World’s fairs have been held for over 200 years to highlight advances in technology and progress as the nations continue to march toward the future.
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Steven Sinofsky has published an article on Medium about this famous Steve Jobs quote, and it’s well worth a read.
It’s been a long time since NetNewsWire has been in my Dock. Looking forward to checking this out.
A few weeks ago, my Liftoff co-host 1 and all-around-cool-guy Jason Snell told me he was going to be in Houston, Texas and asked a question I couldn’t say no to:
Do you want to visit Johnson?
Johnson Space Center is a key hub in NASA’s web of centers across the nation. Anytime an astronaut calls to the ground with the prefix “Houston,” Johnson is home to whoever answers.
Today, Johnson is home to much more than mission control. It’s Ground Zero for astronaut training thanks to two International Space Station facilities, and is critical in NASA’s Commercial Crew program. That program will be putting US astronauts into orbit from US soil for the first time since the shuttle program ended in 2011, and is taking shape thank to partners like SpaceX and Boeing, who are building crew-rated capsules for trips to and from the Space Station.
MainStage is one of those pro apps that most people don’t know about, but if you’ve been to a concert recently, have probably heard at work.
Federico is just a pile of recurring automations now, so Myke and Stephen discuss the rollout of Apple Card and the macOS bounty program, before a dive into FileMaker’s history and recent rebranding and a discussion of moving on from the Apple Watch.
Not everyday you get to talk about ClarisWorks 1.0 coming to Windows.
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Andrew Burwell has put together an amazing site of his astrophotography, a collection of images he has created with a series of telescopes and the Mac. He has some truly beautiful photos posted.
For our upcoming live show to mark the 5th anniversary of Relay FM, we’re going to be playing Family Feud with over 15 of our hosts. If you have a second, I’d love it if you’d answer a couple quick questions for us.
Just in case you thought the UltraFine Display being limited to 4K resolution when connected to a USB-C device like the MacBook or iPad Pro, as opposed to showing 5K resolution when connected over Thunderbolt 3, this sort of problem is not new:
When you connect an Apple Cinema Display (30-inch DVI) to your computer, you may find that the highest available resolution is 1280 x 800 even though the optimum resolution for the display is 2560 x 1600. This can happen if the display has a single-link DVI connection instead of a dual-link DVI connection.
Didn’t think this would be a story I’d ever link to, but here we are. Frederic Lardinois at TechCrunch reports:
Remember Claris, the 1987 Apple spin-off that made applications like MacWrite, MacPaint and FileMaker? In 1998, Apple brought all of those products in-house again, with the exception of the low-code application platform FileMaker . With that move, Claris changed its name to FileMaker Inc. Today, however, the Claris name rises from the dead, as FileMaker Inc. is changing its name to Claris International. The name of the FileMaker product itself, though, remains the same.
David and Stephen talk about their home offices: how they are setup, what equipment and furnishings are used and — of course — what nerdy toys are around. Then, a discussion about the pros and cons of working from home.
In preparation for this episode, I put together this page showing photos of my studio.
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In a recent stay with John Voorhees, I noticed him asking Siri to open his garage door. He told me he was using the Insignia Wi-Fi Garage Door Controller, which he reviewed for MacStories earlier this year.
As someone who frequently worries about having left the garage door up after leaving, I knew this was a device I needed to check out, so I ordered one on the spot.
The controller is actually two separate components. The first plugs into power and runs small wires into the garage door opener itself: