tuesday that the flagship handset will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus” — albeit in limited quantities and styles.

Welcome to AWT TV, a weekly showcase featuring Steve Sande, Dennis Sellers and Marty Edwards of Apple World Today. Each week we’ll discuss what’s happened in the world of Apple, talk about fresh apps and accessories, maybe even have a demonstration or two of the latest software. Be sure to subscribe to the Apple World Today movie channel on YouTube.

This week’s demonstrate is a slightly different format featuring Marty and Steve. We embark with a pair of reviews of some iOS apps. Marty took a look at NextRadio — Live FM Radio, which permits you to tune into local FM stations and even interact with the staff. It’s free, and ideal for checking out your local music and news stations.

Tuesday deals are heating up with instant and coupon savings on Mid two thousand seventeen MacBooks and iMacs. Pick up a 15-inch MacBook Pro for $Two,249 or save $200 on two popular 27-inch iMacs with upgraded graphics. Readers can also exclusively save $100 on a two thousand seventeen 12-inch MacBook, now $1,199 with coupon.

Apple has released the fourth tvOS eleven public beta for non-developers to test on Apple TV. tvOS eleven public beta includes fresh features like Home Screen Syncing, light and dark mode automatic switching, and total AirPods support.

Apple has released the fourth public beta of iOS 11. or iPhone and iPad users. The finished version is due this fall and will be a free software update.

iOS eleven has been in developer beta testing since early June. If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but reminisce: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

Not every beginner photographer needs a DSRL but, if you do, you can’t go wrong with either of these cameras.

A lot of folks will be at work and likely incapable to go outside to see the eclipse.

Apple has released the fourth iOS eleven public beta for iPhone and iPad. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of iOS with fresh features for free.

Apple stock has hit an all time high today as shares of AAPL reached above the previous $160 per share record it set earlier this month during after hours trading.

Tile has added a pair of fresh Bluetooth trackers to its product line, in the fresh Tile Sport and Tile Style.

It takes a lot to get this reviewer excited about an iPhone case. To get my attention, a case either has to have a function that is totally unique, or be so distinctive that it stands out in the crowd. The WÜD (US$39.95 – $Sixty-nine.95) and RÖK (US$39.95) cases from Virginia-based WÜD fit the latter criterion in that each case is indeed a one-of-a-kind specimen that will never be duplicated.

WÜD (left) and RÖK iPhone cases. Photo ©2017, Steven Sande

Any latest iPhone can be outfitted with a WÜD or RÖK case; they’re available for iPhone seven Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone six Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, and iPhone Five.

The WÜD and RÖK cases share a common lump; a very lean and well-designed polycarbonate and rubber shell that protects the sides of the iPhone and provides a base.

Julian Assange has suggested a job to the employee that Google fired for writing the memo on gender differences.

Foursquare’s check-in focused app, Swarm, got a major visual and user practice update today. The switches bring a concentrate to a timeline view of check-ins, fresh categories, and an overall updated UI.

Live movie broadcasting has become a standard feature in apps like Facebook and YouTube since being popularized by Meerkat then Periscope, and now Instagram is looking to take the feature to the next step. Instagram is embarking to test two-person live broadcasting for select users with a fresh split-screen layout.

As Apple’s “iPhone 8” comes in the home open up, fresh pics published on Tuesday are said to depict the device’s cover glass, evidently backing leaks about the device’s edge-to-edge OLED display.

GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise Automation, announced the launch of the beta version of its autonomous ride-sharing app presently being used by employees in San Francisco, where they operate a fleet of autonomous Chevy Bolt EV test vehicles.

James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, telling that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He said he’s “currently exploring all possible legal remedies.”

I think he’ll have a truly difficult time finding another job in Silicon Valley.

Apple is being “anti-consumer” and engaging in “data colonization” by so far refusing to approve an official government “do not disturb” app for the iPhone, according to the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman truly knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I indeed want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac holder should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday showcase Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Quick forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is hardly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers desired to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Witness, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, private content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what individual content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content violates while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory assets has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a figure part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

Along with the fourth public beta of iOS 11, Apple has seeded the fourth macOS High Sierra and tvOS 11. The finished versions are due in the fall.

If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but reminisce: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims against Apple. The aim is to accomplish the investigation within forty five days.

In January, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, the world’s superior supplier of baseband processors, alleging the chip supplier demanded unfair terms for its technology. However, Qualcomm denies the allegations.

In a statement regarding Apple’s lawsuit, Qualcomm said: “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is fairly clear that Apple’s claims are baseless. Apple has intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as well as the enormity and value of the technology we have invented, contributed and collective with all mobile device makers through our licensing program. Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks on.

Podcasts might be loving a resurgence, but they’re not exactly designed for social networks. Are your friends indeed going to notice the link to your latest scene when there’s a adorable cat movie beckoning? Anchor might have a way to capture their.

A fresh device can begin repairing bruised organs in seconds, heralding a major breakthrough for life-saving medicine. Developed at Ohio State University, the technology known as tissue nanotransfection (TNT) uses a puny coin-sized silicone chip that.

In a note to clients — as noted by AppleInsider — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the “iPhone” eight will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus,” however — as you could have guessed — quantities may be limited. The key points in his note:

All three smartphones will be announced at the same time in September, and will share the same launch date (albeit it’s uncertain exactly when that will be).

The iPhone 8″ will be in enormously brief supply at launch, with the supply chain expected to produce inbetween two million and four million units this quarter. The good news: production should ramp up quickly, reaching inbetween forty five million and fifty million units this year.

