iPhone 11 Pro and Pixel 4 Cameras: Color temp, Color Quality, and Consistency Across Lenses
Ok, so this is one of the more abstract camera comparisons I’ve ever done, but I wanted to test
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Dear Tech YouTubers
Austin Evans, who I will say up front I think makes a lot of good videos, made what I think is the most quintessential “bored tech YouTuber” video ever.
It’s ostensively a review of the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro, but it’s framed in a “this is why iPhone users should probably switch
Misunderstanding the HomePod
Ben Lovejoy writing for 9to5Mac:
I’ve said before that HomePods don’t replace a full-on hifi-quality speaker system, like the Naim Mu-so, but they get remarkably close. $600 buys you a high-quality stereo paired system that, in audio terms, is absolutely superb value for money.
Indeed, if you imagine a
Big or Small iPad Pros?
Josh Ginter on the 12.9" iPad Pro:
The 12.9-inch iPad Pro excels on a desk, but grinds to a halt everywhere else. I haven’t picked up or walked around with the big iPad Pro in about six months and haven’t read with it on the couch in even longer.
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The $399 iPhone is More Powerful than Today’s $1,000+ Android Flagships…and Likely Next Year’s Too
Comment thread on the new iPhone SE at Hacker News
163 Comment right now, ~800 Are about Size of Devices. I thought there was another important point.
The current entry level iPhone; iPhone SE 2020 with A13 is now faster in Single Threaded performance than ALL current shipping Android, including Flagship Android. And judging by
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Why Apple’s New Phone Doesn’t Matter*
Why Apple’s New Phone Doesn’t Matter - Shira Ovide
New smartphones have been a tough sell for some time. People in the United States and many other countries are waiting longer to replace their phones — for Americans, it’s more than three years on average.
And:
The shift from wow to shrug happened with
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Birchtree.css
Today I’m excited to announce Birchtree.css!
Birchtree.css is a a single, tiny CSS file you can use
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Today at Apple + iPhone SE Wallpapers
It's a wallpaper week, apparently…
Apple announced new iPhones today, and with them come a new collection of
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Today at Apple + iPhone 11 Wallpapers
I enjoyed making today's gradient wallpapers so much that I took those and applied them to the iPhone
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Today at Apple at Home Gradient Wallpapers
Yesterday I linked to Apple’s nice video series on being creative at home, and those videos started with some
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Inoreader Lets You Turn Sites Without RSS into Feeds
Inoreader just rolled out a new feature called Web Feeds that lets you follow sites that don't have
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Today at Apple (at Home)
This is a really cool video series from Apple that gives you a few ideas of how to be creative
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The Pixel 4 Still Beats the iPhone 11 Pro for Zoom Photography
Sometimes people suggest you can just pinch-to-zoom and get basically the same result with smartphone cameras. I very much disagree, and used this shot to see the difference.
I'm standing a ways away from the mailbox and tapped to focus on it in all of these shots. Here's the
Deep Fusion Tested Against a Pixel and Galaxy
I think Deep Fusion is one of the sleeper hits of the iPhone 11's cameras, and I wanted to see how well it stood up to it's main camera rival, the Google Pixel 4, as well as a decidedly good, but less impressive camera in last year's Samsung Galaxy
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Quick Apple Weather + Dark Sky Mockup
I've had the itch to mock up something for a little while and Apple's recent acquisition
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iPad Main Menu
This concept for an iPad Main Menu is a very well put together mockup, and it’s clear a lot of thought has gone into making it. This is a fantastic mock up, and this idea of a main menu is something I could see making iPadOS better than it already is.
I haven’t
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The Low Stakes President
”Donald Trump the Narcissist Is Running the Coronavirus Crisis” in The New York Times. Hang in there, because this is full of gems, so forgive my lengthy quotes.
What that means, during this pandemic: Trump says we’ve got plenty of tests available, when we don’t. He declares that Google is building a comprehensive
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Logitech MX Keys Review
My review of the excellent Logitech MX Keys keyboard.