There’s no stopping the arrival of foldable phones, whether you like it or not (and some don’t) and whether they make sense or not (and some really don’t). Even before Samsung has its turn next week, a Chinese company already called dibs on the first foldable phone. That said, that’s not going to be a problem for the Korean manufacturer … Continue reading
In an incident that is somehow somewhat common, a man is claiming he survived being accidentally shot with a shotgun by his own dog, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News this week. Perhaps unsurprising to anyone who’s ever owned a dog, however, is the fact that the pup’s owner says he’s still a good boy.
The Do Not Disturb (aka DND) mode on iOS 11 was not much useful – a lot of users request for a change (to make it more accessible and useful). And, finally, we have an improved DND feature on iOS 12.
But, how to enable the DND mode? And, what are the features associated with the DND feature? Let us take a closer look at it in this article.
The DND mode can be activated by default from the control center. So, first, you need to swipe up to bring up the control center on iOS 12 (as shown in the image above). You will find the DND icon as the shape of a crescent moon (refer to the image above) in the control center.
Now, you just need to tap on it to activate it. If you need a few basic DND option presets, tap and hold the icon to get the option as shown in the image below.
To customize the DND mode, you can head right into the Settings and then tap on “Do Not Disturb” to go on tweaking it (as shown in the image above).
You can enable/disable it from here as well – but you can control some advanced options as well.
You do not need to even open up the control center in order to trigger the DND mode. If you want the DND mode to be enabled at a specific period of time, you can toggle the “Scheduled” option and then select a from-to time range as shown in the image below.
When you opt to toggle the Bedtime mode, the lock screen will dim irrespective of your brightness setting and the notifications will appear in the notification center. Also, the calls will be silenced until the scheduled DND time gets over.
In addition to this, when you wake up your phone for the first time in the morning with Bedtime enabled, you will be greeted with a Good Morning message.
If you want the calls/notifications to be silenced – no matter what – you should select the option to “Always” silent. In either case, if you want to turn on the sound for notifications/calls when you have your device unlocked, you should set it to – “When iPhone is locked“.
Of course, you should keep some contacts whitelisted – in case of an emergency. So, you can add them under “Allow Calls From” and set it to either “Everyone” or “No One” or just select a specific group of contacts.
If you often connect your iPhone to your car’s Bluetooth – you can utilize this feature. Here, the DND mode gets automatically enabled when it detects that you are connected to your Car Bluetooth devices. You can also set it to “Automatically” – so that the DND mode gets activated when it detects motion. And, of course, you could manually do it here when you go for a drive.
If someone sends you a text message when in the DND mode or while driving, you can set an automated reply – so they do get informed that you are either driving or busy for some time.
The DND mode is quite helpful when you utilize its functionality completely. Of course, we expect to see more features to be added in the next major iOS update, but until then, you should follow what we mentioned above.
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Fred Armisen returns as Jesus on Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America.”
Mike Warren wanted to dress up as Ghost Rider for Halloween this year. Now, he could have just worn a cheap mask and leather jacket, but he wanted to go the extra mile with a wearable glowing skull helmet surrounded in a cloud of smoke. When you are Ghost Rider, that’s just how it has to be. You can’t cheap out.
Mike used a very modern tool for generating the smoke: a simple vape. Plus, the glowing LEDs inside the skull do a really great job of creating the look of fire, without the risk of burning yourself himself beyond all recognition.
Combined with the smoke really creates the illusion that this is the real Ghost Rider. The smoke comes from a store-bought electronic cigarette. Warren modded it with custom controls, a fan unit, and some flexible tubes to redirect the vapor flow.
Warren documented the entire build on Instructables if you want to try making one yourself. That link has links to all of the parts and components he used, and the 3D skull model he modified and 3D printed.
This is one awesome Ghost Rider costume. Now all he needs is a flaming motorcycle to ride. Maybe he’ll make that next year.
The continuing die-off of the world’s coral reefs is a depressing reminder of the reality of climate change, but it’s also something we can actively push back on. Conservationists have a new tool to do so with LarvalBot, an underwater robot platform that may greatly accelerate efforts to re-seed old corals with healthy new polyps.
