The big iOS news of this week was actually tvOS news — lots of folks discovering tips and tricks on the Apple TV. For example, I wish I had known the trick about pressing play/pause to shift from lowercase to uppercase back when I was first setting up my own Apple TV and entering passwords. This tip and many more are included in the news items of note from this past week:
- Ohio attorney Paul Unger discusses the upcoming iPad Pro in an article for Law Technology Today.
- Massachusetts lawyer Robert Ambrogi notes on his Law Sites blog that we are now up to 15 states that take the position that attorneys have an ethical duty of technology competence.
- Loyola Law School (New Orleans) Prof. Dane Ciolino discusses new West Virginia Bar guidelines on the use of social media.
- Debra Weiss reports for ABA Journal that Harvard Law School is scanning most of its law books and making the digital images available for free on the Internet.
- Marc Newson is a famous designer who helped Apple to design the Apple Watch. He is now an Apple employee and spends about 60% of his time working for Apple. James Chessell of the Autralian Financial Review posted an interesting interview with Newson.
- We are in the first week of the new Apple TV, so it was in the news quite a bit this week. Jason Snell discusses the future of Apple TV in an article for iMore.
- Josh Centers wrote a great Q&A on the Apple TV for TidBITS.
- Joe Rossignol compiled a good set of Apple TV tips and tricks for MacRumors.
- Susie Ochs of Macworld compiled a good list of tips and tricks for the Apple TV’s Siri Remote.
- Jim Dalrymple of The Loop discusses his initial impressions of the Apple TV.
- One of the nice features of the Apple TV is that you can connect Bluetooth headphones, so that you can watch a show or play a game without disturbing others in the same room. Brent Zaniewski of iMore recommends Bluetooth headphones to pair with an Apple TV.
- Security expert Rich Mogull gets to the bottom of reports that a security broker recently paid $1 million for a browser-based iOS 9 hack, in an article for TidBITS.
- The Joy of Tech comic created some fun lyrics for the song Welcome to the Hotel CaliFacebook.
- And finally, in this video, Robin Rhys of AppAdvice shows how you can use a $2 app to create create live photos to use as faces on your Apple Watch: