Horace Dediu has put together a very helpful post that frames Apple’s cash in terms that even a lowly Mac blogger can understand.
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Instagram Showing When You Were Last Active⇢
The new “Show Activity Status” option is enabled by default inside of Instagram’s settings. You can choose to toggle it off if you don’t think anyone really needs to be that up-to-date on what you’re doing. But if you disable activity status for yourself, you won’t be able to see that info for anyone else.
Gross. Thankfully, it can be turned off.
Query #22: All the Great Things a Unicorn Can Do⇢
This week on Query, special guest Mikah Sargent joined me to discuss the iMac Pro, iPhone charging, the Apple Watch’s swim mode and more.
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Ungeniused #42: Helicopter Prison Escapes⇢
Prison escapes via helicopter may seem cool, but they rarely end well.
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A Relatively Modest Proposal⇢
Matt Birchler has put together a great blog post exploring what watchOS 5 could bring:
watchOS is far from perfect and there are tons of things that could be done to make it not only a better experience for those who already own one, but to draw in more people to the platform. The Apple Watch is one of the largest reasons I’m loyal to iOS for my smartphone, and since Apple is pretty darn invested in people buying more iPhones, they probably want to get people to love their Apple Watches even more so these customers never change sides.
How to Attach a VESA Mount to the iMac Pro⇢
Jason Snell has published a video showing how to attach Apple’s VESA Mount Kit for the iMac Pro. It’s a very clever bit of hardware design:
Liftoff #64: Remembering Apollo 1⇢
This week on Liftoff, Jason Snell and I recount the Apollo 1 fire that claimed the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
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FileMaker Shares Ad with Actors From The Office⇢
I’m not one for publishing links to Apple ads, but this made me chuckle.
Connected #176: A Kernel Panic at the Disco⇢
What does the death of Transmit mean for pro apps on the iPad? Should Apple make a laptop that runs iOS? Does Myke understand how hypothetical questions work?
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Kbase Article of the Week: About Apple Video Adapters and Cables⇢
I found the map to Dongletown:
Learn about the adapters and cables that you can use to connect an external display or projector to your Mac.
I disagree with the company’s use of “Vintage,” but they didn’t ask me.
Jason Snell, on the MacBook Air⇢
Jason Snell, after outlining a bunch of problems with the original MacBook Air:
And yet my affection for the MacBook Air was legitimate! It was so much thinner and lighter than any laptop I’d used before. It felt like the future. And the truth is, this is the biggest legacy of the MacBook Air: It predicted the future of laptops and then brought that future into being. It created an entire category for PC laptops, Ultrabooks, which was loosely defined as “PC laptops kind of like the MacBook Air.”
Ten Years Ago, Steve Jobs Introduced the MacBook Air⇢
Every new Apple notebook — and many products from other companies — owe a lot to the original MacBook Air, as I write this month over on MacStories:
Today, all of our notebooks are thin and light. We’ve traded our optical drives in for a series of dongles and our spinning hard drives for fast, silent SSDs.
It wasn’t always like this. Once upon a time, notebooks had optical drives and a full array of ports, complemented by features like removable batteries.