Dr. Drang has some excellent follow-up for the Mac draft I held earlier this week.
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September: Thank You⇢
Instead of running RSS sponsorships this month, I’m raising money in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Click here to learn more and donate.
Today is September 30, and the end of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I’d like to thank everyone who donated to support the work and mission of St. Jude, where thousands of kids like mine receive free treatment for cancer and other catastrophic diseases. If you haven’t donated yet, the page will be up until the beginning of December.
Rosetta Missions Comes to End⇢
Early this morning, the European Space Agency’s comet-circling spacecraft ended its mission with a crash landing into Comet 67P. Sweet sleep, friend.
Reflections on Hissgate
Last Saturday — September 17 — I noticed something as my iPhone 7 Plus was completing a restore from iCloud backup:
After picking the device up from my desk, it was clear the sounds are coming from back of the phone, possibly from the CPU. It seems to get worse if the iPhone is under load. It’s loud enough to be heard even if the iPhone is just sitting on the table. I don’t have to put it up to my ear to hear it.
The Mac Draft⇢
Last night, I was joined by Christina Warren, Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius to draft our favorite Macs. It was a super fun way to spend an evening with three fellow nerds.
Musk Outlines Mars Plan⇢
SpaceX plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars, according to its founder Elon Musk. But, while we now know a lot more about how SpaceX plans to get to Mars, details about how people will actually survive up there remain sketchy.
Misra has the best round-up of the news that I’ve seen. I haven’t had a chance to see all of the keynote yet, but there are plenty of open questions left about Musk’s plan.
Connected #110: Swimsuits and Sunglasses For Dogs⇢
I’m at the Release Notes conference, so Myke and Federico took Connected over this week:
This week Federico struggles to use the new W1-enabled Beats with his new iPhone 7, Myke shares some thoughts on Snapchat Spectacles, and Stephen is away so the Europeans join Snapchat on-air.
Sigh.
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Ungeniused #9: The Bermuda Triangle⇢
The Bermuda Triangle is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
There is some really creepy stuff in this one.
Kbase Article of the Week: Mac OS: Rebuilding Desktop File and Icon Recovery⇢
This article describes the Desktop file, when and how to rebuild it (such as when icons appear as “generic” document or application icons), why the Desktop file will not rebuild sometimes, and what to do in this case.
This article applies to Mac OS 9 and earlier, and to the Classic environment in Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.4 on PowerPC-based Macs.
Liftoff #30: Talking Kepler with Natalie Batalha⇢
This episode of Liftoff is a real treat:
Jason interviews Natalie Batalha, the Co-Investigator and Scientist on the Kepler Mission about the spacecraft, the K2 mission and some exoplanets found by the mission.
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September: Learning Empathy⇢
Instead of running RSS sponsorships this month, I’m raising money in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Click here to learn more and donate.
In the nearly seven and a half years of being the parent of a child with cancer, I’ve heard this line a bunch from people sharing their own story of pain or grief:
It’s nothing like what you guys are going through.
Back in Black(book)⇢
This month at iMore, I wrote about everyone’s favorite notebook:
Like its predecessor, the MacBook’s case was plastic: The two lower-end models used an outer shell that was glossy like the iBook; the screen bezel, trackpad and keyboard were in a nice, matte white.
But the most expensive MacBook model, which cost $200 more at launch, came in black.