The 20-page PDF closes with this:
Each component of the iOS security platform, from hardware to encryption to device access, provides organizations with the resources they need to build enterprise-grade security solutions. The sum of these parts gives iOS its industry-leading security features, without making the device difficult or cumbersome to use.
iLounge editor Jeremy Horwitz seems convinced that Apple is working on a stand-alone digital camera.
So, as briefly noted on Backstage, Apple appears to be working on a standalone camera – the third of three industries Jobs wanted to change.
These days, it seems like fewer and fewer people carry a dedicated, small standalone camera. While there is still plenty of space of DSLRs in the market, point-n-shoots have been replaced by smartphones for many.
Know what company is responsible for that?
Apple.
The iPhone — since the 3GS, in my opinion — has had a camera decent enough to rival low-end point and shoots. With the 4S, it even rivals more expensive models.
The iPhone is a good camera, but it’s even better because it’s the one already in your pocket. I’m not sure that a stand-alone product — even from Apple — will be able to recapture the market.
Of course, Apple used to have such a product, but that was a very different era in consumer electronics.
At the start of the year I decided move Pinboard from the rented servers it was running onto my own hardware. I’ve written before about the tradeoffs of various hosting strategies and my reasons for avoiding virtual servers, so I won’t repeat my rationale here. But I’d like to stress that nothing about these posts is prescriptive. In fact, I have no idea what I’m doing. I do it, I write it up, and then wisdom pours down from the Internet.
So please don’t do what I’ve done, unless it’s the right thing for you.
I love Pinboard, and I love hardware, so this post is my favorite for the day.
The video for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild” is epic.
What if Samuel L. Jackson had voiced Darth Vader?
(NSFW language, as you’d imagine.)
In January, I wrote about my podcasting setup, built around the Blue Yeti USB microphone.
I still have my Yeti (well, a replacement, after my original mic fell off the roof of my car and died), and still love it.
But it’s now my at-home setup. My main rig has gotten a big upgrade.
Back in March, on the sixth episode of the 512 Podcast, I spoke with Myke about my moving to Evernote for notes and “resources” management.
Now, for the most part, I like Evernote. It runs well, is on every device I own, and syncs flawlessly. That said, the fact that it stores everything in HTML does make me hesitate, but HTML is a lot easier to deal with upon export than some truly propriety system or language.
I also love Dropbox. Like Evernote, it’s fast and ubiquitous. I pay for 50 GB of storage, bringing my total to 63.6 GB of space on my account.
My issue with Dropbox (and the main reason I switched to Evernote) was offline access for notes and files. While this isn’t available with Evernote without a subscription, Dropbox only allows offline storage for individual files, not folders.
Now, maybe it is because I’m a tinkerer, but since March, I’ve missed my Dropbox-centric workflow — especially when it comes to notes, which I like in nvALT in Markdown.
So I’m living in both camps now.
I’m keeping Evernote for PDFs and images I need offline. For the most part, these files are work-related, such as plans for the building that we’re currently constructing.
(I tried PDFpen for iOS, but iCloud choked on my 600 MB of PDFs.)
My notes, however, along with non-essential files, are back in Dropbox. It just feels … cleaner. Plus, I get to deal with plain text files, which is my preference on any platform. (I use Notesy on iOS.)
In short, I’m using the services pretty much in an opposite way from my pal Brett Kelly, but that’s okay. These tools are flexible, and that’s their greatest strength.
Mitt Romney’s new iPhone app allows users to put a banner over their photo, showing their support for the jackass millionaire business tycoon presidential candidate.
One small hitch showed up, however. The app misspells America. Seriously.
Of course, there’s a tumblog for this recently-born meme. Here’s mine.
Thanks to Shawn, I’ve spent another $2 on a photo app.
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