Apple News: Apple And ‘The Mother Of All Upgrades’
If you’re at all like me, an inveterate and long suffering Apple watcher, who owns more than a fair share of Apple products, you’re waiting. Waiting for what? The second half of 2014 promises to be a big one for Apple watchers and Apple’s customers. It’s make or break. It’s do or die. Therefore, as a certified bona fide Apple aficionado, I deem thee, 2014, as the year of ‘The Mother Of All Upgrades.” For about two years Apple has been promising that exciting new products are in the pipeline, just waiting to hit the stores to be touched and fawned over by loyal customers. Yet, still we wait. What we’re certain is coming is astounding enough as it is. The major upgrades to iOS and OS X have been long in the making.
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Technology News: Stream dream: the future of music streaming services revealed
The download is dithering, but is streaming music all it’s cracked up to be? Free or subscription-based services like Spotify, Deezer, Rdio and Pandora are all great, but they’re mostly either stuck on your smartphone, your desktop computer or your games console. Add radio stations and podcasts to the mix, and sharing a stream between devices isn’t easy. Nor is sending streams to a hi-fi, with even high-end (and closed) multi-room music systems dependent on Wi-Fi, and so suffering from buffering, delays and out-of-sync stereo streams. The whole thing’s a mess. What we need is some kind of unifying technology that accepts streams from anywhere, sends it to anything, and keeps everything synchronised and in top quality. Could that technology be Caskeid?
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Programming News: Swift from an Objective-C Developer’s Perspective
If you come from Objective-C, you must be familiar with nil. Basically you can set a pointer to nothing at any time. Instead of nil, Apple introduced the notion of ‘optionals’ in Swift, which handle the absence of a value. How do optionals work? An optional is kind of like a box. When we define a value as optional, what we actually do is we put the value inside the box. The stuff inside the box can either be the value itself or nil.
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Photography News: How to be a Tourist in Your Own City and Capture Remarkable Photos
Many years ago, I was in Manaus, the humid, bustling city in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. There I was chatting with a local guy and asked him which exotic place he would love to travel to. His answer, and this might surprise you as much as it did me, was Wales. If you step back and think about it, its not strange at all, Wales is about as different from Amazonia as it is possible to get. With this in mind, today we are going to take a look at photographing your home city through new eyes. One of the things we often say about the cities that we live in is that we rarely go out photographing unless we have to. The irony is that these very places that are on your doorstep and often chock full of photographic opportunities. So how can you motivate yourself to shoot your home town?
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