Are some friends spamming you with game requests? In this piece, we will show you how to stop specific Facebook friends from sending you app requests and game invites.
How to stop Facebook friends from sending you app requests and game invites
Apple creates support account on Twitter
Apple has created a brand new company-maintained account on Twitter dedicated to tips, tricks and customer service. @AppleSupport provides “tips and tutorials from the same Apple Advisors you know and trust,” according to the company.
The first tip shared on Apple Support on Twitter is about turning lists into checklists in the updated Notes app on OS X El Capitan and iOS 9.
10 useful keyboard shortcuts for the Preview app
The Preview app comes pre-installed on all Macs and is more useful than a lot of people give it credit for. It's not only used for opening different file types that reside on your Mac but it can also be used to edit those files and extract images from apps.
Regardless, most of you probably use just your mouse or trackpad to get things done in the Preview app. In this piece, we'll show you 10 ways you can use your keyboard to quickly perform actions in Preview by way of these useful individual keyboard shortcuts.
Give your Retina Mac’s screen more real estate with scaling options
Macs that comes with retina displays allow the user to configure their own resolution scaling options.
These scaling options can be taken advantage of to give your Mac more screen space and gives you the illusion that your screen is bigger than it really is. With that in mind, you can run more windows side-by-side and be more productive.
In this tutorial, we'll be showing you how you can create more space on your screen for additional windows on your Retina display Mac – this includes the new MacBook, some MacBook Pro models, and even some iMac models.
Apple planning to release OLED iPhone in 2017, says report
Apple plans to introduce the first iPhone with an OLED display in 2017, reports Nikkei. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the outlet claims that the company has contacted LG and Samsung to discuss ramping up OLED production in time for next year's handset launch.
If true, Apple's move to OLED displays will occur at least a year earlier than some estimates, and two years earlier than predicted by noted analyst Ming Chi Kuo. In a November note, Kuo said that he expects Apple to continue using existing TFT-LCD panels until at least 2019.
How to stop receiving game invites on Facebook
I couldn't care less about FarmVille or Candy Crush Saga or any other game on Facebook, for that matter. If you're anything like me, I suppose pesky invite notifications for Facebook games have been ticking you off.
But don't worry, you can block those annoying requests with just a few taps. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to stop getting invites for apps and games from Facebook friends, both on the web and in the app.
Fiat CEO advises Apple against building a car on its own
Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has a piece of advice for Apple regarding Silicon Valley's worst-kept secret that it is building an electrical vehicle: don't do it on your own but if you must, have an established car maker mass produce a custom vehicle for you according to your specifications.
“If they have any urges to make a car, I'd advise them to lie down and wait until the feeling passes,” Marchionne told journalists at the Geneva auto show.
Alto’s Adventure creator teams up with LA studio on a game about building a house of cards
Snowman, the makers of Alto's Adventure, the award-winning endless snowboarding odyssey, has teamed up with the folks over at The Game Band, a Los Angeles-based studio, on a brand new project—Where Cards Fall, a “dreamlike journey through youthful uncertainty.”
The game challenges you to build various structures using cards only to break them down and rebuild them in different ways. What started off as a fun school project at the University of Southern California about four years ago is now a full-time project.
Where Cards Fall does not have a release date just yet and they've only released two teaser images thus far. But if Alto's Adventure is anything to go by, this could easily become another smash hit for Snowman.
iOS 9.3 beta 5 disables Night Shift mode when your iPhone is in Low Power Mode
Along with the latest betas of watchOS, tvOS and OS X, Apple yesterday seeded a fifth beta of the upcoming iOS 9.3 software update to its registered developers. The new beta appears to pack in a few interesting changes as Apple continues to refine the experience ahead of the software's public release.
Night Shift mode, one of the headline new features in iOS 9.3, has been tweaked again in the latest beta and now permits users to manually enable the feature until tomorrow within Settings, and the feature is now automatically disabled in Low Power Mode.
Apple leases old Pepsi bottling plant near its not-so-secret Project Titan industrial complex
According to The Silicon Valley Business Journal, Apple in November 2015 quietly leased a 96,000-square-foot site in Sunnyvale, California which used to be Pepsi's bottling plant.
Interestingly enough, this industrial property is located in the neighborhood of a complex of warehouses and offices which Apple leased about a year ago for purposes unknown to the public (hint: permits mention things like an “auto work area” and a “repair garage”).
Using your iPhone to diagnose your car’s check engine light
All the do-it-yourself mechanics out there love being able to troubleshoot their own check engine light (CEL) to see what's going on under the hood of their own cars. Typically, doing so requires an expensive OBD II scanner tool that plugs into the OBD II port underneath the dash.
But, with an app on your iPhone and a tiny accessory that plugs into the OBD II port, you could save some money and you'll still have access to a lot of the information the scan tool would give you. In fact, because of how advanced your iPhone is, you may even get more information than a lot of the scan tools will offer.
In this review, we'll be taking a look at the LELink Bluetooth Low Energy OBD II car diagnostic tool, which can be had for about $35 on Amazon, as well as the $9.99 OBD Fusion app, which can be had from the iOS App Store.
Let’s Talk Jailbreak 146: A bad case of nostalgia
Tweaks, tweaks, tweaks, and more tweaks are covered in this new episode. Nine of them to be precise, and you know what? They're all very decent tweaks too. Cody and Sebastien discuss all of them and try to avoid being hit by a bad case of nostalgia.
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