Federico weighs in on the great pineapple pizza debate, then the conversation moves to Android N, the future of the Mac and iOS text editors.
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I wrote about the PowerBook Duo and its docking stations back in 2011, but I left a critical question unanswered:
As a general rule, the PowerBook Duo is ejected from the dock approximately 2.5 inches (6.3 cm). This is a typical measurement, not a minimum or maximum.
It’s similar to a VCR ejecting a video tape: if you can easily grab the Duo and pull it out of the machine, then the Duo Dock is operating correctly.
Helium is a free Mac app that enables Picture in Picture on OS X. Open it, feed it a URL or video file and it’ll play in a borderless window anywhere on screen.
Since publishing my article about tech that should come to the Mac this morning, I’ve gotten a lot of feedback about Fusion Drives.
For the uninitiated, the Fusion Drive is a storage solution Apple ships with the Mac mini and iMac that uses a small SSD mated to a larger spinning hard drive. To vastly oversimplify what’s going behind the scenes, the system sees these two devices as one volume. OS X, core apps and the user’s most-used files are on the SSD, while apps and data accessed less frequently live on the hard drive.
When Apple introduced OS X Lion, it was at the “Back to the Mac” event, and rightfully so. Lion was the first OS X release to really incorporate — for better and for worse — features from Apple’s mobile operating system.
These days, iOS and OS X’s development tracks are closer than ever, with features like Handoff and AirDrop tying the two systems together in new ways.
With a new version of Mac OS X — or MacOS — assumedly around the corner, I think there’s more Apple could take from iOS’ cookie jar.
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This fortnight, Jason and Stephen travel the length of the Solar System to catch up on the news.
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While Obama didn’t speak directly about the Apple/FBI case in his appearance at SXSW, I sure don’t like his comments. Michael Shear at The New York Times:
“If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system, where the encryption is so strong that there is no key, there is no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer?” Mr. Obama said. “How do we disrupt a terrorist plot?”
This little gadget sets out to solve one of the most annoying things about being a MacBook Pro user.
Apple on Thursday sent out invites for an event to be held at its Cupertino headquarters on Monday, March 21, 2016. The event will take place at 10:00 am—I’ll be there covering the news.
Here we go. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for some Mac news.
Serenity Caldwell at iMore, talking about the possibilities of handwriting recognition on something the iPad Pro:
Much as I hated longform writing and as terrible as my penmanship was, there was still something pretty magical and otherworldly about writing block or cursive letters and having them transform into digital text. By the year 2000, I had convinced most of my teachers that I could turn in typed work, but I probably saved future Serenity’s penmanship from becoming truly atrocious because I had that Newton MessagePad. I was constantly writing and doodling with it.
I’m not sure anything makes me think “old computer” as fast as the possibility of bent pins in a connector:
If the USB ports of an Apple display with an Apple Display Connector (ADC) won’t work, a pin or pins on the connector may be bent.
When you turn on the computer you hear the startup sound and the picture on the display appears, but the USB ports on the display don’t work.