Every year, a handful of clued-in pundits start floating “wouldn’t it be nice” Apple OS ideas just before the features actually show up in Apple’s products. Right before iOS 7 debuted a flattened design, at a point when few people even knew what skeuomorphism was, pundits began to ask, “boy, doesn’t skeuomorphism stink?” Then ahead of iOS 9, when people might have wondered what new marquee features were coming to Apple’s operating systems, pundits said, “hey, wouldn’t it be nice if Apple focused on iOS and OS X stability this year?...

As the protagonist of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Barbara Knope led the way at Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department before leaving to become the City Councilor of Pawnee (and later Regional Director of National Park Service Midwest Region and the Deputy Director of Operations at United States Department of Interior). Leslie is a strong feminist who thinks Pawnee is the greatest city in America and believes in equal opportunities. She is constantly pushing the men and women in her life to strive for greatness and to think boldly....

The crowdfunding Asahi Linux project has published the first progress report detailing its effort to port Linux to the Apple Silicon platform with the M1 Macs. Apple’s new processor architecture is creating some difficulties… In the blog post (via The Register), kernel hacker and Asahi Linux cofounder Hector Martin describes the challenges faced by the project in understanding how this new Apple chip works. The project’s report gives a glimpse of Apple’s unique boot process, and the challenges to getting another operating system to run on the M1 Mac mini, the first Apple Silicon product Martin is trying to make Linux run....

Nobody who watched the news coverage of the terrorist attacks in Paris could fail to be moved by the scenes and the stories emerging from it. It was undeniably a horrific series of events, and it’s only human nature to want action to be taken to reduce the likelihood of future such atrocities. But there is always a danger at such times that emotion, rather than rational thought, will drive government policy-making....

After first being teased during the original Apple TV+ announcement back in March 2019, Apple TV+ today officially unveiled ‘The Me You Can’t See’. It will premiere on May 21st. The docuseries will feature stars and athletes discussing their battles with mental health, as well as personal stories from people across the world, and interviews with psychological experts. The show will include interviews with Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, DeMar DeRozan and more....

In the last season of Outlander, Sophie Skelton was one of the rising stars for her portrayal of Brianna. As fans know, Brianna is the daughter of Jamie and Claire - who had traveled through the stones last season to be reunited with her parents. However, she didn’t have the easiest of journeys as she had to go through many trials and tribulations to get there. Of course, these events have caused Brianna’s personality to change - yet, it has not always been for the best....

First, click the File tab in the Outlook 2013 menu, then select Options. When the Outlook Options screen comes up, click the Signatures button. Click New and give your signature a name. This lets you distinguish it from other signatures you may be using. Now that it has a name, type everything you want your new signature to contain in the box below Edit signature. You can use whatever font you like, in any size....

This week, the editors over at Apple chose the PAC-MAN Friends app as the Free app of the week for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. The free app has tilt control, retina support and 95 levels of play. Despite being the free app of the week, dozens of reviews I browsed through complain of in-app purchases as well as ads in between levels. Sounded a bit sketch to me so I skipped on downloading it for my devices....

Pandora’s struggles have been well documented as the company has faced trouble competing with the likes of Apple Music and Spotify, and today the company has officially confirmed that founder Tim Westergren will step down as CEO. This move was first reported earlier this week, but Pandora today made it official. In a statement, Pandora board member Roger Faxon outlined that the company has worked hard over recent weeks to “refocus and reinforce Pandora,” noting that the company feels that it is now in a position to “capture an increasing share” of the streaming music industry (via Bloomberg)....

OPPO F11, F11 Pro, and F11 Pro Avenger’s Edition smartphones were launched in 2019 as budget category devices including Android 9.0 Pie on the top of ColorOS 6 out-of-the-box. All three devices came with MediaTek Helio P70 chipset, dual rear cameras, a 6.5-inches LCD display, and almost similar specifications. Now talking about the Android 10 update, all three models have already received the ColorOS 7 update and successfully running it. However, users are asking for the OPPO F11, F11 Pro, and F11 Pro Avenger’s Edition Android 11 (ColorOS 11) Update....

