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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "Apple still a star without Steve Jobs, but doubts linger" ["Apple's market value is more than $600 billion, below its 2015 highs but more than twice its level of 2011 and holding above Google parent Alphabet as the world's most valuable corporation. Still, some analysts question whether Apple — which redefined the smartphone experience with its trend-setting iPhone introduced in 2007 and created a vast ecosystem of mobile applications — is losing momentum."]  AFP 8:20 AM
  • "Apple is named the biggest corporate tax avoider in the US after booking $218 Billion of profit offshore last year"  Daily Mail (UK) 6:13 PM
  • "The Apple Watch Enigma: Lower Prices, Fewer Sales?"  Forbes 7:16 AM
  • "Apple's Price Is Right for iPhone 7: A higher average selling price for new iPhones could pay off well" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:35 AM
  • "Why Apple is bringing advertisements to its App Store now"  CNBC 1:45 PM
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook reflects on the most important classes he took in school" CNBC 1:05 PM
  • "iPhone 6 Owners Sue Apple Over 'Touch Disease': The alleged design defect has left hundreds of iPhones unresponsive to physical contact." PC Magazine 1:06 PM
  • "Apple loses patent cases to VirnetX again -- will have to pay $302.4 million" BetaNews 10:53 AM
  • "Apple executives net nearly $10M each in vested company stock" AppleInsider 6:29 PM
OS X
News
  • "Apple starts to 'randomly' download macOS Sierra on to users' computers" BetaNews 8:34 AM
  • "macOS Sierra Now Auto-downloading, but not Auto-installing" The Mac Observer 10:21 AM
  • "After Mozilla inquiry, Apple untrusts Chinese certificate authority: After an upcoming update MacOS and iOS will not trust new certificates issued by WoSign" IDG News Service 11:24 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
  • "macOS Sierra Slow? Here's Why & How to Speed Sierra Up" OS X Daily 2:58 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2015.4) review: Proxies make 4K editing more accessible" Macworld 8:24 AM
  • "Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 review: Image editor boosts its photo-manipulation features" Macworld 8:24 AM
  • "macOS Sierra - Cinema Tools is Dead, Long Live Final Cut Pro 7!" fcp.co 7:28 AM
  • "How to transfer a Time Machine backup to another backup drive: When you want to switch Time Machine drives, it's fairly easy to transfer your old backups." Macworld 8:26 AM
  • "How-To: Delete and opt out of macOS Sierra automatic downloads if you don't want to upgrade" 9to5Mac 10:36 AM
  • "How to prevent your Mac from automatically downloading and installing macOS updates" iDownload Blog 8:27 AM
  • "How to prevent macOS Sierra from automatically downloading to your Mac" ZDNet 8:34 AM
  • "System Preferences in macOS: Helping Users (Bangkok Post, Life)" eXtensions 7:15 PM
  • "System Preferences in macOS, Sierra: General" eXtensions 8:04 AM
  • "The 5 best ways to Force Quit Mac apps" Apple Must 10:39 AM
  • "The Mac HDR Power App For Photos" Mac360 8:05 AM
Op/Ed
  • "Apple Is U2ing macOS Installers to Users Running Older Versions of its Operating Systems" Kirkville 7:28 AM
Press Releases
  • "Hands-On: Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 15" Digital Trends 8:40 AM
  • "Free Halloween Fonts Collection Adds 5 New Fonts in Version 4 Update" prMac 8:34 AM
  • "Adobe releases Photoshop and Premiere Elements 15 for Mac with new automated tools" AppleInsider 8:34 AM
  • "Promise Technology's Apollo Cloud New Features in Sync with macOS Sierra & Time Machine Update" Business Wire 8:26 AM
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "IT professionals have mixed feelings about Apple, survey finds" Tech Insider 5:41 PM
