The first true mobile phones back in the 1980s did exactly one thing: phone calls. It wasn’t until 1994 that carriers introduced what was then a revolutionary idea – using mobile phones to send text messages. I’m old enough to remember when only geeks did it, and it took several years before it really took off as a mass-market thing. Fast-forward to today and, for many of us, the very least-frequent thing we do with our phones is use them to make phone calls....

I’ve complained before about the massive missed opportunity of Apple failing to properly integrate both owned and streamed music within iTunes. I got over that enough to use and enjoy Apple Music, and I’m confident I’ll be continuing my subscription once Apple starts charging my card, despite the raw deal we get on pricing in the UK. But I also agreed with Variety that Apple needed to adopt the same approach for OS X as it does for iOS, splitting out the various iTunes functions into separate apps....

On this page, we have shared all the Oppo A73 5G CPH2161 Flash files with the firmware installation guide. To install the firmware flash file, we need a software called SP Flash Tool which can be helpful to flash the stock ROM on your device. The method is simple and easy. We have also added video and step by step tutorial to make things easier to flash the official flash file....

The Academy Awards’ annual In Memoriam montage forgot to include several significant stars who died this past year, including Riverdale’s Luke Perry. The yearly tradition highlights notable deaths in the film and television community with a clip reel, usually run somewhere in the middle of the 3-hour broadcast. Several celebrities who passed away in 2019 include Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones, Dwayne Johnson’s father Rocky “Soul Man” Johnson, and, recently, basketball legend Kobe Bryant....

Netflix takes the surprising step of warning away animal lovers from viewing certain harsh scenes in the new nature documentary series Our Planet. Nature documentaries have been a popular staple of TV for decades, but Our Planet marks the streaming giant’s first foray into producing one of their own. Netflix definitely didn’t leave Our Planet’s success up to chance though, hiring nature documentary mainstay David Attenborough to narrate, and Silverback Films (Planet Earth, Frozen Planet) to produce the high-profile project....

Various forecasts show the market for managed security services growing at double-digit rates. One report from Allied Market Research estimates the market to reach nearly $41 billion by 2022, based on a 16.6% compound annual growth rate between 2016 and 2022. The evolving threat landscape is only one driver behind these trends. The shortage of security talent — estimated currently at more than 4 million by (ISC)2 — is also making it more challenging to both recruit and retain talent....

The popular third-party podcast player Overcast has joined the iOS 13 Dark Mode fun. The app has been updated to support iOS 13 Dark Mode, and it gives users two different options from which to pick. While most apps lock you to either an all-black theme or a gray theme, Overcast lets you pick between the two. This means that whenever the app switches to Dark Mode based on your system setting, it will also factor in the theme you’ve picked in the Overcast settings....

Update: Pad and Quill is taking: 20% off iPhone cases, 25% off MacBook cases for 9to5 readers Brian and Kari from Pad and Quill have sent me a few of their drop dead gorgeous iPhone and iPad cases over the past few months. These are hand-made with natural leather and wood materials with high-quality stitching throughout. The ‘Little Pocket Book’ above is a great wallet case for the iPhone 5/5s. You can just feel the quality of the materials and craftsmanship here....

Paper by FiftyThree, the popular illustrating app for iPad, is making a significant change to its app price today. While Paper for iPad has been free to download and use since its debut, the app has also had tools for drawing and illustrating available for unlocking through in-app purchases as well. Starting today, FiftyThree is making the all tools offered in Paper free for everyone to use. FiftyThree is now including the Draw, Sketch, Outline, Write, and Color tools for every Paper user....

The topic of who planted drugs in a new Pawnee community garden became the focus of a memorable episode of Parks and Recreation season 2. The mystery wasn’t solved by the end of the episode but it did come back into play later in the season. Here’s who planted the drugs in the community garden and why it wasn’t an isolated incident. The incident took place during the Parks and Rec episode titled “The Stakeout....

