Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes
Scientists re-examining data from an old mission bring new insights to the tantalizing question of whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has the ingredients to support life.
Year: 2018
Apple seeks to “Take Disability out of the Equation” ahead of Global Disability Awareness Day
“Austin Pruitt, a two-time US Paralympian, walked me over to a racing wheelchair that he set up for a stationary workout routine,” Ben Fox Rubin reports for CNET. “Pruitt has cerebral palsy from the knees down, which forces him to walk slowly, but he’s able to compete on the world stage by racing in a wheelchair. He said he used to set up a bunch of trackers on his chair to log his workouts, but now uses just an Apple Watch instead.”
“Ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day this Thursday, which focuses on making technology more usable for people with disabilities, Apple sought to highlight the work its been doing in recent years to benefit people like Pruitt by building more capabilities into its devices,” Rubin reports. “‘Every year we try to add in new things. We do look at how can we make it slightly better year over year,’ Sarah Herrlinger, Apple’s director of global accessibility policy and initiatives, said about the company’s work on its iOS and MacOS operating systems.”
Read more in the full article here.
How to change your Apple Watch Wrist Band
If you're like me, you ware the Apple Watch every chance you get. Sometimes, you want to change the wrist band to fit your current mood or what ever outfit you have on at the time.
Here's how to change the watch band.
1. Flip the watch over and lay it on a flat, soft surface.
2. Hold down the band release button and slide across to remove it (*).
3. Take the new band, and with the text facing UP, slide the band across until you hear a click.
4. That's it.
* If the band doesn't slide out, press the band release button again and make sure that you hold it down.
This tip came from Apple's online knowledge base at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204818
How to export documents on a Mac in to a PDF File
Using a Mac is great for writing documents. Especially when one can use Pages and export it to other popular word processing apps.
But what if you want to export it into an Adobe PDF file?
Macs have a little known feature that will let a user export a document into a basic PDF file.
Here's how:
1. Open a document with Text Edit, Pages, or almost any other Mac word processing app.
2. When it is loaded, click FILE > PRINT to open the standard print window.
3. In the lower-left corner is a drop down that says PDF. Click on the drop down arrow.
4. Select the SAVE AS PDF option. The save document window opens.
5. Give the document a name.
6. That's it.
Now you've made a standard PDF document that can be read with any supported platform.