Apple will produce inbetween thirty five million and thirty eight million Four.7-inch “iPhone 7s” units, and another eighteen million to twenty million Five.

Hot on the high-heeled shoes of a fifth developer release, Apple on Tuesday issued a fourth public beta of iOS 11, available to anyone with a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Also out are fourth public betas of tvOS eleven for the Apple TV, and macOS High Sierra.

KGI Securities is out with a fresh report suggesting fresh predictions for the upcoming iPhone launch expected as soon as next month. KGI expects Apple will announce all three fresh iPhones (Four.7-inch LCD, Five.5-inch LCD, Five.8-inch OLED) in September and launch at the same time after previously believing the OLED iPhone could arrive later. Despite debuting at the same time, KGI predicts the OLED iPhone will be severely supply constrained at launch…

I would joyfully do a Kickstarter campaign to fly The Publisher of The Loop to Detroit so he can make a vinyl record of his music that we could all buy!

Apple has released the fourth macOS High Sierra public beta for Mac. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of macOS with fresh features for free.

Today’s macOS High Sierra public beta goes after yesterday’s fifth developer version.

I didn’t see Letterman for the last few years of his last demonstrate but I’ll undoubtedly want to check this out.

Rumors about an “iPhone 8” delay may have been unfounded, as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated on Tuesday that the flagship handset will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus” — albeit in limited quantities and styles.

Welcome to AWT TV, a weekly demonstrate featuring Steve Sande, Dennis Sellers and Marty Edwards of Apple World Today. Each week we’ll discuss what’s happened in the world of Apple, talk about fresh apps and accessories, maybe even have a demonstration or two of the latest software. Be sure to subscribe to the Apple World Today movie channel on YouTube.

This week’s showcase is a slightly different format featuring Marty and Steve. We commence with a pair of reviews of some iOS apps. Marty took a look at NextRadio — Live FM Radio, which permits you to tune into local FM stations and even interact with the staff. It’s free, and ideal for checking out your local music and news stations.

Tuesday deals are heating up with instant and coupon savings on Mid two thousand seventeen MacBooks and iMacs. Pick up a 15-inch MacBook Pro for $Two,249 or save $200 on two popular 27-inch iMacs with upgraded graphics. Readers can also exclusively save $100 on a two thousand seventeen 12-inch MacBook, now $1,199 with coupon.

Apple has released the fourth tvOS eleven public beta for non-developers to test on Apple TV. tvOS eleven public beta includes fresh features like Home Screen Syncing, light and dark mode automatic switching, and total AirPods support.

Apple has released the fourth public beta of iOS 11. or iPhone and iPad users. The finished version is due this fall and will be a free software update.

iOS eleven has been in developer beta testing since early June. If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but recall: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

Not every beginner photographer needs a DSRL but, if you do, you can’t go wrong with either of these cameras.

A lot of folks will be at work and likely incapable to go outside to observe the eclipse.

Apple has released the fourth iOS eleven public beta for iPhone and iPad. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of iOS with fresh features for free.

Apple stock has hit an all time high today as shares of AAPL reached above the previous $160 per share record it set earlier this month during after hours trading.

Tile has added a pair of fresh Bluetooth trackers to its product line, in the fresh Tile Sport and Tile Style.

It takes a lot to get this reviewer excited about an iPhone case. To get my attention, a case either has to have a function that is downright unique, or be so distinctive that it stands out in the crowd. The WÜD (US$39.95 – $Sixty-nine.95) and RÖK (US$39.95) cases from Virginia-based WÜD fit the latter criterion in that each case is indeed a one-of-a-kind specimen that will never be duplicated.

WÜD (left) and RÖK iPhone cases. Photo ©2017, Steven Sande

Any latest iPhone can be outfitted with a WÜD or RÖK case; they’re available for iPhone seven Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone six Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, and iPhone Five.

The WÜD and RÖK cases share a common chunk; a very skinny and well-designed polycarbonate and rubber shell that protects the sides of the iPhone and provides a base.

Julian Assange has suggested a job to the employee that Google fired for writing the memo on gender differences.

Foursquare’s check-in focused app, Swarm, got a major visual and user practice update today. The switches bring a concentrate to a timeline view of check-ins, fresh categories, and an overall updated UI.

Live movie broadcasting has become a standard feature in apps like Facebook and YouTube since being popularized by Meerkat then Periscope, and now Instagram is looking to take the feature to the next step. Instagram is kicking off to test two-person live broadcasting for select users with a fresh split-screen layout.

As Apple’s “iPhone 8” comes in the home spread, fresh pictures published on Tuesday are said to depict the device’s cover glass, evidently backing leaks about the device’s edge-to-edge OLED display.

GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise Automation, announced the launch of the beta version of its autonomous ride-sharing app presently being used by employees in San Francisco, where they operate a fleet of autonomous Chevy Bolt EV test vehicles.

James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, telling that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He said he’s “currently exploring all possible legal remedies.”

I think he’ll have a indeed difficult time finding another job in Silicon Valley.

Apple is being “anti-consumer” and engaging in “data colonization” by so far refusing to approve an official government “do not disturb” app for the iPhone, according to the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday demonstrate Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-made App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Prompt forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers desired to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

Catching up on my reading list, found these two interesting chunks on Apple Services:

Jean-Louis Gassée, in a Monday Note titled Misunderstanding Apple Services, on the wave of headlines touting Apple Services as a standalone company:

If Apple Services were a standalone company, its $27.8B in revenue would just peep past Facebook’s $27.6 (albeit I’m not sure we’re comparing the same four quarters).

