‘A Mac’? Which Mac? If I don’t recognise this device (whose name you’re not telling me straight away), I can remove it in Settings. Yes, I can do the extra step of going to Settings > Apple ID (or Apple Account) and look through the — long, in my case — list of devices to see if some new device with a name I don’t recognise has perhaps appeared there.
There are, of course, far worse examples of bad or ambiguous UI; what’s annoying for me in this case is that this is yet another interface regression.
If AirPods never seem to fit quite right, you might find the slimmer EarPods slip into your ears more comfortably than the plumper wireless AirPods.
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They don't need charging, they work with just about anything, and they've quietly aged into a little slice of tech nostalgia.
Everybody loves wireless headphones – but perhaps everyone shouldn't. That's what Kamala Harris suggests, and she knows more than most of us: speaking to Stephen Colbert last week, she explained why her preference for wired earbuds over wireless ones wasn't because she's old-fashioned.
"I know I've been teased about this," she said. "But I like these kinds of earpods that have [a cable] because I served on the Senate Intelligence Committee."
While it’s always sad to learn that people are losing their jobs, the story itself shows that the transition from paid audio to video-first podcasts is well underway.
It’s okay to focus on being great at what you do, and as the flipside of that, focus on doing the things you’re great at. If you built a team of audio professionals, don’t think one video hire is your path to pivoting to video. Video existed when podcasts were born. TV didn’t kill radio. Multiple things can exist.
Through some trial and error, as well as more careful reading, I uncovered some useful tidbits that helped me solve the problem, and I think they will be useful if you’re ever faced with an audiobook you want to load.
Castro, the inbox and queue-based podcast app for iPhone, has just launched its first ever iPad app.
The death of a housefly is usually an unceremonious event. Within minutes of the insect’s appearance in our periphery, a tide of annoyance rises, and with the quick thwap of a swatter or rolled-up magazine, the bug is gone. Time Flies, a perception-warping bug puzzler, reimagines this inevitably short lifespan as an absurd tragedy – by providing the soon-to-perish pest with a bucket list.
While this log data can't be exploited remotely, the concern was that if the logs were shared or posted anywhere to help diagnose an issue or bug, it would also expose the sensitive TOTP secret to a third party.
Spotify today said that it is raising prices for Premium subscriptions in multiple countries across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region.
I think it's important to stay mindful of where the language is pushing you, and consciously decide whether to follow or resist.
A Virginia federal judge has ordered the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to award Apple federal trademarks covering its augmented reality software-development tools "Reality Composer" and "Reality Converter."
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said on Friday that the two phrases were distinctive enough to merit trademark protection, reversing a USPTO decision that the phrases could not be trademarked.
This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work. The UK has managed to create a law so poorly designed that it simultaneously violates privacy, restricts freedom, harms small businesses, and completely fails at its stated goal of protecting children.
Speaking of pivoting to video podcasts… Here I am, using my audio podcast player to sideload videos from a certain video website so that I can just listen.
I am so glad that Castro has found a good home with its new (actually, not so new already) owner and developer.
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