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If WALL-E Was Directed By Christopher Nolan⇢
WALL-E may be my favorite Pixar film, and I (generally) like Christopher Nolan’s work. Good times.
‘Letters in Circles’ in TextExpander⇢
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Retina iMac vs Mac Pro⇢
Marco:
The 5K Retina iMac is out, and it looks incredible so far on paper — so incredible that I’m seriously considering selling my new Mac Pro to get the Retina iMac instead.
The new iMac really does seem like an incredible machine. If I needed a high-end desktop, I’d be all over it.
Yosemite installer may explode if /usr/local is populated⇢
If you’re running Homebrew or something like it, you may want to check out Jim Lindley’s blog post then cry in a corner for a bit.
Review: With OS X Yosemite, Aqua’s All Grown Up
Every summer, Apple takes the wraps off a new version of OS X. This past June, Craig Federighi introduced Yosemite. 1 His performance was electrifying, and throughout the week, he was seen taking selfies with developers, telling jokes and being the overall cool guy from Apple.
Beyond the flashiness of the keynote, however, there was real substance. OS X Yosemite is a big leap forward for OS X’s user interface and the way it interacts with iOS.
A War of Semantics⇢
This week’s Connected is a good one:
This week, Myke, Federico and Stephen debate what’s after the Post-PC era, the future of the iPad and Federico’s true feelings about OS X.
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More on glucose data and Health.app⇢
Álvaro Serrano:
The truth is, blood glucose measurement support in the Health app is ridiculously rudimentary as it is, even if it worked properly. A typical person with diabetes needs to monitor their blood sugar levels anywhere from 3 to 10 times a day, sometimes even more (you need to take additional tests in case of hypoglycemia, which is a fairly common event). There’s no way a significant portion of those people are going to take the extra effort to manually log each and every measurement in the Health app. I know I don’t, and if this feature has failed to encourage me — an Apple enthusiast and technologically savvy young man — to use it, its chances of convincing regular users are pretty slim.
Apple to temporarily pull blood glucose measurement from Health app⇢
Apple:
The Health app lets you manually enter and view blood glucose values in mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter). This unit of measurement is used by a number of countries, while some other countries use mmol/L (millimoles per liter).
HealthKit supports both units of measurement. However, if you measure your blood glucose using a device that displays mmol/L, those values can’t be manually entered or displayed in the Health app with that unit of measurement.
Today’s dose of Eddy Cue
via The Verge
Bono apologizes for invading everyone’s iTunes libraries⇢
Casey Newton:
In the video, which features band members asking questions from fans submitted through Facebook, Bono is asked: “Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people’s playlists ever again? It’s really rude.” Bono appears uncharacteristically sad while he tries to explain the band’s thinking. “Oops … I’m sorry about that,” he says. “I had this beautiful idea. Might have gotten carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that thing. A drop of megalomania, a touch of generosity, a dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years might not be heard. There’s a lot of noise out there. I guess, we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.”
Saying goodbye to Macworld Expo
Early Tuesday, IDG World Expo released a statement noting that the venerable Apple-oriented trade show, Macworld/iWorld would go on hiatus and not be held in 2015 as planned. The contents of that statement are:
“We are announcing today that Macworld/iWorld is going on hiatus, and will not be taking place as planned in 2015. Our MacIT event, the world’s premiere event for deploying Apple in the enterprise, will continue next year with details to be announced in the coming weeks.