iPod (with Dock Connector) models come with a Dock Connector cover plug.
You insert the cover plug into iPod’s Dock Connector port on the bottom of iPod. This plug protects the connector, and keeps foreign matter out of the opening.
To put iPod in its dock, or to connect the Dock Connector to FireWire cable, remove the plug. iPod will not fit into its dock when the plug is installed.
If your old iPod is missing its Dock Connector Cover Plug, you can get on one eBay for $8.
This week on Liftoff, Jason and I talk through recent NASA reports on its work with AR, VR and how people get sleepy while in a self-driving car. We then get into the breaking news of NASA’s two new mission directorates.
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Amazon has updated its Paperwhite reader. The new version comes with a larger screen that includes more even, warmer light and USB-C for charging, which is something I wish my Kindle Oasis1 had. The ad-supported version is $139, a $10 increase over the last model. There is a $189 version as well with 32 GB of storage, wireless charging and an auto-dimming screen. If you’re in the market for a Kindle, this looks like a great option.
The Safari web extension I’ve been waiting for is here.
Podcasts are the future of entertainment and education. Now a fifteen-year-old medium, podcasting has finally realized its full potential — enabling creators to share knowledge independently and own the rights to that content. Listeners have unprecedented access to high-quality, free shows about virtually any interest.
As podcasting has grown, some have foregone user experience and creator freedoms in an attempt to rule podcasting and lock users into a sandbox, moving away from podcasting’s open roots. Podapp is designed to stop this shift.
Podapp is a new podcatcher for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that respects podcasting’s origins and focuses on new ways to listen. After almost five years of work and it’s launching later this year. Follow along on Twitter for updates and join the beta list to be one of the first to try it.
Federico Viticci has published his annual iOS and iPadOS review. I got to read much of it over the last few days, and it’s Federico at the top of his game. Grab an iPad and get to reading!
Apple has unveiled new versions of the iPhone, Apple Watch and a couple different iPad, so David and Stephen talk through the news and their thoughts on the new products.
On More Power Users, we compared notes on our favorite Apple keynotes of all time.
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The dust has settled from Apple’s iPhone 13 event and a Chairman has emerged from the haze.
Also, we had a mutiny.
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As someone who has crashed more than one bicycle,1 I’m excited to see this feature.
There’s a lot of news to digest, but I’m a little sad the new Apple Watch doesn’t have the rumored flat sides and that we didn’t get new AirPods.
However, the new iPad mini and iPhone 13 Pro Max will keep me warm (and broke) at night.
In a brief tweet yesterday, Steve Wozniak announced he is co-founding a new private space company.
The simple tweet and linked YouTube video provided few details about the company, Privateer. The short video features a combination of historic and modern videos of both rockets and the solar system (and a clip that vaguely resembles a Tesla robot on fire). In the YouTube description, they say Privateer space is “working to keep space safe and accessible to all humankind.”
Jonathan Zeller, writing at McSweeny’s about Ted Lasso:
Ted Lasso was the most surprising show of 2020. In its debut season, the plucky underdog sitcom delighted an audience tired of pandemic fears, political conflicts, and natural disasters. They retreated into a comforting world in which a single good person—Ted Lasso, an American football coach played by the charming Jason Sudeikis—overcomes the doubts and malign intentions of strangers not by destroying them, but by transforming them into better versions of themselves. As viewers, we felt a similar process take place in our own living rooms. Well, most of us did. Some detractors revealed their true nature as vessels for unadulterated evil who deserve pain because they can’t let us enjoy one thing on this awful planet, which got that way thanks to monsters like them.