Microsoft is Ending Windows 10 Updates

 

Whilst you will receive stability and security updates for Windows 10 until October 2025, there will not be new version of Windows 10.

 

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/microsoft-is-ending-windows-10-updates/?ServiceType=twitter&UniqueID=6499E87A-E542-11ED-A58C-239879448730&TheTime=2023-04-27T21%3A28%3A03&ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&PostType=link

 

Microsofts Phone Link for iOS Brings iPhone to Windows

 

The Phone Link app has been around for a while for Android phone users. Now Microsoft is bringing this connectivity to iPhone users for notifications, phone calls, and Messages.

 

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/04/26/microsofts-phone-link-for-ios-has-arrived-bringing-a-crippled-imessage-to-windows-11?utm_medium=rss

 

Researchers Developed Tiny Hydraulic Haptics for Touch Screen Surfaces

 

This type of development with hydrolic haptic  feedback for touch screens where buttons can be felt on the screen has some pretty amazing implications. 

 

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/27/tactile-push-notifications/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIgfVFYnW50pInyjCfX1N_D1pzvqTu7erq3xN46U8B9P7UurorX69dS4mQTX9reGhaSJsACzQlnl5o7MMzWWeQ_J_tV9_xjelghlHFl4VsiGJbQTkIveGixq3Lw2MLT181EiJO4RrmFcTAKxZ7_ZmfWDQhgX7jsLRmaIbvrc0Cby

 

Someone Just Made the First satellite Phone call using a Standard Mobile Phone

 

We are slowly getting there, the ability to use a standard mobile phone to make satellite phone calls.

 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/someone-just-made-the-first-ever-voice-call-over-satellite-with-an-everyday-phone/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

 

Grid 2008 - Hang an iConic MacBook Air on your Wall

 

Grid is a company who frames smart phones, well at least their insides etc, in  a picture frame you can hang on the wall: mine is of the iPhone 3GS when VoiceOver became available on the ipHone.

They have now branched out in to laptops with this version of the framed 2008 MacBook Air.

 

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/04/29/grid-macbook-air-review-an-original-mac-framed-for-your-wall?utm_medium=rss

 

What To Expect from Google IO for 2023

 

As this is a developer conference, all the usual updates. What has me intreested is the talked about  Pixell foldable phone like the Samsung Z3/Z4 which is what I have (i.e. Z3).

 

https://9to5google.com/2023/04/29/google-io-2023-preview/

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Spotify Redoes the Mac app with a Handy Sidebar

 

I always kept forgetting there was a Spotify Mac app. It recently got updated and I decided to have a look at it: very accessible and usable for VoiceOver users sent the Mac.

 

https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/28/spotify-new-mac-app-design-sidebar/

 

20 Years of iTunes Music 

 

Yep, where would be without iTunes originally purchasing music, and then the industry offering up streaming services.

 

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/04/28/music-changed-forever-with-apples-itunes-music-store-20-years-ago?utm_medium=rss

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