The Doctors Decoding COVID-19
The Coronavirus Unveiled: Microscopic Images of SARS-CoV-2 - The New York Times
While the past few months have delivered
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Don’t Stress Too Much About Sorting Your Emails
Still filing your emails? Science says it's a waste of time | Email | The Guardian
The traumatic revelation is that all my vain attempts to keep my inbox under control by filing emails in folders are actively making me less productive. It apparently takes up 10% of the time spent on emails (ie, 10%
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Remember Today
Vote today, remember tomorrow.
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Retiring The BirchTree Podcast
I’m retiring The BirchTree Podcast later this month.
After posting religiously for 3 years, and accumulating 236 episodes, I
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4 Reasons Apple May Not Allow Third Party Watch Faces
David Shayer writing for TidBITS:
While I don’t have any inside information about current versions of watchOS and Apple
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Microsoft Outlines its App Store Principles
10 app store principles to promote choice, fairness and innovation - Microsoft Blog
We and others have raised questions and, at
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Futura Now Released
A year ago, Monotype released Helvetica Now, an updated version of Helvetica that was more tuned to modern use cases.
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The Rumored iPhones 12 Lineup
I woke up to these rumored dates today:
* iPhone 12 releasing October 23/24
* iPhone 12 Pro releasing October 23/24
* iPhone 12 Mini releasing November 13/14
* iPhone 12 Pro Max releasing November 20/21
Now these could be absolutely correct, and if so, I’m happy that the model I would be interested
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Apple, the Governement, and 2541 footnotes
The House Judiciary Committee release it's long-running report on antitrust policy, focused on Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. The full report is here, and it's chunky.
There is a ton to get into here, but I had to call out the fact that this report is 449 pages long and
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Bring on My Long Desired HomePod Mini
Apple Stops Selling Bose, Sonos, Logitech Speakers and Headphones (SONO, LOGI) - Bloomberg
The moves come as Apple develops multiple new products to expand on its audio strategy. The first Apple-branded over-ear headphones could be announced as early as this year, Bloomberg has reported. The company has also been working on a smaller version
Undiscoverable, Essential UI
I wrote this back in Febraury:
Without even leaving the Finder and Desktop I was able to find a bunch of things that long-time Mac users had never known about because they never discovered them in their daily use.
Fast forward 8 miserable months later and Mac users are freaking out over "proxy
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Being Precious (or not) About Your Blog
The Dent - Blog Like No One’s Watching
Despite barely posting to my blog for months, I’m still weirdly precious about what I post there. I always feel like I should only post longer form posts or something that I’ve over thought.
And then I read this post by Nitin Khanna:
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Jeff Perry’s Collection of Shortcuts Resources
Best Shortcut Tools Out Now - Tablet Habit
I want to share with you the best Shortcuts tools out there right now.
And he delivers!
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Watch This Space
Above Avalon: Apple Watch Momentum Is Building
After years of deep skepticism and cynicism, consensus reaction towards Apple Watch has changed and is now positive. Much of this is due to the fact that it’s impossible to miss Apple Watches appearing on wrists around the world. According to my estimates, approximately 35% of iPhone
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The “k” in COVID-19
Ok, this Atlantic article is worth reading in full, but here are some highlights that give you a good summary.
By now many people have heard about R0—the basic reproductive number of a pathogen, a measure of its contagiousness on average. But unless you’ve been reading scientific journals, you’re less likely to
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Movie Theaters are in Deep Trouble
Hollywood fears movie theaters 'may not survive' pandemic - Los Angeles Times
Groups representing movie studios, theater owners and
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Suggesting You Own Stadia Games is Quite a Stretch
Stadia has what Luna & Xbox Game Pass don't — ownership - 9to5Google
Last week, amidst a slew of other
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Why Many Great iOS Apps Simply Don't Work for Me
The average Apple customer has an iPhone and a Windows computer. It’s important to remember this sometimes, especially for