As we approach Halloween season, it is apparently never too early to start decorating. In fact Home Depot’s 12 foot “giant” skeleton, named Skelly takes preorders in April. If you missed the batch, they are going on Ebay for $800, but you can buy all new official accessories directly from Home Depot, including a companion Skelly dog.

If you subscribe to that timeline and decorating vigor, then we are way behind in offering some spooky wallpapers to decorate your iPhone. Download these jack-o-lantern wallpapers for iPhone to finish your holiday decorating frenzy.

Jack-o’-lantern wallpapers for iPhone

An iPhone is perhaps the most personalized device that you own. Further personalizing it by “decorating” your background for the season seems like a normal next step for the holiday seasons.

In this collection, we offer a handful of Halloween themed iPhone wallpapers that feature various versions of jack-o’-lanterns, even a cute Charmander holding his own fire-lit creation.

Of the collection, I enjoy the first posted download the most. With a true black #000000 background, the fire burning face should really pop on any OLED iPhone panel in a high dynamic fashion.

To check out additional wallpapers from the featured accounts above, visit their profiles on X: @PhoneWaIlpapers; @aestheticsguyy; @vukandric; @kuwoit.

If you would like to help influence the iDownloadBlog Wallpapers of the Week gallery, please send your favorite backgrounds, wallpapers, and images to me on X via @jim_gresham, where I curate our community submissions. You do not need to be the original artist, but if you know who created the image, please give them credit when submitting to me. In addition to individual files, I am always looking for new repos. Examples would be unsplash.com or the Mockup M wallpaper app, where we can feature many artists.

What do you think about using the fake book covers as a creative way to showcase the wallpapers? Not on-theme enough? Or cool alternative representation of the wallpaper images? Send me an X!

Previously posted

Orange pumpkin wallpapers for iPhone

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/10/13/jack-o-lantern-wallpapers-iphone/

Learn what to do if your Apple’s Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, or Magic Mouse fails to connect and work with your iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, Mac Pro, or MacBook.

Note that the solutions here are for fixing the wireless connection between your Mac and Magic accessories. You can always connect your Magic Keyboard or Trackpad via a cable to your Mac, and it should work, provided there are no hardware problems.

Before we get to the tips, make sure you have the following:

• Lightning cable: You will need it to establish a wired connection between your Mac and the Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse. You will also need a USB hub if the Lightning cable has a USB-A port on one end and your Mac only has USB-C ports.
• Wired keyboard or mouse: Since your wireless Magic accessories are not working, you will need to directly plug in a wired keyboard or mouse to navigate around your Mac. Of course, you don’t need these if you are troubleshooting the connection issue on your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro.

Fix Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse not working when you power on your Mac

After you switch on your MacBook, its built-in trackpad and keyboard are ready to use the moment you see the Lock Screen. However, when you boot up your desktop Mac, like Mac mini, it takes a moment for the wireless Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad/Mouse to become available for use.

When you enter the password and go to the Desktop, you will again have a brief moment of downtime until the Magic Keyboard or Trackpad starts working.

Both these short connection wait times are a normal occurrence. However, if your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse are not connecting automatically to your iMac, Mac Studio, Mac mini, Mac Pro, or MacBook and you have waited for a while, just connect them with a Lightning cable, and it should become available for use.

Leave your Magic accessory connected to your Mac via a cable for a minute or two. After that, you can disconnect the cable, and the accessory will continue to work wirelessly.

You can also force your Mac to shut down using its power button, wait for a while, and then power it back on. It should auto-connect to your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse now.

What to do if your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse has suddenly stopped working

In rare cases, your keyboard, trackpad, or mouse may stop working midway after losing connection or going out of battery. Here are all the effective tips to fix it.

Plug the accessories

You get an alert when your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse battery gets critically low with just 2% charge remaining.

Simply connect your keyboard or trackpad to your Mac with a cable, and you can start using it.

