Tobias Tom:
Also, of course everybody seems to know better than Apple. Once their proposed change to the store, the operating system or the platform were to be implemented everybody would be happy. Everyone will get rich. Nobody seems to see that they seem to do something right, at least. Otherwise, why would everyone want to be part of their platform.
Karol Muñoz:
Just as always, we value tangible objects more than files in a computer. There is a disconnect between our most precious objects and the images, songs, videos and stories that make those objects so special. Our favorite story from the research came from a woman who had lost her father a year before. Her husband wanted a way to gift her father’s last voicemail but couldn’t find a beautiful way to do this. Luma Legacy could have helped him put this file in a beautiful object to be experienced in a manner that honors it’s sentiment.
What a neat use case.
Joe Steel:
This is not Apple’s fault. This is literally The Verge’s domain.
So. much. new. stuff. I can’t wait to dive deep.
Updated with a great tip from a reader — for the less frequent travelers out there.
Bare Feats on why they didn’t test the MacBook Air lineup:
As I indicated in the first paragraph of this article, the newest MacBook Air lacks a Retina screen. That makes it almost obsolete in an Apple product line that includes not only three models of Retina laptops but also a Retina iMac, a Retina iPad, a Retina iPhone, and Retina iPod.
There are very few, a select few, people that put up with me. One of them is Stephen Hackett — and truthfully he is a great guy. He’s decided to go full time with his site and Relay FM.
He’s started a T-Shirt drive because THAT IS WHAT YOU DO. Anyways, go buy a bunch and support the most authoritative source on the web for old Mac support. ((Sorry Brand, you win for Newtons though.))
I’ve had the pleasure of testing this app for sometime now, and it really is stellar. One of the best iPad apps, and now it is on the iPhone. Coda on iOS is how I update the status page for this site.
This three part series on sleep has been making the rounds and just last night I read through all three. Wow, really interesting stuff and something I think everyone should read.
Needless to say I went to bed a bit earlier last night.
Great update that brings backups to Ulysses. I’ve been using it for a while and it’s yet another solid update to the best writing app money can buy.
Yet another reason why OmniFocus is amazing, this new push based sync system works with custom WebDAV syncing too. Full security and full convenience.
Jane E. Brody reporting:
One girl among the 1,000 children she interviewed in preparing her book said, “I feel like I’m just boring. I’m boring my dad because he will take any text, any call, any time, even on the ski lift.” A 4-year-old called her father’s smartphone a “stupid phone.”
It turns my stomach to think my kids might ever feel like that.
I’ve found this to be the case in my own life, and it is the primary reason why I take most notes by hand during calls and meetings. I’ve even found that I don’t need to refer to notes as often when I take them by hand.
The downside to all of this though is: search. It is a real pain to search through my notes and find what I am looking for, when they are hand written.
A neat little app was just release from Cosmic Owl called Nox. This app can send you a notification for sunrise and sunset. I loved using it while we were at Disney to know when the sun would set — typically I had the app remind me 15 minutes before sunset.
It gave me a good sense of when I would be slightly less sweaty.
Handy.
This is really neat and similar to what I do — except I have OmniFocus send me a daily email.
Conor McClure with the smack down on health:
The takeaway should be this: you don’t have to be a slave to the numbers to get the results you want. I would in fact argue the opposite: succumbing to the conventional wisdom of weight loss will only lead to unsustainable habits and disappointment. Take the long road, and be in it for life.
Michael Tsai:
Presumably the GPS does not perform as well without access to cellular towers or Wi-Fi. But this could potentially save a lot of battery life when you’re in an area with poor cell service. Plus, it would let you track your flight process while on an airplane, if you had the maps preloaded.
I can attest this is the case in 8.4, as my photos show from my recent flight. Phone completely in airplane mode, wifi off, all my photos are geotagged. Which is pretty neat as I snapped photos out of the plane and had no clue what I was looking at.
Alik Griffin comparing the Fuji X-T1 and Sony A7r:
My take away from all this is that you have two RAW files that are geared for two different users and it comes down to preference. Would you rather apply noise reduction yourself in post and have a sharper image at low ISO, or would you rather have a cleaner image at high ISO to start with? For me I would rather have clean high ISO since sharpness is a lot easier to apply than noise reduction. And I think most average Joe photographers would prefer this as well.
As with cameras on your iPhone, these days it is less about the sensor and a lot more about the image processor. No doubt in my mind that Fuji is leading the way in that regard.
Yes please.