We’re in the final days of Relay’s annual fundraiser for St. Jude. The campaign — and all community fundraisers — will close at 12 PM Eastern on Monday. If you haven’t given, now’s the time!
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NASA, SpaceX and Polaris Study Hubble Mission⇢
When the space shuttle program wrapped up 11 years ago, one of the many things that was lost was the ability to service the Hubble Space Telescope, which needed quite a bit of service back in the shuttle days.
For years, it has been understood that if anything major failed on Hubble after the last shuttle touched down, it could spell the end of the space telescope. Beyond hardware failures, the telescope’s decaying orbit also poses a long-term danger.
Amazon Kindle Scribe⇢
I won’t lie… I’m pretty tempted by this thing.
Connected #417: He Stole My Barbecue Stuff⇢
Stephen has an Apple Watch Ultra. Myke dropped his iPhone. Federico’s security cameras came in very handy.
Oh, and Stage Manager is still busted.
The turn that this episode took is one for the ages.
Just Two Days Remain to Support Relay FM’s St. Jude Campaign⇢
The end of September draws near, which means we will be winding down our fundraiser for St. Jude on Friday. If you haven’t given to this life-saving work, now is the time.
Don’t miss our Closing Ceremonies:
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close on Friday, as does our annual campaign for @StJude.
Join @imyke and @ismh for the Closing Ceremonies:
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Underscore Took the Apple Watch Ultra to the Scottish Highlands⇢
I was very excited when Apple announced the Apple Watch Ultra this fall. I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch on my wrist nearly every day since they were first released seven years ago. What was so exciting about the Ultra is that it seemed to be targeted directly at me. I’m an avid hiker/backpacker and love being outdoors, and I’ve used a regular Apple Watch to track these activities but would love for a device that even better fits this use.
Apple Lowers System Requirements for Stage Manager⇢
N. Ingraham, writing at Engadget:
Apple is making Stage Manager work with a number of older devices: it’ll work on the 11-inch iPad Pro (first generation and later) and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro (third generation and later). Specifically, it’ll be available on the 2018 and 2020 models that use the A12X and A12Z chips rather than just the M1. However, there is one notable missing feature for the older iPad Pro models — Stage Manager will only work on the iPad’s build-in display. You won’t be able to extend your display to an external monitor.
Kbase Article of the Week: iWeb: Avoid Using Apostrophes in Your iWeb Site/Page Names⇢
If you create a site or page name in iWeb 1.0.1 with an apostrophe as part of the name, and subsequently update to iWeb 1.1, then the web addresses (URLs) to your site/page will no longer be valid. This will break any existing bookmarks to the page. This occurs because iWeb 1.1 handles apostrophes differently than iWeb 1.0.1.
People who bookmarked your iWeb 1.0.1 site need to bookmark your new site published with iWeb 1.1.
Adding a Driveway Gate to HomeKit
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my latest attempt to add my older garage door opener to HomeKit.
That project has been a huge hit with everyone in my household, so emboldened, I recently took on an additional HomeKit project: adding our driveway gate to the network.
When I first had the idea, I assumed that I would need to piece something together on my own, but then I came across a product called the ismartgate. After poking around the website for a few minutes, I came across this really great configuration page. After checking a few boxes, the website told me that the ismartgate LITE would work for my needs. $130 and a few days later, I was ready to go.
Apple Publishes Design Guidelines for Live Activities⇢
There are several things in this new article that jumped out at me. Up first, is how different phones will treat Live Activities:
In addition to displaying a Live Activity on the Lock Screen, devices that support Live Activities can display your app information in different ways, depending on whether the device also supports the Dynamic Island.
- On devices that support the Dynamic Island, the system displays Live Activities in a persistent location around the TrueDepth camera.
- On devices that don’t support the Dynamic Island, the system can display a Live Activity update in a banner that appears briefly while people view the Home Screen or use another app, but only if the app determines that the update is important enough to interrupt people.
Apple also has some guidance about what sorts of information should be shown in Live Activities. For example, developers should not show sensitive data in these UI elements, and should give users full control over starting and stopping Live Activity events.
Kickstarter Update: September 26⇢
Hello! It’s been a busy month around here with Relay FM’s annual fundraiser for St. Jude, but that is winding down this week, and I’m back in calendar land!
Over the last few weeks, I’ve made some significant progress:
- The stickers have been all packed! Big thanks to Myke and Adina for helping while they were in Memphis a couple of weeks ago.
- The 4x6 prints are here, and packing of those is underway now.
- I am receiving the final calendar proof from the printer today and should give them the green light for production in the coming days!
Mac Power Users #659: Workflows with Alex Cox⇢
This week on MPU, Alex Cox drops by the show to update Stephen and David on their new indie life, including Apple silicon hardware, collaboration tools and the new iPhone 14 Pro.