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John Gruber:

Not one whit of information describing what the Humane pins actually do. We do see, though, that they look like toy iPhones that might come in a McDonald's Happy Meal.

He's hit the nail on the head here. I saw the odd photo of these pins last week and couldn't put my finger on what they looked like until I read Gruber's piece. They definitely have a Happy Meal vibe to them at the moment and now they just remind me of the Transformers toys from the 90s!

Posted 2nd Oct 2023 @ 08:14

Posted 29th Sep 2023 @ 07:59

Didn't think I'd be sharing photography tips from a car brand, but here we are. Solid bits of advice in the first and third ones they've shared. I don't step back and zoom enough and with image stabilisation being so good now I really should do it more often.

Posted 27th Sep 2023 @ 10:40

Posted 27th Sep 2023 @ 08:39

A few things here I didn't know about, including walking radius and ping your Apple Watch. Walking radius would be really useful in the iOS version of Apple Maps too, not sure why it's limited to the watches.

Posted 26th Sep 2023 @ 15:44

While I totally back Apple's move away from leather in their products, fine woven seems like a misstep. The leather cases were truly great cases. I had one for my iPhone 8 Plus and it lasted longer than any other case I have ever owned. It aged beautifully and even when it was dirty it looked good.

Maybe they'll refine this material over time, but you'd have thought they would have put the effort in already.

iFixit also pointed out that the fine woven watch bands have marks on them already. They're £149. Not good.

Posted 25th Sep 2023 @ 16:16

This looks awesome. The Boys is a great TV show and this spin off looks like a lot of fun.

Posted 20th Sep 2023 @ 20:00

Of course metrics are useful, but the invasion of our privacy is out of control.

GDPR and cookie consent were a start but we really need more legislation to really reign this kind of thing in.

Posted 19th Sep 2023 @ 08:22

There's an entire keynote you can watch, but this trailer probably covers the key points. An animation app from the people behind Procreate that supports so much of what Procreate can already do. Looks like a lot of fun!

Posted 18th Sep 2023 @ 11:09

Very much looking forward to the StandBy feature, contact posters and improved autocorrect. We don't have visual voicemail here in the UK so I'm not holding my breathe for voicemail transcriptions which I assume is built on top of the former.

The update is actually tonight and I'll be updating as soon as I can!

Posted 18th Sep 2023 @ 09:08