Six Colors’ Jason Snell (via Daring Fireball) posed an interesting question in his preview of today’s launch event: how will Apple justify the removal of the headphone socket? Will it do so loudly or quietly, and what will it sell as the benefit? I’ve already suggested that Apple has been preparing the ground for some time now, but I think yesterday’s KGI report contained a rather large clue as to how Apple will sell the move …...

When the largest company in the world changes the date of a quarterly earnings call, there has to be a good reason. It’s not the sort of thing you do on a whim. Apple has done this once before, and there was indeed a very good reason, which it shared with us: to allow senior Apple execs to attend the memorial service of long-standing board member Bill Campbell. This time, however, no explanation has been offered, and enquiries by reporters have received no response....

Smartphones can completely transform our life and this ability of these gadgets makes them useful and appreciable. A modern man knows the importance of keeping a smartphone in the present century. With the help of this widget, performing a general task is a matter of minutes and because it saves time, almost everyone is buying it. There is no upper limit on options if you are looking for a powerful smartphone....

Community was a show that struggled to find a strong audience when it was on-air but managed to gain a very passionate following among its fans. The crazy exploits of a community college study group featured fun pop culture references, inventive episodes and, of course, likable characters. However, one of the characters who was sometimes harder to root for was Pierce Hawthorne. Played by Chevy Chase, Pierce was occasionally kind-hearted, but more often he was offensive, selfish and childish....

The European Union has rejected the idea of making coronavirus contact tracing apps mandatory for international travel. The proposal was one of a number of possible measures being put forward as a way to allow people to resume use of airlines and international train services without the risk of carrying the virus between countries … However, reports Reuters, the EU says that the voluntary use of contact tracing apps should be encouraged by governments....

Convert Video to Audio with iTunes If you have video files already in your iTunes Library, you can convert them to AAC, MP3, or the import settings you’ve selected. In this example, I’m converting a video podcast I want as an audio file so I can listen to it in the car. Launch iTunes and click Advanced from the Menu Bar. You’ll see Create AAC Version is grayed out. The secret is to hold the Option key on the Mac keyboard....

When you’re first setting up Windows 8, it’s recommended to use your Microsoft account, but there is an option to login without using your Microsoft account. But, most users will use their Microsoft account to to set up their machine. Here’s how to create a local user account after you’ve already set up Windows 8. When I tried to log in with out a Microsoft Account, I got this screen....

RockLive, best known for their popular Mike Tyson Main Event game for the iPhone and iPod touch, is back for another high-profile game partnership. This time, the game studio has teamed up with world-leading soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo for a very fun and addicting game called Heads Up with Cristiano Ronaldo (now available). The game is insanely addictive and combines aspects from puzzle and brick-breaker type games with eye-popping graphics, crisp animations, simple pick-up-and-play game play to make a great gaming experience....

Having an easy-to-use navigation tool on your website is very important in making your site user- and SEO-friendly. Unless you are coding your site with a server side scripting language such as ASP.NET, you will need the help of CSS so that you can transform your plain HTML menus into clean and crisp navigation bars. We can design our navigation bar using a variety of methods, but using a list element is by far the most flexible tool to use....

The rebirth of the X-Men universe is finally wrapping up, and it’s made Cyclops more powerful than ever. Not only has he been chosen to lead the military defense of the island of Krakoa, but he’s been able to unite the entire Summers family as the new X-Men. And the first family trip is about to begin! Now that Marvel has release the first official preview for X-Men #2, it can be confirmed: the mutants are going to be dealing with the death of Charles Xavier immediately....

A psychologist has taken a shot at explaining fans’ reactions to the penultimate episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, that saw Daenerys finally unleash her rage upon King’s Landing. With an episode that shocked and divided viewers, the psychologist has attempted to understand the huge reactions that it has drawn from fans of the epic show. Since episode 5 “The Bells” aired a few days ago, fans have taken to the internet in their thousands, taken aback by the gripping episode that saw their potential heroine burn King’s Landing to the ground, in a merciless act of rage and violence that resulted in thousands of innocent lives lost, and a city left in ruins....

A follow-up was heavily teased in the game’s cliffhanger ending, but here’s why Dante’s Inferno 2 never left development hell. Developer Visceral Games’ first made a name for themselves in the 2000s working on licensed games James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing and 2006’s The Godfather, before breaking out with the original Dead Space. This 2008 title was an intense blend of horror and action, with players trapped on a vast spaceship and having to literally dismember creatures dubbed Necromorphs to survive....

Setting up File Daemon Encryption To encrypt/decrypt the information, each file daemon uses a private/public key pair, where the private key is used to decrypt the data, while the public key encrypts the data. The clients must not share the private key among themselves, because that would enable each client to decrypt the files of another client; therefore each client must have its own private/public key pair. Each client should be given the following keys:...

The classic film Christmas Vacation is one of our favorite Christmas movies to revisit. It’s a great mixture of physical comedy, one-liners, and priceless characters. It’s hard to pin down what element makes it the best. The more we’ve thought about it, the more we’ve realized how terrible the animals are and how awful they make things for everyone else around them. But if we’re being honest, it’s not just them; it’s the humans, too....

Sitcoms are, by nature, super repetitive. Fans love watching the same characters, setting, and sometimes, the same situations week by week. It makes sense that many of these TV comedies have catchphrases that are said over and over again. While some of these are funny and comforting, others are annoying and grating. Not every line of dialogue can be a winner, after all. Here are the five most hilarious classic sitcom catchphrases, along with five that are definitely overrated....

According to a report from The Oregonian, two Chinese engineering students allegedly scammed Apple out of nearly $1 million worth of iPhone replacements. The two are now facing criminal charges in federal court, the report says. The scheme began in 2017 when the two men smuggled thousands of counterfeit iPhones into the United States from China. From there, they would send the counterfeit goods to Apple for repair, claiming the devices would not power on (via The Verge)....

Troubles are everywhere around us. Despite making the right efforts and performing tasks wisely, one cannot stay away from them. Some problems are there with us because they simply have no solution while others because many of us are not familiar with how to deal with them. The ones that are related to our smartphone are always daunting. The users end up getting no results despite making a lot of efforts to make their smartphone free from them....

Running out of time is one of the problems we often face. Meeting deadlines is a task not everyone is good at. Actually, when it comes to meeting the same, we often have to derive time from other tasks. The same is not possible if one doesn’t know how to do so. Well, these days we have a lot of smart gadgets around us which can be trusted for this task....

Ahead of a next-generation Apple TV expected to get an official unveiling at Apple’s press event next week, this concept from Andrew Ambrosino imagines a revamped user interface for the device. We’ve reported extensively on the yet-to-be-announced, next-generation Apple TV and much of the concept from Ambrosino takes into account our reports regarding new features for the device. Most notably, we reported that Apple is currently planning Siri support, a new dedicated remote control, App Store access, and iOS 9’s improved Proactive search features....

Foxconn is implementing some of the world’s strictest coronavirus precautions as it aims to keep its one million workers safe and iPhone 12 production on schedule. The Chinese government requires all factories to implement a series of specific safeguards, but Foxconn is going far further … The Washington Post describes the government-mandated measures. But it reports that Foxconn goes well beyond these. [Other legally-required measures include] opening office windows three times a day for 30-minute stretches....