Downton Abbey is a British drama series. It aired on ITV from 26 September 2010 to 25 December 2015. Julian Fellowes wrote it. Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, who runs a grand estate in the Yorkshire countryside during the early twentieth century.
At this stage Christmas prompts serious thought. Christ was born to give us forgiveness and new life.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Patriot Attack, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith investigates a brewing war between Japan and China driven by a powerful new metal.
Bridge of Spies (2015), directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the true story of James Donovan. He is a lawyer who swaps spies during the Cold War. Tom Hanks plays Donovan with steady calm.
Monthly update 307 • November 2015 • 2015-11-01 - 2015-11-30
Swift 3 aims to set API design guidelines and apply them across libraries to make the language feel more unified.
Apple released a Linux port of Swift with the open source project launch. Users can build it from sources or download binaries for Ubuntu on x86_64 architecture.
Apple has launched the open source Swift project and the Swift.org website. They aim to work with the community to fix issues, add features, and expand Swift to new platforms.
Look Who's Back (2015), directed by David Wnendt, adapts Timur Vermes's book. It places Adolf in modern Berlin. He wakes up in 2014. Oliver Masucci plays Adolf with sharp mimicry and deadpan humour. He thinks the world is his again.
Make Me drops Reacher in the isolated town of Mother’s Rest, investigating a journalist’s disappearance into a dark web conspiracy. With her partner, he uncovers a sinister underground service.
It is the thirty-sixth book in the Asterix series. Caesar writes his memoirs but leaves out the Gaul village. A scribe leaks the missing chapter.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.Spotlight and Spotlight indexing controls.
If you see bootinstalld running on your Mac, here is what this macOS installation process does.
Monthly update 306 • October 2015 • 2015-10-01 - 2015-10-31
If you have downloaded Xcode from Apple, you have seen a .xip file. Here is what it is and how it works.
Monthly update 305 • September 2015 • 2015-09-01 - 2015-09-30
If you see diagnosticd running on your Mac, here is what this unified diagnostics process does.
When the Snowden revelations first came to light, it felt like we might be heading towards an Orwellian dystopia. Now we know that the situation is much worse.
Inside Out (2015), directed by Pete Docter, shows the mind of Riley, an eleven-year-old girl. Amy Poehler voices Joy, the leader who keeps smiles. Phyllis Smith acts as Sadness, soft and blue.
If you see iOSScreenCaptureAssistant running on your Mac, here is what this iPhone screen capture process does.
NSURL is Foundation’s class for URLs. Create it with NSURL(string:), it returns nil if the string is invalid.
Monthly update 304 • August 2015 • 2015-08-01 - 2015-08-31
If you see misagent running on your Mac, here is what this provisioning profile process does.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.ActivityMonitor, controlling what Activity Monitor shows.
If you see systemstats.analysis, systemstats.daily, or systemstats.microstackshot_periodic on your Mac, here is what they do.