“I realized then I could code on the computer to have it fulfill the tasks I wanted it to,” says Apple engineer Jordyn Castor, whose current work focuses on enhancing features like VoiceOver for blind Apple users. “I came to realize that with my knowledge of computers and technology, I could help change the world for people with disabilities.
“I could help make technology more accessible for blind users.”
There’s a lot more to be done but Apple is a leader in making its technology accessible to people with disabilities.
Edwin Griffioen, Heineken’s Supply Development Manager for Global Innovation, explained how it will work.- Because the air pressure is so much lower in an aeroplane than at sea level, a traditional beer tap will not work as it will only dispense a huge amount of foam. His team went to work, and thankfully for beer lovers everywhere, but especially in the sky, they figured out a way to serve more than just foam.
Cliff Williams has played bass in AC/DC since 1977. By the time the group’s current tour wraps up in September, he’ll have logged nearly 40 years with the Australian rockers.
AC/DC has been through a lot this year: Malcolm had to retire due to dementia; Brian had severe hearing loss; and Phil had legal trouble. The only one left that wants to keep going at this point is Angus.
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Apple will pay $25 million to settle a patent lawsuit with Network-1 Technologies’ subsidiary Mirror World Technologies and license its patents, the companies announced today. The patent (No. 6,006,227) dates back to 1999, covering a system that stores documents in a stream ordered chronologically, similar to Apple’s Cover Flow or Time Machine.
A group of 68 major corporations, including Apple, Cisco and eBay, have joined the legal effort to block a North Carolina law that targets the transgender community.
It’s already costing the state quite a bit economically. I have to think that’s going to get worse if big companies don’t want to do business there.
Samsung told The Associated Press that while the Active is meant to be one of the most rugged phones out there, “there may be an off-chance that a defective device is not as watertight as it should be.”
To enable you to do this we are starting to test the ability to create one-to-one secret conversations in Messenger that will be end-to-end encrypted and which can only be read on one device of the person you’re communicating with. That means the messages are intended just for you and the other person — not anyone else, including us.
Great move from Facebook, although I’m sure law enforcement won’t be too pleased.
The iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) is proud to announce the winners of the 9th Annual Awards. This year’s winners were selected from thousands of entries submitted by iPhone photographers from 139 countries around the world.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in 19 categories were awarded to photographers who represented countries around the world including Australia, Brazil, China, Chile, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Unsurprisingly, there are some beautiful images included. As I say to students in my photo classes, “What camera you use matters less than your ability to use it”. Congratulations to all the winners.
On 30 June 1908, an explosion ripped through the air above a remote forest in Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river.
The fireball is believed to have been 50-100m wide. It depleted 2,000 sq km of the taiga forest in the area, flattening about 80 million trees.
This “Tunguska event” remains the most powerful of its kind recorded in history – it produced about 185 times more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb (with some estimates coming in even higher). Seismic rumbles were even observed as far away as the UK.
And yet, over a hundred years later researchers are still asking questions about what exactly took place on that fateful day.
As a kid in Nova Scotia, I was fascinated by these explosions. I started off devouring information at the Halifax Public Library about the Halifax Explosion, moved on to Krakatoa and to the “Tunguska event”. No idea why these explosions fascinated me but I still read articles about them 40 years later.
A year ago, Apple launched Transit directions in iOS 9 Maps, but so far there’s only a limited number of cities worldwide that support the new feature. Here’s why.
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Snapchat is facing a new lawsuit over claims that Snapchat Discover routinely serves sexually explicit content to minors without warning them or their parents. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, was filed by a 14-year-old boy and his mother in US district court this week in the central district of California.
Make sure to text all of your friends running iOS 10 “happy birthday” and “happy new year.” (Seriously this should be opt-in, even opt-out).
Give it a try. When Messages on iOS 10 receives a Happy Birthday text, it rolls out some balloons. And if it gets a Happy New Year text, Messages puts together a little fireworks display. Interestingly, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, etc., don’t seem to do anything. Yet.
As Mark said, I do think this deserves a setting of some kind, either opt-in or opt-out. But it’s a beta. And a nice idea.
