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A new photo filter app, Prisma, is taking the App Store by storm this week (if you can ignore the Pokémon GO fervor) with good reason. At first glance, Prisma seems like any other photo filter app: choose a filter, pick an image, share to social media. What sets Prisma apart is the diversity and quality of the filters themselves. There are some incredibly rich and unique options on here, that go beyond the usual shadowy color shifts popularized by Instagram....

The (almost) free lunch promised by Bitcasa of unlimited cloud storage for just $99/year is coming to an end, and the company has also informed users that they will need to manually migrate all data to a new backend by 15th November or it will be deleted. Bitcasa was able to offer low-cost “infinite storage” because it figured that most users would have only a relatively small proportion of unique content....

As for Rebel EFI, the judge while expressing that Psystar was not very clear about what it does, refused to exclude it from the injunction, and says Psystar continues to sell it “at its peril” at the risk of “finding itself in contempt if its new venture falls within the scope of the injunction.” Only a clear explanation of the product, and discovery about it, can determine the matter, and Psystar is is free to bring a motion and submit to discovery about Rebel EFI, if it wishes to reopen the question....

With a multi-movie franchise comes many, many promotional posters. Star Wars is no exception. Staking its territory as a cultural phenomenon in the summer of 1977, Star Wars helped kick off the age of the summer blockbuster and adapted high fantasy, rife with the accompanying tropes, for sci-fi. So with over 40 years worth of posters to sift through, we’re not including any character posters in the ranking. Oh, and no TV series....

Gaming specialist Razer is joining MOGA and Logitech in launching a game controller for the iPhone after Apple created an MFI program to licence support for hardware controllers. Leaked photos from @evleaks show it to be similar in appearance to the Logitech controller, though a hinge allows the iPhone to tilt up 45 degrees and, like the MOGA unit, it is said to be equipped with additional buttons on the shoulders of the device....

On Friday, Apple officially announced that WWDC 2020 will take place in June as a new online experience. To help you can get ready for this year’s event, Matt Birchler has crafted some gorgeous wallpapers for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, inspired by Apple’s artwork. Apple’s artwork for WWDC 2020 centers around a collection of stickers against various backgrounds. In comparison to prior WWDC invites, this year’s artwork is a bit more minimalistic....

I’ve heard for years that you shouldn’t use your Mac with administrator privileges. I 100% agree with that statement, and I still use my Mac with administrator privileges. But to be perfectly honest, it’s just sort of inconvenient. In the enterprise, running as an administrator can certainly be against company policy, and depending on what environment you operate in, you may be out of compliance with industry regulations or customer contracts....

While the Mac Pro was expected to be the first machine to launch with the new Thunderbolt 2 standard announced by Intel earlier this year, Apple just unveiled its updated MacBook Pro this week that also received the new Thunderbolt 2 technology. That means it’s time for companies to start announcing storage products and other Thunderbolt accessories that also adopt the faster 20Gbps, 4k video capable Thunderbolt 2. The first to announce new products is Promise Technology (via MacRumors), with two new storage solutions including the Pegasus2 hardware RAID and the SANLink2 Thunderbolt 2 to 8G Fibre Channel bridge:...

According to first reports, Project xCloud’s test preview is beginning to look pretty good. Microsoft’s gaming console has always the most PC-oriented out of the big three developers, with Sony being more focused on home entertainment mostly relegated to the living room and Nintendo handling the majority of mobile and handheld games. With the xCloud, however, Microsoft hopes to make Xbox games playable on mobile phones for the first time, branching out from the company’s console and PC gaming bubble....

Project Zomboid is a zombie survival, a first-person shooter where you can loot, build, craft, fight, farm, and fish in a struggle to survive. The game is developed and published by The Indie Stone. This game is now available to PC in early access via Steam, However, just like other video games, it seems that the Project Zomboid title has also its own issues such as the game won’t Launch issue in its initial days....

