Month: September 2017

Six years ago, I didn’t even imagine the worst part about free systems, because back then it was unthinkable.

Tony Romm for RECODE: In some cases, though, congressional aides appeared disappointed with the information Twitter provided. Some on the Senate Intelligence Committee, for example, fretted Twitter had not done more, and sooner, to patrol its website for Russian misinformation, according to a source familiar with its work. Afterwards, the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. Mark […]

Om Malik: This brouhaha around Twitter’s 280-character mini-experiment is actually a good encapsulation of how despite often touting disruption, change and innovation, the Valley (aka technology establishment) is often resistant to change, dismissive of change and behaving much like the world it wants to disrupt. See also: iPhone X, MacBook 12”, Outlier Clothing, Headphone Jacks.

The most stripped down, bare essentials backpack you can buy to hold your gear when you are out and about.

Evan Davis has a great run down of your Merino t-shirt options, as he has tested a wide variety of them. I was actually privy to his thoughts before he published, and it has guided my own buying. I love the Wool & Prince that he loves, but personally like the fit of Oultier’s Ultrafine […]

I mentioned in my iPad Productivity Report this week, that Google Drive is a pain in the ass on iOS. This explains why: they did it to be devious it sounds like. Bastards.

Brian Heater on a new tool Apple us using to find shitty web development/design/marketing/revenue models: This form of data collection is the first of its kind for Safari, aimed at identifying sites that use excessive power and crash the browser by monopolizing too much memory. Apple is also documenting the popularity of these problematic domains, […]

A fantastic backup knife, once you make a few tweaks to it.

Brian Stucki proves that text replacement syncing on iOS is fundamentally a pile of shit (my words), but its made even more odd because: From my own experience, syncing of all other data via iCloud has really improved. Notes, Calendar, address book, reminders, photos, etc all sync almost instantly across all devices. I can echo […]

Taking a look at the annoyances Files.app brings with iOS 11, and no it’s not all bad.

Good review on the Urban Assault (I reviewed it here). One thing which cracked me up is his score, I’ll not comment on the craziness of his scoring system overall, but this bit is amazing: The score is a bit deceptive.  This is a pack that I would easily count as one of the best […]

This is a really good question from Om Malik

If that’s how good the iPhone 8 Plus camera is, then with the iPhone X… Well does anyone want an X100T?

I finally found an EDC organizer worth carrying.

A great belt for active wear.

Good review. I suspect the iPhone 8 will be, in many ways, a better upgrade for most than the iPhone X.

I miss this app so much (because I don’t use a Mac any more). And I’m so happy to see it still being updated with amazing new features.

Title says it all. So next time you think about when/if Twitter will act on all the user complaints about stuff, well remember the above.

Let’s talk about document collaboration tools.

Marty Swant reporting on advertising groups being super sad about coming privacy standards in Safari: In an open letter expected to be published this afternoon, the groups describe the new standards as “opaque and arbitrary,” warning that the changes could affect the “infrastructure of the modern internet,” which largely relies on consistent standards across websites. […]