Harrison Ford returns to the big screen in The Call of the Wild, which hits theaters on February 21. He plays Jack Thornton, the man who finds salvation in a big-hearted dog named Buck and helps Buck find freedom in turn, in the latest adaptation of the classic novel. In a recent interview with Screen Rant, the veteran actor explained why The Call of the Wild called to him as well as how much the bond between man and dog has impacted his own life....
The Marauders are one group from Harry Potter that many fans love. They are definitely fan favorites, excluding Peter Pettigrew, and many fans want more stories about them and that time period. While Lupin, James, and Sirius are popular characters, they also have some major flaws. They are complex characters that have good traits and bad traits, and they also do things that are wrong or even just annoying. Here are the ten most obnoxious things that the Marauders did in the Harry Potter series....
Heart Analyzer is an app that offers various in-depth ways to see your heart rate data from Apple Watch. Today, the app has been updated with an all-new Apple Watch app that includes new data visualization tools and more. The new Heart Analyzer Apple Watch app has been completely redesigned and optimized for watchOS 6. The Apple Watch app allows you to easily view a graph of your heart rate data for that data, as well as things like averages and minimums over the last week....
Every year Apple pulls out ten or so tent pole iOS features to demo on stage at WWDC, but major updates include way more features than we can see in one keynote. These apply to both customer features and developer tools. Below we’ve collected all of the iOS 10 features Apple didn’t have time to demo at WWDC 2016. Read receipts by conversation in iMessages iCloud Drive Desktop folder Air Quality Index for China Faster Camera launch Continuity Clipboard Autocorrect improvements for Korean and Thai Notes Collaboration Unlimited tabs in Safari Male and female Siri voices for Russia, Spain, & Italy Definition dictionary in Danish Live Photos stabilization Markup in Messages Side-by-side Mail compose iPad Location suggestions in Calendar New iPad Camera UI Live Filters for Live Photos Conversation view in Mail Discover in iBooks Improved Auto Enhance in Photos Faster FaceTime connectivity CarPlay app reordering Split View in Safari on iPad Rest & type iPad keyboard Sort Favorites in News iCloud Drive Documents folder Bilingual dictionaries in Dutch & Italian Apple Pay in Safari Mail suggested move folder Air quality in Maps for China Found in Messages Brilliance adjustment slider in Photos Mail filters CarPlay on ultrawide screens Bedtime alarm Siri for South Africa & Ireland Definition dictionary in Traditional Chinese Live Photos editing Avoid tolls in Maps Mailbox column Faster attachment sending in Messages And for developers…...
Earlier today, Apple took wraps off of a refreshed 12-inch MacBook just over a year after the line was first introduced. While Apple is touting that this MacBook is faster and offers longer battery life than last year’s model, the company is notoriously vague when it comes to sharing under-the-hood details on its product pages. We’ve done some digging, however, and will attempt to break down all of the differences between last year’s 12-inch MacBook and this year’s upgraded model....
Kevin Kenney has spent most of the last 14 years building carbon fiber bicycles as the President and CEO at Kestral Bicycles. This month, he became an Senior Composites Engineer at Apple after consulting for the past few years. What does Apple want with an expert in carbon fiber and other composite applications? iBikes? No. Kenney has been working indirectly with Apple for years. Apple filed a Carbon fiber patent with his name on it in 2009 (image of back panel below)....
We can interact with HBase in two ways, HBase interactive shell mode and Through Java API In HBase, interactive shell mode is used to interact with HBase for table operations, table management, and data modeling. By using Java API model, we can perform all type of table and data operations in HBase. We can interact with HBase using this both methods. The only difference between these two is Java API use java code to connect with HBase and shell mode use shell commands to connect with HBase....
The origin of Watchmen’s Looking Glass reveals that he has deeper ties to the graphic novel than suspected. Portrayed by Tim Blake Nelson, Looking Glass is one of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s masked police officers and he has arguably the most visually striking hood in the series, which is made of a uniquely shiny mirror-like material and is reminiscent of Rorschach’s mask. But Looking Glass is really Detective Wade Tillman and as Watchmen episode 5, “Little Fear of Lightning”, tells his backstory, Looking Glass turns out to be one of the show’s most tragic characters....
