Apple Maps gets crowdsourced accident reporting that works with Siri

 Apple Maps is finally getting crowdsourced accident reporting. The feature was unearthed in the iOS 14.5 beta and will allow you to report an accident, hazard or speed trap on the road.

The same sought-after feature has been available for Google Maps and has been a staple of Waze, but Apple Maps adds a new element - hands-free reporting. You will be able to use Siri to report something on the go. For instance saying "Hey, Siri, there's a crash up ahead".

This is only one of the features to become part of iOS 14.5. It will also let you set third-party music apps as default player for Siri, bypassing FaceID while wearing a mask if you have an Apple Watch and bring dual-SIM 5G support.

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APPLE IPHONE LAUNCH EVENT KICKS OFF AT 10.30 PM TODAY: WHEN AND WHERE TO WATCH

The big day is almost here. Like you would already know by now, Apple is hosting its annual launch event today. The event’s called Gather Round, and from what the rumours suggest, this special event will see most of the Apple product lines being refreshed. So if you want to be a part of the Apple event, here’s all you need to know.

Xiaomi teases the Mi 8X in Twilight Gold

Xiaomi is launching the Mi 8X / Mi 8 Youth next week in Chengdu, China. The phone already appeared on TENAA with a notched display on the front and a horizontal dual camera on the back, but now the company officially showed on of the color options of the device.

Honor 8X to hit Europe on October 11

A week ago Honor unwrapped the huge 8X along the even larger 8X Max at an event in China. It looks like the massive phone with a 6.5” screen is quickly going global after an invitation was slipped in our inbox. The Honor 8X first introduction outside China will take place in Prague, the Czech Republic on October 11.

Apple.com reveals names, colors: iPhone Xs, Xs Max and Xr

We were in the dark about the names of the new iPhones and while they’ll get an official introduction later today, Apple.com has already leaked both the names and the color options for the three iPhones.

We start with the iPhone Xs, which will have a 5.8” screen and three storage options: 64GB, 256GB and 512GB. The color options are the familiar Silver, Space Gray and Gold.

 Next up is the iPhone Xs Max with a 6.5” screen 64GB, 256GB or 512GB storage. The colors are the same.

Photoshop coming to iPad in 2019

Adobe, in a shift of strategy, is to launch a full version of Photoshop for the iPad, according to a Bloomberg report.

Adobe’s chief product officer of Creative Cloud, Scott Belsky, in a recent interview stated:

My aspiration is to get these on the market as soon as possible. There’s a lot required to take a product as sophisticated and powerful as Photoshop and make that work on a modern device like the iPad. We need to bring our products into this cloud-first collaborative era.

Adobe currently has Photoshop Express available on iPad. The new 'full-fat' version will allow you to edit your creations on an iPad will full cross-platform capability.

According to Belsky, customers in media and entertainment, are increasingly working on tablets rather than desktop computers, and have asked the company for the capability to make “edits on the fly” to their creative projects.

Adobe plans to reveal Photoshop for iPad at its annual MAX creative conference in October, with sources stating that engineering delays aside, the app should see the light of day sometime in 2019.

Adobe provided no confirmation on what iPad models would be supported, but we would predict that the current iPad Pro's will among them. We'll have to wait for official confirmation from Adobe on support for the original iPad Pro's and the new 2018 iPad with its A10 processor and Apple pencil support.

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Microsoft is developing a foldable tablet running Windows 10 on ARM

Back in 2009 and 2010, many rumors told us Microsoft was working on a folding tablet called Courier. In the end, that never saw the light of day, and Apple's iPads became the kings of that market.

Intriguingly though, Microsoft is now said to be developing another device that is similar, at least in concept, to the canceled Courier. It's codenamed Andromeda, and will be a folding tablet that will run Windows 10 on ARM.

What's an eSIM, how it works and why it's important to you

In recent weeks Google and Apple brought the eSIM into the spotlight by including it within their latest product launches, the Google Pixel 2, Google Pixel 2 XL and the Apple Watch Series 3 with Cellular.

The eSIM gives us an improved and more secure customer experience, better designed devices, opens up new market opportunities for operators and enables entire new categories of connected devices.

Let's explore this baby in a little more detail.

Please bear with us for the next few paragraphs, as we look back in time.
SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards store network-specific information used to authenticate and identify subscribers on a cellular network and for the last 27 years have consisted of a physical card containing the chip which has to be inserted into the phone.

You may or may not remember, but in 1991, the SIM card that you inserted into your phone was the size of a credit card! In the intervening years the size of the humble SIM card has dramatically reduced.

10 ideal graphic design tools for April 2017

What a month for new graphic design tools. Adhering to a hold-up in release, Microsoft’s magnificent Surface area Studio is ultimately out in the US. Tackling the iMac, it assures a lot for creatives.

HP, as well, has amazing news for developers and illustrators with its recently upgraded ZBook line of mobile workstations. And it’s done in same month that Adobe revealed Creative Cloud updates to Illustrator (hooray for the new Photo Crop tool), InDesign as well as Task Felix.
We likewise have a cracking option of brand-new design books, Photoshop brushes, actions, font styles and even more to increase your creative sources. Read on for our choice of the 10 finest graphic design tools for April

All Corel Draw Shortcut Tips A to Z

 Single Letter Shortcut of Corel Draw from A to Z

• A: Spiral
• B: Align Bottom
• C: Align Centers Vertically
• D: Graph Paper
• E: Align Centers Horizontally
• F: A tool modifier
• G: Interactive Fill
• H: Pan
• I: Artistic Media
• K: A tool modifier
• L: Align Left
• M: Mesh Fill
• N: Navigator
• P: Center to Page
• R: Align Right
• T: Align Top
• W: A tool modifier
• X: Eraser
• Y: Polygon
• Z: Zoom

How To Improve Usability

Building usable enterprise software is fraught with difficulties, even for the biggest companies on the planet. A glance at some egregious enterprise software fails is enough to make even the most experienced usability professionals dry-mouthed: witness SAP’s near-miss take-down of Hershey’s back in 1999, in which a new, unusable distribution system led to an 8% fall over Halloween season; or HP’s centralization of its ERP systems, which cost $160 million in backlogs and lost revenue.