Here are a few tips to help make iOS 8 run faster – even on a shiny new iPhone 6, but you probably don’t need to use them. Disable Spotlight Search While Spotlight Search is one of the niceties of iOS, it’s constantly indexing a lot of your files, apps, and other system-wide content in the background. Spotlight is doing a lot of work by gathering data from internet sources as well....
DC gained a fair amount of critical acclaim for its Injustice video game title and will build on the game’s success, later this year. In just a couple of months, Injustice 2 drops across platforms and bring the greatest heroes and villains from the comic book publisher to life for players’ entertainment. In the lead up to Injustice 2’s release, we’ve been given a lot of looks at all the new characters that will be available, teasing their updated looks and bevy of moves....
If you’re in search of inspiration, a new resource offers a shortcut to creativity. The Inspiration Index site helps you discover artists who have collaborated with Apple on Today at Apple sessions and be inspired by their work. Today at Apple — the creative program held at every Apple Store — is built on shared social experiences and face-to-face gatherings. While the current global health situation has made these encounters indefinitely impossible, creativity must not suffer....
Instagram has today launched its latest feature, ‘Focus’, the portrait mode feature that we reported on last month. While this is almost identical to what Apple offers with its stock iOS camera app, it will be more of a challenge to social media rival Snapchat. And the good news is that Instagram is bringing this portrait mode feature to the iPhone 6s and later. The icon for Focus was found last month buried in the Android Instagram application....
The result? A battle of the short-form video app. Some users are firmly in the TikTok camp, while others swear by Reels. Then, you have a whole group of people championing posting the same content on both platforms. For business owners, it can be bit overwhelming trying to decide whether to invest your efforts into TikTok, Reels or both. So which strategy will give you the best results? Well, it all comes down to the differences between Instagram Reels and TikTok, your audience, and the features that are most important to your business....
The Financial Times reports that Intel is expecting its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors to be delayed until June, according to Executive Vice-President of Intel and Chairman of Intel China Sean Maloney. Digitimes originally reported the delay, but V-R Zone said it was only for certain dual core chips that would most likely not affect Apple’s products. From the comments above, it seems the delay is broader than expected. In his first interview to discuss Intel’s business in China, Mr Maloney told the Financial Times that the start of sales of machines equipped with Ivy Bridge – the 22nm processor set to succeed Sandy Bridge in notebooks this year – had been pushed back from April....
With only a few episodes left in Into the Badlands’ third and final season, the AMC series has finally revealed the main protagonist’s backstory. After reuniting with his long-lost sister, Kannin (Eugenia Yuan), Sunny (Daniel Wu) has at last learned the truth about his past. Throughout the first two seasons of the post-apocalyptic martial arts series, not much was known about Sunny’s early life. As a child and with no memory of his past, Sunny was found near a river by Waldo, who trained him to become a Clipper and the loyal regent of Quinn....
The Walking Dead star Steven Yeun will lead the voice cast of Invincible, an animated superhero series based on the comics by Robert Kirkman (who wrote the Walking Dead comics). Yeun leads a star-studded cast that also includes the voice talents of Seth Rogen (This Is The End), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Mark Hamill (Star Wars), J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and more. Invincible won’t be releasing until 2020, but EW has confirmed the full voice cast - and it’s pretty impressive....
Apple appears to be planning to drop support for 32-bit apps in an upcoming version of iOS. The alert dialog presented when launching a 32-bit app on iOS 10.3 beta 1 now warns users that the app needs to be updated to continue working on future versions of iOS. This suggests that iOS 11 expected later this year could be the first version to only support 64-bit apps. Apple has supported 64-bit apps on iOS since the launch of the iPhone 5s in September 2013....
Setting up your email in iOS 7 is just like setting it up in earlier versions of iOS. Just like before, you are able to have Gmail set up in the Mail app. To set up your email you would go to Settings, then tap on Mail, Contacts & Calendars, and then press Add Account. By default in iOS, Gmail is set to archive your emails as opposed to deleting them....
In what seems to be an announcement lost within the buzz of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks (amongst other WWDC news), Apple will finally open up the iOS SDK to fully support hardware game controllers, enabling handheld-esque gaming experiences akin to the Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. As with background apps downloads and new Directions APIs, Apple announced hardware controller support during Monday’s keynote address in one of those ‘things we added but didn’t have time to talk about’ slides (pictured above)....
The Lyceum/Hexane APT’s attacks are primarily focused on extracting user credentials from compromised systems. To accomplish this, they have a multi-stage attack chain with at least five known malicious components. The Lyceum/Hexane attack chain The Lyceum/Hexane APT uses a multi-stage attack to infect a target machine. The initial stage is a malicious Microsoft Office document that contains the DanDrop malware. This malware creates a copy of DanBot, a remote access Trojan (RAT) and schedules it to run....
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According to recent figures from comScore, 48.6 percent of smartphone users own an Android smartphone, which would bring quite a few users to the Instagram community. Instagram founder Kevin Systrom has shown the upcoming app for a short while to TechCrunch. Still, he didn’t do a proper walk through, because he said that it wasn’t ready for that at the moment. Still, the most interesting statement that Systrom made was that, in some ways, the app is better than the iOS version....
Also Read What is Lineage OS? LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. LineageOS does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway. What is in Android 7....
iOS 13 beta 2 dropped last night with the usual bevy of changes. tvOS has had several surprises, including the addition of Picture-in-Picture video for the TV app. There’s also a new feature that requires iOS 13 and tvOS 13: Wireless Audio Sync. If you have an Apple TV, particularly when connected to a secondary speaker system, then you can be afflicted by a common AV issue: unsynchronized audio. The video signal is processed by the TV at a slightly different time than the audio is transmitted from the speaker system....
Instagram has debuted a new feature today called Guides and the platform is using it to promote well-being during the pandemic. However, the feature will expand over time and be used by Instagram creators to promote a variety of content. Here’s how Instagram describes the new Guides: For now, Instagram is rolling out Guides with a limited set of creators and is focusing on well-being content. Seems it would really shine on an Instagram for iPad app, doesn’t it?...
Update: The utility is back! Intel has published a minor update to version 3.5.3, seemingly to address some instability issues. Panic over. Original story below. The download link for the Intel Power Gadget, which reports info like Mac CPU temperature and current clock speed, has been conspicuously removed from the Intel website today. There’s no explanation on the page as to why the company suddenly removed the download, although it sure is convenient timing....
Then 2020’s lockdowns, travel bans and retail closures forced consumers to alter their shopping behaviors completely, accelerating social as a serious channel for commerce. Now, social is no longer just your showroom, it’s your point of sale. To be clear, social commerce—the buying and selling of goods or services directly within a social media platform—isn’t just a pandemic-era trend. According to research conducted by the Harris Poll, on behalf of Sprout Social, 43% of Generation Z and 49% of Millennials have purchased directly from a social media platform....
Although Apple didn’t mention it during WWDC 2020 last month, iOS 14 brings improvements and new options to the iPhone camera. This includes faster shots, an option to use the volume up button to control Burst Mode, and even QuickTake available for older iPhones. Read on as we detail what’s new for the iPhone camera on iOS 14. Faster Shots What’s more important to a portable camera than being able to quickly take photos of unique moments?...
