Apple releases iOS 6.1 with additional LTE support

Apple releases iOS 6.1 with additional LTE support: The first point update of iOS 6 brings support for more LTE networks as well as a movie ticket-buying feature within Siri. [Read more]

15 Tweaks to Make When Moving to Lion or Mountain Lion | Mactuts+

15 Tweaks to Make When Moving to Lion or Mountain Lion | Mactuts+: In the last two iterations of OS X — Lion and Mountain Lion — Apple has been making some bold moves in respect to the way the computer operator interacts with the machine. Bold in the sense that the changes are quite a departure to the way in which people have been used to using OS X in the past.
While change can often be positive, some of us take a little time to adapt and are perhaps more resistant to change. This article examines some quick fixes to help you make Lion and/or Mountain Lion a little more familiar.

Is Apple TV waiting on H.265 HEVC ratification? – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

Is Apple TV waiting on H.265 HEVC ratification? – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: The standard will support a resolution of 8,192 by 4,320 pixels and can deliver double the data compression ratio of the current H.264.

Architect Designs 3-D Printed, Mobius Strip-Inspired Landscape House | Wired Design | Wired.com

Architect Designs 3-D Printed, Mobius Strip-Inspired Landscape House | Wired Design | Wired.com: Architects have tossed around the idea of 3-D printing buildings, but Universe Architect’s first one could have a twist.

Inspired by the Mobius strip, Janjaap Ruijssenaars’ house design wraps around itself, twisting the interior to the exterior and back. Ruijssenaars and his collaborator, artist and mathematician Rinus Roelofs, call it the Landscape House because landscapes, too, are continuous.

J.J. Abrams: One director to rule them all?

J.J. Abrams: One director to rule them all?: Reports from Hollywood suggest J.J. Abrams may direct the forthcoming 'Star Wars' film. He's already got the next 'Star Trek' coming out this fall. This is like crossing the sci-fi streams. [Read more]

How Digital Comics Change the Way Comic Books are Drawn—And Imagined

How Digital Comics Change the Way Comic Books are Drawn—And Imagined:

J.J. Abrams To Direct "Star Wars Episode VII"

J.J. Abrams To Direct "Star Wars Episode VII": "Star Trek Into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams has been confirmed to direct "Star Wars Episode VII" for Disney with a 2015 target release date.

Half a Million DVDs of Data Stored in Gram of DNA

Half a Million DVDs of Data Stored in Gram of DNA: Paleontologists routinely resurrect and sequence DNA from woolly mammoths and other long-extinct species. Future paleontologists, or librarians, may do much the same to pull up Shakespeare's sonnets, listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, or view photos. Researchers in the United Kingdom report today that they've encoded these works and others in DNA and later sequenced the genetic material to reconstruct the written, audio, and visual information.

Happy 29th Birthday, Apple Macintosh!

Happy 29th Birthday, Apple Macintosh!: On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous "1984" commercial...

DIY Bioprinter Lets Wannabe Scientists Build Structures From Living Cells

DIY Bioprinter Lets Wannabe Scientists Build Structures From Living Cells: A new bioprinter developed at a hackerspace can print living cells for less than the cost of an iPod touch.

How to sign digital documents

How to sign digital documents: I’ve received some electronic documents that I’m supposed to sign. I could print and sign them and mail them back, but I’ve heard there’s a way to sign them right on my Mac. Do you know how it’s done?

You have a couple of options. If you’re running Mac OS X Lion or later, you can take advantage of Preview’s Signature feature. Alternatively, you can use Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. We'll start with Preview.

A Signature Capture window will appear and your Mac’s camera will light up. Scrawl out your John Hancock on a piece of paper and place that paper before the camera so that the signature aligns with the blue line in the viewer area. Signature Capture will grab your signature and display it to the right of the viewer. Click the Accept button and the signature will be added to Preview’s list of available signatures.

Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design

Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design: Simple doesn't just sell, it sticks. Simple made hits of the Nest thermostat, Fitbit, and TiVo. Simple brought Apple back from the dead. It's why you have Netflix. The Fisher Space Pen, the Swiss Army Knife, and the Rolex Oyster Perpetual are some of our most enduring products. All are marvels of simplicity.

Apps we can't live without: DragThing | Macworld

Apps we can't live without: DragThing | Macworld: I’m so accustomed to having DragThing on my Macs that I forget that it’s not part of the OS. It’s only when I’m speaking to a group (in person or virtually), show my Mac’s screen, and someone pipes up, “What are all those docks on your desktop?” that I’m reminded how much DragThing is ingrained in my computing life.

Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious Disease?

Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious Disease?: It's often said that violence is a sickness, that gun violence threatens public health. Some scientists say these aren't just figures of speech, but literal truths: Violence truly is contagious, spreading through society like an infection.

30 years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe

30 years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe: Despite those drawbacks, the Lisa made a huge splash in the industry in 1983 thanks to a bitmapped graphical operating system that utilized icons, pull-down menus, and overlapping windows to represent and manipulate information instead of the then-familiar convention of typing text-based commands. The interface launched a revolution in the way consumers interacted with personal computers.

Happy 10th birthday Safari! Thanks for changing everything – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

Happy 10th birthday Safari! Thanks for changing everything – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: “Who are all these WebKit users? To start with, they’re the hundreds of millions of people using iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. Need hundreds of millions more?” Duncan writes. “WebKit is also at the heart of Android. Since the first devices went on sale in 2008, the Android browser has been based on WebKit. As of BlackBerry 6, the Playbook and BlackBerry smartphones use WebKit; so does Samsung’s bada mobile operating system, Amazon’s cloud-assisted Silk browser for Kindle Fire tablets, and even the experimental browser Amazon puts in recent Kindle ereaders. Browse the Web on a Nintendo 3DS? It uses WebKit. The upcoming Tizen mobile OS is making a bet like webOS: Tizen is Linux under the hood, but the interface is powered by WebKit.”

Facebook Messenger Now Supports Voice Calling for U.S. Accounts

Facebook Messenger Now Supports Voice Calling for U.S. Accounts: To access voice calling, open the Facebook Messenger app, open a chat with someone, and click the 'i' button in the top right corner. If the feature has been activated -- and the other user also has Facebook Messenger for iOS installed -- there should be a "Free Call" button. If it's greyed out, try tapping it anyway. Facebook is rolling out the feature to all users over the next several days.

Hermes Press Releases Full Color Archival Edition of Alex Toth's "Zorro"

Hermes Press Releases Full Color Archival Edition of Alex Toth's "Zorro":

Cord-cutting's moment is now, and Apple is missing it

Cord-cutting's moment is now, and Apple is missing it: On this visit, however, his cable box was gone: It had been replaced by a Roku, and the cable service replaced by subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime. That works out to a savings of at least $30 a month—well worth it, my father-in-law says, even though he can’t watch CBS shows or live golf anymore. Instead, he’s been exploring the Criterion Collection on Hulu Plus.

“The quality is as good as cable and satellite and in some programming areas better,” he told me last week. He gushed: “Hulu Criterion is a treasure vault.”

In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand

In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand: Your smartphone (or tablet) will dominate your house as one remote to rule them all. It'll control three main aspects of your home: appliances, entertainment, and the living environment. Here's how.