Apple Inc., seeking to capitalize on the popularity of social networks, is developing a video sharing and editing application and is testing new related features for its iPhone and iPad operating systems.
Oh dear.
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New Apple-Proposed Emoji Include Astronaut and Pilot⇢
New Apple
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Tim Cook becoming CEO of Apple. There’s a lot of coverage today, following Cook’s big interview 10 days ago.
There’s a phrase that’s been thrown around a lot in the years since Steve Jobs died.
The New Apple.
In different contexts, it means different things: the more open nature of the company and its executive team, the dedicated focus to advancing human rights, the push into mobile computing or China or India.
Instapaper Sold to Pinterest⇢
Today, we’re excited to announce that Instapaper is joining Pinterest. In the three years since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve completely rewritten our backend, overhauled our mobile and web clients, improved parsing and search, and introduced tons of great features like highlights, text-to-speech, and speed reading to the product.
All of these features and developments revolved around the core mission of Instapaper, which is allowing our users to discover, save, and experience interesting web content. In that respect, there is a lot of overlap between Pinterest and Instapaper. Joining Pinterest provides us with the additional resources and experience necessary to achieve that shared mission on a much larger scale.
Kbase Article of the Week: Sherlock, Sherlock 2: Finding Invisible Files or Folders⇢
This article explains how to use Sherlock or Sherlock 2 to find invisible files or folders.
You know, if you’re running Mac OS 8.5, 8.6 or 9.
Deck Chairs⇢
John Kheit at The Mac Observer:
Now that Apple is done planting trees in its stores, fixing punctuation, and creating new titles for the same old jobs, perhaps they can get back to actually making and shipping some new products. Hopefully Apple’s recent housekeeping is the end of a transition that will bring more coherently named and more regularly released product offerings.
It’s a real shame that Tim Cook pulled engineers off of their hardware projects to renovate Apple Stores. While it is past time for some new Macs, Kheit’s entire article is ridiculous.
Looking Back at iOS Accessibility’s Biggest Milestones
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by my friend Steven Aquino. He is a freelance tech journalist based in San Francisco, CA, where he covers all things Apple accessibility. His work has appeared in iMore, TechCrunch, Macworld, and more.
The iPhone has been such a revolutionary, life-changing device that remembering what life was like before it existed feels almost like trying to imagine the Stone Age. The advent of the iPhone in 2007 was a seminal moment in technology history; it’s truly a once-in-a-lifetime product that redefined not only smartphones but computers in general. Almost ten years later, it still never ceases to amaze me that everyone nowadays carries with them a lightweight, always-connected supercomputer everywhere they go. A supercomputer, to paraphrase John Gruber, in our freaking pockets!
Note App Vesper Shuttered⇢
Brent Simmons, announcing the end of Vesper:
Sync will be turned off Aug. 30 at 8pm Pacific. We’ll destroy all the data, and neither we nor anyone else will be able to recover it.
The app will be removed from the App Store on Sep. 15. Until then, starting now, it’s free — since you can’t create new sync accounts, and it wouldn’t be fair to charge new users if they can’t sync.
Feed Hawk⇢
I use Unread coupled to Feedbin to read RSS items on my iPhone and iPad.
As great as Unread is, it can’t be used to add a subscription to my Feedbin account. If I come across a website that I want to add to my RSS feeds, I have to log in to Feedbin to do so.
Feed Hawk is a new app that makes this easy. It sits in the share sheet and can be used to find and subscribe to a site’s RSS feed from right within Safari. It works with a bunch of services: BazQux Reader, Feed Wrangler, Feedbin, FeedHQ, Inoreader, Minimal Reader, NewsBlur, or The Old Reader.
The Mac OS Watch
To mark the release of System 7.5 — and to incentivize people to upgrade — Apple launched a gift program:
From May 1 to July 31, 1995 users who upgraded to System 7.5 could choose between an Apple watch or a copy of Conflict Catcher 3.
Two Years of Relay FM in Two Minutes⇢
Robb Lewis has put together a fun video about our podcast network, celebrating its second birthday:
The Tekserve Collection⇢
Tekserve was an Apple dealer and service center dating back to long before the Apple Store. They have recently closed, and their Mac collection is up for auction. I won’t be bidding due to the price, but there’s some nice stuff in there.