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Introducing More Power Users⇢
Today, David Sparks and I are thrilled to introduce More Power Users, a special dedicated feed for MPU members that includes ad-free episodes, as well as regular bonus segments, more focused on news or current happening in the Apple community. This is something we don’t get to do very often on MPU, and we’re excited to have this conversations together.
(For example, this week after our interview with David Smith, we talked for a while about the possibility of touchscreens coming to Macs.)
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My thanks to The Omni Group for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week.
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Microsoft Getting Pushy with Edge⇢
Connected #301: We Should Be Developers⇢
This week’s episode of Connected is a special one:
The guys talk with Jenny Chen, an Apple engineer who works on Apple Pencil software, and Stephen Tonna from Apple’s product marketing team about what’s new in iPad OS 14, including Scribble and the release’s updated design language. Then, Federico, Myke and Stephen discuss the future of both Apple Arcade and iPhone chargers.
I really enjoyed getting to chat with Jenny and Stephen. iPadOS 14 is seriously cool.
Liftoff #127: Wormy Space Coin⇢
Black holes doing weird black hole things, a progress report on the SLS and a discussion of how some of NASA’s facilities should be renamed.
My thanks to our sponsor:
- Tuparev Technologies: Introducing StarBrush: Modern astronomical imaging tool for everyone.
Ungeniused #108: Some Cool Winter Olympic Games⇢
This week on Ungeniused: a PSA from me (and a begrudging Myke) about how the Winter Olympics are the coolest games in town.
A Tour of Haiku Beta 2⇢
Haiku is an open-source project dedicated to rebuilding BeOS. The group just released the second beta, and Jim Salter has a thorough look at it over on Ars Technica.
If you aren’t familiar with BeOS, check out this episode of my podcast Flashback, on which Quinn Nelson and I dug deep into the operating system and its parent company.
Macintosh Manager: About the Hand Out Feature⇢
A Macintosh Manager administrator can hand out files to members of the currently active workgroup, or to specific users that belong to the active workgroup (Figure 1). This feature is only available when logged in as a Macintosh Manager administrative user, either a Workgroup Administrator or a Global Macintosh Manager Administrator. When logged in to a Panels environment, this feature is found in the File menu. If the Hand Out command is dimmed, bring the Documents Panel to the foreground to make it available.
The New York Times is Pulling out of Apple News⇢
Kellen Browning and Jack Nicas:
The Times is one of the first media organizations to pull out of Apple News. The Times, which has made adding new subscribers a key business goal, said that Apple had given it little in the way of direct relationships with readers and little control over the business. It said it hoped to instead drive readers directly to its own website and mobile app so that it could “fund quality journalism.”
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