Update: That $103 price is holding steady in early trading this morning. While Apple’s earnings weren’t fantastic, with particularly bad news in China, the market view appears to be that the numbers were better than feared. The stock price climbed sharply in the first hour of after-hours trading, jumping from $97.34 to more than $103, and has so far maintained this new level. Business Insider did a roundup of analyst reactions, and found that with the single exception of Deutsche Bank, which rates the stock a Hold, all the others they surveyed rated it a Buy, with target prices ranging from $115 to $150 …...

What’s Changed: Cursor Color Before macOS Monterey, cursor accessibility features were limited to locating the mouse pointer by shaking it and changing the cursor size. In the latest Mac update, there’s now the ability to change the cursor color. Change the Cursor Pointer Outline To change the cursor outline in macOS Monterey: Click on the System Preferences icon in the Mac dock.Select Accessibility.Choose Display on the left side of the accessibility box....

It seems like Apple is gearing up for a late in the year event to introduce the world to its tablet publishing platform. Over the weekend, we first heard about a tablet-only newspaper from the Guardian. The Daily would be a News Corp exclusively tablet publication that was worked on with Apple and will usher in Apple’s Tablet publishing platform. Daring Fireball then reported some additional details of an event to be hosted by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch: Additionally, we’ve heard from a completely unverified/unreliable source, that EA is going to be on hand at the event, which will take place around December 14 to show some of its wares for the completely unrelated Mac App Store....

Be sure to follow 9to5Toys to keep up with the best gear and deals on the web: Twitter, RSS Feed,Facebook, Google+ and subscribe to the new Safari push notifications feature. Today’s can’t miss deals: Last Call updates: Save an additional 20% on already reduced Incase iPhone, iPad, and Mac accessories Home Deals: Dyson DC35 Multi Floor Stick Vacuum $210 (Reg. $300), Alera Complete Wire Shelving Unit $60, more Apple iPad Air 16GB WiFi (space gray or silver) $430 shipped (Reg....

Be sure to follow 9to5Toys to keep up with the best gear and deals on the web: Twitter, RSS Feed,Facebook, Google+ and subscribe to the new Safari push notifications feature. Today’s can’t miss deals: Last Call updates: Western Digital My Passport Ultra 2 TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Black + Photoshop Lightroom 5 $129 ($100 off) ColorStrokes: Selective photo coloring app for Mac – FREE (Reg. $3) RAVPower External Batteries: Travel Pack 2800mAh AC / Battery Charger / Power Bank $9 shipped, Element 10400mAh $26...

I gave my first impressions of the Apple Watch on Friday. Three-and-a-half days in, and halfway into my one-week experiment, it’s time for an update. You may want to get a cup of your preferred hot beverage before reading this piece: it’s a long one! It appears I was entirely alone in my uncertainty over whether or not the watch would win me over. Strangers commenting here, and friends commenting on Facebook, spoke with one voice: I was, they all confidently predicted, going to keep it....

Apple earnings day is upon us, and with it we learn how the company performed during the third fiscal quarter of 2019. AAPL forecasted Q3 earnings revenue between $52.5 billion and $54.5 billion, which compares to $53.3 billion reported in the same quarter a year ago. So how much money did Apple actually make during April, May, and June of 2019? $53.8 billion revenue and $10.04 billion profit. Apple no longer reports iPhone, iPad, and Mac unit sales numbers, though it does report a revenue breakdown by product category....

A few weeks ago, Apple announced a rare revision that significantly lowered its earnings guidance for the 2018 holiday quarter. AAPL shares swiftly dropped 8% in after-hours trading on the news, and slid further the following day. However, today AAPL shares have officially bounced back to above the pre-announcement share price of $157.92, recovering over $75 billion of its market cap. Just before it shared its holiday quarterly revenue would be $5B-$9B lower than its guidance predicted, AAPL ended at $157....

“Now that [the NBN’s] built, I think it’s appropriate to treat its cost as sunk and therefore, what matters for Australia is getting the best use out of the NBN,” Sims told Senate Estimates yesterday. The ACCC chair was speaking to the NBN’s efforts to recoup costs, wherein the company responsible for running the network has previously said it needs to eventually have an average revenue per user of AU$51 to avoid a potential write-down....

