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Samsung Asks Court to Reconsider Appeal in Infringement Ruling [Mac Blog]
Samsung today asked the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a central part of a recent ruling that ensured Apple would receive $548 million in damages, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The Korean company wants the court to hear the case with its full 12-judge roster rather than the 3-judge panel it used in the previous ruling.
The move is the latest in the ongoing legal battles between Samsung and Apple. In June 2014, it was reported that the two companies were attempting to find "common ground" in their legal battles and that they were both attempting to become "more practical" about finding a solution.
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"Unlike rugs, spoons, and simple mechanical objects, smartphones incorporate hundreds or thousands of different patented technologies, and it is undisputed here that Apple's design patents claim only partial, minor features of such devices," Samsung's lawyers argued in court papers.In 2012, a jury ruled that Samsung willfully infringed Apple patents and awarded the Cupertino company $1 billion in damages. However, the award was slightly reduced to around $900 million a short time later after it was determined the original jury erred in its decision. Earlier this year, a U.S. appeals court reversed a significant part of the judgment, bringing the award down to $548 million. Samsung's latest move would target a part of the verdict that accounts for $400 million of the $548 million in damages Samsung owes.
The move is the latest in the ongoing legal battles between Samsung and Apple. In June 2014, it was reported that the two companies were attempting to find "common ground" in their legal battles and that they were both attempting to become "more practical" about finding a solution.
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Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8 With Taco, Cheese and Unicorn Face Emoji [iOS Blog]
The Unicode Consortium today released Unicode 8, the next update to the Unicode Standard that defines special characters and symbols, including emoji. Unicode 8 introduces 7,716 new characters, including six new scripts and new symbols, with letters to support languages in Africa, lowercase Cherokee symbols, and more.
Of interest to iPhone and Mac users is the emoji portion of Unicode 8, which introduces 37 new emoji and five emoji modifiers (these are the same skin tone modifiers that Apple has already adopted). These new emoji may eventually be added to Apple's Mac and iOS operating systems.
Of the 37 new emoji, inclusions based on popular request include taco, cheese wedge, burrito, bottle with popping cork, hot dog, popcorn, turkey, and unicorn face. Missing sports symbols like badminton and volleyball are also included, as are several new faces: face with rolling eyes, zipper-mouth face, robot face, upside-down face, and hugging face.
Emoji examples via Emojipedia
Unicode only includes text descriptions for each of the emoji, so it's up to each individual company to create the graphics to go along with the symbols. When these emoji eventually make their way to the iPhone, they'll look different than the images above.
Apple has adopted the emoji skin tone modifiers outlined in Unicode 8, but it has not yet adopted the new emoji symbols. In fact, Apple still has not adopted the Unicode 7 standard that was finalized in June of 2014, continuing to offer only the emoji that were included in Unicode 6. It is not known when Apple might add new emoji, but it has not done so in iOS 9, aside from a few new flags.
The Unicode Consortium is already working on Unicode 9 for 2016. Emoji additions proposed for Unicode 9 include bacon, avocado, shrug, croissant, owl, selfie, drooling face, and more.
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Of interest to iPhone and Mac users is the emoji portion of Unicode 8, which introduces 37 new emoji and five emoji modifiers (these are the same skin tone modifiers that Apple has already adopted). These new emoji may eventually be added to Apple's Mac and iOS operating systems.
Of the 37 new emoji, inclusions based on popular request include taco, cheese wedge, burrito, bottle with popping cork, hot dog, popcorn, turkey, and unicorn face. Missing sports symbols like badminton and volleyball are also included, as are several new faces: face with rolling eyes, zipper-mouth face, robot face, upside-down face, and hugging face.
Unicode only includes text descriptions for each of the emoji, so it's up to each individual company to create the graphics to go along with the symbols. When these emoji eventually make their way to the iPhone, they'll look different than the images above.
Apple has adopted the emoji skin tone modifiers outlined in Unicode 8, but it has not yet adopted the new emoji symbols. In fact, Apple still has not adopted the Unicode 7 standard that was finalized in June of 2014, continuing to offer only the emoji that were included in Unicode 6. It is not known when Apple might add new emoji, but it has not done so in iOS 9, aside from a few new flags.
