We’re hearing reports that OS X Mountain Lion’s AirPlay Mirroring feature is not supported on all Macs. The video we posted last night that shows the feature in action uses a MacBook Pro, and it has been working on our 1.8 GHz MacBook Air. It’s not working, though, on our 2.4 GHz 2010 Mac mini or 2010 MacBook Pro with a 2.66 GHz processor and 4GB of RAM. Some are thinking that Apple is restricting dual-core Macs, but our MacBook Air is dual-core....

A total of nine movies are in the running for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the Oscars 2020, but Marriage Story should be the eventual winner. This year’s Oscars ceremony, which will once again be without a host, takes place on Sunday 9 February, 2020, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The Oscar nominations revealed a strong list of Best Picture candidates, although as ever awards season has whittled those down to a few frontrunners....

Note: You and the recipient will need to have HTML mode enabled to see the backgrounds. How to Add a Background Picture to Messages in Outlook First, launch Outlook and start a new email. To add the background click the Options tab on the Ribbon. Then click Page Color. The background changes as you hover over each color. To add an image click Page Color » Fill Effects. The Fill Effects screen opens....

Background information In my previous article, I described the types of encryption schemes available. Here is a quick summary of them. There are two types of encryption schemes: Symmetric key encryption: Encryption and decryption keys are the same. Asymmetric key encryption: Encryption and decryption keys are not the same. Symmetric key encryption can use either stream ciphers or block ciphers. A stream cipher encrypts one bit at a time, while a block cipher encrypts plaintext in chunks....

Why We Take Off Our Shoes in the United States but not in Israel Anyone who’s flown in the United States knows about TSA security. We take off our coats, avoid liquids, and take off our shoes before going through security. We have a no-fly list based on names. These are reactions to specific threats. That’s not the way a country like Israel does security. I haven’t flown El-Al (Israel’s national airline), but friends tell me about the interviews they go through in security....

Brute force vs. dictionary attack An attacker can try every possible password combination (brute force approach). The advantage is guaranteed success in finding the right password. The drawback is that it is a very time-consuming process. It’s probable that a typical user is frustrated about password best practices and uses a pattern for the password (for example a common word and a digit appended at the end). Then the attacker can build a set of common words concatenated with a digit (an exemplary pattern in the dictionary) and try every combination from this set....

Opera has ported its Opera Touch mobile browser from Android to iOS, and claims that it’s the perfect choice for iPhone X and iPhone XS/Max owners. The company says ‘zero-step search’ and a Fast Action button make the browser ideal for larger-screened phones without a Home button … Opera says that Touch, unlike Safari, is ready to search the web the moment you open the app. Safari, in contrast, leaves you wherever you last left off....

If you’re an Oppo A15 user and want to flash the stock firmware on your device, then this article is for you. In this guide, we have shared the complete instruction to flash the official stock ROM file on Oppo A15 CPH2185. Additionally, we’ve provided the stock firmware advantages, requirements, download links, etc. Due to the open-source nature, Android OS is really customizable and users can tweak plenty of things by installing custom firmware or mod files or even installing root access on their devices....

Fans of Ori and the Blind Forest will be pleased to learn Ori and the Will of the Wisps has gone gold. One of the most prized Metroidvania-style 2D action platformers published by Microsoft Studios, Ori and the Blind Forest originally released on the PC and Xbox One back in 2015, with a port of the game coming to the Nintendo Switch back in September of 2019. Developed by Moon Studios, Ori and the Blind Forest tasks players with controlling the titular Ori, a white guardian spirit, who must restore the “light” of the forest by gaining powers of the the main elements which make up the game’s universe....

Apple is preparing to soon release new Mac computers that support super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless, according to code-findings inside of Apple’s latest OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta seed to developers. The code was located by a tipster inside of the operating system’s WiFi-frameworks folder. As you can see in the image directly below, the 802.11ac code is not found in OS X 10.8.3, which is the latest public release of Apple’s Mac operating system....

