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I’m glad someone took the time to write this, because I wasn’t about to research it.

Mike Bates has a great post responding to my calls for bag setups. Interesting use of a sleeve as his lightest carry option.

Christina Warren:

This is the notebook for people who love their iPad but want something with a real keyboard and a bigger screen. It's a great second computer to complement an iMac or a larger MacBook Pro.

I read all the MacBook reviews today, Christina's is the best of the lot. The design of the page is stunning too.

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.

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 to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence – information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.

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 managing photos.

Yep, ditto.

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.

Sometimes I forget to charge mine and don't realize it until half way through the next day.

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 in a mediocre middle ground.