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On Apple's ProRAW: extending the range of possibilities (#apple #proraw #photography)
From “ProRAW Is Here!” By Austin Mann: I suggest turning on ProRAW when you are shooting in extreme conditions of any kinds (extremely low light, extremely high dynamic range with super bright highlights and dark shadows, mixed light temperatures, and so on). Also, use ProRAW if you plan on enlarging the images (on screen or in print). ProRAW is about extending the possible scenarios where you can take great looking pictures. Continue reading →
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Time for something. Again. (#me #avatar)
Introducing my new avatar for 2021. It was made by hyxcreations, available on Fivrr. I wanted something along the lines of this one. I’m very happy of the end results. It is a blend of the previous avatar and the other one I use for @numericcitizen, my official Twitter account. Expect a slow rollout over the next few weeks. ☺️ Continue reading →
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The shear power of Apple on its install base (#apple #ecosystem #installbase #iPadOS #iOS)
Is this new? I mean the format in which Apple is presenting the current iOS and iPadOS usage? The last time I paid attention to this, Apple was using a pie chart. I prefer this level of details. A few thoughts about these numbers are in order. First, iPhone users are quicker to update their devices compared to iPad users. Second, Apple makes a clear distinction between devices recently introduced (in the last four years) from the rest. Continue reading →
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The big problem with Sign in with Apple (#apple #security)
Here is an issue that I ran into yesterday with “Sign in with Apple”. I suspect I’m not alone in that situation. The excellent website building tool, Universe, came out with an update that introduces Sign-in with Apple. After updating the application on my iPad, I launch the app. I’m welcomed with a sign-in screen. The Sign-in with Apple option is prominently displayed. I tap on it. I’m then presented with the typical panel to decide if I expose my real email address and my real name. Continue reading →
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My first contact with Apple’s Fitness+ 😍 (#apple #fitnessplus #service)
Yesterday Apple launched their latest service offering: Fitness+. I gave it a try, and I fell in love. The first step was to update all my supported devices: the iPhone, my Apple Watch and my Apple TV. After spending a few minutes glancing at the different type of workouts, I elected to do a twenty minutes treadmill workout using my iPhone and my AirPods Pro. For this session, Jamie-Ray was my coach. Continue reading →
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Thanks, Apple (#apple #privacy #privacyprotection)
Thanks to all the teams at Apple for putting this App privacy feature together. Just like food labels, application labels were long overdue. Apple is far from perfect, I wrote about that a few weeks ago, but at the very least they do move the needle quite a bit. Bravo. Continue reading →
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What happens when an M1 Mac starts up? Fascinating. (#apple #m1chip #applesilicon)
What happens when an M1 Mac starts up? – The Eclectic Light Company: You can learn a great deal from the unified log entries of a system startup, and that for an M1 Mac is even more fascinating for the insights it gives into the hardware in the M1 system-on-a-chip (SoC). These were obtained from an M1 MacBook Pro with 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores running macOS 11. Continue reading →
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The unexpected good side effect of COVID19 on me as a blogger (#writing #blogging #blog)
Who knew COVID-19 would have a very positive side effect on me. It started on March 13th of 2020, and it’s still going on nearly uninterrupted. What is it? I have more time than ever to focus on my writing and publishing activities. Why? As I’m working from home from mi-March of this year, I no longer have to commute. I save countless hours per week just because of this. Continue reading →
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Remember de Macintosh Quadra 700? (#apple #vintage #Mac #Macintosh)
Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020) | Ars Technica: The '040 was a substantial upgrade over the '030 that had previously been used by Apple. It featured 1.2 million transistors, over four times as many as its predecessor. This processor increased the L1 cache size by a factor of eight to 4096 bytes, and it was the first 68k processor to have an on-board floating-point unit (FPU). Continue reading →
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Uniformity across diversity (#youtubers #YouTube #design)
Recently I spent more time than usual on YouTube for different reasons: to look at AirPods Max first impressions, to learn more about Synology DSM 7.0 beta, etc. After a while, it’s easy to see a trend that bugs me: design uniformity across the board. See the previous image gathers a few popular YouTubers channel content pages. They all look about the same or at least designed by the same designer. Continue reading →
