John Voorhees:
The Annotate and Edit buttons in the center of PDF 6’s toolbar let you switch between the two modes. Annotate mode includes the ability to add text, shapes, stamps, and handwritten notes to PDFs. You can also highlight existing PDF text and add strikethroughs and underlining, all of which were already available in PDF Expert.
This looks like a hell of a good update.
Yes, this is a post about coffee, which is among the most annoying of topics on generally tech focused blogs. But, let now assure you that I am not a pretentious coffee drinker, I use a Keurig and I fucking love it — so yeah.
Anyways, a coworker posted a link to this Buzzfeed video of their staff drinking “Death Wish Coffee”, it’s great. I quipped that it looked great, and if it comes in K-Cups, I’d get it to try. And of course seconds later my coworkers delivered, because of course it comes in K-cups.
Not really a lot to see here except for this exquisite opening from Ron Amadeo:
Google, never one to compete in a market with a single product, is apparently hard at work on a third operating system after Android and Chrome OS.
That is such a perfect summary of Google.
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This week, I want to talk about images for the internet — when you have an iPad Pro and nothing else. Specifically, I want to dive into how I prep images for blog posts, and how I share a link to an image on services which don’t support native image embedding.
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Ben Thompson:
None of that lock-in exists in China: Apple may be a de facto monopolist for most of the world, but in China the company is simply another smartphone vendor, and being simply another smartphone vendor is a hazardous place to be.
That’s really a hard thought to fathom from a US-centric perspective, wow.
Common argument: Tim Cook should be replaced as CEO, because something something negative about innovation at Apple, or not understanding products. If you ask them who should be CEO, there’s never an answer.
When I called for Steve Ballmer to be ousted from Microsoft, I did so by showing a series of charts reflecting the stock value of the company — the metric by which CEOs are judged (rightly or wrongly). With Ballmer it was basically maintaining a steady and boring course.
Jason Karaian:
At current prices, Apple’s forthcoming annual dividend alone is worth as much as a third of the companies in the S&P 500. With the money it will pay in dividends this year, Apple could buy up all the shares in companies like Tiffany (free diamond bracelet with every smartwatch purchase), Foot Locker (free VaporMax shoes with every MacBook), or Chipotle (free burrito with every iPad).
Stupid giveaway ideas notwithstanding, holy shit.
Neil Hughes:
The fact that these high-profile removals have gone largely unnoticed could be a sign that the apps simply were not widely used. In contrast, removing iPad support from an iOS app, for example, would likely be noticed immediately and generate headlines.
Largely unmentioned in this post is whether or not any of these Apple Watch apps were good, like even passably good…
The updated, with a statement from Google, makes it seem like Google knows something most don’t. But by in large, the apps listed have no real value on the Watch. Even Google Maps, it didn’t have the level of integration Apple Maps has.
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They seriously are upping their game. Still runs Windows though.
When I wrote my series of articles on the gear I use to travel light, I ended it with an even stronger affinity towards the gear I use when I travel. In almost every case this clothing was better than the clothing I wear on a normal day.
Let’s just take the most basic of all wardrobe items: jeans. For many of you reading this post, jeans are probably right up there with with a t-shirt as a core thing you wear almost everyday (if not everyday), and something you also feel exceedingly comfortable in.
Today I want to talk about typography — or more specifically how to get better typography on your iPad. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for people who care about typography, but want to use iOS, is that it is not very clear how, or if, you can get the typefaces you love on to the iPad. Clever apps like Ulysses, allow you to send it any font file and the app will make it a part of the fonts you can choose from — it’s handy if all you care about is seeing your favorite writing typeface in the world’s best writing app.
But what about if you want to do some print design, or even use the corporate typefaces in Pages and such?
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