Last night, Quinn Rose sent me this video she made about Relay FM, and it made my week.
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Juno sends first in-orbit image of Jupiter⇢
Juno will end up much closer to the gas giant next month, but this first image sure is stunning.
Adding weather info to Calendar.app⇢
BusyCal and other calendar apps add weather right into your calendar view, but Apple’s built-in Calendar.app on iOS and macOS doesn’t offer that feature.
Turns out, Weather Underground serves .ics files that can be imported to Calendar, as Chris Short explains:
Recently, I discovered Weather Underground provides ICS files for use in any calendar application you can think of (Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple’s Calendar.app). These ICS URLs do not appear to be documented by Weather Underground specifically but here are some examples to get you started.
My YouTube setup
Back in September, I wrote up my podcasting setup. That rig hasn’t changed since then, but since I started posting videos to YouTube, I have gotten quite a few requests to share my gear list for those projects.
I currently have two cameras in use. The first, a Sony RX 100 MKIII I tend to use just for photography, but it does a good job at shooting 1080 video as well. It’s small and compact, but does a great job. All of these images were taken with it. I shoot in RAW and edit in Photoshop on the Mac.
The best news aggregation service⇢
Joe Caiati, writing for The Sweet Setup:
In an age past, the newspaper was delivered to your doorstep in the morning ready to be digested over a cup of coffee. When you returned home from work and settled down on the couch, the nightly news on TV caught you up on the day’s events.
While those outlets are still around today, news is much more complicated.
We want our news to be personal. For years, everyone got the same news as everyone else, but that’s just not true today. We can customize and build custom experiences that can serve as something far more subjective than the daily newspaper and nightly news ever delivered.
Kbase Article of the Week: Battery Update 1.1⇢
I have often wondered what went into this one:
Enhances the performance of the battery to ensure that full capacity is available for your PowerBook or iBook.
7 Notebook Reviews in 6 Minutes
In 2001, Steve Jobs showed off the Titanium PowerBook, which radically redesigned and modernized the company’s notebook lineup. It’s impact can still be felt today. To better understand its importance, I spent time with seven notebooks this weekend that were on sale over the last 16 years or so.
I used several of these machines over the years, except for those crazy 17-inch ones. It was fun to revisit them.
A Primer on Jupiter’s Clouds⇢
The most obvious features of Jupiter are its bands of light and dark clouds. These are bordered by jet streams blowing east and west. The light areas are called zones. The air inside zones is circulating anti-cyclonically, making them a broad area of higher air pressure. The increased pressure supports the formation of high-altitude clouds of white ammonia ice, which mostly obscure the deeper, more colorful clouds. The dark areas are called belts, and inside these the air circulates cyclonically. In the belts, the ammonia ice clouds aren’t thick enough to obscure the view, allowing us to see a deeper cloud deck of ammonium sulfide and ammonium hydrosulfide, as well as a rich brew of organic compounds. These chemicals could be giving the belts their brownish color.
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code on GitHub⇢
Chris Garry has put the Apollo 11 guidance computer source code (in assembly) on GitHub, which is amazing.
This Issue is like the cherry on top.
STS-135⇢
Bart Leahy, writing about the last space shuttle launch:
Five years ago today, the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Space Shuttle program itself took its last flight into space on mission STS-135 to service the International Space Station (ISS). Since that last flight in 2011, the Shuttle orbiters have been flown off to museums across the country and NASA’s human spaceflight program has shifted to other missions and other vehicles. No other American human-rated spacecraft has been flown so often or accomplished so much.
Summer 2001: The Final iMac G3s
By the time the summer of 2001 rolled around, Apple was well into the OS X transition. Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah had shipped, and Puma was right around the corner.
The company itself was just a few months away from shipping the iPod, but was already on the road to recovery. The Digital Hub Strategy was taking shape. Apple’s notebook line was maturing, but of course, a lot of this success was built on the back of iMac G3.
A Public Beta guide⇢
macOS Sierra and iOS 10 Public Betas are here. Jason Snell offers wise advice about to handle them.