Macally has launched its first dual-mode keyboard and mouse combo, which the company says gives Apple users the freedom to switch instantly between wired and wireless connectivity. Available in silver or space gray, this set includes a dual-mode keyboard that connects...
On August 20 Masimo sued U.S. Customs over its decision to let Apple resume selling the Apple Watch in the United States with the blood oxygen feature enabled. Now, the government agency has responded with a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. US Customs and Border...
James Corden and Ruth Jones have signed a multi-million pound deal with AppleTV+ for a follow-up to “Gavin & Stacey,” according to The Sun. They will star in the ten-part comedy drama alongside an all-British cast. “Gavin and Stacey” — starring Mathew Horne and...
I’m sure some Apple World Today readers figured this out a long time ago, but I just noticed an issue with using my iPad Pro with SideCar and my 16-inch MacBook Pro. You can’t watch full screen copyrighted video under such a set-up. Evidently, it’s an issue that’s...
Apple has applied for a patent (number 20210400414) for “head tracking correlated motion detection for spatial audio applications.” It involves taking advantage of spatial audio in augmented reality apps on the company’s various devices. About the patent filing In the...
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Super Saturday. The last Saturday before Christmas, continues to be the biggest shopping day of the year with an estimated 147.8 million U.S. consumers expected to participate, up from 134.3 million last year, according to the annual survey by the National Retail...
Technology investments in the industrial and manufacturing sector are set to skyrocket, jumping from $59 billion in 2019 to $375 billion in 2030. Including hardware revenues, that figure climbs to over $1 trillion, according to ABI Research. Manufacturing is in the...
2020 is set to bring a digital transformation with a new set of technologies. The latest insight from the UX Innovation research team at Strategy Analytics has identified the top UX trends to watch in 2020. The research group says artificial intelligence (AI) will...
As touchscreens become more commonplace, the gulf of perceived differences in the performance of these features between cars and other devices (such as mobile and in-home) has become wider. A new report from the In-Vehicle UX (IVX) group at Strategy Analytics has...
Continued end-user demand, proliferation of devices, and declining average selling prices will propel the worldwide wearables market in the years to come, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device...
Allied Market Research’s new report, Mobile Application Market, says the global mobile application industry was pegged at $106.3 billion in 2018 and is estimated to reach $407.3 billion by 2026, growing at a compound annual growth (CAGR) of 18.4% from 2019 to 2026....
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LEGO is enjoying a renaissance thanks in part to “The LEGO Movie.” However, LEGO artists like Nathan Sawaya and Mike Doyle have been creating museum-quality artwork with these plastic bricks for over a decade. Now they’re sharing their secrets in “The Art of LEGO Design” (http://tinyurl.com/pncypgc) from No Starch Press (US$24.95).
Ergonis Software’s (http://www.ergonis.com) Typinator 6, the latest version of its tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos systemwide across all Mac OS X applications, sports over 50 new features and improvements.
With an inclusion mechanism, text expansions can execute external scripts and include their results in the expansion. Typinator supports scripts written in in many different languages like AppleScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and arbitrary shell scripting languages.
Parallels’s Parallels Access app (www.parallels.com/access), which provides remote access to Macs and PCs, is now available on the iPhone as well as the iPad, and, if you’re really interested, Android devices.
The latest version also delivers new features for even better remote experience, and introduces Parallels Access for Business (www.parallels.com/access-business), which lets companies centrally assign, manage, and secure remote access to their computers.
QuickerTek’s US$149 QCard 2 brings 802.11ac wireless to the MacBook Air and Pro. 802.11ac wireless is fast — with as much as twice the speed of the previous 802.11n wireless of the built-in MacBook wireless card.
The QCard goes in the standard wireless card socket, so users don’t sacrifice a USB or other external connection port. Any MacBook Pro or Air running MacOS X 10.8.4 and a PCIe bus (which includes most newer MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models) is a candidate. Users without a PCIe bus may substitute the QuickerTek acNano USB external antenna.
“The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Discovery Book” (336 pages, US$34.95) from No Starch Press (http://www.nostarch.com) is the company’s latest book to delve into the robotics system
Author Laurens Valk brings his robotics expertise to bear as he teaches readers the techniques essential to successful robot building. Valk has been building Mindstorms robots for years and was even recruited by the LEGO Group to test and develop this new generation of LEGO Mindstorms.