I agree with many of Steve’s points here, but I’ve had much better luck with my battery life. I’m getting 7-8+ hours easily on a charge – perhaps because he got the special order 1.3GHz model while I schlump along with the 1.2 model.
My MacBook Pro is now my desk machine and I use it for my photography workflow. Just about everything else is done on my MacBook. I really like this little guy.
This is a great video of my friend Eric showing off some of the latest DJI kit. I haven’t been following the drone stuff too closely, so this gave me a better idea of what he’s been up to. Nice work, Eric!
I have a wide foot so I order shoes online nearly all the time now. I take full advantage of the Zappos‘ “free shipping both ways” to order up a batch of sizes, figure out which ones work best for me, and send the others back. Recently I have learned that in running shoes, an…
As my friend Shawn put it, “This is NPR, not the Onion.”
Thankfully there is a voice of sanity among Texas Republicans:
“Your letter pandering to idiots … has left me livid,” former State Rep. Todd Smith wrote Gov. Abbott. “I am horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my Governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my Governor doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to those who do.”
And I thought I’d accumulated a lot of LEGOs as a kid.
I am wicked productive when I’m on an airplane (without wifi) and I don’t have incoming communications (email, Slack, Twitter, etc.) to distract me. In an attempt to let out of sight lead to out of mind, I’ve made a simple tweak to hide my dock in Mac OS X and turn on “do not…
This exchange between my mother in law and our house painter is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a real life Who’s On First situation. MiL: What kind of paint do you use? Painter: I use Kwal. MiL: Koala? Painter: Yes, Kwal. MiL: Koala, like the bear? Painter: No, I never use Behr. It doesn’t…
Since the Apple Watch: 1. needs to be charged every night, and 2. needs an iPhone to function every Apple Watch customer is a potential customer for an elegant solution that charges both their iPhone and Watch on their nightstand. The ones that I like best so far are: The Timber Catchall for Apple Watch…
Related: trying to turn my wrist the right way to trigger the screen to come on is my biggest annoyance with the Apple Watch so far.
The fact that this generation Apple Watch has a screen that is off by default is going to seem ridiculous in a couple of years.
Apple’s most recent earnings call that showed less-than-stellar results for the iPad got me thinking a bit. I’m a fan of the iPad. I’ve had the original, the iPad 2, the iPad 3 (retina), the iPad mini, and now the iPad Air. Initially I was upgrading every year as the hardware rapidly evolved. However I’ve…
“Do one thing and do it well.” is really a cry for depth in products, not simplicity.
Today I Learned: that charging the new MacBook from empty to full takes about 2.5 hours.
I’m using the MacBook on battery (unplugged) 90+% of the time.
I’m a big fan of keyboard control in productivity applications. I love being able to type my changes/additions and submit them without needing to tab around too much, or gasp grab the mouse. I’m not the only one who feels this way. David Walsh has a great post explaining how to submit web forms with…
This morning I saw Justin’s tweet about Toad the Wet Sprocket which led me to their Wikipedia to confirm that they took their name from a Monty Python sketch. Along the way, I saw that they just released a new album. California Wasted stands out to me on my initial listen through. I went to…