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HDR Testing Halide, Lightroom, and Stock Camera App on the iPhone 11 Pro
As I’m one to do, I saw a cool lighting situation this morning and decided it was a great
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Is RSS Just Giving Your Site Away for Free?
Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free? | CSS-Tricks
I mean, kinda.
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It's hard enough to get people to care about your work anyway. Being extra protective over it isn't going to help that.
This article is good, and I just wanted to add one idea
Advice for Delivering Great Product Demos
A few quick tips for delivering great product demos.
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Overcast 2 Gets Into the Weeds
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts – Marco.org
This is about to get nerdier, but bear with me. (Yes, nerdier than ITU broadcast-loudness standards.)
This is a fantastic write up from Marco Arment, who proves once again he’s a great developer and product person.
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Podcast #223: Uppercuts and Body Blows
I recently gave a big presentation and the best advice I got going into that talk was a boxing metaphor, and it reminded me of a few things about not only public speaking, but also how we talk to each other everyday.
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watchOS 7: A BirchTree Concept
My ambitious, but largely practical concept for what I’d like to see from the next generation of watchOS.
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Negativity as a Default
Apple Malaise | Becky Hansmeyer
Maybe it’s just me, but the Apple news/developer community seems to have settled into its own particular, cozy brand of misery as of late. And sure, 2020 is off to a bit of a slow, dismal start––it appears the world is going up in flames, both literally and
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When Anti-Virus Software is the Virus Itself
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data - VICE
The documents, from a subsidiary of the antivirus
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Something I Love About Books (there isn’t a Tomometer)
The recent debut of Apple TV+ gave me a chance to publicly roll my eyes at Rotten Tomatoes for the way I feel it reduces all semblance thoughtful criticism into a puree of thought replaced by a singular score. While I do use the site sometimes to get a ballpark on how a movie was
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Is Subscription Pricing Sustainable?
Subscription apps – are they a sustainable business model? - 9to5Mac
What’s your view? Do you share my feeling that subscription apps aren’t sustainable, or are you happy with that approach, even when you have dozens of them?
I took and look at the subscriptions page in the App Store and I pay for 8
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Affordances are Not Clutter
Daring Fireball: It’s Not About Intuitiveness
Far more of iPadOS should be exposed by visual buttons and on-screen elements that you can look at and simply tap or drag with a single finger.
Gruber and I agree on most things when it comes to tech, and I think we honestly aren’t that
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My Shortcut for Writing Quick Link Posts in Ulysses
Download the Shortcut here.
Writing link posts isn’t that hard, but it does involve a lot of manual copy
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3 out of 4 Apple Watch Buyers are Getting Their First Apple Watch
75% of Apple Watch customers are first time buyers, likely driven by Series 3 promos - 9to5Mac
According to Apple, 75% of Apple Watch buyers during the holiday quarter were brand new to the Apple Watch platform. This is slightly higher than the last time Apple cited this statistic in September, when it reported that 70%
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Homework Assignment
Assignment: If you work somewhere with people on computers much of the day, tomorrow take note of how many people
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Who is Building Billion Dollar Companies These Days?
Gruber, commenting on Ben Thompson:
There are developers making good money with professional caliber iPad apps. But nothing like the companies that were built around the Mac.
Gruber and Thompson use Adobe as an example of a company who built Mac software and turned into a billion dollar company. They contend no one has done
Mistaking Familiarity for Intuitiveness
People: “love the iPad, but it’s too bad apple software and third party software is holding iPad back, we
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My 10 Year Review of the iPad
10 years ago the iPad was "about to replace the personal computer."
Today the iPad is "about
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Back on Apple’s Incentives (and on blogging as conversation)
Apple’s Incentives - Initial Charge
It’s hard to quantify the value of influencers within families and groups of friends. And the type of people who use RSS are also likely to be the type of people that friends and family members turn to for tech-related advice and recommendations.
Michael responds to my post