Eliminate “Apple” from “Apple Services”…would this stand-alone “Services” company love the same success were it to service Android phones or Windows PCs?

Apple Services is an significant member of the supporting cast that shoves the volume and margins for the main act: Apple Private Computers. These come in three sizes, petite (iPhone), medium (iPad), and large (Mac). If rumors of the addition of a cellular modem true, we may even see the Observe, today.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,729,596) for “content pods for streaming media services.” Per the patent info, a “content pod” would be assembled to contain individual content relevant to an end user (that’s you).

In some embodiments, individual content can consist of traffic updates, voicemail messages, text messages, social media updates, and private status updates. A content delivery system determines what private content is available on your Apple devices by connecting to available information sources.

The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. A bumper message could be included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other. Once the content pod is generated, it’s sent to your various Apple gadgets to be played during content cracks while you’re streaming online content.

In the patent filing.

The Tile Bluetooth tracker has long been a handy way to keep track of things like wallet and keys. We very first attempted the original version back in 2013, and a slimmer version last year. The company has now launched two fresh models, with greater range and fresh looks …

An Indian regulatory figure has described Apple as ‘anti-consumer’ after the Cupertino company refused to approve a government Do-Not-Disturb app designed to block and report unwanted sales calls …

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,723,997) for an electronic device (that would almost certainly be the iPhone) — that “computes health data.”

In the patent filing, Apple says that it would be beneficial for a user to have information about his or her health data, including fitness data and wellness data. For example, health data may indicate emergency conditions or to enable the user to maximize fitness or wellness activities. Traditionally, health data is provided to users by health care professionals. However, Apple says that it may be beneficial for users to have more access to health data — and the tech giant wants you to use its products for that purpose.

According to the patent, the electronic device — which I’ll simply refer to as the iPhone from now on in this report — includes a camera, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone uses one or more of the camera and the proximity sensor to emit light into a assets part of a user.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims against Apple. The objective is to finish the investigation within forty five days.

In January, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, the world’s superior supplier of baseband processors, alleging the chip supplier demanded unfair terms for its technology. However, Qualcomm denies the allegations.

In a statement regarding Apple’s lawsuit, Qualcomm said: “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is fairly clear that Apple’s claims are baseless. Apple has intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as well as the enormity and value of the technology we have invented, contributed and collective with all mobile device makers through our licensing program. Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks on.

Podcasts might be liking a resurgence, but they’re not exactly designed for social networks. Are your friends truly going to notice the link to your latest scene when there’s a lovely cat movie beckoning? Anchor might have a way to capture their.

A fresh device can begin repairing bruised organs in seconds, heralding a major breakthrough for life-saving medicine. Developed at Ohio State University, the technology known as tissue nanotransfection (TNT) uses a puny coin-sized silicone chip that.

In a note to clients — as noted by AppleInsider — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the “iPhone” eight will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus,” however — as you could have guessed — quantities may be limited. The key points in his note:

All three smartphones will be announced at the same time in September, and will share the same launch date (albeit it’s uncertain exactly when that will be).

The iPhone 8″ will be in utterly brief supply at launch, with the supply chain expected to produce inbetween two million and four million units this quarter. The good news: production should ramp up quickly, reaching inbetween forty five million and fifty million units this year.

Apple will produce inbetween thirty five million and thirty eight million Four.7-inch “iPhone 7s” units, and another eighteen million to twenty million Five.

Hot on the high-heeled slippers of a fifth developer release, Apple on Tuesday issued a fourth public beta of iOS 11, available to anyone with a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Also out are fourth public betas of tvOS eleven for the Apple TV, and macOS High Sierra.

KGI Securities is out with a fresh report suggesting fresh predictions for the upcoming iPhone launch expected as soon as next month. KGI expects Apple will announce all three fresh iPhones (Four.7-inch LCD, Five.5-inch LCD, Five.8-inch OLED) in September and launch at the same time after previously believing the OLED iPhone could arrive later. Despite debuting at the same time, KGI predicts the OLED iPhone will be severely supply constrained at launch…

I would gladfully do a Kickstarter campaign to fly The Publisher of The Loop to Detroit so he can make a vinyl record of his music that we could all buy!

Apple has released the fourth macOS High Sierra public beta for Mac. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of macOS with fresh features for free.

Today’s macOS High Sierra public beta goes after yesterday’s fifth developer version.

I didn’t see Letterman for the last few years of his last display but I’ll certainly want to check this out.

Rumors about an “iPhone 8” delay may have been unfounded, as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated on Tuesday that the flagship handset will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus” — albeit in limited quantities and styles.

Welcome to AWT TV, a weekly display featuring Steve Sande, Dennis Sellers and Marty Edwards of Apple World Today. Each week we’ll discuss what’s happened in the world of Apple, talk about fresh apps and accessories, maybe even have a demonstration or two of the latest software. Be sure to subscribe to the Apple World Today movie channel on YouTube.

This week’s showcase is a slightly different format featuring Marty and Steve. We embark with a pair of reviews of some iOS apps. Marty took a look at NextRadio — Live FM Radio, which permits you to tune into local FM stations and even interact with the staff. It’s free, and flawless for checking out your local music and news stations.

Tuesday deals are heating up with instant and coupon savings on Mid two thousand seventeen MacBooks and iMacs. Pick up a 15-inch MacBook Pro for $Two,249 or save $200 on two popular 27-inch iMacs with upgraded graphics. Readers can also exclusively save $100 on a two thousand seventeen 12-inch MacBook, now $1,199 with coupon.

