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Why do some people insist on sucking so bad? Also, I’m quite disappointed that this headline doesn’t read “IMB and Apple pull X ads…” Come on, Apple.
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Starting next year, you’ll be able to buy a car on Amazon for the first time. The company announced a deal with Hyundai that will allow dealerships to sell cars through the site.
Okay, but does it arrive with free Prime shipping?
Someone should probably mention to Apple’s gift guide team that they haven’t sold an iMac with an Apple logo on the chin for over two years now. Not even on the Refurbished store.
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Microsoft has created a Windows App for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Windows, and web browsers. The app essentially takes the previous Windows 365 app and turns it into a central hub for streaming a copy of Windows from a remote PC, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft Dev Box, and Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services.
I kind of think this is going to be Microsoft’s preferred solution instead of Windows for ARM via Boot Camp on Apple-silicon Macs.
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But now, the skip button has been joined by a new ‘Add’ button. Pressing Add directly adds the title to the user’s Up Next queue, allowing them to keep track of it and get notified when new episodes drop.
A small logotype of the show is also displayed above the buttons, which helps contextualize the action.
Better would be an option to turn off those trailers, but if they’re sticking around then they might as well be more useful.
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Google is testing new generative AI features for YouTube that’ll let people create music tracks using just a text prompt or a simple hummed tune. The first, Dream Track, already seeded to a few creators on the platform, is designed to auto-generate short 30-second music tracks in the style of famous artists. The feature can imitate nine different artists, who’ve chosen to collaborate with YouTube on its development.
Oh boy, here we go!
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Users can now choose to use a swipe gesture to switch the active Apple Watch face by enabling the option in the Apple Watch Settings app. With the feature turned on, swiping left or right on the watch face scrolls through the available watch faces that have been set up.
Horray! I’ve been using way fewer watch faces since watchOS 10 made it harder to swap them.
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Another video added to the beta shows us a more detailed look at how users can create their 3D “Persona” for FaceTime calls using the headset. The process is similar to registering a new face to an iPhone or iPad with Face ID. Users must hold and point the Vision Pro at their face, then move their face sideways, up and down, and then smile and wink.
The video looks pretty slick. I hadn’t considered that the outer front screen could be used for showing stuff other than your passthrough expressions.
You might be tempted to pick up a hot pocket from the gas station because you fancy a warm morning meal and they have a microwave. Do not do it. It will not taste good and you will regret it.
The more I think about my blog as my personal-but-public online journal and less as a “capital-W” Website, the more I appreciate (and long for) Tumblr’s tools for easily dumping just about anything onto a webpage at your own domain and having it look pretty good.
I’ve been intrigued by the Johnny Decimal system since hearing about it first on Hemispheric Views and then again on Ruminate. I think I would love it. But I struggle with the idea that I’d have to recreate the system in all my apps that have their own data organization structure. And that I’d have to make the upfront time investment to move all my existing stuff into that system. I should probably do the workbook.
I’ve always considered myself an app-first guy. But I might be turning into a web-first devotee. I still think native apps offer the best experience for creating and consuming, but I’ve come around to the idea that the “one true source” should live online where everyone can get it. Still pondering…
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Pick any idea Steve mentions and you’ll find it again and again throughout his life. What you see in Make Something Wonderful is Steve’s process of observation, learning, and revision. His world view and vision of a brighter future sharpen as he tries and makes mistakes.
Add to that the sheer amount of time covered in the book. Many of Apple’s breakthrough ideas like the iPhone were there in Steve’s words, but took decades to come to fruition.
Another poignant observation.
This book taught me that my life is just a blip in the timeline of humanity. It is up to me to decide how I will use it. Steve’s words show not just what can happen if I dedicate myself to making something wonderful. They also show the tremendous amount of hard work and time that it can take.
Make Something Wonderful will remind me to follow my curiosity and to keep trying and failing.
Today’s adventure: 5 pitches of über-classic Gunks routes with a dear friend. A crisp, late fall day with gorgeus views but surprisingly few folks at the cliff to share them with. Few things can quiet my mind while simultaneously requiring intense focus and intricate movement like climbing.🧗
All this talk of custom GPTs has my mind racing with plausible ideas for how AI/ML could solve specific problems that I face — using tech that seems entirely possible in the near future.
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Since all the cool kids are doing it, I’m jumping on the bandwagon in my first Hey World blog post!
Scratch that @burk, you have changed blogging. You guys inspired someone to write their very first blog post!
I just released version 1.0 of my ‘Create Task with Drafts Notes’ shortcut, inspired by @viticci@macstories.net and @johnvoorhees@macstories.net on AppStories:
Use Apple Shortcuts to automatically create both a Things to-do and a Drafts note with links back to each other.
Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
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What happened next was not standard issue Hemispheric Views. We slowly began to see people in the Hemispheric Views community create blog posts listing their default apps. This first spread slowly, then quickly to people who had never heard of the podcast but wanted to blog about their defaults as a movement […] to join in on. […]
We didn’t change blogging, the internet, or the world. But it sure made for an excellent side quest from this thing we call life.
🥰 A heartfelt post from @Burk about the silly fad he inadvertently started with @martinfeld and @canion.
Nilay is onto something here.
Said another way, a wearable product has to be way more useful for you to tolerate it being on your face. But I’d also posit that the threshold of necessary usefulness goes down the more inconspicuous the gadget is compared to “normal”, non-smart accessories.
What’s the over/under on every Apple event being filmed on iPhone from now on? I’m thinking it’s quite likely that we’ve seen our last one done with traditional camera. It’s so big a flex (and helps inform them of its shortcomings) that I’d give it an 80% chance.