In this tutorial, you will learn how to prevent your Apple TV from going to sleep after a set period of inactivity so the screen never goes all black automatically.
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How to deactivate or permanently delete your X (Twitter) account
Learn how to deactivate or delete your X (Twitter) account and data on a phone, tablet, or computer to stop using this social platform.
Apple Music is coming to Sonos speakers on December 15
Apple Music streaming will be coming to Sonos speakers on December 15, the company announced on Twitter this morning. Eddy Cue, Apple's Vice President of Internet Software and Services, said earlier this year that Apple Music support will launch before year-end.
Apple seeds OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 beta 5 to developers and public beta testers
Apple today released a fifth beta of the forthcoming OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 software update. The new software carries a build number of 15C48a and is available through the Purchased tab in the Mac App Store app on Macs that have a prior El Capitan 10.11 beta installed or as a standalone download through Apple's portal for developers
Microsoft rolling out Cortana for iOS to beta testers
Following its announcement earlier in the month that Cortana for iOS would soon launch for a limited number of beta testers, Microsoft has now made good on that promise and started rolling out the beta software, TechCrunch reported this past weekend.
Cortana for iOS looks just like the Windows 10 Mobile and Android equivalents, and works in a very similar way, with a few exceptions stemming from Apple-imposed restrictions on third-party iOS app development.
Ex Top Gear presenter shows off Amazon’s drone delivery system
Jeremy Clarkson, the former host and presenter of BBC's Top Gear show, has been hired by Amazon to promote its products. In addition to a recent commercials aired in the United Kingdom which promotes Amazon's Fire devices, Clarkson can be seen in the most recent Amazon video showing off the Prime Air, the online retail giant's drone delivery system first announced back in December of 2013.
Rumor: major MacBook Air redesign due in 2016, new 15″ model in tow
Apple's MacBook Air notebook is rumored to receive a thorough redesign next year alongside a brand new fifteen-inch model introduction, according to a report Monday by Economic Daily News.
The thinner, faster machine is thought to be up for an official introduction at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in the summer of 2016.
If true, it will mark the first major facelift of Apple's MacBook Air notebook since its debut eight years ago.
Impending Instagram update will let you seamlessly manage multiple accounts
Mobile photography service Instagram is testing a new feature with a subset of its users that was designed to permit users to seamlessly manage multiple accounts and switch between them, without having to sign out of their current account, AndroidPolice said two days ago.
The feature is now being tested with some users who are enrolled in the company's official Android beta testing program, and should come to the iOS app soon.
Apple TV apps can now implement Facebook Login and sharing features
If you own Apple's fourth-generation Apple TV, you have probably noticed that apps and games for the set-top box currently lack common social features such as Facebook Login and sharing.
But that's about to change soon as Facebook earlier this week announced immediate availability of the first beta of its Facebook SDK for tvOS, which gives developers the means to build immersive social experiences on tvOS.
Puzzle platformer To-Fu Fury is Apple’s new Free App of the Week
To-Fu Fury from Amazon Game Studios, regularly $1.99, is available at no charge until next Thursday as Apple's new Free App of the Week via the App Store's weekly promotion.
Released in July 2015, this puzzle platformer challenges you to save the Fortune Kitty playing as To-Fu, a stretchy, sticky, flingy and combative cube of bean-curd. Expect a lot of puzzle solving and physics-based action in this game.
Rumor: iPhone 7 to lose 3.5mm headphone port in favor of Lightning port
Apple's next iPhone will be so thin that the company has decided to ditch the standard 3.5mm headphone port for the first time since the iPhone's 2007 inception, a reasonably accurate Japaese blog, Macotakara, reported Friday.
The move should help Apple's engineers shave off another millimeter of thickness or so, reports the publication, adding that users will instead connect wireless headphones over Bluetooth or compatible wired headphones over the Lightning port.
Apple products among the most popular Black Friday items at Target
Target, the second-largest discount retailer in the United States behind Walmart, today released a chart listing the most popular products that shoppers were purchasing on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
The iPads were top sellers in Target's brick-and-mortar and online stores, with the retailer selling an iPad every second throughout the day on Thanksgiving, Forbes reports.