No matter what you think about the new MacBook Pro, one has to admit that the Touch Bar is an innovative idea. More apps are being updating to take advantage of this new feature - including FaceTime. You can use it to begin or end a video call.
Here's how it works:
Launch the FaceTime app on your MacBook Pro.
Select a contact's name (you may have to search for one).
Tap the info icon next to a contact's name to see his or her full contact card.
Tap the person's name on the Touch Bar to initiate the call.
While in a chat, one can also activate chat, text message, and more. Unfortunately, you cannot customize the FaceTime Touch Bar yet.
The Health app on the iPhone is primarily used to track fitness - such as heart rate, walking, standing, etc. But there is also a not-so-known section within the app - Medical ID.
Medical ID can be used in case of emergencies. The section will show information such as:
iPhone owners name
Birthdate
Medical conditions
Medical notes
Relatives and partners
Emergency contact information
Blood type
Organ donor
Weight, height
And other details you want to add as well.
How to set up Medical ID on iPhone:
Open the Health App.
Tap the Medical ID button on the lower-right.
Fill out as mach detail as you can - the more, the better.
When finished, tap DONE.
It will then ask if you want some information to show on the Lock Screen.
Now, how do you gain access to the information in case of an emergency. Well, that's easy:
From an iPhone Lock Screen, tap the "Emergency" button in the lower-left corner.
Tap "Medical ID".
That's it.
Emergency personnel should know how to obtain this information. If they don't, it is up to us to make sure they know how to use it in the event of an emergency.
(TheVerge): DirecTV Now has been plagued with errors in the month and a half since the streaming service was launched by AT&T. Subscribers have complained of being unable to watch shows, frequent interruptions, missing features, billing issues, and more pretty much nonstop since the service’s November 30th launch. Many say it’s simply unusable.
Since just this Monday, there have been over 200 active forum threads on AT&T’s website complaining about DirecTV Now problems. Meanwhile, the service’s support account on Twitter has been apologizing day after day and promising updates that seemingly haven’t come.
(TheVerge): SpaceX is hoping to get back to launching — and landing — its rockets again, a little over four months after one of its Falcon 9 vehicles exploded on a Florida launchpad. The company’s vehicle is slated to take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12:54PM ET, carrying 10 satellites into orbit for the communications company Iridium. And as is the norm with Falcon 9 launches these days, SpaceX will attempt to land the majority of the rocket upright on one of its drone ships in the Pacific Ocean following takeoff. But most of all, the launch itself needs to go smoothly if SpaceX wants to move forward and accomplish its many goals that lie ahead.
It’ll be the first flight that SpaceX has attempted since August, since the company was forced to go on a hiatus from spaceflight after the September launchpad explosion in Cape Canaveral. The vehicle was being loaded with propellant in preparation for a static fire test — a routine procedure that SpaceX does prior to flight, in which the rocket engines are turned on while the vehicle is constrained. During this fueling process, the vehicle suddenly went up in a spectacular fireball, destroying the Falcon 9 and the Israeli Amos-6 satellite that it was supposed to carry into space just a few days later.
SpaceX has spent its time grounded trying to decipher what happened, finally coming up with an official cause for the explosion two weeks ago. The source of the failure originated within the rocket’s upper liquid oxygen tank, which stores the vehicle’s super chilled liquid oxygen propellant. Also housed inside this tank are three smaller tanks called composite overwrapped pressure vessels, or COPVS. These vessels store cryogenic helium, which is needed to fill up and pressurize the liquid oxygen tank when the propellant is used up during flight. SpaceX determined that the materials making up the COPVs had a bad reaction with the liquid oxygen in the tank, ultimately causing the propellant to ignite.
With the official cause decided, SpaceX originally said it was aiming to return to flight on January 8th, but the launch was ultimately delayed until tomorrow due to rain and heavy winds this past week. The company conducted a static fire test of the Falcon 9 vehicle January 5th in preparation for the flight, and the company finally received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to launch and land its Falcon 9 vehicle for the upcoming mission. In fact, the FAA launch license gives SpaceX permission to launch the next seven rockets for the Iridium NEXT mission — an endeavor that will put 70 satellites into orbit for Iridium.
“The FAA accepted the investigation report on the AMOS-6 mishap and has closed the investigation,” the FAA said in a statement. “SpaceX applied for a license to launch the Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The FAA has granted a license for that purpose.”
