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There are Almost 400 Games Available on Nintendo Switch
Wow, that’s a lot of games! By my math, the PS4 had 181 games on it in the first 13 months on the market, which makes the Switch number look even more impressive.
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HomePod as an Accessibility Device
First Impressions of HomePod — Steven's Blog
Accessibility. Like everything else Apple makes, HomePod is an accessible product. Apple officially lists two: VoiceOver and Touch Accommodations. If use VoiceOver on your iOS device, it is automatically turned on when you set up HomePod.
I love that Apple has included accessibility features in the HomePod.
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Picking the Better of Two Bad Things
Joe Cieplinski on why he doesn’t care if Siri is behind Alexa:
We reached the “good” threshold for speakers decades ago. The subcategory of affordable bookshelf speakers got there sometime in the past few years.
But we’re nowhere near “good” yet when it comes to digital assistants.
While I disagree, his argument is
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Grime in Your AirPod Case
https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/966301987259277312
Yesterday I asked Twitter to give me something I never thought I'd ask for: pictures of their earwax.
Well, not quite. I asked for anyone who had wireless headphones if they would send me a picture of their headphones, the case they live in, where they carry
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Being Forced into the iPad Only Lifestyle
Life on an iPad | The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
That was, as I say, a couple of weeks ago. Since then I’ve been doing everything I’ve done on this iPad – a 12in iPad Pro, with Smart Keyboard. That means email, writing articles for papers, editing chapters
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Swype Keyboard is Dead
Swype keyboards for Android & iOS discontinued as company focuses on business market | 9to5Google
Nuance will no longer be updating the Swype+Dragon keyboard for Android. We’re sorry to leave the direct-to-consumer keyboard business, but this change is necessary to allow us to concentrate on developing our AI solutions for sale directly
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Why Multiple Voice Recognition is Important to HomePod's Core Music Functionality
How to Prevent Other HomePod Users From Affecting Your Apple Music Recommendations - Mac Rumors
If you're concerned that other people in your household will skew your Apple Music recommendations by using HomePod to play songs that don't align with your tastes, then there's a setting you'll want
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Struggling to Agree on HomePod's Place in the Market
“Smart” speaker – what makes a speaker smart?
Maybe if Apple had called the HomePod a “super speaker” or something else and more directly avoided the comparison to “smart” devices like the Echo and the Home, they wouldn’t be having so many tech reviewers reviewing a Ferrari as if it were a Corolla.
I love
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Hulu Rolling Out 60fps Playback for Live TV
It’s here: Hulu with Live TV, now testing in 60FPS. - Hulu
You’ve asked, you’ve patiently waited… and today is the day we begin rolling out 60fps (frames per second) support on Live TV. This was one of the most-requested features by our viewers.
The feature is rolling out now for iOS,
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The Verge Clearly Hates Apple
Or maybe they don't. According to Vlad Savov at The Verge, the iPhone X is Apple’s underrated masterpiece.
The iPhone X is the biggest risk Apple has yet taken with its most important product — the most influential single product in consumer electronics history — and what’s striking to me is how casually
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Target and Best Buy are Shifting Away from CDs
Best Buy to Pull CDs, Target Threatens to Pay Labels for CDs Only When Customers Buy Them | Billboard
[S]ources say that Target has demanded to music suppliers that it wants to be sold on what amounts to a consignment basis. Currently, Target takes the inventory risk by agreeing to pay for any goods it
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The iPad Excels at Long Form Writing
Using iPad for Long-Form Writing - Joe Cieplinski
So why, then, am I typing this with a mechanical keyboard on my iPad? Well, because I discovered that for prolonged periods of typing, where I want to do nothing else but type thousands of words for a blog post, a combination of Apple’s Magic Keyboard
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Vivaldi Brings a Vertical Reading Mode in Latest Update
Vivaldi 1.14 launches vertical reader mode | Vivaldi Browser
We continue to innovate in this space and in this release introduce vertical reader mode, a first for browsers. This unique functionality came about as a response to needs of users of Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. No matter where you live or what language you
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HomePod will Indeed Have Over-the-Air Updates
Via MacRumors:
When a new software update is released for the HomePod, users will receive an alert and will likely be directed to the Home app to install it, similar to how Apple Watch updates are installed through the Watch app. HomePod will be listed as an available HomeKit device in the Home app.
This
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A.I. is Usually Like Talking to a 3 Year Old
Every app gives me recommendations, but none of them are any good:
It's a cool idea for a future, but right now none of my apps are anywhere close to delivering on that promise. And if I'm being honest, this horrible in-between stage is making my phone a lot less
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Advancing the iPad
What I Wish the iPad Would Gain from the Mac – MacStories
The iPad is already proving a formidable Mac-alternative for some users – what happens if it continues closing the gap by adopting the Mac strengths I've listed? If the iPad offered support for multiple instances of an app, was available in a
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10 Years Since Emoji Came to iOS
The Making of Apple’s Emoji: How designing these tiny icons changed my life
This year will mark the tenth anniversary of Apple’s original emoji launch. They were first released in Japan on November of 2008, shortly after my internship at Apple concluded. I had no idea that within a few months of completing
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Google Assistant adds Muti-User Support for Netflix
Google Assistant now supports voice match for multiple Netflix profiles
For Netflix, if you have a personal profile on a Netflix account, you can link your personal profile and set up Voice Match to play content where you left off.
This is something Google has a major lead on the HomePod (at least for now)