Year: 2016

Apple discontinues WiFi Router Division

Dan Uff November 21, 2016 0

For the past few days, Apple has been swinging an ax and getting rid of some of its key divisions. First, the Automation division, and now it seems that they are also getting rid of its WiFi division as well.

The report comes from an unnamed source that informed Bloomberg of the change.

Engineers working for the division have been distributed to other areas of the company.

That division was responsible for making such products as the company's Airport Router, which hasn't seen any new hardware revisions in quite sometime.

 Apple, Inc.

Three Finger Gesture on New MacBook Pro doesn’t work consistently

Dan Uff November 21, 2016 0

Most users of the new MacBook Pro are complaining that the normal three-finger gesture used in some Mac apps are not working consistently on their trackpads, and sometimes, not at all.

Where the problem is intermittent, it may manifest only on some parts of the trackpad. Some owners, including people on MacRumors forums, have speculated that the issue is related to palm rejection technology.

Either way it's unclear if the issue is a hardware or software defect, and Apple hasn't officially acknowledged the situation. Both 13- and 15-inch systems are being impacted.

Three-finger drag is available with OS X Yosemite or later, and can be used to reposition windows without moving the mouse cursor and clicking. It can be toggled through OS X/macOS's trackpad settings, located under the Accessibility section of System Preferences.

Q: How do I run two versions of XCode on the same Mac?

Dan Uff November 20, 2016 2

[su_dropcap style="simple"]W[/su_dropcap]e iOS and Mac developers are always tweaking our apps with the latest features for our end users. That's why we want to develop in the latest development environments - in the case of iOS and Mac, we have to use a program called Xcode.

A lot of developers not only want the ability to update their current app and make it available on the respective app store, but to also enhance it to the latest features that are due out when a newer version of an operating system comes out. This means having two versions of Xcode installed and having two separate versions of their app on the same Mac.

Up until a few years ago, the installation package used to ask the user where to install the main program. Now with newer versions, a user doesn't have that choice anymore.

Have no fear! Now the installation package knows when a version of Xcode is a Beta, and which is a production version.

However, when doing this, you should make separate folders for your apps that you're developing and/or modifying, so that you can keep everything separate incase you have to squash an unknown bug for customers using a non Beta version of the operating system you support.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer thinks a Trump Administration could save Apple Billions

Dan Uff November 19, 2016 0

“Ever since President-Elect Donald Trump won the election, Jim Cramer has spoken with many investors who are confused on what to do with Apple’s stock,” Abigail Stevenson reports for CNBC. “Going into the election, Apple had a remarkable run. The stock immediately fell to $105 from $111 in the wake of Trump’s victory. It has since slowly climbed back up to $110.”

“‘People may be confused about what a Trump administration means for Apple, so let me dispel the confusion — the positives far outweigh the negatives,’ the ‘Mad Money’ host said,” Stevenson reports.

Read more in the full article here.