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  • Review of Reviews: Great Updates to Already Great iPhone but...

    Today, I read many iPhone 15 Pro reviews and watched many YouTube videos too. For some reason, I get the feeling of a slight deception mood across many reviewers. Those are great upgrades, but since they are compared to last year’s iPhone, the improvements are dimmed as mostly minor. A … read more

  • It’s going to be a big phone. Got my Peak Design iPhone case yesterday😃. I like it. Great design1 and nice feeling to the touch.

    1. I worry a bit about the effectiveness of the case buttons when pressed against the iPhone’s buttons. Lack of “travel” will diminish the pressing effect. ↩︎

  • Playing with recently updated apps and their respective interactive widgets. They all come out to their default view. Rebooting the iPhone is mandatory to fix this issue. Adding another widget and again defaults to the blank screen.🤦🏻‍♂️ iOS 17.0.1, I guess, will help fix this.

  • Some Thoughts About Apps Support of StandBy Mode and Interactive Widgets

    Many apps are getting updates today and this week. Yes! 😃 But, so far, I have found some bugs in iOS 17 to display interactive widget content once they are added. They often stay blank with a white background. Rebooting doesn’t help. I don’t know if it is an iOS 17 bug or an issue with … read more

  • After three years of availability, I experienced the first App Clips case today. I was close to a Dairy Queen-type so I was presented with an App Clips allowing ordering from my iPhone. There aren’t a lot of App Clips, apparently.

  • Who’s reading my weekly creative summary? Do you like? If not, why? I’m genuinely curious. 🧐

  • This is how much forests burned so far this summer in Canada. ☹️ There are still close to a thousand fires still in action. This is freaking bad for so many reasons. First, we need forests to remove CO2. In a sense, removing trees diminishes the capacity of nature to limit climate change. We lose this capability. Second, all that burning created a lot of CO2. Third, it will take half a century to regain those lost forests.😔 It’s really hard to feel positive about our future.

  • Testing Apple's USB-C to Lightning Adaptor with iPad Pro

    I wanted to follow up a previous post of mine about using my Lightning-based Lavalier microphone with a USB-C device, like my 2018 iPad Pro1. I ordered the USB-C to Lightning adaptor on the day of the Apple keynote. I got it this morning. If you are wondering if it works with Ferrite and … read more

  • Ordered. I’ll wait before buying a case from Apple because I’m not sure about the new FineWoven texture and durability. Some YouTubers said the feeling to the touch is similar to suede and I’m not a fan. #iphone15pro #iphone15promax

  • An Update About My New Quest of Leaving Adobe Lightroom

    Yesterday night, I spent nearly an hour reading articles and forum posts about the implications of closing my Adobe Photography subscription1. The implications and how to recover my photos differ for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC. It’s not that hard, but it will be a tedious process if I want … read more

  • How do you get out of Adobe Lightroom? What if I want to focus on Photomator and Pixelmator instead?

  • Waiting for more interactive widgets…

    ✅ WaterMinder ✅ Longplay Timery 👀 Focused Work 👀 What else? read more

  • Today is a caseless day with my iPhone 13 Pro. Best way to experience the device design and flaws1.

    1. Like the too sharp edges. The too shiny flat edges. ↩︎

  • “Get Ready for iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro” on Apple.com1, is this new, or was it available for the iPhone 14 launch last year? I find this to be a great way to limit frustration on the day the new iPhones will go on sale (tomorrow). 🤔

    1. The new website feature enables anyone to build their iPhone order, including setting up the return of the older iPhone for a credit. In theory, on the day of availability, you’ll click “Buy”. ↩︎

  • Did anyone notice this new “time-based” page indicator on Apple.com?1. It is very well-designed and clever.

    1. Can be seen in the iPhone 15 Pro sub-website. ↩︎

  • Experimenting with reading my Micro.blog timeline in RSS mode with Reeder. It’s surprisingly very effective for catching up on the last 12 hours of posts. It is, in fact, more effective than reading past posts on the website.

  • Apple Wonderlust Event — My Initial Impressions

    These are my impressions of Apple’s latest product announcements. The mother nature segment was funny, and I smiled quite often. It was a great way to communicate their progress toward better environmental protection and reduced carbon footprint. Video production quality was top-notch. Aren’t tech … read more

  • Apple Wonderlust T-15 min. ✅ Focus Mode: ON.

    ✅ Offline at the office.

    ✅ Apple.com open

    ✅ Tv.app open

    ✅ CleanShot Configured

    ✅ NAS ready

    😎

  • For those on Micro.blog who want to chat about Apple’s today announcements, remember to use this Wavelength invite chat link1. There are currently 48 members in the group. I wish you all a great event experience!

    1. I’m referring to the open-source Wavelength. ↩︎

  • First world problem: got this mic for my recordings (YouTube / Podcasts / ScreenFlow). Works fine. Now: how do I plug this into an iPhone 15 Pro with USB-C? 🤦🏻‍♂️ Can’t find an adapter with microphone support (many are audio out only…) 😔