This week on Connected, we talk about our iPad Pros and what the device means for the future.
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Apple’s CEO, in an interview with Independent.ie:
“We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad,” said Cook. “Because what that would wind up doing, or what we’re worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants. So we want to make the best tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world. And putting those two together would not achieve either. You’d begin to compromise in different ways.”
Stop me when this sounds familiar…
You’re a full-time freelancer or other independent worker You make a pretty good living and like the work you do Every year, you think “man, why is my tax bill so high?" A few seconds later, you think, “well, I guess this is just how it is for folks like me."
Then, you write that big check to Uncle Sam. You may find yourself wondering if you could have done something different. Or, if the check is really huge, you might even wonder if it wouldn’t be cheaper to just get a regular job again…
Simple Beep is a podcast looking back at the history of Apple and the Mac community. Each episode, Ed and Brian tackle the hardware, software and services that got us to where we are today.
Needless to say, I’m a huge fan, and jumped at the chance to join the guys for their anniversary episode.
We spoke about our first encounters with the Mac, our Apple hardware collections and the importance of archiving technology for the future. Go check it out.
I’m typing this on an iPad Pro. Without a doubt, this is the most powerful iPad yet. From a hardware perspective, it’s killer. In my time playing with a Pencil at the Apple Store, (where — annoyingly — you can’t actually buy the thing) I was impressed with the precision and feel of the input device.
24 hours into having one, however, I’m still unsure what I think about the iPad Pro as a product, but I had a thought today that has left me a little unsettled when I think about the future of the device.
As you may have read, f.lux ( the great utility for making your computer screen more usable at night) shipped a version that could be sideloaded on iOS, as long as you complied the app yourself
Turns out, Apple wasn’t super hip to that:
Apple has contacted us to say that the f.lux for iOS download (previously available on this page) is in violation of the Developer Program Agreement, so this method of install is no longer available.
NASA’s Voyager probes have travelled farther than anything else man has built. (Voyager 1 is the only spacecraft to reach interstellar space.)
The spacecraft each carry a media library on gold records. Vox has a great breakdown of the images contained on the records, showing life here on Earth, or at least how it was in the 1970s.
I’m typing this on a top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. It’s beautiful, powerful and quiet. OS X and the dozens of apps I have open are running smoothly, thanks to powerful hardware and the UNIX underpinnings holding it all together.
It’s attached to a 27-inch LCD. Running out from behind the display is a white USB-to-Lightning cable. At the other end?
The iPad Pro.
It’s too early for me to have any cohesive thoughts about the device, but the situation feels weird. Federico Viticci points out why:
Amit Gupta’s talk from XOXO will pull your heart out of your chest.
If you’re wanting to use an Apple Design Keyboard or the far-superior Extended Keyboard II with a PC and its 1996 or so, you need to check out this document:
The keyboard drivers included on the “International keyboard files” floppy correspond to the keyboard layout of the Apple Design Keyboard and the Apple ISO Extended Keyboard II. Some of the drivers are updates to the ones included on the PC Utility CD; users should install keyboard files from the floppy rather than from the CD.
This week on my spaaaaaaace podcast with Jason Snell:
A fortnight of news has passed, and we are here to talk water in the solar system, Orion’s progress, the 15th anniversary of crewed ISS missions and some new job openings at NASA.
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‘Day One In Depth’ is a new ebook from the crew at The Sweet Setup:
This is the most detailed and extensive guide to Day One available today. Featuring in-depth reviews that cover every function and feature found within Day One, our handbook goes line-by-line showing you how to make the most of this award-winning journaling app.
If you’ve never used Day One, or want to learn more about what it can do, the $7.99 for this book is well worth it. Shawn’s done a great job at breaking down everything the journaling app can do; it’s surprisingly powerful for something that is very simple to use.