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As I’m always looking for ways to improve the audio quality of the Rampant Mumblings podcast, I stumbled across this article via medium.com giving some handy hints for those of you who use audacity to podcast. A good read and graphics that are clear and right to the point. Granted it’s from 2014 but it stands up from my quick tries.
Mac Bit Torrent clients are a bit thin on the ground with Transmission being one of the most popular and widespread in use today. However it’s been announced that anyone who downloaded 2.90 on March 4th might have been infected with the “OSX.KeRanger.A” ransomware.
Continue reading → Bitorrent Client Transmission Infected With KeRanger Malware
Could Apple finally really have a practical use for liquid metal? It seems unlikely doesn’t it. Apple has had exclusive rights to use liquidmetal alloys and consumer electronics since 2010.
So far is had yeiled the pin that helps people pop the cards out of iOS devices and that’s been it, but it seems they aren’t at least considering more uses for the terminator style material.
Continue reading → Apple Patents Liquidmetal Home Button For iOS Devices
If two musicals about Steve Jobs seems like one or two too many you’ve got one less with which to contend, Variety reports that “Nerds” a musical about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates is no longer headed to Broadway. If a Steve Jobs musical was going to make it it feels like it should’ve been this one.
Continue reading → Nerds BroadWay Musical About Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Cancelled
Yes I’m not kidding you you have read that headline correct. Before we’ve even had the rumoured March Apple press events we are in a new bout of rumours concerning a new iPhone next year. Not this coming September but the iPhone that may be released in 2017.
Continue reading → Apple iPhone 7S Could See an OLED Display… in 2017
Finally it seems that the movie industry is ready to stop milking Steve Jobs cash cow and now it’s the turn of Broadway. Get ready for Steve Jobs the musical.
Based on the founding of Apple will debut this month in New York City. Developed at the New York musical Festival the musical theater factory and the New York theater barn “The Crazy Ones” is build as a thrilling new original pop rock musical, that aims to depict Steve Jobs genius as well as his very powerful demons.
Here’s hoping that it will depict demons on the stage as well as monologue referencing him dealing with personal demons, because if their demons on stage I might go.
The crazy ones is set to debut on 15 March at Feinstein’s 54 below in Manhattan. If that sounds too light for you though there is a Steve Jobs opera in the works. That will debut in 2017. I would love it if Scott Forstall is producing one of those
Source : broadwayworld.com
This story has struck me as a surprisingly long time coming. For those of us here in the UK we can avoid playing the statutory license fee and still watch our favourite BBC shows via the BBC iPlayer. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said that the TV licensing iPlayer loophole will be closed “as soon as practicable”.
This certainly looks like it’s marking its territory in taking the first steps to become a subscription only service.
Continue reading → BBC iPlayer To Need Licence Fee “as soon as practicable”
Considering an interesting idea for iPhone the burden says the company is playing with a sort of constant reminder for people using more phones that they are using more phones the piece as a ready user has posted screenshots of a message that turned up on their iPhone app to the latest iOS 933 Mader the birds on the lock screen a permanent reminder appears at the bottom this phone is managed by your organisation and in settings a new message elaborates the stone is supervised your organisation can monitor your Internet traffic and locators device one wonders whether the organisation in question has to be involved in active device management would that be the case what’s interesting is this good once again be Apple looking over the privacy of the user even when there is likely no reasonable expectation of privacy as was somebody using a phone that belongs to someone else in the report again people using an iPhone that owned and managed by the company they work for me not know that their company can see him in the liver be aware of the company has inside and therefore it all keeping the message on the lock screen could remind people to be more careful with how they use their corporate phone and know Smith will get organisations to get on the device management stick course that assumes actually makes it out to the corporate owned phones which it may not funny thing about bidders features Carmen sometimes go before a final release@with Apple’s huge emphasis on privacy these days seems like a feature that would make a card
Apple today has released the fifth iteration of each of the OSes in their current beta cycle to developers, including iOS 9.3, OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan, watchOS 2.2, and tvOS 9.2. iOS 9.3 and OS X 10.11.4 beta 5 have also been released to their respective public betas.
