Month: February 2019

Apple shake up executives / major projects put on hold

CompuScoop Staff February 18, 2019 0

“Apple Inc. is shaking up leadership and reordering priorities across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions as it works to reduce the company’s reliance on iPhone sales.,” Tripp Mickle reports for The Wall Street Journal. “The changes, which can be traced back to last year, have included high-profile hires, noteworthy departures, meaningful promotions and consequential restructurings.They have rattled rank-and-file employees unaccustomed to frequent leadership changes and led Apple to put several projects on hold while new managers are given a chance to reassess priorities, according to people familiar with the matter.”

“The primary reasons for the shifts vary by division. But collectively, they reflect Apple’s efforts to transition from an iPhone-driven company into one where growth flows from services and potentially transformative technologies,” Mickle reports. “Leadership moves of the past few months include promoting artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea to the executive team; replacing departing retail chief Angela Ahrendts with head of human resources Deirdre O’Brien; and pushing out top Siri voice-assistant executive Bill Stasior. Apple has also trimmed 200 staffers from its autonomous-vehicle project, and is redirecting much of the engineering resources in its services business, led by Eddy Cue, into efforts around Hollywood programming.”

“Apple has said it aims to pass 500 million paid subscriptions across its platform by 2020, up from 360 million now. To help reach the goal, Apple is spending more than $1 billion to create original shows this year starring Hollywood A-listers,” Mickle reports. “It has considered bundling video into a monthly subscription offering that would also include cloud storage, according to people familiar with the plans. The company also is in talks with major newspapers about offering a news service that would cost $10 a month. It has discussed bundling those services together into a single subscription along with iCloud storage for photos and files, a person familiar with the plan said.”

Read more in the full article here

How to disable Live Photo to Save Space on an iPhone

Dan Uff February 18, 2019 0

Live photo can be a unique feature for your photos. But it can also be a pain in the ass, especially if you have limited space on the device. When enabled, Live Photo takes 1.5 seconds of footage before taking an actual photo. That’s why you may see some animation when you scroll through your photos.

but fortunately, Apple has made it easy to disable. Here’s how:

* Go into the photos app (make sure you’re in photo mode).

* On the top of the screen, look for three concentric rings (it maybe colored yellow if it’s enabled).

Tap on the icon. Live Photo is now disabled. Tap the icon again to turn it back on.
That’s it. Now take your photos as normal.

This setting will only work until you exit the app. If you want to make the option perminate, you’ll have to change the setting in the Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings area.

How to clear web site data on the iPad or iPhone

Dan Uff February 17, 2019 1

As we all know, web browsers save some web site data on the computer to help load web pages and some data faster. Safari for iPad is no different. But if you have one of the lower GB iPads, you know how quickly the device can fill up.

The first thing to do is clear all web site data from the iPad. Here's how:

Go to Settings > Safari.
Scroll down until you see the Clear History and Website Data option.
Select the Clear History and Data option.
That's it.

You should do this at least once a month to make sure the iPhone as well as Safari runs at its maximum speed.

Automator Action: Move Recently Downloaded Files to the Trash

Dan Uff February 16, 2019 2

Automator is a Mac app that lets a user automate certain tasks on their Mac. It is available in the Finder > Applications folder. I have been using this app to automate some repetitive tasks that I normally do manually.

If you're like me, you frequently download files into the Download folder and most of them are ZIP files. If you don't get in the habit of deleting those files when you're done with them, they can pile up and take up space both in the folder and your hard drive.

Instead of doing the normal steps of opening the folder, highlighting those file(s) you wish to delete and moving them to the Trash, I made an Automator Action (called an Application) to do just that.

Here's how you can have the above Automator Action:

Open Automator (Finder > Applications > Automator).
Select NEW DOCUMENT.
Select APPLICATION.
Click CHOOSE.
Now follow the included picture with this article.
When finish, select FILE > SAVE.
Give the new Automator Application a name, such as "Move Downloaded Files to the Trash"
Save it somewhere you'll remember where it is.