Apple has released the fourth tvOS eleven public beta for non-developers to test on Apple TV. tvOS eleven public beta includes fresh features like Home Screen Syncing, light and dark mode automatic switching, and utter AirPods support.

Apple has released the fourth public beta of iOS 11. or iPhone and iPad users. The finished version is due this fall and will be a free software update.

iOS eleven has been in developer beta testing since early June. If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but recall: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

Not every beginner photographer needs a DSRL but, if you do, you can’t go wrong with either of these cameras.

A lot of folks will be at work and likely incapable to go outside to see the eclipse.

Apple has released the fourth iOS eleven public beta for iPhone and iPad. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of iOS with fresh features for free.

Apple stock has hit an all time high today as shares of AAPL reached above the previous $160 per share record it set earlier this month during after hours trading.

Tile has added a pair of fresh Bluetooth trackers to its product line, in the fresh Tile Sport and Tile Style.

It takes a lot to get this reviewer excited about an iPhone case. To get my attention, a case either has to have a function that is fully unique, or be so distinctive that it stands out in the crowd. The WÜD (US$39.95 – $Sixty-nine.95) and RÖK (US$39.95) cases from Virginia-based WÜD fit the latter criterion in that each case is indeed a one-of-a-kind specimen that will never be duplicated.

WÜD (left) and RÖK iPhone cases. Photo ©2017, Steven Sande

Any latest iPhone can be outfitted with a WÜD or RÖK case; they’re available for iPhone seven Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone six Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, and iPhone Five.

The WÜD and RÖK cases share a common lump; a very skinny and well-designed polycarbonate and rubber shell that protects the sides of the iPhone and provides a base.

Julian Assange has suggested a job to the employee that Google fired for writing the memo on gender differences.

Foursquare’s check-in focused app, Swarm, got a major visual and user practice update today. The switches bring a concentrate to a timeline view of check-ins, fresh categories, and an overall updated UI.

Live movie broadcasting has become a standard feature in apps like Facebook and YouTube since being popularized by Meerkat then Periscope, and now Instagram is looking to take the feature to the next step. Instagram is beginning to test two-person live broadcasting for select users with a fresh split-screen layout.

As Apple’s “iPhone 8” comes in the home spread, fresh pics published on Tuesday are said to depict the device’s cover glass, evidently backing leaks about the device’s edge-to-edge OLED display.

GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise Automation, announced the launch of the beta version of its autonomous ride-sharing app presently being used by employees in San Francisco, where they operate a fleet of autonomous Chevy Bolt EV test vehicles.

James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, telling that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He said he’s “currently exploring all possible legal remedies.”

I think he’ll have a indeed difficult time finding another job in Silicon Valley.

Apple is being “anti-consumer” and engaging in “data colonization” by so far refusing to approve an official government “do not disturb” app for the iPhone, according to the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I indeed want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-built apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Swift forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers dreamed to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims against Apple. The purpose is to finish the investigation within forty five days.

In January, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, the world’s superior supplier of baseband processors, alleging the chip supplier demanded unfair terms for its technology. However, Qualcomm denies the allegations.

In a statement regarding Apple’s lawsuit, Qualcomm said: “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is fairly clear that Apple’s claims are baseless. Apple has intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as well as the enormity and value of the technology we have invented, contributed and collective with all mobile device makers through our licensing program. Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks on.

Podcasts might be liking a resurgence, but they’re not exactly designed for social networks. Are your friends truly going to notice the link to your latest scene when there’s a nice cat movie beckoning? Anchor might have a way to capture their.

A fresh device can begin repairing bruised organs in seconds, heralding a major breakthrough for life-saving medicine. Developed at Ohio State University, the technology known as tissue nanotransfection (TNT) uses a petite coin-sized silicone chip that.

In a note to clients — as noted by AppleInsider — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the “iPhone” eight will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus,” tho’ — as you could have guessed — quantities may be limited. The key points in his note:

All three smartphones will be announced at the same time in September, and will share the same launch date (albeit it’s uncertain exactly when that will be).

The iPhone 8″ will be in utterly brief supply at launch, with the supply chain expected to produce inbetween two million and four million units this quarter. The good news: production should ramp up quickly, reaching inbetween forty five million and fifty million units this year.

Apple will produce inbetween thirty five million and thirty eight million Four.7-inch “iPhone 7s” units, and another eighteen million to twenty million Five.

Hot on the high-heeled shoes of a fifth developer release, Apple on Tuesday issued a fourth public beta of iOS 11, available to anyone with a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Also out are fourth public betas of tvOS eleven for the Apple TV, and macOS High Sierra.

KGI Securities is out with a fresh report suggesting fresh predictions for the upcoming iPhone launch expected as soon as next month. KGI expects Apple will announce all three fresh iPhones (Four.7-inch LCD, Five.5-inch LCD, Five.8-inch OLED) in September and launch at the same time after previously believing the OLED iPhone could arrive later. Despite debuting at the same time, KGI predicts the OLED iPhone will be severely supply constrained at launch…

I would cheerfully do a Kickstarter campaign to fly The Publisher of The Loop to Detroit so he can make a vinyl record of his music that we could all buy!

Apple has released the fourth macOS High Sierra public beta for Mac. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of macOS with fresh features for free.

Today’s macOS High Sierra public beta goes after yesterday’s fifth developer version.

I didn’t observe Letterman for the last few years of his last display but I’ll certainly want to check this out.

