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“Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for. In plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means.”

Open Culture: Ray Ellis had a six-decade career as a producer, arranger, and jazz composer. And while he’s best known for arranging music for Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin (1958), he also enjoyed a long career orchestrating music for television. … Continued

Film School Rejects: Soderbergh and Baker might be the highest profile directors to turn to cellular devices for feature films, but there are plenty of independent filmmakers turning to the format. The iPhone is a great tool for filmmakers – … Continued

Thos of us old enough to remember the bad old days know that Apple had a reputation at times for not being very “gamer friendly”, whether it was towards gamers themselves or game developers. Steve Jobs was famously apathetic and dismissive of the Mac as a gaming platform. But the iPhone has changed all of that.

I think this behind the scenes video is even more interesting than the ad itself.

It’s good to be the king. Apple makes design and engineering choices that other companies wouldn’t even imagine doing.

Slash Film: When George Lucas was off at film school at the University of Southern California, he was exposed to all manner of film, from the mainstream to the experimental. One of the films that made the most profound impact … Continued

Today is the first official day of spring for those of us in the northern hemisphere. The cherry blossoms and tulips are just starting to bloom here in the Vancouver area. While I know many in the northeastern US and the Canadian Maritime provinces are hunkering down in the teeth of yet another snowstorm, just hang in there and hopefully, this video will remind you what you have to look forward to.

Along with the slight name change, the app comes with a bunch of cool features.

Open Culture: How does it compare to the blockbuster film? From its first salvo of Wakandan warrior prowess in a cold open set in the 5th century A.D., to its seventies-African-funk-inspired theme song, to a present-day scene in the White … Continued

Reading this story this morning made me incredibly sad. These are magnificent animals and we are hunting them to extinction.

Tim Hardwick, MacRumors:

Bluetooth is what your Mac uses to connect to wireless devices like keyboards, mice, trackpads, speakers, and other peripherals. Generally, it’s a reliable technology. At some point however, the chances are you’ll run into difficulty establishing a Bluetooth connection with one or more of your devices.

Most problems can be fixed by unpairing and repairing the Bluetooth device, changing its batteries, rebooting your Mac, or performing an SMC reset. But if none of these methods work, you can always try resetting your Mac’s Bluetooth module. Here’s how to do it in macOS using the hidden Bluetooth Debug menu.

Great tip, well documented.

Jeopardy! has always been my favorite game show but I never gave the process of the creation of the clues much thought.

For many, Cohen will be an acquired taste but he’s always been one of my favorite songwriters, right up there with Prince. But where Prince had a love of life and sensuality to it, Cohen would be described as depressing (not by me though). But I still love listening to him.

I love this video. These cartoon sound effects are as familiar to me as my own voice.

This is an amazing video. I’ve seen these kinds of tapestries when I traveled in Europe and always wondered how they were created.

Apparently, Canadian scientists are incredibly unimaginative.

“Something wicked this way comes…”

Apple on Friday sent invitations to press outlets for a special event to be held in Chicago on March 27 at 10:00 am. […]

I’m happy to post the correction today.

I love these stories of scientists quietly working behind the scenes to provide us with information like this.

This is not a “the sky is falling!” situation but it’s definitely something to keep an eye on. I’m sure Apple is.

Devastating news for the industry, the employees and all of us, young or old, who loved going to Toys ‘R’ Us.

How cool must it have been to have Apple come to you and say, “Could you give us a hand with something?”

Spectacular.

Whenever I travel, I do research on the city and country I’m going to, no matter how big or small. I like learning new things about new places and Wikivoyage can help a lot.

At first blush, this seems idiotic but on reading the article, I understand and appreciate the point of the “service”.

I read a number of appreciation articles this morning, but this Wired piece by Adam Rogers was my favorite.

A few highlights:

He and the physicist Roger Penrose described singularities, mind-bending physical concepts where relativity and quantum mechanics collapse inward on each other—as at the heart of a black hole.

And:

His calculations helped show that as the young universe expanded and grew through inflation, fluctuations at the quantum scale—the smallest possible gradation of matter—became the galaxies we see around us. No human will ever visit another galaxy, and the quantum realm barely waves at us in our technology, but Hawking envisioned them both.

And, perhaps my favorite:

He proved time travel didn’t exist by throwing a party for time travelers, but not sending out invitations until the party was over. No one came.

Notably, Stephen Hawking died on Albert Einstein’s birthday and on Pi-day (3.14).

This is all kinds of mind-blowing and may have real consequences as we go forward into space.

That reasoning seems odd. What does “attention-grabbing products” have to do with a company’s reputation? Especially given that “film production company The Weinstein Co made its debut at 99th out of 100 on the list”. So – its reputation got better?