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iOS and iPadOS 14: The MacStories Review
Federico Vittici’s annual small-book-length iOS and iPadOS review is now out — I haven’t read it yet, but it’s so good each year that I’m just going to link you to it anyway.
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Apple Announces iPad Pro Updates
Spare a thought today for my bank account, which is hiding for its life today.
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An iPhone 11 Pro Review For Dogs (And Their Owners)
Buzzfeed News, with the sort of tech review I can get behind: My dogs and I have spent the past few days with the iPhone 11 Pro Max, and I think they would agree when I say that it is an excellent camera for humans who enjoy photographing dogs. As a test of camera performance,…
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Apple Announces Release Date for PowerBeats Pro in Navy, Other Colors I Don’t Care About
At this point I was kinda figuring Apple wouldn’t announce the release date of the PowerBeats Pro in navy before my next work trip, but I was mercifully wrong! So far, the excellent Beats Powerbeats Pro true wireless earbuds have only been available in black, but the other colors announced several months ago — ivory…
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Nearly Coherent 037: The Kimmy Gibbler of Worlds
This episode is proof-positive we’re in the Darkest Timeline. Sorry! Trump v. Sportsball No one is more upset than I am at Trump’s feud with the NFL and Stephan Curry, both because I’m a hard-line supporter of the First Amendment and because now I know things about sports, which is the last thing in the…
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Alfred 3
Alfred, which is more or less OS X’s Spotlight on steroids, released a new version today. Whenever I’m setting up a new Mac for myself, Alfred is the second application I’ll install.1 It’s free to use the basic functionality, so you have nothing to lose by giving it a shot. Live a little, would’ja? In…
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Should All Locks Have Keys
Given the hullaballoo over the idiotically-dangerous “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016” that was released in draft form today, I thought it might be wise to remind people why strong encryption is a good and necessary thing. Fortunately, this video does all the legwork for me, which is really rather considerate of it.
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Kill the Apple Event (Or: My Reaction To Today’s “Let Us Loop You In” Event In One Click-Bait Headline)
eD! spends far too much time mulling over Apple events, and now he’s going to ramble on about it to you, you lucky dog.
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Let’s Have Some Apple Event Live-Snark! Hooray!
eD! is live-snarking today’s Apple event on Twitter (@eDThomas). Follow along, won’t you? His fragile little ego needs it.
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Last Week Tonight: Encryption
“Last Week Tonight” discusses encryption. Let’s all laugh at our pending doom together!
eD! Thomas
Excels Equally in Awesomeness & Modesty