The robot has a history going back to 2015, when a prototype known as COTSbot was introduced, capable of autonomously finding and destroying the destructive crown of thorns starfish (hence the name). It has since been upgraded and revised by the team at the Queensland University of Technology, and in its hunter-killer form is known as the RangerBot.
But the same systems that let it safely navigate and monitor corals for invasive fauna also make it capable of helping these vanishing ecosystems more directly.
Great Barrier Reef coral spawn yearly in a mass event that sees the waters off north Queensland filled with eggs and sperm. Researchers at Southern Cross University have been studying how to reap this harvest and sow a new generation of corals. They collect the eggs and sperm and sequester them in floating enclosures, where they are given a week or so to develop into viable coral babies (not my term, but I like it). These coral babies are then transplanted carefully to endangered reefs.
LarvalBot comes into play in that last step.
“We aim to have two or three robots ready for the November spawn. One will carry about 200,000 larvae and the other about 1.2 million,” explained QUT’s Matthew Dunbabin in a news release. “During operation, the robots will follow preselected paths at constant altitude across the reef and a person monitoring will trigger the release of the larvae to maximise the efficiency of the dispersal.”
It’s something a diver would normally have to do, so the robot acts as a force multiplier — one that doesn’t require food or oxygen, as well. A few of these could do the work of dozens of rangers or volunteers.
“The surviving corals will start to grow and bud and form new colonies which will grow large enough after about three years to become sexually reproductive and complete the life cycle,” said Southern Cross’s Peter Harrison, who has been developing the larval restoration technique.
It’s not a quick fix by any means, but this artificial spreading of corals could vastly improve the chances of a given reef or area surviving the next few years and eventually becoming self-sufficient again.
Researchers at the security firm Armis announced this week that they discovered two serious chip-level vulnerabilities that could potentially put “millions” of enterprise access points at risk. Namely, the security flaw could allow hackers to gain access to networks completely undetected.
The Do Not Disturb (aka DND) mode on iOS 11 was not much useful – a lot of users request for a change (to make it more accessible and useful). And, finally, we have an improved DND feature on iOS 12.
But, how to enable the DND mode? And, what are the features associated with the DND feature? Let us take a closer look at it in this article.
The DND mode can be activated by default from the control center. So, first, you need to swipe up to bring up the control center on iOS 12 (as shown in the image above). You will find the DND icon as the shape of a crescent moon (refer to the image above) in the control center.
Now, you just need to tap on it to activate it. If you need a few basic DND option presets, tap and hold the icon to get the option as shown in the image below.
To customize the DND mode, you can head right into the Settings and then tap on “Do Not Disturb” to go on tweaking it (as shown in the image above).
You can enable/disable it from here as well – but you can control some advanced options as well.
You do not need to even open up the control center in order to trigger the DND mode. If you want the DND mode to be enabled at a specific period of time, you can toggle the “Scheduled” option and then select a from-to time range as shown in the image below.
When you opt to toggle the Bedtime mode, the lock screen will dim irrespective of your brightness setting and the notifications will appear in the notification center. Also, the calls will be silenced until the scheduled DND time gets over.
In addition to this, when you wake up your phone for the first time in the morning with Bedtime enabled, you will be greeted with a Good Morning message.
If you want the calls/notifications to be silenced – no matter what – you should select the option to “Always” silent. In either case, if you want to turn on the sound for notifications/calls when you have your device unlocked, you should set it to – “When iPhone is locked“.
Of course, you should keep some contacts whitelisted – in case of an emergency. So, you can add them under “Allow Calls From” and set it to either “Everyone” or “No One” or just select a specific group of contacts.
If you often connect your iPhone to your car’s Bluetooth – you can utilize this feature. Here, the DND mode gets automatically enabled when it detects that you are connected to your Car Bluetooth devices. You can also set it to “Automatically” – so that the DND mode gets activated when it detects motion. And, of course, you could manually do it here when you go for a drive.
If someone sends you a text message when in the DND mode or while driving, you can set an automated reply – so they do get informed that you are either driving or busy for some time.
The DND mode is quite helpful when you utilize its functionality completely. Of course, we expect to see more features to be added in the next major iOS update, but until then, you should follow what we mentioned above.
How To Use Do Not Disturb In iOS 12 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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