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President Barack Obama just began a Reddit “AMA” (ask me anything) that invites Internet folk to ask questions and hopefully get answers. He is notably using a MacBook Pro and Magic Mouse to work his magic. We previously noted his fondness of Apple, as he has been caught several times with a MacBook at his side. Someone go ask about the next-generation iPhone. [Reddit] By the way, is he rocking the same tie from when he tweeted?...

We reported back in June that Apple was dropping support for 32-bit applications altogether in iOS 11. In iOS 10, Apple displays a warning message and then allows the app to open; in iOS 11, the app won’t open at all. But with some 187,000 32-bit apps still in the App Store – amounting to around 8% of the total – now would be a good time to check your own apps....

With Apple equipping all its recent Macs with Thunderbolt 3 ports, using an external GPU – or eGPU – is a very convenient way to boost graphics performance. Apple already sells two of them, and it has just added a third: the Radeon RX 560 … Apple currently sells two Blackmagic eGPUs, the eGPU and eGPU Pro (review), priced at $699 and $1,199 respectively. But a significantly cheaper option, Sonnet’s eGFX Radeon RX 560 Breakaway Puck, has just been added to the online store, with both delivery and store pickup available for Monday....

It should be no surprise; therefore, that Instagram is a favorite site for generating e-commerce traffic. Marketers have been quick to discover Instagram’s possibilities, both for paid and organic e-Commerce traffic. However, constant tinkering to Instagram’s algorithm has made it tricky for firms to gain traction on the platform. You can’t achieve success randomly. You need to implement robust strategies if you hope to get e-commerce traffic from Instagram. Here is a selection of strategies that can help your account stand apart from your competition....

Navigating holiday customer service spikes is always a tough task. When you throw in supply chain delays, shipping lags and 10% year-over-year growth in online shopping, it’s a whole new ball game. To keep things running smoothly, customer care managers need to make the most of all available resources. Luckily, Sprout Social is equipped with tools designed to alleviate the holiday customer service rush while strengthening customer relationships in the process—a gift that keeps on giving well after the holiday season....

Popular drawing app Procreate has today released version 3 of their iPad app ($5.99) with a whole host of new features. This includes new brushes (including quick brush previewing before committing to canvas drawing), motion blur and perspective blur, simplified tap gestures and much more. Perhaps the most significant change is the addition of iPad Pro and Apple Pencil integration. Procreate now create images with up to 16,000 x 4000 resolution on Apple’s latest hardware, due to be released later in the month....

If you’re tempted by YouTube’s new ad-free subscription video service, YouTube Red, don’t subscribe to it via the iOS app. ArsTechnica reports that YouTube is taking the same approach as Spotify initially did to Apple’s 30% cut on in-app purchases: adding it to the monthly cost. ArsTechnica says that Apple users will “most likely” be able to sign-up instead on the web for the normal $9.99/month and then access the content via the app, and I’ve confirmed in a chat session with YouTube support that this is indeed the case....

If you’re having problems using Spotify right now, it’s not just you: many are reporting Spotify down when they try to play songs … The most common occurrence appears to be that a song plays for a few seconds, then stops. Various different error messages are being reported: Something went wrong. Have another go? Try again. Sorry, something went wrong. That didn’t work. Please have another go. Can’t play the current song....

Just as one glitch with the 2018 MacBook Pro gets resolved, another one appears, although so far only for a very limited number of users. Some owners are reporting repeated kernel panics – as often as once or twice a day. The same issue has been experienced by a number of iMac Pro owners, with some clues suggesting it may be the fault of one component found only in these two machines …...

Rambo: Last Blood is set to close the final chapter of the long and bloody story of John Rambo. Though the series started as a relatively small thriller, it has grown into a violent and hard-hitting action series with an enormous body count. While the series still has plenty of fans after nearly 40 years, some think the character has outstayed his welcome. We have seen plenty of action heroes brought back over the years for further adventures....

