How To Use Extensions to Enhance Your Photos in OS X El Capitan

How To Use Extensions to Enhance Your Photos in OS X El Capitan

As with iOS, the Photos app in OS X El Capitan now supports third-party extensions: That means other apps can plug directly into the Photos interface to give you quicker access to more effects and tools. Here’s how to get started with the new feature.

How To Use Extensions to Enhance Your Photos in OS X El Capitan

First and foremost you need to install an app or two that supports the new feature—right now there aren’t too many that have been given the necessary upgrade, but Affinity, Tonality and BeFunky Express are three apps that offer Photos integration already (we’re using the latter here).

With your photo editing app of choice installed on your Mac, open up the System Preferences from the Apple menu then click Extensions and Photos. Put a tick next to all the apps you want to use inside the Photos interface. Next, open up the Photos app to get at your pictures.

How To Use Extensions to Enhance Your Photos in OS X El Capitan

Double-click on an image to select it, then choose Edit and Extensions. Pick your app and the tools available inside it are now available right from the Photos app — the options listed will vary from program to program but you should be able to use them as you normally would.

via Gizmodo
How To Use Extensions to Enhance Your Photos in OS X El Capitan

Guns for Beginners: Castle Doctrine and The Duty to Retreat

(courtesy graintegrok.com)

“A witness called police saying that someone had just shot their wife in the middle of the street,” reuters.com reports, “and that he was trying to get into the house across the street. The homeowner heard the shots and grabbed … Read More

The post Guns for Beginners: Castle Doctrine and The Duty to Retreat appeared first on The Truth About Guns.

via The Truth About Guns
Guns for Beginners: Castle Doctrine and The Duty to Retreat

Our Favorite Images From NASA’s Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Earlier this week, NASA uploaded an incredible treasure trove of images to a new gallery on Flickr: unprocessed photographs from all of the manned Apollo missions. They represent an incredible look into what the astronauts saw on their missions to the moon.

NASA’s astronauts are known for taking some of the world’s best pictures, but this gallery is a chance to see the raw results: untouched and unprocessed pictures of space. They’re high-resolution images that are perfect for reprocessing.

You can check out the entire gallery here, but we’ve pulled out some of our favorites from the over 8,400 images:

Apollo 7

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

S-IVB stage during rendezvous maneuvers.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Rendezvous with the S-IVB stage.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Looking down into the clouds.

Apollo 8

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Earthrise.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar Surface.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Looking back on the way home.

Apollo 9

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar Lander rendezvous and extraction.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Russell Schweickart’s EVA.

Apollo 10

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

The lunar surface.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Command Module Charlie Brown.

Apollo 11

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Buzz Aldrin on the ride out.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Neil Armstrong, shortly after landing.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Buzz Aldrin carrying sensors.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

LEM returning home.

Apollo 12

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Astronaut on the lunar surface.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar surface

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Research

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Astronaut Alan Bean.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Earth on the ride out.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar Module landing

Apollo 13

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Damaged parts.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar Lander, unused.

Apollo 14

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar EVA

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Commander Alan Shepherd Jr.

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar experiments

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

LEM

Apollo 15

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Experiments

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Lunar mountains

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Astronaut and Lunar Rover

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Astronaut, LEM and Lunar Rover

Apollo 16

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Astronaut Thomas Mattingly

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Commander John Young

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Mattingly

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Young

Apollo 17

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Commander Gene Cernan

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Commander Eugene Cernan during Lunar EVA

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Pilot Ron Evans retrieving film canisters.


Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Command Module

Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Cernan, post EVA.

[Planetary.org]

Photo Credits: NASA

via Gizmodo
Our Favorite Images From NASA’s Incredible New Apollo Gallery

News in Brief: Report: Increase In Gun Sales To Be Most Concrete Result Of Obama’s Pro-Gun-Control Speech

WASHINGTON—Researchers at the Urban Institute published a study Friday confirming that a sharp increase in gun sales nationwide would be the most concrete result of the impassioned pro-gun-control speech that President Obama delivered following yesterday’s mass shooting in Oregon. “According to our analysis, by far the most tangible impact of the president emotionally urging the nation to consider how their votes can prevent mass shootings like this will be a 17 percent spike in revenue for firearm vendors across the U.S.,” said report co-author Kyle Bieler, who found a direct link between the estimated $58 million uptick in gun sales over the next month and Obama’s use of the phrases “common-sense legislation,” “only advanced country,” and “not enough.” “The portion of the president’s remarks in which he asked for support from state legislatures and governors will, based on our projections, nearly double the number of …




via The Onion
News in Brief: Report: Increase In Gun Sales To Be Most Concrete Result Of Obama’s Pro-Gun-Control Speech

Watch previously unreleased footage of 1955 atomic bomb testing in glorious HD

Watch previously unreleased footage of 1955 atomic bomb testing in glorious HD

Atom Central recently published these four unreleased videos of atomic bomb testing in 1955. The footage, taken from Operation Teapot at the test site in Nevada, is in glorious HD so it’s pretty incredible but watch out for the blinding light. Even in a small little YouTube window, it hurts.


SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

via Gizmodo
Watch previously unreleased footage of 1955 atomic bomb testing in glorious HD

The Most Epic Image of This Week’s Super Blood Moon Eclipse

The Most Epic Image of This Week's Super Blood Moon Eclipse

What could be more awe-inspiring than a super blood moon eclipse? Oh, I dunno, how about a super blood moon eclipse over a lightning storm? That’s the jaw-dropping scene photographer Jose Antonio Hervás managed to capture this past Sunday over Ibiza, an island off southeastern Spain.

The image above was digitally constructed from over 200 individual photographs, all captured from the same location during the course of the rare astronomical event Sunday night. Soak it in, Earthlings–the next opportunity for a shot like this isn’t coming until 2033.

[NASA APOD]


Image reproduced with permission from Jose Antonio Hervás. You can check out more of his work on Vimeo and Facebook.

via Gizmodo
The Most Epic Image of This Week’s Super Blood Moon Eclipse

Here’s a candle burning underwater

Here's a candle burning underwater

Here’s a fun little thing that you think shouldn’t be able to happen but totally understand why it happens after you see it happen. If you stick a candle in a bowl of water and let it burn, the flame will actually be able to be under the water level for a good amount of time. It’s underwater fire!

DaveHax shows why in the video below.


SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

via Gizmodo
Here’s a candle burning underwater

How to Fix OS X El Capitan’s Annoyances

How to Fix OS X El Capitan's Annoyances

With the release of any new operating system, you’ll always find some quirks. El Capitan is a small enough update that it doesn’t have many annoyances, but they’re still around. Here’s how to fix some of its more annoying problems.

Disable SIP to Get Your System-Level Utilities Working Again

System Integrity Protection (SIP), is a new feature in El Capitan that protects system processes and folders so even a root user cannot get access to them. This is meant to protect your system against malware and other software that could mess with your computer. As you’d expect, this takes away some of your power as a user. Subsequently, you may run into problems with some utilities working with El Capitan. One example is the original version of Bartender, which has since been updated. Similar apps that change core features in OS X have the same problem, including TotalFinder and TotalSpaces. Most apps will likely update, but if you’re a power user and you’re comfortable turning the feature off, it’s possible. We do not recommend this unless you really know what you’re doing.

  1. Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by restarting your computer and holding down Command+R until the Apple logo appears on your screen.
  2. Click Utilities > Terminal.
  3. In the Terminal window, type in csrutil disable and press Enter.
  4. Restart your Mac.

SIP is now disabled. You can reenable it at any by following the above instructions and substituting csrutil enable in for the Terminal command.

Reset Spotlight’s Location by Clicking and Holding the Magnifying Glass in the Top Right

How to Fix OS X El Capitan's Annoyances

This one was driving me nuts. In El Capitan, you can now move Spotlight to wherever you want, which is great, but also means it pops up wherever you left it last. If you prefer to have a little more normalcy in your life, you can send Spotlight back to its default location by clicking and holding the Spotlight icon (the magnifying glass) in the menu bar.

Get the Old Mission Control Behavior Back

How to Fix OS X El Capitan's Annoyances

Mission Control no longer groups windows together by app, which in most cases is really nice, because you get a better view of exactly what you have open. However, if you want the old behavior back, where your thumbnails are stacked, it only requires changing one setting. Open up System Preferences > Mission Control and check the box next to “Group windows by application.”

Turn Off the Mouse Wiggle

How to Fix OS X El Capitan's Annoyances

When you wiggle your mouse in El Capitan, it gets bigger so you can easily find it on the screen. This is handy if you have a big monitor, but it’s pretty silly if you have a laptop. It’s also a pain if you use photo editing tools or play games. Thankfully, it’s easy to turn off. Head to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and uncheck the box that says “Shake mouse pointer to locate.”

Update Your Apps

With every new operating system comes the headache of updating your apps. El Capitan isn’t terribly different than Yosemite, but that doesn’t mean updating won’t cause problems. This time around, some users are reporting that Office 2016 is crashing a lot, so if you’re an Office user, you might want to hold off until a fix is in place. Otherwise, you can always check out Roaring Apps for a list of compatible software.

Image remixed from Biro Emoke.


via Lifehacker
How to Fix OS X El Capitan’s Annoyances