  • "Beats By Dre Chief Marketing Officer Omar Johnson Is Stepping Down: Six years after joining the brand, Johnson will be leaving on November 1st." Fast Company 5:42 PM
  • "Beats by Dre chief marketing officer leaving the company next month" 9to5Mac 5:43 PM
  • "Leaked photo shows off Apple's nearly-finished Regent Street renovations in London" AppleInsider 10:36 AM
  • "N.J. college student's iPhone explodes in pocket during class" CBS News 7:33 AM
  • "Apple iPhone 6s catches on fire" phoneArena 7:36 AM
  • "Another iPhone bursts into flames, sending the owner to the ER" BGR 7:36 AM
  • "Apple launches Apple Pay payment service in Russia" Reuters 7:08 AM
  • "Apple Pay Now Available in 10 Countries Following Russia Launch" MacRumors 7:16 AM
  • "Apple Pay launches in Russia with Sberbank partnership" ZDNet 8:40 AM
  • "Apple Pay bolstered by Co-op Bank and Metro Bank in the UK" Engadget 8:34 AM
  • "Canada's Desjardins, UK's Metro & The Co-Operative add support for Apple Pay" AppleInsider 10:48 AM
  • "Tim Cook vs. Mark Zuckerberg: here's your latest CEO challenge: CB Insights is pitting tech bigwigs against one another in a popularity contest because why not." CNET 8:34 AM
  • "7 solutions for the iPhone 7's lack of headphone jack" Macworld 7:33 AM
  • "Shaving an iPhone 7 down with power tools gives it a fresh look" CNET 7:35 AM
  • "Today in Apple history: Siri makes its public debut on iPhone 4s" Cult of Mac 8:34 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Yahoo built email spying software for intelligence agencies, report says" BGR 9:05 PM
  • "Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources" Reuters 12:21 PM
  • "Google Pixel phones and Home speaker take on Siri and Echo" BBC 12:57 PM
  • "Google Chromecast Ultra brings 4K video and HDR support for $69" The Next Web 12:07 PM
  • "Google announces 'Wifi' a $129 smart router that kills deadzones" The Next Web 12:07 PM
  • "Google formally drops 'Now on Tap' branding in favor of 'Screen Search'" Mashable 12:06 PM
  • "HTC Plays Role of Apple's Foxconn for Google's New Phones" Bloomberg 11:50 AM
  • "Meet Google's New Answer to the iPhone" Time 11:43 AM
  • "These are the features that make Google's new Pixel phones special" The Verge 11:43 AM
  • "Google just showed off its Siri killer — and it can even remember lock combinations" Business Insider 11:43 AM
  • "Google's Pixel phones will let you store as many photos and videos you want in the cloud"  Mashable 11:40 AM
  • "Behind the Pixel: Google's First Real Threat to Apple's iPhone" Bloomberg 11:05 AM
  • "New USB-C Spec Could Spell the End of Headphone Jacks" PC Magazine 10:36 AM
  • "Amazon has finally banned those pesky 'incentivized' reviews" Digital Trends 7:35 AM
  • "This Saudi Teen Is Probably Behind The Hacks Of Dozens Of Tech CEOs And Celebrities" BuzzFeed 7:27 AM
  • "Brand new Pixel leak shows the color the iPhone 7 never got" BGR 7:36 AM
  • "Live from Google's mega announcement: Pixel phones, Android updates, 4K Chromecast and more!" TechCrunch 7:28 AM
  • "Google's new smartphones will come with a mysterious feature called 'Google Magic,' according to a new leak" Business Insider 7:21 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-10-04: Goodbye Home Button, Hello macOS Sierra Auto-download" The Mac Observer 12:19 PM
  • "Mark Fuccio Introduces The New Drobo 5C" MacVoices 8:04 AM
  • "We finally get our hands on the iPhone 7 Plus. Thanks Samsung for creating such huge demand for the new iPhones." The MT Show 7:01 AM
Hardware/Software
  • "The iPhone 7 is Causing Connection Hell For Verizon Customers" Gizmodo 5:43 PM
  • "Will next year's iPads be faster than Macs?" Computerworld 10:06 AM
  • "Apple's use of 'sapphire' in iPhone camera lens questioned in new tests" The Verge 7:21 AM
  • "PSA: The Apple Watch Series 1 is just as fast as Series 2 [Video]"  9to5Mac 7:08 PM
