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Going from "It Just Works" to "I Just Work"
The "it just works" message pushed by Apple and the company's fans in the early to mid 2000s was a sometimes tricky pitch to pull off. Of course at the time, Macs were much more intuitive to the average person than Windows1, but it opened them up to criticism when any
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The End of the Headphone Jack is Not the Start of Proprietary Headphones
There's been a general shit storm that's blown up this week over the supposed removal of the headphone jack off the upcoming iPhone 7. Nilay Patel's piece for The Verge really got people fired up:
Look, I know you’re going to tell me that the traditional TRS headphone
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The New Timer App in watchOS 3 is a Disaster
It sounds quaint, but one of the most common tasks I use my Apple Watch for is to set timers. I have timers for everyday things around the house (coffee, laundry, cooking, etc.), and it's also wonderfully helpful when you just need to time something randomly throughout your day. Seriously, I use this
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Should You Install the iOS 10 Beta on Your iPhone or iPad?
No
You might be tempted to install the iOS 10 beta on your iPhone or iPad, but trust me when I tell you it's not worth the risks or headaches yet. We're not even to the public beta yet, and by then I would expect things to be in better shape,
Blogging Overnight Success Story (or not)
As you probably know from this site's description, I've been writing this site since 2010. It's never been a full time job, or even something that made me any money at all until recently, but it has been a great hobby from which I've gotten a ton
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One More Batch of WWDC Wallpapers
So this should be the last set of WWDC16 wallpapers. I really loved the theme of this year's show, so I had to make one more wall based on the Apple logo from Apple's session videos. I think they look great, and you should put them on your iPhone to remember
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Should You Install the watchOS 3 Beta on Your Apple Watch?
No.
It's tempting to get a little crazy this time of year and install all the betas on your iDevices and Macs, because you want to play with the new cool stuff Apple announced this week at WWDC. I was a big fan of what Apple showed off for watchOS 3, and if
The Opposite of "Trust Us, We Know What We're Doing"
Apple gets a lot of criticism for forcing users to change their behaviors to fit Apple's view of the world. The company routinely removes hardware features before the rest of the industry and they create software platforms that tend to give you fewer options, but Apple's entire pitch is that they
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Safari 10 Demotes Flash, Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime...Good!
Next Steps for Legacy Plug-ins in Safari for macOS Sierra
On websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 implementations of content, Safari users will now always experience the modern HTML5 implementation, delivering improved performance and battery life. This policy and its benefits apply equally to all websites; Safari has no built-in list of
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The Watch-ification of iOS
I watched the Apple keynote yesterday and thought the new features of iOS 10 looked good, but it wasn't until I installed it on my iPhone that I realized just how eerily similar a lot of these new features feel to what I enjoy everyday on my Apple Watch.
Raise to wake looks
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Rating Apple's watchOS 3 Announcements at WWDC
Apple talked about a lot of stuff at their WWDC keynote today, and there are literally thousands of articles posted today about what they announced. But if you came to this site, you want to hear something about the Apple Watch, so don't worry, it was the watchOS 3 news that got me
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The Perks of Being an iOS User
Google Photos is one of the most valuable tools on my phone. It's a wonderfully accessible archive of all the photos I have ever taken. Smart searching is Google Photos' killer feature, as I can find just about any photo by simply typing the name of something in that photo.
Google also
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Ipsum: Removing the Friction from Journalling
I've been playing around with Ipsum, the new app from developer Sam Ghobril, and it's a unique app that could be a great fit for some people who like the idea of keeping a journal, but can never make it stick.
Ipsom's one line pitch is essentially that it
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Apple Watch's Low Hanging Fruit
Apple is almost certainly going to announce watchOS 3 at next week's WWDC and the internet is abuzz with what may be announced. I've already made my pitch for how I would change the Apple Watch software, but I wanted to take a few minutes to hit on a couple pieces
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