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Apple yesterday announced a really impressive achievement: its entire global operations are now 100% powered by renewable energy. That encompasses everything from retail stores and local offices through data centers to its Apple Park campus. Unlike many companies, Apple doesn’t cheat by buying offsets. Last time it updated us, the figure was 96%. When you don’t cheat, getting there with that last few percent is a far bigger achievement than it might sound, and I think Apple deserves every credit for this …...

Smartphones are the reason why most of the people around us bear a smile on their face. This seems pretty strange but it’s actually true. The fact is modern guys and girls have addicted themselves to technology beyond a limit. Majority of activities they perform in a day such as those related to personal life, entertainment, travel, communication and so on depends largely on smartphones. It is true that smartphones these days are amazing in every aspect and can simply be trusted for anything such as entertainment, communication and so on....

Note: These screenshots are from Windows 7, but the utility should still work on Windows 10. Utility Captures Snoopers First, download CommandCam to a Dropbox folder of your choice. After downloading the file to Dropbox, right-click CommandCam.exe and click Create Shortcut, so you can then move the shortcut to your startup folder. In Windows 7, you can find out how to move items to the Startup folder in this article....

Over the next few months we’ll be sharing concepts of each major Apple platform. Last month, we shared our concept for watchOS 8, and today we’re sharing the next one, in this case for macOS. It includes all new apps, improved privacy controls, clearer notifications, and more. But before I dove into designing this macOS concept, I wanted to figure out what Apple might call this year’s release. It’s very clear that after each truly big release of macOS, Apple chooses to zero in on a few specific areas for improvement....

If you’re familiar with Launch Center Pro, the iPhone and iPad app we’ve covered that enables powerful automation on iOS, then you may recognize Contrast’s new iPhone app debuting today called Contact Center. While its name sounds like it could be an alternative address book, it’s actually a simpler, easier to learn version of Launch Center Pro focused on staying in touch with your favorite contacts. Contrast describes Contact Center as allowing you to “automatically paste your clipboard into an email or message, jump right to a contact in WhatsApp, automatically paste your clipboard into an email or message” and more; below we’ll take a look at the new app....

Corsair HS60 Pro is one of the best surrounding gaming headsets for gamers. The gaming headset comes with memory foam ear pads which give good comfort to the user. The quality of the ear pads is also good and makes them more comfortable for the gamers to wear for a long time. It has a custom-tuned 50mm neodymium audio driver and comes with a detachable noise-canceling unidirectional microphone which is very good for the users as they can use the headset according to their needs....

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZ8CGOUg2w] With all the focus on skin cancer caused by too much exposure to sunlight, you might expect a UV-measurement gadget to be designed to warn you when you’ve spent too long in the sun. But no, the SunSprite has the opposite goal: it’s aimed at those who spend all their time indoors, and don’t get enough time in the sun. Or, to put it more concisely, geeks. Sunlight plays a role in both mood and sleep patterns....

[vodpod id=Video.15608173&w=650&h=420&fv=] Here’s the Daily Show link for non-Flash and international (still has ads). “One guy made the Zune, another guy made the iPod”. Colbert talks about the book as well, below… [vodpod id=Video.15608517&w=650&h=420&fv=] Jobs told biographer that he cracked the code to building an HDTV (9to5mac.com) Jobs told Isaacson that he was either going to be one of the first “to outrun a cancer like this” or be among the last “to die from it” (9to5mac....

Apple TV+ offers its original television shows and movies at a very high quality, with higher streaming bandwidth than any other service. However, this also means Apple TV+ uses a lot of data. Here’s how to change the playback quality settings to save on data usage, especially useful if you are streaming on cellular with data caps. Apple TV+ content is available in 4K with HDR on supported devices like the Apple TV 4K....

Head below for a full look at features: The Withings Body+ smart scale features built-in Wi-Fi to allow automatic synchronization of weigh-in data to the Health Mate app for iPhone and Apple Watch, and also into Apple’s Health platform. The scale’s full body composition analysis feature means you not only get weight data sent to your apps, but also body fat and water percentage, as well as muscle and bone mass data....

