😍 Those iMac colors still look drop-dead gorgeous. Especially in this lighting. (Video by The Verge)
Would you look at that? Space Black didn’t completely replace Space Gray in the MacBook Pro lineup. The plain M3 14-inch model comes in Silver/Space Gray. Space Black is only for the true professional chip Macs.
Note to self: For the next Apple Event, make the live blogging announcement post, and then thread highlights as replies to that post. Probably better than mucking up everyone’s timeline and easier too.
Come on Apple, I had but one wish. A black version of this keyboard. I wouldn’t even care that it still charges with Lightning. The count continues.
I’m live blogging again for the ‘Scary Fast’ Apple Event! heydingus.net/blog/2023…
My final ‘Scary Fast’ event predictions:
🖥️ M3 iMac
💻 M3 Pro and M3 Max MacBook Pros
⌨️ Accessories get USB-C and at least one surprising new feature
🎮 Gaming focus (callout to Japanese viewers)
🧛 At least one costume is seen
🌔 Everything is filmed at night
🆕📝 ‘Oh God, It’s Raining Newsletters’
I didn’t think reading this article was going to shift me over to the pro-newsletter camp, but here we are.
TIL you can undo a misplaced widget movement. From Apple’s release notes:
Undo on Home Screen lets you undo where you placed a widget by shaking iPad or using a three-finger tap
Apple sends out gift boxes with AirPods Max and snacks to promote M3 Mac event — 9to5Mac:
Apple is sending out special gift boxes to select influencers, such as Lamarr Wilson. The boxes include a pair of AirPods Maxheadphones and some “sweet and spooky” snacks and drinks to consume while watching the event on Monday night.
Wow, what a treat box! I don’t recall any pre-event viewing goodies going out like this before. I wonder if they have too many AirPods Max in stock…
🆕📝 Finally “Clicking” with the Magic Trackpad
Or did I?
🆕📝 ‘The Aftermath of a Massacre Is Always the Time to Push for Gun Legislation’
We’ve had more than enough time to try fixing our problem any other way. We have to stop looking past the most obvious solution. The guns have to go.
Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome - The Verge
Microsoft Edge is actually good, way better than the old Internet Explorer — but you wouldn’t think so based on how desperately the company tries to shovel it onto your plate!
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Here’s an updated list of the dirty tricks Microsoft has played — and the times it’s given up after getting significant pushback.
The thirst is real. Having them all lined up like this is just…wow.
No Scroll November | alternative
Quite easy. Don’t visit youtube, any social media — facebook, twitter, instagram and so on; leave aside youtube (be honest, that one valuable video is surrounded by over a dozen useless crappy montages), espeacially avoid tik-tok and other reels-based shit; confront yourself with your porn addiction and stop it; use SMS to prompt communication (with Short Messages, nomen omen) — don’t write endless streams of consiousness on Messenger, Whatsup etc. Just don’t use any scroll-based app or site.
Maybe. It could be time for a scrolling cleanse.
Happy Mountain Goats day to those celebrating! (Wait, there was another popular album coming out today?!)
Amazon ditched plastic mailers in one US fulfillment center - The Verge
Amazon is fulfilling a small part of its promise to switch from using plastic bubble mailers and air pillows to all recyclable paper packaging for its shipments. The company announced that it has outfitted one facility in Euclid, Ohio, with an upgraded packaging machine that can automatically fold custom-fit boxes to wrap some products, use paper mailers for small items, and slide in paper fillers instead of plastic ones in standard boxes.
At Amazon’s scale, every small improvement can make a huge difference.
“Happy Holidays” is a kindness
My family celebrates Christmas. We’re all varying levels of religious, but Christmas is the holiday we celebrate together as a family. I don’t walk in the door December 24th and yell, “happy holidays!” I say “merry Christmas.” Likewise, when I talk to friends who celebrate other things, I call those out.
But if I don’t know you well enough to know what you do, I generally say “happy holidays.” I don’t operate a business, but if I did I would 100% say “happy holidays” as well since my customers would surely have a bunch of beliefs.
This is the way.
Oh man, send help — I’m considering buying a Meta hardware product. The new Ray-Ban glasses look perfect for snapping pics and videos while out adventuring. They’d be a genuine safety improvement over trying to dig my phone out of my pocket while rock climbing with clients and friends. 😎
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Most of our writers also have direct access to the publish button and generally write their own headlines, deks and ledes. You know, that trust thing.
Why would we hire people who were genuinely obsessed with a given technology or space and then not use their most potent asset: their sense of taste.
These days, you could argue that taste is the only moat. And when you apply that to everything from story sense to sourcing, you get a product that remains vital.
This is the way.
NotebookLM: hands-on with Google’s AI-powered note-taking app - The Verge
What if you could have a conversation with your notes? That question has consumed a corner of the internet recently, as companies like Dropbox, Box, Notion, and others have built generative AI tools that let you interact with and create new things from the data you already have in their systems.
Google’s version of this is called NotebookLM. It’s an AI-powered research tool that is meant to help you organize and interact with your own notes.
I’m all for personalized LLMs. I’d love to ask questions of my Apple Notes.
🆕📝 Considering Apple’s Oddball ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Week
The more I think about this event, the more I feel like Charlie from ‘Its Always Sunny’ with his yarn-riddled Mail Room conspiracy wall.
🆕📝 macOS Sonoma Web Apps Save Me From Constant Discord Updates
Inspiration hit in the middle of another project, so of course I spent the last hour on this quick tip blog post. I hope you like it, Discord nerds. 😉
Now to try to claw my way back to focus.
🆕📝 Bight Gear is joining Black Diamond…get their stuff now while you can!
Their excellent, boutique-brand gear has been a favorite of mine. Get it at a discount before getting they’re subsumed by the big name brand.
Leaving Twitter — Benedict Evans
Meanwhile, beyond the chaos, there has been no sense for the actual users of where we’re going. There was a plan, both ruthless and chaotic, to reset a broken and grotesquely overstaffed company culture and turn it into a place that can execute, but no coherent sense of what it should be executing. What should those newly hard-core engineers be shipping? A ‘super app’? A universal content platform with no external links? Your financial life? Seriously?
And then, there are the Nazis.