Rumors about an “iPhone 8” delay may have been unfounded, as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated on Tuesday that the flagship handset will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus” — albeit in limited quantities and styles.

Welcome to AWT TV, a weekly showcase featuring Steve Sande, Dennis Sellers and Marty Edwards of Apple World Today. Each week we’ll discuss what’s happened in the world of Apple, talk about fresh apps and accessories, maybe even have a demonstration or two of the latest software. Be sure to subscribe to the Apple World Today movie channel on YouTube.

This week’s showcase is a slightly different format featuring Marty and Steve. We begin with a pair of reviews of some iOS apps. Marty took a look at NextRadio — Live FM Radio, which permits you to tune into local FM stations and even interact with the staff. It’s free, and ideal for checking out your local music and news stations.

Tuesday deals are heating up with instant and coupon savings on Mid two thousand seventeen MacBooks and iMacs. Pick up a 15-inch MacBook Pro for $Two,249 or save $200 on two popular 27-inch iMacs with upgraded graphics. Readers can also exclusively save $100 on a two thousand seventeen 12-inch MacBook, now $1,199 with coupon.

Apple has released the fourth tvOS eleven public beta for non-developers to test on Apple TV. tvOS eleven public beta includes fresh features like Home Screen Syncing, light and dark mode automatic switching, and total AirPods support.

Apple has released the fourth public beta of iOS 11. or iPhone and iPad users. The finished version is due this fall and will be a free software update.

iOS eleven has been in developer beta testing since early June. If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but reminisce: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

Not every beginner photographer needs a DSRL but, if you do, you can’t go wrong with either of these cameras.

A lot of folks will be at work and likely incapable to go outside to see the eclipse.

Apple has released the fourth iOS eleven public beta for iPhone and iPad. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of iOS with fresh features for free.

Apple stock has hit an all time high today as shares of AAPL reached above the previous $160 per share record it set earlier this month during after hours trading.

Tile has added a pair of fresh Bluetooth trackers to its product line, in the fresh Tile Sport and Tile Style.

It takes a lot to get this reviewer excited about an iPhone case. To get my attention, a case either has to have a function that is totally unique, or be so distinctive that it stands out in the crowd. The WÜD (US$39.95 – $Sixty nine.95) and RÖK (US$39.95) cases from Virginia-based WÜD fit the latter criterion in that each case is indeed a one-of-a-kind specimen that will never be duplicated.

WÜD (left) and RÖK iPhone cases. Photo ©2017, Steven Sande

Any latest iPhone can be outfitted with a WÜD or RÖK case; they’re available for iPhone seven Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone six Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, and iPhone Five.

The WÜD and RÖK cases share a common lump; a very lean and well-designed polycarbonate and rubber shell that protects the sides of the iPhone and provides a base.

Julian Assange has suggested a job to the employee that Google fired for writing the memo on gender differences.

Foursquare’s check-in focused app, Swarm, got a major visual and user practice update today. The switches bring a concentrate to a timeline view of check-ins, fresh categories, and an overall updated UI.

Live movie broadcasting has become a standard feature in apps like Facebook and YouTube since being popularized by Meerkat then Periscope, and now Instagram is looking to take the feature to the next step. Instagram is beginning to test two-person live broadcasting for select users with a fresh split-screen layout.

As Apple’s “iPhone 8” comes in the home open up, fresh pictures published on Tuesday are said to depict the device’s cover glass, evidently backing leaks about the device’s edge-to-edge OLED display.

GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise Automation, announced the launch of the beta version of its autonomous ride-sharing app presently being used by employees in San Francisco, where they operate a fleet of autonomous Chevy Bolt EV test vehicles.

James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, telling that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He said he’s “currently exploring all possible legal remedies.”

I think he’ll have a truly difficult time finding another job in Silicon Valley.

Apple is being “anti-consumer” and engaging in “data colonization” by so far refusing to approve an official government “do not disturb” app for the iPhone, according to the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Photos published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Prompt forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers desired to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each pic may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims against Apple. The aim is to accomplish the investigation within forty five days.

In January, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, the world’s superior supplier of baseband processors, alleging the chip supplier demanded unfair terms for its technology. However, Qualcomm denies the allegations.

In a statement regarding Apple’s lawsuit, Qualcomm said: “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is fairly clear that Apple’s claims are baseless. Apple has intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as well as the enormity and value of the technology we have invented, contributed and collective with all mobile device makers through our licensing program. Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks on.

Podcasts might be liking a resurgence, but they’re not exactly designed for social networks. Are your friends indeed going to notice the link to your latest gig when there’s a lovely cat movie beckoning? Anchor might have a way to capture their.

A fresh device can begin repairing bruised organs in seconds, heralding a major breakthrough for life-saving medicine. Developed at Ohio State University, the technology known as tissue nanotransfection (TNT) uses a puny coin-sized silicone chip that.

In a note to clients — as noted by AppleInsider — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the “iPhone” eight will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus,” however — as you could have guessed — quantities may be limited. The key points in his note:

All three smartphones will be announced at the same time in September, and will share the same launch date (albeit it’s uncertain exactly when that will be).

The iPhone 8″ will be in utterly brief supply at launch, with the supply chain expected to produce inbetween two million and four million units this quarter. The good news: production should ramp up quickly, reaching inbetween forty five million and fifty million units this year.

Apple will produce inbetween thirty five million and thirty eight million Four.7-inch “iPhone 7s” units, and another eighteen million to twenty million Five.

