![]() This feature won't work with iPhone widgets that store sensitive data, however. If you’ve installed a widget from your iPhone, it updates when you bring your phone near your Mac, even if the app associated with the widget is installed only on your phone, not on your Mac. The widget gallery lets you choose from your iPhone widgets as well as from Apple’s long list of widgets built into Sonoma. What’s different about the Sonoma desktop is that you can place widgets on it, and, in typical Apple style, the widgets change color according to the desktop background and are available in multiple sizes. The menu and dock look the same as in macOS Ventura and earlier versions (and, as always, I recommend going to System Settings and moving your dock from the bottom to the right to get more editing room in your documents). But, as in previous versions, you can replace the panorama with any other desktop wallpaper or a solid color. ![]() I like these animated panoramas on a large TV screen, but the effect of them feels slightly queasy on a laptop screen, somewhat like the effect of wearing any virtual reality headset I’ve ever tried. You can also choose from slow-motion panoramas of major cities and other picturesque places, like the animated screens that you’ll recognize if you have an Apple TV. If your Mac has more than one user, the other users’ icons fly out from behind your icon when you hover over it.īy default, the log screen shows a breathtaking animated panorama of the Sonoma Valley-the bigger your screen, the more of your breath it takes-and you seem to be floating over it toward the cloudy horizon. ![]() The first thing you notice when you start up Sonoma is the new lock screen with a digital clock big enough to see across the room and an icon at the foot with your user avatar. In short, macOS continues Apple’s long tradition of looking better than Windows, but not offering the matchless keyboard-based efficiency that expert Windows users can enjoy. I use both Windows and macOS every day, and I’ll come back later to the advantages and disadvantages of each. In contrast, Windows 11 still sometimes seems like an awkward teenager, with its unpredictable mix of cramped old-school and spacious modern dialogs and controls. With Sonoma, macOS is now twenty-two years old (it began life in 2001 under the name OS X) and has long since settled into the kind of adult stability where almost everything works in consistent and uncomplicated ways, even if you don’t like every specific detail. (Some of these, like autofilled PDFs, won’t arrive until Sonoma gets one of its point-release upgrades.) A Lively Lock Screen The more useful enhanced features include desktop widgets, user profiles in Safari, password sharing, fine-tuned videoconferencing, automated fill-in PDFs, and iPhone-style predictive text when you type, among others. If, like me, you don’t want to be distracted by in-your-face features like animated screen savers, you can simply ignore them. Sonoma emphasizes features that let you work more efficiently, either alone or in collaboration, and almost everything in it works more smoothly, informatively, and conveniently than ever before. Last year’s macOS version, Ventura, and the version before that, Monterey, highlighted features designed for group-chatting teenagers. Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security SoftwareĪs in all recent macOS versions, you’ll get a lot more out of Sonoma if you have an Apple Silicon (M1 or M2) Mac instead of an older Intel Mac because Apple Silicon lets macOS perform feats like OCR on screenshots so that you can select and paste text from an image-a feature that is only now getting added to Windows.
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![]() The photo we displayed was taken during a royal visit. The first photo in this article (and featured image) gives an idea of how close guests will be to the aircraft. Here you'll understand what each facility does - whether its in Broughton (UK), Getafe (Spain), Toulouse (France) or elsewhere and how it fits within the bigger picture.įollowing the video, you'll board the bus again and head over to a hangar where you'll see one of the A320-family assembly lines. The video gives tourists a brief overview of Airbus and the general idea of how things work with the various facilities scattered across Europe. The ACJ320neo and A320neo family is based on Airbus' popular A320 product line, featuring a new engine offering and fuel-efficient additions. ![]() The tour begins by boarding a bus and heading to a building where guests are seated to watch a video. Hopefully, this is the norm with tours here. This made him extremely knowledgeable on pretty much everything. My tour was given by a former employer and engineer at Airbus. Photo: Chris Loh/Simple Flying The tour: the narrowbody portion On Google Maps you can find the precise point by searching "Kreetslag 7, 21129 Hamburg".