Like many other people, I signed up for Apple Music yesterday because it was intriguing and free. Having skipped earlier subscription music services, I didn’t have Spotify playlists to worry about losing or importing, and I hadn’t experienced truly unlimited access to a giant music selection before. Apple Music’s sign-up process turned out to be great: attractive, simple, and just personal enough to learn my tastes without feeling creepy. It’s also likely to win long-term customers: sign up your family, and after 3 months, someone’s going to insist on keeping Apple Music (or just forget to cancel it)....

I wrote in an earlier opinion piece that 2014 is the year when I expect Apple to finally give in and opt for a larger iPhone display. Assuming I’m right, the question then becomes: what approach will Apple take? There are two ways of increasing the size of a display. First, you can keep the resolution the same and simply use larger pixels. That’s what happens when a manufacturer makes a 1080P HD TV in both 40- and 50-inch sizes, for example....

Microsoft Edge has a feature that alleviates the craziness with Tab Groups. It allows you to create groups of open tabs to help you better organize the pages. At the time of this writing, the feature is not enabled by default so you need to access the experimental settings to turn it on. Here’s a look at how to turn the Tab Groups feature on so you can better organize all of your open tabs....

When you set up an Outlook.com account, your Microsoft address is the default, but you can change it to something else. This is handy when you have multiple email accounts set up and want to use one account for business, another for personal, one for spam…etc. Set Default Account in Outlook.com Log in to your Outlook.com address and click Settings (gear icon). Then select More Mail Settings. In Outlook.com Options, click Sending / Receiving Email from Other Accounts....

Parallels updated their Windows virtualization software for Mac to version 7 today with some exciting new features and optimizations. Lion compatibility has been improved (Full Screen mode, Launch Pad, and Mission Control) as well as speed: It is 60 percent faster than Parallels Desktop 6 when resuming Windows and up to 45 percent faster for 3D graphics. You can also share the iSight camera with Windows apps as well. Perhaps most interestingly, you can now run another instance of Mac OS X....

Today, Parallels announced an update to their Parallels 7 virtualization software platform which will add Mountain Lion as both a host and a guest OS, allowing developers (and anyone else) to demo Mountain Lion on their main machine without making it susceptible to beta bugs. ML early adopters will also be able to test Parallels 7 on their Mountain Lion Macs. Additionally, Parallels users can now demo Microsoft’s new Windows 8 Consumer Preview (English, German, French, Japanese or Chinese simplified) via easy one click download from the installer...

Xbox Head Phil Spencer publicly revealed he’s played games for the Xbox One’s successor, Project Scarlett, in an unexpected but noteworthy update on next-gen hardware. The upcoming console is slated to launch during the 2020 holiday season and has garnered a ton of intrigue and excitement just over a year after its reveal. Much has been made about Project Scarlett since Microsoft first teased it back at E3 2018. Between then and its reappearance during this year’s E3, fans have learned that its coming next year and will apparently be substantially more powerful than the Xbox One X....

The popular Pokémon GO mobile game is today adding new Pokémon characters and an upcoming limited edition, holiday-themed Pikachu that players can find in the game. Among the new Pokémon available to discover starting today as of 10AM PST are Togepi, Pichu and select Pokémon originally discovered in the Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver video games. The company’s press release notes that the new characters can only be acquired by hatching Eggs found at PokéStops....

Niantic has chosen to disable the Pokémon Go Battle League due to a major exploit in the game. Participating in the Battle League allows players to increase their Pokémon Go Battle League Rank. Additionally, players also get the chance to win rewards as they rank up a level. Pokémon Go Battle League players can participate in a maximum of 5 ‘sets’ in which there are 5 matches each day. However, with the latest development, dozens of players were taking advantage of an exploit which let them win almost every match....

With multiple sources saying that Apple’s acquisition of Beats is in the final stages, everyone is trying to figure out what Apple has to gain from the deal. Earlier, we posted some guesses about what the acquisition could be for, but nobody really knows for certain yet. Across the Internet, the news has divided pundits and commentators alike. Some people like the idea of incorporating the Beats brand, others despite it for their poor headphone quality....

