It was announced last week that Apple CEO Tim Cook would appear on CBS’s The Late Show and now the Apple executive has arrived in New York City for the show. As seen in a variety of images shared on Twitter, Cook today made an appearance at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. While at the store, Cook mingled and took selfies with customers, essentially causing chaos in the packed retail store....
As part of a refocused effort to improve the world of user experience (UX) design, Adobe today has revealed several significant changes to their XD Creative Cloud desktop application. The new features open the door for rapid growth of the software with help from third parties. The biggest addition to Adobe XD is support for plugins. Using Adobe’s APIs, community members and partners will be able to develop new features and automations for the application that users can install....
The news was first made public on the service’s website and at a conference in Las Vegas, and the company further revealed the expansion is funded by a $38 million B round: The decidedly MacGyver tech behind Aereo relies on fingertip-sized TV antennas in data centers that allow servers to live-stream channels with high-definition reception through a speedy Internet connection. Aereo also works with Apple TV via iTunes’ AirPlay and a source iOS device, and even Roku-lovers can use the Aereo channel through set-top boxes....
Ahead of the iPhone media event taking place at 10AM PST, the Apple Store is down for updates. The expectation is that Apple will announce two new phones at the event, a first for the company, dubbed the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C, with both models being available in new colour variations. As always, the Store will return after the event is over, with new pages featuring the newly announced hardware....
An AirDrop security flaw can allow anyone with a laptop and scanning software to see your phone number. The same is true when you share a Wi-Fi password from your iPhone. Doing the same from a Mac reveals its permanent MAC address instead… ArsTechnica reports. Although Apple takes steps to guard against this, security researchers have found it’s trivial to crack the system used. “This is the classic trade-off that companies like Apple try to make when balancing ease of use vs privacy/security,” independent privacy and security researcher Ashkan Soltani told Ars....
Disney’s Aladdin 2019 is an adaption of the 1992 movie of the same name. But whereas Ron Clements and John Musker directed an animated film, Guy Ritchie helmed a live-action feature. And that means there’s a human cast that look quite different to their animated counterparts. Produced for $28 million, 1992’s Aladdin made over $504 million at the box office. For audiences, the visual artistry and animated comedy was all part of the fun....
A full, desktop-class version of Photoshop on iOS has been one of the most hotly anticipated creative apps for designers and artists since the original iPad’s introduction in 2010. In the years since, competitors have released their own products hoping to fill the void, but can’t offer true integration with Creative Cloud that existing Photoshop customer have come to expect. Today at 2018’s Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, Adobe is answering the requests of the creative community by previewing what it calls real Photoshop CC for iPad....
Earlier this week, Apple gave its Beats Pill+ speaker the OG HomePod treatment and changed its status from a “product that remains in our lineup” to finally discontinued. Finally, because there was never any real change to the Bluetooth speaker from 2015 unless you really like red. Meanwhile, Apple has conceded to market to competition that use Apple’s own wireless audio technology. A hot start Beats sold two sizes of Bluetooth speakers when Apple bought the hardware and streaming music business almost eight years ago....
Google may have last week managed to overtake Apple as the world’s most valuable company for the second time this year, but as was the case last time, it didn’t last long. As Philip Elmer-DeWitt noted in his blog, Apple has quickly regained its number one slot … The back-and-forth reflects Apple’s changing stock market fortunes as the market attempts to make sense of the recent decline in iPhone sales. Even noted billionaire investors seem uncertain which way to bet, Carl Icahn bailing out as Warren Buffet jumped in....
Airdroid is an Android application that allows large files to be transferred over wifi between any computer and any Android device. Yes, there is WiFi! It is faster than a USB cable. Let’s get started! Requirements – All you need to transfer files between your Linux machine and Android is a web browser on your Linux machine and the Airdroid application installed on your Android phone or tablet. Now open any browser on the computer and go to airdroid....
AirPods Pro 2 are expected to launch before the end of the year, and 52audio has published images depicting the hardware design. The site previously published images of the third-gen AirPods design ahead of their release. Background 52audio first came across our radar last year when the publication shared what turned out to be accurate images of the new AirPods 3 design. While leaks were everywhere for third-gen AirPods leading up to their release, 52audio published actual images of the hardware that later shipped....
The WordPress login page is always brute-forced by malicious bots. These bots try to guess the username and password of your WordPress website. First of all, users should set a strong password to make it impossible to guess the password. If even after a secure password, username and password are hacked or leaked accidentally, and for that, you can set up a login verification or two-factor authentication. What is Two-Factor authentication or 2fa?...
AirPods market share has fallen dramatically this year, according to Counterpoint Research data, from almost 50% in 2019 to around 35% today. The firm is estimating Apple’s market share of the true wireless in-ear headphone market. That fall in share isn’t likely to worry Apple too much, however, as sales look healthier than ever … Bloomberg reports that Counterpoint expects AirPods sales to rise from 61M last year to 82M this year, a rise of more than a third....
All of today’s best deals are headlined by a new all-time low on Apple’s AirTags 4-pack for $84. That’s alongside the first discount on Belkin’s new Pro 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger and a new low on Logitech Crayon for iPad. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Score a 4-pack of Apple AirTags at a new all-time low Apple’s first take on the Bluetooth locators arrived last summer with the notable inclusion of a U1 chip....
Macrumors claimed to have obtained one of the screens floating around on the Internet from iPad 3 production. Putting it under a microscope, the publication indeed discovered it has 4 times the pixels as an iPad 2 or double the horizontal and double the vertical, which yields 2,048-by-1,536 pixels. We are just a few weeks away from the anticipated March 7 announcement. While the Retina display was expected for some time, there might still be some surprises....
Adobe has announced today it is now accepting images created with the help of generative artificial intelligence applications like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, opening up the sale of these images at Adobe Stock. The legitimacy and legality of stock images generated by AI is a topic of debate in the art and design community, with competing sites like Getty Images banning the sale of AI-generated graphics altogether due to fears of copyright claims....
Marvel TV and ABC have revealed the title for Agents of S.H.I.E.l..D.’s season 5 finale - and it’s sure to leave fans deeply concerned. Right now, the future of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. hangs in the balance. The last two seasons have seen the show find a new creative edge, partly a result of moving to a later timeslot (and a new day this season). But the series’ ratings aren’t the best, and showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen have deliberately written what they believe could be a satisfying conclusion for S....
Fans of Ahsoka Tano have been left wondering what her fate is after her clash with her former master, Anakin Skywalker aka Darth Vader, and it has now been confirmed she is alive and well in Star Wars Rebels Season 4. Ahsoka has been a fan-favorite character since the early days of her introduction in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and has had a remarkable journey from young padawan to a leader within the Rebels....
In this tutorial, we will take a look at an example of how to insert new records in a database table using ASP and ADO. We need to understand how to use the SQL INSERT INTO statement and how to integrate it with ADO. SQL INSERT INTO Statement Structured Query Language, also known as SQL, is the standard language used with most modern database applications. SQL provides us with a mechanism to select, insert, update and modify records in a database....
Adobe this morning announced a slew of software updates to Flash Builder and the Flex framework that will enable developers to create projects for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook, in addition to Android support which was added in April. Flash Builder and Flex, both now at version 4.5, are included in Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium and Master Collection, but can be bought separately as well ($249 for Flash Builder Standard, Premium version is $669)....
