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The New iPad Air and the 2008 MacBook
2020 iPad Air 4th Gen review: Pro in all but name - MSPoweruser
The 2020 iPad Air 4th Gen is the perfect option for those who can’t quite get together the cash for a Pro device. In fact, with only minor caveats compared to Apple’s more expensive offering, there’s very little reason not
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Converting to ARM Tepidly or Boldly
PC Life After Apple Silicon. by Jean-Louis Gassée | by Jean-Louis Gassée | Nov, 2020 | Monday Note
Over the years, Microsoft’s adoption of ARM has been tentative.Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 running on 32-bit ARM hardware introduced in 2011, didn’t “take”. In 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with Qualcomm
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Uninstall Go SMS Pro Today
From Lifehacker:
The Go SMS Pro texting app has over 100 million installations from the Google Play Store, but popularity
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And the Entire PC Market Went, “Oh Shit”
Daring Fireball: The M1 Macs
What you need to understand is that the best aspects of these Macs aren’t
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Those Geekbench Scores Don’t Tell the Full Story
Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro | Hacker News
I’m not sure what to make of these scores, but it seems wrong that the Mini and Pro significantly underperform the Air in multi core. I find it hard to imagine this benchmark is going to be representative
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Finding Your Safe Space
Daring Fireball: Petulant Wingnuts Push Parler
This is what puts the lie to claims that Twitter and Facebook moderating and labeling content is an infringement on free speech. Don’t like Twitter or Facebook’s rules? Use something else.
That said, I have my doubts that Parler, in particular, is going to work very well.
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The Value of the iPhone’s Telephoto Lens
Neglecting The Telephoto Lens
Yet in stark contrast to my thoughts a few years ago, I thought the telephoto lens
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Bad Marketing Data
Jacques Corby-Tuech - Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data
The numbers are often all we have to prove our case, to get more budget and in extreme cases, to continue to stay employed. We'll remain in this mess until we can separate marketing from short sighted and poorly informed decision making.
It really
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Bug Prevents Third Party Apps from Opening on macOS
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application | Hacker News
And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple is the
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We Did it While This Country was Trying to Kill Us
Joe Biden Was Elected By Black People
And we did it while this country was trying to kill us. Even though a deadly pathogen—police brutality, voter suppression, the coronavirus, white supremacy—take your pick) disproportionately attacked our communities. We did it because they were trying to kill us with knees on our necks, no-
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Empty Stands, iPads, and MLB The Show Sound Effects
Fake crowd noise in MLB created from 30 iPads - Sports Illustrated
The dozens of sounds that came loaded on the tablet for each team were originally made for the PlayStation game MLB: The Show. Each noise has three levels—small, medium, and large—and layering can create additional ones. (An extra-loud cheer can be
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What the Hell Happened with the Pixel 5?
Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely | Ars Technica
With so many of Google's "premium" changes being a wash, there are not many obvious reasons to pick the Pixel 5 for $350 more than the Pixel 4a. The most obvious improvement is the 90Hz display and bigger
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Auston Mann on the Difference Between the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max Cameras
Austin Mann with the quote I was hoping as a 12 Pro owner:
I shot in tons of different lighting scenarios, and frankly in many of the scenes both cameras rendered a beautiful image and I could barely see a difference between iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Phew! I gambled on getting
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Animal Crossing Crushed in 2020
The Nintendo Switch has now sold more than the NES
Since its launch in March the island life sim has
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Your Regular Reminder that Pokemon Go Has Been Huge All Along
Morning Brew
It’s all Meowth money showers right now over at Niantic, the company behind the 2016 breakout augmented reality app, Pokémon Go. Turns out it wasn’t the summer fad we all thought it was.
So far this year, players have spent about $1 billion in the app, according to Sensor Tower, a
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Lying with Statistics
How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science | MIT Technology Review
Unsurprisingly, conservatives ran with this new support for their old narrative and have continued to do so. The study’s fans include President Trump, who used it to justify the creation of his short-lived and failed commission on voter fraud, and
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I Feel Hollow Without Creativity
Newsletters vs Blogging - Tablet Habit
I feel that I no longer want to make money with my writing and instead want this to be a creative outlet for me. I don’t want this to be a job, I want this to be a hobby. I am a creative person and I need a creative
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Notion’s Onboarding Experience
Notion's Onboarding Experience: A Case of Simplicity and Delightfulness
Their Personal Onboarding experience is that simple. They use simple language, simple illustrations, and simple design to guide you through the most important stage of any online service. It’s a make-or-break point and Notion’s got it right.
Notion definitely does
