Earlier this week, news broke that the Memphis Apple Store is moving to a new space around the corner from its current location, and will be one of the company’s first stores to sport a new design. Here’s what the store will look like:
Image credit: The Commercial Appeal
In a video hosted on the City of Germantown website, (skip to 1:30:00) plans for the store are shared. The new storefront will use ground-roof glass panels, surrounded by matte granite, with no visible supports or joints.
I don’t use Tumblr a whole lot, and while I know this is a good change, it is a little sad to see a weird part of the network’s UI go away.
This week, we take turns complaining about the Apple TV and picking apart rumors about its pending update.
Thanks to these sponsors:
According to Mark Gurman, next week’s Apple event is going to be one for the books. Here’s what seems to be on tap:
I felt pretty sure that the iPads would surface in October. After this event, all that’s left for next month will be OS X El Capitan and updated Macs. Is that enough for an event, or is this the end of dual fall Apple keynotes?
Any time I see Myke’s keyboard, I’m always thrown off by the subtle differences between it and an American model. The UK keyboard is just the tip of the iceberg, however.
This morning, Google rolled out their new logo. The new look is flat and crisp, but still retains the colorful look we’ve come to expect from the company. This lengthy blog post goes into the choices behind the redesign, and is a fun look at how you go about reworking one of the most-viewed logos on the planet.
I’ve linked to the NASA Graphics Standards Manual before, but now there’s a Kickstarter project to re-print it. I would love to have this on my bookshelf, so I backed it already. I sure hope the team behind this can meet their goal.
Seems like our Apple Store — which was the 20th opened — is about get a big upgrade:
Rick Millitello, who presented the plan to the design commission on behalf of Apple, said the store will be one of the first to feature Apple’s new store design.
“Our project is the next generation of retail store that we’re rolling out, and that’s the design concept that we have – and we’re really excited because this is going to be one of the first, if it’s approved, that we build,” Millitello told the commission. “So we’re really excited to expand in Germantown and we’re excited to see the result of all the work that we’ve put in to develop this design.”
On the second episode of our new space podcast, Jason and I provide a primer about our nearest neighbor in the solar system, the Moon.
Our thanks to Luminos, a fantastic astronomy app for the iPhone and Apple Watch, for sponsoring us this week.
For the month of September, I’m donating my RSS sponsorship spots to St. Jude.
In May of 2009, my wife I watched helplessly as our six month old son was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.
We didn’t have a lot of time to process the life-shattering news. Before we knew it, Josiah was undergoing surgery. A few weeks later, we were transferred to St. Jude Children’s research hospital here in Memphis, TN, where Josiah would battle through 18 months of chemotherapy, more operations, rehabilitative services and more.
I’ve been the guest on a couple of podcasts recently.
On TechTonic episode 21, I joined Joe and Joshua to talk about indie life, Relay FM and my new podcast, Liftoff.
On episode 55 of The Podcast Digest, I spoke with Dan about my history of writing online, and how I first got into podcasting, before talking about Relay FM’s first year.
It’s always fun to be a guest, I enjoyed both of these recording sessions. Go check them out.
Well, that’s that, I suppose.