You can check the battery percentage of your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse by going to the Bluetooth section in macOS Control Center or using the Batteries widget.

Restart your Magic accessory

Turn off your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse using the small power button and wait for at least 30 seconds. After that, flip the switch back on and wait once again for the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to connect automatically to your Mac. Of course, make sure your Mac’s Bluetooth is enabled in System Settings. In case auto-connect doesn’t work, connect it manually from System Settings > Bluetooth.

Restart your Mac

Random glitches in macOS can cause all sorts of trouble, including issues between your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse. So, simply restart your Mac using the wired mouse, and hopefully, the problem will go away.

You can also force your Mac to turn off by holding the power button for a few seconds until the screen goes black. After that, wait for about a minute, and then press the power button once to turn it back on.

Toggle Bluetooth off and on

You cannot turn off Bluetooth on your desktop Mac if the Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad/Mouse are connected to it. So, connect a wired keyboard and mouse to your Mac and then go to System Settings to turn Bluetooth off and back on.

Forget the accessory and connect again

If the problem continues, you should forget the Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse from Mac’s Bluetooth settings and then reconnect it.

Grab your Lightning cable and follow these detailed steps on your Mac with a wired keyboard and mouse connected to it:

1. Open System Settings and select Bluetooth.
2. Click the info button ⓘ next to your Magic Keyboard/Trackpad/Mouse and hit Forget This Device > Forget Device.
3. Turn off your Magic Keyboard/Trackpad/Mouse using its power switch, and then restart your Mac.
4. Lastly, turn on your Magic Keyboard/Trackpad/Mouse and go to System Settings > Bluetooth to connect it to your Mac.

This step should address connection issues, and now your Magic accessory will work as intended.

Note that you will have to set up Touch ID again on your supported Magic Keyboard.

Update your Mac

If your Mac is not running the latest version of macOS, go to System Settings > General > Software Update to download and install the newest version of the operating system.

Reset Mac’s network settings

If nothing has worked, consider resetting the network settings on your Mac.

Closing tips…

Try these options if you still cannot connect your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse to your Mac:

• Try restarting your Mac and forgetting and reconnecting your keyboard, trackpad, or mouse a couple more times. This has worked for me in the past.
• Use your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse with another Mac and see if it works there.
• Lastly, you can consider having your accessory inspected at an Apple Store. If it’s under warranty, you might get a free replacement.

On a related note:

• Bluetooth keyboard lagging on Mac? Here’s how to fix it
• How to fix a slow, unresponsive and laggy mouse on Mac
• How to rename your Magic Mouse, Keyboard, or Trackpad on Mac

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/10/14/fix-magic-accessory-not-working-with-mac/

Photoshop maker Adobe unveiled the next batch of AI-powered tools at its annual MAX conference that are now available across the Creative Cloud suite.

Adobe was the first major developer to popularize AI-powered tools such as content-aware fill and seamless background removal. Today, it unveiled a more capable Firefly generative AI model (launched in beta in April) capable of more complex prompts and producing images of notably higher quality than before.

Major Creative Cloud apps also benefit from the improved AI model. Plus, the newly introduced V4 update to Frame.io makes the collaboration platform available to all subscribers, and it now includes a ton of new features.

Adobe’s new AI features for the Creative Cloud suite

Photoshop, which uses the new FireFly model, can automatically select all objects on an image, saving you from tedious manual work. The app can also detect distractions in your photographs, such as people photobombing your shot or unimportant objects ruining the composition, such as wires and cables, then remove them and replace the background seamlessly. The feature, called Distraction Removal, is similar to Google’s Magic Eraser and Apple’s Clean Up tools.

It’s available in Photoshop’s desktop and mobile apps as part of the Remove tool but will expand to other apps later. Speaking of the Remove Tool, you can now choose whether it uses the latest Firefly image model, avoids generative AI entirely, or automatically selects the appropriate option based on the image and scene.

