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I'm Not Putting Any More Amazon Smart Devices in My Home
LifeHacker has a good breakdown (with the excellent title, How to Preorder Everything New and Creepy From Amazon's
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There is an Ocean of Possibility Out There for Great Software
The Power and Paradox of Bad Software | WIRED
There are big platforms that help people do all kinds of work.
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What if This Got You Excited?
I can sympathize with this story of getting legitimately excited about a game because you see people like you in a video game, but I can’t really empathize with it.
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It’s No Longer in My Dock
This is how I’ve changed with Things as well. It’s my most used app on my iPhone, but it’s icon lives in the app library now. The 2x2 widget shows me how many tasks I have left for the day, as well as the next 4 on my schedule.
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We’re Living Through a Revolution in Note Taking
This feels to me like when the iPhone came out and all other phone makers had to go, “oh, we need to think about things differently, and we absolutely need to steal a bunch of these new ideas because we’re going to get left in the dust if we don’t”.
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Xbox and PlayStation Pre-Orders Have Been a Disaster
Pre-orders for both Sony and Microsoft’s new game consoles have been a mess. Here’s what’s going on.
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The New Apple Watch's Slightly Larger Battery
iFixit Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown Finds Larger Battery and Bigger Taptic Engine in Thinner Casing
Apple is using a
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The Selflessness of Developers
Otto Nagengast:
What do the maintainers get for all of the work, stress, and abuse? Money? Maybe they’re lucky
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Eventually the Problem is Bigger than the Room
The company released version 10 of their app to iOS yesterday, and I for one am looking forward to seeing what they have in store now that they've tamed their back-end woes.
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RIP Pelaton (or maybe not)
Bradley Chambers:
It’s certainly cheaper to buy your own bike, sign up for Peloton Digital, and just watch the
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OMG OnePlus
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection put out a press release on Friday:
On August 31, CBP officers seized
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The Undue Focus on Work About Work
In truth the problem with work is not the tools or the physical location, but the obsession with leadership , an undue focus on work about work.
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Pairing an Apple Watch with Pelaton’s New Bike+
Well, a $2,500 stationary bike is the last thing I need right now, but this is the one thing Pelaton could have done to make me at least look at the order page before coming to me senses.
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Xbox Game Pass Still Isn't Coming to iOS
MacStories has a good roundup of the new rules, and this one stood out to me:
Under section 3.1.
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Shocker, Trump Knew Covid was More Serious than he Let on Publicly
The Washington Post reporting on an advance copy of Bob Woodward's new book:
“You just breathe the air
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You Might Not Need Another App
The best free productivity apps might be already built in - Lee Peterson
I recently reset my iPhone and went
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What Apple Has Up Their Sleeves Next Week
Daring Fireball: Apple Announces Virtual ‘Time Flies’ Event Next Tuesday
If they only have an hour of story to tell
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Android Phone App Gets Automatic Dark Mode
9to5Google:
In the past, the Google Phone app had a dedicated toggle for dark mode within its in-app settings. The