Ĭheck-in begins 30 minutes before the tour officially begins. As listed on the website, check-in for the tour takes place at the "Airbus Periport", to the left of the main entrance "East gate". ![]() More specifically, it’s just outside the town of Finkenwerder. The tour is at Airbus’ facilities outside Hamburg. Their online system will let you know how many spaces are left per tour, which is useful if you want to try and find a smaller group. You can register and pre-pay for your tour on their website. Unlike Boeing's tour, Airbus outsources the management of the tour to another company called Globetrotter. However, having just had the experience, I've sourced images that provide perspectives that tourists would, in fact, get from going on the tour. In fact, the tour has a strict no-photo policy and anyone violating this policy will be escorted out, off of the tour. First off, I need to say that the photos shown in this article within the factory and assembly line are not my own. ![]() Remember to vote for the next location every month. Heck yeah!Įscape Simulator is a next-gen escape room experience: pick up and examine everything, move furniture, smash pots and melt locks! Play solo or with a friend to solve cryptic puzzles and riddles. Escape room or not, it scratches the itch and I cannot wait to leap into the mystery and solve crimes. Sure, you’re probably thinking it’s not exactly an ‘escape room’ experience, but I can’t help but find myself drawn to this adventure. This one is all story, all puzzle and has already bagged itself a bunch of awards. What really draws me to this game is the moody 2D pixel art. They don’t give a f*ck.“Ī “sci-fi”, “noir”, “detective” adventure?! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY. “ I look up at the stars one last time before they disappear. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure | DigiTalesĪ murder. Are those secret button panels?Unusual light fixtures? Objects locked inside cages? I reckon if you’ve only got time to download one escape room game from the Steam Game Festival, give this one a go! From just moments into the trailer I can already spot a whole host of tantalising puzzles. A mysterious research center… Weird and wonderful puzzles… A chilling back story? Yep, it’s got pretty much everything you could possibly want from an escape room game. This game is a total classic in every sense of the world. Will you be able to discover how did you get there and escape? In this escape room with a dark setting, you will have to escape from the research center where you are trapped, by solving different puzzles. So without further adieu, here are my top 10 picks of Game Festival games for the escape room connoisseur: The Steam Game Festival runs from the 3rd – 9th February and showcases a whole range of games from different genres (my company’s own game is there under ‘Racing’ – keep an eye out for Drive Buy!) If you spot any games you like the look of, you’ll be able to watch live streams with the creators, add to your wishlist for news, and in most cases – download a demo version of the game! Pretty much all you need to play them is a PC, and not even a particularly good one at that. The best part? Since this festival is the developer’s chance to put their best foot forward and showcase their games, you can play most of them for free. Why? It is absolutely PACKED with escape room games this year. One thing I’m extra excited to talk about on The Escape Roomer is the Steam Game Festival. All it means is that my horizons have been broadened- no, that’s not right… More like they’ve been totally blown open with all the amazing ‘escape room’ video games I’ve been exposed to lately. ![]() Does this mean this blog is now about videogames? Nahhh. ![]() So here’s a bit of a life update for everyone who didn’t ask for it – in 2020 I transitioned away from working in the escape room industry into the video game industry. Deckadance DVS edition includes all the features of the Standard edition plus Vinyl/CD timecode support and the ability to generate a timecode file to be burned to CD. ![]() Its powerful ability to run as either a standalone application, or within your favorite host application (such as a DAW with VST support) allows for flexible configurations depending on your performance objectives. 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The plan represents a framework for riverfront redevelopment that represents the community’s vision while allowing for flexibility over the course of its phased implementation. This next-generation plan represents the culmination of over 12 months of study, planning, and engagement. The design team poured over findings and feedback from the analysis and programming phases to create a new vision for the riverfront. A Bounty-full Beginning: The Quincy Herald-Whig. QUINCY A Quincy teen will spend nearly 30 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday in the murder. Herald and formed an association with another Illinois newspaper family, the Schaubs. Library assistant director Burgundy Hill said that while the library. Schmidt pleaded guilty in the murder of his grandfather, Robert Schmidt, in February 2022. Herald-Whig newspaper records dating from 1926 to 2020 will now be accessible online, adding to the previous archive that went from 1835 to 1926. Community News Public meeting lays out road forward for Memorial Bridge replacement. Reimagined as a dynamic community gathering place and welcoming gateway, the proposed riverfront incorporates new attractions and refreshes existing infrastructure to infuse life into one of Quincy and Adams County’s most valuable assets. QUINCY (WGEM) - It will now be easier to bring history to your screen thanks to an archive expansion at the Quincy Public Library. QUINCY A Quincy man is wanted in connection with a stabbing that injured two people Thursday in Quincy. The Herald-Whig website has current Quincy news, and more information on this publication. The Riverfront Master Plan conveys a comprehensive approach for the redevelopment of prime real estate within four blocks of the Mississippi River in Quincy, Illinois. 