India is now the 4th nation to land hardware on the moon, after the U.S., China and former Soviet Union.
Kbase Article of the Week: Use AIM with Messages or iChat ⇢
Starting on Dec 15th 2017, you won’t be able to log in into the Message app or iChat app with your AOL account.
For more information, contact AOL.
Fittingly, that link to AOL is broken.
RIP, Dr. John Warnock ⇢
It is with profound sadness that Adobe shares the passing of the company’s beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock. Dr. Warnock passed away on Saturday surrounded by his family.
Dr. Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, groundbreaking technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution. Dr. Warnock retired as CEO in 2000 and he was chairman of the board, a position he shared with Dr. Geschke, until 2017. He was a member of the Board of Directors since then. In recognition of their technical achievements, Dr. Warnock was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Barack Obama; the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society; the American Electronics Association Medal of Achievement; and the Marconi Prize for contributions to information science and communications.
Sponsor: MarsEdit 5 ⇢
MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs.
The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to Twitter.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just press a configurable global keyboard shortcut, write out your latest thoughts, and instantly publish to your blog.
MarsEdit supports editing posts in rich or plain text, and the latest update is especially great for Markdown fans. Now when you’re writing Markdown in plain text mode, MarsEdit applies live, beautiful syntax highlighting to make it easier to focus separately on the content and style of your posts.
MarsEdit is used by top bloggers to maximize their productivity and enjoyment of blogging. It’s great for pros like John Gruber of Daring Fireball, and yours truly, while also being simple enough to remove the mystery of blogging for everyday folks who just want to share their thoughts with the world.
New this month: MarsEdit has a new beta featuring preliminary support for publishing to Mastodon! Now you can use the same app you use to write and publish to your main blog, to write and publish to your Mastodon microblog. Check out the beta at this link
One app, limitless publishing opportunities.
Download MarsEdit today, and see what all the hype is about. It’ll make you a better blogger!
Relay FM’s 10th Anniversary Show ⇢
Myke and I are very excited to announce that we will be hosting a live show next year in London to celebrate Relay’s 10th anniversary!
The show will be on July 27, 2024 at the epic Hackney Empire theatre in London. Details and tickets are both available now!
Mac Power Users #706: Media Management with Casey Liss ⇢
This week, Casey Liss rejoins the program to discuss his new app Callsheet and to give David and me a tour of the apps and services he uses to manage his media.
Some Tasty Numbers Concering X ⇢
Matt Binder at Mashable, reporting on data from Travis Brown about Elon Musk’s 153 million followers:
Of the 153,209,283 X accounts following Musk at the time the data was collected, around 42 percent of Musk’s followers, or more than 65.3 million users, have zero followers on their own account. Just over 72 percent, or nearly 112 million, of these users following Musk have less than 10 followers on their account.
When it comes to content creation on the platform, more than 62.5 million Musk followers have zero tweets. This would include users who have deleted all of their tweets by the time this data was collected over the past few weeks as well as accounts that have never before tweeted. More than 100 million Musk followers have less than 10 tweets posted to their account.
If that wasn’t concerning enough, this paragraph has to sting:
However, according to this latest collection of @ElonMusk follower data, only around 453,000 Musk followers or 0.3 percent subscribe to X Premium. Mashable reported earlier this week that there were around 830,000 X Premium subscribers in total based on another data set compiled by Brown.
David Sparks’ Apple Watch Survey ⇢
While these answers aren’t necessarily representative of the world at large, I love to see my fellow Ultra wearers come out strong.
Relay FM Turns 9
I honestly cannot believe that our weird little side project is now nine years old, and that I’ve been doing it full-time for eight. Over the last near-decade, I’ve gotten to work — and become friends — with so many amazing people.
To celebrate, we’ve got some very exciting news out to our members, via our Discord and the newsletter!
Connected #463: GOD SAVE THE KING, BABY ⇢
To celebrate Relay FM’s 9th birthday, Myke and I host a feelings podcast on this week’s Connected.
Kbase Article of the Week: iMac – Technical Specifications ⇢
This bit was pretty spicy 25 years ago:
USB: 2 yes
ADB: n/a
Video: none
Floppy: none
SCSI: none
Geoports: none
What Happens to the iMac Now? ⇢
…Apple hasn’t updated the iMac in well over 800 days — which is the longest gap in recent memory and double the average gap between updates over its history. And that conspicuous hole in the M2 lineup has been making me wonder: in a future where MacBooks rule the market and most of the desktops Apple produces are niche, enthusiast products, where will the iMac fit?