Daily App Deals for October 18, 2016 featuring Minecraft: Story Mode, Zombify and more

We have some great apps for you today that are discounted for a short duration in the App Store, including Minecraft: Story Mode, Zombify and others. Some deals may expire quickly — even on the same day of this post. If there is a discounted app t…

Turn Any Leftover Cake Into a Crunchy Ice Cream Topping

Trimming away the top, rounded portion of a cake before frosting makes it look pretty and professional, but it’s a damn shame to throw away the scraps. You could just eat them, or you could turn them into a crunchy ice cream topping.Read more...

Nokia wires an apartment complex with 52Gbps fiber

It's one thing to wire a house with gigabit fiber, but it's another matter to outfit an entire apartment building -- you need a huge pipeline to accommodate everyone. Nokia, however, might have a solution. It just partnered with SK Broadban…

Foxit Reader 8.1.0

Foxit Software heeft versie 8.1 van Foxit Reader uitgebracht. Dit alternatief voor Adobe Reader kan uitstekend overweg met de meeste pdf-documenten, maar complexe of zeer grote documenten vormen soms een iets te grote uitdaging. Voor computers met b…

How Apple Uses Rule 44(d) to Hide Trademark Applications

Quartz has a very interesting piece [Via 9to5Mac] on how Apple and other tech companies use a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office rule to register trademarks in semi-secrecy. The rule is designated 44(d), and the crux of the matter is that allows multina…

Imagine a sad deflating balloon. There, that's IBM's servers, storage

Big Blue's cash cows saunter into the slaughterhouse Analysis  IBM's Systems segment saw dismal revenues in its third quarter results, with declines in both servers and storage.…

Apple News Format gains HTML text formatting for expanded content support

Apple has sent out emails today to Apple News Publishers letting them know that they can now use HTML text formatting to more easily translate their web content into the Apple News Format. Instead of having to rely on Markdown formatting or other f…

Walt Mossberg’s Google Pixel Review

Joanna Stern’s Google Pixel Review

The Doctor Strange End Credits Theme Is So Weird It May Actually Be Music From Another Plane of Existence

Seriously, I don’t think anyone was expecting something like this composition from Doctor Strange’s score—and honestly, if the rest of the tracks are like this, it might be the first time in a while a Marvel movie has a memorable original soundtrack…

Forging a Beautiful Sword from a Crowbar Is Smart As Hell

If you think about it, a crowbar already comes vaguely sword-shaped (or as sword-shaped as any long metal tool can be). You just need to hammer down the curved end of the crowbar to create a hilt and then sharpen the straight edge to create the …

Great, You Can Now Endorse Political Candidates on Facebook

Facebook has long been a cesspool of batshit political posts from friends and family alike, and now the company has gone and added another layer of muck: the ability to publicly endorse a candidate. Read more...

Enabling Automatic Downloads for Apple TV apps

OneNote For Android Adds Multi-Window Support, Audio Recording, and More

Android: OneNote is turning into a pretty killer note-taking app (especially after Evernote started limiting its free users). Today, its Android app is getting better with multi-window support, password protected sections, audio recording and more.R…

Praying for a new four-inch iPhone in 2017

I'm a big supporter of the four-inch iPhone SE: It's lightweight...

Apple planning a big price-drop for the 12-inch MacBook?

A report from last night suggests that Apple is planning to drop the 11-inch MacBook Air...

Apple executives awarded stock bonus worth up to $25M

Apple last week meted out restricted stock unit awards to its executive team, with the likes of SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue, SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller and others receiving up to 149,667 RSUs schedul…

Vimeo's on-demand TV store is now available in 150 countries

Last month Vimeo, STARZ and Lionsgate Entertainment -- makers of such fine prestige TV as Orange is the New Black and Mad Men -- announced a new partnership to put all that programming online with an on-demand pricing scheme. While many of …

Scientists successfully bred baby mice from skin cells

A team of scientists at Japan's Kyushu University has successfully turned the skin cells of a mouse into mature egg cells used to breed viable offspring. According to a new paper in the journal Nature, the process could eventually be used i…

Bryan Chaffin Will Discuss ‘Apple vs. Samsung’ in Live Webinar Thursday

Bryan Chaffin will be doing a live webinar/discussion called “Samsung vs. Apple” on Thursday, October 20th, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT. Moderated by patent attorney Gene Quinn, the discussion has a subheading of, “Is A Single Patent Infringement Wo…

Apple/products related News, Software Updates, Tips, PR

Beta 5 of macOS Sierra 10.12.1 and iOS 10.1 (developer news). Apple said to unveil new Mac computers Oct. 27. Apple lawsuit over fake chargers and cables sold on Amazon. "Mad Max" Mac system requirements revealed. Five of the Best Hidden Featur…