Via Apple – Press Info – First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record.
“CUPERTINO, California―September 23, 2013―Apple® today announced it has sold a record-breaking nine million new iPhone® 5s and iPhone 5c models, just three days after the launch of the new iPhones on September 20. In addition, more than 200 million iOS devices are now running the completely redesigned iOS 7…”
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is pleased to announce the release of the TTCS OSSWIN DVD v1.0, a collection of Free and Open Source Software for Windows
You can use your web browser to read detailed information about each program in this compilation : what the program does, its key features, useful related websites, view a screenshot, find links to the program’s website and to download/install the program from the TTCS OSSWIN DVD.
The web-based interface allows you to quickly browse the variety of software organised into the following categories:
The changes to this version adds three new programs (replacing three) and adding 64 bit versions of programs where available for installation. Along with a lot of software updates.
See the TTCS OSSWIN DVD page at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ for more details, including a complete listing of programs included on the DVD, download links and checksum information to verify the download. private message me at admin at ttcsweb.org for alternative download links.
After crushing the launch day sales record on Tuesday, Grand Theft Auto V has earned another significant milestone for publisher Take-Two. The title has crested $1 billion in worldwide retail sales in just three days.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/09/20/grand-theft-auto-v-hits-1-billion-in-three-days.aspx
Via Google Drive Blog: Freeing Quickoffice for everyone.
“Everyone likes free stuff, which is why starting today we’re making Quickoffice available for free, for everyone. With Quickoffice, you can edit Microsoft® Office documents across your devices, giving you the freedom to work with anyone no matter what hardware or software they’re using. Quickoffice also integrates seamlessly with Google Drive storage so you can safely access your files from anywhere. And while the easiest thing to do is simply convert your old files to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, Quickoffice gives you another way to work with people who haven’t gone Google yet.”
You can get the new, free Quickoffice app for Android and iOS phones and tablets on Google Play and in the App Store.”
Apple will be releasing iOS 7, Apple’s update to the operating system for its iPhone and iPad devices on September 18 2013.
The update will likely be available from Apple around 1pm local time, if indicators regarding iOS 7 availability from other countries are correct. However, given the anticipated demand as everyone tries to update around this time, it might be prudent to wait a while (But where’s the fun in that? ;-).
iOS 7 will be available for the following iOS devices
pre-installed on iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s
Apple iOS 7 is a significant upgrade for iOS, visually and functionality. The Apple’s iOS site has a detailed breakdown of the iOS 7 design and iOS 7 features. Check out
PCMag.com’s guide on how to update to iOS 7 and MacWorld’s coverage of iOS 7.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics website: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website have made available an online edition of the The Feynman Lectures on Physics. From the Preface:
“Nearly fifty years have passed since Richard Feynman taught the introductory physics course at Caltech that gave rise to these three volumes, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. In those fifty years our understanding of the physical world has changed greatly, but The Feynman Lectures on Physics has endured. Feynman’s lectures are as powerful today as when first published, thanks to Feynman’s unique physics insights and pedagogy. They have been studied worldwide by novices and mature physicists alike; they have been translated into at least a dozen languages with more than 1.5 millions copies printed in the English language alone. Perhaps no other set of physics books has had such wide impact, for so long.”
(H/T Kottke)
The New Yorker’s Maria Konnikova writes on “How Facebook makes us unhappy” . An excerpt:
“The key to understanding why reputable studies are so starkly divided on the question of what Facebook does to our emotional state may be in simply looking at what people actually do when they’re on Facebook. “What makes it complicated is that Facebook is for lots of different things—and different people use it for different subsets of those things. Not only that, but they are also changing things, because of people themselves changing,” said Gosling. A 2010 study from Carnegie Mellon found that, when people engaged in direct interaction with others—that is, posting on walls, messaging, or “liking” something—their feelings of bonding and general social capital increased, while their sense of loneliness decreased. But when participants simply consumed a lot of content passively, Facebook had the opposite effect, lowering their feelings of connection and increasing their sense of loneliness.…….
…….In other words, the world of constant connectivity and media, as embodied by Facebook, is the social network’s worst enemy: in every study that distinguished the two types of Facebook experiences—active versus passive—people spent, on average, far more time passively scrolling through newsfeeds than they did actively engaging with content. This may be why general studies of overall Facebook use, like Kross’s of Ann Arbor residents, so often show deleterious effects on our emotional state. Demands on our attention lead us to use Facebook more passively than actively, and passive experiences, no matter the medium, translate to feelings of disconnection and boredom.”
