My ’70s TV

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This may just ruin your weekend.

Free HTML5, CSS site templates

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I think these are pretty nice looking, elegant without complexity. Try them out, view the page source. Good stuff.

Instant logo design

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Withoomph takes a business name and a set of keywords and gens up a set of logos for your consideration.

Some incredibly useful option-key Mac tips

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A nice little treasure trove of Mac tips, all of them making use of the option key. As always, you may know most of these, but take a look, there might be a gem in here that’s new to you.

Life after cancer: How the iPhone helped me achieve a healthier lifestyle

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This piece by Federico Viticci is moving. It is equal parts a cancer survival story, full of harrowing detail and heroic triumphs, and detailed look at the HealthKit ecosystem. But the best part for me is the denouement, the upshot of his journey.

This read is worth setting aside time for.

The Impossibility domain name generator

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Impossibility has you provide the core word you want in your new domain name, then give it a focus by specifying it as either an adjective, verb, noun, or wild card. It then spits out a series of available domains.

Definitely worth a look.

Apple Watch and the power of focused design

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If price was no object, if every single watch in both the Apple Watch and Android Wear collections cost exactly the same, and if both watch lines worked equally well with your personal choice of platform, which watch would you choose?

Crystal Quest reboot

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Cool! A Kickstarter to bring Crystal Quest back to life. I’m definitely in.

Apple Pay: A new frontier for scammers

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The Guardian:

Criminals in the US are using the new Apple Pay mobile payment system to buy high-value goods – often from Apple Stores – with stolen identities and credit card details.

This is a short term issue, a weakness with bank verifications, not an issue with Apple Pay.

Samsung’s next chess move

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Samsung revealed their next counter to Apple’s iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and Apple Pay. Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are being decried by most people as shameless copies of the phones that have brought Apple so much success. Here are some thoughts on Samsung’s rapid shift in strategy.

Awesome Zeppelin kids

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“We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.”

If those words mean anything to you, spend a few minutes watching these awesome kids getting their Zeppelin on.

The original Apple Car

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Some nostalgia, plus a brand new page for the Apple Car that is already marked for deletion.

Tim Cook Telegraph interview

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A few highlights from yesterday’s Tim Cook Telegraph interview. Some good little nuggets there.

Designing for the Grand Budapest Hotel

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The Grand Budapest Hotel won the Academy Award for Best Production Design (an award that combines the categories of art direction and set decoration). In my opinion, no other movie even came close.

To get a sense of the elements involved, take a read through this interview with the film’s lead graphic designer Annie Atkins, who was responsible for every graphic prop in the movie.

Apple ranked first as fastest and most most efficient online retailer

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Apple Insider:

In its first ever quarterly study, customer service analytics firm StellaService ranked Apple as the fastest and most most efficient online retailer in terms of shipments for the fourth quarter of 2014, taking an average of 2.5 days to send out orders.

The lawsuits keep on coming

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SmartFlash LLC follows their recent court victory with a follow-on lawsuit to include more recent devices. And Ericsson AB announced their own lawsuit against Apple, a bit of hardball following a failed licensing deal.