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Starting a small experiment
Up until now, I didn’t want to have my posts on **Micro.blog** to show up on my main blog on **WordPress**. But since I’m posting ten times more here than on my main blog, I have a feeling my readers are missing a lot. So, starting today, I’s starting a small experiment. Some of my posts here will be cross-posted to my main blog with the help of IFTTT. I’ll see where this goes. Continue reading →
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Still far from fully recovered from Google's search algorithm changes of last November
Last day of April. Time to look back at this month's stats. It was a great month for my main blog visitors but still far away of full recovery of the big Google search crash of last November. I wonder if I will every recover from it, despite all my efforts to write fewer but longer and higher quality posts. On a brighter side, I’m faring much much better on Medium. Continue reading →
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Just Made an Unexpected Discovery
Oh. My. God. 😳😍 How on earth I wasn’t aware about this great utility for macOS: CleanShot X? Fully featured, cleanly designed, with a lot of use cases for me. A cross between Apple’s builtin screen capture and Screencast. Instant buy. Side note: I never bought that many apps since the beginning of the great confinement. Second side note: it isn’t an ad. 🤷🏻♂️ CleanShot X for Mac Continue reading →
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iPadOS 14 + Xcode + ARM-Base MacBook 12" coming?
First, this: twitter.com/jon_pross… Xcode is rumored to be coming to iPad via iPadOS 14. Then, this: twitter.com/l0vetodre… The latter tweet explicitly mentions an ARM-based MacBook 12" is coming. Are you getting it? Continue reading →
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On iPhone 12 Pro Max Design Leaks - woah #iphone12 #leaks
Major design mockup of the iPhone 12 Pro Max. All based on CAD files in the wild. These guys 3D printed it so they could get a feeling of the device in their hands. The boxy design seems to be really nice to handle. Looking forward for more details. And the bezels will be much smaller too, making it a real full screen device. youtu.be/ZUXwDpGyl… Continue reading →
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Apple, you are playing with words. #iphoneSE
Thanks Apple but this is not an iPhone SE. Ask every previous iPhone SE owners and they will confirm. To call it an iPhone SE, you have to change one thing: its size. You are playing with words here. it is an iPhone 9 (looking at this is enough to be convinced). My guess is that we will never see the return of the previous iPhone SE screen size. BTW, I never ever liked this iPhone SE naming. Continue reading →
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How to switch to “Sign in with Apple” with an existing account?
Here is something that bugs me with “Sign in with Apple” or with services that are supporting this feature. The easy and fun part is when you sign up as a new user of a service supporting “Sign in with Apple”. But what if I’m an already signed up user for many years then I want to switch to “Sign in with Apple” without creating a new account? Some service are providing a way to link an Apple ID in order to enable “Sign in with Apple”. Continue reading →
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A game changer Apple Watch app: Watchsmith.
Very promising new Apple Watch app: Watchsmith. I can see this coming to watchOS in some form or another in the future. There is a lot of potential here while waiting for custom watch faces from Apple. Subscription-based price a bit steep but I understand it must ensure sustainable development. We’ll see where it goes from here. Continue reading →
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Another potential iPadOS game changer: introducing the iPad Main Menu.
I think I just saw the future of iPadOS. Please, if you are an avid iPad user, take a moment to take a look at a potential feature that could be the next big game changer after the mouse support introduced with iPadOS 13.4. The following website perfectly illustrates a potential new system wide feature: iPad Main Menu. Dear Apple, please, oh please, consider this for iPadOS 14. 🙏🏻🥺 www.ipadmenu.study Continue reading →
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Remember these clicky keyboards? I do.
These were the best keyboards. I remember their touch, the feeling and… the clicky sound. twitter.com Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) Tweeted: So I busted out my IBM PC keyboard model M. I wrote ZZT and Unreal Engine 1 on this thing. With apologies to Moore’s Law, I gotta say - 1984 was peak keyboard. The code just types out better with these keys. t.co/3j0V3eujq… Continue reading →
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Is Microsoft missing the Covid-19 wave...?
While Microsoft was busy trying to build a clone of Slack (MS Teams), they forgot to pay attention to Skype. Having a personal and business edition after all these years makes no sense. But I wouldn’t count Microsoft out yet. twitter.com/tomwarren… Continue reading →
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I'm always looking to cut the noise. Here is something new.
I’m trying something new. It is always a good idea to cut the noise when looking at the news these days. To help me achieve that, I subscribed to 1 year of @mailbrew service. Here is the fruit of this new beginning. app.mailbrew.com/apple_obs… Continue reading →
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Sad news from the Omni Group 😟
I used to be a big fan of OmniFocus from The OmniGroup. After having transited to Things when version 3.0 came out, I’m now, I’m back with Apple’s Reminders. For my business need, I now only use OmniGraffle in order to do technical diagrams. My hope is that layoffs doesn’t affect too much this app’s future on which I depend. Reference :inessential.com/2020/03/3… Continue reading →
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It is disgusting.
We are in a constant state of crisis. One crisis after the other. Is this the new normal? There are so many things that I find revolting right now in the US. It started a few years ago, in 2016. The following twitter thread calling the NYT to do its most basic job is so spot on. Yet, they fail again and again. Just listen to press conferences, one after the other. Continue reading →
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Dark Sky weather app joins Apple
As a weather enthusiast, Apple buying Dark Sky is a very good news for at least two reasons. First, the Dark Sky app is not available in Canada. Apple will probably extend the service coverage in future releases. Second, it may signal Apple’s intentions to beef up its weather stock apps on all its platforms. Continue reading →
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When you have to eat your own dog food
Now Apple will better understand how their software can be frustrating as hell… Apple staffers suffer work-from-home setbacks due to security guidelines, travel bans appleinsider.com/articles/… Continue reading →
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This is why I’m so angry 🤬
The root cause of why I’m so angry at the The Clown in Chief 🤡 and the whole political class in the US. They don’t care about humans except themselves. Opinion | Who Will Win the Fight for a Post-Coronavirus America? www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2… Continue reading →
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Too many questions, not enough answers ...
Some questions that come up in my mind during this pandemic crisis: Is criminality going up or down? Is there less suicides? Where do we put used testing kits and used protective gear trash after use? From where does all the government money for stimulus programs come from? What if coronavirus mutates to a much more deadly virus? Will we ever return to “normality”? And many more… Continue reading →
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Remember iOS 6 -> iOS 7 Redesign - Never Again
The last time an Apple operating system went through a redesig, iOS for that matter (iOS 6 -> iOS 7), it didn’t go well. We still pay the price of this today. “The Verifier also outlines some of the features coming to watchOS 7, many of which we’ve heard before. watchOS 7 will allegedly include a “fresh design,” updates to built-in apps, and improvements to Siri, with little other information included. Continue reading →
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FaceID on Mac, really?
If FaceID comes on the Mac and a by-product is to get a better FaceTime camera, then, I’m all in. A notch for the iMac is stupid and unecessary though. #apple #faceid #mac #rumours appleinsider.com/articles/… Continue reading →