The Unicode Consortium is already working on Unicode 9 for 2016. Emoji additions proposed for Unicode 9 include bacon, avocado, shrug, croissant, owl, selfie, drooling face, and more.
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How to Make Icons and Fonts Bigger on Apple Watch [iOS Blog]
The Apple Watch screen is small. So small that it can be difficult for some people to read messages and other text on the device. Also, even though the Home screen icons get bigger when they are centered on the screen, you might find yourself accidentally tapping the wrong one more often than you'd like.
Apple has included a couple of accessibility features that make dynamic text larger on the screen, and there are options to make all of the icons stay big on the Home screen instead of shrinking and growing when they are not centered. We have a tutorial to show you how to enable these features.
The same feature that helps keep people from getting motion sickness in iOS 8 makes app icons larger on the Home screen on Apple Watch. It makes it a little bit easier to tap those tiny icons.
Tip: If an app is centered on the screen, you don't even have to tap it to open it. Instead, rotate the Digital Crown to open the app. The hard part is being able to tell which app is centered.
You can increase the size of the font for apps that are compatible with dynamic text. Apple's stock Mail, Messages, and Settings apps all have dynamic text.
The iOS 8-style background transparency used in apps like Siri and Glances might also affect your ability to see things clearly on the Apple Watch. You can reduce the transparency to up the contrast and make text and graphics crisper against a solid black background, which may make it easier on your eyes.
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Apple has included a couple of accessibility features that make dynamic text larger on the screen, and there are options to make all of the icons stay big on the Home screen instead of shrinking and growing when they are not centered. We have a tutorial to show you how to enable these features.
Reduce Motion
The same feature that helps keep people from getting motion sickness in iOS 8 makes app icons larger on the Home screen on Apple Watch. It makes it a little bit easier to tap those tiny icons.
- On Apple Watch, navigate to the Home screen and then open the Settings app.
- Select General. Then scroll down to Accessibility.
- Tap Reduce Motion and toggle the switch to the on position.
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and go to My Watch.
- Select General, and then Accessibility.
- Tap Reduce Motion and toggle the switch to the on position.
Tip: If an app is centered on the screen, you don't even have to tap it to open it. Instead, rotate the Digital Crown to open the app. The hard part is being able to tell which app is centered.
Larger Font
You can increase the size of the font for apps that are compatible with dynamic text. Apple's stock Mail, Messages, and Settings apps all have dynamic text.
- On Apple Watch, navigate to the Home screen and open the Settings app.
- Select Brightness & Text Size. Then select Text Size.
- Rotate the Digital Crown up or down to increase or decrease the font size.
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and go to My Watch.
- Select Brightness & Text.
- Drag the slider bar to the left or right to increase or decrease the font size.
Reduce Transparency
The iOS 8-style background transparency used in apps like Siri and Glances might also affect your ability to see things clearly on the Apple Watch. You can reduce the transparency to up the contrast and make text and graphics crisper against a solid black background, which may make it easier on your eyes.
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and go to My Watch
- Select General. Then select Accessibility.
- Tap Reduce Transparency and toggle the switch to the on position.
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Review: Dotti and Notti Are Fun iPhone-Controlled Smart Lights That Deliver Notifications [iOS Blog]
Dotti and Notti are small iPhone-controlled smart lights created by design company Witti. More fun than practical, the two lights connect to an iPhone over Bluetooth, allowing their colors to be changed and letting them light up when a notification is received.
Notti, the more inexpensive of the two at $60, is an angular light that somewhat resembles a candle. Dotti, priced at $80, is a square pixel light with 8x8 grid of LEDs that can be arranged into different pixellated shapes and colors.
I went hands-on with the Notti and Dotti and after a couple of weeks, I can say that they're both well-designed, fun to play with, and make nice desk or table decorations.
Notti is the more simple light of the two. Made of opaque white plastic, it's got a faceted, angular design that looks attractive, especially when lit. It's a nice mood light for a living room or bedroom, measuring in at 10cm x 7.5cm x 6cm. Notti has a built-in battery that will last for up to five hours when the light is turned on, and up to 720 hours in standby mode while waiting for a notification to come in.
