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  • October 15, 2024 10:07am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    Maybe Apple will announce a new product each day through a press release with a shipping date of Oct 23th, with a culmination point with the redesigned M4 Mac mini? I think it wouldn’t be the first time they did it this way.

  • October 15, 2024 9:38am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    New iPad mini: Apple Intelligence support, Apple Pencil Pro. New storage tiers. Oh, almost forgot: new colors. Meh.

  • October 14, 2024 9:39pm
    Apple & Tech Photography Newsletter
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    I visited the Apple West 14th Street Apple Store this past weekend in New York City. As usual, the store was packed with people. However, one thing caught my attention: there was no one at the Apple Vision Pro tables. Despite being at the peak of their support, those devices felt quite lonely and unappealing. How long will Apple keep those devices for sale?

  • October 13, 2024 9:39pm
    Photography Misc Travels
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    Walked 20KM, 28000 steps. Feeling exhausted. 😓 But I still love NY, 9 years since my previous trip in June, 2015.

  • October 12, 2024 8:49pm
    Photography Newsletter
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    Seeing people use their iPhone camera to take pictures and videos of a show and I think there is no tweak or improvement that Apple can do to the camera control to beat on-screen controls. Apple brought a gimmicky feature to the iPhone.

  • October 12, 2024 1:20pm
    Photography Personal Travels Newsletter
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    Perfect day for a long road trip. I’m going to a music show close to New York City: Sting.

  • October 12, 2024 9:40am
    Photography Travels Newsletter
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    Playing with Spectre on the road while heading to New York. That was a 5 sec exposure.

  • October 11, 2024 4:55pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    I’m starting to warm up to Tapestry… I’ll expand my testing of it this week-end!

  • October 11, 2024 6:40am
    Misc Newsletter
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    I can’t stand watching and listening to Musk for more than five minutes. He is such a bad speaker, really. I think he should let someone else talk for him, like one of his robots, it might be much better and bearable.

  • October 9, 2024 2:29pm
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    I’ve been using my M4 iPad Pro hooked to an external display all day at the office (forgot to bring my MacBook Pro!) and boy… I don’t know who’s fault but using apps like Teams and Outlook on the external display is rough. It might be Apple’s fault for not evangelizing enough the iPad in this business environment or Microsoft’s for not taking the iPad seriously enough to spend the resources on testing their shit on this configuration.

    Anyway, the iPad has come a long way since 2010…

  • October 6, 2024 11:32am
    Misc Newsletter
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    When I created my Ko-fi page, I said that I would be sharing more personal stories about me on it. Today, I just did. Plus, my supporters are getting a free perk. Want to become a supporter too? Thanks.

  • October 4, 2024 9:02am
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    iPhone mirroring on macOS Sequoia is so handy. For example, getting a notification on my iPhone to approve a request in the MFA application is so handy.

  • October 2, 2024 9:16pm
    Photography Misc Newsletter
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    I found a font that I like a lot: Dosis. This will be the official font for my future consulting company. I find it to be a mix of modernism and retro style. Easy to read. Singular.

  • September 29, 2024 9:09am
    Blogging Newsletter
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    I’m happy to share the newest edition of my Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. Email version coming out much later today.

  • September 26, 2024 7:38pm
    Misc
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    Back home. Feeling good. Returning to normal programming soon. 🤗

  • September 24, 2024 2:53pm
    Misc
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    What is the fuss with Automattic lately? Missed something apparently. 🤨

  • September 24, 2024 12:59pm
    Food for thought Newsletter
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    WTF? 😳 A “social” network with AI-based-only followers? Really? Are we that desperate?

  • September 22, 2024 11:38am
    Food for thought Personal Newsletter
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    I have a love & hate relationship with the US as a country. Going to Las Vegas today for a four-day business trip falls in the “hate” part because I think we cannot have those Las Vegas cities any longer. This city is everything but real. I hate to see our resources spoiled like that.

  • My Five Minutes Experience With the Camera Control Button

    September 21, 2024 7:47pm
    Apple & Tech Longer posts Newsletter
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    I like the physical design, but it is too flush with the iPhone flat edge for my taste. It is easier to use with my thumb while the iPhone is in portrait mode. The required pressure to take a photo makes me shake1 which is not always good when taking a photo in low light conditions. I kind of “Digg” the UI which feels organic just like for the Dynamic Island but using multi-purposes buttons requires some time to get used to and learn the numerous modes. Apple is still working off the half-pressure mode for taking pictures and I wonder how it will affect the general use… will it make it even harder to use?


    1. Might be age-related issue, I know. ↩︎

  • September 21, 2024 4:51pm
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    Here is a tip for those upgrading to an Apple Watch Series 10 while still having their previous generation device1. If you want to start fresh but would like to recreate some of your watch face configurations from your older device: after having installed your watch apps, simply share each watch face with yourself over iMessage from your older device. You’ll then be able to install these on your new device very easily right from iMessage on the watch.


    1. I’m upgrading from the Series 8, but gave back my old Series 6 for a credit. ↩︎

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