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When no new features was a feature (#Apple #macOS #snowleopard #2009)
Published by BasicAppleGuy, a short survey of his experience with MacOS Snow Leopard, back in 2009. I remember Steve Jobs talking about this release of MacOS as a pause in new features introduction in order to build the foundations for the next decade of MacOS (now spelled macOS). In fact, I would argue that, no new flashy feature was a new feature in itself. Something Apple could do these days. Continue reading →
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The Apple Health Index (#apple #finance #marketplace #products #expectations)
For a while, I used to maintain a table of measures related to Apple that were in four categories: Finance, Products, Expectations, Market Landscape. Each attributes had his own ponderation. I wold give a scope from 0 to 10 on each of them. A formula would calculate something call the Health Index. I would revisit this table four times a year. It was obviously totally subjective but it was fun to do. Continue reading →
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It's time to call out @iphoneincanada (#tracking #ads)
Wait for the previous gif to load and animate. What the fusk is wrong with the owners of iPhone in Canada website? This animated gif shows how wrong the web can become. There are 21 trackers on this website. The more trackers, the more ads, the less content there is. What a pity. For this reason, I don’t visit their website, I only subscribe to their RSS feed and Safari notifications. Continue reading →
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Here is a throwback... (#Apple #iOS6 #iPad)
During my digital assets cleanup this weekend as I’m preparing a move to Synology, I came across this screenshot of my iPad running iOS 6. Looking carefully to this image, it’s fascinating to see all the things we lost since then. First, many of those apps no longer exist. Second, design. Enjoy in all its glory. Continue reading →
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Did you know... ? (#apple #iOS #tips)
When you get an update from the App Store stating a size of, let’s say 179.4 MB, this doesn’t represent the actual amount of data that will be downloaded. In fact, depending of your device, the size will be much smaller. If you want to see this in action, turn on Low Data Mode. Then, go to the App Store and download an application update and look at the actual size of the download in the alert box. Continue reading →
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A broken Apple timeline (#apple #history #myarchives)
I use to keep a time of all the news and announcements emanating from Apple, Cupertino. It was fun but time-consuming. I failed to find a good use of it, so I stopped updating it. Maybe I should have continued, as a blogger, it could have been really useful. Continue reading →
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Detailed Apple Maps comes to Canada 🇨🇦🗺! (#apple #applemaps)
At long last, Apple’s detailed maps is now available for Canada! Not only we get more details in maps and better driving directions, we also get guides and the look around which is, in my opinion, way better designed than Google’s street view. I wasn’t expected them but they are certainly nice bonuses! Detailed maps were first introduced in iOS 13, more than a year ago. Now, if only we can get rid of COVID-19, I may start to use Maps more frequently. Continue reading →
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The end of the “hackintosh” era? 🥷🏻 (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip)
Ernie Smith writing on Tedium about the hackintosh necessity in a world with the M1 chip for the Mac: ”I hope, now that Apple has a chip architecture that doesn’t get in the way, it ramps up its industrial design … and more importantly, it reads the reviews and iterates more thoughtfully and consistently.” That’s exactly what I’m hoping too. The iMac and the MacBook design in general were highly influenced by the thermal pressure the Intel chip was imposing. Continue reading →
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Too bad @AppleNews, this could have been fun 😔 (#applenews #blogger #bloggerlife #writer)
Now it’s official, Apple is no longer accepting blogs on their news platform, Apple News. I got my rejection mail today (read about my original submission). I understand Apple News as being a… news platform, yet I think Apple is missing an opportunity here. Why? One word: Substack. Another word: Medium. Apple could have done to the written space what they did for the audio world with podcasts. Apple could have created a special place on Apple News for individual writers, not only bloggers per se. Continue reading →
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Where are you all? 🤔 👀 (#blogger #bloggerlife)
Fridays are always slow, it seems. Are people simply taking time off social networks, blogs, etc.? Maybe. In any case, I want to send a “have a nice week-end” to my dear readers and followers. 👈🏻 I do have a lot on my plate for this week-end: writing, writing, writing. And some time off too. Photo credit: Jonas Jacobsson / Unsplash. Continue reading →
