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PS4 has it's Biggest Sales Week Since Launch Over Thanksgiving
Black Friday was the biggest sales week for the PS4 since launch in the UK
Meanwhile, the PS4 sold more units last week than it has in any other week since its launch. Those Black Friday deals prices to be just too tempting for some. Black Friday week in 2015 held the previous record.
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The Difference Between iOS and macOS
Matt Gemmell has been using the iPad as his only computer for a month.
Most of all, the iPad feels like a tool. The MacBook is much more like a machine, that needs maintenance and expertise. I feel like, on the MacBook, I need to learn how to do something; looking for this configuration, or
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Force Touch as the Future of Smartphone Interface? This Android Fan Says Yes
Anshel Sag from Forbes spent a month with the iPhone 7 Plus after using only Android phones for his whole smartphone life. He has a lot of interesting insights to the iOS experience. Insights you can really only get from someone who is so used to one side of the fence and steps out of
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Design at Google has Improved so Much
Remember 5-10 years ago when we were asking the question "will Google get better at design faster than Apple can get better at cloud services?" Well, it's 2016 and I think the question is pretty clear, Google is winning this race.
Google's Android operating system has improved dramatically,
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Ben Brooks on Abandoning the Apple Watch
The Wrist — The Brooks Review
When I wear the Apple Watch I feel as though I am never out of contact. Tap, tap — your turn on this game. Tap, tap – someone made a joke about you in Slack. Tap, tap – unimportant text message. Tap, tap – news news news.
I understand where Ben is coming from,
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Vivaldi Can Now Control Your Hue Lights
Vivaldi is a great new web browser, and it's big pitch is that it's the browser you can customize to your heart's content. I use it at work and it's fantastic!
Their latest addition is…interesting. Vivaldi can already modify it's chrome (pun not intended)
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Totally Misunderstanding the iPad
Paul Thurrott completely misses on this one.
[Tim Cook] “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going be pleasing to the user.”
Which explains why Mr. Cook’s Apple released its own 2-in-1 computer, the iPad Pro, just three years later. Well, that and the fact
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It's Time to Unite and Give the Galaxy Note 7 a Chance
Goddamned beautiful.
After all, the proof that it gets overheated and explodes for practically no reason at all has been evident for months, but now, we need to focus on its positive aspects and wipe the slate clean. It is our company phone now, and there’s no use complaining about it anymore.
This whole
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Apple Pay Seriously Drives Sales
USA Technologies, Inc ran a 6 month study that "targeted point-of-sale advertising of Apple Pay" and the results are impressive, if not that surprising. The study essentially seems to have looked at sales before and after adding a "pay with Apple Pay" sticker to their vending machines.
The results
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Running AMP in the Browser
I like this idea from Manton Reece:
I’d prefer if Google added AMP support directly to Chrome. While it would be a much more limited rollout, it would feel more natural, with fewer drawbacks for publishers.
I never really thought of it from this angle, but it makes a lot of sense.
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Microsoft Word Does Not Support Custom Fonts. Wait, Really?
I was helping my wife get going with her new (and first) Mac, and apparently Microsoft Office does not support third party fonts, like at all. No, I'm not joking, it's in their official documentation:
Third-party fonts are not directly supported in Microsoft Office for Mac applications. Some third-party
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Apple Should Not be Publishing "Designed by Apple in California"
And John Gruber seems to agree:
Apple’s products deserve this sort of treatment, but part of me says someone else should have published it, not Apple.
I saw this news story hit on my way to work and have been thinking about it all day. After thinking about it for much of the day,
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TOMS Apple Watch Bands
Okay, I want these. TOMS is the company who famously give 1 pair of shoes to people in need for every pair they sell. It's a great initiative, and something that more companies should strive to match.
This week the company announced they are selling Apple Watch bands, and of course that gets
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A Touch OS is About More than Just Bigger Touch Targets
David Sparks on a recent trip the Microsoft Store to try out the Surface Studio:
In more traditional apps, like Microsoft Word, the touch interface was less useful and more wonky. Word is way more touch-friendly on iPad than the Surface Studio. Those two teams at Microsoft should have lunch together once in awhile,
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Pinboard is on of the Simplest, Best Services I Pay For
Pinboard has been a staple of the nerdy community for years, so you probably already know all this, but I have to mention this every now and again.
Pinboard is a service for saving links for later. Think of it like a Pocket or Instapaper-like service, but without the custom reading interface. It'
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Apple Does This Sort of Thing
From Stephen Hackett over on 512 Pixels:
When Apple pushes into the future, it usually does so without much regard for the present. A bunch of people are conflicted about this computer, but Mac users should be used to that by now.
I don't want to say people who are concerned about their
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What Should You Get Instead of a MacBook Pro?
I've found myself in the somewhat awkward spot of defending Apple's choices made with the new MacBook Pros over the past week. To summarize many pieces and hundreds of tweets, I think Apple made a "pro" laptop that will be a great machine for most professionals in the field.
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CMRA: Add a Camera to Your Apple Watch
I just saw this new product called CMRA, a band for your Apple Watch that has not one but two cameras built into the strap. There's one 8MP camera for taking pictures of the world around you, and a 2MP "front facing" camera for selfies and FaceTime calls.
This is very