A patent application spotted by Patently Apple suggests that the Apple Watch turning on its display as you raise your wrist could be just the first of many supported gestures. Pointing, waving and even extending pinky and thumb in a ‘phone me’ gesture could all be used to initiate actions on either the Watch itself or a paired iPhone. Apple gives a number of illustrative examples of such gestures …...

A major update is arriving for the Opera Touch iOS browser today – now rebranded to just Opera. The latest version features an all-new refined UI to modernize the browser’s minimalist design that builds on its foundation of privacy, speed, and a one-handed experience. Announced in a press release today, the company says the new Opera for iOS “introduces a modern UI, keeping its minimalist design and the powerful features that Apple users love” like a private, safe, fast, and one-handed browsing experience....

Today, a Chinese smartphone unveiled the new smartphone officially in the Philippines, Taiwan, called Oppo F9. Later, the company will launch the phone in other Southeast Asin markets, including Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. In India, the Oppo F9 expected to launch as Oppo F9 Pro smartphone. The F9 is a successor of the Oppo’s F7 smartphone which launched earlier this year with notched design on top of the display. The Oppo F9 comes with a smaller V-shaped drop like notch and the company called the new design is waterdrop display....

Colin Trevorrow confirms the Star Wars 9 original script leaks. While J.J. Abrams’ The Rise of Skywalker has its fair share of supporters, its mixed reception led to an increased interest in what the movie could have been when Trevorrow was still onboard as director. Earlier this month, details about his script (which was called Duel of the Fates) made their way online, painting a very different picture when compared to Rise of Skywalker....

From Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media, a profile examining Apple’s PR strategy: Two Heads In Place Of One Months after announcing her departure, Katie Cotton has moved on from Apple, according to a person close to the former executive. She is no longer involved in the media strategy that she led for 18 years, and is not participating in recruiting a replacement. A source told us that “Cotton does not believe in searching for her own successor....

Now that Apple has released the iPhone X, there are currently eight different iPhone models in the lineup. These include the SE, 6s and 6s Plus, 7 and 7 Plus, 8 and 8 Plus, and now the iPhone X. How does Apple intend to make sense of this if there are another three, possibly four, iPhones coming out next year? Here’s my proposal. First, let’s go over why Apple may be clinging to the numbered system....

WordCrasher on the Mac App Store Ahead of Mac OS X’s Lion’s official launch, Apple has begun approving apps that take advantage of the next-generation operating system into their Mac App Store. The move, first noted by OS X Daily, comes just days after Apple opened the door to developers to submit their Lion apps for inclusion on the App Store. Apple, of course, recommends that these apps are first tested against the Golden Master version of the operating system....

It’s the worst kind of fault, intermittent and prone to happen when we’re on a call or trying to download software. We’ve changed the router, even had engineers out to check the connection. Our ISP has changed our wholesale provider (as much as they can), the cabling provider has changed the cable we’re using and the port in the fiber cabinet, but nothing seems to work. SEE: Internet slow? Here are the possible reasons why and how to fix them All the various diagnostics seem to point to one thing: the aluminium cabling under the street put in sometime in the 1960s or 70s is reaching end of life....

Using E Ink devices for content creation is not as rare as it once was. E-reader specialist Kobo launched its Elipsa earlier this year, for example, while reMarkable is on the second version of its tablet, the reMarkable 2. Specification comparison Both tablets have a similar user interface and mode of operation, with finger sweeps and taps supported as well as stylus input. The larger Max Lumi2 has a fingerprint scanner below the screen; this is absent in the smaller Note Air2 model, although both devices can be password protected....

As regular readers will know, it took a little while for the Apple Watch to really grow on me. But even back when I wasn’t convinced I needed a smartwatch, I still had to admire the design. And the Digital Crown was a large part of how Apple got the smartwatch right when others hadn’t yet cracked it. A fundamental problem with a small touchscreen is that touching it covers up much of the content....