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Good news for Apple’s customers in Japan affected by the floods and landslides.

The differences/comparisons between the iPad and the Mac fascinate me. I get a lot of people asking for advice about “what should I buy?” and, for a lot of them, I can often recommend “just” the iPad.

Not your typical documentary. Very little about the actual development and design of this iconic tool but more about the people and some of their amazing stories.

I knew the act of painting a car was difficult but I’d given no thought to how hard colour matching was.

If you’re lucky enough to live within the viewing path of this eclipse, you should really get outside and enjoy it.

I’m glad Cook is doing this but I’m officially old. Except for Cook and Imagine Dragons, I don’t recognize a single other speaker or band.

Interesting that Apple is actually mentioning the chip inside the phone. The average consumer certainly doesn’t care.

I’m a confirmed omnivore and I’d love to try one of these burgers.

Not many people thought Best Buy could have pulled themselves out of the mess they were in ten years ago. They are not completely out of the woods but their success up to this point is remarkable.

I’ve used Tunity for years with varying levels of success. When it works, it’s really cool.

Great. Now I have to go buy a Moments lens.

It’s hard to explain today what kind of an amazing revelation the original Myst was. I never finished the game but I loved playing it.

A classic song that receives a very dense music theory dissection in this video. I don’t understand 75% of what he’s saying but it’s still interesting.

[VIDEO] This is Woz, back in the day (video embedded in main Loop post). The Macintosh has just been announced, and Woz is counting his losses from the US Festivals. No real mention of Steve Jobs. Fascinating.

I love movie trailers. I scour YouTube and my RSS feed for the latest ones and will spend hours watching them on the AppleTV Trailer app. A well-done trailer is like a little movie in and of itself. A good one doesn’t give away too much of a movie but gives you enough to make you want to see it. If you are a movie trailer fan, go to IMDB and check out some of your favourite movies from the 1930s-1970s. The style of trailers has changed remarkably over the years.

This was a study done in the Seattle area but there’s no reason to believe the results would be much different anywhere else. People in cars are remarkably stupid when it comes to judging their ability to multitask in general and even worse when it comes to using their cell phone in the car.

Security keys have been around for a long time – I used one at an engineering firm I worked at 25 years ago – but I wonder if this kind of implementation will not only become more widely used but maybe trickle down to average consumers? Also, there are security concerns regarding plugging in USB devices at work and how secure those devices are in and of themselves. Still, a step towards a different future of passwords.

This is just revisionist history. The problems with that show started long before Apple Marketing got involved. I’d argue it started with the hosts, Vaynerchuk included, and just snowballed from there. Face it, Gary – it was a bad TV show.

My Australian wife had never seen this movie (as the story notes, it bombed at the box office) so we watched it a few weeks ago and she nearly wet herself laughing. De Niro is utterly brilliant in this comedic role (as is the sadly late Dennis Farina) and Grodin is wonderfully neurotic and annoying.

As a photographer, I’d love to be able to change the default photo app and I’d love to change the default mapping behaviour to a different app as well. The vast majority of users are unlikely to ever do this but for “power users” of one sort or another, it would be a nice feature.

Oh, I think we’d learn a lot from the “awkward conversation” I’d have with my boss if he told me I couldn’t eat meat at work.

If you want to experience it the way “those old folks did”, start watching at 4:10pm ET this afternoon.

While I wouldn’t use one of these even if you paid me the $100, it’s still very interesting to see what these fake iPhones can and can’t do.

I received this email scam as well but it didn’t worry me. While it was a password I’d used in the distant past, now that I use 1Password, I knew it wasn’t to anything I still use.

As corrupt as pro cycling may or may not be (hint: it is), I still love watching the Tour de France, not just for the beautiful scenery but in sheer awe and admiration for what these athletes put themselves through.

I’ve made note of some of these changes on my own podcast but Snell writes about it better than I ever could. The PR moves are especially interesting.

There may be a big difference for professionals but for the average shooter, the gap between DSLR and mirrorless is almost nonexistent nowadays.

While not an exact predictor, average lifespan is still a valuable piece of information. For example, let’s say you are buying an 20-year-old home with its original shingle roof, air conditioner, and water heater. If you look at the listing of expected lifespans below, you’ll see that all three of them would be either right at, or past, their average life expectancy.

I don’t know why I found this so fascinating, but I did. You just better hope that a few of these things don’t all fail in at the same time.

I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying.

I found this fascinating. As someone who doesn’t own a car and doesn’t really care about cars, I had no idea that brand loyalty was so low in this market. No wonder the advertising around it is so prevalent and forceful. Customers are ripe for changes.