Watch test footage from a new low-light 4K VR underwater camera / Boing Boing This was interesting to me because so much underwater video is done with artificial lighting. It’s very different seeing it native. I love the HDR on my Apple TV and LG display. The worst part of most modern movies is how much takes place in low light with little to no consideration for how it will look outside of the theater.

I’ve had a frustrated love affair with OmniFocus for many years. My bonafides with GTD, task managers, and OmniFocus is easily discovered here on Macdrifter. This article is concerned with the latest version of OmniFocus for iOS. I dedicated myself to running my home and work projects with nothing but OmniFocus 3 for the past month. It’s been mostly successful. TL;DR: Tags and new Perspective options are highlights of a dated user experience.

The rough edges of HomeKit, Siri, and iOS show themselves a lot more now that I have multiple HomePods in the house. I have a strong suspicion that the teams behind these products aren’t designing them for a fully integrated and automated home. Let’s just take the case of HomePod control. I can use a voice command to tell the HomePod to play on either of my HomePods. I can tell it to play in multiple rooms.

From Eli Hodapp at TouchArcade: Moments ago, Apple announced that they’re killing the affiliate program, citing the improved discovery offered by the new App Store. (Music, books, movies, and TV remain.) It’s hard to read this in any other way than “We went from seeing a microscopic amount of value in third party editorial to, we now see no value." I genuinely have no idea what TouchArcade is going to do.

Another great update for Procreate on the iPad. Most notable is the addition of “liquify” tools. I love Procreate, even as a non-artist. I enjoy doodling, drafting, and just messing around. With apps like Procreate, Art Studio Pro, and Affinity Designer the iPad Pro is one of the most creative devices I own. I think there’s still opportunity for improvment of the Apple Pencil but I enjoy using it every single time.

Last day to get a sweet Mac Power Users hoodie. I know it’s easy to forget in July, but it will get cold again.

It’s news to me, but this is a nice little time saver in Drafts 5 for iOS. To switch keyboard rows, just swipe down on the closure icon to the right. And, yes, I use landscape mode even if Greg resents it.

This short summary by Jordan Merrick is very promising. Since its acquisition by Apple, I’ve been very skeptical of the Workflow app. Apple tends to behave like a child excited to buy a new toy only to leave it in the driveway to get run over at the end of the day. While Workflow has received a few minor updates since the acquisition it felt like development was stalled. Clearly I was wrong, so take the following opinions with a grain of salt.

GoodNotes is a terrific app for handwritten notes. I often need a combination of diagrams, text, and plain old doodles for meeting notes. The advantage of GoodNotes has always been its excellent handwriting recognition and export. But, I’ve switched to Notability since a recent update that adds handwriting recognition on top of Notability’s other more refined features. Handwriting The ink system in GoodNotes is subtly better than Notability. It feels a bit smoother and more realistic to me.

Now that I’ve added a HomePod I’m finally getting around to configuring HomeKit with all of my devices. One Hue Bridge was no sweat but I have a second Bridge at a far end of the house. This Bridge refused to associate with HomeKit. I’ve left it that way for over a year but now I want everything in HomeKit with Siri control. The root of the problem was caused by my network configuration.