After opening a connection with your data source, typically a database, your next step is to read from the data source and load the data into a recordset. To perform this operation, we simply need to create an ADO Recordset object. After the Recordset object is created, you will open it and pass information to the data source. Typically this information would consist of the SQL query and the connection object....

Adobe has been steadily introducing free creative tools that let iPhone and iPad users tell stories through text, photos, and videos, and today that effort is coming to the web with the all-new Adobe Spark. In addition to launching the free web app, Adobe is updating a few of its existing iOS apps with new names as they now serve as companions to the web service. Just like with Adobe’s storytelling apps for iOS — Voice, Slate, and Post — Adobe Spark is focused on letting anyone create visually rich content with various types of media....

9to5Toys now has a new app! Download it to stay to date on the best gear and deals on the web. Plus don’t forget to check us out on Apple News and sign up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter. Also, be sure to check us out on: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and Safari push notifications. Listen to the new 9to5Toys Daily Podcast: https://9to5toys.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/12/9to5Toys-Daily-12-06-2018.mp3 9to5Toys Lunch Break delivers the best deals every day of the week at 12:30PM EST....

What happens then? Do you go out and find new customers? Do you try to analyze what could have gone wrong during their customer experience or buyer journey? It’s important to understand customer churn and how it can affect business health. Let’s examine the top reasons for customer churn and what you can do to better understand high-risk customers. We’ll also explore several strategies you can employ to reduce this dreaded churn....

AAPL shares are trading at a relatively small loss of anywhere from 1.5-2.5% from yesterday’s close against a slightly up broader market. Overnight, shares had been down 5-6% in after hours trading on the news that Steve Jobs would be leaving his CEO role and taking the Chairman role. This morning Apple opened at 365 and at the time of this writing, Apple is heading towards yesterday’s close, at 370....

We reported on this development over the weekend, but not all accounts had this feature yet. Also, we weren’t sure if this was a beta experiment or something that was to be eventually rolled out to everyone. Well, as of today, the latter is the official word from Microsoft. Send Attachments to OneDrive We showed you how it works in our previous article: Save Outlook.com Attachments to OneDrive with a Click, so read that to learn exactly how it works to send your attachments to OneDrive....

Adobe has updated its Flash Player to version 10.3, squashing a bunch of bugs and introducing a brand new control panel. It’s a welcome addition that lets you better manage the many Flash Player settings, including camera, microphone and Local Shared Objects settings. More importantly, one can now set how Flash tracking cookies are being handled and fine-tune other privacy, security and storage settings. Also important, Flash Player 10.3 now supports auto-update notification for Mac OS X....

Be sure to follow 9to5Toys to keep up with the best gear and deals on the web: Twitter, RSS Feed,Facebook, Google+ and subscribe to the new Safari push notifications feature. Today’s can’t miss deals: Last Call updates: Mpow Bluetooth 4.0 Stereo Foldable Headphones Headset $33 shipped (Reg. $80) iOttie Easy One Touch Car Mount for iPhone, Galaxy, and other smartphones $12.50 shipped (Reg. $25) Wacom Bamboo Stylus with soft tip for iPad and iPhone $11 shipped (Reg....

For every complex machine like your mobile phone, PC, Laptop, etc, firmware is supposedly the backbone responsible for the functioning of specific hardware equipment. Now, sometimes you may need to understand or make changes in the behavior of the original device. If you don’t wish to go through its source code, another way to do it might be by extracting the firmware files. But again, that’s quite some work if you are not familiar with the process at all....

Netflix have befittingly chosen Friday the 13th of January to premiere the first season of its highly anticipated TV adaptation of A Series Of Unfortunate Events. With this date just around the corner, the streaming giant is reaching the apex of its multi-branched marketing campaign to showcase the whimsically gothic, star-filled TV show. Netflix have been developing A Series Of Unfortunate Events since 2014, with the aid of pseudonymised author Daniel Handler -who has co-written each episode with Emily Fox, in addition to creating the theme song and executive producing....

I hope you’re having a great Thanksgiving Day spending time with the people you love and eating delicious food. Along with watching the parade, having good conversation, and slipping into a turkey coma, don’t forget to take a moment to reflect your own life. I’m sure that there are many wonderful things you are thankful for. I’m very thankful for my husband, Barry, and my son, Ian. I have been blessed to have a loving family, a healthy body, a great career, and a way to help and give back to people from all walks of life....