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VR Should be Having a Moment…It’s Not
VR misses its pandemic moment - Axios
Virtual reality can bring faraway people together and take us places we can't physically go. That should make it the perfect breakout technology for both personal and professional life in the stay-at-home era — yet it remains a niche product.
There is a lot of talk
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Too Restrictive?
A class war over social distancing? New data suggests otherwise. - The Washington Post
The new Post poll probes public attitudes toward restrictions and the coronavirus. I got a detailed breakdown of the numbers from the Post polling team, and here are some basic findings:
1. By 78 percent to 22 percent, Americans believe it is
My Best Productivity Hack
One of the best ways to pick up a new behavior is to link it in your brain with something else you already do automatically. Do it enough and you have a better chance of the new behavior stick than just trying to will power yourself into learning to do something new.
My automatic thing:
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Renewable Energy to Pass Coal in the US this Year
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.
The United States is on track to
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Download your App.net Post History
Before I say anything else, I will tell you that this tool is SLOOOOOW. I’m not a super clever
Would We Hear More About Speed if the Fastest Mobile Chips Were in Android Phones
John Gruber asks:
But one gets the feeling that if these performance tables were turned, you’d hear a lot more about the relative benchmarks of Android vs. iOS devices from Android-focused websites than we do now. Because it’s not just that Apple’s new $400 iPhone SE offers faster performance than any
How to Post to from Instagram to Micro.blog using Zapier Premium
Please note this requires the premium version of Zapier since the action we’re using is not on the free
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The Full App.net Archive
Internet good guy Manton Reece has made an accessible archive of all public posts on App.net.
In the final week before App.net shut down, I whipped up a few scripts to download every post on the platform via the API. After that finished, I also attempted to download small versions of many of
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COVID-19 by the Numbers
One thing I hear bandied about with COVID-19, specifically related to the stay-at-hope orders that have been in effect, is that “lots of other things kill more people than this and we don't shut things down for them.”
Ok then, I’m open to new information, so let’s look
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Can’t Use All That Power…Today
iPhone SE review: Can mid-range Androids compete? [Video] - 9to5Google
We know that the A13 Bionic chipset is an absolute monster, but while the iPhone SE has a more powerful chipset than just about every single flagship Android phone, it’s kind of like having the fastest car on the dragstrip. Sure, there is plenty
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98% of Users Then and Now
John Gruber linked to this amazing article from 1998:
The iMac doesn’t include a floppy disk drive for doing file backups or sharing data. It’s an astonishing lapse from Jobs, who should have learned better.
And:
I’d bet that 98% of computer users use a floppy from time to time, or print
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My Number 1 Complaint with Working on the iPad
Bar none, the biggest issue I run into on the iPad is dealing with local storage. Like, by a mile.
I'll give you an example that happened to me tonight. I recorded some video of the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remake this evening and wanted to cut together a video
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Apple’s Exceptional Product Messaging
I tweeted out a link to Joshua Vergara’s well-made review of the new Samsung Galaxy Book Flex, because one bit stood out to me. He says:
There’s wireless power share in the touch pad. Talk about being nimble, if you’re watching something on the screen[...] and you’re not really doing
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Begun, My Binge Mode Has
Finished, The Clone War Has - The Newsprint
Today, after 12 years of defending myself for watching a “kids show”, The Clone Wars has come to an end. An end worthy of the show’s entire history. “Victory and Death” is masterfully, masterfully put together, with pain, suffering, triumph, foreshadowing, and reminiscent tones spread throughout the
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Buying Into a Philosophy
What if Apple built Windows?
Out there question, I know, but stick with me on this one. If Apple made Windows, would you like it more than you like it day? The features would be the same, and maybe it would work more smoothly with Apple’s iCloud services, but in every other way it
