![]() This marked the first time that the general public had been able to test new versions of iOS before official release, with Eddy Cue, Apple's Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, telling Fast Company that the public beta program was started "because of Maps", referring to the company's Apple Maps launch that had significant issues in its early days. IOS 9 was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, 2015, with the first beta version made available to registered developers after the keynote, and a public beta made available in July. IOS 9 is the last version of iOS compatible with devices with the 30 pin dock connector, such as iPhone 4s, iPad 2, and iPad (3rd generation). Apple removed slide to unlock in iOS 10 because it would create confusion when users were trying to unlock their phone by sliding the screen, but instead of unlocking the phone, it took them to the new Today view. With the release of iOS 10, Apple introduced the Today view, which was accessed on the lock screen by swiping to the right. IOS 9 is the last version of iOS to feature the classic slide to unlock. However, Apple News was criticized for a low number of decent-looking articles, and Apple Maps was criticized for the limited geographical availability of mass transit support.įive days after release, Apple announced that iOS 9 had been installed on more than 50% of "active" iOS devices, which Apple described as the "fastest adoption rate ever for a new operating system". The new multitasking features for the iPad were complimented, as were drawing and photo insertion in the Notes app. Critics praised proactivity and Siri for making the Notification Center a central location for all information, and the potential for future updates to improve the functionality. Users can preview ("Peek") at content without moving away from the current screen before they enter ("Pop") the previewed content into full view. Quick Actions are shortcuts on home screen app icons. Additionally, iOS 9 brought new user experience functions, including Quick Actions, and Peek and Pop, based on the touch-sensitive display technology in the iPhone 6s. In iOS 9.3, Apple added a Night Shift mode that changes the color of the device's display to a warmer, less "blue light" containing shade, to reduce any negative eye health effects on users' circadian rhythms. iOS 9 also added multiple forms of multitasking to the iPad. For searching, the proactive intelligence can display instant results in a widget-like format, including weather, sports, news, and more. Major new system updates include proactivity, where Siri and advanced search are combined to make the operating system more contextually aware of information (such as time and location), and can provide the user with information ahead of time. Most notably, Notes received the ability to draw sketches with different tools, image insertion, prominent visual appearance for website links and map locations, and advanced list formatting an all-new Apple News app aggregates articles from different sources and Apple Maps received mass transit support, although in a limited number of locations at launch. IOS 9 incorporated many feature updates to built-in apps. It was succeeded by iOS 10 on September 13, 2016. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, 2015, and was released on September 16, 2015. IOS 9 is the ninth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 8. IOS 9 – Apple at the Wayback Machine (archived September 6, 2016) Proprietary EULA except for open-source components ![]()
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![]() ![]() If the installation process went well and everything is running smoothly, the control panel will then automatically be opened after that. Leave this option ticked and click Finish After finishing the installation: Once installed, you’ll be asked whether you would like to start the XAMPP Control Panel, which provides an interface for running your localhost environment. Since we’re going to install WordPress manually later in this tutorial and don’t need free installers, untick “Learn more about Bitnami for XAMPP” and click Next.Īfter going through all those initial installation steps, XAMPP is now finally ready to install. ![]() In the next window, you’ll be asked whether you would like to install Bitnami for XAMPP, which offers free tools for installing WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! on top of XAMPP. I’m going to create a new folder in D:\Program Files\XAMPP. We recommend you to use the partition other than your operating system drive partition because even if you decide to change the operating system later you won’t lose any of your current work. Next, select the folder where you would like to install XAMPP on your machine. Therefore let them be checked and uncheck the remaining options. Since we want to run WordPress in our localhost environment, we need MySQL and phpMyAdmin. It’s up to you which components you want to install. Some options, such as Apache and PHP are essential to running the software and will at automatically installed, so they are grayed out so you can’t select them. In the next window, you will be asked to select which components of the software you would like to install and which ones you don’t want. The XAMPP setup wizard will guide you through the installation. ![]() As you would when installing any software on Windows, use your best judgment, but you probably want to click “Ok” to continue with the install. Go to the Apache Friends website and download XAMPP.