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'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' director kept script safe from leaking with 'air-gapped' MacBoo...
ihatescreennames said:randominternetperson said:Smart move from a security perspective, but I sure hope he was backing up that MBA regularly. No Time Machine backup if you're staying off the network.
Those of us who've been using Macs for a while started off using Time Machine with plugged in hard drives before WiFi became ubiquitous. I always remember the first time I plugged a huge hard drive into my Mac and it came up with an alert along the lines of " That's a huge hard drive you've got there - Would you like me to do a Time Machine backup on it?" -
Experts split on whether police can use dead bodies to unlock an iPhone
libertyforall said:What's to prevent say Chinese government from forcing you to face ID authenticate to look at your phone contents, for instance during a business or pleasure trip there? -
How to use the Medical ID feature in Apple's iOS Health app
Even if you don't have any health issues, you should be sure to enter the emergency contact details and make it available to be viewed from your lock screen. Don't just show your spouse, but also show other close relatives in case you and your spouse are both injured in one accident.
If you're involved in an accident and unable to communicate, first responders check the emergency contact details stored on an iPhone and are then able to rapidly contact your spouse or family. My neighbour worked as a paramedic and regularly had to comfort relatives who were unable to be with accident victims before they passed away, but would have been able to get there if they could have been contacted immediately. It wouldn't make much difference to you, but it could make a massive difference to your loved ones. -
Samsung could rejoin Apple's iPhone processor supply with 2018 'A12' chips
We frequently see incorrect reports that Samsung is about to win huge orders from Apple and those reports always seem to originate from South Korea. If this story originated from a different country, I might take it seriously, but coming from ET News, I'll take it with a pinch of salt considerably more than 10 nanometers across. -
Editorial: Why Apple ignores so much pundit innovation advice
chasm said:I'm not disagreeing with the premise of this article -- indeed the Macalope makes a career out of it -- but 4740 words to tell us that "Apple doesn't listen to tech pundits and look at them; maybe you shouldn't either"? Really?
Obviously there are people who need all information to be presented in brief sound bites, but there are also plenty of people who appreciate a more scholarly approach which obviously involves a lot more reading, but it also helps to educate and inform those who are prepared to put that little more effort.
My beef with the Apple pundits is not so much that they say what they say, but they are invariably wrong and yet those same people are readily given a platform to say something else which is also likely to be just as wrong in the future. If I see a prediction by an analyst or a suggestion by some self-appointed expert, my first instinct is to check out what that individual has said before and to grade the significance of what they say accordingly. It's a shame that web sites and newspapers don't also make reference to the past track records of those that they quote.