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Year: 2018
How to make sure an app IS closed on a Mac
I've been working with Macs since 2006, and one of the things that took me a while to realize is when I exit an app on Mac (coming from being a Windows user since Windows 3.1) is when I would click on the red button (upper-left corner of the screen), that I assumed that the app was exited.
What I didn't realize is, that even though an app disappears from the screen, it is not closed and out of memory. This mistake can eat up available memory and make a Mac slow down.
When exiting a Mac app, always use the ⌘Q key combination. This insures that the app is closed and not using any available RAM.
* BONUS TIP:
Here's another tip. Along with the above, you can also use the ⌘W and the ⌘Q key combinations to make sure an app is closed and out of memory (handy, when using QuickTime and don't want a previous video to play if someone else opens the app later).
Apple Watch’s Heart Rate Monitor saves Teen’s Life
The heart rate monitor on the device helped save the life of an 18-year-old suffering from undiagnosed kidney disease.
Apple Watch saved a Florida woman's life
According to WFTS, 18-year-old Deanna Recktenwald, of the Tampa area, was at an area church recently when her Apple Watch gave her a notification: her resting heart rate had reached 190 beats per minute, recommending that she seek medical attention.
Her mother, a registered nurse, then took her to a walk-in clinic, and later to an emergency room, where doctors gave her a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease, for which she had expressed no previous symptoms.
Stacey Recktenwald, Deanna's mother, later wrote a letter to Apple.
"If it wasn't for her Apple watch alarming her about her HR we wouldn't have discovered her kidney issue. I honestly feel your Apple Watch saved my daughter's life," Stacey wrote. "I am forever grateful to Apple for developing such an amazing, lifesaving product."
Tim Cook reportedly wrote back personally, thanking the Recktenwalds for sharing their story.
This is not the first instance in which an Apple Watch user has claimed the device saved their life. A woman late last year used the Emergency SOS feature to summon police after a terrible car accident. And a man in New York, also in 2017, discovered a pulmonary embolism via HeartWatch, Men's Health reported.
Via: AppleInsider.com
The Apple Store in Whitehall, Pennsylvania will be moving
Apple's Lehigh Valley Mall store in Whitehall, Pa. is relocating to a bigger space, with plans to throw open the new doors in September.
The shop will in fact combine two spaces previously held by J. Crew and Ann Taylor, according to The Morning Call, pointing to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the mall's co-owner, Simon Property Group. It's not immediately known when construction will start or when the old location will close its doors.
The original Lehigh Valley store dates back to 2007, when the mall launched a $40 million expansion. It's relatively cramped by modern Apple standards, without the room to display much of the 2018 product line.
The company will presumably use the relocation as an opportunity to switch to its latest design motif, which includes wooden shelves, oversized video displays, and — where room is available — things like trees and seating for Today at Apple events. Apple has been renovating and/or relocating many of its U.S. stores, some of which predate the iPhone and haven't kept up with Apple's evolving size, wealth, and aesthetics.
Whitehall is on the outskirts of Allentown, and Apple's store there serves that city as well as a number of surrounding communities.
Source: AppleInsider.com, mcall.com