  • "Download: watchOS 3.1 Beta 2 & tvOS 10.0.1 Beta 2 Released" Redmond Pie 12:06 PM
  • "Apple releases iOS 10.1 beta 2 for iPhone and iPad" BGR 12:06 PM
  • "Apple seemingly discontinues third-gen Apple TV, removes it from online store" 9to5Mac 8:49 PM
Granted Apple Patents
  • "Apple patents fingerprint sensor that works through displays, hints at 'iPhone 8' tech" AppleInsider 7:07 AM
  • "New Apple Patent Describes Fingerprint Sensor That Could Work Through Display" MacRumors 10:36 AM
  • "Apple Wins another Patent Covering Touch ID Moving to Beneath the Display of an iOS Device" Patently Apple 7:26 AM
  • "Apple Wins a Patent for Radial Menus that Could Apply to a Future iPad Pro" Patently Apple 7:26 AM
  • "Apple is granted another patent for a gesture-based interface for the Mac" Apple World Today 8:04 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "Mac mini Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:01 AM
  • "12" MacBook Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:01 AM

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "iPhone 7 Review: New Models Are Best iPhones Yet—Barely/The new phones are water-resistant and add 2x optical zoom, and slightly outperform the 6s and 6s Plus" Consumer Reports 11:49 AM
  • "Review: A jet black Apple Magic Keyboard & Magic Mouse to match iPhone 7" 9to5Mac 10:36 AM
  • "The Best Smartphone Camera, as judged by YOU!" iMore 10:45 AM
  • "Review: ADATA's waterproof SSD is small, rugged: and pricey/It can withstand a depth of about 5 feet in water for an hour, but falls short on speed and costs more than rivals" Computerworld 7:08 AM
  • "Review: Automatic Labs Automatic Pro" iLounge 4:10 PM
  • "Blast Baseball 360 swings for the fences, but only scores a single" Apple World Today 7:37 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
  • "Hands-on: New iOS 10.1 beta 2 features + changes [Video] 9to5Mac 2:51 PM
  • "'PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator' Review - Videos, Not Potatoes" Touch Arcade 12:20 PM
  • "'Bullet Hell Monday' Review - Another Manic Monday" Touch Arcade 10:48 AM
How-To/Tutorial
  • "How to hide images from the Photos app in iOS 10" iMore 2:37 PM
  • "How To Use Digital Touch In The Messages App In iOS 10" AddictiveTips 2:37 PM
  • "How to send messages on your iPhone with fireworks, balloons, and other screen flair in Apple's iOS 10" AppleInsider 1:45 PM
  • "iOS 10.1 Portrait Mode For iPhone 7 Plus: How To Use It For Taking Bokeh Shots" Redmond Pie 10:44 AM
  • "How to Control Which Messages Photos Save to Camera Roll" The Mac Observer 10:06 AM
  • "Export As a File From iOS Photos" MacMost 8:12 AM
  • "How to send kisses, heartbeats, heartbreaks, taps, sketches, and fireballs on Apple Watch" iDownload Blog 8:03 AM
Tips
  • "Accessing Medical ID from the iOS 10 Lock Screen Tips" iLounge 4:25 PM
  • "You can reduce motion and keep iMessage effects in iOS 10.1 beta" iDownload Blog 12:59 PM
  • "10 tricks to make your photos look as stunning as the 'shot on iPhone' ads" Business Insider 10:38 AM
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "Google still isn't a hardware company, and it's not even playing on the same field as Apple"  Business Insider 6:28 PM
  • "8 times Google savagely burned Apple during the Pixel announcement" Macworld 5:43 PM
  • "Google leaves Apple behind in two important ways: Alphabet beats iPhone maker in virtual reality, home automation with new devices"  MarketWatch 5:43 PM
  • "Google's New Pixel Phone Is Perfect For People Abandoning iPhone, Headphone Jack And All" Forbes 4:47 PM
  • "Google giving free photo/video space to Pixel customers: Ball's in your court, Apple." Six Colors 4:21 PM
  • "Do these Taylor Swift photos make my app look fat? Apps are getting bigger — developers are loading them up with images, fonts, video, SDKs and more. But you don't often hear about the impact of app size on installs and usage." Recode 4:10 PM
