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  • Apple Watch helps save the life of teen athlete in Oklahoma

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    midwestapplefan said:
    As for the comments about heart rate.  I am a competitive cyclist and can only get my heart rate up to the 190 range with a very big effort.  I do that often, but man my heart is pounding in my chest!  It is very noticeable and I don’t need a watch to feel that.  Is part of that due to heavy breathing?  That may be the case, but 191 is very fast.  I feel fairly certain if my heart was at 191 sitting in a chair I would immediately know it. 

    No, you wouldn't. You have no idea what tachycardia is like. The heart rate speeds up but the pumping volume per beat goes down because there's not enough time for the heart to refill properly. The blood is not surging through the body. Stop trying to compare it with high exertion activities. Besides, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. I can claim to be Cat 1 racer, too.
    GeorgeBMacStrangeDaysfastasleep

  • Study upends theory that 'night mode' UIs are good for sleep patterns

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    I read books before going to bed and I appreciate iBooks switching to white letters on black background. With brightness all the way down it works well for me.
    Back in the day when all we had were monochrome CRT text display terminals with light characters on dark backgrounds, I always preferred amber screens because they were soothing compared with rather painful bright white screens.

    StrangeDays

  • That iPhone camera bump could get a lot smaller, if Apple's research pans out

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    Mtsandersen said:
    How is this different from the Huawei P30’s 5x zoom folded lens, or the one being developed by Samsung for the Galaxy s11 for next year? Is the patent specific to the lens configuration or design, like how camera manufacturers patent their lens designs?
    The concept is way older than that. Decades old. There was a Minolta point & shoot with such a design back in the 90s, and I'm sure there were some before that.
    toysandmecy_starkmantmaywatto_cobra

  • How to take a screenshot on a Mac - the comprehensive guide

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    thefferon said:
    I've seen ump-teen articles on taking screenshots in MacOS, and I have been able to accomplish what I need to for a while. What I haven't seen – maybe because there may be no native support for it – is how to take shots of entire webpages in Safari. I wish someone would give that issue some love, since it comes up a lot more often, for me anyway, than the regular screenshot functionality.
    Paparazzi. Been using it for ages.


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  • A public reluctant to use Apple Pay is being enticed by the Apple Card

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    AppleInsider said:

    In terms of what customers find attractive in Apple Card, 31 percent felt the lack of fees was the best feature. As announced on Monday, there will not be any late, annual, international, or overlimit fees for the card, nor penalty interest for going over spending limits.
    Not an advantage for me. None of my credit cards have annual fees. I always schedule payments of the statement balances a few days before they're due so I never pay late fees or even interest. Living within my means means I never come anywhere near the crazy limits the banks give me. If I go overseas, I just use my Capital One cards, which have no international fees.

    The one thing that I'm sure getting an Apple Card would do in my case is lower the average age of my credit lines, which would lower my credit score, something I've worked hard to get close to 840.
    GeorgeBMaclostkiwi