Apple encryption in iCloud?

Rene Ritchie answers the question we all ask ourselves after what happened with the FBI: what about Apple encryption in iCloud?

In AppleInsider they have compared the new 16-inch MacBook Pro with the second-generation Lenovo XI Extreme:

great web image editor

Polarr is an old well-known and complete online image editor, and also has applications for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Its inclusion in the list has to do with that, in my opinion, it is also at a high level in terms of editing

Apple continues to promote slofies

In the last hours the Cupertino firm shared two new "slofie" videos that were captured using the slow motion capture function of the front lens of the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro. The two clips called "Backflip" and "Whiteout", present slow motion videos recorded by professional snowboarders.

Review the history of Apple in a very visual way

The (Unofficial) Apple Archive collects the whole history of Apple from the 70s to the present day
Sam Henri Gold is the boy in charge of this website the https://www.applearchive.org/ ,also Creator of the Twitter client for iOS Nighthawk, his first product of the bitten apple was an iPod nano from 2005, which was a gift for his fourth birthday (via 9to5Mac).

    The whole project started when the YouTube channel EveryAppleAds was deleted in April 2017. I was in Massachusetts at the time, and I started searching YouTube for "apple commercial 1976) to download what I could find, and saving the videos in an iCloud Drive folder I only had a hundred videos or so when I started the YouTube channel I think it stayed for six days before it was deleted without a trace If I had stayed on YouTube, I think I would have neglected the file much more than I have done

The original iPod went from idea to finished product in just 10 months

iPod. Tony Fadell was hired to create the iPod in late January 2001. Steve Jobs greenlit the project in March 2001. They hired a contract manufacturer in April 2001, announced the product in October 2001, and shipped the first production iPod to customers in November 2001, around 290 days after getting started. Source: Tony Fadell.

Apple celebrates Chinese New Year with the short ‘Daughter’

The Chinese New Year will take place next Saturday, January 25, and to celebrate it Apple has recorded a new short with the iPhone 11 Pro called ‘Daughter

YouTuber tests Apple's Pro Display XDR with 13 different computers

Apple invites you to compete with your best photos captured with the 'Night Mode' of the iPhone 11

 Apple  has just opened a call for users of iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max to share their best shots using the ‘Night Mode’ of their device. From today until January 29, Apple is looking for the most impressive photos captured by users around the world.

To participate you must share on Instagram and Twitter your best photos in 'Night Mode' taken on iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, using the hashtags #ShotoniPhone and #NightmodeChallenge. You must write the iPhone model that you used in the caption of the image, and the photos can be directly from the camera, edited through Apple's editing tools in the Photos application or with third-party software.

To choose the best photos, the company has a panel of selected judges that will evaluate the postulated images, and will reveal the five winning photos on March 4. The winning photos will be published in a gallery in Apple Newsroom, apple.com and Apple Instagram

The jury group is made up of professional photographers, as well as senior executives of the Cupertino firm, who will be in charge of choosing the five best captures. The list of jurors is as follows:

    Malin Fezehai (USA): photographer and visual reporter based in New York.
    Tyler Mitchell (United States): photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn.
    Sarah Lee (EU): She has worked for 'The Guardian' and 'Observer' since 2000 and specializes in portraits, features and arts ****
    Alexvi Li (China): longtime photographer and iPhone artist who captures photos and videos, creating thematic art projects.
    Darren Soh (Singapore): full-time freelance photographer specializing in architecture and landscape.
    Phil Schiller: Apple's senior vice president of Global Marketing, has helped Apple reinvent mobile phones with iPhone.
    Kaiann Drance: works with talented Apple teams to offer products that put excellent photographic tools in the hands of users.
    Brooks Kraft: professional photographer and worked in editorial and commercial photography before joining Apple.
    Jon McCormack: consummate photographer who is currently vice president of Camera and Photos at Apple.
    Arem Duplessis: works closely with some of the most successful photographers in the world in his role as director of photography in the Apple marketing team.


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The rumored iPhone 9 makes its appearance in an render

A render of the iPhone SE 2, a model that some call iPhone 9. we find a look at the external appearance of the rumored model. Judging by the appearance and as seen in previous months, it is a terminal based on the chassis of the iPhone 8.

Apple experiments with ice and fire in its latest video recorded with an iPhone 11 Pro

These videos were not recorded with professional studio cameras, but with the company's own iPhone. Since Apple launched the new iPhone 11 Pro a few months ago, the first terminals to have a triple rear camera have taken the opportunity to continue the series with an equally hypnotic and striking result

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The story behind the name 'App Store', an idea from the Salesforce CEO and a gift to Steve Jobs

Apple invented the concept of software store, right? Well, not really, although it was who popularized the idea and made it a real business. Online software stores already existed before the iPhone and in fact not even the name 'App Store' was Apple's idea.

