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We’re Living Through a Revolution in Note Taking
This feels to me like when the iPhone came out and all other phone makers had to go, “oh, we need to think about things differently, and we absolutely need to steal a bunch of these new ideas because we’re going to get left in the dust if we don’t”.
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Xbox and PlayStation Pre-Orders Have Been a Disaster
Pre-orders for both Sony and Microsoft’s new game consoles have been a mess. Here’s what’s going on.
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The New Apple Watch's Slightly Larger Battery
iFixit Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown Finds Larger Battery and Bigger Taptic Engine in Thinner Casing
Apple is using a
Your Unfair Advantage, and Elevating Above “Good Enough”
We all have things we’re good and bad at in our lives. There isn’t a soul on this planet who is just great at everything, so don’t think you, yeah you, are a snowflake here 😛
We’re getting towards the end of the year and that means performance reviews for a lot
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The Selflessness of Developers
Otto Nagengast:
What do the maintainers get for all of the work, stress, and abuse? Money? Maybe they’re lucky
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Eventually the Problem is Bigger than the Room
The company released version 10 of their app to iOS yesterday, and I for one am looking forward to seeing what they have in store now that they've tamed their back-end woes.
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10 of the Best Widgets I've Found in iOS 14 (so far)
Possibly iOS 14's best new feature, widgets are going to be huge on the iPhone, and today we're looking at some of the best I've found so far.
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RIP Pelaton (or maybe not)
Bradley Chambers:
It’s certainly cheaper to buy your own bike, sign up for Peloton Digital, and just watch the classes while you ride. People who choose Peloton are buying the entire experience with deep integration of all the pieces working together, though.
Think about it another way:
It’s certainly cheaper to buy an
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Are Devs Justified in Being Upset about iOS 14’s Launch Date? It's Complicated, but Yeah
iOS 6: Sept 19, 2012
iOS 7: Sept 18, 2013
iOS 8: Sept 17, 2014
iOS 9: Sept 16, 2015
iOS 10: Sept 13, 2016
iOS 11: Sept 19, 2017
iOS 12: Sept 17, 2018
iOS 13: Sept 19, 2019
Blindsided by this sudden iOS 14 release on Sept 16, 2020. 🤔
— Matt Gemmell (@mattgemmell) September
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watchOS 7: The BirchTree Review
I've been doing big reviews of watchOS since the beginning, and for the first time, I'm
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Time Flies, Apple Watch SE & Series 6, and Apple's Wearable Strategy
https://youtu.be/7REBmSTiFEo
Apple unveiled the next generation of Apple Watches today, and what else could I do but
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OMG OnePlus
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection put out a press release on Friday:
On August 31, CBP officers seized
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The Undue Focus on Work About Work
In truth the problem with work is not the tools or the physical location, but the obsession with leadership , an undue focus on work about work.
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Pairing an Apple Watch with Pelaton’s New Bike+
Well, a $2,500 stationary bike is the last thing I need right now, but this is the one thing Pelaton could have done to make me at least look at the order page before coming to me senses.
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Some Weekend Relaxation with Flight Simulator
So I know I've been sharing a lot of Flight Simulator content lately, and you may be over
Madden NFL 21 is Shockingly Broken
Complaining about Madden being broken in an assortment of ways is nothing new, and I'm actually generally annoyed
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New Flight Simulator Montage (Rocky Mountains, Portland, and Ecuador)
I can't help but make a new one of these every weekend at this point. The game is just looks so good!
