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More on Stock Apps
The Value of Using Stock Apps – Chris Hannah
I’ve actually slowly using more stock apps/services recently, such as Reminders, Notes, and Mail. In the past, I’ve used third-party options for all three of these, but I seem to always come back to Apple’s built-in apps.
Chris’s response to
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The RSS Numbers
It's Time to Get Back Into RSS | Daniel Miessler
It’s unclear what exactly destroyed RSS, but Google closing Google Reader definitely didn’t help. Another factor was the rise of aggregation sites like Slashdot, Digg, and Reddit, which seductively took on the burden of surfacing the best content.
A couple things on
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David Hayter on PAL Keys (and Feeling Genuine Joy for Your Friends’ Success)
My friend Daryl Baxter has a podcast about videos games called PAL Keys. It's a really fun show,
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VR Should be Having a Moment…It’s Not
VR misses its pandemic moment - Axios
Virtual reality can bring faraway people together and take us places we can't physically go. That should make it the perfect breakout technology for both personal and professional life in the stay-at-home era — yet it remains a niche product.
There is a lot of talk
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Too Restrictive?
A class war over social distancing? New data suggests otherwise. - The Washington Post
The new Post poll probes public attitudes toward restrictions and the coronavirus. I got a detailed breakdown of the numbers from the Post polling team, and here are some basic findings:
1. By 78 percent to 22 percent, Americans believe it is
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Renewable Energy to Pass Coal in the US this Year
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.
The United States is on track to
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Download your App.net Post History
Before I say anything else, I will tell you that this tool is SLOOOOOW. I’m not a super clever
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The Full App.net Archive
Internet good guy Manton Reece has made an accessible archive of all public posts on App.net.
In the final week before App.net shut down, I whipped up a few scripts to download every post on the platform via the API. After that finished, I also attempted to download small versions of many of
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Can’t Use All That Power…Today
iPhone SE review: Can mid-range Androids compete? [Video] - 9to5Google
We know that the A13 Bionic chipset is an absolute monster, but while the iPhone SE has a more powerful chipset than just about every single flagship Android phone, it’s kind of like having the fastest car on the dragstrip. Sure, there is plenty
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98% of Users Then and Now
John Gruber linked to this amazing article from 1998:
The iMac doesn’t include a floppy disk drive for doing file backups or sharing data. It’s an astonishing lapse from Jobs, who should have learned better.
And:
I’d bet that 98% of computer users use a floppy from time to time, or print
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Apple’s Exceptional Product Messaging
I tweeted out a link to Joshua Vergara’s well-made review of the new Samsung Galaxy Book Flex, because one bit stood out to me. He says:
There’s wireless power share in the touch pad. Talk about being nimble, if you’re watching something on the screen[...] and you’re not really doing
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Begun, My Binge Mode Has
Finished, The Clone War Has - The Newsprint
Today, after 12 years of defending myself for watching a “kids show”, The Clone Wars has come to an end. An end worthy of the show’s entire history. “Victory and Death” is masterfully, masterfully put together, with pain, suffering, triumph, foreshadowing, and reminiscent tones spread throughout the
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Only 2% of Users
John Gruber linked to this Kotaku article and commented:
Puts some context into Valve’s decision to drop Mac support from SteamVR.
VR is definitely very small, and at 2% of the Steam userbase is clearly not a huge market. That said, there are other slices of Steam users that are 2% of the pie
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The Best Apple Setups
The Best Apple Setups Challenge
The premise of his challenge is simple, you have to come up with your ultimate Apple product based setups at four different price points, namely $500, $1,000, $2,500 and, finally, $5,000. The rules, as defined by Chris are:
You cannot use any other items, if you have
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It's Not for Me, and That's Okay
This is Not for Me - Tim Nahumck
The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro looks to be an amazing device, but one thing is clear: this is not for me. And that’s OK.
I think this single line from the end of Tim's piece on the new Magic Keyboard is a super important
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An iCloud Keychain App
iCloud Keychain: Why isn't there a dedicated app? - 9to5Mac
When saving a password to iCloud Keychain, a dedicated app could help facilitate the set up of a one time password for individual websites. Apple could even create an API that works with Sign in with Apple or just general website logins.
I wholeheartedly
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Dear Tech YouTubers
Austin Evans, who I will say up front I think makes a lot of good videos, made what I think is the most quintessential “bored tech YouTuber” video ever.
It’s ostensively a review of the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro, but it’s framed in a “this is why iPhone users should probably switch
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The $399 iPhone is More Powerful than Today’s $1,000+ Android Flagships…and Likely Next Year’s Too
Comment thread on the new iPhone SE at Hacker News
163 Comment right now, ~800 Are about Size of Devices. I thought there was another important point.
The current entry level iPhone; iPhone SE 2020 with A13 is now faster in Single Threaded performance than ALL current shipping Android, including Flagship Android. And judging by
