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Learn Ulysses is a great way to get up to speed with the best writing app out there
Shawn Blanc’s The Sweet Setup has long held a soft spot in my heart, and I think the provide a great service in helping people find the best software for just about anything they’re trying to do on their iOS and macOS devices. That’s why I was excited to see they were
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The iPhone is the camera I’ve used to capture my life.
Austin Mann wrote his own unique blog post about 10 years with the iPhone, and he summed up the importance of this line of phones very nicely as "the camera I've used to capture my life."
I think that's a very powerful statement, and is not something most people
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The apps are too damn big
John Gruber wrote a quick post titled Bad App Citizens where he says:
It’s getting to the point where most apps can’t be updated over cellular because they’re all over 100 MB. This is madness.
I decided to test out exactly how much data is transferred on some of these larger apps.
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First Impressions of the Nextbit Robin
https://youtu.be/Ll8IQejJtRo
The Nextbit Robin is a downright coolest looking phone I have ever seen since the iPhone 4. While the rest of the industry is focused on metal and glass and trying to remove everything that's not a screen, the Robin in soft plastic and demands to be noticed.
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Take care of your customers with Smallchat
Smallchat is a new product from Nicer Studio that is built to help you chat with customers on your website in real time. Unlike other tools I've seen like this, Smallchat is built on Slack.
This Slack backend means that your users get a nice chat interface on your website, but you get
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The biggest upgrade to Android Wear 2 (and The Verge's weird review)
Here's the opening to The Verge's review of the LG Watch Sport and Style:
Are you wearing a smartwatch? Not likely. Despite the fact that modern wrist computers have been available for over three years, most people have not found them to be as desirable or necessary as the ubiquitous smartphone.
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Did you know IFTTT widgets are kind of awesome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWNmoWcCtzU
Widgets are an underused tool that IFTTT offers, and I wanted to show off a few of the widgets I use regularly.
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The 50 best iOS games of last year
AppAdvice has put together a great list of the best iOS games from 2016. Not only is the list a solid representation of the best gaming on iOS, but their web designers did a bang up job with the layout of this page. It's stunning!
I didn't really talk about my
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Matt Gemmell on Ulysses vs Scrivener
Matt Gemmell is a professional writer, and has an interesting take on Ulysses as a long time Scrivener user.
It’s a difficult choice. For now, I’m keeping a watchful eye on the Updates pane of the App Store to see what happens with Scriv, but it’s Ulysses that’s on my iPad’
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Don't Get Too Used to Net Neutrality
The FCC’s Ajit Pai on net neutrality's place in the Trump administration:
The commission "need[s] to remove outdated and unnecessary regulations... We need to fire up the weed whacker and remove those rules that are holding back investment, innovation, and job creation,"
Oh, fuck you.
This doesn't
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Final Fantasy 15 is Fastest Selling Title in Series' History
Just this morning I reported that Pokémon Sun and Moon had the best first week of sales for any Pokémon game ever, and now we have word that Final Fantasy 15 moved 5 million units (physical and digital) in it's first day on the market. As you may have already guessed, that'
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Pokémon Sun and Moon are the Fastest Selling Games in the Series' History
Nintendo reports Pokémon Sun and Moon are the fastest selling Pokémon games yet.
In less than two weeks, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems sold a combined total of 3.7 million units. That’s an 85 percent increase over Pokémon X and Pokémon Y – the previous record holders
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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)