Ocmo is an award winning ninja rope platformer that challenges even hardcore gamers. Fluid movement, physics based gameplay and tight controls create unique sense of freedom and flow. Survive the 80 dangerous levels including secrets and boss fights. Set new records and share speedrunning videos. Swing with tentacles through the levels using momentum to your advantage. Eat rabbits and discover the world. You are the monster of the forest. Features: Lots of dying, ragdoll rabbits, physics-based eating, unique and precise controls, hard to master, well crafted and diverse level design, loads of depth, designed for speedrunning, online leaderboards, beautiful world with a small but dark story to discover, and more. App Store: Ocmo – Free (usually US$4.99)
The iPad is a Wonderful Accessibility Tool
The iPad is a wonderful accessibility tool, and one man with Down syndrome uses his iPad to keep up with his family more easily (via The Loop).
This guy, whose genetic abnormality was once thought to cap his learning ability at the kindergarten level, is becoming adept at computer/information age technology.
You folks made that possible. You paid the taxes that produce the classes and programs that give those of us who have special needs the needed special care.
While the idea of using an iPad as your only device enrages so-called «pundits», people like Greg remind us that the iPad is the computer for everyone.
Corporations Aren't Aligned With Consumer Interests
No matter how many times Mark Zuckerberg or other CEOs say sorry, corporations will continue to screw us over until someone steps in.
The result is that even if their leaders earnestly wanted to impart meaningful change to provide restitution for their wrongs, their hands are tied by entrenched business models and the short-term focus of the quarterly earnings cycle. They apologize and go right back to problematic behavior.
It’s not just Facebook though, this is every company that puts money over users (so all of them?) Whether you like regulation or not, I think both sides can agree that nothing can be done without outside influence. Like I said in a previous link, criminals don’t voluntarily turn themselves in.
What if You Could Edit Laws Using GitHub?
Washington D.C. has made GitHub the central repository for its system of laws. It’s not a copy of the laws, it’s the actual source. And they can be edited.
Last week, I opened the file on GitHub that had the typo, edited the file, and submitted my edit using GitHub’s “pull request” feature. A pull request is a request to the file’s maintainer to review a change and then, if approved, pull it in to the main file.
This is really neat and I hope more states will follow this approach. It creates a different mindset around the law: One of collaboration and transparency, instead of separation and obfuscation.
Oco Motion HD Pan/Tilt Wireless Security Camera: $103.20
We have a deal on the Oco Motion HD Pan/Tilt Wireless Security Camera. This device i controllable from your iPhone or Android device. You can save video locally or to the cloud, and it has pan and tilt, a built-in microphone, and more. It’s $129 through our deal, but promo code BFSAVE20 at checkout brings it down to $103.20.
Cowin E7 Active Noise-Cancelling Bluetooth Headphones: $51.19 with Promo Code
We have a deal on a pair of Cowin E7 active noise cancelling, over-the-ear wireless headphones. These Bluetooth headphones have up to 30 hours of battery life, and 40mm large-aperture drivers. They’re $63.99 through our deal, but promo code BFSAVE20 gets you 20% off, for a checkout price of $51.19.
How Singapore Airlines uses iPads to Help Pilots
Pilots have a lot of paperwork to do. To try and help, Singapore Airlines arm theirs with an iPad loaded with two specialized apps. These apps organize the roster, track flying hours and deliver key information such as routing, weather and fuel load. It is all secured using TouchID. Crucially, Singapore Airlines has to maintain these processes in a way that pilots, who are creatures of habit, are comfortable with. CNet went into the cockpit and found that using iPads has led to a number of improvements for Singapore Airlines’s pilots.
The airline started looking into this back in 2015, before rolling out iPads loaded with two essential custom apps, FlyNow and Roster. These iPads are secured with Apple’s TouchID, letting them ditch the previously used two-factor authentication dongles pilots had to carry around. That’s on top of the other apps that give pilots detailed weather information and flight charting information.
Disk Drill PRO Lifetime License: $18 with Promo Code
We have a deal on a lifetime license for Disk Drill PRO for Mac. This software is designed to make it easy to recover documents, music, photos, videos, or even whole partitions that have gone missing from your computer. Our deal is for $29.99, but promo code BFSAVE40 will save you another 40%, for a checkout price of $18.
Health Records, Offline Siri Update – TMO Daily Observations 2018-11-21
Host Kelly Guimont is joined by Charlotte Henry and Andrew Orr to talk about health records, an offline Siri update, and the new Apple ad.
JavaScript Attack Can Be Used to Spy on Browser Tabs
Besides the Amazon leak, here’s some more troubling news. Researchers demonstrated a side-channel JavaScript attack that made it possible for them to spy on your other browser tabs. And even Tor is susceptible.
This information can be used to target adverts at you based on your interests, or otherwise work out the kind of stuff you’re into and collect it in safe-keeping for future reference. The technique is described in a paper recently distributed through ArXiv called «Robust Website Fingerprinting Through the Cache Occupancy Channel.»
It doesn’t sound like there’s a fix for this at the moment.