Today’s best deals include the latest iPad Air from $559, plus you can save on Retina iMacs, and previous-generation MacBooks. Head below for all of our top picks in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Latest iPad Air from Apple drops to $559 With a redesigned casing, Apple’s latest iPad Air packs a 10.9-inch edge-to-edge screen equipped with True Tone support. Everything is powered by a new A14 Bionic processor, with Touch ID making a return in the power button alongside USB-C charging and support for the second-generation Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard....

Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are wrapped, we’re starting to see some data roll in that shows the most popular purchases of the weekend. New data from Localytics shows that, in terms of smartphones, the Google Pixel beat out the iPhone 7 as the most popular purchase this weekend, but it’s not as simple as that… The data shows that the Google Pixel saw the biggest spike during Black Friday weekend, with activations up 112 percent from their normal rate....

Chris Evans volunteers to be in a new Star Wars movie, days after one from Kevin Feige was announced. This week, it was reported the Marvel Studios mastermind was developing a new film set in the galaxy far, far away, joining separate trilogies from Rian Johnson and David Benioff & D.B. Weiss on the ever-growing list of big screen Star Wars projects coming through the pipeline. As is the case with most things Star Wars, information about Feige’s movie is being kept firmly under wraps, but the prospect of him working in the franchise is more than enough to excite viewers....

Luis Banhara, who has led Citrix’s Brazilian operations for seven years, will be replaced by sales director Luciana Pinheiro on an interim basis. “Already well known by customers, Luciana now has the mission to leverage the use of solutions that not only allow them to work from anywhere, but that can unlock their full potential”, Banhara said in a LinkedIn post, announcing his decision. Banhara joined Citrix in 2014 from Microsoft Brazil, where he worked for 12 years as a sales director before doing the same job at SAP Brazil....

Dr. Dreng writes up a lengthy review of four of the big iOS notetaking apps (via DF). Simplenote (Free w/ads, $20/year), Elements($4.99), PlainText(Free-ads, $4.99w/o), and Nebulous Notes ($1.99) all hit the mat. Spoiler alert: Screenshots of the winner, below: Before Elements came along, I got a lot of use out of Simplenote and have no regrets buying it. Apart from the lack of font choice, it has more features than the other apps, and I can see where one or more of those features—search, in particular—would make it the best choice for many people....

Apple’s ‘hello again’ tagline for its special event this Thursday suggests an evolution of the Mac line, not just an iterative update. That’s because the world was introduced to the Macintosh in 1984 with a ‘hello’, then to the iMac in 1998 with a ‘hello (again)’, both key points in the Mac’s history. Now in 2016 it appears to be the MacBook Pro’s turn. This will hardly be the first MacBook Pro, but we expect a slimmer design with beefed up internals and a new input method: an OLED touch panel above the keyboard that dynamically changes based on context....

Personally Speaking, smartphones are more than a best friend and in fact, a brother for anyone in the present time. This is quite true and the fact cannot be denied that it’s nothing but these gadgets which have enabled users to perform a lot of tasks easily and without taking those complex methods into consideration beyond a limit. This is not the only reason why the sales of smartphones is blooming but the fact is its features that are getting more and more vast which have also contributed in enhancing the popularity of these gadgets....

Many of us in life are habitual of forgetting several things that are really important. This often makes us pay a price for the same which in some cases is quite hefty. Well, it’s true that there are so many things we need to manage on a regular basis and forgetting things in such a scenario is a common practice. In the current scenario, there are smartphones available to remind us everything that is important for us....

When tabs were first introduced, many made fun of them. This is because they were sure that such devices will never get the success as manufacturers expected. However, everyone knows how their demand has risen in the last few years. Tabs are better than smartphones to many users. Those who need a large size screen and want to perform business-related tasks often go ahead with tabs. There is another whole set of advantages that one can have by simply investing on these gadgets....