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52 places to go in 2016

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This is a beautiful, video-laden project from the New York Times. It highlights 52 different cities to visit, a sort of bucket list, each accompanied by a writeup, a small map, and a sparkling photo or short video. Lovely job by the Times’ travel team.

Google vs Authors

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Richard Russo wrote an essay for Medium on Google Books and an author’s viewpoint. As an author myself, I’ve got my own viewpoint. Read on for details.

Chevy commercial features Apple CarPlay

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A new commercial for the 2016 Chevy Malibu features a short mention of Apple CarPlay that starts at about 1:01 into the video shown below. This video is a longer version than the one that aired this weekend, but the Apple CarPlay mention here is exactly the same as the one that aired.

Vidyo, a screen recorder for iOS

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Federico Viticci turns up an iOS screen recorder, worth a look. If it solves a problem for you, best get it now. The sense is that Apple will pull this from the App Store.

Apple: Start Something New

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Last week, Apple added a new section to its web site, appropriate to the new year, entitled Start Something New.

Definitely worth a visit.

Apple TV and international distribution rights

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Sarah Hendrica Bickerton, writing for AppFactor:

Netflix New Zealand can’t broadcast House of Cards. That’s right, they can’t broadcast their OWN SHOW.

Fascinating.

Wallpaper from Mars

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The default iPhone backgrounds for iOS 9 are actual pictures from Mars. Read on for the details.

Awesome visualization of the evolution of Swift

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This is worth watching, even if you have zero interest in Swift and/or programming. It is a terrific visualization, showing the busy bunnies who created Swift, hard at work crafting a brand new programming language.

A note from Sarah

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Serial is the most popular podcast of all time. Host Sarah Koenig lays out the plot for season two, whose pilot episode dropped on iTunes yesterday.

Verizon to roll out “sponsored data”

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Ina Fried, writing for re/code:

Verizon plans in the next few days to start testing so-called sponsored data, the equivalent of toll-free calling for the Internet age.

“The capabilities we’ve built allow us to break down any byte that is carried across our network and have all or a portion of that sponsored,” Verizon Executive VP Marni Walden said during a wide-ranging interview this week.

Wow! Lots of implications here.

The subscription wars are here

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Before the great TV disruption, the cable companies owned that $150 a month we all paid to feed our TV habits, the whole thing. Now other folks have figured out how to get their own little piece of that pie.

Apple TV – The Future of Television

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Wasn’t too long ago that folks were calling Apple TV a failure, a device largely ignored by Apple.

No question about it now, Apple is all in on Apple TV. This ad feels like a mission statement. The name says it all: Apple TV – The Future of Television.

Latest Apple Campus 2 drone footage

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This video has some long, beautiful views of Apple’s new spaceship campus, now with a 4K quality setting. The voiceover (I believe) is from Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford commencement address from 2005.

Now that’s a review

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Alarm goes off in the middle of the night, goes on for hours. This caused a neighbor to write a brilliantly caustic review. Great writing.

Mac promo from 1996

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Stephen Hackett posted this on 512 Pixels. A true cure for insomnia.

Understanding “Optimize Mac Storage” in Photos for Mac

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Dan Moren, writing for Six Colors:

One of the more interesting features of Photos for Mac is its ability to not store my entire photo library on my Mac’s drive. It does this by syncing the entire library to iCloud Photo Library and then dynamically loading and unloading photos as you use it.

How do I recover if things go south?