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Purposely Breaking the iPhone 7 Plus's Portrait Mode
Apple shipped the iOS 10.1 beta this week with it's much anticipated "portrait mode" on the iPhone 7 Plus. Lots of people are sharing the beautiful pictures this feature can create. Here are a few of my favorites:
https://twitter.com/oliverames/status/779689241999802368
https://twitter.com/imyke/status/779484838910910464
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Josh Ginter on the Apple Watch Series 2
Josh Ginter is a great writer, and I always enjoy reading his thoughts on Apple's mobile devices (see here, here, and here). Today he shared some first impressions of the Apple Watch Series 2, so of course I rushed to check them out. I agree with him on almost every point.
Originally, I
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Initial Impressions of the iPhone 7 Plus
I just got my iPhone 7 Plus delivered last night so I'm a week late to the party, but I felt I had to share some thoughts on the first 12 hours with the phone.
The first thing that jumped out to me was how nice the display looks. Colors are richer than
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MotionMark: The New Browser Benchmark in Town
Well there's a new tool out there for pitting our browsers against each other, and this one comes from the WebKit team. It's called Motion Mark and it's definitely the best looking speed test I've ever used.
We all know that every benchmarking tool has it'
Critic vs. Fanboy
I was listening to one podcast today where a host mentioned the hiss sound coming from their iPhone. He wrote about it online and contacted Apple support to see if this was expected behavior. According to Apple, this was not expected, and they should return the iPhone and get a new one.
A few hours
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Why an Expensive Nexus (Pixel) Phone Could Work
There are some pretty credible rumors out today indicating that the new phone from Google will start at $650, just like the iPhone and Galaxy S7. Many Google fans are upset by this, and I don't entirely blame them. The Nexus 6P currently retails for $499, so a $150 jump in price is
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Apple Watch Series 1 Review
Last year I wrote this extensive review of the first Apple Watch, where I talked about hardware and software. It was one of the my favorite reviews I've ever written, and I stand by almost everything I wrote then. Here's how that review ended:
However, if you are still on the
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Take 2 Minutes and Set Up Apple Pay on Your iPhone
https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/733839243697491969
Every so often I'll tweet something about how amazingly fast I was able to check out at a random store with Apple Pay. We all know that EMV (chip and pin) payments are slow, but secure. We also know that old fashioned credit card payments via magnetic
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Performance on the iPhone 7 is Insane
Mark Spoonauer ran some tests and it looks like the iPhone 7 destroys the top of the line Android phones in all benchmarks. The biggest variance in his test is in JavaScript performance, which lines up with my subjective experience of browsing the web.
That's the Geekbench score comparison from Mark's
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watchOS 3: The BirchTree Review
Contents
* Introduction
* The Little Things
* Performance
* The Dock
* Messages
* Activity and Workout Enhancements
* Learn to Breathe
* Conclusion
Introduction
Apple has finally shipped watchOS 3, the third major version of their still extremely young wearable platform. watchOS shipped in April 2015, with watchOS 2 coming just a few months later in September. As I have made
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Quick Take on the new Apple Watches
My buddy Michael Rockwell wrote up a great recap of yesterday's Apple event:
Apple doesn’t need to convince every existing Apple Watch owner to upgrade, they just need to continue iterating and expand the Apple Watch’s appeal. I think the water proofing improvements and GPS will do that. They’re clearly
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I Love That Game Developers Even Think to Do This
Polygon reporting on NBA 2K17:
Visual Concepts traveled to every NBA team’s arena to "record and analyze the different sounds exclusive to each arena,"
The authentic audio in NBA 2K17 includes the way the ball sounds when it bounces on the floor, hits the rim and backboard, and goes through the net;
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Shipping Lightning Headphones with the iPhone Would Confirm Apple Skeptics' Worst Assumptions
We are just 3 days away from seeing the iPhone 7, and the smart thinking is that this new iPhone will indeed remove the headphone jack. There's a lot os smoke at this point, and I'd be shocked if we do see that round port on the new iPhone. I'
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T-Mobile's Slow Descent to the Net Neutrality Nightmare
I am a T-Mobile customer, and I'm generally happy with my service. They get the basics right and they make it incredibly easy for me to keep up to date with the latest phones without breaking the bank. That said, their new plan rolling out next week, T-Mobile 1, is a
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Mike Birbiglia on Achieving Creative Success
Comedian Mike Birbiglia wrote this great little piece for The New York Times yesterday:
Sometimes people say, “One thing you have to offer in your work is yourself.” I disagree. I think it’s the only thing.
It's a simple list of 6 things he believes in that help lead to success, and
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CBS All Access Goes Commercial Free (for a Price)
CBS announced that they are adding a new tier to their All Access service today. For $9.99 per month, you can stream all your CBS shows totally commercial free.
My wife an I are cord cutters for over a year now and we're still going strong. We use Netflix, Hulu, and HBO