Yearly Archives: 2015

The App Factor:

Long exposure photography lets you capture light trails, motion blur, and better low light shots. While the built-in Camera app doesn’t let you control shutter speed and light sensitivity, there are lots of apps available in the App Store that do.

The iPhone is a great camera – for a phone. It’s low light capabilities aren’t very good. But, with proper technique and some clever apps, you can create pretty good low light images with your iPhone.

Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi joins the show for a wide-ranging half-hour discussion about Swift.

Great job.

iMore:

If you’re a big fan of comedic fairytale-esque stories (who isn’t?), or just want to catch up on one of ABC’s generally well-praised outing from 2014, you can currently grab the first season of Galavant for free on iTunes.

Galavant stars a hero of the same name as we follow his humorous journey to get his “happily ever after.” The story sees Galavant going after King Richard, who stole his love, with characters breaking out into musical numbers along the way.

Sadly, this isn’t available on the Canadian iTunes store so I can’t grab it but for our American readers, go get it now. No telling how long it will be available.

What if you could get 5% of your day back? What would you do?

You already have enough work to do today and shouldn’t have to waste time looking for the things you need to do your job.

Igloo makes it easy to find what you need, when you need it. And it’s not just for locating your traditional intranet stuff like HR policies and expense forms. It also helps you find experts, talk about problems and share content with your team. So stop digging through your inbox for that file from 3 months back and give yourself the tools you need to do your best work.

Try it yourself or send your IT guy to investigate Igloo, an intranet you’ll actually like.

This is a great idea. I love Pandora’s service—whenever I play a station, I get hit after hit after hit. Brilliant service.

This is a very cool idea. I’m not sure how I feel about having it stuck to the fretboard or what residue might be left over, but this would allow you to make some cool sounds.

Taylor Swift:

Taylor Swift is giving her fans on Apple Music a special surprise this holiday, The 1989 World Tour LIVE. The 1989 World Tour LIVE was filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia on November 28, 2015. The 1989 World Tour LIVE captures Taylor’s entire performance from Sydney with never seen footage filmed backstage and during rehearsals with surprise musical and special guests that appeared on The 1989 World Tour.

Beginning Sunday, December 20, The 1989 World Tour LIVE will be available in its entirety exclusively to Apple Music members around the world

I expect this to be the first of many such exclusives. Apple has a lot of clout and can make these kinds of deals very lucrative for artists.

C450 AMG posted an internal document from Mercedes detailing which models would feature Apple’s CarPlay technology for 2016. I’m a big Mercedes fan and can’t wait to try CarPlay at some point.

I’m not a big case user, but I do use a battery case, especially when I’m on the road. The need for battery far outweighs any other consideration when I’m away from home and Apple’s new Smart Battery Case fits that requirement. […]

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TidBITS:

I haven’t been able to determine why it’s happening, or if there’s anything to be done about it, and it’s certainly only a minor irritation. I’m technically proficient and relaxed about errors that don’t cause data loss, but I am concerned that inexplicable behavior like this could start to undermine an inexperienced user’s trust in iOS as a predictable, reliable system — Touch ID is in essence lying to the user through this error message. Technically there’s no real damage here, but psychologically, it’s a bad thing — it’s important for interfaces to communicate clearly, accurately, and reliably to build user trust.

I’ve been dealing with the same (minor) issues as Adam has for just as long. It seems to be very common. There’s no real concern (these issues aren’t deal breakers) but they certainly are annoying and frustrating when they occur for no apparent reason and have no apparent solution.