I don’t know about you, but I love it when technology and life collide to create an amazing experience. And then there are those magical moments when you find pure joy from a new, shiny gadget. I am sure you have experienced this. One such experience for me was when I purchased and set up […]
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Journaling Apps Review – Day One, Momento and Moodnotes – by Jill from the Northwoods
Day One – India Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. Today we’re going to talk about diary apps, or journaling apps, however you like to call it. There are some really good journaling apps out there in the world, particularly when you’re talking about the iOS world. I started with Day One back in […]
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A Beginner Developer’s View of VSCode
I’ve been pondering doing a review of my favorite code editor for a long time, but for several reasons, this is a very dangerous undertaking. First and foremost, I am a very new programmer, so I don’t really know what’s important and why I should care about the more advanced features. This means that more […]
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Add Custom Watch and Band Frames to Your Apple Watch Screenshots with Watchshot Screenshots
Last week I wrote an article about all the different things I do with my Apple Watch on a typical day. As I started making notes for the article over the course of a few days, I took screenshots of my Apple Watch that would demonstrate what I was explaining in the article. To take […]
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Security Bits — 25 October 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID 19 Apps Update 🇺🇸 Apple updates COVID-19 app with new questions and recommendations — www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. Rolls Out App-Free COVID-19 Tracking System — www.macobserver.com/… Zoom Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption for Video […]
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Do LiDAR and Dolby Vision HDR on iPhone 12 Pro Really Make a Difference?
I’m sure you’ve been inundated with articles about the new iPhones 12 this week. I’m not going to do an exhaustive review but I’d like to touch on a couple of points I haven’t seen covered in great detail. It’s a well-known marketing strategy to create a small, medium, and large version of your product, […]
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Virtual Pepcom Was Pretty Darn Close to the Real Thing
44 Vendors at Pepcom One of the reasons Steve and I get so much out of going to CES each year is that we get to attend some small events just for press. In theory these are hand-picked vendors by the people who run the events so you can see the best stuff in a […]
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A Day in the Life of an Apple Watch
I Like a LOT of Complications As you’ve probably figured out by now, I’m a fan of the Apple Watch. People often ask me why I like it so much, and those who ask often start with, “I don’t want to work out, so what else is it good for?” Clearly they’re starting with an […]
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Apple Watch Solo Loop – by Marty Jencius
Hello fellow castaways Marty Jencius here, known in the castaways chat room as Drunk Nick Nolte. My relationship with my Apple Watch has been a rocky one over the years. Typically, I would put it on and never look at it. It was my third other screen after my desktop and my phone. I kept […]
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The Photographer’s Ephemeris – by Kurt Liebezeit
TPE on iPad and iPhone This is a review of the iOS and iPadOS app called “The Photographer’s Ephemeris,” from Crookneck Apps. The Photographer’s Ephemeris is a photography planning application, specifically an app for planning landscape photography involving the sun or the moon. Recall for a moment Ansel Adam’s celebrated photograph of “Moon and Half […]
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