Betteridge’s law of headlines in full effect. Alex Hern asks if it’s time to swap a Mercedes for a Lada. How surprising that, given Alex has the money to get a Mercedes, he doesn’t bother with the Lada in the end. He could have saved a lot of time by reading this total horror story […]
Category Archives: iOS
A short film made by Buzzfeed about 5 Student scholarship winners to Apple’s World-Wide Developer Conference. But not your typical developers. Very inspiring, especially as a counterpoint to the recent negative perspectives on the gender bias in science. Via The Loop
Riding to work. Listening in one ear to music. Song playing: Elliot Smith: a question mark. [Long press on the headphone remote.] “Di-donk.” “Rate this song five stars” Di-dink “Ok. I’ve. Rated that song. Five. Out of. Five”
I finally found a character in Crossy Road that I like more than the chicken. But, I think his ball should roll much further when he bites the dust. I mean, basketballs just roll forever.
Bluetooth is great. Except when it isn’t. With the advent of Bluetooth Low Energy, iOS8 and OSX Yosemite, Macs and iDevices are intensively using Bluetooth to negotiate peer-to-peer connections (i.e. for AirDrop or Handoff). One major motivation to upgrade to an iPhone5s was compatibility with these features. AirDrop to my own phone can work, but it’s […]
I can’t resist to have a stab at this one. Listening to Jason Snell and John Gruber this morning, I had this idea. Is the big one an iPad Nano? Solves the name problem (one iPhone 6), and the size problem. The 5.5in model is just too big to be a phone, isn’t it? Edit: Dieter Bohn […]
If you love podcasts as much as I do, you might be interested to try a new app for the iPhone from Marco Arment, called Overcast. Marco has been teasing the release of this app on his podcast (ATP, with John Siracusa and…. that other guy) for some time and I’ve been looking forwards to […]
Some good news and some bad news. In our meeting today, the lab iPad connected automatically to the Mac Mini (running AirServer) and allowed AirPlay mirroring of its screen. Useful in itself, we were surprised to see that Dropbox was not up to date. Why not? No internet connection, because Wifi was turned off on […]
The most popular page on this site by far is the brief explanation of how to use AirServer on a Mac Mini to make an AirPlay host that needs no WiFi network.The popularity of this information suggests to me that at least a few people are trying to do that. In the latest version of iOS, […]
TLDR: you have to turn off iCloud backup of your photos, and reinstate it, to get the free space and the size of your backup to update (i.e. reduce) when you delete photos from your phone. Disclaimer – if you delete precious photos on my advice, I accept no responsibility! Backup all your photos first! […]
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