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Longtime iPhone photographers will already know these but my non-techy wife found them very informative and helpful.

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I have known Dave Mark for a few years and I have never seen him so excited about a product as he is about HomePod. It made sense to get him on the show and talk about what he feels are the good and bad points about HomePod.

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I’m a general hater of subscription-based services but I have no problem recommending Setapp and, with a seven-day free trial that doesn’t require a credit card, it’s a bit of a no-brainer to try it out and see for yourself.

Photoshop Elements doesn’t get nearly the love it deserves. It’s actually a pretty good photo editor, especially for amateurs.

I am an unabashed lover of most things Ferrari and this video is just a reminder of how many of their cars I’ve lusted over through the years. I’ve always wanted the 308 GTSI (The “Magnum P.I.” Ferrari) and I would murder family members just to drive the 1962 250 GTO.

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I have often wondered. Now I want to know the specs of those cameras.

It may not be the “Best Short Film Ever” but it is damn funny.

What used to be a great app atrophied and died because of lack of support from its owner, not because Twitter is “focusing our efforts on a great Twitter experience that’s consistent across platforms.”

As Bombich points out, this is a fairly specific issue that may not affect many of you but it could be catastrophic to those of you it does affect.

We Canadians love our curling. It helps that we are a “world power” of the sport.

Bottom line? Bigger is not always better. But I still wish I had the scratch for either of those machines.

Facebook once again goes above and beyond to prove they are one of the sleaziest companies in America.

I saw this video yesterday. This is just a horror movie waiting to be filmed. So creepy.

This story pops up every Olympics and every Olympics, I marvel at the incredible amount of hardware the big boys of DSLR bring to support their shooters.

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I had so much fun with Dave Hamilton this week. Dave is a gigging drummer and really knows his music. We talked about live setups, different bands, recording, and tell a couple of drummer jokes.

Great video on the creation of a great song.

That was incredible.

Well played, Sonos.

This week Rene Ritchie and I talk about our experiences with Apple’s HomePod, due to be released this week.

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After his report on his “Inside Apple’s HomePod Audio Lab” tour, several commenters asked Jim what it sounded like inside the anechoic chamber. This video may help.

Hyperbole aside, (no Ars Technica – this wasn’t “the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses”), it was still a pretty cool launch and the simultaneous landings of the two outer cores (the third middle core was lost at sea) was incredible.

Like most of us, I thought the statues and monuments we saw of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and others were a dull white or a boring sandy brown colour.

As Ben Bajarin said on Twitter, “The Bank of Apple is coming.”

Maybe if Apple had called the HomePod a “super speaker” or something else and more directly avoided the comparison to “smart” devices like the Echo and the Home, they wouldn’t be having so many tech reviewers reviewing a Ferrari as if it were a Corolla.

This guy is a mad genius. I hope he continues to use his powers for good and never evil.

This is a great series of videos explaining the differences between sound mixing vs sound editing by Oscar winner Walter Murch. I don’t know much about sound but I know I’d watch Murch explain the phone book. Always an interesting guy to listen to.

I’ve been using the HomePod for almost a week now. The device is part technological marvel with a little bit of magic thrown in to make it a really compelling device for every home. […]

Apple didn’t build its audio products by choosing off-the-shelf components that any other company can use—it designed and built them from scratch. The testing for all its products happens in the company’s audio lab in Cupertino, Calif. Last week, they took me on a tour of the lab to show me what’s involved in making an audio product at Apple. […]