This is a huge step toward giving iCloud the type of security Gmail users can enjoy.
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URI.LV⇢
This looks like a great service for tracking RSS subscribers if you’re moving away from FeedBurner, and since you can pass your own URL through it, turning it off when it goes under because its free shouldn’t be a big problem.
A Green Apple⇢
Philip Elmer-DeWitt:
Apple, which has received more than its share of criticism from environmental activists over the years, released its annual Environmental Progress report Thursday. The chief takeaway from this year’s issue: Apple’s corporate facilities worldwide now get 75% of their power from renewable sources — solar, wind, hydro and geothermal — up from 35% two years ago.
NetNewsWire to Return⇢
Daniel Pasco, over at Black Pixel:
First, we intend to bring sync to future versions of NetNewsWire. It’s too soon to go into details about this, but you should know that we recognize how extremely important it is and that it is a top priority for us.
Second, even though we’ve been quiet about it, we have been working on new versions of NetNewsWire for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. We have some great new features and a modern design that we can’t wait to show you.
GarageBand for iOS Gains Audiobus Support⇢
The update allows users to easily pipe audio in and out of GarageBand with other apps. Very cool.
Making Flickr Awesome Again⇢
Adrianne Jeffries at The Verge has a great interview up with Markus Spiering, the service’s lead at Yahoo. In it, he says:
The end goal for the platform is to provide users with the possibility that, as long as they have their photos on Flickr, their photos are everywhere.
That’s a bold goal, but one I can get behind. I hope they can pull it off.
AppleTV Gets Update⇢
The AppleTV was already the best way to browse Netflix, and now with this stunning Hulu+ redesign, I don’t know why I’d ever want to use anything else for that service, too.
The Lego Apple II⇢
I need this to be a kit. So, so badly.
RSS Address Change
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What Matters⇢
Brian Chen, for the NYT Bits Blog:
Young Hee, an executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, told Bloomberg News that the company had been working on a watch for a long time. He did not share any details about the watch, but what matters is that Samsung has beaten Apple in saying it is doing a watch.
What matters is actually shipping products.
Search Evernote With Alfred 2⇢
It’s not super fast, but it works well.
Old Mac of the Month: The Original iBook
Linus Edwards is a writer who hails from Pennsylvania and has been a lifelong Apple user. You can check out his blog VintageZen and follow him on twitter at VintageZen66.
If you lined up every laptop computer made in the last twenty years end to end, one would glaringly stand out from all the others, Apple’s original iBook. While the other laptops would mostly be monotone colors in rectangular shapes, the iBook was brightly colored and in a distinctive clamshell shape. The shape was so outside the norm that some came to refer to it as the ‘Toilet Seat Mac.’ It looked radically different because it was based upon Apple’s other radically different computer, the iMac.