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![]() However the name came about, macaroni eventually, and happily, met its famous culinary match. For some Italians and many Italian-Americans, macaroni or its regional variant eventually became a catch-all term for any type of pasta. Sometime between then and Kraft’s blue box, the grain used to make the dish became durum wheat and the name became maccheroni. When the Greeks established the colony of Neapolis-present-day Naples-they encountered a barley-based dish made by the locals and called it makaria. If this explanation is to be believed, macaroni as we know it today evolved from makaria, a dish made of barley flour. Even today, the meal that’s served after a Greek Orthodox funeral is called a makaria. How does all this tie in to pasta? Greeks used the word makaria to describe food made from barley, perhaps because barley dishes were a common part of funerals in ancient Greece. This Makaria is said to be Hades’s daughter, and she is, interestingly, also connected to a blessed death. Macaria offers herself up as the noble-born maiden, thus winning herself a “glorious death.” Because Greek mythology is nothing if not messy, there’s an account of another Makaria in the Suda, an encyclopedia of sorts of the ancient world. Demophon, the king of Athens, announces that an oracle has told him the only way to save the city is to sacrifice a maiden from a noble father. In Euripides’s Heracleidae, which tells the story of Heracles’s children, one of Heracles’s daughters is Macaria. ![]() The name macaroni has a somewhat-disputed etymology, but here’s one interesting explanation that makes a good bit of sense. The other pasta shape mentioned in the title of Martino da Como’s cookbook is macaroni. A variety of regional names for long, skinny noodles are used instead. It isn’t used in these dishes’ countries of origin. ![]() The thin noodles are used in dishes like pho and bun bo hue-but don’t expect to see the word vermicelli on menus in Asia. Westerners decided to apply the name to any Asian noodle that looked similar. Vermicelli is a long, thin pasta, and its name literally translates to little worms. He’s regarded as one of the first celebrity chefs in Western culture, and in addition to pioneering the modern cookbook, he gave us incredible recipe titles like “How to Determine Whether a Cow’s Udder Is Good” and "How to Dress a Peacock With All Its Feathers, So That When Cooked, It Appears to Be Alive and Spews Fire From Its Beak." (For the record, you want to look for a reddish color in your not-too-fatty udder, and the trick to posthumous peacock fire is raw cotton doused in alcohol.) Martino cooked for the Duke of Milan and Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan, who was a close advisor to the pope and whose opulent banquets helped raise Martino’s profile. One of the first mentions of vermicelli comes from The Art of Cooking Sicilian Macaroni and Vermicelli, a recipe book compiled by 15th-century culinary giant Martino da Como. ![]() If pasta is from Europe and noodles are from Asia, what does that make vermicelli? Depending on the recipe being used, you could fairly put it in either camp, but it first emerged as a pasta in Italy roughly six centuries ago. Noodles from Asia are traditionally made with rice flour, and even wheat noodles like those found in some Chinese dishes use a different variety of wheat than durum. Durum wheat also sets Italian pasta apart from Asian noodles. And when semolina pasta is dried, it has a long shelf life. Dough made with durum wheat flour, or semolina, has a high gluten content that allows it to be stretched into different shapes. The region’s climate makes it the perfect environment for growing durum wheat, the primary ingredient in pasta, along with eggs or water. Whatever the provenance, Italians embraced pasta, and not just because it tastes good. This early Arabian pasta found its way to Greece as well the ancient Greek word for ribbon is itrion, and some experts think this is related to the Arabic word for "noodle,” itriyya. Some historians credit pasta’s arrival in Italy to Arab groups, who likely also shared their technique for drying it-which they developed as a preservation method on long journeys. And while the Chinese may have been enjoying noodles for thousands of years before pasta first landed in Italy, that doesn’t necessarily mean the dish took a direct route from one country to the other. It’s a fun story, but it’s also inaccurate: Pasta was already popular in Italy by the time Marco Polo made his famous voyage to China at the end of the 13th century. Most people know the story of Venetian explorer Marco Polo bringing noodles back home from China. |
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