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My Silly iPhone Event Predictions
Let's have some fun and predict what's coming tomorrow!
General Event Stuff
1. Absolutely nothing we
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The Argument for Excess Battery
I posted the above photo to Twitter last night:
Going to bed after a long day where I used my
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I Want USB-C on the iPhone, but Not Like This
John Gruber: ‘Democrats Want to Outlaw Apple From Thinking Differently’
Charging-port-regulation proponents often tell me the regulations are no impediment
Apple
Ranking Every Apple Watch
On the verge of the 8th generation Apple Watch announcement, I thought it would be fun to rank all the
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The Birchtree Newsletter, September 2022
Hello again! This month was quite busy for me, so I wasn't able to write of film as
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You'll Be Okay in a Post-Notch World
As we get closer to the iPhone 14 announcement, and basically absolute confirmation that the Pro phones will lose the
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Apple's Unofficial Jupiter Wallpaper 2022
As I've done before in 2017 (twice, even!!), I wanted to take the chance to create a new
Back to Spark
Apple’s Mail app is getting some much-needed features this year in iOS 16, and I’ve been using it
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The One Thing Republicans Care About
Charles M. Blow: Republicans Are America’s Problem
However, her loss does crystallize something for us that many had already
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Not That Sort of Club
Nexus Mods is a great site for finding fun mods to PC games, and I use it all the time.
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Two Twenty Two: Wallpapers for iOS 16
It's been nearly a year since my last wallpaper pack…inspiration just wasn't striking me, but
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Gaming on a Mac is Still Blah
Digital Foundry does the best technical gaming analysis out there, and it was awesome to see them take a rare
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Our (maybe) Metaverse Delusion
John Gruber on Meta:
I take Zuckerberg at face value that he’s more or less betting the company on
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I Don't Understand Ad Tech
The internet likes to make us all experts on anything. You see this all the time on social media where
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Google's Plan to Promote Political Spam Emails will Proceed
Makena Kelly: Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails
Google’s plan, first reported by Axios in June,
Apple
Can We Improve the iOS 16 Battery Percentage Icon?
This tweet has been making the rounds today, and fair play to it, it's a really nice-looking mock
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Absolutely Do Not Change Your Blogging Platform (unless you have to)
The image at the top of this post shows a general timeline for this blog in terms of what blogging
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Does Hollywood Actually Make More Sequels and Super Hero Movies Than They Used To?
Yes and yes.
The Data
I used Box Office Mojo to look at the top 10 grossing movies in the