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Anyone using @Readwiseio here? My trial expired. A few thoughts: their app feels āstrangeā; like a big āwebviewā. Workflow not yet clear to me. No Safari Extension support. Not cheap. Seems popular. Youāre thoughts?
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On the upcoming iPad Pro update (#apple #rumour #ipadpro)
As reported by MacRumors: “Apple has tested āiPadā Pros with a Thunderbolt connector that would make them compatible with additional external monitors, hard drives, and peripherals, plus it brings faster data syncing speeds. Apple’s Mac machines have featured Thunderbolt technology for years now, but current āiPad Proā and iPad Air models have standard USB-C ports.” Such an iPad feature has to come with much improved operating system support for external devices, like external monitors, which is currently very limited under iPadOS 14. Continue reading ā
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Dear Justin ā Youāre So Funny (#apple #intel #ads #advertising)
Honestly, I like these Intel ads with Justin Long. The one with the dongle, at the very end, is priceless. These ads are fun. Not as fun as the āoriginalsā, though, but still. Intel hits the nerves. Intel is playing the Apple playbook, simple as that. Itās an interesting moment, a blip, in the advertising world. Nothing more. Will it make a difference? I doubt it. Continue reading ā
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Want to know what Craft is capable of as a website publishing tool? Take a look. Move around the site, you’ll get a better idea of its navigation structure and feature. I love this app.
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RIP iMac Pro, HomePod (#apple #imacpro #homepod)
What does the iMac Pro and the HomePod, two entirely different products, have in common? Itās not the fact that they are no longer being sold. The iMac Pro and the HomePod were created by Apple when they were caught off guard by market trends. In the case of the iMac Pro, Apple tried to answer pro users who were demanding a replacement to the aging trash can Mac Pro. Continue reading ā
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Not one but two newsletters (#news)
For those who didnāt know, I have two newsletters. One available from Substack available at https://numericcitizien.substack.com on a monthly basis and the other one entirely made with Mailbrew. On every Saturday morning, a newsletter is built using the RSS feeds of my blogs as a source to create a summary of all my publications in the last week. So, take a look at the latest issue of “Numeric Citizen Newsletter”. There are currently 30 subscribers to this newsletter. Continue reading ā
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Guilty of Digital Consumerism (#apps #services #workflow)
Greg Morris on digital consumerism: The level of consumerism and marketing tricks being used to sell apps and services is growing over time. They all promise to fix that gap in your work life, just like adverts promise to fix the one in your love life, or improve your happiness, or whatever it is. Itās all lies. I cannot talk for others, but for me, when Iām jumping on another service or a new app, itās because it offers a seizable improvement. Continue reading ā
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About those WebP images (#google #usertracking #nonstandard)
WebP image format goal, according to Google: WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster. WebP lossless images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs. WebP lossy images are 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images at equivalent SSIM quality index. Iāve seen more and more WebP images in recent months when I try to download an image from Safari. Continue reading ā
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HEY World, it's now official! (#hey #heyworld #blogging)
They flipped the switch to ON. HEY World is LIVE! I’m so glad, curious and already excited to use this other channel to share my written content with the world. I’m already thinking about my first post on this new platform. Furthermore, I think this addition brings even more value to an already useful service, on which I depend every single day. Recently, I asked: How many websites can a blogger have? Continue reading ā
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Anyone here using Mastodon? If yes, why? Should I cross-post from here? Which one should I join? Tell me more. I’m not really aquainted with this platform.
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On Spoonbill (#twitter #mailbrew)
I recently published a long piece about transforming your Twitter experience by using Twitter lists instead of following a bunch of accounts. As noted in the article, one side effect of this approach is that services that look for your Twitter accountās list of people you follow wonāt really work. Thatās the case for a new service called āSpoonbillā. Keep updated on your friends’ and family members’ bios, websites, locations, and names. Continue reading ā
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On iCloud Photo Library migration (#keyword)
In a surprising move, Apple starting today allows people to export their iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos. Why not provide a download to a local computer, outside the Photos app. I can see many use cases for doing so: backup purposes or simply to dump photos in a structure of directories for archiving purposes. Continue reading ā
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After spending so many hours trying to understand the requirements to set up my online presence to support the IndieWeb movement… I’m close to just giving up. I fail to get the whole picture and none of the sites that I look at has a complete explanation that corresponds to my use case. Gosh. I’ll put this aside for a while and eventually come back to this. Maybe.
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I often read the word āQuillā in here but never really paid too much attention, until now. Quill allows for posting content to your blog from a simple web page. You knew that, already, right? Not me. Sorry for the interruption, normal programming to return in 3, 2, 1. Thank you.
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Bye Bye Weather Line (#weather #weatherapps #iOS #iosdev)
Breaking news from 9To5Mac, but official announcement here: In recent months, we were approached by a buyer. They saw the uniqueness of Weather Line and the strong foundation weāve built. While we arenāt able to provide further details on their future plans for the app, we hope you can understand, and will look forward to it. Iām kind of in shock right now. I recently posted an article about my āgo-toā weather applications. Continue reading ā
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Dear Google, this time you win (#google #YouTube)
This shouldnāt be this way. Thanks to the numerous ads, my YouTube experience was a calculated nightmare. As my usage grew in the last few weeks because of my daytime job, my time on YouTube felt light a nightmare with no end. I decided to put an end to all this by subscribing to YouTube Premium. I feel in full contradiction to my values. YouTube Premium so much better. But it shouldnāt be this way. Continue reading ā
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The state of non-optimized apps on my M1-Mac mini (#m1chip #applesilicon #universal)
Here is the current state of yet to be updated apps to fully support Apple Silicon Macs. Itās been close to six months now and yet, those apps arenāt yet universal. Surprising to see things like 1Password 7 still not there yet. Notion, an Electron-based app, not surprising. The Mac client for HEY hasnāt been updated for a while. Many of those apps are subscription-based, a model toward development sustainability. Continue reading ā
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Appleās impressive traction (#apple #ios14 #ipados14)
Two very telling graphs from Appleās development portal: A few takeouts. First, iOS 13 is close to become a bad souvenir. Second, people keeping their iPad longer, it is reflected in the percentage of people still using devices with iPadOS prior to version 13. Continue reading ā
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Quick Poll on Writing During the Pandemic (#blogger #writer #poll)
Today, I would like to do a quick poll among my blogger / writer friends here on Micro.blog. How did the pandemic influence your writing habits? Do you write more? Less? What could be the reasons behind the change of habit? To help you out and start the thread, Iāll answer to my own poll. The pandemic brought me closer to be what we call āa writerā. I write a lot more. Continue reading ā