That pivot came about as Dahan was trying to pitch his app to potential clients. In trying to get them to understand his app’s potential reach, he told them of the thousands of downloads his app recently enjoyed on the heels of a clever marketing campaign he’d run on Instagram. This was 2013, before influencer marketing was a thing anyone had a name for, and so Dahan found himself answering more questions about his marketing strategy than his product....

On this page, we will guide you on how to download and install the Oppo R15 CPH1835 DA file. DA file also known as the Download Agent file is a file that helps in fixing the device secure boot error. If you are using the Oppo R15 and facing any issues such as FRP lock, corrupted memory, secure boot error, authentication, or buffer error. To flash the Secure Boot DA file on your Oppo R15, you need flash tools like SP Flash Tool, NCK Box, Miracle Box, or CM2 box....

After announcing a new case series with integrated Pop Sockets yesterday, OtterBox has unveiled its latest collaboration with Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass. The two will work together on OtterBox’s first dive into the market of glass screen protectors with the Amplify collection for “today’s leading smartphones and tablets.” OtterBox detailed the new partnership and Amplify products in a press release today: OtterBox says the Amplify glass screen protectors will be “coming soon” for iPhone, Samsung smartphones, and presumably iPads as well with the mention of “today’s leading smartphones and tablets....

Not many TV shows can say they got away with spoiling one of their biggest moments and twists, but Parks & Recreation can, as that’s exactly what happened with April and Andy’s wedding. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, Parks and Recreation followed the always optimistic Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her friends and co-workers from the Parks Department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Over the course of seven seasons, viewers followed Leslie and her closest friends through many ups and downs in their personal and professional lives, and many of them became fan favorites, such as April Ludgate and Andy Dwyer....

The private social network Path updated its iOS app today with a simpler chooser for posting content and a tabbed navigation bar for moving around the app. It’s biggest feature, though, follows a growing trend with mobile apps: Path Messaging has moved to a standalone app called Talk that’s rolling out today. With its new Talk app, Path wants to replace SMS and Facebook as it focuses on privacy with a feature called Off the Record....

Online Courses vs Membership sites: Which is Best for Course Creators?: Online Course vs Membership Sites: There is a Difference Picking between an online course platform like Kajabi, Teachable, Learnworlds, and many others out there, vs a membership site, isn’t a decision made lightly. Both types of platforms offer unique benefits and address unique business goals. For example, an online course site is perfect for launching a new educational program. These typically offer a one-time student engagement filled with course content, quizzes, and even a community....

openSUSE is one of the best Linux distributions in the world. Apart from Ubuntu, openSUSE is probably one of the best multi-purpose distribution around.The distro is geared towards desktop users and developers working on desktop or server. openSUSE is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. All of the desktop environments look great on openSUSE as they integrate well. openSUSE 42.1 is stable and everything just works. You would think for 4.7GB, you will get multimedia to work out of the box but you need to download codecs for multimedia playback as it comes with no proprietary ones....

CarPlay is undoubtedly a big step in the right direction. Instead of car manufacturers using their own clunky user-interfaces to give you access to things like phone calls and music, there is now a standard, Apple-designed interface. This makes perfect sense. Apple is the king of user-interface design, and most car manufacturers, well, aren’t. There was a time when I was driving a lot of rental cars and got to experience a whole bunch of different in-car screen systems, and they ranged in usability from halfway ok to downright dreadful....

In this post, we will give you complete information about the latest updates for the Oppo A5s. Oppo released the Oppo A5s smartphone back in 2019 and packs some decent specs under the hood. Notably, Oppo is not known for rolling out regular security or firmware update. Users have understood the importance of updates and OEMs are also getting serious about timely updates. This is the reason we can see that Oppo working towards improving its name in the software update department....

OPPO is a brand that has always been coming with some different types of smartphones in the Find series. Last week the brand announced its new device in the find lineup. This is the OPPO Find X2 and the X2 Pro. If you are here, then you may be looking for a stock firmware file for your Oppo Find X2 Pro (Model: CPH2025). If yes, then you are in the right place....