AnoStyle iPad mini winner, and a coupon code for everyone!

Last week AnoStyle teamed up with iMore to give away a custom colored iPad mini and you entered by the thousands. Well, the contest is now closed, the entries have all been counted, and a winner has been chosen at random.

Before we get to that, however, AnoStyle has been gracious enough to kick over a consolation coupon code for everyone who really wants a custom color iPhone 5 or iPad mini but didn't win. Simply use IMOREANOSTYLESPRING2013 at checkout to save $50 on your order from anostyle.com.

But right here, right now, we we're going to tell you the winner.

After the break...!

...And the winner of the custom color AnoStyle iPad mini is:

ridiculocity

Who wants it RED.

Congrats to our winner, and thanks to everyone who entered!

If you didn't win this time, be sure to enter all our other contests because it could be your turn to win next!

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Geothermal Energy in Iceland: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Iceland is named the land of fire and ice for a good reason. It is certainly icy: temperatures hover around 10-20°F (-12 to -6°C) in the winter. But underneath that frozen earth lies fiery hot rock and water — so much of it that 87 percent of the country's heat and hot water demand is met with geothermal energy and 25 percent of its electricity dem

Source: Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Over Three Million Diabetics In The UK

There are three million diabetics in the UK, accounting for 4.6% of the nation's population, according to recent analysis by Tesco and Diabetes UK. Over the last year 132,000 more people have been diagnosed with diabetes. There are an estimated 850,000 people with type 2 diabetes who haven't been diagnosed living in the UK...

Source: Diabetes News From Medical News Today

FaceTime: The ultimate guide

Everything you need to know about setting up and using FaceTime video calling on iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Mac

FaceTime is Apple's video chat service. It allows anyone with a recent iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Mac to make free calls to any other Apple user over Wi-Fi or cellular connection. On the iPhone, FaceTime is bundled into the Phone app. On the iPod touch, iPad, and Mac, FaceTime is a separate app. On all devices, FaceTime can connect to any Apple-registered iPhone phone number or email address. That makes it perfect for keeping in touch with family who lives far away, with the kids while traveling, with business partners at distant offices, or even with that special someone while shopping for the perfect gift.

Bookmark this page and check back often, because we'll be updating it regularly. And f you already know everything there is to know about FaceTime, then forward it on to friends and family who need it. We'll do the heavy support lifting for you!

How to setup, enable, disable, or restrict FaceTime How to register, enable, and disable additional email addresses for FaceTime How to set your caller ID for FaceTime How to enable or disable FaceTime over cellular on iPhone and iPad How to make a FaceTime call from your iPhone

How to make a FaceTime call from your iPad or iPod touch How to turn off video while on a FaceTime call How to make a FaceTime call from your Mac How to watch FaceTime calls on the big screen with Apple TV

How to setup, enable, disable, or restrict FaceTime

FaceTime is automatically activated as part of the overall setup process you go through the first time you turn on a new iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Mac. If for some reason it doesn't seem to have been activated, or if you'd rather turn it off, you can also enable or disable FaceTime at any time. If you're worried about children having access to FaceTime, you can even lock it out completely using parental restrictions.

• How to enable or disable FaceTime
• How to use parental controls to restrict FaceTime

How to register, enable, and disable additional email addresses for FaceTime

While FaceTime was originally locked to an iPhone phone number, now that iPod touch, iPad, and Mac can make FaceTime video calls, Apple has added email addresses as a way to connect. Usually your FaceTime address will be your main Apple ID -- the one you use for iCloud, and sign in with when you setup your device for the first time. However, you can all register additional addresses with Apple and FaceTime. This makes it relatively simple to ensure anyone with any of your addresses can get through, or even to separate work from family addresses, or to use different addresses on different devices.

• How to register additional email addresses for FaceTime
• How to enable or disable phone numbers and email address for FaceTime

How to set your caller ID for FaceTime

FaceTime allows you set a caller ID. If you only have one iPhone phone number, or iPod touch, iPad, or Mac email address associated with FaceTime, that'll be your caller ID. If you have several different numbers and addresses associated with FaceTime, however, you can choose one of them to serve as your consistent, unified called ID. That way, no matter which number or address you're FaceTime calling from, the person receiving the call will always see the same contact, and easily know it's you. If you have multiple iOS and/or OS X devices, you can either set them all to the same caller ID, or to different ones -- for example, business and personal -- so you can receive calls from any number or address, but always send them from the same, specific number or address.

