“This is not true,” Apple spokesperson Tom Neumayr told to BuzzFeed News, rebutting to a Digital Music News report claiming the company “is now preparing to completely terminate music download offerings on the iTunes Store” in two years — or possibly “the next 3-4 years.”
Not a big surprise. I don’t know why people thought it was true.
Keep important information about the items in your home in one place. Store make, model, serial numbers, purchase price and date, photos, receipts, warranty information (manufacturer’s, extended, and other types of warranties), and much more. Use the dated notes feature to make notes about modifications and repairs. Attach files, such as digital copies of owner’s manuals. No more digging through file folders and junk drawers to find the information you need.
Everyone really should be doing this, I think.
“This goose came up and started pecking on the side of the car,” Givens told The Dodo. “I threw some food out for her, but she didn’t take it. She just kept pecking and quacking. Then she walked away, stopped and looked back. Then came over again and pecked some more.”
Wow.
Colorizing retoucher Jordan J. Lloyd of Dynamichrome took vintage photographs of global landmarks under construction and added color to them to give us a different look at history.
These are outstanding.
The colors they chose don’t look connected to the colors of the old icon’s rainbow. In short, it looks and feels like an altogether new brand for Instagram, not an update or refresh of their old brand — and I’m not convinced that was the right move.
Some interesting thoughts from Gruber. As with most major design changes, this one is polarizing, as John points out.
I want McDonald’s fries and bacon. Or McDonald’s fries and anything… or bacon and anything.
Calling him “one of the last members of the original Siri team,” The Information reported on Wednesday that Darren Haas has left Apple for General Electric. He’ll join Steve D’Aurora, another ex-Siri team member who resigned from Apple for GE a few weeks ago.
The changeups also come a few days after a team of ex-Siri personnel unveiled Viv, a new, advanced virtual assistant that aims to offer functionality well beyond what Apple’s Siri can currently do. Demonstrated tasks include ordering a car from Uber, buying flowers from FTD, and ordering tickets from a variety of services, and offer intelligent, contextual responses, such as alternatives when a showtime for a movie is sold out.
This is very sad, especially considering what we’ve seen from the now departed Siri team and what they’ve done with Viv. These types of advances is what we expected Apple to do with Siri.
The story is a bit misleading – there’s no actual information on how the tulip was engineered – but it’s still a great story about the remarkable affection and friendship the Dutch have for and with Canada. You can see the Canada150 tulip at the Canadian Tulip Festival this weekend in Ottawa and buy it for your own home garden at Home Hardware stores this September.
As you can see, we’re big fans of marble and complicated machinery videos here at The Loop (check out Dave Mark’s “The amazing Marble Mountain machine” post from earlier today). While this one isn’t a continuous shot video (so it doesn’t qualify as “Rube Goldberg-esque”), it’s still fascinating to watch and imagine the ingenuity of the creator to come up with the tricks shown.
Before the introduction of Apple News in iOS 9 I was a big user of Flipboard. I’ve used RSS readers in the past but I’ve always liked the casualness of being able to flip through the current news and add stories for reading later. I was pretty hooked on this way of working and when News launched I tried it straight away, it wasn’t ready for prime time. It was slow and didn’t seem to update correctly but with iOS 9.2 it had a big update making it useable and reliable.
Here is how to use Apple News, it’s how I use it daily and gotten the most out of it.
Interesting article from an RSS and Flipboard user. I’ve never really used Apple News—it seemed like a solution in search of a problem to me, but if you’ve been considering using it, take a look at what Lee wrote.
I love these examples of what CSS can do.
If you are a fan of baseball, you owe it to yourself to listen (you don’t even have to watch) Dodgers games that Vin Scully is broadcasting. If you are a podcaster, listen to how Scully does his job. Listen to his cadence and the way he uses his voice. I’m not even a Dodgers fan but I will often listen to their games just to hear the sound of Scully’s voice and marvel at how he can talk almost constantly for the entire game and be entertaining the whole time.
Apple cares about accessibility. They’ve shown this over the years and they’re doing it again. […]
I always find these types of deep looks into design very fascinating.
Stephen Hackett wrote a piece looking back at iTunes Ping. Apple just never really gets social and music integration.
Cabel Sasser, the co-founder of Panic, made the coolest sign I’ve seen in a long time. Really.
VIDEO: I found this remarkably fun to watch. I admire the building skills it took to bring this together.
Locate and remove duplicate files, even if they’re in remote corners of your system. Gemini 2 scans your whole disk speed-of-light fast, no matter how massive it is. Dig through scan results and hand-pick the files to erase, or better — let Smart Select do all the work.
Very nice looking interface and something I know I could use.
The Black Album Drums is a drum library for BFD3 and Kontakt 5.5 (full version) inspired by the drum sound featured on the “Black Album” by Metallica from 1991.
This is pretty special—these guys found the kit played on that record, not just the same model, but that exact kit.
Castamatic is the best way to listen to podcasts on any iOS device. Quickly assemble a custom sequence of shows to listen to, create a smart playlist, and listen to your favorite shows with top-notch audio quality, thanks to Castamatic’s custom DSP algorithms.
Another interesting podcast app.
Cheers bearded people!
Visa “has demanded that we allow fraud-prone signature verification for debit transactions in our U.S. stores because Visa stands to make more money processing,” Wal-Mart said.
The retailer pays about five cents more for a signature transaction than a PIN payment, said a person familiar with the rates.
I had no idea they paid more per transaction for a signature.
What an incredibly clever kid. I think at 15, I was still learning to tie my sneakers properly.
The D&D nerds out there (a group I am proud to be part of) are undoubtedly trying to figure out a way to use these. If nothing else, at only $12 each, I’d buy a couple just to add to my dice collection.
I’m a big fan of Adobe’s Lightroom but these online tools can do a lot of what desktop apps do.
Is it just me or does this seem less “patriotic” and more “weird and pandering” to anyone else?
Great news for my fellow Canadians.
Spotify, which was created in Stockholm 10 years ago, now boasts of having close to 100 million users in more than 59 markets, despite increasing competition and, so far, a lack of profits.
Spotify claims it has 30 million paid users compared to Apple’s 13 million. Both Apple and Spotify say they are growing, so the users are coming from other services, or they are new to streaming.
I love this guy’s videos.
Not much to really say about this one.