Marc Benioff, CEO of the Salesforce company had the idea of ​​an 'App Store' in 2003, many years before the launch of the Apple App Store and even the conception of the iPhone as such. He had even registered the AppStore.com domain and finally ended up giving it to Steve Jobs. But why?

read the full story a TechCrunch

This is what Steve Jobs did when interviewing and hiring new employees

Steve Jobs considered that hiring new employees was a fundamental task in his companies. Many things have been said about these interviews with candidates, but few approach what Apple's co-founder was really looking for. Jobs learned to search, find and value what was really valuable in a future employee. But it was something that took time to discover.
The best employees do not need to be given orders. They give them themselves. If they know what needs to be done, they will find a way to do it and do not need to be told. What they need is a common vision and that is what leadership is. Leadership is having that vision and being able to articulate it to the people around you so that they understand it.
In Cuora we also find some testimonies of interviews with Steve Jobs. In one of them, a candidate who has already gone through several interviews and has passed the filters, he only had to face Steve Jobs. The one who proposed was Ken Rosen, who was quite confident that the candidate would pass the test.

the most useful and quality free programs for macOS that you can install on your new Apple

Just as we did with Windows 10 a few days ago, now we bring a small list with some of the most useful and quality free programs for macOS that you can install on your new Apple-made computer, or on your new hackingtosh, if you're more daring .

If something enjoys the ecosystem of applications for macOS it is in good health, both in the Mac App Store and outside it there is a lot of good software that is achieved, and although sometimes it seems that the best is paid, with this list we hope Prove that there are many free alternatives that are worthwhile.

If something is missing in this life macOS is a function like Windows Snap to organize the windows of the desktop, and that is that Split View has no point of comparison in the little flexibility it offers, especially if you want to take advantage of a large monitor size.

• With Tiles you get just that, a window manager that allows you to rearrange them simply by dragging towards the edges of the screen, with keyboard shortcuts or even from the menu bar. Options like Magnet or Divvy offer the same, but Tiles is free and these two are not.

• Another thing that macOS is missing is a better clipboard, similar to the one Windows 10 received recently, one that keeps track of the latest we have copied to make us more productive. The good news is that as long as I don't have it, there is something called Pasta.

Pasta is a replacement for the Mac clipboard that makes our lives easier when copying and pasting. It offers you a history of up to 1000 items in the clipboard, custom collections and customization of the preview grid. All at a keyboard shortcut away: cmd + alt + v (⌘⌥V).

• AppCleaner is from the same creators of Tiles, a small application that allows us to uninstall any program that we no longer want. Tools like CleanMyMac offer this kind of deep uninstall, but for a much higher price than free.

AppCleaner is much simpler, but it does the job. You just have to drag the app you want to delete to your window and the rest is to wait for the tool to find all the related files and delete them.

• If you want a complete all-in-one application to take notes, manage tasks, organize projects, work in teams, create lists, databases, documents, etc. Notion is the multiplatform tool for this. Not only is it free, but it is extremely complete, has an excellent interface and is available for all popular systems.

• DeepL is one of the best alternatives to the Google translator, and recently has a native application for macOS. This offers you the possibility of translating any text within the system with just pressing a keyboard shortcut, natural translations and of very good quality for the fabulous price for free.

• If you are bothered by the accumulation of icons in the menu bar with each new application you install, your solution is Dozer, a small open source utility that serves just to hide them. If you are familiar with tools like Bartender, it will make you happy to know that there is now a free alternative.

• Superbar is another productivity-oriented utility, used to quickly access links, apps or snippets from the menu bar. It's great for things like setting up different workspaces and keeping them organized, and the customization possibilities it offers are almost endless.

• If you are looking for a music player for macOS of incredible quality, with great design, integration with iTunes, Soundcloud, YouTube, Internet radios, support for Hi-Res music and other common formats such as FLAC, MP3, CUE, APE & M4A, You need to take a look at Vox Music Player.

• If you are looking for a free office package with high compatibility with the Microsoft Office and that also looks pretty but it costs nothing, one of the best options is WPS Office for Mac. It includes the word processor, spreadsheets and presentations .

• This is perfect for those who have a Mac but also use Windows 10 on that or another computer. The simple application of Microsoft's task lists, To Do, is free, simple, easy to use and synchronizes across all your devices. Something that will not happen with the notes tool that is already installed in macOS and that only work within the Apple ecosystem.

• If you are looking for a Markdown text editor, or a distraction-free minimalist text editor that allows you to concentrate only on writing, Typora is not only one of the most complete and powerful, but also one of the most beautiful and with more customization options .

• If you are a Twitter power user, you have heard about the famous Tweetbot for Mac, but if you do not want to pay so much for a client of a social network, you can always take advantage of Tweeten, an improved version of Tweetdeck completely free and perfect for users who need many columns

• If you find the state of the MacOS Mail app extremely sad, you are going to want an alternative client, Spark is by far the best free alternative if you are looking for a native mail client. Not only does it offer an excellent user experience, mobile applications on par, but it is also very, very beautiful.