• How to set your caller ID for FaceTime

How to enable or disable FaceTime over cellular on iPhone and iPad

It took FaceTime a long time to start working over cellular, but now that it has it's made it incredibly convenient to talk with your kids while you're walking down an out-of-town street, or check with your partner before buying something for the home or office. Of course, with cellular access comes cellular data usage, and if you're on a limited plan, you may want to be careful how much you use FaceTime over 3G or LTE. Luckily, the iPhone and data-enabled iPads make it easy to turn FaceTime over cellular on, and off.

• How to enable or disable FaceTime over cellular on iPhone and iPad

How to make a FaceTime call from your iPhone

The iPhone was the first Apple device to gain access to their free video calling service, FaceTime. Since 2010 and the iPhone 4, FaceTime has been integrated right into the built-in iOS Phone app. That means you can make, or switch to, a FaceTime call as easily as a regular call. What's more, because your iPhone is with you all the time, and because FaceTime now also works over cellular data as well as Wi-Fi, you can make a FaceTime call at any time, from anywhere. That makes it perfect for everything from keeping in touch with family while you're on the road, to getting a second opinion on that jacket while you're out shopping! (Just keep an eye on your data cap!)

• How to make a FaceTime call on your iPhone
• How to switch from a regular call to FaceTime on your iPhone

How to make a FaceTime call from your iPad or iPod touch

FaceTime is available on every iPad since the 2011 iPad 2, and iPod touch since the 2010 iPod touch 4. Because FaceTime requires an internet connection, on the iPod touch and non-cellular iPads, you need to be connected to Wi-Fi to make a call. On an iPad or iPad mini with cellular, you can FaceTime any time, from anywhere, you just need to keep an eye on your data limit, if any. Unlike the iPhone, FaceTime on the iPad, iPad mini, and iPod touch is a separate app. Tap it, and you're ready to call any other FaceTime user!

• How to make a FaceTime call from your iPad or iPod touch

How to turn off video while on a FaceTime call

FaceTime calls are a great way to see who you're talking to, but there may come a time when you'd rather not be seen. Maybe you're not dressed for company, or maybe you simply don't want anyone to see who's with you, or behold the state of the world around you. While, Apple hasn't (yet?) enabled audio-only FaceTime calls, you can easily start a regular old FaceTime call and then turn off the video.

• How to turn off video while on a FaceTime call

How to make a FaceTime call from your Mac

FaceTime works on any Mac with OS X 10.7 Snow Leopard or later and web camera, including the ones built into MacBooks and iMacs. As long as you have an internet connection, including tethering, you can use your Mac to call anyone with a FaceTime compatible iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as well. That makes FaceTime a great option for family and business calls alike!

• How to make a FaceTime call from your Mac

How to watch FaceTime calls on the big screen with Apple TV

Apple TV, when combined with AirTime Mirroring, is great way to take personal FaceTime video calls between family or colleagues and make them group calls that everyone can engage with. Whether you want to get the whole gang together for a big birthday bash, or the entire office for a conference call, FaceTime on the big screen makes it possible.

• How to watch FaceTime calls on the big screen with Apple TV

How to get more help with FaceTime

If you need more help with using FaceTime on your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Mac, check out the iMore forums.

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How to Follow Renewable Energies into Emerging Markets

Large-scale deployment of renewable energies has so far been concentrated in Europe and in the U.S., but that is changing. Take wind energy, solar PV and CSP (Concentrated Solar Power), for instance: 44 percent, 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, of new capacity for the next five years will be deployed in emerging markets (Exhibit 1). For Nor

Source: Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Building an African Market: Solar Energy Entrepreneurs on the Rise

Charities' early efforts to distribute clean energy technologies in Africa met with little success. Their use of donor funding to heavily subsidise products such as solar lighting kits would generally fulfil a programme's short-term targets, but in the long run the expertise and equipment needed to maintain the systems failed to be adequately developed or provided. Crucially, no new systems beyond a programme's target would appear in the area. But a new wave of investors and social enterprises has sprung up in the last decade, and they are increasing the availability of products tailored to off-grid domestic energy customers in Africa.

Source: Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com

iMore show. Tonight. 6pm PT. 9pm ET. Be here!

Tonight on the iMore show, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop joins me to talk all things Apple. Given the week's news, it might just be a slobber-knocker.

6pm PT/9pm ET. Be here!

