Dan Moren, writing for Macworld, on the Mac’s slow and steady growth after all these years. Will iPad knock the Mac out of it’s central position in the Apple ecosystem?
Apple Maps and fantastic 3D Touch shortcuts
Christian Zibreg, writing for iDownloadBlog, pulled together this tutorial that walks you through the various ways you can use 3D Touch with Apple Maps.
John Lasseter looks back on 30 years of Pixar
[VIDEO] 30 years of greatness.
Press button on Apple Watch, Tesla opens garage, backs out, by itself
[VIDEO] This is pretty cool. The future, it is here!
SwiftKey founder traded his share of $250m for a bicycle
Ouch.
How to make a website when you don’t know how to code
Serenity Caldwell continues her “Coding Corner” series with a how-to on building a website if you don’t know the first thing about web site development. Pass this one along.
Why the iPad fell and one thought on how it will get back up again
Jason Snell gives his theory on why iPad sales have fallen. I give my take on what it will take to get those sales back up on their feet.
What it’s really like working with Steve Jobs
This essay, from Oct 2011, just after Steve died, popped up this morning on Hacker News and I thought it was worth a repost. It’s a terrific read.
Apple Pay and usability syndrome
Do Apple device users use their stuff more than Android users? An interesting argument.
The ticking time bomb of Parse shutting down
What happens to apps that are dependent on Parse when Parse shuts off its service for good? There are a LOT of apps in this category.
Banned by Tesla!
Really, Tesla? You cancelled his car order? Both sides should be embarrassed by this back and forth.
Apple ordered to pay $625M in revived VirnetX patent trial
Given that this is a retrial, can Apple appeal this verdict?
USB Type-C cable so bad it fries Google engineer’s Chromebook Pixel
What’s interesting about this is the possibility that a bad USB-C cable can fry a laptop.
Rethinking the value of the iPad Pro and Surface Pro
Tim Bajarin weighs in with his thoughts on using the iPad Pro as his primary computer.
Watching your kid’s screen (from across the house!)
Melissa Holt, writing for the Mac Observer, talks you through the process of remotely monitoring someone’s Mac. Anonymously.
OS X El Capitan and tvOS still a bag of hurt for people with motion sickness and other vestibular disorders
Craig Grannell, writing for Revert to Saved:
I’m starting to feel like Apple has a vendetta against anyone with a vestibular disorder. Since OS X Lion, we’ve increasingly seen aggressive animations added to Apple’s desktop OS that can trigger dizziness, motion sickness, vertigo and related symptoms.
Is there a terminal command that can disable OS X animations?
Apple Pay now accepted in more than two million retail locations
The Business Times:
Apple Inc said its mobile-payment service is now available in more than 2 million retail locations, with merchants such as Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A and Au Bon Pain rolling it out in stores.
Solid progress.
Rare video from 1936: AT&T explains the brand new rotary dial telephone
[VIDEO] Imagine this scenario. All the telephones in the US operated without dials, all depended on a human operator connecting your call by hand. No phones had dials.
City by city, AT&T had to roll out new equipment, giving rotary dial telephones to everyone. They put out the word via a newsreel shown in the town’s movie theaters. See the video in the main post.
My bathroom mirror is smarter than yours
Google’s Max Braun took some of his off time to marry an HDMI display board with a two-way mirror to produce a bathroom mirror that shows you the news, weather, etc. Terrific project. Lots of details and pictures, back and front.
Microsoft’s new way of cooling its data centers: Throw them in the sea
Ars Technica:
Microsoft has demonstrated an experimental prototype of a new approach: instead of pumping water around the data center, put the data center in the water.
Would this raise sea temperatures?
Angela Merkel, a bit of super-heated hydrogen, and the chase for unlimited energy
Aamna Mohdin, writing for Quartz:
German scientists today will set about the first steps towards what has become the Holy Grail of energy—nuclear fusion, which has the potential for unlimited amounts of clean power.
This is a fascinating post, and Angela Merkel just got a lot cooler to me.
A beginner’s guide to kerning like a designer
A nice, detailed tutorial on kerning. Something here for even moderately experienced designers.
Lynn University distributes iPad Pro to all faculty, undergraduates
University adoption is an important step for the iPad Pro, an important part of the overall sales cycle.
Apple eyes March 15 event for iPhone 5se, iPad Air 3 & Apple Watch updates
The Ides of March. Interesting choice of dates.
Why iOS is compelling
Fascinating exploration of the idea of moving to iOS full time. Lots to think about here.
Newly restored footage of Steve Jobs and the NeXT introduction
[VIDEO] Steve Jobs, in between gigs at Apple.
Complete deconstruction of the San Francisco font
A real type nerd’s fantasy and a delicious read.
Apple relaunches “Shot on iPhone 6” campaign for 6s and 6s Plus
Fire up your cameras!
Apple’s Spaceship Campus: latest drone footage
[VIDEO] So much progress!
Groundhog Day and karma
Interesting take on the movie Groundhog Day, one of my all time favorites.