Qualcomm has announced its next-gen wireless chips that support the new Wi-Fi 6E standard. The “E” in Wi-Fi 6E stands for “extended” and supported devices will be able to operate on the newly opened 6GHz spectrum that should offer less network congestion and faster and more dependable connections. While Wi-Fi 6 supported devices are still in their infancy — the iPhone 11 lineup, iPhone SE, and 2020 iPad Pro are the only Apple devices with support so far — over the next year, we’ll start seeing Wi-Fi 6E come to smartphones and routers....

Robert Downey Jr. shares a behind-the-scenes look at Iron Man’s emotional Avengers: Endgame reunion with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man. When Spider-Man was finally allowed to join the MCU after Disney struck a deal with Sony, the decision was made to pair Peter Parker with a new mentor in Tony Stark. The move would prove to be an inspired one, as Downey and Holland quickly established a winning rapport that made their pairing a popular one with fans....

SQLite Constraints SQLite Primary Key Not null constraint DEFAULT Constraint UNIQUE constraint CHECK constraint SQLite Foreign Key SQLite Constraints Column constraints enforce constraints and rules to the values inserted on a column in order to validate the inserted data. Columns constraints are defined when creating a table, in the column definition. SQLite Primary Key All the values on a primary key column should be unique and not null The primary key can be applied to only one column or on a combination of columns, in the latter case, the combination of the columns’ values should be unique for all the tables’ rows....

Update 11/30: Apple has issued a new version of the update with the same version number that appears to fix the File Sharing authentication issue caused by the initial fix. Following the discovery of a major security vulnerability yesterday, Apple this morning quickly released an update for macOS to address the problem. While the update does solve the critical hole, another issue has since appeared, related to file sharing… In a support document published today, Apple explained that some users are experiencing issues authenticating and connecting when it comes to file shares on their Mac....

Radio Shack promised they would begin selling Verizon devices in mid-September, and now they have picked a great device to kickoff their Verizon Wireless partnership: the Verizon iPhone 4. Radio Shack will begin carrying the 16GB and 32GB (some locations) models (possibly only in black) of the Verizon iPhone 4 on September 15th, just a couple of weeks before the launch of the iPhone 5. Some Radio Shack locations will also get the Verizon iPad 2....

The most prestigious awards show in the world of film, the annual Academy Awards are the cause for much excitement and debate in the entertainment world when they come round. The awards often respect the best of the best for the year in film and its makers, with the biggest of the awards being the award for Best Picture. The award can often go to the wrong film and the opinions of said films can fluctuate a lot....

Razer has been working hard on creating the world’s first ultra-low-profile mechanical keyboard switch, and the first product that benefits from its existence is, of all things, a keyboard case for the 12.9″ iPad Pro. Razer’s Mechanical Keyboard Case for the iPad Pro launches today and is available right now for $169.99. You’re probably thinking what most people are thinking: How in the world do you include a mechanical keyboard in an iPad Pro keyboard case with chiclet-styled keys?...

How Green Arrow’s story will end in Crisis on Infinite Earths is currently one of the Arrowverse’s biggest mysteries, but his ending may not actually be that hard to predict. Superman’s arc in the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic may actually explain how the Arrowverse plans to write Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) out of the Arrowverse. It was confirmed at the end of Arrow season 7 that the original Arrowverse protagonist would die in Crisis on Infinite Earths....

O’Reilly, a developer-focused education content provider, creates an analysis of search terms and content modules consumed on its learning platform each year to reveal developer trends. Content usage is an aggregate measurement of “units viewed” across all forms, including online-training courses, books, videos, online conferences, and other products. The topic of cybersecurity has grown significantly on the platform, likely as a result of the high-profile ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, and software supply chain attacks on customers of SolarWinds and IT management firm Kaseya....

If you’ve ever taken a Live Photo only to find that the still image selected by the Camera app was just before a beautiful smile, or your slightly wonky horizon is straight in a later frame in the animated version, there’s now an app to fix it. Google has updated a free app to allow you to play your Live Photo frame-by-frame, and then choose a different frame for the still....