Presenter: Jeff McKamey
Cool old color photos from the Great Depression.
Rare color photographs of the Great Depression and World War II. Jeff said he especially liked the cotton pickers. There were lots of pictures taken in Corpus Christi at the Navy Base.
Yet, another reason not to update to High Sierra
If you have any 32 bit apps that you need, if you accidentally update to 10.13.4 they will stop working forever!
MacOS Mojave Update Announced. Apple is going to the Dark Side.
New Dark mode looks cool
Redesigned App Store, Apple News, and more
Rate increase for legacy unlimited smartphone data plans
AT&T is raising the rates on the old unlimited plan.
If you are only paying $40 a month for ‘unlimited’ back when edge was so slow it really meant “slower than I could read the email coming in”. It’s going to $45 a month.
Gemini photos
Clean up your photo library…
Remember the 20 photos you took to get one perfect shot? They are sitting on your iPhone and gobbling up storage. With Gemini Photos, you can keep the photos you actually want and clear those you don’t — without the drag of removing them manually.
Woman gets fined in Canada for reading a message on her watch at a stoplight
A judge rejected Victoria Ambrose’s testimony that, despite the multi-function of the electronic device that straps to the wrist, she was only checking the time.
Watch OS 5
Heads-up if you own an original Apple Watch: your wrist wear is officially obsolete, which if you still have one, probably doesn’t last all day on one charge anyway.
Apple has confirmed that WatchOS 5 will drop support for the first-generation Watch and will require at least a Series 1 timepiece.
WatchOS5 has a walkie talkie chat app like T-mobile used to have, and automagically knows when you start workouts.
If you were a little paranoid about your privacy, well…
Google is accused of allowing users to bypass court anonymity orders. Victims of crimes are identified. Basically if you look up the criminal, sometimes, Google will suggest the ‘protected’ name of the victim right away.
US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data
Basically, the carriers are selling the data of where you are!
Alexa Woes
Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contacts.
Barnes & Noble Abandoning old 1st Edition NOOK
Your old NOOK 1st edition will stop working June 29th
Colorado Hail Swath, Not Snow, Was Visible From the Air Days After Monday’s Storm
Neat freak hailstorm
Scalping Tickets
It is illegal for you or I to buy a ticket to the concert and try to re-sell your ticket, but Ticketmaster has changed the rules so that as long as you pay their fee, perfectly legal!
So what does this mean?
About a week before a concert, people who know they can’t go, will put their tickets up for sale.
About four days before the concert, they will start lowering the price, if you really want a seat, check every day and try to buy the ticket you want when the price drops.
The day of the concert, most people will dump the tickets for as cheap as the service allows, which is sometimes not cheap at all!
Ticketmaster bought StubHub
There are lots of third party ticket sellers out there:
VIVIDSEATS
Smartwatch Saves Man’s Life
Apple is opening up the API’s for heart rate and other health data, it will be interesting to see where developers take it.
IOS 12 Coming
Apple says iOS 12 will launch apps 40% faster and the camera 70% faster on an iPhone 6S — the model that came out in 2015. You can FaceTime group up to 32 people which should be cool
iOS 12’s augmented reality features will be powered by the new “ARKit 2,” enabling shared experiences, persistent AR experiences tied to a specific location (think Pokemon Go), object detection and image tracking, and more that will make AR apps “even more dynamic.” Apple worked with Pixar to create a new open file format, USDZ, so that it’s easy to experience AR “nearly anywhere in iOS,” ranging from apps like Messages to Safari, Mail, Files, News, and more.
Share Passwords With AirDrop From iOS 12’s New Password Management System
Ad Blocking App
Puffin Web Browser App
Makes all websites work on iPhone
Did You Know?
Airline Road runs due north and south for a reason.