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One is a Tragedy, One Million is a Statistic
What makes people stop caring? - BBC
While most of us will see a single death as a tragedy, we can struggle to have the same response to large-scale loss of life. Too often, the deaths of many simply become a statistic.
The millions of lives lost in natural disasters, wars or to famine, for
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Plan Your Time
How to Plan Your Week Like a Boss - Shawn Blanc
Start by writing down everything you need and want to get done this week. From the bigger projects all the way down to the smaller tasks.
As I wrote about yesterday, offloading your brain like this is incredibly powerful, and I highly suggest you find
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Restaurants, QR Codes, Splitting the Check, and a Peek Into My Day Job
All Of A Sudden, Qr Codes Are Everywhere
For restaurants, the codes can help solve the labor crunch brought on by the pandemic by requiring less waitstaff. They also offer an opportunity to engage more deeply with guests.
“This is the first time that restaurant POS [systems] have really had access to the patron of
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I’m Done With Note Taking Apps
Tired of note-taking apps – Akkshaya
I’m tired of note-taking apps.
It’s not because of limited choices. But it’s the other way around. There are so many note-taking apps you could try but end up sticking to none. At least, that’s my story. It’s a perfect example of
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What Does 30% Cost?
inessential: Apple’s Thirty Percent Cut
To put it in concrete terms: the difference between 30% and something reasonable like 10% would probably have meant some of my friends would still have their jobs at Omni, and Omni would have more resources to devote to making, testing, and supporting their apps.
But Apple, this immensely
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A HomePod with an Aux Jack Would be Heaven
How to output all Mac sound to stereo-paired HomePods, though with drawbacks - 9to5Mac
It’s not a great solution, but it is certainly better than nothing.
Look, I know some people are going to cry bloody murder here, but I'd love for a version of the HomePod that shipped with an aux
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Offloading Your Brain is the Most Powerful Thing
How I Offloaded My Anxiety To Trello - Accidentally in Code
Both boards combine to address the nagging sense that I’m behind or not doing enough, and allow me to capture what goes into keeping my life moving along and the things make me happy. The things I “should” do no longer run in a
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MLB is Using iPads in Their Weird New Season
Apple, Google and Sony will be critical to MLB season shortened by coronavirusMajor League Baseball will upgrade its iPad dugout program and offer many tech additions as it prepares for a season abbreviated by the coronavirus.CNBCJabari Young
The league took advantage of its 2016 partnership with Apple to expand the dugout iPad program. It
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“No Logging” VPNs Often Have…Logs
Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet • The Register
A string of "zero logging" VPN providers have some explaining to do after more than a terabyte of user logs were found on their servers unprotected and facing the
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How Schools Should be Going Back
Opinion | How to Reopen the Economy Without Killing Teachers and Parents - The New York Times
There is a better way: Allow schools to offer only virtual classes this fall, and convert schools and other large unused spaces into Safe Centers for Online Learning. We could call them not schools, but “SCOLs.”
This is not a
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The Immoveable Feature Conundrum
Parker Ortolani’s iPadOS 15 concepts on Twitter. They’re good mock ups, and Parker did a great job with
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The iPhone SE Continues to be a Quiet Success Story
iPhone SE attracting Android switchers, unlikely to cannibalize iPhone 12 sales - 9to5Mac
Over 30% of iPhone SE buyers came from using an iPhone 6S or older handset—handsets four years old or older. Over 26% of iPhone SE users moved over from an Android device, which is higher than normal Android to iOS switching.
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Is Google Bored With Android?
Several week ago John Gruber wrote this:
Do you get the sense that Google, company-wide, is all that interested in Android? I don’t. Both as the steward of the software platform and as the maker of Pixel hardware, it seems like Google is losing interest in Android. Flagship Android hardware makers sure are
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Cowardice or Complicity?
Federal Agents Unleash Militarized Crackdown on Portland
Federal agents dressed in camouflage and tactical gear have taken to the streets of Portland, unleashing tear gas, bloodying protesters and pulling some people into unmarked vans in what Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon has called “a blatant abuse of power.”
The extraordinary use of federal force in
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Liking the Apple Mail App
I Like Apple Mail? – Charlotte Rose Writes
What I’ve realised after using the native Mail app for so long is that actually, what is most important to me is just having all of my email accounts in one place and being able to view all of my inboxes at once via one main inbox.
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Castro’s Essential Feature
Comment: Castro's Inbox/Queue feature is game-changing functionality for heavy podcast users - 9to5Mac
For the ten shows that I know will get listened to, I have them set to go straight to the top of my Queue. For the other shows (which is the bulk of my subscription list), I can browse
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Mark as Read on Scroll: Thanks, I Hate It
Reeder for reading, Unread for RSS
I just can’t fathom why folks go ga-ga over Reeder even though this feature is absent. Hell, it shouldn’t even be considered a feature; it’s like a book not having page numbers or something. I just don’t get it. 🤷🏼♂️
Software is fun, isn'
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Trackers Find a Way
Spy pixels are evolving like malware, so HEY's adapting - Signal v. Noise
We knew that spy-pixel pushers might go down the rabbit hole of escalation once we gave HEY users the power to defend themselves. Just like virus and malware makers are constantly trying to defeat anti-virus and other security protections.
