Apple today released new software for the Apple Watch, upgrading watchOS 2 from version 2.1 to version 2.2. WatchOS 2.2, which has been in testing since January 11, comes more than three months after the release of watchOS 2.1 and brings a couple of important new features alongside bug fixes and performance improvements. The 2.2 update can be downloaded through the dedicated Apple Watch app on the iPhone by going to General; Software Update. To install the update, the Apple Watch must have 50 percent battery, it must be placed on the Apple Watch charger, and it must be in range of the iPhone.
Source: http://whnt.com/2016/03/16/redstone-officials-urge-community-to-use-iwatch-army-app-to-report-suspicious-activity/ REDSTONE ARSENAL, AL- "Most terrorism and crime historically has been stopped by local people who see something unusual and they report it to law enforcement," said Michael Malcolm of the U.S. Army Materiel Command's protection division. That's why Redstone Arsenal wants to use your eyes and ears to patrol the Redstone community and keep it safe from dangerous activity. "We're giving folks the ability to report suspicious or criminal activity using their smartphone very easily," said Malcolm. By using the new app called iWatch Army, users reporting drugs, weapons and other suspicious activities on Redstone Arsenal (and 20 other Army bases around the country) can do so with the touch of a button. "A good report would include what you saw, where you were when you saw it , when and what was it about that made you suspicious or though it was worth reporting?" explained Malcolm. You can include a picture or video with your tip and send it right through the app. There is one thing iWatch Army is not meant to do though. "It's not meant to replace 9-1-1. If you have an emergency, don't use the app; call 9-1-1," said Malcolm. You can choose to make your report anonymous or not. The app is available for iPhone and Android devices.
Whats your dream? Tell me the truth, what qualities of the Apple watch are missing? What do you require for work, exercise, daily life and grind? Well, these are the top 33 things people want to see and will one day see on the iwatch. Sure you laugh now, but in 10 years, everyone will have one. Scott C. Waring
If you have not used your watch to take photos yet, then you are in for a surprise. Its fast, easy and you can set up you iphone across the room to record you...all with a tap on your watch. Absolutely amazing.
Sure, you have heard the Apple commercials a thousand times if not more, but I guarantee you, this one you wont forget. Its a spin off comedy made to look like a real Apple commercial. Its a great laugh to start out your day, because you @#%$ing deserve it!
One of the hardest things to do when you get your Apple watch is to set it up. Here is a fantastic video explaining it, which makes the process 100% easier to deal with. Its easy and its fun. So...let the games begin!
New states: Introducing.... Doom on the Apple Watch! UPDATE: Mehdi Mulani that worked with me on this port, also ported Doom to the soon-to-be-released Apple TV!! Wait, rewind! How (and why on earth) did this happen? So we had a 10-hour hackathon in our Facebook Tel-Aviv office, and the idea was to hack around iOS stuff. Apple has released beta versions for watchOS 2 that lets you run native apps on the watch and we thought it could be fun to port Doom over to it! (not to mention the fact that JOHN CARMACK is a colleague OMG!!) Having only a few hours, we figured we'd better start with the simplest version of Doom we could find. A quick search and we found nDoom which seemed very interesting. This thing runs on a graphing calculators, it should run on a watch…. mmm… right?? Xcode -＞ File -＞ New Project… a few hours and quite a few code fixes later and the code compiled! OK, apart from the fact it insta-crashed we were at least getting somewhere. After fixing the first few crashes, we chose to believe that the number of places where the code crashes must be finite, and going head-to-head with this will hopefully take less than the few hours we have left. For the next few hours, we had to quickly understand what makes this Doom code tick, integrate its run loop with ours, figure out how to output an image from this thing, come up with controls that fit on a watch, tune the performance, fix mysterious bugs.. eventually this is what we ended up with: • As you can't overlay UI elements on the watch, we used interface groups to create a 3x3 grid of buttons. The lower buttons are toggles for walking around, and the upper are used for shooting and opening doors. • We found Doom's buffer that holds the actual pixel data for each frame. Every time there's a new frame to display, we use CoreGraphics to turn the buffer into a UIImage. This initially gave us grayscale images, but after figuring out Doom's color palettes and applying them we've got color! We now set this image as the background image for the top most container. • We used the UI thread to dispatch iterations of Doom's run loop. We wired button clicks to post events to Doom as if they were coming from a keyboard. • By far the most intensive task was drawing images to the screen. Trying to draw them too fast resulted in an annoying unresponsiveness. Tweaking UIImage's properties and only updating the image if anything has changed allowed us to squeeze some more juice. And the result can be seen in the video! (disclaimer: this isn’t production code, and rather was a kick ass hackathon project, so we won’t be making the source code available as it’s an example). Well now after we're done with this, the coffee machine with its color touch screen just stares at us waiting... for the next hackathon! You can find my original post here:https://www.facebook.com/lior2b/videos/10153571527835789/
