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Cameras Keep on Growing
Chance Miller: Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro camera bump to be even larger thanks to new 48MP sensor
Kuo took to Twitter on Sunday to offer an explanation as to why the iPhone 14 Pro will feature an even larger camera bump than the iPhone 13 Pro.
I took this photo last fall to show the
Overcast just released a great update!
Overcast updated it's iconography in the last update, and today's update brings some more significant changes
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🖥 Lo-fi Burnham (Newsletter #108)
Happy Friday! You'll never know how close this came to not happening, but I had to share a few fun things this week. Hope you all have a great weekend ✌️
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* Almoneda is a slick (affordable) new serif font.
* And Mashed Display is a great font too (pay-what-you-want)!
* Basic
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Human Dingleberries Unite!
Tim Miller: Political Speech for Human Dingleberries Has Never Been More Robust
Never in the history of the world have more human dingleberries had larger platforms to spew deranged nonsense about politics than they do right now, at this moment. We are in a golden age for fools with political views outside the mainstream.
Truly,
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Google is Trialing Native Third Party Payments on Android
Sarah Perez writing for TechCrunch:
The program will allow a small number of participating developers, starting with Spotify, to offer an additional third-party billing option next to Google Play’s own billing system in their apps. While Google already offers a similar system in South Korea following the arrival of new legislation requiring it,
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How Accurate are Apple Rumors?
There's a constant stream of Apple rumors, and you never know exactly how accurate any of them are until months (or years) later, but we never go back to look up how accurate the rumors were, so I wanted to change that today.
I went through all the posts to MacRumors in January
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The Apple Studio Display and Realistic Expectations
The new Studio Display reviews are out, and the general consensus seems to be that it's a pretty damn good display with great speakers and a decent-to-terrible webcam that's getting fixed with a software update rolling out as we speak.
A few reviewers have criticized the product for having
Game
How the modding community made me love Elden Ring
Like 12 million other people, I bought Elden Ring and was excited to play it. I got about 4 hours
Game
Gran Turismo 7 is an Incredible Game with Some Major Problems
I absolutely love the gameplay of Gran Turismo, and I love the visuals, and I love the online Sport mode. It's undoubtedly the best sim racing game I've ever played.
That said, there are a few things that make this game harder to recommend to everyone than I'd like.
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🦎 My Lizard Brain (Newsletter #107)
Hello and welcome to the most stacked issue in recent memory. Tons of fun stuff this week and I hope you enjoy it!
The Links
* Some incredible Wordle analysis here. Did you know the average score is 4.1?
* Someone made a Wordle clone in Google Sheets 😱
* New research shows turning your camera off in
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The M1 Ultra is Still Beat by the RTX 3090
I wrote the day after the event that we should hold off on saying the M1 Ultra has more GPU performance than NVIDIA's top-of-the-line graphics card, and that's proven to be the most sober of hot takes. Mac Studio reviews are out today, and they confirm that the
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The iPhone SE's Potentially Fatal Flaw
In a Reddit thread talking about John Gruber's iPhone SE review:
I disagree with him about the battery part. My wife has a second gen SE and battery doesn’t make it through a work day. Even if the A15 is more power efficient, the display still sucks the most power and is
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Maybe Turning Your Camera Off is Better
Allison S. Gabriel: Research: Cameras On or Off?
Our results — recently published in Journal of Applied Psychology— were quite clear: Using the camera was positively correlated to daily feelings of fatigue; the number of hours that employees spent in virtual meetings were not. This indicates that keeping the camera consistently on during meetings is at
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The iPhone Will be a Failure
Jon Erlichman tweeting a photo of an AdvertisingAge article from 2007:
Every Best Buy and Circuit City is filled with a host of other divergence devices that have been enormously successful: the digital camera, the plasma TV, the wireless e-mail device, the personal video recorder, the GPS navigation device. What convergence device has been
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My Prediction for the iPhone 14 Processor
Hartley Charlton: Kuo: Only iPhone 14 Pro Models to Get 'A16' Chip, Standard Models to Retain A15
In a tweet, Kuo said that the 6.1-inch "iPhone 14 Pro" and the 6.7-inch "iPhone 14 Pro Max" will get the A16 chip, while the 6.1-inch
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Pixel 6 Delayed Updates Chip Away at Google's 'Flagship' Experience
Damien Wilde: Pixel 6 delayed updates chip away at Google's 'flagship' experience
It’s understandable that people find this infuriating. Especially if you’ve paid $599 or $899 for a brand-new Pixel and the previous generations – from the Pixel 3a to the 5a – get updates and Pixel Feature Drop extras
🇺🇦 (Newsletter #106)
Hey there and happy Friday!
The Links
* Preparation H is doing a rebrand. Maybe not the link you thought I'd start with this week, but I bet you clicked it. 😉
* Would you like to donate to help in Ukraine and get some great games out of it? itch.io has you covered. And
google
Google Says Chrome is Faster than Safari. I Tested Them to Make Sure.
From the Chromium Blog, A new speed milestone for Chrome:
We’re excited to announce that in M99, Chrome on Mac has achieved the highest score to date of any browser – 300 – in Apple’s Speedometer browser responsiveness benchmark.
I haven't run any Mac browser benchmarks for a while, so I opened up
