Tag: apple
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Marco Arment on needed watchOS updates
Marco Arment: But limitations in watchOS 4 make it impossible to deliver standalone podcast playback with the basic functionality and quality that people expect. His post focused on updates that are needed for podcast apps to make sense on watchOS. After using the Apple Watch Series 3 while traveling for the weekend I expect to…
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How to save battery life on the Apple Watch Series 3
Follow me on Twitter. And be sure to read my blog. The following tips are very likely no-brainer battery saving tips for most of you and Iâve only used my Apple Watch Series 3 for a single day so feel free to completely ignore me. However! Here is my current strategy for saving battery power:…
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Austin Mannâs iPhone 8 Plus camera review
Austin Mann: While the iPhone 8 Plus looks essentially the same as the phone weâve had since the 6 Plus, there are some new features in the 8 Plus which really impact creative pros across the board â most notably Portrait Lighting, along with a few other hidden gems. As per usual for Austin, he…
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Pre-Apple Watch chat (audio)
Listen to me ramble on about the Apple Watch for a few minutes. Download
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WatchDots
WatchDots: Personalize the look of your Apple Watch⢠Sport with WatchDotsâ˘. Available in a variety of colors, WatchDots⢠are precision cut, durable and thin. This is how the Apple Watch⢠Sport should look. Personally, I have no issue with the red dot on the Series 3. We’ll see what I think once I have one…
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…
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John Gruber on Apple Watch Series 3
John Gruber: Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular networking completely alleviates this anxiety. It is not a replacement for a phone, and is not supposed to be. But it lets you leave your phone at home when you go for a run, or in your locker while youâre at the gym, or in your hotel…
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iPhone X’s new margins
Brian Voong on his excellent YouTube channel Let’s Build That App: With the introduction of iPhone 10, we as developers are now faced with another option for our apps to be displayed in. Fortunately, Apple has provided us with the necessary APIs to get around the unsafe regions of this phone. We do this by…
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…
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Please turn on Do Not Disturb When Driving!
Jason Snell for Six Colors: iPhone users, well, thereâs still great stuff thereâDo Not Disturb When Driving is going to make the world saferâbut itâs a bit less of a world-shaker. Not a world shaker? This isn’t a ho-hum, hum-drum update for iPhone. This is going to save a ton of lives, injury, heartache, and…
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Repost: Maciej CegĹowski re: iPhone X
đ Maciej CegĹowski: iPhone X summary: wireless charging (with wire), all-screen display (with black bar) and sleek, flat shape (with camera bump)
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_DavidSmith on the Apple Watch Series 3
_DavidSmith: While Iâll have to live with it for a few weeks to see if it really pans out, imagining a future where my iPhone is no longer a âmust carryâ device is remarkable. This is why I’m ordering one. As I said I would.
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Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch
đ Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Canât believe they didnât indent it a little bit.
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Repost: Daring Fireball on the iPhone X notch
đ John Gruber: Long story short: embrace the notch.
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Wishes for Appleâs Fall Media Event
On Tuesday Apple is holding its Fall Media Event. Thanks to a rogue Apple employee, who I can only imagine is packing their personal affects as I type this, the rumor mill has been working overtime and it appears as though we âknowâ just about every detail one could imagine prior to this event short…
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Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter
đ Mike Rundle: The new top-end iPhone will have a notch. New top-end Android phones (V30, S8) do not. Hard for Apple to spin that.
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Microsoft holding Surface Keynote in October
Tom Warren for The Verge: Microsoftâs Surface chief will hold a keynote speech in London at the end of October. The software giant is holding its annual Future Decoded event in London from October 31st to November 1st, and Microsoft revealed to The Verge today that Panos Panay will be speaking. Microsoft typically launches new…
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E19: Launching Summit’s public beta
Recorded on August 23 2017. A quickly captured audio bit while walking to get a coffee the day after launching Summit’s public beta. Download MP3.
