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  • 'Sky: Children of the Light' now available to pre-order and will release on July 11

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    Unimpressive. It looks like an interactive anime rather than a game. The short video reveals nothing about Metal. Making it “social” doesn’t make it a “game”. 
    williamlondon

  • How to use external storage on iPad and iPhone with iOS 13

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    tiffany said:
    Does this mean I can play my ripped movies on my iPad through an external drive via QT, Apple TV, VLC or others? Can I take all of the kids fav movies on holidays with us and just play them through a thumb drive? coz that will settle a lot of heated discussions.
    Yes. We don’t know yet what iPad OS will bring in terms of file management enhancements, but in iOS 12 you can send any movie into any (compatible) app from within the Files app. Select the movie in Files and tap the Share button. The mine shows “Copy to Infuse” for example, this is the app I was using to keep my movies organized prior to the TV app. Movie playback is embedded in iOS for compatible formats, m4v and mp4, you don’t need any specific app to play those formats. For other formats not supported by iOS you may need some specific apps such as VLC.
    GeorgeBMac

  • How to use external storage on iPad and iPhone with iOS 13

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    If I plug in an external HDD or SD card and copy a mpv or mp4 movie file onto the iPad using the files app, can I add it to my TV app library?
    At its present state the TV app doesn’t seem to be reached from within the Share sheet, such as “Copy to TV” or “Open in TV”. Yet you can add any movie to TV app by means of iTunes on the computer, drag the movie onto the device in iTunes it goes directly to the TV app on the iPad. Actually regardless of where it is stored a movie (m4v and mp4 formats) always plays on iOS. You may need the TV app only to keep your movies in one place organized. You don’t need the TV app to play a movie on iOS.
    GeorgeBMac

  • Apple's quiet update to Siri Shortcuts brings the niche tool into the mainstream

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    DAalseth said:
    seanismorris said:
    Time for a poll:
    Siri disabled 
    Siri Shortcuts (active user)
    Siri Shortcuts (didn’t know it existed)
    Siri Shortcuts (to much trouble)

    +1 Siri disabled 
    Siri was silly until the last few updates. Within the last year I've started to use it a fair amount. I also am beginning to dictate things more and more. Siri is working fine. On the other hand I've never found a use for Siri Shortcuts. Maybe I just don't do the kind of repetitive things they're talking about but I haven't found a place that it might be useful. I created one to practice, but I never use it. SS reminds me of AppleScript. That was a great, powerful tool as well. But I found I never used it because it was more hassle to program something to just do it.
    Yes. Because it has a horrible user interface. If you haphazardly launch a half-baked product at the gunpoint of the Marketing, then system engineers struggle to turn it into a truly working product in the next major OS update. At its present state Shortcuts is just a proof of concept marketed falsely as a “system feature”.
    williamlondon

  • Apple debuts new $5999 Mac Pro with up to 28-core Xeon processors

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    SEJU said:
    Quite a machine! But does it really have only PCI 3? PCI 5 is around the corner and PCI 4 is currently adopted by the industry ...

    It was the same with Mac Pro 2010 + 2012 which used to have PCI 2 while PCI 3 was already standard.
    Is there any Xeon that supports PCIe 4.0?
    docno42