  • "Five things Apple can learn from the #madebygoogle event" iMore 3:03 PM
  • "If Google just bested the iPhone, it needs to troll Apple harder" Mashable 2:51 PM
  • "Comment: Google just couldn't leave Apple out of its iPhone competitor keynote" 9to5Mac 2:37 PM
  • "Now Google's put its name to WiFi will Apple open a new AirPort?" Apple Must 12:59 PM
  • "Apple TV is Too App-Focused: Lately I've found myself gravitating away from using the Apple TV to watch content, and it's due entirely to the device's user interface: Apps get higher billing than they deserve." The Mac Observer 10:39 AM
  • "Some love for the iPhone 7's new home button" The Loop 8:34 AM
  • "Comparing Apple To Apples Is Difficult" Mac360 8:27 AM
  • "Tim Cook Says VR Is Nice, but Augmented Reality Is the Future" MacStories 8:24 AM
  • "iPhone 7: 'Is All New Technology Boring?" PixoBebo 8:21 AM
  • "Just Say No' To iPhone 7" Mac360 8:12 AM
  • "Lies, Damned Lies, And Apple Statistics" McSolo 8:11 AM
Non-Apple
  • "Opinion: I don't love the Pixel, but I bought it because of Google's software package and what it means" 9to5Google 6:54 PM
  • "So, What Happened to the Mysterious Google Magic?" Gizmodo 6:21 PM
  • "Where Will Google Assistant Live?" MacStories 5:42 PM
  • "Hands-on with Pixel, the most Googlely Android phone ever" Greenbot 5:42 PM
  • "The Internet Is Pissed Yahoo Built The US A Custom Tool For Email Spying" BuzzFeed 4:40 PM
  • "Google's AI Plans Are A Privacy Nightmare" Gizmodo 4:21 PM
  • "Good God, we've found a Google thing we like – the Pixel iPhone killer: Well, OK, Chromium's pretty nice – as is this new Android smartie" The Register 4:13 PM
  • "Google's New Phones Are Exactly What Android Needs Now" Time 4:09 PM
  • "Google's Pixel may be cool, but what's the point?" Bloomberg 4:04 PM
  • "The 5 Biggest Announcements Google Just Made" Time 1:45 PM
  • "Internet laughs at Google's bizarrely basic Pixel colors" Mashable 12:21 PM
  • "Boring Google's boring Pixel looks really, really boring" Apple Must 8:05 AM
  • "Have hackers turned my printer into an offensive weapon?" BBC 7:28 AM
  • "Service Providers Still Act Like Utilities" Tech.pinions 7:27 AM
  • "Can you trust these Pixels? Google's new phone leaked in blue and silver" CNET 7:28 AM
  • "Questions for Google's Big Event" Tech.pinions [Insider Content] 7:27 AM
Humor/Cartoons
  • "Comic: That New Mac Smell... OF FEAR" iMore 8:24 AM
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "2Do Is Going Free (with In-App Purchases)" MacStories 4:50 PM
  • "Revel Systems Announces RevelGuard: Revel Launches Artificial Intelligence Hardware Monitoring Device for its iPad POS" Business Wire 2:33 PM
  • "SIM card gadget lets you leave the second iPhone at home" Cult of Mac 1:45 PM
  • "MechDome promises to rewrite your Android app for iOS in seconds" TechRepublic 10:44 AM
  • "This product will save your phone when you drop it in water: 'Redux' essentially acts as a vacuum chamber for your phone. It's a service that is in 43 states and it could save you hundreds of dollars. The company boasts 15,000 phone revivals." Mashable 10:37 AM
  • "How To Get the Apple Link Bracelet Look for Less" iMore 10:35 AM
  • "'Seek Greatness; Leave the World Better Than You Found It'—Tim Cook, Apple CEO, at UTC Hall of Fame" Business Wire 8:26 AM
  • "Line Looks App Virtually Applies Your Makeup" Digital Trends 7:35 AM
  • "This New Mac scent candle makes your house smell like an unboxing" The Next Web 7:32 AM
  • "This Candle Supposedly Smells Like a New Mac" iClarified 7:26 AM
  • "Sports Fantasy App Puntr Giving Real Cash for Right Predictions" prMac 10:36 AM
  • "Scanner Pro, Document, Receipt PDF CamScan & OCR is the best scanner app" prMac 7:16 AM
