It’s the stuff of lore now, but Steve Jobs’ “Grid of Four” took a messy Mac lineup and made it simple enough for anyone to understand:
Trying to cram the Apple of today into something like the Grid of Four doesn’t make much sense. In fact, Apple only used it for a handful of years, but even when the Grid of Four was the product strategy at Apple, the iMac began to creep toward the professional column.
TextExpander’s customizable and shareable snippets of text allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly — all you have to do is type a short abbreviation and TextExpander does the rest of the work for you.
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While it had humble beginnings, Apple Notes has grown into a true competitor over the years. On this episode, David and I explore its history, features and what Apple should take it next.
Apple’s spooky October event has come and gone, so the guys sort through the wreckage of their picks and talk about the M3 and new Macs. Jason had to step in.
The lower-cost Apple Music Voice Plan was discontinued today, with references to the plan removed from Apple’s website in all countries where it was available. Brazilian website MacMagazine was first to alert us to this news.
The $4.99/mo plan was introduced in October 2021, and I can’t imagine it gained much traction.
This is very cool, but shooting something like this requires a lot more than just an iPhone, at least in terms of lighting and sound. While some people are poking fun of this, I’d rather be excited about far the cameras in our pockets have come.
Apple Support, describing the Gloom filter in Motion:
Creates a muted, dark glow. The image is darkened, and areas of detail are evened out into larger regions of color. It’s spooky.
I’ll let you be the judge of that:
Rumors about the M3 have been all over the map, but in this evening’s “Scary Fast” stream,1 Apple unveiled not one, but three new Apple silicon chips: the M3, the M3 Pro and the M3 Max, all built on a 3 nanometer process.
This marks the first time since transitioning away from Intel that Apple has unveiled both the entry-level and upper-end options of a new generation of chips at the same time. Here’s a recap of how things have been rolled out so far:
From its humble beginnings, Word has gone on to become one of the most popular office tools in the world, and pretty much everyone is familiar with it in one way or another. So, to celebrate its 40th birthday, we decided to take a look at how we got here and also share where we’re going.
Tonya and I have a long history with Word. Although we primarily used WriteNow at Cornell University during our undergraduate years from 1985 through 1989, we often helped users with Word while working in Cornell University’s public computer rooms. Two years after we graduated, a college friend of Tonya’s encouraged her to apply for a job at Microsoft. She was hired and spent the next two years doing phone and online support for Word 4 and Word 5. (So many people considered Word 5 to be the pinnacle of the app’s history that Tonya later penned two April Fools’ spoof articles about it: “ Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X,” 1 April 2003, and “ Microsoft Word 5.1 Returns… to the iPad,” 1 April 2011.) She also helped edit the manual for Word 6, Microsoft’s first attempt at a cross-platform version. I applied for a position as a Word program manager and got an interview but was not offered the job due to my lack of design skills, a rejection I took as a compliment, given my low opinion of Word’s interface.
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Chris Upchurch leads two lives; he is a developer but also a river guide. This week, he joins Stephen and David to discuss the tech he uses both at his desk and on the water.
Come to hear how a river guide uses Apple gear and stay for Chris’ incredible desk setup.
Jacob Kastrenakes and Alex Heath at The Verge:
Elon Musk wants X to be the center of your financial world, handling anything in your life that deals with money. He expects those features to launch by the end of 2024, he told X employees during an all-hands call on Thursday, saying that people will be surprised with “just how powerful it is.”
“When I say payments, I actually mean someone’s entire financial life,” Musk said, according to audio of the meeting obtained by The Verge. “If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”