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This is a great documentary with interviews and comments from the key players involved.

When this story first broke, like many of you, I wanted to know the motives behind the attacks as well as what websites were infected. Now we may have an idea.

Unlike Ged, I’m not a “slave” to my Apple Watch rings but, as I said on Twitter, the Activity app does need more customization similar to what he writes about.

Us oldtimers remember back in the day when QuarkXPress ruled desktop publishing but due to a lack of competition (among other things), Quark rested on its laurels and became a customer hostile company. It opened the door for Adobe.

When I lived in the US, I was appalled at how little vacation time was mandated. Turns out, it was even worse than I realized.

Apple sent out the event invite just as Dave and I were podcasting, so we talked a little bit about what to expect at the September 10 event. Apple also clarified what it will be doing to help Siri become better, while maintaining the privacy of its customers.

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Much as he did with his excellent Apple Maps deep dive, Ryan Christoffel offers a deep dive into Health on iOS 13.

It’s remarkable how far Apple’s Health efforts have come, how much they’ve grown, how much the interface and design has improved.

Terrific work, lots of pictures to bring home the points, show how remarkably iOS 13’s version of Health has blossomed.

Take a look.

I’m having way too much fun poking around on this simulator.

There are lots of things I would have loved to experience in a fighter jet but ejecting out of the seat is not one of them.

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.