When Balloon Help is on, balloons will appear which tell you about anything you point to on the screen. You don’t need to click, just point. When help is turned on, every point, click, and drag works exactly as it normally does.
To turn Balloon Help ON chose “Show Balloon” in the Help menu.
To turn Balloon Help OFF chose “Hide Balloon” in the Help menu.
Mmmmm, System 7:
Sidequest is a brand new task tracking app for Slack that combines the reliability of traditional ticketing systems and the ease of use of modern to do apps — 100% inside your Slack workspace.
Sidequest allows your team members to create tasks either for themselves, each other, or as a team task in public or private Slack channels. As soon as a task has been created, Sidequest turns into a single point of truth, so everyone is always on the same page regarding the task at hand, its history and its status.
On this feedback episode, Stephen and David talk more about HomeKit, Dropbox, photo management and much, much more.
On More Power Users, David walked me through his new video setup, which looks pretty sweet.
My thanks to our sponsors:
Last night, Relay FM’s campaign for St. Jude hit a major milestone: $500,000 raised in just two years.
Longtime readers will know I’ve raised money here on 512 Pixels for St. Jude every fall for years, but last year, we stepped it up a notch with our first Podcastathon, which proved to be the largest “podcast activation” for a non-profit fundraiser ever,1 raising $315,000 for the kids of St. Jude.
The second annual Podcastathon is just a few days away, on September 18. We’ll be streaming on Twitch from 2-8 PM Eastern.
I never dabbled in this, but I am impressed at this collection by Jordan Eldredge
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This week on a jam-packed Connected:
Apple has announced an event for next week, so the guys deleted everything in their show planning document to make room for their Picks, Rickies and Flexies. Also: Federico has reached acceptance, Stephen’s plumbing is fixed and Myke has trouble with a quote.
On Connected Pro, Myke and Stephen recover from a meeting and everyone learns how titles work.
Having just 24 hours to make our picks made things interesting.
In the Utah desert, Northrop Grumman has tested a full-sized SLS SRB, while the future of work in low-Earth orbit is being debated. On Mars, InSight’s troubles continue and 17 billion light years-away, two black holes have collided.
My thanks to our sponsors:
Mark Gurman, writing about the event Apple announced earlier today:
The event announcement on Apple’s website doesn’t have its typical tag line that hints at what is to be announced. But the invitation to media says “Time Flies,” indicating the announcement is related to the Apple Watch, not iPhones. The new iPhones won’t launch until October, Bloomberg News has reported.
The company is preparing new high-end and low-end Apple Watches as well as a redesigned iPad Air with an edge-to-edge screen. It’s also working on a smaller HomePod and the first pair of Apple-branded over ear headphones for release as early as later this year.
Here we go:
Join us from Apple Park.
September 15, 2020, at 10 a.m. PDT. https://t.co/QAtlYeiXqx
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— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) September 8, 2020
This will be a virtual event, like WWDC. I think it’s safe to assume that iPhones will be at the heart of the news, but rumors about updated iPads, a new Apple Watch, over-ear headphones and more are all swirling around.
For over a century, people have tried to go faster and faster in water-based vehicles, turning to things like jet engines to reach new speeds. Sadly, this race for the record has resulted in many terrible and tragic accidents.