Lodged in Northern Illinois District Court on Thursday, Samuel Lit’s lawsuit asserts Apple’s website homepage, which contains a number of display windows that cycle through various new and upcoming products, is in infringement of a patent covering web carousel technology.
As of this writing, Apple.com features a large dynamic carousel element with a four-pane UI cycling through major product advertisements for iPhone 6s, iPad Pro, Apple Watch and MacBook. Assets are rotated on a timer, hence the term “carousel,” though visitors are able to cycle through at their leisure by clicking on interactive onscreen arrows or a row of dots.
Apple is not alone in its use of web carousels. Take a look at the Major League Baseball home page, for example. As of this post, both sites still have their carousels up and running.
If you update to iOS 10 beta, you can remove some built-in apps from the Home screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
When you remove a built-in app from your Home screen, you also remove any related user data and configuration files. This can affect things like related system functions or information on your Apple Watch.
The apps built into iOS are designed to be very space efficient, so all of them together use less than 150MB.
The page goes on to list the apps you can remove from your iOS device.
Interestingly, some apps have a fallback and others do not. For example, if you delete the Calendar app and have Fantastical installed, Fantastical will automatically fill the calendaring role (you can add calendar events to Fantastical via Siri, for example). But if you delete the Mail or Calculator app, nothing fills the gap, even if you have alternatives installed. This is a beta, so that behavior might change.
We have released the first drop of a fully 64-bit version of Office 2016 for Mac to the Insider Fast channel! The update number is 15.25 (160630). I do encourage Insider Fast users to install this update and give it a test. We want to know about any problems you encounter as soon as possible, so that we can make sure we address them before the official release.
My original take on this was amazement that a 64-bit Office was just now emerging in beta. After all, the ability to produce 64-bit apps has been around since OS X 10.4 Tiger, which shipped in 2005.
But this Office team has had to overcome some significant hurdles to bring this new product to life. So many hurdles, that it might be more appropriate to be amazed that they were able to accomplish what turned out to be a Herculean task.
For starters, since Tiger, Microsoft Office for Mac has had a series of major product releases: Office 2004, Office 2008, Office 2011, not to mention updates and side releases (like Outlook). All that work was done while making the transition from CodeWarrior to Xcode, PPC to Intel, gcc to clang, moving from Carbon to Cocoa, not to mention dealing with the emergence of a brand spanking new platform in iOS.
Props to the Office for Mac team for their dedication in bringing this new version to life. And note to self: Don’t be so amazed that something so difficult took so long. The best things do.
Like Ben Brooks, I have both iPad Pros. True Tone on the iPad Pro 9.7-inch model makes it one of my favorites of all time because I can see it perfectly outside (I’m guessing the larger iPad Pro will get this as well, at some point). However, there’s a lot to be said for the larger screen on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, especially if you’re a creative professional. I think it comes down to how you are going to use the devices.
We’re excited to announce a new collection of guidebooks designed to help educators learn how to use iPad in the classroom. The iPad guide helps educators get the most out of iPad for their daily work and lessons. The Apple apps guides include step-by-step instructions to build a sample project and master basic and intermediate skills in each app.
Recently I found myself in a familiar circumstances: life got in the way of my plans to exercise every day. It happens—no matter your best intentions, life comes up and throws a wrench in your plans. Suddenly you find yourself not exercising for a week, or two, or even more, as it was in my case.
The result of this is not just physical—it’s mental too. You start to make excuses, validating the reasons for not getting out there and doing your daily walk (my favorite exercise).
I tried to pick up where I left off with my exercise routine. On a treadmill, that’s a pace of 3.5 mph, and some weight lifting afterwards. Unfortunately, with my absence, picking up at that pace was very difficult for me to maintain. The result was taking even more time off.
Of course, I knew that wasn’t the best thing, but I continued to make excuses so I wouldn’t feel so bad about not exercising.
One day, I looked at the rings on my Apple Watch and had enough. They were not being filled and I was not feeling good about myself any more. Something had to change.
I knew I couldn’t do the pace I had done before, but that’s no reason to not do something. I’ve done this before, so there is no reason I can’t do it again—I just need to start again. That’s what I did.
I remembered back to how I started this journey and began there. I went outside for a short walk—one that I could handle easily, but at a decent pace. I thoroughly enjoyed the walk, and so did my Apple Watch. Adding plant protein powder to my post-walk smoothie helped me recover and replenish nutrients effectively.