Want to go full screen? Head to iMore.com/live. Want to watch via iPhone or iPad? Grab the Ustream app and search for "mobilenations". Want to subscribe to any or all of our shows? Head on over to our podcast page.

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Lightning to Digital AV adapter could be pushing lower res H.264 because it's not capable of streaming raw HDMI

Earlier today we linked to a post by Cabel Sasser on the Panic Blog about Apple's Lightning Digital AV connector, which is basically their HDMI adapter. Sasser had discovered that the adapter provided a less-than-1080p signal, broke it open, and found a tiny computer contained inside. Lots of speculation followed as to why that was, and what might be going on. A comment left on the Panic Blog by "Anonymous Coward", however, implies internal Apple knowledge of the matter, and purports to have the answer. In part, the comment says:

The reason why this adapter exists is because Lightning is simply not capable of streaming a "raw" HDMI signal across the cable. Lightning is a serial bus. There is no clever wire multiplexing involved. [...] Airplay uses a bunch of hardware h264 encoding technology that we've already got access to, so what happens here is that we use the same hardware to encode an output stream on the fly and fire it down the Lightning cable straight into the ARM SoC the guys at Panic discovered. Airplay itself (the network protocol) is NOT involved in this process. The encoded data is transferred as packetized data across the Lightning bus, where it is decoded by the ARM SoC and pushed out over HDMI.

If the comment is legitimate -- and there's no way to know at this point if it is or not -- Apple is basically hanging all the electronics outside the device, rather than glutting Lightning up with signals that may fall into disuse over the time. There are trade-offs, to be sure, but given how the old 30-pin Dock connector abandoned FireWire over time, added HDMI, and jumbled in everything from line to serial, if accurate, this could also be a better, more future-proof solution.

And, since the on-device side is software-centric, an update could improve the HDMI out to true 1080p. Fingers crossed.

If anyone has any specific knowledge of how this kind of stuff works, give the full comment a read via the link below and then please weigh in a let me know how likely (or unlikely) it all sounds.

Source: Panic Blog comment

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Predictive Glucose Control System In Development Shows Promise

Animas Corporation has announced positive results from the second phase of human clinical trials of a first-generation, closed-loop insulin delivery system in development, designed to predict a rise or fall in blood glucose and correspondingly increase, decrease, suspend and resume insulin delivery...

Source: Diabetes News From Medical News Today

Evernote forces password resets after discovering suspicious activity

Evernote, the popular cross-platform note-taking service, has issued a global password reset for all users following the discovery of suspicious activity described as a coordinated attempt to gain access to their system. In an email sent out to users by the company, Evernote said:

The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts, and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)

While our password encryption measures are robust, we are taking steps to ensure your personal data remains secure. This means that in an abundance of caution, we are requiring all users to reset their Evernote account passwords. Please create a new password by signing into your account on evernote.com.

After signing in, you will be prompted to enter your new password. Once you have reset your password on evernote.com, you will need to enter this new password in other Evernote apps that you use. We are also releasing updates to several of our apps to make the password change process easier, so please check for updates over the next several hours.

You can also read the Evernote Blog post on the issue for more.

This is only the latest such disclosure from a major online service provider. If you're not already, make sure you get a password manager app (I use 1Password, others like Lastpass, but there are many options). Then, make sure you have unique, robust passwords for every service you use. It might seem like a pain in the ass, but having your accounts compromised can be a nightmare. So do it.

If you're an Evernote user, go change your password now.

More: Evernote Blog

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Apple's Lightning to HDMI adapter opened up, discovered to contain a tiny AirPlay computer

The fine folks at Panic were experimenting with video out from iOS -- never we mind why -- and came across an interesting discovery: Apple's Lightning Digital AV adapter, aka HDMI adapter, doesn't seem to pass along a 1080p signal in the traditional manner. Instead, it looks like it's passing along upscaled AirPlay-like video. Intrigued as to how, Cabel Sasser gutted the adapter like a Tauntaun on a cold night to find out, and shared what he discovered on the Panic Blog:

Your eyes don't deceive you — that tiny chip says ARM. And the H9TKNNN2GD part number on there points towards RAM — 2Gb worth.

So it's a tiny computer. More specifically, a tiny, single purpose, hard-lined Apple TV-esque device. That explains the less-than-stellar quality of the output, but not why Apple chose to go this way. For some theories on that, and more on Panic's adapter adventure, including the torn-open guts of the gear, check out the link below.

Source: Panic Blog

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