I’m leaving my 9-5 job to work full-time on Relay FM, 512 Pixels, and my freelance business.
About 6 weeks ago, I was driving to a client meeting. It was on the other side of town, and I decided to take a route that I normally wouldn’t, forgoing the highway to cut through the city. I got stopped by a light on my way, looked across the intersection, and noticed this church sign, of all things:
This little iOS game is a real gem. It’s a real-time, text-based game in which you are remote support for a stranded astronaut. While it just takes a few moments to interact with the game, I’m ready for my lost little buddy to wake up from his first night asleep so we can tackle whatever is next.
Today on Connected, we were reunited to talk about my trip to space, Federico’s iOS 9 review, and Apple Music.
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Juli Clover at MacRumors:
A bit more digging around in iTunes 12.2 has unearthed additional iPod images, giving us a look at each of the new color options we might see should Apple be planning to release new models.
The images depict six different color options for the iPod nano, shuffle, and touch, showing each model in silver, space gray, red, bright pink, deep blue, and light gold. The latter three colors, pink, blue, and gold, are new shades that are not currently available. The space gray model may be slightly darker than the existing color, but it’s difficult to determine from images alone.
While my week at NASA didn’t end as the agency may have planned, there’s no way around it: it was an incredible week.
Bonus: Check out my collection of photos from the trip over on Flickr.
If the first day was about why we do things in space, then the rest of the week was all about the how.
For example, we saw how thermal protection tiles — the tiles that allow vehicles to reenter the atmosphere without burning up — are made:
My all-time favorite movie turns 30 years old this weekend, and Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff’s takes a look at what makes it so special:
Back to the Future works because, in the end, its stakes are so very small. Beneath all the jokes and the moments where a mother unknowingly flirts with her son and the time travel and the action-packed countdown sequences, all that remains is a theme so universal that we keep returning to it in story after story after story: can you ever understand your parents? And perhaps even harder: can they ever understand you?
Remember the original iPod shuffle? Turns out, it could get stuck in weird modes, but Apple had a tool to help users in this situation:
The iPod shuffle Reset Utility restores the original iPod shuffle. The restore process completely erases all music and data on iPod shuffle and reinstalls software version 1.1.5. This utility is made available for customers using Mac OS 10.2.8.
Browsy is the smart fullscreen web browser that gets out of your way. Open a webpage and everything else hides. From brothers to parents, music lovers to iOS automators, Markdown writers to developers and designers — Browsy got something for everyone.
With features like a DuckDuckGo Omnibar, Pinboard Bookmarks view, VoiceOver support, 1Password integration, customizable gestures, and the unique Markdownify extension, Browsy is an essential addition to your workflow.
Brought to you as a Universal iOS app by Sl’s Repository Ltd, a small company dedicated to making your life better, Browsy is like Safari, without the Chrome.
This morning, I joined the press and other NASASocial members to view the launch of SpaceX’s CRS–7 mission. The launch itself was stunning. We were about 4 miles away, right across the water from the pad.
My video (Forgive the shaky cam; I shot this with one hand with my iPhone as I was taking still photos from a tripod.) doesn’t do the experience of the thing justice.
A couple of minutes away from launch, a silent anticipation fell across the crowd. The voice marched on, marking off the seconds, and then it started.
Outside of the building where the space shuttle Atlantis is on display at Kennedy Space Center, this quote greets visitors:
I’m spending the rest of the week in Florida as part of the NASA Social program, covering Sunday’s SpaceX CRS–7 launch.
I applied a few weeks ago, while in San Francisco at WWDC, and was excited to learn I had been accepted. I drove down yesterday, and spent the day at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center, where I saw Atlantis and lots of other bits of NASA history. The actual program kicks off in the morning.
Version 6.2.9 would end up being the final build of AppleWorks, the company’s long-running suite of office applications. Here’s what was included in the update:
This update to AppleWorks 6.0 and later supports mice with scroll wheels and improves the performance and reliability of AppleWorks’ presentation and spreadsheet environments. AppleWorks 6.2.9 also offers improved printing and resolves issues using web based templates and clip-art on networks using proxy servers.
Like countless long-time Mac users, I have fond memories of writing in AppleWorks, and to this day, wish I could still run it from time to time.
Christina Warren:
Hulu recreated nearly every aspect of the Season 8-era Seinfeld apartment with great attention to detail.
Except for one thing. They gave Jerry an old PC.
After Carrie Bradshaw, Jerry Seinfeld might be the most visible Mac user in 1990s television. Over the course of Seinfeld’s 9 seasons, Jerry’s apartment frequently showed off various models of the Macintosh. Everything from the Mac SE/30 to a PowerBook Duo with Duo Dock, to the 20th Anniversary Macintosh were featured on the show.