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Steve Kodachrome reporting: “Facial recognition is a convenient action to open your phone – similar to the ‘swipe to unlock’ action,” the spokesperson said. “We offer the highest level of biometric authentication – fingerprint and iris – to lock your phone and authenticate access to Samsung Pay or Secure Folder.” “We know it sounds like…
Steve Kodachrome reporting:
“Facial recognition is a convenient action to open your phone – similar to the ‘swipe to unlock’ action,” the spokesperson said. “We offer the highest level of biometric authentication – fingerprint and iris – to lock your phone and authenticate access to Samsung Pay or Secure Folder.”
“We know it sounds like it would be secure, but really we just want to save you from swiping…” Shakes heads and walks off.
I love articles like this, as I keep in mind that as wild as the thoughts are around the future of transportation I remember: What Evans says in this post is likely only scratching the surface. I highly doubt my two kids will ever need to learn to drive.
I love articles like this, as I keep in mind that as wild as the thoughts are around the future of transportation I remember:
Web design on an iPad Pro, and maybe two iPad Pros wasn’t the right thinking?
I am in the middle of a site redesign and after posting a teaser image on Twitter, more than a few readers sent in the same question: how are you doing that on an iPad? It’s actually pretty easy to design a website on an iPad — since there is no build or compile times you have to worry about. However, people still don’t believe me, so I am going to go over how I do this on an iPad Pro. And in the last part of the update this week, I want to talk about how I am consolidating back down to one iPad Pro.
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There are good headphones, and then there are QC35s.
My last pair of noise cancelling headphones was the Bose QC 19s, and I wore them so often that not only was the pleather earpad disintegrating, but I had zip ties holding together various other broken parts. They were a pair of headphones which seemed amazing to me.
Though the sound isolation, the noise canceling, was never great, it was good enough that I was fine with it. Now fast forward to Christmas 2016 and my father gifted me a pair of QC35s, which is only appropriate since I got the QC 19s from him way back when. I put them on right away and was astonished at how quiet the room was, I didn’t believe it. My dad and family were also impressed.
What if ISPs spent all this money to be able to sell our data, but then we encrypt it all. Suckers.
If you haven’t heard, the Republican Party pushed through a change which removes the FCC from its ability to oversee how data is used from ISPs. Effectively, this would allow someone like say, Comcast, to legally sell your internet traffic records. Things like: the sites you visit and where you visit them — anything you are doing on the web which isn’t HTTPS will be known and able to be sold. Even with HTTPS where you go is still known by the ISP.
This is clearly very bad. The only way to now truly maintain internet privacy (once 45 signs this into law) — even at home — is to use a VPN. This fact has not slipped through the eyes of VPN providers.
Having spent some time using VPNs full time, I need to tell you right now: it sucks. Doesn’t matter what service you use, it’s a lessened experience. The connections are choppy at times, slow at others, and never as fast as your internet connection.
Jared Sinclair: If you’ve ever wanted an easier way to write a properly-threaded tweetstorm, my new app Stormcrow can help. Type all your tweets into a single text view. Stormcrow will automatically separate your paragraphs into a thread of automatically-numbered tweets. Great little app.
Jared Sinclair:
If you’ve ever wanted an easier way to write a properly-threaded tweetstorm, my new app Stormcrow can help. Type all your tweets into a single text view. Stormcrow will automatically separate your paragraphs into a thread of automatically-numbered tweets.
Great little app.
Life is too short to worry about whether your email will work or not.
From the first day I had the brooksreview.net domain name, I’ve hosted the email myself in various forms — which has been about 7 years now. At first, I hosted with with Media Temple using their built in tools, then as I moved hosts through the years I moved the email hosting with it. Each move was a royal pain in the ass, and typically resulted in at least a long stretch without working email in some way, shape, or form.
About 5 times a year my email would also shit the bed in ways I didn’t comprehend. Plainly put: the advantages of hosting and “owning” my email system was far outweighed by the fact that my email was insanely unreliable.
Future iPad sizes make the decision of which to buy easier, maybe.
I want a to play a little what if, rumor speculation, this week — as it specifically relates to iPad Pros. If we make the assumption that at some point in the next year we will get two new iPad Pro models: one in the 10.5″ configuration, and another in 12.9″ — both with a reduction of bezels overall. The 10.5″ effectively is the 9.7″ model footprint, with smaller bezels to get the larger screen. The 12.9″ model is the same screen size, but reduction of the device footprint to be tighter to the screen edges.
Or, put another way: we get a smaller iPad with a bigger screen, and a smaller bigger screened iPad — though I am not sure that is any less confusing…
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Kelley Calkins, as quoted by Poynter, on Mediums continued fuckery: “Initially, it was a lot of swearing,” she said. “Then came the tears. And the cheap beer.”
