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Essential Inconvenience
Bryan Caplan: Convenience vs. Social Desirability Bias
The Panglossian explanation is that there’s almost no political resistance to the inconvenience of extra privacy, safety, and consumer protection because these benefits are clearly worth the loss of convenience. Yet that’s hard to reconcile with the enormous effect of convenience on our actual behavior. Furthermore,
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watchOS 9 is a Sleeper Hit
José Adorno: watchOS 9 is Apple Watch's greatest update in years thanks to Series 3 being discontinued
I honestly think watchOS 9 is the greatest update for the Apple Watch in years and the main reason is Apple Watch Series 3 going away for good. I know it’s a very affordable wearable
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of 1,000 True Fans
Cal Newport: The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Perhaps Dixon is right that Web 3.0 will play a role in the future of online creative careers, but it’s also clear that Ball and Enjeti, Hilton Carter, Maria Popova, and any number of successful podcasters didn’t depend on a technological
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This Used to be More Fun Before Things Got…Complicated
Greg Morris: The Wonder Of Tech
Perhaps Casey’s right, it could be a long way off, but Ai advancements will provide a real change to the way the world works. What won't provide it is Apple putting widgets on my lock screen, or being able to shoot a photo at 3x instead
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Lightroom Does Video
Benjamin Warde on Adobe's Blog: June 2022 photography releases
The same edit controls that you already use to make your photography shine can now be used with your videos as well! Not only can you use Lightroom’s editing capabilities to make your video clips look their best, you can also copy and
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Be Wary When Users go Up and Profits Go Down
Derek Thompson: Why urban life suddenly got way more expensive
For the past decade, people like me—youngish, urbanish, professionalish—got a sweetheart deal from Uber, the Uber-for-X clones, and that whole mosaic of urban amenities in travel, delivery, food, and retail that vaguely pretended to be tech companies. Almost each time you
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Pixar Upsets Few Folks
Jenny Brewer: Pixar takes a stand on LGBTQIA+ representation amidst global bans of Lightyear film
As reported by South China Morning Post, beyond the United Arab Emirates, Disney was unable to secure permission in countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and Lebanon, with a screening in China “also unlikely”. In response to pressure to
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My Hopes for Stage Manager
Let's talk about Stage Manager for the iPad real quick*.
I've been talking to a bunch of people in recent days about the feature, and I wrote about it on TechRadar and here on this blog. My opinion on the feature itself is that it's got a lot of
Getting "Sherlocked" Doesn't Always Equal Doom
Every year Apple adds new features to their platforms, and inevitably those are features that were already being done by third party developers. Like clockwork, articles come out talking about what apps got "Sherlocked" this time, often with calls to "pour one out" for these apps who's businesses just
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The M2 MacBook Air Doesn't Tempt Me (thank god)
Macworld: When newer doesn't mean better
In sum, expect a Mac with the M1 Pro to be a good 30 percent to 40 percent faster than the M2 in every way, with the the exception of the media engine (which appears the be the same) and the Neural Engine (in which the M2
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Stage Manager Is Only for M1 iPads, and No, It’s Not Because Apple Hates You (yes, you!)
Craig Federighi talking to Matthew Panzarino:
“It’s only the M1 iPads that combined the high DRAM capacity with very high capacity, high performance NAND that allows our virtual memory swap to be super fast,” Federighi says. “Now that we’re letting you have up to four apps on a panel plus another four – up
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Ejecting Disks on macOS is Stupid
The above photo is a situation I'm in all the time, and it drives me crazy. Not the
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One Day of Peace
This Axios headline struck me today: U.S. has seen 1 day in June without a mass shooting. Honestly, this sells it short, as of this writing there have been 32 documented shootings in the first 12 days of the month. That brings us up to 303 murders and 1,140 injuries in these shootings
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iOS Customization Ain’t Done Yet
Lance Ulanoff: Exclusive: inside Apple’s iOS 16 remake of the iPhone’s iconic Lock Screen
“We knew this was a multi-act play, and we knew our next venue would be the Lock Screen,” said Federighi. “We saw a real opportunity to take that area that really has evolved slowly over time but has
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RSS Would Be More Popular Than Facebook if Google Reader Was Still Around…Right?
Chris Aldrich: Am I on the IndieWeb Yet?
Chris Coyier made a point of replying on his personal site – a lovely little post about how cool RSS is, and the benefits of “slow social” web interactions. And I agree completely! [insert requisite mourning for Reader]
I’m linking to this article mostly because it’s
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The No Apple News Newsletter #114
Hello and happy Friday! Short and sweet this week, and I'm sad to say I don't have any new fonts to share 😭 I hope you can forgive me.
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* This is a very specific tool for a very specific need, but I wanted to share in case someone else ever
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A Few iOS 16 Wallpaper Tweaks
I think the new iOS 16 wallpaper is pretty cool, but the colors just don't work for me,
