A magistrate judge in Brooklyn last week ruled that the Justice Department could not compel the tech giant to unlock the phone. The government on Monday resubmitted its arguments to a higher judge overseeing the matter.
Not a surprise that they would try.
Follow the link and see if you can make your way through the page. The letters reorder themselves on the fly. Much harder than you might think.
Preview is a surprisingly good “quickie” photo editor a lot of people overlook. This post is a good primer on how to use its editing capabilities.
I didn’t know there hadn’t always been a 221B Baker St.
What if you could get 5% of your day back? What would you do?
You already have enough work to do today and shouldn’t have to waste time looking for the things you need to do your job.
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Yet another salvo in the court of public opinion, this time from Apple’s Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering.
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Depending on how reachable those monthly fitness goals are, this sounds like a great idea. The only concern I have is, who is collecting the data and how? How do you prove you’re reaching the monthly goals? Is the data automatically downloaded by the company? If so, what safeguards are there in place for the security of that data?
I’d never used noise generators until recently. My new neighbor snores like a congested elephant and it was driving me nuts. I now use this app to drown him out with a combination of October Rain and the very comforting Blue Whales. Works great.
I know how challenging this trip would be on a modern bike like my FJR 1300. It’s inconceivable how difficult it must have been in 1903.
But if there’s even a slight chance to find a magical unicorn (which is redundant, by the way), shouldn’t law enforcement do everything in its power to discover such a creature? What is Apple trying to hide here? Why won’t they help the FBI discover this creature? Is it discrimination against mythical horses? Did a unicorn hurt Tim Cook as a child? Enquiring minds want to know.
And the The San Bernardino District Attorney is an idiot.
Emoticons are everywhere, but what if we could create emoticons with ourselves – our own smiles, shrugs, sighs, rages and laughs?
Get this handy, .gif creating app, which will turn your three photos into a moving image. You’ll be surprised how much you can say and how creative you can get with Moodroll. Oh yes, you can share your rolls via messages or email, on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter or anywhere else you wish.
This is a cool free app.
If you want to see what guitar playing is all about, watch this. Holy shit, I love this guy.
Thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop this week. I’ve used this app since the first version and still use it everyday.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt compiled a list, with links to the supporting documents, of those in favor of Apple or the FBI in the iPhone encryption case. It’s pretty one-sided.
Apple isn’t leaving this in the hands of the courts or Congress. They are also fighting in the court of public opinion. They are serious about winning this fight.
I’m kind of ambivalent about this, to be honest. I’d rather see Apple do something else for Apple TV than to stream NFL games that are already available to watch elsewhere.
Carruthers isn’t messing around when he says he’s done a lot of concert movies—the director, who spoke with us from his home in the United Kingdom, has more than 60 credits to his name and has worked with acts as varied as Led Zeppelin and Usher. It’s fair to assume he knows a well-done live performance when he sees one.
The folks at Dolby interviewed Carruthers about the new film and posted it, and a 30 second trailer, to their site.
I find these things fascinating and a bit scary.
These are cool, although I’m not sure if I would use them or not. Merlin Mann and I have talked about these products quite a bit on The Dalrymple Report Podcast, and he loves them.
Apple posted these to its Web site.
Kaye — who is responsible for monitoring free speech issues around the world, including the speech rights of individuals, vulnerable communities, journalists, and political dissidents — highlighted the benefits of encryption from a human rights perspective.
The support for Apple keeps coming.
I have this camera and love it. Click on the “What’s New” link on the page to see the newest features.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Access Now and the Wickr Foundation laid out arguments in amicus briefs released on Wednesday ahead of a March 22 hearing in which Judge Sheri Pym will review Apple’s appeal of a court order demanding it help unlock a phone used by Rizwan Farook.
Certainly not a surprise considering what’s at stake, but it’s important that these groups stand up and be heard.
The Pentagon is turning to Silicon Valley. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced plans to create a new “innovation advisory board” for the bellicose department and appointed Alphabet chairman and Google CEO emeritus Eric Schmidt to lead it.
So now the screens on the M1 Abrams tank will have ads on them?
This is utterly insane. I love the unpolished nature of this thing. Almost as if you could make it yourself using scrap would and nuts and bolts from your garage. But trust me, there’s no way you could. Just watch and appreciate not only the music being made but the wonderful Rube Goldbergness of the machine itself.
As a motorcyclist, I still prefer a dedicated GPS but, whenever I’ve used one of the Maps apps, I’ve always found Apple Maps to be the more “pleasing” of the
I just love Zakk.
Google said in a statement on Monday that “we clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn’t moved, there wouldn’t have been a collision. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that.”
Certainly not a major issue and a reasonable explanation from Google.
I’m not a huge fan or creator of GIFs but GIF Brewery 3 is available free for a limited time (until March 12, 2016) and is fairly easy to use.