While results from the spacecraft’s suite of instruments will be released down the road, a handful of images from Juno’s visible light imager — JunoCam — are expected to be released the next couple of weeks. Those images will include the highest-resolution views of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter’s north and south poles.
It’s an exciting time to be a space enthusiast.
We moved at the beginning of the month, and I’ve taken over a spare bedroom in our new house as an office, so it was time to share some new photos of my workspace.
Qbserve helps improve your productivity by giving you a picture of your time spending patterns. It provides instant feedback on your performance by watching the sites and apps you use.
Qbserve stores all the tracked data privately on your machine and doesn’t require subscription. It is currently focused on self-management but business features like project tracking and billing are also coming soon.
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This month in my column on iMore, I revisited MECC, the company behind some great software titles like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers:
My earliest memories of technology came from my first year of grade school: It was 1992, and our teacher had installed some variant of an Apple II in the classroom. The students were only able to use it a few times, but each time I got to put a disk in the machine, I was able to escape to another world.
A world in which I was traveling west in a wagon, attempting to avoid dying of dysentery.
Federico’s back, so the power of The Prompt Curse has been restored. Picturelife is dead, Ping is in headlines and iOS 10 is closer than ever.
My thanks to our sponsors this week:
One of the world’s most evasive digital arms dealers is believed to have been taking advantage of three security vulnerabilities in popular Apple products in its efforts to spy on dissidents and journalists.
Investigators discovered that a company called the NSO Group, an Israeli outfit that sells software that invisibly tracks a target’s mobile phone, was responsible for the intrusions. The NSO Group’s software can read text messages and emails and track calls and contacts. It can even record sounds, collect passwords and trace the whereabouts of the phone user.
Holy moly. Update today.
Darren Orf at Gizmodo has posted a video that all Apple nerds should watch.
Apple Inc., seeking to capitalize on the popularity of social networks, is developing a video sharing and editing application and is testing new related features for its iPhone and iPad operating systems.
Oh dear.
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Tim Cook becoming CEO of Apple. There’s a lot of coverage today, following Cook’s big interview 10 days ago.
There’s a phrase that’s been thrown around a lot in the years since Steve Jobs died.
The New Apple.
In different contexts, it means different things: the more open nature of the company and its executive team, the dedicated focus to advancing human rights, the push into mobile computing or China or India.
On Episode 124 of The Talk Show, both Jason Snell and John Gruber remarked that they liked “Old Apple” better. The smaller, leaner company that was encouraging people to Think Different about computers. When I heard the comment, I nodded along in agreement.
It’s easy to see the past with rose-colored glasses, especially when you spend so much time writing about it.
I first used a Mac in 2001, my sophomore year of high school. In 2001, Apple was crawling out of the pit it found itself in during the 1990s. I was able to watch the company bring the iPod to market, and begin to make the transition from a computer to a consumer electronics company.
To some of you reading this, the early 2000s feel like New Apple, and that’s completely fair. However, there’s no doubt the Apple we see now is different then it was when Jobs was in his heyday.1
Whatever era Apple was in when you first showed up, the Apple of today is different. It’s not only one of the world’s largest companies, it’s been that way for some time. Employee head count has swelled and the company is pushing into services more than ever before, all while juggling more products than ever.
There have been growing pains in New Apple. Maps sucked at launch. iOS 7 had stability issues. The iPhone 5c didn’t perform as well in the market as hoped. The iPad market is still struggling to find level ground. The App Store has a laundry list of issues. Professionals who rely on the Mac have been frustrated by the lack of updated hardware at times.
At times, I think Cook and his team put too strong of an emphasis on hitting price points. Sometimes, they put design — and even manufacturing — higher on the list of priorities than they should be. I question several of (seemingly all-powerful) Jony Ive’s decisions, especially in terms of user interface.
It’s easy to forget the complaints we had about 2000s Apple. People wanted the iPod to be more user serviceable. Early versions of OS X were plagued with performance issues, and some G3 and G4-era Macs had mind-boggling limitations.2
(Go back even further and this entire blog post would be a rant about the Performa line of Macs.)
Five years in, New Apple is here to stay. It’s traded some of the old problems for new ones, and while I may personally identify more with a smaller company with more fight in it, it’s impossible to deny that New Apple is a greater force for good in the world. We have Tim Cook to thank for that. His unwillingness to conform to Jobs’ image has proven to be his greatest strength, and one that I think Steve himself saw and appreciated.
Cook was a good choice. He’s no bozo.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Instapaper is joining Pinterest. In the three years since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve completely rewritten our backend, overhauled our mobile and web clients, improved parsing and search, and introduced tons of great features like highlights, text-to-speech, and speed reading to the product.
All of these features and developments revolved around the core mission of Instapaper, which is allowing our users to discover, save, and experience interesting web content. In that respect, there is a lot of overlap between Pinterest and Instapaper. Joining Pinterest provides us with the additional resources and experience necessary to achieve that shared mission on a much larger scale.
Unlike almost everyone else my age, I’m not super familiar with Pinterest, but I hope this is a good thing for my favorite read-it-later service.
This article explains how to use Sherlock or Sherlock 2 to find invisible files or folders.
You know, if you’re running Mac OS 8.5, 8.6 or 9.