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  • How to change the default apps used to open files in macOS

    Alternative way with a permanent "Always Open With" is to Right Click and then push the Option key and "Open with" turns to "Always open with".
    toysandmelkruppbaconstangPatrick Houlihanpaxman
  • Stolen Apple account credentials can be acquired from 'dark web' markets for just $15

    foggyhill said:
    Doesn't surprise me that there are stolen ID, people respond to email or sms phising and enter their damn password into a fake "apple" web site and don't have two factors.

    Hacking computer systems... Harder than hacking people!  It's getting harder to "trick" a computer system but boy oh boy it's amazing how easy it is to "trick" a human. Those same humans think, "I'm smart and I can't be tricked!" Yeah, keep on thinking that!
    jony0
  • Khronos Group ships tools bringing Vulkan graphics API to iOS and MacOS

    So the Khronos Group is a non profit consortium?  Sounds like it...

    I’ve long heard MacOS has been lacking in Gaming Performance.  They’re also behind Linux?

    Khronos Group keep up the good work!  It’s past time Apple achieves parity...
    No, the Khronos group is a central Patent management firm that takes multiple Patents and combines them to ultimately create a "Standard" and then charge either the end-user, programmers, or others in the process of using their Patents.  Remember h.264, well the Khronos group allowed everyone to use it for "Free" for a few years so it would become a standard and then started charging everyone to use it.  Ie. BluRay manufacturer.  While it has its benefits, it also has it's disadvantages and this is why Apple has settled on its own technology internally... because would you, as Apple, want to pay a third party group a commission for every Apple computer, iphone and ipad sold, even if only a percentage of user uses technology X? Ie. Khronos becomes the new DirectX standard and Apple is forced by its users to incorporate Vulkan.  Then Khronos, whom manages the Patents turns to Apple and say, "Let's discuss how much you are going to pay our patent owners/inventors" then Apple is forced to negotiations because of these Patents and for every computer, iphone and ipad sold Apple has to pay Khronos $$, which Apple of course will pass that cost to the end users, even if you not a user of Vulkan.

    However, on the flip side, Khronos by gathering and working with multiple Patent holders/inventors can put together better technology for the end user.  Help the Inventor recover money for any corporation using his/her Patent and can help create a Standard to user across multiple devices.  So there are advantages to it.

    Khronos, gets paid by a commission of Royalties collected for managing all of the Patents.  Which includes lawyers, top 1% professional sales folks, insurances, etc. etc. Which is clearly earned.  Khronos isn't an enemy, nor a savor but a legitimate way of doing business, unlike Patent Trolls.

    Patent Trolls, buys Patents (technically, having a Patent assigned to them.) and then just sit on it until a major company clearly makes serious headway into that industry and then out of the blue, sues the company claiming they are using their Patents, even though that Corporation might have been working on the idea for years, spending millions to create a market and advertising, distribution channels, etc., etc. then the Patent Troll claims they want all of the past profits and future profits, normally worth tens of millions of dollars.  This is BS because the Patent Troll on purpose sits and watches companies build markets with products versus taking action immediately.  This is why Inventors and companies HATE Patent Trolls.  Laws need to change because I have seen mom-pop companies be built up and only to be taken down by a Patent Troll, for greed and nothing else.


    jony0
  • Install the AT&T 'Call Protect' app on your iPhone to cut way back on spam calls

    This is built into the Tmobile Network and you don't need an App for it... It's free but you have to enable it under "Other Services".  Once again, T-mobile did this BEFORE ATT enabled it!
    tycho_macuserlordjohnwhorfindysamoriapscooter63GeorgeBMacpalomine