When the Notti is first turned on via a small button on the front of the light, it's bright green, but with the accompanying Notti app, it can be changed to any color. The Notti pairs with an iPhone automatically once the app has been installed. Lights don't photograph quite as saturated in as they are in real life, so when looking at photos of Notti and Dotti, keep that in mind. The colors are actually deeper and more vivid.
With the app, you can control both color and brightness with a color wheel, resulting in a lot of different combinations. LEDs in some colored lights can't do certain shades like blue and green, but the Notti does well with these these colors.
App features include a rainbow mode that cycles through colors continuously, an alarm mode, and a mode that lets the Notti flash along with the tempo of a song. The app's most important feature is a notification setting that works while the Notti is in standby, flashing in a specified color whenever a notification is received.
Several system apps work with Notti, including SMS/iMessages, phone calls, Mail, missed calls, and Calendar. It's also compatible with third-party apps including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Wechat, Facebook Messenger, QQ, Line, Weibo, Skype, Google+, Instagram, Viber, IFTTT, Hangouts, Kakaotalk, and Telegram.
Notti only works with the above listed apps, so there's no way to set it to deliver a notification for an app like Tweetbot, Mailbox, or Fantastical, which is a bit of a downside if you use a lot of unsupported apps. You can also only receive notifications for four third-party apps at one time.
When a notification comes in for one the supported apps, the Notti flashes in your chosen color, and it's impossible to miss. With the Notti set up alongside all of my iOS devices and Mac, when I get an incoming call, there's a bright flashing green light, my iPhone rings, my iPad rings, my iPad mini rings, my Mac rings, and my Apple Watch rings. It's a circus of light and sound.
Notti's app isn't perfect. There are a few misspellings, the interface could be better, and choosing colors for notifications could be more clear, but on the whole, it works, as does the notification feature. I tested Notti with several of the apps it's compatible with, and notifications were successfully delivered with each one.
I don't think most people need the Notti for notifications because our iPhones, Macs, and Apple Watches do a pretty solid job of letting us know when we receive a message, but it's a fun feature and it's potentially useful if you do need visual notifications. Notti's also fun at parties, it's nice to use as a nightlight when you get up at night for a drink, and on a low setting, you could plug it in and leave it on in a child's room. It's also a nice little mood light that pairs well with existing lighting systems, like the Philips Hue.
Dotti and Notti are two completely unique lights. While Notti's a faceted jewel-like light, Dotti is a square light (7.7cm x 5.2cm x 5.2cm) with 64 LEDs that can be used to make pixellated light art with the accompanying Dotti app. It reminds me of a Lite-Brite and it's fun to fiddle with when you're bored or stressed out and need to relax for a few minutes.
Dotti's design may seem familiar -- it's quite similar to the L8 SmartLight that was available via Kickstarter in 2012, but that product is not available and it's received poor reviews from backers. The Dotti looks similar, but it lacks some of the L8's sensors (it promised proximity, temperature, and luminosity sensors) and its performance issues.
Like the Notti, the Dotti has a built-in battery so it can be used without a cord, and it lasts the same length of time before needing a charge. The Dotti has no physical buttons, instead using a touch panel at the top of the light. It turns on with a hard press and swiping along the top of the panel can switch between modes, displaying favorite icons, animations, a clock, and more.
Though square at the front, the backside of the Dotti has a faceted design like the Notti. I'm not sure if this was done to accommodate battery or if it was a design decision, but the faceting makes the light's body more visually interesting.
Dotti connects automatically to the Dotti app, which is used to control each of the LEDs. The app displays a grid and a color palette, and creating a design is done by tapping each square in the grid. You can choose from several different colors and color intensities while making a design, with black turning off an associated LED.
There are several preconfigured favorites built into the app to select, from including a happy face, a heart, a Batman symbol, a mushroom, and a Pac-Man. There's also an animated scene, which you can customize. You can save your own animated design and pixel art creations, but you have to overwrite the preconfigured content.
You can only save eight designs and one animated scene in the Dotti app, which is kind of non-sensical. The app would be a lot more useful if it could store many more designs.
With music on, Dotti will show a visual synthesizer, and there's a clock mode that'll display the time. It's a little hard to read (that's 21:49 in the image below). There's even a built-in dice game, which you can activate by shaking the light. Each shake rolls the dice again.
