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Tim Hortons is a Canadian institution. I love the stat in the video that there is one Starbucks for every 42,000+ Americans, one Dunkin Donuts for every 38,000+ Americans but one Timmies for every 9,800 Canadians. That’s incredible market penetration here in Canada. But their lack of success to even make a dent in the US market is a fascinating study in business failure.

This is undoubtedly a reaction to the “right to repair” movement with Apple trying to head off legislation. The good news is that the new program is free for independent repair shops to join.

Apple on Thursday sent an invite to press for a special event to be held at the company’s Cupertino, Calif. headquarters. The event will be at The Steve Jobs Theater on September 10, 2019 at 10:00 am.

We occasionally use a noise generator called Noizio for its simplicity – we only ever use the “rainfall” setting – but if you need something more, check out Dark Noise.

That time of year again. The leaves are about to start turning, at least up north.

Follow the link, drag the slider to see when the leaves will be prime for peeping in your neck of the woods.

If you’re a RSS junkie like me, go download this now.

To quote my go-to security guy, Rich Mogull, “Patch now.”

The iPad is getting closer and closer to the photography machine I need to take on the road with me.

Google taking this tack is disingenuous at best.

This issue has to be one of the funniest “First World” problems I’ve read about in a while. But there is a justification for some of us – not everyone has unlimited text messages. Here in the backwater that is Canada, some of us still get charged for every incoming and outgoing text/SMS/”green bubble” message. If you’ve got a child who is an active user of text messages, that can add up quickly and cost real money.

Good overview of the Apple Card.

This is brilliant. I don’t play the guitar but I’ve always wanted to learn just so I could play the opening riff to Enter Sandman.

The Apple Card was released to the general public this week, so Dave and I took the opportunity to talk about some of the features and what it means for the consumer.

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Oh, it’s crazy now and it was all kinds of crazy then.

I’ve since lost the knowledge but I was taught as a kid how to use an abacus. It was fun and actually fairly easy for ordinary math problems.

I got pointed to this Mashable (I know, I know) post by someone and it’s a good object lesson in checking before you post.

In my younger days, this sound before the beginning of a movie sent tingles down my spine. It meant I was about to see a “good movie.” As I got older, I realized it means I’m going to see a movie with (probably) good sound but no promises as to how good the actual movie will be.

Be smarter and more aware than these people.

This isn’t an intractable problem but Apple needs to live up to its privacy declarations particularly when it comes to apps targeted at children.

We are going through this little exercise in our house with the 13-year-old. He’s already got an iPhone and an iPad mini. He wants a laptop and smart speaker next.

I’m a big fan of Nomad the company and their cables specifically. I’ve used one of their Universal cables every day for the past year and it looks brand new.

Regular readers know I’m a sucker for “making of” assembly line videos. I love this one.

It’s hard for the average person to “discover” new artists and music but this might help.

“Look at da size of ‘im, Nancy!” I’m from Nova Scotia but I absolutely love the Newfoundland accent.

Following last week’s teaser trailer, Apple has posted this full length one.

Bare Bones Software, makers of BBEdit, is one of my favorite software companies — in fact, I’ve been using BBEdit for more than 20 years. BBEdit has just been updated to 12.6.6, and is available in the Mac App Store as a subscription! Same great features. Same user experience. You can subscribe in the Mac App Store or purchase perpetual licenses directly from Bare Bones Software. Also, you can still get great merch, including Classic and Rebus T-shirts, enamel pins, and more in their merch store!

If Macworld Expo had tried this BS back in the day, there would have been a lot fewer people at Macworld Expo.

I may be looking at the Formula 1 of my childhood through rose-coloured glasses but I don’t find the sport nearly as interesting or exciting to watch as when I was a kid. It must be hard for the vast majority of drivers to know for a certainty they have zero chance of making the podium on a race weekend.

I’m really looking forward to playing around with this data.

Apple will now show you information from an App Store link, no matter the device you try to view it on. This is a big step for the App Store. Dave and I also talk about Google Assistant’s new feature of assigning reminders to other people and Twitter topics.

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