Gadgets and Digital Lifestyle

• Introduction to iCloud Photo Library
• Aug 20, 2015

iCloud Photo Library is Apple’s grand attempt at making all your photos and videos available on any device, at any time. Jeff Carlson shows you how to work with it in this chapter from Photos for OS X and iOS: Take, edit, and share photos in the Apple photography ecosystem.

• New iOS 8 Keyboard Features: Streamlined Typing, Keyboard Swapping, Smileys for Everything
• Jul 7, 2015

The digital keyboard in iOS devices has always been pretty functional for most purposes. But you want more, right? Lisa Spangenberg, co-author of The iPad 2 Project Book, shares the new keyboard features in iOS 8. Need a Klingon keyboard? No problem.

• Writing Minecraft Plugins in JavaScript: Choosing and Using a Text Editor
• May 28, 2015

In this chapter from A Beginner's Guide to Writing Minecraft Plugins in JavaScript, Walter Higgins shows you how to choose and use a text editor to help you write Minecraft plugins in JavaScript.

• Redstone: The Charge That Ignites Minecraft
• May 18, 2015

Cori Dusmann, author of The Minecraft Guide for Parents and co-author of A Visual Guide to Minecraft, discusses redstone, Minecraft's form of electrical power. Players use it in all sorts of ways and build endless clever devices with it, learning as they go along.