ĭuring the install process, you may receive warnings such as Windows asking you if you’re sure you want to install the software and the installer prompting you about antivirus software. XAMPP provides the necessary environment needed to run WordPress on a local machine. WordPress isn’t a stand-alone application and requires server software in order to run. Since XAMPP is cross-platform, it also works on Mac and Linux, but today we’re going to focus on how to set up XAMPP on Windows 10. It’s a simple and lightweight solution that allows you to create a local web server for testing purposes. XAMPP stands for cross-platform, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. Below is the step-by-step tutorial prepared for beginners. Today we will learn how to install WordPress locally on XAMPP on our computer as localhost. Though it is sometimes a hectic task to install a local host, believe us, once it is done it’s a breeze to run and will save you a bunch of time if you need to run WordPress locally. Having a local host environment is an essential part of WordPress workflow. You can install WordPress locally on XAMPP on your own Windows computer for learning and testing. Localhost is a hostname that means this computer. ![]() ![]() UVC viewer apps have single-handedly created a new use case for the iPad this year. Even better if you have a Liquid Retina XDR display on the 12.9” iPad Pro. Orion offers additional settings to emulate old CRTs and apply other video filters, but, in our opinion, its main attraction is the ability to connect any console or portable PC you want and enjoy a 4K image on an iPad’s display. Wonder, or any indie games from my Steam Deck on the iPad’s larger, brighter display in upscaled 4K is glorious. Playing Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. Not only does Orion immediately recognize my HDMI 2.1-enabled capture card, but the app supports an upscaling mode powered by on-device artificial intelligence that can turn any incoming video signal into a 4K image in real time, with no latency or image artifacts. As I wrote in a story I published a while back, I’ve been using Orion to turn my iPad Pro’s mini-LED display into a beautiful, portable monitor for my Nintendo Switch. What sets Orion apart, however, is how well it works with connected game consoles compared to other solutions we tested this year. From the app’s icon to the retro-inspired ‘No Signal’ screen, there’s plenty to love about Orion’s design – especially if you’ve been playing videogames for a long time. From a visual standpoint, the folks at Lux – previously known for their outstanding work on the camera app Halide – have outdone themselves: they designed the onboarding experience of Orion and its related manual to resemble the experience of opening up the box of a videogame console from the late 80s this aesthetic works for the app and turns something relatively boring – we’re talking about HDMI sources, after all – into a fun technological toy. Of course, the reason we’ve selected Orion as the Best New App for MacStories Selects 2023 is that, compared to its competition, this app goes the extra mile in terms of design, user experience, and raw performance. There is no configuration necessary: pick your favorite accessory, plug in a Nintendo Switch, DSLR, or, dare I say, a Game Boy Camera, and Orion will turn your iPad into a monitor. As long as you own a compatible video capture card (there are hundreds in existence, ranging from $20 dongles to more expensive ones that support HDMI 2.1, HDR, 120Hz, and more), Orion will let you view the connected device’s display on your iPad’s screen. Orion is an iPad- and iPadOS 17-only app that lets you turn your tablet into a portable HDMI monitor for, well, anything. We’ve seen dozens of apps that allow you to connect portable consoles or cameras to an iPad running iPadOS 17, but the one we liked most is Orion, developed by Lux. This year, while Apple’s focus was on widgets and wrapping up work on visionOS, a new functionality of iPadOS 17 quietly created a whole new market on the App Store: USB video class (or UVC) and the ability to turn an iPad into a portable monitor for connected webcams, videogame consoles, or other devices. This year’s winner, which joins past winners PCalc and Drafts, is the subject of a special story I wrote for the occasion.įederico: It doesn’t happen as often these days as it used to years ago, but my favorite kind of new app is the one that represents a new category of software that’s made possible by a brand new technology added to iOS or iPadOS. Plus, as we’ve done the past couple of years, we’ve named a Lifetime Achievement Award winner that has stood the test of time and had an outsized impact on the world of apps. Club MacStories members picked the winner of the MacStories Selects Readers’ Choice Award. Like last year, we’ve picked the best apps in seven categories:īut there’s more. ![]() ![]() For now, though, it’s time to pause and reflect on the many apps we tried in the year gone by and recognize the best among them. Next year promises to be an even bigger year for apps with an all-new Vision Pro App Store on the way. Read-later apps continued to be hot, but nothing was quite as big as interactive widgets, which brought new experiences to our Home and Lock Screens and shook up how many of us set up our devices. This year marked Federico’s return to WWDC for the first time since the pandemic, and seeing so many developers together made this year’s WWDC the best in years.Ģ023 was an exciting year for apps. ![]() Reconnecting with developers and meeting new people energizes and carries us through a busy summer and fall. ![]() June begins with excitement about what developers will be able to do with Apple’s latest frameworks. Plenty happens the rest of the year, but it’s these seven months that are the main event for us. For most people, the year begins on January 1st, but for us, WWDC marks the beginning of our year, and the MacStories Selects Awards feel like its conclusion. John: Every year, it seems like the MacStories Selects awards roll around faster than the last, and this year was no exception. ![]() ![]() If you’ve recently bought something online, you’ll be tempted to click on the link. In this scam, the fraudster sends a fake text message claiming to be from UPS, FedEx, or a similar delivery service, notifying you that a “delivery” was missed or needs to be rescheduled. With more people shopping online because of the pandemic, delivery notification scam texts have run rampant. Missed delivery notification from UPS or others How can you identify these text message scams, and what should you do if you get one? 1. Two-factor authentication (2FA) scam messages.Texts claiming that your payment for subscription services didn’t go through.Texts claiming that your debit or credit card has been locked.Text scams claiming that your bank is closing your account.The 10 Latest Text Messages Scams To Avoid Once you’re on the phone, scammers can ask you to “verify” personal information (like your SSN or banking information) or target you with other social engineering attacks.