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Apple Announces October 30th Event

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I’m looking forward to seeing what Apple is planning. The invites are fun this time around. Every time this page is refreshed, the artwork changes.

Update: @alixrezax has found 370 different variations of the Apple logo used for this event:

Found them all, total is 370 completely different Apple Logos. Grab the full quality image from here: https://t.co/fFofU4zrMZ
Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/2vIipeDxwd

— Alireza (@alixrezax) October 19, 2018

October 30th. New York.

Everybody got different art too pic.twitter.com/xSnRbP9ySh

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Connected #214: The Californian Idea of Food⇢

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This week on Connected:

Stephen was wrong, and Myke demands an apology before explaining what makes up dust. The FileMaker world is considered, then Federico explains why he thinks the pizza emoji is wrong. Lastly, Adobe and Palm are both in the news.

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The World’s Largest Apple Collection Needs a New Home⇢

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Francois Murphy and Leonhard Foeger for Reuters:

Over the years since he began working for a company that repaired Apples in Vienna in the 1980s, Roland Borsky’s collection has grown to roughly 1,100 computers, he says - far more than the 472 items at Prague’s Apple Museum, which says it is the world’s biggest private collection of Apple products.

“Just as others collect cars and live in a little box to afford them, so it is with me,” he said in his office, which is so packed with dusty items like a wall of old monitors that he has moved most of them to a warehouse outside the city.

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Apple’s Forgotten iOS Apps⇢

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Me, over on MacStories:

Apple has just about always offered iOS apps on the App Store, separate from what apps come bundled on its devices from the factory.

Sometimes, these apps get promoted to being part of the iOS image, like Podcasts and iBooks have. Once stuck hanging out on the App Store, they now ship on the iPhone and iPad by default.

A lot of other apps weren’t luck enough to get that lifeline, and have since been removed from the App Store. Let’s take a look at a few examples.

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Some 2018 MacBook Pros Showing Signs of Keyboard Failure⇢

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Casey Johnston, writing about the newest MacBook Pro, which as a set of silicone membranes designed to keep dust and debris from killing the keyboard:

Every time I described the 2017 MacBook Pro I sold because I couldn’t stand its non-functional keyboard and asked an Apple store employee if the new one would screw me over the same way, each assured me that Apple had changed the keyboards so that that would never happen again. I described my issues with “dust” to one shop associate at the Apple Store at the World Trade Center and asked if the new computers were any better. “Yeah, yeah, they fixed that problem… it was a BIG problem,” she told me. “So it doesn’t happen at all?” I asked. “No, it shouldn’t happen,” she said. Maybe the bad days were finally over.

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Reduced Transparency in Mojave is Bad⇢

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Craig Grannell, writing on something that has really been bothering me:

The standard macOS interface has quite a few semi-transparent elements, which like frosted glass provide a glimpse of what’s beneath them. At Apple events, execs go giddy about how pretty this is. In use, these elements vary from being distracting to outright dangerous. For example, if you have a motion-sickness issue and an animating web page is sitting behind a semi-transparent element, it can take a while before you realise it’s affecting you, by which time it’s too late and you’re already dizzy.

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The Modern Hackintosh⇢

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I haven’t done anything in the Hackintosh scene since I installed Mac OS X Leopard on a Dell Mini 9 nine years ago, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t kept up with that world. This video recently caught my eye:

In it, Quinn Nelson walks through a $1,400 machine that gives my $5,000 iMac Pro a run for its money, despite having a worse GPU and an i7 CPU.

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