MyAppleMenu - Sat, Jan 24, 2015

Sat, Jan 24, 2015 Day of the Yet Another Timezone Bug

App Developer Friends: Try TestFlight

Supertop Blog:

When compared to the previous testing process, it is a major improvement and I am grateful to the team behind it. It is a sign that Apple cares about third party developers and about helping us improve the quality of the software we provide.

'GMT Bug' in iOS 8 Calendar Syncing Causing Time Zone Confusion for Users

Kelly Hodgkins, MacRumors:

According to user reports, calendar events created in one time zone are converted to another timezone possibly when they sync across a server.

Stuff for Your Computers

  • How to Cull Your iPhoto Library of Duplicates and Bad Photos (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
  • Powerful iPhone and iPad Task Manager Any.do Arrives On the Mac (Brent Dirks, AppAdvice)
  • How to Access All The Power of Apple's Fonts Window, And When to Step Up to PopChar Instead (Jay J. Nelson, Macworld)
  • Kredo Helps You Make Your Portfolio Fancy (John Biggs, TechCrunch)

The Secret to Getting the Most Out of Your Apple Genius?

How Apple Wants to Remake the Classroom

Nick Heath, TechRepublic:

Rather than classrooms focusing on rote learning and regurgitating facts from text books, Couch said, Apple studies found that in a digital age classrooms need to use technologies to make learning engaging, collaborative and challenging.

"It's not so important that we know that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, what's important is what was happening around the time, what impact it had and how did that change society."

Parting Words

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