Here are our predictions for the winners of the Oscars 2020 in every category. It’s rare that the Academy Award nominations are announced without some sort of controversy or pushback, but the choices for the 92nd Oscars felt especially designed to annoy audiences. Sure, there were some amazing nominees up there, from Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite to Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, but it was hard to overlook how this was yet another year with an all-male director line-up and 19 out of the 20 acting nominees were white....

Layer 1 of the OSI model is known as the physical layer. The physical layer is the lowest layer in the seven-layer OSI model. It consists of the basic networking hardware transmission technologies of a network. The physical layer defines the means of transmitting raw bits over a physical link connecting network nodes. The bitstream is converted to a physical signal that is transmitted over a transmission medium such as a physical wire or a wireless radio transmission....

Woops. As seen by the New York Times (via MacRumors), Wei-han Lien, the senior manager of Apple’s chip team revealed his work in developing an ARM-based processor for the iPhone in a post on his LinkedIn profile. This post reveals he is the man currently charged to manage the ARM CPU architecture team for the iPhone. Apple acquired PA Semi, a global leader in processor design, in June, and when it did the company also acquired the services of Wei-han Lien....

The focal point of Outlander, aside from the prevalent Scottish history and time-traveling, is the love story that will stand the test of time between Jamie and Claire Fraser. Jamie won over the hearts of women everywhere with his charm, bravery, utter devotion and love for Claire, and, of course, his stunning good looks. While there is certainly more to his character than just his outward appearance, part of what makes Jamie who he is has to do with how he presents himself in the 18th-century....

It seems that one of the worst kept secrets in the gaming industry is out of the bag, as a port of Overwatch for the Nintendo Switch has leaked once more. Blizzard Entertainment was one of the companies that were originally reticent to support the Nintendo Switch during the early days of the console’s lifespan, especially following the reception to the Nintendo Wii U. The Nintendo fans have been asking for a port of Overwatch for the Nintendo Switch since the console first launched, but Blizzard seemed hesitant, especially as the game was still receiving regular updates on different systems....

The paperback edition of Steve Jobs: A Biography will be available on September 10th, featuring a younger Steve on the cover and a new afterword, reports AllThingsD. The photo used on the hardback, taken by Albert Watson in 2006, was based on the pose of the much earlier photo used on the paperback, taken by Norman Seeff in 1984 – the year the Macintosh was launched. Steeff also took the famous photo of Jobs posing with that Mac, which Time used as its cover photo for its commemorative issue shortly after his death …...

In February, ViacomCBS announced that its new streaming service Paramount+ would have a cheaper ad-supported tier coming in June. Now, we know it’s coming next week. According to The Verge, the new plan will be introduced on June 7. There are a few differences between the two services: In the cheaper tier, users can only watch national news with CBSN and not local news with CBS Live, there are fewer sports options, and users can’t download content to watch later....

Like many other people, I signed up for Apple Music yesterday because it was intriguing and free. Having skipped earlier subscription music services, I didn’t have Spotify playlists to worry about losing or importing, and I hadn’t experienced truly unlimited access to a giant music selection before. Apple Music’s sign-up process turned out to be great: attractive, simple, and just personal enough to learn my tastes without feeling creepy. It’s also likely to win long-term customers: sign up your family, and after 3 months, someone’s going to insist on keeping Apple Music (or just forget to cancel it)....

I wrote in an earlier opinion piece that 2014 is the year when I expect Apple to finally give in and opt for a larger iPhone display. Assuming I’m right, the question then becomes: what approach will Apple take? There are two ways of increasing the size of a display. First, you can keep the resolution the same and simply use larger pixels. That’s what happens when a manufacturer makes a 1080P HD TV in both 40- and 50-inch sizes, for example....

Microsoft Edge has a feature that alleviates the craziness with Tab Groups. It allows you to create groups of open tabs to help you better organize the pages. At the time of this writing, the feature is not enabled by default so you need to access the experimental settings to turn it on. Here’s a look at how to turn the Tab Groups feature on so you can better organize all of your open tabs....