Kelley Calkins, as quoted by Poynter, on Mediums continued fuckery:
“Initially, it was a lot of swearing,” she said. “Then came the tears. And the cheap beer.”
Mark Bergen and Eric Newcomer: The photo, showing the Uber SUV on its side, suggests a relatively high-impact crash. That would be a contrast to the incidents involving self-driving cars tested by Waymo. In more than two million miles of testing on public roads, Waymo’s vehicles were mostly minor incidents, often when other cars drove…
Mark Bergen and Eric Newcomer:
The photo, showing the Uber SUV on its side, suggests a relatively high-impact crash. That would be a contrast to the incidents involving self-driving cars tested by Waymo. In more than two million miles of testing on public roads, Waymo’s vehicles were mostly minor incidents, often when other cars drove into the back of their vehicles in busy areas.
The future is self driving cars, and it’s hard to deny it. However, it is funny that a company whose sole purpose is driving other people around, is actually the worst at making self driving cars.
Alex Cranz: Technically, if you want to be “accurate” this is not an iPad Pro, but Samsung’s first premium Android tablet in over a year. In 2015 Android sort of lost the tablet war it had waged against iOS. Oh fuck off. It’s not a technicality when it is reality. And Android didn’t “sort of”…
Alex Cranz:
Technically, if you want to be “accurate” this is not an iPad Pro, but Samsung’s first premium Android tablet in over a year. In 2015 Android sort of lost the tablet war it had waged against iOS.
Oh fuck off. It’s not a technicality when it is reality. And Android didn’t “sort of” lose the tablet war, it gave up in spectacular fashion.
Awesome new update to 1Blocker (both iOS and Mac) which allows you to select page elements to block per domain. I was able to test it ahead of the launch and it’s pretty sweet. I love seeing this stuff — and yes you do this from the extension, no need to enter the app proper. Stellar…
Awesome new update to 1Blocker (both iOS and Mac) which allows you to select page elements to block per domain. I was able to test it ahead of the launch and it’s pretty sweet. I love seeing this stuff — and yes you do this from the extension, no need to enter the app proper.
Stellar work.
I see nothing but upside.
Workflow the app is being acquired, along with the team of Weinstein, Conrad Kramer, Ayaka Nonaka and Nick Frey. In a somewhat uncommon move for Apple, the app will continue to be made available on the App Store and will be made free later today.
This was amazing, because it set off a lot of people last night. Workflow was also quickly updated by Apple to kill off a lot of Google based integrations. Most notably for Chrome and switching mapping to Apple Maps.
This was likely a legal move, as Marco Arment noted this morning on Twitter. Even so, the future is completely unknown to those outside of Apple right now. The app will either slowly die, be fully integrated into iOS, or live somewhere in the middle — gaining native integration, but with a more limited scope than before.
And either outcome is just fine.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this new release from Apple. What it means and what it could mean. So here’s a few slightly coherent thoughts on it: I think the iPad being just ‘iPad’ and priced at $329 is fucking fantastic. It’s the model people should get, and it helps that it is now…
I’ve been thinking a lot about this new release from Apple. What it means and what it could mean. So here’s a few slightly coherent thoughts on it:
These announcements also seem to gel nicely with the 10.5″ iPad Pro rumors. I would guess that come October-ish we get new iPad Pros in both 9.7 and 12.9″ variants — both with bezel reductions (lord knows the 12.9 could use that).
As for those wondering what I might want the new iPad model for: myself. I would give my wife my 9.7″ Pro and keep the new model for me. Unless you need the keyboard or pencil, it really is the best model to buy. Keep in mind that new iPads are never limited by hardware speed, only by the software itself — a nice position to be in.
Joe Cieplinski: Specs are not the problem with the current iPad. Yep.
Joe Cieplinski:
Specs are not the problem with the current iPad.
Yep.
Diving more into DEVONThink’s failures, and some Pinboard/Pinner issues.
## Together with DEVONThink
When I started using DEVONThink I was very skeptical, and not all that enamored with the app out of the gate. I started using it to both track lists of things I would like to buy, as well as various research information which I might never use, but would like to have around.
The deal breaker with DEVONThink for me is the archaic syncing systems. I wanted a tool which would sync in the background, seamlessly, without me having to watch sync indicators before I could even use the app.
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Testing the latest version of one of the best small backpacks out there.
I’ve long been a huge 10L Bullet Ruck fan, as it is a fantastic backpack for the size. Well made, and sized to both be small, but not look stupidly small on a person’s back. This is such a hard balancing act that the Bullet Ruck is the only backpack I have found under 20L which can pull this off for me. That includes GORUCK’s own Echo too.
So, naturally I sold my version 1 Bullet Ruck.
My wife: > With a little understanding and patience, using your “little” phone camera, you can create some strong, print-worthy images. I’d say so.
My wife:
> With a little understanding and patience, using your “little” phone camera, you can create some strong, print-worthy images.
I’d say so.
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