Like the Notti, one of Dotti's major features is the ability to display incoming notifications. It works with all of the same apps and features on the iPhone as the Notti, but it displays notifications as a pixellated app icon. Dotti's display notifications can't be customized -- they're preconfigured for each app. Each notification will flash until you touch the top of the light to dismiss it or until you clear the notification on your phone.
Dotti has a lot of functionality, but it's not all easy to access because the touch panel at the top of the light isn't intuitive. Luckily the Dotti's core features -- drawing and notifications -- work well without needing the touch panel, and many of the additional features can also be accessed within the app. The Dotti app could definitely use improvement. A $79 light should support a lot more saved animations and art.
Both the Dotti and the Notti make fun desk toys, but it's hard to see them as anything but toys. The Notti is somewhat more versatile because it can serve as a mood light or an alarm clock, but the Dotti may be something that most people will play with for a few weeks and then set aside.
Most of us have enough ways of receiving notifications, but if you use the supported apps a lot and like to keep your phone tucked away while at the office, the Notti and Dotti are both going to do an excellent job letting you know when you're getting an email or phone call. There are some people who will find the visual notifications to be highly useful -- for those hard of hearing, the Dotti and the Notti could be far more than just toys.
Both the Dotti and Notti apps could use improvement, and both lights would be a lot more valuable if the notifications were more customizable. Being able to use the Dotti and Notti with the apps that I actually use would have made them a lot more useful to me. That said, even with somewhat subpar apps, the lights still do a lot of things well.
Nobody needs the Dotti or the Notti, but they're one of those nifty little gadgets that's just nice to have.
Dotti and Notti can be purchased from the Witti website. Dotti is priced at $79.99 and Notti is priced at $59.99.
from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories
Notti, the more inexpensive of the two at $60, is an angular light that somewhat resembles a candle. Dotti, priced at $80, is a square pixel light with 8x8 grid of LEDs that can be arranged into different pixellated shapes and colors.
I went hands-on with the Notti and Dotti and after a couple of weeks, I can say that they're both well-designed, fun to play with, and make nice desk or table decorations.
Notti
Notti is the more simple light of the two. Made of opaque white plastic, it's got a faceted, angular design that looks attractive, especially when lit. It's a nice mood light for a living room or bedroom, measuring in at 10cm x 7.5cm x 6cm. Notti has a built-in battery that will last for up to five hours when the light is turned on, and up to 720 hours in standby mode while waiting for a notification to come in.
When the Notti is first turned on via a small button on the front of the light, it's bright green, but with the accompanying Notti app, it can be changed to any color. The Notti pairs with an iPhone automatically once the app has been installed. Lights don't photograph quite as saturated in as they are in real life, so when looking at photos of Notti and Dotti, keep that in mind. The colors are actually deeper and more vivid.
With the app, you can control both color and brightness with a color wheel, resulting in a lot of different combinations. LEDs in some colored lights can't do certain shades like blue and green, but the Notti does well with these these colors.
App features include a rainbow mode that cycles through colors continuously, an alarm mode, and a mode that lets the Notti flash along with the tempo of a song. The app's most important feature is a notification setting that works while the Notti is in standby, flashing in a specified color whenever a notification is received.
Several system apps work with Notti, including SMS/iMessages, phone calls, Mail, missed calls, and Calendar. It's also compatible with third-party apps including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Wechat, Facebook Messenger, QQ, Line, Weibo, Skype, Google+, Instagram, Viber, IFTTT, Hangouts, Kakaotalk, and Telegram.
Notti only works with the above listed apps, so there's no way to set it to deliver a notification for an app like Tweetbot, Mailbox, or Fantastical, which is a bit of a downside if you use a lot of unsupported apps. You can also only receive notifications for four third-party apps at one time.
When a notification comes in for one the supported apps, the Notti flashes in your chosen color, and it's impossible to miss. With the Notti set up alongside all of my iOS devices and Mac, when I get an incoming call, there's a bright flashing green light, my iPhone rings, my iPad rings, my iPad mini rings, my Mac rings, and my Apple Watch rings. It's a circus of light and sound.
Notti's app isn't perfect. There are a few misspellings, the interface could be better, and choosing colors for notifications could be more clear, but on the whole, it works, as does the notification feature. I tested Notti with several of the apps it's compatible with, and notifications were successfully delivered with each one.
