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Connected #70: TicciDo⇢
This week, people are nose tapping, Dropbox is sunsetting and Myke is colo(u)ring.
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The weird world of old Apple accessories⇢
This week in my column over on iMore, I tackle some of the weirder accessories Apple has sold over the years.
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Apple names Jeff Williams COO; Schiller given command of App Stores⇢
There’s a lot of news this morning about executive shuffles at Apple, but the biggest two stories concern Jeff Williams and Phil Schiller.
Apple has named Jeff Williams its Chief Operating Officer, a position vacant since Tim Cook was named CEO back in 2011. Williams has been overseeing the Apple Watch program, but has served as VP of Operations since 2004, and has more or less been acting as COO since 2010.
Spotlight’s first interface⇢
Riccardo Morrick has taken an in-depth look at OS X Tiger’s UI for Spotlight. I agree with him; Leopard left a lot of good ideas on the cutting room floor.
Proposed Federal budget for 2016 includes $19.3 billion for NASA⇢
This amount is not only more than what the space agency got last year, but more than the Obama administration asked for. This is big news, as Loren Grush explains:
With the budget, NASA scores a big win for its commercial crew program — the initiative that tasks private companies with building and operating spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The legislation provides $1.24 billion for commercial crew, the same amount requested by the Obama administration. That makes this the first time that Congress has matched the administration’s requests for the program.
Randy Ubillos, on Final Cut Pro X and Steve Jobs⇢
Randy Ubillos worked on iMovie, Final Cut and other projects at Apple for two decades. In a great interview with Alex Gollner, he talks about being trusted by Steve Jobs in the wake of the backlash against Final Cut Pro X:
My idea was that Final Cut 7 should stay exactly as it was for about a year, and every time you bought a copy of X you got a copy of 7. They didn’t want to hear it. I knew 16 months before the launch that I was going to have a bunch of arrows in my back. I was going to be blamed for this big transition. It’s the Apple way of doing things: ‘Feet first, jump in!’
Kbase Article of the Week: AirPort Base Station (Graphite): LED Behavior
While Apple’s wireless routers of today may be gleaming white monoliths, the original had a lot more personality:
According to Apple, the three LEDs on the front were used to “provide feedback and status through the use of color or blinking. The indications are unique depending upon what state the AirPort Base Station is in.”
Apply to be an astronaut⇢
I’ll be filling out this paperwork for an upcoming epsiode of Liftoff.
Review: The iPad Pro is a line in the sand
The iPad Pro is a strange device for someone like me.
I run my business, record and edit my podcasts and do my writing all from a 15-inch MacBook Pro. In the war of work, it’s my weapon of choice.
Even if I could work from an iPad full-time 1 like Federico Viticci, I’m faster and more productive with OS X at my fingertips.
That’s not a slam against the iPad or iOS itself; Apple’s mobile operating system has a seriously impressive set of tools under the hood. While it may make me a dinosaur one day, the Mac is home for me, and has been for a long time.
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