Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of September 29-October 3. ° Apple Music has announced that rapper, singer and producer Bad Bunny is to lead the halftime show at the 2026 Super Bowl LX. ° Apple is purportedly nearing mass...
Cognixion has announced a clinical trial that integrates its non-invasive EEG-based brain–computer interface (BCI) technology with the Apple Vision Pro with no surgery required. The aim of the trial is to create real-world impact for people with communication...
For the first time in history, an entire series is being filmed in the sky. The Flying Felon breaks ground as the first aerial show and interview series, captured 1,000 feet above the earth with the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera system and engineered for the...
To complement the design of the new Studio Display, Apple introduced a new silver-and-black color option for Magic Keyboard with Touch ID (US$199), Magic Trackpad ($149), and Magic Mouse ($99) that customers can purchase separately. They’re nice complements to the...
Apple offers, among other things, Swift Playgrounds, but it wants to further integrate the iPad into educational environments, along with iPhones and even Apple Watches. The tech giant has been granted a patent (number 11,281,369) for “touch-based interactive learning...
If Apple releases its rumored augmented reality/virtual reality headset (“Apple Glasses”) this year as some pundits predict, it could be perfect timing. The worldwide market for augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets grew 92.1% year over year in 2021...
Forget “iPhone 13” rumors. Let’s move on to the “iPhone 14.” In a note to investors — as noted by MacRumors — JP Morgan Chase says that, in 2022, high-end Apple smartphones will sport a new titanium alloy chassis design. According to the report, the use of...
In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Face ID will come to the Mac in a couple of years. He adds that he thinks Apple’s goal is to move all its products to the technology. “It won’t happen this year, but I’d bet Face ID on the Mac is...
Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,069,336) that shows the company wants Siri to be better able to pronounce names. About the patent It’s dubbed “systems and methods for name pronunciation.” In the patent, Apple notes that name recognition is a particularly...
Brian Bowman, CEO of ConsumerAcquisition.com, says that iOS advertisers are experiencing a 15% to 20% revenue drop and inflation in unattributed organic traffic following Apple’s IDFA rule change. He notes that, for months, the industry has been watching the loss of...
I suspected that Apple is planning a new external display “for the rest of us” (the rest of us not being about to afford the US$5,000 Pro Display XDR). However, 9to5Mac says says the tech giant is also planning for a new display to replace the Uber-pricey...
In a note to clients — as noted by MacRumors — analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple will release a new 13-inch MacBook Air with a mini-LED display in mid-2022. The Sellers Research Group (that’s me) agrees that an upgraded Air with such a display is coming next year....
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Mac users in search of a simple drawing app now have an appealing option in a polished but low cost app called Patina. Developed by a California company called Atek, Patina echoes the simplicity of Microsoft Paint, the widely used go-to drawing tool for generations of Windows users.
Patina sports a modern and slick appearance with large tool buttons and color controls. Basic operations, such as drawing and manipulating shapes, setting and changing colors, moving and resizing objects, and doing annotations, are all very straightforward.
Nektony’s Duplicates Finder 3.0.6 (https://nektony.com) is a useful freeware utility to find any duplicate file on Mac OS X.
The tool was specifically developed to help anyone find and delete all duplicate files en masse. Files are categorized by types for images, videos, music, archives, documents and all other specific extensions. Every found file is displayed in a corresponding category with its location on the hard drive, a quick link to the Finder, as well with a file preview.
MagicScore Guitar notation software by Maestro Music Software is now up to version 8. The software offers guitarists and other fretted instrumentalists easy tablature and notation software. Version 8 delivers a fast, enhanced workflow, and allows guitarists to work simultaneously with tab and/or notation and synchronize their display if desired.
“Python Playground” (http://tinyurl.com/odwk23r) from No Starch Press, $29.95, 352 pp., November 2015) isn’t just another introduction to the Python programming language. This is a collection of 14 complex and compelling projects designed to challenge anyone with moderate experience with Python, from programmers who want to tinker with computers and electronics to those who just find the workday programming world a bit dull.
The projects in “Python Playground” will have readers using OpenGL and popular Python libraries like numpy, matplotlib, and pygame to create things like:
UPPERCASE Design’s Premium Ultra Thin Keyboard Protector and its Palm Rest Protector Set for the new 12-inch MacBook provide protection for the laptop’s keyboard and surface and are styled to perfectly match the new MacBook in fit and appearance.