iOS 15 for iPhone was released on September 20th at 10a (if anyone is counting). And apparently the iPhone 13 was released on September 24th. Did you have your calendars marked? I didn’t!
I have been seeing videos of the iOS 15 that are pretty cool. Here are some features you can expect with the new release:
A lot of people I know like to complain about their wireless routers on a regular basis. The signal isn’t strong enough, the connection drops all the time, network packets are intermittently dropped, etc. Their usual response to this is to buy new, but if you’ve already decided to go that route, why not have some fun with the old router first?
A month or so ago, the Birds and I were cleaning out a client’s IT closet. You can guess how this goes. We discovered very old cables plugged into equipment that’s powered off. We cut old phone lines connected into old 66 blocks. And once a voicemail server was moved out of the way (yes, you read that correctly), it revealed a very dusty counter space. Cue the recycling guy and the space will shine bright like it’s 2021.
Picture the scene if you will: responding to email while your vehicle barrels down the road at 100+ miles per hour. Normally this would be quite concerning, but your car is following at a perfect 3 car lengths from the one in front of you. Everyone is moving along in orderly lines. No one is weaving in and out of traffic, no slow drivers in the left lane, and no stopping until you reach your destination. All this is made possible by a traffic controlling supercomputer. Sounds like something out of a movie or sci-fi right? Well, it may be closer than you think.
Any Android user with a Samsung phone has hopefully received push notification about Samsung shutting down its cloud storage service. Samsung has scheduled a phased decommissioning of their service. Customers have been separated into two groups depending on what country they are in. If you live in the US, you’re in Group 1. The first phase for this group allowed users to migrate their data to Microsoft OneDrive by linking your Samsung Cloud account to a OneDrive account. Users would get a year of free storage from Microsoft after which they would have to upgrade their storage if it is over 5 GB. Sadly, if you have not already done this, that ship has sailed.
