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Marcelo Somers has a nice write-up on using 1Password. The only nitpick I have is that I would recommend everyone use 1Password — it may be difficult to get used to not using the same simple password for every site, but you’ll be far more secure.

This is just incredible.

[Via Coudal]

Dell is definitely pulling the plug on the smartphone business, globally. A tough decision, leaving a market that is expected to reach $150.3 billion in 2014, according to MarketsandMarkets.

Now they just need to quit selling computers and we’re all set.

David Dennis, a man with an impressive beard himself, did a nice write-up on beards. Strange, still no picture of “the beard” in this batch either.

A new page from Apple that updates users on the status of its services, stores and iCloud.

Apple on Thursday posted its holiday shipping deadlines for any product you may want to receive before Christmas. […]

I received the following email from The Loop reader Keith Huss¹:

Situation: Apple cannot get Google to update its maps app on iOS. It was ok, but Google refused to update it to include turn-by-turn directions or voice guidance even though Android had these features forever. Apple says, “Enough” and boots Gmaps from iOS and replaces it with an admittedly half-baked replacement. The world groans. Apple has egg on its face. Google steps up it’s game and rolls out a new, free new maps app in iOS today that is totally amazing, I’m sure to stick it in Apple’s face… Ooops

Bottom line: Apple took one for the team (ate some shit) and fooled Google into doing exactly what Apple has been asking for years. Users win.

“I don’t think anyone I was corresponding with actually went and did this search to see what I was finding,” Welter says. She eventually wrote to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and a few days later she got a reply from a representative in Amazon’s Executive Customer Relations department.

“She told me I was searching wrong,” Welter says.

Sam Rijver made this using Foldify for iPad. Much respect Sam.

ABC News:

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world’s most elusive and revered beers for the first — and perhaps only — time in the United States.

It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the “world’s best beer” by reviewers and fans.

Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside.

First person to compare this to Heineken gets punched in the junk.

Amplified, The Talk Show with John Gruber and Before you Buy were named the “Best New Technology” podcasts in Apple’s App Store Best of 2012.

Thanks.

I’ve been testing out the new version for the past couple of weeks on my iPhone and it’s great. 1Password has become one of my most used apps.

You wanted it, here it is.

The Loop reader Craig Storm sent these images. Two different stores, two different days, two different devices, same result.

Jim and Dan interview Jeff Hawley of Yamaha and later discuss Apple TV, Tim Cook’s interview with NBC, and Angus Young.

Poynter has highlighted some of the year’s most egregious media failures.

Wade at Panic did an experiment and included an Xcode demo project that you can download.

When you are willing to pay this level attention to detail you can be as great as Apple, and not a moment sooner.

Now police in Colac, west of Melbourne, say faults with Google maps are putting people’s lives at risk along the Great Ocean Road and in the southern Otways.

So it’s not just Apple after all.

Eric Schmidt is talking out of his Schmidthole again.

Squarespace Note helps anyone record their ideas on the fly. Writers, bloggers, and others can use the app to record inspiration and ideas as they happen; notes can be sent via e-mail, or synced with a range of popular services including Squarespace, Evernote, Dropbox, and more.

Until yesterday I thought this app was just another way to interact with the Squarespace Web site, but it’s more than that. It can be used as a notes app. Oh, and if you shake the iPhone when the app is active, it changes from day to night mode.

“After 126 years of printing ink on paper with weekly, biweekly or monthly frequency, Sporting News will officially become a digital brand as of January 1, 2013. … Having spoken with many of our longtime subscribers, we recognize this is not a popular decision among our most loyal fans.”

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough loyal fans to pay the bills. Time to move on.

Movie kiosk rental service Redbox is getting into the streaming video market with a new offering.

Microsoft said it’s expanding production of the Surface tablet and moving up general retail availability.

You have to appreciate the honesty.

We’ve all seen the famous “Earth at Night” composite image showing our planet at night and how much light there still is, sometimes in unexpected places.

Now Google has a new global view of Earth’s city lights that is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite.

With this version of the image, you can even zoom in to get a better (if not necessarily higher resolution ) and closer view.

BuzzFeed’s smear piece on Matthew Inman, creator of the popular webcomic The Oatmeal, backfired. The site is apologizing, but isn’t even doing that right.

Jón Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland, has posted an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, which has generated tons of questions.