Apple:
Apple has determined that a very small percentage of iPhone 5 devices may suddenly experience shorter battery life or need to be charged more frequently. The affected iPhone 5 devices were sold between September 2012 and January 2013 and fall within a limited serial number range.
If your iPhone 5 is experiencing these symptoms and meets the eligibility requirements noted below, Apple will replace your iPhone 5 battery, free of charge.
Martian dust looks brutal.
In a new support article titled “What’s a Twitter timeline?” the company dropped this little nugget of news:
Additionally, when we identify a Tweet, an account to follow, or other content that’s popular or relevant, we may add it to your timeline. This means you will sometimes see Tweets from accounts you don’t follow. We select each Tweet using a variety of signals, including how popular it is and how people in your network are interacting with it. Our goal is to make your home timeline even more relevant and interesting.
You can subscribe to all of Relay FM’s shows in iTunes or via RSS in your podcast app of choice. We had all of the groundwork in place to redirect the feeds with 5by5’s help, but ran into some technical issues and decided new feeds would be best for Relay FM and our listeners in the longterm. Anyways, here are the links:
Flux V is the latest version of the ‘Dreamweaver killer’ from The Escapers. Flux V is flexible, powerful, and can fully edit existing websites using simple drag and drop. It isn’t a limited template-based web page creator, it allows total control of your site, including typing your own code, and still retain the ability to use WYSIWYG controls.
Flux V introduces all new FTP support, all new Master Elements, and an totally re-designed user interface that’s ready for Yosemite. It’s 64bit and faster than ever, using multi-threading to get the most performance out of your Mac.
This week, on the first episode of our new show, Myke, Federico and I discuss the past, present and future (lol) of the iPod.
If you were subscribed to The Prompt, you’ll need to resubscribe. We were hoping to avoid this, but ran into some technical reasons that new feeds would be better for everyone. You can do so here:
We’ll be back next week with Episode 2, which should stream live on the Relay FM site.
Cyrus Farivar at Ars explains how Adam Curry’s audio-via-RSS experiment exploded into the world of content so many of us enjoy everyday.
Two notes:
My very handsome five year old son is featured on the St. Jude website today. Go donate to save more childrens’ lives.
I love the What-If strips; this may be my new favorite.
Tim Cook:
Apple is committed to transparency, which is why we are publishing statistics about the race and gender makeup of our company. Let me say up front: As CEO, I’m not satisfied with the numbers on this page. They’re not new to us, and we’ve been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we’re committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products.
Myke Hurley, on why we decided on creating a network:
Podcast networks are not pots of gold. They don’t guarantee you success nor advertising dollars. That still has to come from the hard work that you put in. Joining an established network today does not necessarily make you a runaway hit tomorrow.
So why do I want to set up a new network? For me there is one clear reason. I host six shows. Working on one show is a simple enough affair, but once you start to grow from there, it becomes a lot more tricky to scale. I don’t want to set up separate webpages for all of the shows that I do. For me, it makes most sense to put all my shows in one place that I can point people too. It’s as simple as that.