Month: April 2015

iPad cases have terrible names.

Clever setup from Jennifer Mack, I need to see if it works with Markdown formatting instead as I prefer to keep all my posts formatted that way. But looks cool.

Chris Vannoy shares his work travel gear.

“Guys, I’m a bigger computer geek than 99.99% of the population, and slowly, but surely, the iPhone is becoming my *only* computer.” – Justin Blanton

John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke: The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don’t know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask […]

I guess I won’t be using that metric anymore — I always thought something felt a little off with those claims between manufacturers.

Federico Viticci: There have been many cautionary tales about Apple’s cloud services and photo management apps, but I think they nailed it this time. I’m happy with iCloud Photo Library because it’s seamlessly integrated with my iPhone’s camera and photos – I don’t have to manually upload anything, and I don’t have to think about […]

This is absurd. Any officer that signed that police report should be kicked off the job.

Matt Gemmell: We should be hearing women at least as often as we hear men, but that’s not what happens for most of us. Regardless of our gender, we probably hear men far more often. That’s a skewed, artificial version of reality, and it doesn’t have to be that way.

It’s been a long time since I installed a third party screen saver. This one is worth it.

Nice tips from Álvaro Serrano in response to my bag post the other day.

Perfect site. Confused about government surveillance? Read this.

Lovely app.

Stephen Hackett: The 6 Plus’ battery life is pretty incredible. While the differences between it and the 6’s battery life depend on the task at hand, I’m consistently able to last a day and a half if not longer on this thing without a charge. My 6 needed a charge every night, no matter what. […]

Marco Arment: Having used an iPhone 6 full-time from its launch until these 6 Plus experiments over the last few weeks, I can confidently say that neither phone is extremely well-designed. Both have nontrivial and completely avoidable flaws. But the 6 Plus has bigger advantages over the other phones, while the 6 seems to sit […]

Always choose the backpack.

MG Siegler on iPad use in Europe: Yet in five years, cafes everywhere will probably be filled with them. Much like the term “computer” has transferred from mainframe to desktop to laptop, I think it will take the place of “tablet” soon. More and more I am not sure why most people buy anything but […]

Conor McClure: I’m still not sold on the usefulness of standing mats. It’s easy to see why comfortability should be prioritized, but in reality, it doesn’t need to be; after all, your standing desk exists for better health. If going barefoot for long periods of time is uncomfortable, your goal should be to train that, […]

The iOS shift key, and Skype’s mute buttons drive me nuts.

This type of stuff will die out, because the moment someone like Justin wants to go back and search for a product he tweeted about — and can’t find it on Twitter — back to the ol’ blog it is.