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Pedometer++ 3.0
_DavidSmith: Iâve been steadily working on Pedometer++ now for nearly four years. Over that time the core conceit of the app has remained the same, to motivate you to be more active. It has done this with colors, confetti, complications and streaks. Now Iâve added another tool to hopefully motivate, achievements! Pedometer++ continues to be…
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I want a dual-camera, edge-to-edge screen, waterproof iPhone SE
I miss my iPhone SE. Everything I ever wrote about it here on my blog was awash with my overwhelming love of the device. I still believe it is the best phone Apple has made to date. The only reason I use an iPhone 7 Plus is the camera. I said I wouldnât switch from…
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Colin Walker on the Summit beta
Colin Walker: I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the time I’ve spent beta testing Summit and look forward to the new builds. Colin has provided excellent feedback on Summit. So have so many of the beta testers. I too am looking forward to publishing new builds. If you’re on the beta list (which you can get on by…
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Deep Learning and Siri’s voice
Apple: The training speech data contains a minimum of 15 hours of high-quality speech recordings sampled at 48 kHz. We segmented the speech into half-phones using forced alignment, i.e., automatic speech recognition to align the input phone sequence with acoustic features extracted from the speech signal. This segmentation process results in around 1â2 million half-phone…
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Repost: Phil Schiller on Twitter
â Phil Schiller: Celebrating #HyperCard (I created some insane stacks in the dayâŚ) http://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/
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Favicons on tabs in browsers
John Gruber: With many tabs open, thereâs really nothing subjective about it: Chromeâs tabs are more usable because they show favicons. Like John, I’m currently a Safari user. I switched to Chrome for a bit due to the Developer tools being a bit better at the time but, as you may know, I’m trying to…
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Tim Cook on ARKit
Tim Cook, in a recent quarterly earnings call for Apple, on ARKit: One of the most exciting and most promising announcements from WWDC was ARKit, a new set of tools for developers to create augmented reality apps. It’s still early in the beta period, but it’s clear that ARKit has captured the imagination of our…
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Less apps is more
Tim Nahumck: I always try to reduce the number of apps that I use at any given time and cutting the reliance on multiple services when and where possible. This sounds a lot like my repeated attempts to consolidate around Apple’s default applications. I like Tim’s use of Slack as a personal center of information.…
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I can work on anything I want
One of the most enjoyable aspects of working on your own project is that there is so much to do. That may seem strange, why would I want to have so much to do? But if you look at it a different way it becomes a much more enjoyable experience. Whenever I sit down to…
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Apple Machine Learning Journal
Apple: Welcome to the Apple Machine Learning Journal. Here, you can read posts written by Apple engineers about their work using machine learning technologies to help build innovative products for millions of people around the world. The first post Improving the Realism of Synthetic Images is already live.
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Observations on building my first iOS app in Swift
In early June I decided I wanted to learn iOS app development using Swift. I’ve made a lot of progress over the last month, building two apps that I can use on my own phone, and one app that I’m now in beta testing via TestFlight with a few friends. Over the last month I’ve…
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Their own technology
Garrett Sloane for AdAge: Apple News will let top media partners use their own technology to fill the ad space in their content, becoming more of an extension of the publishers’ own websites than the walled-off island it is now, the people said. At first I thought those that were linking to this have this…
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WWDC 2017 recap
I wanted to take a few moments to jot down a comparison between my wish list for this year’s WWDC and what was announced. Also, towards the end, some quick thoughts on the surprises that were announced. Here are my wishes, in order from the previous post, and whether or not we got them. Shared…
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Back to Apple, again
Each year WWDC week gives us new and updated Apple software that is easier to use and more tightly integrated. As a result, each year I find myself wishing that I used Apple software exclusively instead of using third-party applications. Forgive me, but I’m about to quote an entire post that I wrote in June 2014 as to…
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WWDC 2017 wish list
It has been an exciting year for developers so far. Facebook is making the camera a platform, Microsoft is making cloud computation happen with two clicks of a mouse, and Google is doing everything that everyone else is doing plus a billion more things. WWDC is next week. So what are my wishes? Since I…
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Google Assistant for iOS is a clunky mess
Karissa Bell for Mashable: For starters, Assistant’s iOS app is a confusing, disjointed, mess. You’d think the Assistant would be able to easily link up with all your other Google services, but that wasn’t the case in my initial testing. It isn’t often that I agree with an article on Mashable. However, in this case…
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Clips
Apple: Introducing Clips. A new iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, effects, graphics, and more. I’ve been looking for an app like this for a long time. The Verge describes how I think I’ll use this app. My best guess is because the default camera app is still something thatâs supposed to…
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iPad sales
Marco Arment posits the idea that, maybe, the iPad isn’t the future of computing based on the fact that sales are down year-over-year again. He writes: What if, like so much in technology, itâs mostly just additive, rather than largely replacing PCs and Macs, and furthermore had a cooling-fad effect as initial enthusiasm wore off and…
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Photos app updated on iCloud
Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major is a good word to describe this update. You’ll even notice the ‘url’ for the app is now #photos2 on iCloud.com. The app…
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People are switching from Macs to Surface
Brian Hall at Microsoft: More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation of Surface coupled with the disappointment of the new MacBook Pro â especially among professionals â is leading more and more people to…
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Removing the pro from Apple
John Gruber regarding Sal Soghoian being axed from Apple: If they had simply fired him, thatâd be one thing, but the fact that theyâve eliminated his position is another. This is shitty news. I find this to be a profoundly worrisome turn of events for the future of the Mac. I hope Iâm wrong. I…
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E11: Browsers, Surfaces, MacBook Pros, and Tesla roof
Danny and I have an early Sunday morning conversation about our browsers of choice (he likes Vivaldi), Microsoft and Apple’s announcements this week and the Tesla roof. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e11.mp3 Download MP3