I don't think most people need the Notti for notifications because our iPhones, Macs, and Apple Watches do a pretty solid job of letting us know when we receive a message, but it's a fun feature and it's potentially useful if you do need visual notifications. Notti's also fun at parties, it's nice to use as a nightlight when you get up at night for a drink, and on a low setting, you could plug it in and leave it on in a child's room. It's also a nice little mood light that pairs well with existing lighting systems, like the Philips Hue.
Dotti
Dotti and Notti are two completely unique lights. While Notti's a faceted jewel-like light, Dotti is a square light (7.7cm x 5.2cm x 5.2cm) with 64 LEDs that can be used to make pixellated light art with the accompanying Dotti app. It reminds me of a Lite-Brite and it's fun to fiddle with when you're bored or stressed out and need to relax for a few minutes.
Dotti's design may seem familiar -- it's quite similar to the L8 SmartLight that was available via Kickstarter in 2012, but that product is not available and it's received poor reviews from backers. The Dotti looks similar, but it lacks some of the L8's sensors (it promised proximity, temperature, and luminosity sensors) and its performance issues.
Like the Notti, the Dotti has a built-in battery so it can be used without a cord, and it lasts the same length of time before needing a charge. The Dotti has no physical buttons, instead using a touch panel at the top of the light. It turns on with a hard press and swiping along the top of the panel can switch between modes, displaying favorite icons, animations, a clock, and more.
Though square at the front, the backside of the Dotti has a faceted design like the Notti. I'm not sure if this was done to accommodate battery or if it was a design decision, but the faceting makes the light's body more visually interesting.
Dotti connects automatically to the Dotti app, which is used to control each of the LEDs. The app displays a grid and a color palette, and creating a design is done by tapping each square in the grid. You can choose from several different colors and color intensities while making a design, with black turning off an associated LED.
There are several preconfigured favorites built into the app to select, from including a happy face, a heart, a Batman symbol, a mushroom, and a Pac-Man. There's also an animated scene, which you can customize. You can save your own animated design and pixel art creations, but you have to overwrite the preconfigured content.
You can only save eight designs and one animated scene in the Dotti app, which is kind of non-sensical. The app would be a lot more useful if it could store many more designs.
With music on, Dotti will show a visual synthesizer, and there's a clock mode that'll display the time. It's a little hard to read (that's 21:49 in the image below). There's even a built-in dice game, which you can activate by shaking the light. Each shake rolls the dice again.
Like the Notti, one of Dotti's major features is the ability to display incoming notifications. It works with all of the same apps and features on the iPhone as the Notti, but it displays notifications as a pixellated app icon. Dotti's display notifications can't be customized -- they're preconfigured for each app. Each notification will flash until you touch the top of the light to dismiss it or until you clear the notification on your phone.
Dotti has a lot of functionality, but it's not all easy to access because the touch panel at the top of the light isn't intuitive. Luckily the Dotti's core features -- drawing and notifications -- work well without needing the touch panel, and many of the additional features can also be accessed within the app. The Dotti app could definitely use improvement. A $79 light should support a lot more saved animations and art.
Bottom Line
Both the Dotti and the Notti make fun desk toys, but it's hard to see them as anything but toys. The Notti is somewhat more versatile because it can serve as a mood light or an alarm clock, but the Dotti may be something that most people will play with for a few weeks and then set aside.
Most of us have enough ways of receiving notifications, but if you use the supported apps a lot and like to keep your phone tucked away while at the office, the Notti and Dotti are both going to do an excellent job letting you know when you're getting an email or phone call. There are some people who will find the visual notifications to be highly useful -- for those hard of hearing, the Dotti and the Notti could be far more than just toys.
Both the Dotti and Notti apps could use improvement, and both lights would be a lot more valuable if the notifications were more customizable. Being able to use the Dotti and Notti with the apps that I actually use would have made them a lot more useful to me. That said, even with somewhat subpar apps, the lights still do a lot of things well.
Nobody needs the Dotti or the Notti, but they're one of those nifty little gadgets that's just nice to have.
How to Buy
Dotti and Notti can be purchased from the Witti website. Dotti is priced at $79.99 and Notti is priced at $59.99.
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