• In case it wasn't obvious, the best multimedia player out there that is free and available for macOS, is simply VLC It is a must to watch videos on your Mac, the only thing that does not play is probably your thoughts.

• And, if you are looking for an app to master them all, you can try Station, which instead of having you install many native apps, lets you manage hundreds of services and web applications from the same place, which not only saves you browser tabs , but time and resources.

The best applications for Windows and macOS of 2019

Pasta

 

 

 

excellent replacement for the macOS clipboard that makes your life easier when copying and pasting  

The clipboard in macOS is only able to remember the last thing we copied and also does not keep a history. That's why some of us use third-party tools like CopyClip, but now that I've known Pasta, I definitely have a new favorite tool.
 Pasta remembers only the last 20 items you have copied.

The Pro version  in a single payment, no subscriptions. It offers you a history of up to 1000 items in the clipboard, custom collections and customization of the preview grid.

WinDynamicDesktop

 dynamic macOS backgrounds to the Windows 10 desktop

 

WinDynamicDesktop is available completely free of charge in the Microsoft Store, and serves just to mimic the function of the dynamic backgrounds of macOS, what it does is use your location in the world to determine the time of sunrise and sunset and thus change your desktop wallpaper

PowerToys

 

 

PowerToys Famous in the era of Windows 95, these utilities that allow you to do things like play with internal Windows elements or use undocumented system features, are now available again and you can install them in Windows 10

Tutorial video for the Microsoft PowerToys window manager utility called FancyZones. 

FancyZones and Shorcut Guide were the first PowerToys in preliminary version that Microsoft launched with the new / old project. The first utility helps us to create customized grids to better organize your windows and be more productive, it's like the Windows Snap on steroids. And the second one offers us a list of keyboard shortcuts just by pressing the Windows key for a few seconds

waifu2x-Caffe

 How to double the size of any image without losing quality

 

If I told you that there is a way to rescale an image up to twice its size without being pixelated and losing visual quality in the process, you probably would not believe me, or assume that it is a rather complicated task that may only be in Hands of an expert. But, that is exactly what this tool does.

waifu2x is a website from which you can improve the resolution of illustrations and photographs while reducing noise and avoiding artifacts.

Xbox

 Xbox Game Pass in Windows 10

 

more than 100 games from more than 75 companies

YouTube-dl

 How to download videos from YouTube, Facebook and other sites using the terminal on Windows, Linux or Mac

 

youtube-dl, a simple command line program, you can download videos from dozens of websites, including pages like Pornhub. Also It has an application for Windows and Linux with a graphical interface that simply works wonders

In macOS You just have to open the terminal and paste the following commands:

 sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o / usr / local / bin / youtube-dl sudo chmod a + rx / usr / local / bin / youtube-dl

Once this is done you can use the youtube-dl command to download any video.

You can see the huge list of options on the youtube-dl page on GitHub

There is practically no more complete and easy-to-use tool for downloading videos or audio from almost any website.

Boostnote

 

One of the best applications to take notes with which I came across this year is Boostnote, it is free, it is open source and it is multiplatform. In addition to having a nice and easy-to-use interface, it supports the use of Markdown language and that of 20 programming languages, since it is intended for developers, but that can be useful to anyone.

Download Boostnote

Blender 2.8:

3D creation application

 

Blender transformed this powerful graphic editing tool into a more modern and easy-to-use software a whole new work area, a modern 3D viewer, a new rendering engine with new utilities, new tools and widgets, a new taskbar with greater visibility of the available options and greater control in general. What the community and the Blender Foundation have said represents the work of more than 10 years
Download Blender

Brave 1.0

Alternative browser co-created by Brendan Eich, the inventor of JavaScript and one of the founders of Mozilla. In November 2019, after several years of development and in a public beta state, the company finally announced the official launch of its first stable version: Brave 1.0.

Download Brave

DeepL

This year, the people of DeepL, one of the best translators  and one that in many cases leaves in evidence Google, launched a new desktop app for Windows and macOS that despite being in beta works ex

The translations in the few languages ​​it supports are of high quality and with a much more natural language than other tools offer. This mini app lets us translate any text in the system with the press of a keyboard shortcut, something that can turn you into a productivity beast without constantly translating text segments into another language

cellently well.

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Microsoft Edge Chromium

 Microsoft Edge Chromium llegará a Windows 10 a partir del 15 de enero mediante Windows Update 

 

This version of Edge makes you forget the shortcomings of the classic Edge and combines the best that it offered, with some of Chrome's best things, such as its speed, huge web support, its gigantic library of extensions, and all without consuming so many resources. It is also multiplatform, we already have versions for the versions with Windows support and for macOS, and at some point next year we should also have version for Linux.