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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is still, 30+ years later, a great film not just for its groundbreaking CGI but also for a great story and amazing visuals.

If you’re a fan of cars, this is mindbogglingly sad. For over thirty years, these cars have been hidden, collecting dust. I’d never even heard of a Bizzarrini but it is a beautiful car.

Katy Byron, a longtime journalist, on getting her first print newspaper subscription:

And when the actual newspaper came… my spirits were lifted instantly. The feeling of walking to the end of the driveway to pick up my print newspaper every morning has brought me more joy than I can put into words. It’s like every morning is Christmas morning — the grown-up edition. This was one daily task or chore I volunteered to pick up in my house — because this was my thing. This was my newspaper. It might sound corny and I am clearly biased on this subject, but this change in my life that I was able to control has been a sincere silver lining to this living nightmare we are all living through, and I am always looking for silver linings these days.

This was a really great read. Many of us can remember the days of picking up the newspaper and reading it front to back. I get Katy’s need to get away from the screen for a little while and a newspaper is just the thing.

FaceTime calls are a great way to stay in touch with people you care about, whether on an iOS device or a Mac. However, what do you do if you want to save those special moments? Luckily, using your Mac, you can record those calls to view later.

This seems especially important these days.

I’m old enough to remember the “original” car from the silly TV series. It’s always going to be my favourite.

While it’s likely slightly different in every area, this start to finish journey is still interesting. We are “forced” to do recycling in our small community and there are fines if you don’t. But I disagree with the premise that it’s “our” job so much as corporations and governments have discovered they can put the onus on individual consumers for recycling and alleviate the responsibility of business to do more.

I don’t have or use a HomePod but this might come in handy for some of you. I wonder if we’ll ever get multi-user support for the iPad?

That is one very calm 12 year old.

A documentary guaranteed to make you angry at rich people.

My wife has Zoom meetings all the time and when I showed her how this was possible, she turned her nose up at it with a “…Eww…why?” So your mileage may vary.

Ever get in an argument with someone about a color (it’s blue! it’s green!)? Settle your differences by taking this short online color challenge.

Follow the headline link, you’ll get to a page with four color strips. The endpoints are fixed. All you do is tap/click and drag to reorder the colors in each strip.

Easy peasy. But very difficult to get a perfect score.

I’ll quibble with Gassee’s headline – there are no “missing pieces.” There’s only the hope, wishes and fever dreams of people who want this to happen without ever examining the question Gassee asks, “Why would Apple do this?”

That explains why I woke up to dozens of apps needing to be “updated” this AM.

There are some cute shows here. Unfortunately, my 14-year-old is a little too old for most of them. Ironically enough, we adults love “Home Before Dark.”

What an abomination, not only of the steering wheel but also the dash and the doors. Thank God this never went into production.

I never thought I’d learn anything from TikTok but there are some cool tricks listed here.

A few years back I got into a public argument with a Twitter employee. Since then, the company has been petty to anyone at The Loop. Dave and I also talk about “Defending Jacob,” and “Home,” two relatively new shows on Apple TV+.

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This is a great PR move by Netflix. According to Netflix, “inactive accounts represent less than a half of one percent of its overall member base,” so it won’t affect the company’s bottom line by much but they get a nice “we’re the good guys!” bump out of it.

The story of BlackBerry’s epic fall from the top of the tech mountain is a cautionary tale for many companies, Apple included.

Universal Audio released an update that fixed an issue preventing UAD authorization on some Catalina systems. Obviously, this is a big issue if you encountered it, but they fixed it very quickly.

The update also includes the Neve 1084 Preamp & EQ with Unison technology. Neve makes some of my favorite EQs, so having the new Neve 1084 is really exciting for me. I already put it in the Unison slot of Luna template for my projects.

While some of us are waiting for sports to come back, we can argue about this list.

I guess this is how hard up we are for content. An extra-long version of a pretty bad movie.

Did you notice the Google doodle on Google’s home page today? Today is the birthday of the late Nicholas Winton who rescued 669 children during World War II.

I have no compelling reason to go to an Apple Store at the best of times but I certainly wouldn’t go to one now. But it would be interesting to see how Apple pulls this off and I have every expectation they will do so.

This is just ten different kinds of freaky.

This is a series I would tell people to subscribe to Netflix for. It’s that good.

Dave and I talk about the new update to Logic Pro X that dropped this week, battery issues with the Magic Keyboard and iPad, as well as Dave becoming a bit reckless with his iPhone security.

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While this is supposedly a “US Only” offer, a Reddit poster has a workaround. It didn’t work for me though.

It’s only a rumour at this point but even the hint this could happen will certainly accelerate any plans Apple may have to move at least some of its manufacturing out of the reach of the Chinese government and its battles with the US government.

I let my Arcade subscription lapse a couple of months ago. While there are plenty of games, very few are of interest to our family. I think the comparison to consoles may be a little unfair but I’m not a console player so I don’t/can’t compare the experiences. On their own merits, the Apple Arcade games just aren’t compelling enough for us.