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  • September 29, 2023 7:06am
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    I’ve been working on my reading workflow for many months. I’m very close to publishing an article about it. While waiting for it, along the way, I created a comparison of the following read-later services:

    • Matter
    • Pocket
    • Raindrop.io
    • Readwise Reader
    • Omnivore

    You can download it here: https://go.numericcitizen.me/pFscoL0x. Any comments, suggestions?

  • September 29, 2023 6:30am
    Photography Apps & Services Newsletter
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    When adding widgets on macOS Sonoma, there should be a visual cue telling me which widgets are coming from the iPhone vs from installed apps on my Mac. This screenshot shows two Dayone instances, and Fitness Totals is on my iPhone.☝🏻

  • September 28, 2023 9:57pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    Rewind is nice, but this is such a resource hog. Battery life is miserable since I run this thing on my MacBook Air. Is it worth it, just for a few possible queries a month?1


    1. I fail to see more than 2-3 use cases so far. ↩︎

  • September 28, 2023 9:45pm
    Photography Apps & Services Newsletter
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    What happens when you run Micro.blog.app and the web app side by side? Here is a peek at Activity Monitor on the memory consumption tab. There’s the native app. Fine. But, for each web app, Sonoma seems to spin three other processes (Graphics, Networking, and some root process using the web app URL name). Fascinating. Native apps don’t consume as much memory.

  • Already at Four Web Apps in My Dock, and You?

    September 28, 2023 9:21pm
    Longer posts Apps & Services Newsletter
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    So far, I have created four web apps on my Dock in Sonoma: Micro.blog1, Pixelfed2, Tinylytics, and Omnivore. I like this a lot3. For Omnivore, the web app provides a better experience than the “native” app, which is probably not really native4. What other apps could I set in my Dock now?🤔


    1. For Micro.blog, it doesn’t make too much sense as there is a native Mac app already. ↩︎

    2. It’s better than having a Safari tab for that. It’s fast and feels native. ↩︎

    3. I know, it’s already possible on Windows. ↩︎

    4. It feels like an iPad app on the Mac. ↩︎

  • September 28, 2023 9:00pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    Testing a post from Micro.blog as a web app 1 running on macOS Sonoma.


    1. Is this how we should call a web page saved in the macOS Dock? ↩︎

  • September 28, 2023 3:48pm
    Apple & Tech Photography Newsletter
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    I’m weak. 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • September 28, 2023 1:20pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    FineWoven case-gate. Titanium-scratch-gate. Overheating-gate. What’s next for the iPhone 15 Pro?1


    1. so far, no issue with the Max! ↩︎

  • September 28, 2023 7:12am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    My iPhone 15 Pro Max is not overheating. But I find those reports, as reported here, a bit worrying. Could Apple fix or mitigate these occurrences with a software update or a new configuration toggle in the Settings.app? Did you experience overheating issues?

  • September 27, 2023 6:51am
    Misc Newsletter
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    💡Thought of the day: I don’t have a thing like a second brain 🧠 using a dedicated app. It’s a popular concept nowadays to build a second brain utilizing an app like Craft, Obsidian or anything else. I don’t believe in the idea of having a second brain. But let’s suppose I believed in this concept; I would argue that my second brain is inside my MacBook Air, spread in different apps, fulfilling a specific task in supporting this idea of the second brain. ☝🏻

  • September 26, 2023 9:59pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    The Mac is the last platform to get my trust for an upgrade of macOS. I do iPhone and iPad in a heartbeat, but the Mac, no. I wait a few weeks so that my must-have apps receive updates. I don’t want to ruin anything by upgrading to Sonoma so soon. I’ll probably wait until November.

  • September 26, 2023 7:13am
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    I’ve recently been using Apple’s Freeform for different articles I’m working on. I’m really falling in love with this app. It’s a sleeper hit for me. Its apparent simplicity shouldn’t put you off. Freeform is capable of supporting the creation of rather sophisticated diagrams. I really feel Apple’s designers brought all their craftsmanship and attention to detail here. Everything feels in the right place.

  • September 25, 2023 1:21pm
    Apple & Tech Photography Newsletter
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    Why do I always feel nervous when changing my Apple ID password? 😨

  • September 25, 2023 1:01pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    I read in recent days that the Craft team is supposedly very interested and invested in AI for Craft. I’m not sure if this is good news. Notes and document-writing apps should focus on the core experience and capabilities to support the writing process. Today, I don’t see AI at the core for most people (yet). AI should be a complementary feature. There are so many things to be improves and fixed in Craft; I’m afraid they spend too much time on the AI stuff while neglecting the bugs and highly requested basic features, again.😔

  • September 25, 2023 7:20am
    Photography
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    One of the most confusing parts of iOS and iPadOS UI: configuring the share sheet options. The ⊕ sign and the toggle meaning are utterly confusing each time I visit this portion of the UI. The fact that some non-favourite items can be toggled on or off is probably part of the explanation for my confusion. I’m confused about my confusion. I must be getting old. 👴🏻

  • September 25, 2023 7:15am
    Food for thought Newsletter
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    The usefulness of ChatGPT for me is as a replacement for using Google when I have to learn something new (eg an API). Formerly, I would have Googled, and then visited a bunch of results, and learnt a little on each page until I had built up an answer for myself.

    I see ChatGPT as a Google mashup. It takes those Google results, and mixes them up to give me a more direct answer to my question. Previously, my own brain would have to do that mashup.

    Drew McCormack https://mastodon.cloud/@drewmccormack/111124631941983536

    I do exactly the same but for a subject that I don’t really know. I’m curious to know if Google’s traffic is affected by this change of behaviour.

  • September 24, 2023 7:31pm
    Photography Newsletter
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    Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max with the telephoto lens, at 25x digital zoom. The best I could do with a lot of post-processing tweaks (tweaked the saturation, highlight, contrast, sharpening, noise reduction, etc.) 😅

  • September 24, 2023 5:28pm
    Photography Apps & Services Newsletter
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    I finally found THE use case for the Action Button: running a shortcut1 to 1) take a screen capture and 2) run the Apple Frame shortcut. It’s super handy. The camera already has a button on the screen that is easier to grab when I want to take a picture.


    1. Haptly named “Action Button”. ↩︎

  • September 24, 2023 3:13pm
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    I am trying to figure out a new sound recording setup using voice isolation with my iPhone 15 Pro Max connected to my Mac mini with USB-C1. Tell me what you think. Sample here.


    1. My Finch Lavalier microphone with Lightning connector is now useless. ↩︎

  • September 24, 2023 2:07pm
    Blogging Newsletter
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    Here is my weekly creative summary newsletter for 2023/38, in Craft format. Website and newsletter coming up soon. 😅👨🏻‍💻

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