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I’ve never worn an Apple Watch but today’s announcements have made me seriously consider getting one – they are that good.

The naming convention is as annoying as I thought but the price points seem pretty aggressive.

I love these tips because they are more of the compositional and creative variety rather than the strictly technical. You photographers who live on the east coast of the US and Canada are really lucky this time of year.

Watch the video on this story. This incident yesterday is all the motorcycling racing world is talking about today. It was an incredibly dangerous stunt by a rider who has done dangerous things to other riders in the past and has been fired from other teams. Unfortunately, Race Direction only gave Fenati a two-race ban but he has since been fired from the Marinelli team and has lost his job with another team for next year. I predict he won’t race at this level ever again.

Open Culture: Not every record yields gold when played backwards or spun more slowly than recommended, but a 45 of Parton’s 1973 hit “Jolene” played at 33RPM not only sounds wonderful, it also manages to reframe the narrative. In the … Continued

This short piece definitely brings up some good points I hadn’t thought about before.

Dave and I had a great time this week, talking about everything from growing a beard to the rash of Apple Store robberies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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We knew this was coming.

This story doesn’t go the way you think it does.

I don’t use Skype for my podcasts but I know a lot of podcasters do so this may come as welcome news to them and other users of the application.

This AM, I did a full backup of my system (told you I don’t trust these apps) then I ran CleanMyMac X. It solved the problem immediately as well as doing all the other cool things CleanMyMac does.

I bet the vast majority of people have no idea what magnetic tape storage is but that the vast majority of The Loop readership not only knows but has used it in the past and maybe still does.

Shut up, Warren. I can barely afford an iPhone as it is.

This is one of those things where your initial reaction is, “WTF? That can’t be a good thing!”

On Thursday, Apple announced the date for its special event and now they have released the web page where those of us not lucky enough to get press invites and be in attendance can watch the livestream.

This. Is. Bonkers.

Anyone participating in this offensive stunt should be visited by Child Protective Services to see if they are actually fit to parent.

Apple on Thursday announced the date for its special event. Scheduled for September 12, 2018 at 10:00 am, the event will be held at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s new campus. […]

Terry Fox has been gone for 38 years but the memory of him, for myself and many Canadians, is as fresh as yesterday. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, please read about him and run or donate in his memory on September 16th.

This is an interesting experiment by Apple. I’m all in favor of people who are interested in photography getting as much education as they can, particularly when it comes to editing their photos. Sadly, this isn’t available outside of the United States so I can’t speak to how good the training is. If anyone has taken it, I’d love to hear about your experience.

As has become a bit of a tradition, here’s your annual fall foliage prediction map.

Slide the slider until your area comes into bloom, then plan your leaf-peeping tour.

I love riding my motorcycle really fast. I often dream about riding at ridiculous speeds. But when it comes to the Isla of Man TT, I only ever have nightmares about riding the course. The men who ride the IoM TT are possibly certifiably insane. That being said, I’d love to go to the island to watch the races one day.

I was/am a huge fan of Robin Williams. I first met him here in Vancouver while he was shooting Jumanji and I interviewed him in San Francisco at a Macworld Expo. We corresponded for a time and I treasured the little piece of him I had. I remember this bit well and this is a great dissection of it.

Obviously, the headline is (unnecessarily) hyperbolic but the issues discussed in the piece make a lot of sense. Self-driving cars will get here – that’s inevitable – but I don’t think it will happily nearly as fast as its proponents think or hope.

Lots of people, amateurs and pros alike, have been waiting for this camera from Nikon. I’d love to try one out but, at a price point starting at $3400.00 US, I’d have to sell one of the children.

The Foundation series was the first series of books I ever read as a kid, scifi or otherwise, and I reread it several times in the ensuing years. I’m really excited and a little worried about this as a TV series. It’s an incredible series, spanning worlds, galaxies, and time. I hope they do justice to it.

Are you old enough to remember your first “pocket calculator”? We weren’t allowed to use them in school and my dad wouldn’t let me use one for my homework – I had to do the math by hand and he would check it with his calculator.

I loved this game but I’m not clever enough to imagine what kind of movie they could make from it.

I had no idea car door locks were so insanely complicated.

Anyone else remember these movies? As a kid, I loved watching them but I saw one a few years ago and started to watch it out of nostalgia before I realized, they are really quite awful.