MacStories veterans Don Southard and Chris Herbert have launched an awesome new beer-tracking app. Rating, tracking and sharing what you’re drinking is all crazy easy in this app. It’s $1.99, which is way less than any fancy beer you’ll put into your library.
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Dropbox responds to user leak⇢
Anton Mityagin:
Recent news articles claiming that Dropbox was hacked aren’t true. Your stuff is safe. The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet, including Dropbox. We have measures in place to detect suspicious login activity and we automatically reset passwords when it happens.
Dropbox user credentials stolen⇢
Peter Bright at Ars:
Popular online locker service Dropbox appears to have been hacked. A series of posts have been made to Pastebin purporting to contain login credentials for hundreds of Dropbox accounts, with the poster claiming that altogether 6,937,081 account credentials have been compromised.
I’d reset your Dropbox password, even if you have two-step authentication enabled on your account.
The app holding iOS back⇢
Bradley Chambers:
When the iPhone was released in 2007 with a “desktop class” web browser, it was widely praised. You could view entire websites on a mobile device. Coming from the days of WAP optimized sites on my Motorola Q, this was incredible. If we fast forward to 2014, Mobile Safari has become the app that is holding the iPad back from becoming a fully featured laptop replacement for a lot of people. While Mobile Safari is fast and loads website reasonably well, it cannot upload and download files. It can upload pictures, but that is it. Mobile Safari needs a way to upload and download any type of file into iCloud Drive (a mirrored from the Mac downloads folder).
Astrologer weighs in on iPhone 6 issues⇢
I wonder why so many people have written off Time as a publication worth paying attention to with full headlines like this:
Why the Most Famous Astrologer in the Universe Says You Shouldn’t Buy an iPhone Right Now
‘We’re here to tell stories’⇢
This video of Steve Jobs and John Lasseter being interviewed by Charlie Rose in 1996 has floated around a bit in the last few weeks, but I finally got the chance to watch it this evening.
Knowing what we know now about how Pixar would turn out, it’s amazing to see how these guys viewed the future of their industry.
The Move
Earlier tonight, Jony Ive was interviewed in Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. The transcript is a fascinating read, but the answer Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design gave to the last question asked really stopped me in my track. Here’s it is, with Ive’s reply in bold:
Do you see yourself moving beyond consumer electronics?
I do see the watch as a move away from consumer electronics.
That’s a huge statement.
Connected 8: Squidges⇢
On this week’s Connected, Myke and I revisit the Twitter and Health apps, then discuss the current state of iOS 8, the Pebble’s future and Apple’s upcoming press event.
This episode of Connected was made possible by:
More on The Magazine⇢
Jim Dalrymple:
It’s very sad. Glenn is a great guy and friend, but I understand the issues of being an independent publisher on Apple’s Newsstand—it’s not fun. Apple should just admit that they don’t give a shit about digital magazines and be done with it.
I couldn’t agree more; Newsstand should go away, and digital publications should be normal apps that can live right on the SpringBoard, not hidden behind a terrible icon and UI that only adds confusion.
The Magazine is closing⇢
Glenn Fleishman:
My labor of love the last two years has been The Magazine, first as its hired hand and then, in May 2013, as its owner. The sad truth has been that, while profitable from week one, the publication has had a declining subscription base since February 2013. It started at such a high level that we could handle a decline for a long time, but despite every effort — including our first-year anthology crowdfunded a bit under a year ago — we couldn’t replace departing subscribers with new ones fast enough. We’re a general-interest magazine that appeals to people who like technology, and that makes it very hard to market. “Pivoting” to a different editorial focus would have lost subscribers even faster.
October 16⇢
Apple’s fall event will be on campus in Cupertino. Jason Snell breaks open the Kremlinology.
The new Tools & Toys⇢
Shawn Blanc:
The site has thrived for these past 3 years. We have always subscribed to the principle that quality and honesty breed trust and attention. What I want more than anything when it comes to this site’s readership is to have people who trust that we’re not here to rob them of their time.
And today, we are taking things up a few clicks.
While I’ve transitioned to The Sweet Setup, Tools & Toys will always hold a special place in my heart. This redesign and re-focusing are excellent. If T&T hasn’t been in your RSS collection before, you should change that today.