Continue reading → Apple releases iOS 9.3, OS X 10.11.4, tvOS 9.2, and watchOS 2.2 beta 5
KGI securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is not always right he does however get more hits than most. This time he is touting the idea of a $225 iPhone.
Continue reading → Ming-Chi Kuo : iPhone 5s May Survive At A $225 But For What Market?
Remember earlier this year when France’s deputy minister for digital affairs Accel Lamere said that her government had no interest in requiring backdoors into encryption. Well a proposed amendment to a proposed law could see Apple facing fines of €1 million if it fails to introduce backdoors into it’s devices.
Triple A Games on the Mac have been few and far between but things seem to be picking up with the current release and expected 2016 games for the Mac. Here’s a quick look at the most noteworthy gaming releases of 2016 so far.
Unlike like the 2012 reboot for the franchise there’s no waiting for the next installment of the series as it’s dropped on launch day.
We were lead to believe that we won the last war, that turned out to be lies and now the world is under alien rule. With the odds stacked against you from both aliens and humans, it’s up to you commander to rebuild Xcom in a whole new way, make contact with the resistance, save the world and humanity. There is that much to the game along with a huge amount of replay ability.
Taking much from the first game XCom 2 looks and plays better and even somewhat harder but those types streaming on Twitch seem to have already beaten the game. With graphics that float between stylish and hokey retro you are going to need a mac with some serious chops to play this adventure but it’s worth it.
With new classes of soldiers, new breeds of enemies and even more stuff to Research, develop and upgrade there’s plenty of reasons to grab a copy. Each mission is unique as landscapes are now all dynamically generated so there is no getting familiar with maps as in the first game.
Online players are catered for with cross-platform multiplayer on Steam: Mix-and-match squads of humans and aliens and battle head-to-head on randomly generated maps across Mac, Linux and Windows.
See the XCOM 2 minisite or you can download either from Steam.
If a turn based tactical combat simulator isn’t your thing you can always blast around the tracks in Grid Autosport and the graphics look awesome.
If you’re a seasoned veteran of the racing genre or wanting to dip your toes into the casual seas of full on, high powered octane racing GRID Autosport will cater for you. So if you’ve dreamed of taking on the classic Indy 500 or racing around the spectacular city streets of Barcelona, Paris and San Francisco with tightened up ai, GRID should be on your shortlist.
One criticism levelled at the previous games in the series was the bland, incredibly generic and predictable AI. This has been addressed along with some fine tweaking of the graphics which pop and move along at a great frame rate.
GRID Autosport™ available from the Mac App Store.
The most release in the 2016 big line up of games dropped early February, Change the course of multiplayer warfare in the Mac port of Company Of Heroes.
Engage in heavy combat on the Western Front with the US Forces and the German Oberkommando West, bringing an unprecedented level of realism to multiplayer on Mac and Linux. This one is for the die-hard gamers who have a solid understanding of multiplayer real-time combat games like this. Think DOTA but with a WW2 feel.
Available for Mac Via Steam
Finally, if all this proves to be too much like hard-core gaming then perhaps an online casino like Casino.com might be your thing. ” It is releasing new games to mac each year (via its software). With over 16 games to drop straight into and some nice tie in to famous movies like Rocky, Hulk and the Avengers you can play for free without having to pay a single thing.
Gaming for the Mac in 2016 is off to a great start so far. Now I’m off to lose a significant part of time to Xcom.
Does your Mac have an ethernet port and do you use your ethernet port access the Internet? Did that stop working last week? If you answered yes, yes and yes it was Apple’s fault but they have a fix.
Continue reading → Apple Security Update Breaks Ethernet, Issues Fix
Here’s an interesting, Samsung may try to buy struggling streaming music service Tidal according the rumours of the internet.
There can only be one story to talk about this week and thats FBiOS. We cover will the law eventually outlaw devices that have no backdoor? The Uk Snooper’s charter think so but the main question we ask. Do we have right to privacy in this day and age? You can listen grab this episode on the iTunes.