Comic books are an enduring art form which stretches back hundreds, if not thousands of years (depending on what you count as a comic). Some of the most poignant elements of popular culture originate in comic form, from Hollywood’s current obsession with superheroes, to the ever useful Bechdel test for measuring how well a cultural product does at representing women. Being such a powerful and important art form, there’s no wonder that demand for certain pieces of comic book history, such as issues which feature the first appearance of a key character, or comics which are somehow misprinted or difficult to find, tend to be in high demand....

Many people have skipped on the opportunity to purchase one of The New York Times subscriptions in order to enjoy unlimited access to articles via smartphones, tablets and the web. I know I haven, but that didn’t stop me from fighting that paywall with a bunch of workaround solutions. Most are clunky, however, like searching for articles on Twitter, and limiting. As a result, folks generally give up upon hitting the paywall after using up their allotment of twenty articles the newspaper generously gives away each month....

Safari Reading List is definitely a nice, simple alternative to third party apps like Instapaper, Readability, and Pocket for those who use Safari. Reading List allows you to save and sync links for later reading between both your Mac and iOS devices. It has been known that offline reading is coming soon to Safari on Mountain Lion, and it looks like that feature finally landed. Found by Gear Live today and a commenter on Control Your Mac 10 days ago, offline reading was enabled in recent builds of Mountain Lion....

Predictions that larger-screened iPhones would cannibalise iPad usage look to be confirmed by some stats from the Pocket app that allows you to save webpages, videos and other content for reading later. Pocket reported in a blog post today that while 55% of owners of the iPhone 5s viewed content on their phone rather than iPad, the number leapt to 72% for the iPhone 6 and 80% for the iPhone 6 Plus …...

At that time, the lower priority task holds for some time and resumes when the higher priority task finishes its execution. What is Non-Preemptive Scheduling? In this type of scheduling method, the CPU has been allocated to a specific process. The process that keeps the CPU busy will release the CPU either by switching context or terminating. It is the only method that can be used for various hardware platforms....

After updating the iOS WWDC app and launching a tvOS version last week, Apple today has added a new page to its WWDC website that confirms its plans to live stream the kick off keynote. As usual, Apple will open WWDC week with a keynote event on June 13th at 10AM PT/1PM ET. The keynote will be available to live stream across iPhone, iPad, and Mac via Apple’s WWDC website. Second and third-gen Apple TV users will be able to stream the event thorough an Events channel that will presumably be added over the coming days, while fourth-gen users will most likely stream it via the just released WWDC app....

Fortunately, thanks to FaceTime, they see and hear her often enough to remember her, and she got to see them often during those months when they sprout from tiny infants to bouncing babies. The only problem with FaceTime calls: wildly flailing toddler fingers and toes lead to frustrating accidental hang-ups. We’ve tried teaching them not to press the big red button when grandma’s on the line but to no avail....

Quicken 2018 for macOS is out with updated billing features, three editions, and a new subscription plan available to Mac users. The latest version of the finance software starts with an enhanced bill management center. Quicken 2018 lets users manage and pay online bills using the Mac app with 11,000+ sources supported. Quicken’s bill management center automatically downloads bill PDFs and captures due dates and payment amounts as well. Mac customers now have more options for Quicken versions for the first time with Starter, Deluxe, and Premier versions offered....

The first A Quiet Place 2 trailer has been released alongside Black Christmas. The sequel to the 2018 horror-thriller has been widely anticipated after the original’s tremendous success, which even saw the film receive an Oscar nomination for sound editing. Directed, co-written and starring John Krasinski alongside his real-life wife Emily Blunt, A Quiet Place told a post-apocalyptic tale with a very unique twist. After society is largely eliminated by a blind alien species that hunts by sound, the Abbott family relocate to a rural home, which is fortified by a variety of homemade security measures....

We’re all familiar with the concept of dating shows. They’ve been around for decades and every year there seems to be a new attempt at making something new and exciting. This year, Netflix unveiled their offering, a little show called Dating Around. The concept of Dating Around is pretty simple and is laid out right in the beginning of each episode. “Five first dates, only one second date.” Each episode centers around one person who goes on five first dates....