Hot on the high-heeled slippers of a fifth developer release, Apple on Tuesday issued a fourth public beta of iOS 11, available to anyone with a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Also out are fourth public betas of tvOS eleven for the Apple TV, and macOS High Sierra.

KGI Securities is out with a fresh report suggesting fresh predictions for the upcoming iPhone launch expected as soon as next month. KGI expects Apple will announce all three fresh iPhones (Four.7-inch LCD, Five.5-inch LCD, Five.8-inch OLED) in September and launch at the same time after previously believing the OLED iPhone could arrive later. Despite debuting at the same time, KGI predicts the OLED iPhone will be severely supply constrained at launch…

I would joyfully do a Kickstarter campaign to fly The Publisher of The Loop to Detroit so he can make a vinyl record of his music that we could all buy!

Apple has released the fourth macOS High Sierra public beta for Mac. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of macOS with fresh features for free.

Today’s macOS High Sierra public beta goes after yesterday’s fifth developer version.

I didn’t see Letterman for the last few years of his last showcase but I’ll certainly want to check this out.

Rumors about an “iPhone 8” delay may have been unfounded, as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated on Tuesday that the flagship handset will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus” — albeit in limited quantities and styles.

Welcome to AWT TV, a weekly display featuring Steve Sande, Dennis Sellers and Marty Edwards of Apple World Today. Each week we’ll discuss what’s happened in the world of Apple, talk about fresh apps and accessories, maybe even have a demonstration or two of the latest software. Be sure to subscribe to the Apple World Today movie channel on YouTube.

This week’s display is a slightly different format featuring Marty and Steve. We commence with a pair of reviews of some iOS apps. Marty took a look at NextRadio — Live FM Radio, which permits you to tune into local FM stations and even interact with the staff. It’s free, and flawless for checking out your local music and news stations.

Tuesday deals are heating up with instant and coupon savings on Mid two thousand seventeen MacBooks and iMacs. Pick up a 15-inch MacBook Pro for $Two,249 or save $200 on two popular 27-inch iMacs with upgraded graphics. Readers can also exclusively save $100 on a two thousand seventeen 12-inch MacBook, now $1,199 with coupon.

Apple has released the fourth tvOS eleven public beta for non-developers to test on Apple TV. tvOS eleven public beta includes fresh features like Home Screen Syncing, light and dark mode automatic switching, and utter AirPods support.

Apple has released the fourth public beta of iOS 11. or iPhone and iPad users. The finished version is due this fall and will be a free software update.

iOS eleven has been in developer beta testing since early June. If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but reminisce: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

Not every beginner photographer needs a DSRL but, if you do, you can’t go wrong with either of these cameras.

A lot of folks will be at work and likely incapable to go outside to see the eclipse.

Apple has released the fourth iOS eleven public beta for iPhone and iPad. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of iOS with fresh features for free.

Apple stock has hit an all time high today as shares of AAPL reached above the previous $160 per share record it set earlier this month during after hours trading.

Tile has added a pair of fresh Bluetooth trackers to its product line, in the fresh Tile Sport and Tile Style.

It takes a lot to get this reviewer excited about an iPhone case. To get my attention, a case either has to have a function that is downright unique, or be so distinctive that it stands out in the crowd. The WÜD (US$39.95 – $Sixty-nine.95) and RÖK (US$39.95) cases from Virginia-based WÜD fit the latter criterion in that each case is indeed a one-of-a-kind specimen that will never be duplicated.

WÜD (left) and RÖK iPhone cases. Photo ©2017, Steven Sande

Any latest iPhone can be outfitted with a WÜD or RÖK case; they’re available for iPhone seven Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone six Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, and iPhone Five.

The WÜD and RÖK cases share a common lump; a very skinny and well-designed polycarbonate and rubber shell that protects the sides of the iPhone and provides a base.

Julian Assange has suggested a job to the employee that Google fired for writing the memo on gender differences.

Foursquare’s check-in focused app, Swarm, got a major visual and user practice update today. The switches bring a concentrate to a timeline view of check-ins, fresh categories, and an overall updated UI.

Live movie broadcasting has become a standard feature in apps like Facebook and YouTube since being popularized by Meerkat then Periscope, and now Instagram is looking to take the feature to the next step. Instagram is commencing to test two-person live broadcasting for select users with a fresh split-screen layout.

As Apple’s “iPhone 8” comes in the home spread, fresh photos published on Tuesday are said to depict the device’s cover glass, evidently backing leaks about the device’s edge-to-edge OLED display.

GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise Automation, announced the launch of the beta version of its autonomous ride-sharing app presently being used by employees in San Francisco, where they operate a fleet of autonomous Chevy Bolt EV test vehicles.

James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, telling that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He said he’s “currently exploring all possible legal remedies.”

I think he’ll have a indeed difficult time finding another job in Silicon Valley.

Apple is being “anti-consumer” and engaging in “data colonization” by so far refusing to approve an official government “do not disturb” app for the iPhone, according to the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get commenced.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman truly knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your beloved tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac proprietor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pictures published on Tuesday display Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly possessed subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-built App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Rapid forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is slightly involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s jiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS lump on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely injecting our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each picture may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

News Scanner, MacTech

MacTech

News Scanner

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims against Apple. The purpose is to finish the investigation within forty five days.

In January, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, the world’s superior supplier of baseband processors, alleging the chip supplier demanded unfair terms for its technology. However, Qualcomm denies the allegations.

In a statement regarding Apple’s lawsuit, Qualcomm said: “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is fairly clear that Apple’s claims are baseless. Apple has intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as well as the enormity and value of the technology we have invented, contributed and collective with all mobile device makers through our licensing program. Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks on.

