512 Pixels

iCloud’s browser tab sync feature is pretty cool, and is more flexible than you would think.

This week, Federico, Myke and I discuss crashing in your pocket, lists on your wrist and publishing dreams on the Internet.

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The father of the Internet is worried about its future.

Ian Hines was kind enough to have me on his new podcast, With Families. Turns out, you can talk about things like kids on a show without the world exploding.

The best way to link to a new service like this is to actually use it.

Rene Ritchie at iMore:

One of the more subtle yet potentially frustrating changes in iOS 7.1 is how the state of the shift key is displayed. Not only isn’t it intuitively obvious which state the shift key is in — lowercase, Upper Case, or CAPS LOCK — but it can be downright counter-intuitive to the point that you find yourself uncertain and guessing wrong more often than not.

I just love videos like this. While mid-90s Apple was kinda insane, there’s some real gold in these six minutes.

It’s a big one, folks:

CarPlay:

• iOS experience designed for the car
• Simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay enabled vehicle
• Supports Phone, Music, Maps, Messages, and 3rd-party audio apps
• Control with Siri and the car’s touchscreen, knobs, and buttons

Siri:

• Manually control when Siri listens by holding down the home button while you speak and releasing it when you’re done as an alternative to letting Siri automatically notice when you stop talking
• New, more natural sounding male and female voices for Mandarin Chinese, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese

iTunes Radio:

• Search field above Featured Stations to easily create stations based on your favorite artist or song
• Buy albums with the tap of a button from Now Playing
• Subscribe to iTunes Match on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to enjoy iTunes Radio ad-free

Calendar:

• Option to display events in month view
• Country specific holidays automatically added for many countries

Accessibility:

• Bold font option now includes the keyboard, calculator, and many icon glyphs
• Reduce Motion option now includes Weather, Messages, and multitasking UI animations
• New options to display button shapes, darken app colors, and reduce white point

Other:

• New Camera setting to automatically enable HDR for iPhone 5s
• iCloud Keychain support in additional countries
• FaceTime call notifications are automatically cleared when you answer a call on another device
• Fixes a bug that could occasionally cause a home screen crash
• Improves Touch ID fingerprint recognition
• Improved performance for iPhone 4
• Fixes display of Mail unread badge for numbers greater than 10,000
• Continued user interface refinements

We live in a world where science fiction is hardly fiction at all.

The Pebble has come a long way since I reviewed it a year ago, and while a lot of the new enhancements are nice, this is pretty exciting.

John Gruber, linking to this article on Macworld:

What this piece made clear for me is that (a) something similar is going to happen to Mac OS X, almost certainly this year; but (b) there’s no way to look at iOS 7 and predict what a corresponding refresh for Mac OS X will look like. Maybe the only things I’ll predict are lots of white backgrounds, and Helvetica Neue as the system font.

As I wrote in my Mavericks review, I think previous design experiments in this realm haven’t been great, but I do think it’s time for Apple to apply some fresh paint to OS X. For the most part, Mavericks looks very similar to Leopard.

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster is a dark chapter in NASA’s history, and many asked if things could have ended differently.

Lee Hutchinson at Ars has put together an amazing feature attempting to answer that question.