Both Parallels and VMware announced new versions of their software over the last 12 hours. Which software do you use to run Windows applications, if any? Do you Virtualize Linux or other builds of MacOS X? Leave comments on your experience. For the record, I have been using Parallels to deal with @#$% QuickBooks most recently, but off and on for years overall. VMware has also impressed me when I have tried it....

U.S. President Barack Obama met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and other technology company executives today to discuss government surveillance, according to a report from Politico. Earlier this week, according to the report, the President and his staff began holding confidential meetings about surveillance tactics and topics such as the recent NSA-related controversies with company executives and other members of pertinent organizations. The report names AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and former Google Vice President Vint Serf as the other technology community members involved in the meetings....

For a limited time, motorized combat in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a major upgrade with the introduction of a controllable aircraft called the Motor Glider. Although player-controlled vehicles are standard fare in PUBG and a C-130 plane paradrops players onto the battleground at the beginning of each match, this marks the first time players are actually able to take the battle royale to the skies. Conceptualized by Brendan Greene, creator of DayZ’s Battle Royale mod, and developed/published by Bluehole Ginno Games (now known as PUBG Corporation), PUBG hit Steam’s early access program in March of 2017 and quickly became a hit among the deathmatch crowd....

In this tutorial, we will see how to apply conditional statements in Python. What is If Statement? How to Use it? What happen when “if condition” does not meet How to use “else condition” When “else condition” does not work How to use “elif” condition How to execute conditional statement with minimal code Python Nested if Statement Switch Case Statement in Python When you want to justify one condition while the other condition is not true, then you use Python if else statement....

What is an OS? An Operating System (OS) is a software that acts as an interface between the end-user and computer hardware. Every computer must have at least one OS to run other software programs and application like MS Word, Chrome, Games, etc. What should I know? Nothing! This tutorial for the basics of Operating system is designed for absolute beginners. Operating System (OS) Syllabus Introduction Advanced Stuff Know the Differences Must Know!...

When Apple finally put its iMac Pro on sale yesterday, there was a lot of discussion about the concept of a non-upgradable pro machine. I’m predisposed to share this view … iMac Pro looks neat, but I don’t fancy the idea of spending a kajillion dollars on a non-upgradable machine. Apple releases their first VR capable, non-upgradable, computer starting at $4999 […] Who is this machine for? For a very long time, I considered upgradability to be a non-negotiable aspect of any computer I bought....

If anyone had asked you to describe Apple’s pricing strategy in a sentence, this would – until recently – have been extremely easy to do. Apple aims to sell premium products at high margins to upmarket demographics. The company had shown almost no interest in more affordable products pitched to those on tighter budgets. But Apple has long recognized that you need a way of building your long-term customer base, and one good way to do that is to get them when they’re young....

Apple surprised many yesterday by making the update to OS X 10.9 Mavericks free, rather than the $20 it cost to upgrade to the previous release, Mountain Lion. The company also surprised some (though not us) by doing the same for its previously chargeable iWork apps. There’s been a lot of commentary today about this being an attack on Microsoft, and I do indeed think there’s likely to have been a fair amount of sweating in the corner offices at Redmond as they watched yesterday’s keynote....

Oppo A91 just launched and it is a great device for the price. Because of the features and spec list, it provides at a mid-range smartphone, many people are looking forward to buying it. The smartphone came out of the box with Android 9.0 Pie and soon will receive the official Android 10 update. In this guide, we will show you the real image of the UFS ISP pinout and test point for the Oppo A91 CPH2021....

Oppo Reno2 Z was one of the best-in-class upper mid-range smartphones that offer pretty good hardware specifications and features in 2019. It came with Android 9.0 Pie over ColorOS 6 and the Android 10 update over ColorOS 7 has been started a couple of months ago. However, it’s not a new case when some of the users haven’t received the latest firmware OTA update notification. Meanwhile, some of the Reno2 Z owners also look for the stock ROM to install mostly....