Betty Draper Francis is Mad Men’s original fashion plate and the quintessential 1960s suburban housewife, seemingly perfect on the outside but full of discontent underneath. With a philandering husband, derailed modeling career, and uneventful life in the suburbs, Betty put her eggs in the one basket she could control, her beauty. It was true to her character that her final instructions for her funeral were appearance-based. Her final act of defiance was to leave the world on her terms: to continue looking beautiful and maintain that perfect facade in perpetuity....

A poll for the Irish Times found that the majority of Irish voters believe that the government is right to join Apple in appealing against the EU ruling that the Cupertino company must pay €13B ($14.5B) in back taxes. Apple quickly and aggressively denounced the claim, announcing that it would be appealing against the ruling in court, but the Irish government took a little longer to reach its decision to launch its own appeal....

Examples of Individual Cumulative Update For example, you might have multiple PCs, which, even for a large organization such as a school, having each machine connected to the internet can bring your network to a halt. Sure, there is a new way of using one PC on your network to share updates with other machines, but this feature can reduce the performance of your PC, as I’ve observed. Cumulative Updates can also help bring a fresh installation of Windows 10 up to date too....

During today’s WWDC keynote, Apple showed off a new Maps application for OS X. The app features the same maps that iOS users are familiar with along with some additional tweaks, including an SDK for third-party developers to integrate the maps into their own software. Other updates include the option to see your estimated travel time and weather for your destination. An updated Calendar app, for example, can find the location listed in your events and apply the travel time and weather to the entry automatically....

Apple rocks but…”Steve would not have liked this” However, that reputation has taken a bit of a beating in recent times. Apple is still one of the top tech companies in the world but has been increasingly seen as getting more conventional, following trends more often than setting them. And of course, a lot of people very conveniently lay the “blame” for this at the door of the man who succeeded Jobs, Tim Cook, very conveniently forgetting that this man oversaw Apple becoming the first trillion-dollar company in the world....

Whether it’s happening to you right now or you’d like to know what to do in case it happens, read on for how to force quit frozen menu bar apps on a Mac. When a standard app freezes up on your Mac, you probably know how to pull up the force quit application window with command + option + escape. But as it happens, that won’t offer the option to do the same for menu bar apps....

One of the main changes of macOS Catalina is the new Music app that replaces iTunes after 18 years. Although it still allows users to manage songs locally, the new Music app is based on the same experience offered on iOS, which is focused on Apple Music. That change has brought some issues for professionals who work with music programs on the Mac. With previous versions of macOS, it was possible to export an XML file with all the songs added to iTunes listed and organized....

Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying and managing 100s of Macs and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple’s products work at scale, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for students. Much has been said about the transition from USB-A to USB-C....

Pedometer++ rose to fame after developer David Smith moved quickly to have an M7-enabled fitness app available for the iPhone 5s. The newest update builds on the original in several key ways. Importantly, it changes the design of the app from a list to a chart-centric format showing one week of activity at a time. You can flip through a week at a time, a big improvement of the previous layout....

Betty Draper is one of the most interesting characters in Mad Men. Despite the fact she doesn’t work and is always reliant upon her husband, that doesn’t mean she’s useless, as she is part of some of the shows greatest storylines, from both a comedic and emotional perspective. Even after her divorce with Don, Betty continues to be an integral part of the show, as she is a main character. However, despite her sweet nature and beautiful looks, she is often childish, petty, and argumentative....

The newest digital version of Magic: The Gathering, Magic Arena, launched on the Epic Game Store alongside its new Theros Beyond Death card set earlier today. Magic Arena is Wizards of the Coast’s attempt to transform the extremely popular tabletop offering of Magic: The Gathering into an esport and the first year of that effort went quite well, with the digital offering amassing a large following as it became a focal point of Twitch coverage and advertising....

A new mechanical keyboard made for Mac has officially launched with what looks like some compelling features. The Keychron K1 is a slim mechanical wireless keyboard with a RGB backlit Mac key layout and it even includes a Siri button. Keychron saw success on Kickstarter getting its K1 slim mechanical keyboard to production a bit ago, and now the company has officially launched the new product. Even though it has a more blocky look and feel than Apple’s Magic Keyboard, the K1 is more slim and minimal that most mechanical keyboards on the market....

The multi-talented Marc Maron has a career that encompasses stand-up comedy, writing, podcasting, and acting – but how much is he worth? DC fans will soon see Marc Maron play booking agent Ted Marco in Todd Phillips’ hotly-anticipated Joker origin movie but he got his kickstart in the entertainment industry over 30 years ago. Like many comedians, he started out at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles before moving to New York City, and in the mid-1990s he unsuccessfully auditioned for Saturday Night Live but did manage to get gigs on Short Attention Span Theater and HBO Comedy Half-Hour....

From 9to5Toys.com: . MacMall starts its Black Friday early with discounts on a monster selection of Macs, hard drives, iPods, and more by up to $799 off. Plus, all orders over $25 qualify for free shipping. We’ve already populated our new Apple Products section with all the new low prices so check them out. Notables include AppleTV for $89, Retina MacBook Pros starting at over $100 off, MacBook Airs starting at $897....

We have shown you how to enable and use Files On-Demand in OneDrive in Windows 10 before. And starting with 1809 Windows 10 Build 17692 and above, you can make downloaded files from OneDrive On-Demand online-only after a set time of inactivity. This will allow you to keep files you haven’t used in a certain number of days in the cloud and free up drive space. OneDrive Files On-Demand Online-Only To get started, head to Settings > System > Storage and click the “Change how we free up space automatically” link beneath the Storage Sense section....

A convicted killer claims he is responsible for the murder of Teresa Halbach, the homicide featured in Netflix’s riveting docuseries, Making a Murderer. Convicted in 2005 for the murder of Halbach, Steven Avery - and his nephew Brendan Dassey - has spent more than a decade behind bars for the horrendous crime. Released in 2015, Netflix’s Making a Murderer is one of the most controversial true crime documentary series of all time....

You probably know the function well. Anytime you pop in a USB device or even a CD; a dialog comes up, and Windows asks how you want to do with the content. As far as security advice, you should have it turned off by default, even in recent versions of Windows to prevent malware from automatically executing on a PC. We’ve covered how to manage it in previous versions of Windows....

While relatively expensive compared to other Mac mini in the cloud services, AWS does offer a couple of significant benefits … Second, the integration with other AWS … er, services, like super-fast storage. You can choose between Mojave and Catalina, with Big Sur coming soon. You can access your Mac(s) via SSH for command line or VNC for remote desktop use. On the networking side, the instances run in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and include ENA networking with up to 10 Gbps of throughput....

Mad Men gets great mileage out of the subplots involving romantic couplings that should and (mostly) should not be happening. Don Draper, being the show’s centerpiece and a privileged man of means, has more than his fair share of dalliances. The results are almost never pleasant. His affairs ultimately lead to the breakdown of his marriage, awkward situations at the office, and a growing disgust with himself over his hedonistic lifestyle....

It’s true. There’s no need to pay for an eReader when you already have these gadgets at your disposal. On top of the Kindle app’s cosmetic changes comes some functionality upgrades. It’s now easier to do a search within the app, not only for books already in your library but to also search for new books that you don’t have. The coolest change involves the book that you are currently reading....