Photoshop’s existing AI features like Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Generate Similar and Generate Background now take advantage of the latest Firefly 3 model.

An enhanced Image Trace feature in Illustrator is now capable of rendering crisper vectorized outputs with cleaner lines that Adobe claims are more accurate to the original image. Illustrator also gained a new feature, dubbed Objects on Path, for moving multiple objects along any path shape with ease.

In Premiere, subscribers can now use the AI video creation feature Adobe’s been teasing for a while, allowing you to generate video from still images and text prompts. Adobe has managed to bring AI-powered video creation to the masses ahead of OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo, which is impressive.

Premiere Pro has gained a new Generative Extend feature thanks to the Firefly AI Video Model. Available as beta, Generative Extend can extend the end or the beginning of your clip by up to two seconds. However, the feature is limited in terms of resolution and frame rate; it can only output 720p or 1080p video at 24 fps.

The new features will roll out to Creative Cloud subscribers automatically, or you can manually check for updates to get them. For further information about everyone Adobe announced at the MAX 2024, visit the Adobe Newsroom and the Adobe Blog.

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/10/14/adobe-ai-features-max2024-conference/

The next iPhone SE is expected to feature beefed-up hardware but not a programmable Action button, which debuted on the iPhone 15 Pros.

A Photograph of what look like an iPhone SE 4 case published by Australian leaker Sonny Dickson strongly suggests the upcoming handset may continue using the traditional ringer switch instead of the new Action button.

The image depicts the front and back side with cutouts for a rear camera, a power button on the right and volume buttons and a ringer switch on the left side. This suggests that the button in that position will be like the traditional ringer/silent switch rather than a button that can be pressed inward.

iPhone SE 4 may not have an Action button

At the end of the day, this probably won’t be a major problem for would-be iPhone SE 4 shoppers. Many folks in the market for an iPhone SE prefer a balanced package that’s priced fairly over power user features anyway.

Tim Hardwick, MacRumors:

It’s possible that the case manufacturer has left a cutout simply because they don’t know if the button will be present or not. But given that Apple suppliers are expected to begin ramping up mass production of the device this month, it could be that Apple has chosen not to add an Action button, despite the fact that all iPhone 16 models inherited the button from 2023’s iPhone 15 Pro models.

The Action button is available on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max and across all four iPhone 16 models, directly replacing the old mute switch. Unlike the ringer switch, the Action button is programmable, meaning you can assign a custom function to execute when pressed.

Some people feel Apple has missed the opportunity to make the Action button much more versatile by limiting it to the pressing action. It doesn’t distinguish between light and hard presses, long and short ones, etc.

iOS 18 makes the Action button more useful

If your iPhone runs iOS 18, you’re wholeheartedly recommended to check out the Control option. iOS 18 brings a revamped Control Center featuring a dedicated gallery with a dizzying array of controls supplied by Apple and compatible third-party apps installed on your iPhone.
A subset of these controls can be assigned to the Action button, including Dark Mode, Calculator, Scan Code and more, making it more utilitarian.

How the Action button works

By default, the Action button is set to turn on silent mode. To customize it, go to Settings > Action Button to choose between the Silent Mode, Focus, Camera, Flashlight, Voice Memo, Recognize Music, Translate, Magnifier, Control, Shortcut and Accessibility options. I have mine set to Magnifier, which I often use to read small print because I have astigmatism.

The Shortcut option lets you run custom automation by pressing and holding the Action button. The Accessibility option enables you to assign an assistive feature to the Action button, like fullscreen zoom. Some of the available Action button actions provide additional settings, like setting the Camera app to open into a specific shooting mode like Photo, Selfie, Video, Portrait or Portrait Selfie.

The Control option, added in iOS 18, is quite powerful as it lets you toggle a Control Center switch like AirDrop or Bluetooth without actually opening the Control Center.

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/10/14/iphone-se-4-action-button-case-leak/