HBO’s Watchmen premiere on Sunday night scored the biggest ratings for a digital services in three years. This represented a strong start for a new HBO show series since Westworld’s season premiere back in 2016. Watchmen was first introduced to the big screen by director Zack Snyder, who later went on to serve as an architect for the early installments of the DC Extended Universe. Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen, based on the award-winning Alan Moore graphic novel, takes a spin on the world of Moore and Gibbons’ classic 1980s comic....
The Bachelorette’s Hannah Brown opened up about letting go after Tyler Cameron took supermodel Gigi Hadid on a date. She posted an indirect message to Tyler on her Instagram story. Hannah had a wild ride on The Bachelorette, as she ended up with finalists Jed Wyatt and Tyler. She ultimately chose Jed, but, unbeknownst to her, he had betrayed his then-girlfriend in order to come on the show, promising the show was only to help his music career....
Today is the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, which first went on sale on June 29 back in 2007, and we’re taking a look back at its launch and early reception. Described by Steve Jobs as ‘a revolutionary product that changes everything,’ he teased that Apple was announcing three products: a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device before revealing that it was a single device, called the iPhone …...
Harry Potter is, as most people know given the title of the books, the protagonist of the Harry Potter series. He is the hero of the story and the “Chosen One,” and he definitely does a lot of heroic things. He can be selfless at times, and he is overall a character that is trying to do the right thing and make the wizarding world a better place. However, while he might be good, he also has his flaws....
Hermione Granger is an all-star student, the likes of which Hogwarts has never seen. She has an insatiable thirst for knowledge, always finishes her assignments early and, in her third year, took every elective offered to her. When she is first introduced to the Harry Potter world, Hermione comes across as a bit of a prim and proper know-it-all. At the beginning of the series, Hermione stated that expulsion from Hogwarts is a fate worse than death....
As far as parental figures in Harry Potter are concerned, there really aren’t that many that function as reliable and healthy. Most of the parental figures in Harry’s life ends up dead, and the few other examples he has are either mostly absent from his life or nor the best examples. However, Molly Weasley is a consistent parental figure to Harry as well as mother to the seven Weasley children. Molly might not be a perfect parent since no one is, but she does do a lot of things right....
It’s pretty standard fare for actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have incredibly successful careers and passionate fanbases too. But you’d be hard pressed to find an actress within the MCU who’s had a more expansive career, and a more hyper vocal fanbase, than British actress Hayley Atwell. The 37-year-old actress has been working consistently for nearly the last 15 years, but since entering the Hollywood landscape as a recurring supporting player in Marvel, Atwell’s star has risen and her career has taken off along with it....
This week Benjamin and Zac discuss the new LTE Apple Watch rumor and how cellular could change watchOS, the latest iPhone 7s and iPhone 8 rumors including a new copper gold color, the latest changes in the new iOS 11 beta, and much more. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/337368126″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] New episodes of Happy Hour are available every week. As mentioned, you can download this podcast via iTunes or plug in our RSS feed link into your favorite podcasting app....
Harry Potter sure hit us with some of the most gut-wrenching deaths in fiction - be it the loss of Fred Weasley, Dobby’s sacrifice, or Hedwig’s untimely death. We were devastated when Remus and Tonks died, especially just after they’d become a couple and had a son together, and Sirius’ death at the end of Order of the Phoenix hit many fans like a bolt from the blue. But at the same time, some of the character deaths were downright satisfying....
Harry Potter’s nemesis, Voldemort, amplified his power by enlisting believers in his cause to commit terror and mayhem on his behalf. These Death Eaters were usually from the wizarding world’s pureblood upper crust. While some of the Death Eaters were dizzying strategists, pulling off complex plans in service of their Dark Lord, others were just plain bad at their evil jobs. Here are Voldemorts 10 most loyal Death Eaters, ranked by intelligence....
The Harry Potter movies were astounding and brought even more fans into the fandom. Coming in at eight movies, a total run-time of 1,178 minutes. And that’s not counting the Fantastic Beasts movies. Yet even if the movies had been twice as long, they never could have contained every detail the books revealed. There were plenty of details left out of the movies, from characters, to rules, to entire subplots....
The Wizarding World is home to many powerful witches and wizards. The Harry Potter series focused on how one of the strongest wizards of all time, Lord Voldemort, was defeated by a simple rebound curse at the hands of an infant. The series deals a lot with power and how that can change and drive so many people. As such, we see the world through the eyes of Harry Potter and meet many powerful characters along the way....
