Jean MacDonald and James Dempsey from The Weekly Review podcast join Jeff Gamet to talk about their show, getting organized, using OmniFocus, Micro.blog, and Star Trek: Voyager.
Can Photoshop Be Replaced: The Thrilling Conclusion
Dr. Mac finds Affinity Photo even better than Photoshop at a handful of image editing things he does again and again.
TREBLAB Z2 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones: $78.99
We have a deal on a pair of TREBLAB Z2 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones. They use Bluetooth 4.2, and have a battery life up to 35 hours, with a charge time of 3-4 hours. It also comes with a carrying case. You can get a pair through our deal for $78.99.
How to Delete Comments from iCloud Photo Sharing Streams
If you’ve got shared albums within iCloud Photo Sharing, then you may have wished you could take back a comment or two on someone else’s image. In today’s Quick Tip, we’re going over just how you can save yourself some embarrassment!
The Evolution of the Social Impact of AI
The deployment of AI is done when it can make money. Because making money is generally good and there are few regulations on the deployment of AI, there is plenty of incentive for the technology to evolve. Particle Debris page 2 points to an Atlantic article that explores the social consequences of AI as it starts to dominate the sphere of human activities.
TMO Background Mode Interview with Backblaze Director of Product Marketing Skip Levens
Skip Levens is currently the Director of Product Marketing at Backblaze, the cloud storage and backup company. He’s very experienced in brand marketing and technology evangelism. Skip is a former U.S. Marine. After leaving the Marines, Skip went to work for Alain Pinel, a real estate company that embraced the NeXT computer, and that launched his successful crusade to work for Apple. We chatted about Skip’s work at Apple in early internet technologies, then Developer Relations that involved him with supercomputers. We explored the rise and fall of Apple’s Xserve and Xserve RAID as well as the evolution of his expertise in storage technology at Active Storage, Quantum, Symply Storage and now Backblaze. You can’t have more geek fun than this show.
This Person Predicted the iPhone Two Years Before Launch
Redditor u/FizzyBeverage (You can tell I’m on Reddit a lot) found an old forum post on DSLReports.com. A person with the username Cortland predicted the iPhone with an entry called “Why Apple Must Come Out With iPhone:”
This is an important opportunity for Apple. And the window is a good three years. Right now Windows phones are stuck in a dead end with bugs, crashes and an operating system that needs to be purged. But their ego and inertia won’t let them backpedal.
Whether Cortland had inside information or just did some educated analysis, it’s an interesting comment. Not many people believed him/her either. User MacThrasher wrote in response: “I think the phone market is well saturated enough that the iPhone would not be much money for Apple.”
Meet the Inventor of Autocorrect Ken Kocienda
If I type that I want to make a “peanut butter and Kelly sandwich” the software should know that I meant jelly.
Five Eyes Countries Want to Avoid Public Encryption Debate
They did so recently by telling the tech industry things like, “end-to-end encryption should be rare” and “privacy is not absolute.”
Apple Seeds macOS Mojave Developer Beta 10
Apple is most likely nearing the end of the developer beta process, though Mojave does typically have more time to bake than iOS.