Chicago Sun-Times Fires Entire Photography Staff

You are receiving this message as you have signed up to hear from Mac|Life ACTION: View in Browser | View on Mobile device | Add to Safe Senders | Forward this email to a friend June 03, 2013 Issue #262 FROM THE EDITOR NEWS HOW-TOS REVIEWS MACLIFE.COM FROM THE EDITOR Happy Monday! Have you heard this bit of bizarre news? The Chicago Sun-Times laid off all of its full- and part-time photographers and is having its reporters snap shots with their iPhones. While the obvious story here is that print newspapers seem to still be struggling and looking for ways to cut back, it's kind of incredible that a major metropolitan paper could even attempt a move like this, no matter how desperate it may be. It says something about how far camera-phone technology has come, especially the top-of-the-line optics in the iPhone. For more on this story, clock over to MacLife.com. While you're there, also look for our tutorial on how to truly delete an item from your Mac (no, dragging an item to the trash can doesn't immediately do the job), as well as our review for the remarkable new iPad version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which is easily one of the best Star Wars games ever made. Oh, and don't forget there's a little event coming up next week called Worldwide Developers Conference, which Apple will kick off on Monday with sneak peek at iOS 7! Until then, have a great week! Chris Slate Editor-In-Chief, Mac|Life @ChrisSlate Share this newsletter:   NEWS HOW-TOS We here at Mac|Life love our iPhones, but we'd never go so far as to say that they make everyone into a professional photographer. But that's apparently what the Chicago Sun-Times thinks, as it recently laid off its entire photography staff in favor of teaching its regular reporters "iPhone photography basics" so they can produce their own photos and, yes, videos. Whenever you use the standard delete command for the Trash on any computer, the files are not actually deleted. Instead, the space on the drive is marked as available, and can be written over by future files. Fortunately, you can say "hasta la vista" to these files with a simple Terminal command, causing your deleted files to actually be removed from your system. Share this article:   Back to top Share this article:   Back to top REVIEWS First released for Xbox and PC in 2003 (and again for Mac the following year), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic instantly became one of the most revered games of its generation, delivering a sprawling, original role-playing epic set thousands of years before the events of the Star Wars films. It helped raise the bar for player choice in RPGs and bolstered fans' flagging faith in Star Wars — and now, 10 years later, it's fully playable on iPad. Share this article:   Back to top You are receiving this e-mail as you signed up to receive the Mac|Life newsletter. To unsubscribe from this list please click here This e-mail message was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message. This email was sent by: Future US, Inc. 4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400, South San Francisco, California, 94080