Apple's App Store is a Changing
Apple had a surprise press release yesterday where they unveiled 3 changes to the App Store going forward. This was definitely a surprise, as we are less than a week away from the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, and these are the sorts of changes that would make perfect sense at that conference. Apple&
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Some Great Wordkflows for WordPress Publishers
I had to take a second an write a quick shout out to my buddy Michael Rockwell who has been killing it with custom WordPress scripts for the indie darling app, Workflow. He got my attention with his Push to Ulysses workflow that makes it just a little easier to get content into Ulysses.
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Tablets in the 90s
I've been thinking recently about this whole "Apple is doomed because they can't do AI" bug that's been going around the tech press lately. I think that Google had a pretty good I/O conference and showed off some cool stuff in their messaging apps that made
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Television Time Giveaway! (UPDATE: all gone)
UPDATE: All promo codes have been claimed. Thank you everyone who responded and I hope you are enjoying the app!
Television Time is an excellent iOS app for tracking your favorite TV shows so that you never miss an episode. It's a great app whether you watch 3 or 30 shows regularly.
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The 5 Best 3rd Party Apple Watch Apps
The Apple Watch gets a lot of flack for not having good apps, and a lot of that criticism is fair. Watch apps are generally not as great as they were originally advertised, but there are some developers out there who have made incredibly useful watchOS apps that make the Apple Watch a very compelling
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Why I Believe in the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch gets a lot of criticism for being slow, for having a weird interface, and a mess of other things, but I still love mine. The fact that I love my Apple Watch doesn't mean that the criticisms are wrong, however. There are plenty of tech products out there are are
How to Get Apple Pay on the Web
As it stands today, Apple Pay works in 2 environments:
1. Physical retail via NFC "tap to pay"
2. In-app via the iOS Apple Pay API
These are a great start, and they take care of a lot of the transactions that people make on a regular basis, but there's
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Why Truly Standalone Apps are Android Wear 2's Biggest New Feature
I'm a well-known lover of smart watches, especially the Apple Watch. And while I think Pebble is doing good work in the smart watch space, Android Wear has never really impressed me that much. The hardware looked really bad and the software was way too limited. But Google just had their I/
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Microsoft to Have More Powerful Xbox One...Next Year
Last month saw rumors of a new PlayStation console coming this fall, and now we're starting to hear rumblings that Microsoft is also getting into the new console game a little earlier than many of us were expecting. Kotaku first broke the news yesterday, indicating that Microsoft will be unveiling not one, n=
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On Pebble's New Lineup
Let me get this out of the way up front: I like Pebble a lot. I don't use one currently because the Apple Watch has taken over all the jobs I used my Pebble for, but I still think they make good products and they are absolutely the best wearables for a certain
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Greener Grass
Marco Arment wrote a good piece yesterday about how Apple could become the next Blackberry in the smartphone world if they're not careful.
If Google is wrong, and computing continues to be defined by a tightly controlled grid of siloed apps that you poke a thousand times a day on a smooth rectangle
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No One Will Ever Need More Than 16GB of Storage
You know how we always hear those quotes from people saying "who would ever need more than ___ of XYZ?" and just laugh? Did somebody at Apple say that once and it's treated as fact? 9to5Mac has some rumors on the new iPhone 7 Plus.
What’s notable, though, is that the
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Alfred 3 Review: More Power Than Ever
There are few apps on my Mac that I find as indispensable as Alfred. In terms of apps that help me get my work done, it's right up there with Photoshop, Atom, and Ulysses in letting me be as productive as I need to be. This is why when I saw earlier in
One Size Software Does Not Fit All
I got into a small debate last night on Twitter about how I use Apple News and why I don't think it's a good RSS reader for my use case. Earlier in the day, MacRumors posted a rumor that Apple is working on a feature that will like you unlock your
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Google Didn't Win Over this Apple Fan at I/O 2016
Each year's Google I/O is a tough time for me. I'm an iOS user, and have been for many years, but Google's big annual developer conference always gets me thinking maybe I should switch to the other side. They show off this cool technology that makes me think
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Apple Watch vs. Android Wear 2.0
Google showed off their big update to Android Wear this week and the company is calling it the biggest update to the platform yet. Here's a quick summary of what they've added:
* Watch face complications
* New app launcher
* A keyboard for text entry
* Smart messaging auto-responses
* Speed
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