Īny of these actions can result in immediate and long-term financial losses or even identity theft. Links could also take you to fake websites designed to steal your passwords, credentials, or credit card numbers. Sending you to phishing sites that steal your personal information.Once infected, hackers can spy on you, steal your passwords and sensitive information, or lock you out and demand a ransom. Getting you to click on a link that downloads malware onto your device.Typically, text scammers have three goals: That depends on the scam - and how you respond to the message. Any suspicious links will also be flagged to keep you from clicking on them. □ Worried about text message scams? Aura's SMS protection will filter unwanted texts and place them into a junk folder. They know exactly what to say to get you to act without thinking.īut what happens when you fall for their schemes? In recent years, text scammers have become masters of human psychology. Next, the scammer will try to get you to either respond, click on a link, or call a number.For example, it may claim that your bank account has been closed or that you’ve won a free gift. The message creates a sense of urgency to get you to act quickly.Scammers use technology to make it look like they’re messaging you from a business or person you know (such as the IRS, Apple, or Amazon). You receive a text message from an unknown or “spoofed” number.How Do Text Message Scams Work?įraudsters implement numerous types of text message scams. In this guide, you will learn what else to do to keep your identity and money safe from scammers. If you’ve received a suspicious text, don’t respond, click on links, or call any numbers. Last year alone, scammers sent out 87.8 billion spam text messages and defrauded victims of over $10 billion. Text scams (also known as “ smishing”) are among the most common tactics scammers use to steal personal information. Unfortunately, Kizzy is just one of nearly 60 million Americans who have fallen victim to text message scams in the past year. Minutes later, both her personal and business accounts were empty. ![]() She called the number in the text and quickly “verified” her identity by providing her Social Security number (SSN) and debit card details. Kizzy Broaden thought she was doing the right thing when she responded to a fraud alert text from her bank. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() If you will print it on two sizes of paper, you should prepare two appropriate crops (each from the original), and label the final file name as which shape it is so you will know when selecting them to be printed. The SAVE operation should specify a different file name. One caution: Do NOT overwrite your original file, which would interfere with later future plans. And the print will come out just as you marked it. Then you are expected to say “Wow, that was easy”, and this will be even easier and faster to do the second time you see it. This box can change Size as desired, but this tool remains the same Shape (but there is a similar option that does NOT remain the same shape). Details about how are on the next page here, but basically you choose a Crop Tool box the shape of the paper (say 4圆, 5x7 or 8x10, or maybe width x height is 6x4, 7x5, or 10x8 for landscape orientation), and then simply mark that crop box on the image with the mouse, and position and size it as seen to be the best view result that you prefer. Instead of cutting into the subject, you simply crop away the uninteresting or distracting or blank wasted areas, giving due importance to the desired subject area, also with the result matching the intended paper shape. ![]() This is really easy to do, maybe only several seconds each after you get the hang of it, but it takes a human who cares about best result. The solution is that some human (meaning you, to be your choice) first processes each image to prepare it for printing, cropping its shape to match the desired paper shape (centering the scene as you choose) for the best fitting the important scene area into that cropped result. The odds are “few to none” that any picture can ignore needing this close attention (and the printing machines can’t look and don’t care). Camcorders vary, but their stills might be 16:9 or 4:3 shape. DSLR cameras are 3:2 aspect which at least does match 4圆 paper shape, but the compact and phone cameras are 4:3 aspect which doesn’t match anything. The print sizes 4圆, 5x7, 8x10 inches are three different shapes. The machine can’t look, and doesn’t care. This could mean cut-off heads and not centered and such. Meaning, their printing machine can handle resampling the SIZE, but if they are not the same SHAPE as the paper ( and they won’t be), then there will be some cut off areas that won’t fit on the paper shape. How do you prepare that? If you do nothing except simply just send them in, they will print them at specified size you ordered, but humans won’t see them first. The problem if Printing: So, you took some important pictures with your digital camera, and you will send them to Walmart or CVS or wherever to be printed, say some 5x7 inch size and a few 8x10 inch size. Why might you want to know? There is good reason: These methods apply to digital camera images, and scanned photos or documents, any digital image. This is about those first basics of resizing images (i.e., the necessary steps to be able to USE and show your images). These basics are about the Least we need to know about using imagesįor anyone just starting with digital images, or having trouble getting started, here is an review of the first basics we need, about how to USE our digital images, about how to resize them for viewing them on the video screen or for printing. ![]() This page is about explanations, and the details of How are on the second page. ![]() ![]() Wait more time to get the job done (Windows 10 ISO Download included).This process will finally create a Windows 10 bootable for installing Windows 10 on another PC. In next step, it asks you what you want to do with it, please select Create installation Media for another PC, which is the option for creating Windows 10 bootable USB or DVD.