  • "Malawi Radio Live 1.0 for iOS - Release Info" prMac 7:16 AM
Computer Industry
  • "Microsoft on Windows 10 Anniversary install fail: 'We're finalizing a fix'" ZDNet 6:36 AM
  • "Windows 10 growth comes to screeching stop: Data shows new OS lost share in September for first time since launch" Computerworld 1:37 PM
  • "Microsoft hands out $56m to five executives in 2016" ZDNet 6:00 AM
  • "Microsoft Ventures makes 13 investments in first five months — here are the startups it's backing" GeekWire 1:36 PM
  • "ABB, Microsoft partner to drive digital industrial transformation: In a bid to develop one of the worlds largest industrial cloud platforms, Swiss engineering giant and Microsoft on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership to help industrial customers create new value with digital solutions." Financial Express 6:35 AM
  • "Egnyte Anoints Microsoft Azure as Its No. 1 Storage Target" eWeek 5:57 AM
  • "Microsoft disbands Band band – and there'll be no version 3: Redmond snuffs out its only promising wearable" The Register 6:36 AM
  • "Microsoft Band axed as firm hints at exit from wearables market: Firm says it will 'continue to invest' in Health platform, but no Band 3 is coming" The Inquirer 6:00 AM
  • "HP Elite x3 Now Available For $799 At Microsoft Store" iTech Post 6:27 AM
  • "Datacenter server players eye orders from Europe" DigiTimes 6:26 AM
  • "Dell unleashes a new convertible laptop for Rs 64,990: Dubbed the Latitude 3379" TechRadar UK 6:26 AM
  • "Intel makes 14nm chips for Spreadtrum" Fudzilla 6:34 AM
  • "AMD blasts last CPU salvo before the launch of Zen processor" TechRadar UK 6:28 AM
  • "AMD launches Bristol Ridge Pro APU family" bit-tech 6:28 AM
  • "IBM To Invest $200m in Blockchain and Internet of Things" Blockchain News 6:33 AM
  • "IBM's IoT blockchain service gets ready to set sail" InfoWorld 6:33 AM
  • "IBM invests $200m in IoT, blockchain" IT-Online 6:33 AM
  • "Kaleao Comes to Hyperconverged Space with ARM-Based Systems" eWeek 6:01 AM
  • "Specialized processors might reignite performance scaling, but they'll also change the nature of computing forever" ExtremeTech 7:20 AM
  • "Subpoenas and Gag Orders Show Government Overreach, Tech Companies Argue" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:16 PM
  • "After Report on Yahoo, Tech Firms Deny Scanning Emails for U.S. Government: System to scan incoming user email was reportedly built without knowledge of Yahoo security team" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:50 PM
  • "Yahoo 'scanned customer emails' under top-secret order" ZDNet 1:35 PM
  • "Yahoo Allegedly Built Custom Email Scanning Tools For US Government Spying Effort" HotHardware 4:05 PM
  • "Google Facing Severe EU Fines For Anti-Competitive Android Bundle Policies" HotHardware 4:04 PM
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "Apple Reschedules Q4 2016 Earnings Call to October 25 – Cites Scheduling Conflict" MacTrast 8:26 AM
Industry News
  • "Stocks close lower on jitters over ECB scaling back QE: Alphabet gains 0.5% as it launches smartphone" MarketWatch 4:06 PM
  • "Wall Street Slides as Gold Settles at 3-Month Low: Early market choppiness ended with a drop in prices in the trading session Tuesday, as gold prices slumped to a three-month low, pulling the materials sector into a spiral." TheStreet 4:06 PM
  • "Stocks fall as Brexit fears reemerge" USA Today 4:06 PM
  • "Hard Brexit Date Rattles Markets" Reuters 4:05 PM
  • "U.S. Stocks Fall as Bets Move Toward Rate Increase: Investors pull back from this year's most popular trades" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:05 PM
  • "Tokyo leads Asian stocks higher as yen stumbles" MarketWatch 6:56 AM
  • "European stocks cruise higher as Deutsche Bank, U.K. shares climb" MarketWatch 6:56 AM

 
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