In browsing around tech-blog-land, I came across this post which I was naturally excited to see, despite the overall condescending nature of the title. I took a read and quickly realized the article was a pile of trash, so we start this week looking at that, before moving on to good tips, Nebo, and backpack sale.
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Adam Clark Estes:
So this is a positive review. That’s because it’s refreshing for Apple to release a product that works great and doesn’t compromise your family’s financial future. I wasn’t sure I wanted an iPad, basically, since the iPad came out. I want this one. That’s honestly a rare feeling for me, because there are so many unwantable or too-expensive gadgets in the world. When the next new iPad comes out, I doubt I’ll want it because it will cost too much. But this Apple thing—I’m surprised to admit—it’s a good value.
Every iPad is a good value, because unlike iPhones you don’t have to replace them yearly. My main machine is the first generation iPad Pro and I couldn’t be happier with it. It’s just that the latest iPad, is a phenomenally good value.
When I reviewed the Lum-Tec, I talked about what I am looking for in a watch, and truth be told I have tried to sell that Lum-Tec a couple of times, not because I dislike it, but because I wanted to try this watch. Luckily, I found this watch for a bargain price and thus I was able to keep both watches for the time being. This Gravitymaster is one I’ve been drooling over for quite some time.
And yes, we are really talking about a G-SHOCK.
Interesting how Instagram is both a platform which bolsters self-confidence, and makes one insecure. Seems fairly obvious to me, and I would suspect that the negative impacts only start to out weigh the positive as the user base ages. That’s just my gut though.
This is probably the post they should have had when Micro.blog came out.
The weather one is one I’ve been wanting for a while. And most of these seem pretty doable.
I’ve got a lot of random things to go over as it relates to apps today.
## iPhone Home Screen Changes
Talking about your iPhone home screen used to be *a thing*, even on this site, but it’s been quite some time since I’ve talked about it. With the iPhone X I originally set up the device with 3 rows of apps and the dock. Recently though I changed that to 5 rows and the dock, or all but one row. I’d do the full screen of icons, but I really can’t figure out which others ones I would possibly want.
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Christina Farr:
While the data shared would obscure personally identifiable information, such as the patient’s name, Facebook proposed using a common computer science technique called “hashing” to match individuals who existed in both sets. Facebook says the data would have been used only for research conducted by the medical community.
This is fine, it’s not like data earmarked for only one type of application every gets out.
Mohit Kumar:
On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that “malicious actors” took advantage of “Search” tools on its platform to discover the identities and collect information on most of its 2 billion users worldwide.
Facebook is quite like Trump right now: what they are doing and have done would otherwise have sunk other companies/politicians — however both stand there telling people that it happened, they’ll do something about it eventually (maybe), but really don’t worry about it. It feels to me like Zuckerberg is basically daring the world to try and do something to stop him, because he believes it is simply not possible. And thus far, he’s not been wrong.
A new brass pen, that uses a Space Pen refill and just might be far more durable than the Space Pen refills themselves — which is saying quite a bit. But it’s quite heavy, so let’s start by talking about that.
Looks really solid, I just switched my router to using it.
There’s long been a development tool called “Charles” and in simple terms (as I understand it for you readers, not developers) it’s a way to see what you are sending over the network from software projects you are developing. Think of it as a way to debug where the problem lies in a piece of software (am I sending the wrong data, to the wrong place, or everything from the app is fine). Just a bit ago Charles Proxy came out for iOS, and it’s pretty amazing and terrifying at the same time.
What [Charles for iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/charles-proxy/id1134218562?mt=8&uo=4&at=1l3v36d) allows you to do is to create a *local* VPN proxy, which sends all your network traffic on your device through the Charles app — thus allowing it to see everything sent, and record that for you. This data doesn’t leave your device, it’s not some remote server providing the logs, it’s all local. This is kind of like running Little Snitch on your Mac, except it’s a log and not a tool you can use to block stuff.
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GORUCK has been teasing this for a bit and it’s finally here, a workshop for the GR1. You can customize the GR1 in a few unique ways and get it in August. I got the one with all the options, but I’ll admit that slick variant looks awesome too. Great stuff, wish I could get both variants, but that’d be crazy, right?