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Nextbit is Shutting Down Their Smart Storage Service March 1, 2018
I got this email from Nextbit just a few minutes ago:
Hi Rebels,
We would like to sincerely thank all of you for using Smart Storage. The Smart Storage service will, however, be ending on March 1st, 2018.
Well crap. This doesn’t hurt me at all since I never really went all in on
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Lifesum health tracking app adds new AI image recognition feature for food logging | 9to5Mac
Lifesum health tracking app adds new AI image recognition feature for food logging | 9to5Mac:
Lifesum, a popular calorie counter and nutrition tracking app on iOS, is rolling out a new image recognition feature that allows users to snap a picture of their food to log ingredients and nutrition information
I've used this feature
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What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for JavaScript
Will Spectre & Meltdown Break JavaScript? - Developer Drive:
Even if we did magically get perfect fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre problems, this is going to spark a larger conversation about security and JavaScript in particular. I mean, what other bits of hardware could be compromised by a simple web page? This could happen again.
Google Consolidates All of its Payments into Google Pay
Bringing it all together with Google Pay:
Today, we’re excited to announce we’ll be bringing together all the different ways to pay with Google, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, into a single brand: Google Pay.
This is a long time coming and a smart move by Google.
The short of it is
More on that "Chrome is IE6" Thing
Careful Now | CSS-Tricks:
Even more concerning than browser-specific websites is seeing browsers ship non-standardized features just because they want them, not behind any vendor prefix or flag. There was a time when web developers would have got out the pitchforks if a browser was doing this, but I sense some complacency seeping
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The BirchTree Podcast #47: A Detail Often Forgotten
We often forget that people make different choices on what computing platforms to use. This leads to heated, sometimes angry debates about why the other person is clearly making a bad decision and they should change. That is not a helpful way to talk about this stuff.
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CES 2018: Belkin Adds HomeKit Compatibility to Wemo Lineup With Launch of New Bridge - Mac Rumors
CES 2018: Belkin Adds HomeKit Compatibility to Wemo Lineup With Launch of New Bridge - Mac Rumors:
Belkin today announced that it is officially adding HomeKit support to its popular Wemo lineup of smart connected accessories with the launch of the new Wemo Bridge.
Oh, hell yeah! Belkin is the lone holdout in my smart home
On Chrome as the New Internet Explorer 6
This is a comparison that always gets people up in arms. IE6 is largely considered to be one of the worst web browsers of all time, in no small part due to it’s wider implications to browser-specific websites. As brought up recently by The Verge, Google’s Chrome browser is starting to show
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Setting Up (and Quickly Reverting) a Hackintosh
The screenshot at the top of this post doesn’t make a lot of sense. Look as hard as you like, but you will not find an iMac with those specs. The reason for this is that I tried to “Hackintosh” a PC yesterday to see how that whole process works. I successfully created a
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Transmit for iOS Bites the Dust
This is a sad day:
Transmit iOS made about $35k in revenue in the last year, representing a minuscule fraction of our overall 2017 app revenue. That’s not enough to cover even a half-time developer working on the app. And the app needs full-time work — we’d love to be adding all
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Paul Thurrott says Intel Mislead (and continues to mislead) the Industry
Paul Thurrott has some choice words for Intel in how they have handled the recent Spectre/Meltdown exploits:
But if I were to point the finger of blame at one company here, and I will, it would have to be Intel. The microprocessor giant has behaved in an irresponsible manner that is just hard to
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Unlock Your Mac Easily with Unlox
There are 5 reasons you probably want to get Unlox for iOS and macOS (formerly MacID).
One, if you have a strong password on your Mac and you don’t want to enter that long code every time you open your computer, Unlox lets you authenticate with your iPhone via Touch ID or Face ID.
iFixit Tears Down the iMac Pro
iMac Pro Teardown - iFixit:
We're betting the opening procedure will be the same as it was on the iMac 5K—which is to say, if you can use a pizza cutter, you can open an iMac Pro.
And I'm happy they did because damn, that's a good looking machine!
Apple Fighting the PR Battle
Apple Will Replace the Battery in Your iPhone 6 or Later Even if It Passes a Genius Bar Diagnostic Test - Mac Rumors:
Apple has since independently confirmed to MacRumors that it will agree to replace an eligible battery for a $29 fee, regardless of whether an official diagnostic test shows that it is still able
My AirPods Case is a Little Rough After One Year
AirPods are one of the best tech purchases I made in 2017, and I stand by my original review where I called them “the best earbuds I’ve ever owned.” Since that original review, I have used my AirPods every single day, and they have joined the very small list of things I carry with