Podcasts might be liking a resurgence, but they’re not exactly designed for social networks. Are your friends truly going to notice the link to your latest scene when there’s a lovely cat movie beckoning? Anchor might have a way to capture their.

A fresh device can begin repairing bruised organs in seconds, heralding a major breakthrough for life-saving medicine. Developed at Ohio State University, the technology known as tissue nanotransfection (TNT) uses a puny coin-sized silicone chip that.

In a note to clients — as noted by AppleInsider — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the “iPhone” eight will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus,” however — as you could have guessed — quantities may be limited. The key points in his note:

All three smartphones will be announced at the same time in September, and will share the same launch date (albeit it’s uncertain exactly when that will be).

The iPhone 8″ will be in enormously brief supply at launch, with the supply chain expected to produce inbetween two million and four million units this quarter. The good news: production should ramp up quickly, reaching inbetween forty five million and fifty million units this year.

Apple will produce inbetween thirty five million and thirty eight million Four.7-inch “iPhone 7s” units, and another eighteen million to twenty million Five.

Hot on the high-heeled slippers of a fifth developer release, Apple on Tuesday issued a fourth public beta of iOS 11, available to anyone with a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Also out are fourth public betas of tvOS eleven for the Apple TV, and macOS High Sierra.

KGI Securities is out with a fresh report suggesting fresh predictions for the upcoming iPhone launch expected as soon as next month. KGI expects Apple will announce all three fresh iPhones (Four.7-inch LCD, Five.5-inch LCD, Five.8-inch OLED) in September and launch at the same time after previously believing the OLED iPhone could arrive later. Despite debuting at the same time, KGI predicts the OLED iPhone will be severely supply constrained at launch…

I would joyfully do a Kickstarter campaign to fly The Publisher of The Loop to Detroit so he can make a vinyl record of his music that we could all buy!

Apple has released the fourth macOS High Sierra public beta for Mac. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of macOS with fresh features for free.

Today’s macOS High Sierra public beta goes after yesterday’s fifth developer version.

I didn’t witness Letterman for the last few years of his last showcase but I’ll certainly want to check this out.

Rumors about an “iPhone 8” delay may have been unfounded, as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated on Tuesday that the flagship handset will launch on the same day as the “iPhone 7s” and “iPhone 7s Plus” — albeit in limited quantities and styles.

Welcome to AWT TV, a weekly display featuring Steve Sande, Dennis Sellers and Marty Edwards of Apple World Today. Each week we’ll discuss what’s happened in the world of Apple, talk about fresh apps and accessories, maybe even have a demonstration or two of the latest software. Be sure to subscribe to the Apple World Today movie channel on YouTube.

This week’s display is a slightly different format featuring Marty and Steve. We embark with a pair of reviews of some iOS apps. Marty took a look at NextRadio — Live FM Radio, which permits you to tune into local FM stations and even interact with the staff. It’s free, and flawless for checking out your local music and news stations.

Tuesday deals are heating up with instant and coupon savings on Mid two thousand seventeen MacBooks and iMacs. Pick up a 15-inch MacBook Pro for $Two,249 or save $200 on two popular 27-inch iMacs with upgraded graphics. Readers can also exclusively save $100 on a two thousand seventeen 12-inch MacBook, now $1,199 with coupon.

Apple has released the fourth tvOS eleven public beta for non-developers to test on Apple TV. tvOS eleven public beta includes fresh features like Home Screen Syncing, light and dark mode automatic switching, and utter AirPods support.

Apple has released the fourth public beta of iOS 11. or iPhone and iPad users. The finished version is due this fall and will be a free software update.

iOS eleven has been in developer beta testing since early June. If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so here. The public beta program is free, but recall: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.

Not every beginner photographer needs a DSRL but, if you do, you can’t go wrong with either of these cameras.

A lot of folks will be at work and likely incapable to go outside to witness the eclipse.

Apple has released the fourth iOS eleven public beta for iPhone and iPad. This permits users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of iOS with fresh features for free.

Apple stock has hit an all time high today as shares of AAPL reached above the previous $160 per share record it set earlier this month during after hours trading.

Tile has added a pair of fresh Bluetooth trackers to its product line, in the fresh Tile Sport and Tile Style.

It takes a lot to get this reviewer excited about an iPhone case. To get my attention, a case either has to have a function that is entirely unique, or be so distinctive that it stands out in the crowd. The WÜD (US$39.95 – $Sixty nine.95) and RÖK (US$39.95) cases from Virginia-based WÜD fit the latter criterion in that each case is indeed a one-of-a-kind specimen that will never be duplicated.

WÜD (left) and RÖK iPhone cases. Photo ©2017, Steven Sande

Any latest iPhone can be outfitted with a WÜD or RÖK case; they’re available for iPhone seven Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone six Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, and iPhone Five.

The WÜD and RÖK cases share a common lump; a very skinny and well-designed polycarbonate and rubber shell that protects the sides of the iPhone and provides a base.

Julian Assange has suggested a job to the employee that Google fired for writing the memo on gender differences.

Foursquare’s check-in focused app, Swarm, got a major visual and user practice update today. The switches bring a concentrate to a timeline view of check-ins, fresh categories, and an overall updated UI.

Live movie broadcasting has become a standard feature in apps like Facebook and YouTube since being popularized by Meerkat then Periscope, and now Instagram is looking to take the feature to the next step. Instagram is beginning to test two-person live broadcasting for select users with a fresh split-screen layout.

