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1Password, KeePass, and Humanity
Josh Centers: Moving from 1Password to KeePass
If all this sounds like I left a smooth and perfectly functional app for a hodgepodge of cobbled-together solutions, it’s because I did. But now that I’ve hashed out the kinks, it works pretty well. I’ve created and changed several passwords on both my
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Why Pebble Failed
Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble, on why Pebble failed:
The underlying problem was that we shifted from making something we knew people wanted, to making an ill-defined product that we hoped people wanted.
The whole read is worth your time, but Pebble gets tons of credit from me for validating that the smart
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The Land Grab
Peter Kafka: This is as good as movies are going to get
This glut of great streaming stuff is literally a glut, and no one in the business thinks that it’s going to last forever. The giant tech and media companies funding the production boom have no intention of doing it in perpetuity. Right
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Apple's Hide My Email Kinda Rocks
Mike Lapidakis: An Ode to Apple's Hide My Email
Last summer, Apple announced that as part of their iCloud+ service expansion, a new feature named Hide My Email was launching. The feature received little fanfare and was mainly swept up in the plethora of other news from WWDC. After using it for nearly
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Apple's Merchant Processing Aspirations
Back in January I suggested that Apple's Tap-to-pay solution would be something third party payment providers could integrate into because merchants aren't going to be interested in having their main payments happening in one place and their contactless stuff happening in a siloed Apple system.
This week, Mark Gurman
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Deliveries Gets Kneecapped
The Future of Deliveries on the Deliveries blog:
It’s likely that over time, more services in Deliveries will no
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Some of Apple's Own Mac Apps are Using HTML for UI
Jim Nielsen: Inspecting Web Views in macOS
I’m intrigued by the ability to use system colors in CSS and these web views in macOS show how engineers at Apple are leveraging non-standard CSS keywords in Webkit to mimic UIs in macOS which are otherwise built with native system APIs. It’s kind of
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They Hate You and They'll Believe Anything
Associated Press: Republican retracts false claim schools placing litter boxes for ‘furry’ students
“They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?”
This is
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Overcast Should Steal Castro's Best Feature
Michael J. Tsai: Overcast 2022.2
The biggest issue that I have with Overcast right now is that its design doesn’t really match my situation of having some podcasts where I’m a completionist and others where I want to pick and choose certain episodes to listen to. The problem with the second group
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I Divested in the Thing I Love and All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt
Elizabeth Lopatto: Bored Ape Yacht Club’s newest merch drop can only be bought with ApeCoin
Members who pay in ApeCoin are essentially giving their ApeCoin DAO vote back to Yuga Labs, further consolidating Yuga Labs’ control over the DAO.
So you can buy ApeCoin, which earns you investment in the future of the coin,
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Everybody's Golf Servers Shutting Down, but That's Okay
Chris Carter: Servers closing this fall
“Online servers for Everybody’s Golf will shut down on September 30, 2022,” wrote the developer on the official website. “All online features (including online multiplayer modes) will cease on that date. You will still be able to play and enjoy the game in single-player offline modes.”
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Cameras Keep on Growing
Chance Miller: Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro camera bump to be even larger thanks to new 48MP sensor
Kuo took to Twitter on Sunday to offer an explanation as to why the iPhone 14 Pro will feature an even larger camera bump than the iPhone 13 Pro.
I took this photo last fall to show the
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Human Dingleberries Unite!
Tim Miller: Political Speech for Human Dingleberries Has Never Been More Robust
Never in the history of the world have more human dingleberries had larger platforms to spew deranged nonsense about politics than they do right now, at this moment. We are in a golden age for fools with political views outside the mainstream.
Truly,
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Google is Trialing Native Third Party Payments on Android
Sarah Perez writing for TechCrunch:
The program will allow a small number of participating developers, starting with Spotify, to offer an additional third-party billing option next to Google Play’s own billing system in their apps. While Google already offers a similar system in South Korea following the arrival of new legislation requiring it,
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The M1 Ultra is Still Beat by the RTX 3090
I wrote the day after the event that we should hold off on saying the M1 Ultra has more GPU performance than NVIDIA's top-of-the-line graphics card, and that's proven to be the most sober of hot takes. Mac Studio reviews are out today, and they confirm that the
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The iPhone SE's Potentially Fatal Flaw
In a Reddit thread talking about John Gruber's iPhone SE review:
I disagree with him about the battery part. My wife has a second gen SE and battery doesn’t make it through a work day. Even if the A15 is more power efficient, the display still sucks the most power and is
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Maybe Turning Your Camera Off is Better
Allison S. Gabriel: Research: Cameras On or Off?
Our results — recently published in Journal of Applied Psychology— were quite clear: Using the camera was positively correlated to daily feelings of fatigue; the number of hours that employees spent in virtual meetings were not. This indicates that keeping the camera consistently on during meetings is at
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The iPhone Will be a Failure
Jon Erlichman tweeting a photo of an AdvertisingAge article from 2007:
Every Best Buy and Circuit City is filled with a host of other divergence devices that have been enormously successful: the digital camera, the plasma TV, the wireless e-mail device, the personal video recorder, the GPS navigation device. What convergence device has been