Īt this time, insert a USB flash drive into the computer and follow the screen prompt to download Windows 10 ISO and burn it to USB drive. After that, accept the terms to continue. No installation required!ĭouble click Media Creation Tool exe file and wait some time to let it get a few things ready, mostly for connecting system and hardware information. The latest version is 21H1 (MediaCreationTool21H1.exe), this means it will create a bootable USB from Windows 10 21H1 ISO. Please go to Windows 10 Download page on and click Download tool now button to save it on a PC. ![]() All you need to do is click the download link and prepare for a USB pen drive. ![]() With this lightweight utility, there is no need to download Windows 10 ISO file separately as it comes with ISO download feature. The core function of Media Creation Tool (MCT) is to create Windows 10 bootable USB for system install or upgrade. There is no such tool when Microsoft published Windows 7 or Windows 8. It is one of the main reasons why Windows 10 is so popular these days, which makes installing Windows 10 much easier. Its developer team released a free tool called Media Creation Tool to help users easily switch to Windows 10 from other operating systems. Media Creation Tool: The Official Tool for Creating Windows 10 Bootable USBĪs we know, Windows OS is developed and owned by Microsoft Company. In addition, prepare for a USB drive with 16 GB or above storage. If not, please refer to this guide to get Windows ISO file. Reminder: Make sure you already downloaded Windows 10 ISO image. By reading the following details, you are able to create a Windows 10 bootable USB on different platforms, including Windows, Linux and macOS. Currently, Windows 10 is the most popular desktop operating system and a lot of readers asking us to write a post about that. In this post, we will concentrate on the task for creating Windows 10 bootable USB. This means there is not a single tool that is capable of making a bootable USB from all operating system images. Each of them comes with a different booting scheme. In practice, there are different types of operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, UNIX or macOS. It is a type of special media that can be used for booting up rescue disk or installing new operating system on a target computer. ![]() When you just built a new computer without OS or the computer ran into weird issue never being solved, a bootable USB installer could do a great help. ![]() ![]() This enables them to invest the bulk of their marketing efforts into pursuing their target account list. With a hybrid approach, some B2B marketing teams run air cover or “always-on” inbound marketing campaigns for low-hanging fruit lead generation. More importantly, you’ll want to get stakeholders thinking about how ABM and demand gen might best work together.
![]() ![]() Used by viewers to access and stream IPTV content Primarily used by IPTV service providers for system administration Used by IPTV players or applications for content retrieval Integrated with the Xtream Codes platform Provides a list of available channels and their associated media streams URL pointing to an M3U playlist file containing channel and content informationĪllows management of subscribers, channels, content, billing, etc. Interface for IPTV service providers to manage their IPTV systems A side-by-side comparison is provided in the table below for a concise overview. Its security aspects differ significantly. On the other hand, M3U serves as a file format primarily employed for crafting multimedia file playlists. It serves as a viable registration avenue for IPTV access. The Xtream Codes API stands in stark contrast to the M3U file or URL.
![]() ![]() Some ad blockers, such as AdBlock Plus include filters and the ability to let in non-obtrusive advertising. Do you just want to stop annoying pop-up ads from appearing or do you want the full range of services, including privacy features and an end to ad-tracking? Grab the ad blocker that ticks off all the boxes on your wishlist. You can narrow down your choice in ad blockers by deciding specifically what you're looking to accomplish with such an app or extension. You should also figure out if a browser extension will take care of your ad-blocking needs or whether you should consider switching browsers to one with more built-in privacy features. Determine if the free services provide enough ad-blocking to meet your needs or whether a paid app delivers more for your money. Many of the best ad blockers are available for free, either as extensions or as standalone apps, though a few, like AdLock, charge a fee. The usual caveats apply: Browsing through Tor will slow down the web experience, and some features, like video streams and video files won’t work in order to preserve anonymity.ĭownload Onion Browser: iOS How to choose the best ad blocker for you Previously a premium app, Onion Browser has since moved to a donation model, opening up access to everyone who wants to download the app, without compromising security or features. IOS users aren’t left out when it comes to browsing the Tor anonymizer network, with the Onion Browser among the more popular options on Apple’s mobile OS. ![]() |
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