As Apple’s “iPhone 8” comes in the home open up, fresh pics published on Tuesday are said to depict the device’s cover glass, evidently backing leaks about the device’s edge-to-edge OLED display.

GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise Automation, announced the launch of the beta version of its autonomous ride-sharing app presently being used by employees in San Francisco, where they operate a fleet of autonomous Chevy Bolt EV test vehicles.

James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, telling that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He said he’s “currently exploring all possible legal remedies.”

I think he’ll have a indeed difficult time finding another job in Silicon Valley.

Apple is being “anti-consumer” and engaging in “data colonization” by so far refusing to approve an official government “do not disturb” app for the iPhone, according to the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Apple’s HomeKit permits users to control compatible hardware with an iPhone — but expanded control from outside the home requires either an Apple TV of some flavor, or an iPad. AppleInsider explains the use cases, and what you need to get began.

It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to determine whether you are clinically depressed …

Bill Wyman indeed knows his Pink Floyd. If you are a Floyd fan, lock in your dearest tracks, then dig in, see if your faves made the top Ten. Some solid commentary here.

Fairly a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I truly want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an effortless way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on.

But there’s one aspect of iOS designed to protect me from myself that I find irritating, and I’d love a way to switch it off. My iOS devices don’t trust me to ensure there’s no-one watching when I type in passwords …

[Movie] Jeff Benjamin walks through the switches introduced with iOS eleven Beta five (see the movie embedded in the main Loop post). For the most part, these switches are subtle, which is a good thing, shows stability.

Not all of your files are meant to be seen by everyone. Your friends and family may not appreciate this truth, but that’s just the way it is sometimes. Fortunately, MacBook owners can protect their sensitive files from prying eyes by password protecting specific folders.

Every Mac possessor should know how to do this. I only wish Apple would suggest a more direct method of password protecting a folder, one that didn’t require the creation of a separately mountable volume. But this solution works and works well.

That said, if you are attempting to protect text, as opposed to a set of files, consider placing that text into a note, then locking the individual note. This has the advantage of providing you access to that protected information on your Mac and all your iOS devices.

Here’s Apple’s support doc on adding a password to your notes.

Trai, an Indian telecom regulator, is accusing Apple of engaging in “data colonization” in India and being “anti-consumer” by not permitting customers to pass on details about pesky calls and unwanted messages to authorities as well as their mobile operators, reports the Times of India.

The matter has remained unresolved over the last one year and has now led to an attack on the American electronics giant by R S Sharma, chairman of Trai.

“While Google’s Android supports our Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, Apple has just been discussing, discussing, and discussing. They have not done anything,” RS Sharma, chairman of Trai, tells TOI.

The DND app, launched in June 2016, has the capability to procure SMS details and call records of an individual from the phone’s messages column and.

Pics published on Tuesday showcase Apple’s tvOS Simulator hacked to run at 4K resolution, suggesting that Apple likely has little interface work to do to support a fifth-generation Apple TV believed to be coming this fall.

FileMaker, Inc., a wholly wielded subsidiary of Apple, has launchedits Custom-built App Academy and FileMaker Developer Conference movies designed to help individuals learn to build custom-made apps using the FileMaker Platform. It includes movie tutorials with step-by-step guidance tailored to the learner’s level.

Along with the aforementioned movie tutorials in the Custom-made App Academy, the very first movies from the FileMaker Developer Conference with numerous tracks designed for different skill levels and needs are now available. The movies from those sessions—from beginner to advanced—become a secondary learning resource after the event, according to Ann Monroe, vice president of worldwide marketing and customer success, FileMaker, Inc..

Shira Ovide, Bloomberg:

Since well before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple executives have been telling TV entertainment needed a wholesale reinvention and Apple was just the company to do it. Rapid forward to 2017, and America’s entertainment is being reinvented. But Apple is scarcely involved.

More than one million U.S. households have ditched cable TV so far in 2017, Morgan Stanley estimates. Ems of millions of people are binge-watching TV shows and movies on Netflix and Hulu without sitting through commercials. Some amateurs on YouTube are making movies that are more popular than many traditional TV series. People in and out of Hollywood are working on letting people screen fresh movies at home instead of trekking to the multiplex.

This evolution is big. It’s wiggling up pop culture. It’s shifting how cars and diapers are marketed. It’s affecting government policy. And Apple is a fringe player in all of this.

Eddy Cue, the Apple.

Josh Centers wished to do a TidBITS chunk on innovative uses of the MacBook Touch Bar. Things did not go as planned.

[Movie] Augmented reality is leisurely coming in our reality. Genesis Motors (Hyundai’s luxury brand) has put their car manual into an AR app. The movie (embedded in the main Loop post) is just a taste of what’s coming, a nibble of how useful AR can be.

This could be something interesting.

A series of fresh photos purported to be the next-gen iPhone have surfaced on social media web site Weibo. Within the photos, a large dark spot in the center of each photo may support the rumor that the fresh model will feature some form of wireless charging.

The black splotch in the alleged iPhone eight x-ray lines up with a previously leaked schematic from April with the same area for what is expected to be the inductive charging coil.

The rumors of a wireless system within the three upcoming iPhone models (Four.7″, Five.5″ and Five.8″) have been espoused since February, when respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cited hopes for the feature. Others have suggested the wireless charging accessory may not be ready at launch which means the product will be sold separately as well.

Such a rumor has also been echoed by the CEO of wireless charging tech company PowerMat and the CEO of Wistron.

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