You know what else? I continued that walk every day.
Being able to exercise like doing this Asian squat is great for your physical and mental health. It helps me think, and I feel good about myself. I’ve accomplished something.
I’ll work my way back up to the level I was before, I’m not worried about that. I’m just glad I’m back on track. Sometimes starting at the beginning is the best thing to do. Feeling good about yourself and what you’re doing is an important step to being successful.
In addition to macOS Sierra Public Beta, Apple is also launching the iOS Public Beta today. You can get all of the sign-up and download information from Apple’s beta Web site.
iOS 10 Beta has worked very well for me so far. I love many of the new features included in the latest release, but please remember, this is not a completed OS release—this is a beta.
That means that some of the functionality will not work properly, apps may not work properly, and the experience may not be what you expect. If you plan to install it, do it on a secondary device, not the one you use every day.
Before handy apps like TPE, LightTrac and PhotoPills, figuring out where the moon might be on any given night took some educating. Pile on top of that the desire to know when the moon was behind, or next to, a specific feature, natural or man-made, and the calculations were beyond anyone lacking a degree in mathematics. But now, it’s all so much easier. Let me show you how I plan on getting a shot of the full moon behind Seattle’s Space Needle this May.
Have you ever wondered, “Will the sun rise or set over that building? Will the full moon go behind that statue?” Well, free web pages like The Photographer’s Ephemeris and apps like my personal favorite, Photopills (affilliate link), are great for answering that question. The Photographer’s Ephemeris can be a bit fidgeting but it’s worth it to get that perfect shot.
Apple will roll out the public beta for macOS Sierra today, giving users their first glimpse of the next version of the newest Mac operating system.
I’ve been using the Sierra beta since it first came out at WWDC, albeit on a second computer. I really like where Apple is going with the newest release, and the features they’ve included.
As I noted in my First Look of Sierra, it’s the small things that really impress me about this release. Auto Unlock to automatically unlock your Mac if you have an authenticated Apple Watch, and the ability to copy and paste across devices.
All of the features like this are going to make macOS Sierra a great operating system for users.
As much as you may want to try out macOS Sierra, please do use caution. This is a beta operating system and things may not (probably won’t) work all the time or as expect. That’s just the nature of a beta release.
If you are going to install it, do it on a second Mac, not the one you use every day. And make sure to backup.
If you do install it, make sure to update when they are available and enjoy the public beta.
From an extensive post on the Molly Watt Trust blog (raising awareness of Usher Syndrome):
I have Usher Syndrome, which means I was born deaf and in the last ten years I have lost most of my sight. What I see in good light is like looking through a small letterbox. The bits out to the side and above and below are a white, misty haze. In dim light, or at night: I am almost completely blind.
If there was ever a good time to be losing your sight when you are already deaf, it is 2016. We are on the verge of great technology breakthroughs that will help to level the playing field even for those who are both deaf and blind. Driverless cars, haptic virtual reality, wearable technology – they will all soon be an everyday reality.
And:
Now enter, centre stage – The AppleWatch!
This little unassuming piece of tech has already made my life as a deafblind person much easier, but what has really blown my mind is the potential that it offers deafblind people for more relaxed, equal lives.
I was kindly given my AppleWatch by the Molly Watt Trust who are on a mission to improve the lives of those with Usher Syndrome, by providing them with accessible technology. Molly Watt, who is also deafblind due to Usher Syndrome, was an early and enthusiastic exponent of the AppleWatch.
Fantastic post with an extra little nod towards the benefits of Apple Pay. Well done, Molly Watt Trust and Lady Usher.
A few Tesla vehicles have had accidents with Autopilot enabled recently, and I’ve gotten countless questions about these incidents and the nature of Autopilot from people who aren’t Tesla owners. Tesla and the media haven’t clearly communicated what these features do (and don’t do) to the public, so I’ll try to help in whatever small way I can as a Model S owner for a few months so far.
This is a terrific walkthrough on Tesla’s autopilot, a glimpse into what’s coming for cars in general, as well as a reality check on where autonomous driving stands. Things are changing fast as we move towards autonomous vehicles all around us.
