This study out of Cornell raises a lot of questions for me. When the dust settled, researchers found that Google’s AI has an IQ of about 47.28, putting it slightly below the IQ of an average six-year old. Siri, in contrast, din’t fare all that well, with researchers finding that Apple’s AI checked in with an IQ of 23.9. First, do people still consider IQ a thing worth comparing in people, let alone an artificial intelligence?

The iOS browser iCab has a dedicated download feature that makes collecting stuff from around the web very easy. Once an item is added to the download area of iCab, it still contains the source URL. Items are managed right within iCab and they can even be combined into a single zip file right within the app. iCab now supports iOS 11’s Drag and Drop feature but the easiest way to add items to the Download area is with the press and hold action sheet.

At the end of my last post I included a rather long list of URLs. It was the a-tag links from the body of the article, but collected together with their page title to make it a little easier to read the reference the articles in order. That list was compiled by the iOS app Workflow. I’m skeptical that Workflow will continue to get the developer love that got it onto my home screen, but I still think it’s useful today.

I wonder if the folks living through the beginning of the industrial revolution understood the dramatic impact mechanization and automation would have on their daily lives. It probably felt gradual. First it was cheaper to make good iron. Next, the amazing new steam engine caught their fancy. It would have felt slow at first. Marvelous inventions that promised increased prosperity and reduced human effort. In the long term this was certainly true, but only after a major upheaval of civilization.

There are a couple of people on the internet that I trust their recommendations implicitly. David Sparks is one of them. He has earned that trust through diligence and caring about what he does. He’s never steered me wrong. Now David and Brett Terpstra have a new training series full of pretty stellar tips for the Mac. I recommend the Vimeo version just because it also works on the AppleTV really well.

You can drag and drop an email from a mailbox in Mail for iOS 11. Hell yes! This works great with DEVONthink To Go. It doesn’t work with Apple Notes which is a strange omission.

Not to be outdone this week, iThoughts received a few new iOS 11 features: Siri integration Drag and Drop Both are nicely demonstrated in the app-maker’s video below: To use the Siri integration configure your quick capture map. This makes adding new items to an iThoughts inbox very easy. Trigger Siri and “create a new note in iThoughts.” Siri then asks what you want to call the note.

This Macstories article by Ryan Christoffel is a treasure trove of “shelf” apps for iPad Pro and iOS 11. They’ve done most of the heavy lifting and I benefit from a lax publishing schedule. I mostly agree with Ryan’s choices but I think we have different needs. I prefer Dropped over the other options. Read Ryan’s review for context. I’ll add a few additional comments here. I don’t like Scrawl Pouch because it fails at what makes iOS 11 Drag and Drop great.

I love this link at Neatoramma about the creation of the Portal video game demo. It’s a high point of the week. People think quick success in your career will feel great. I think it mostly does but there are still some rough parts with early achievement. What’s left? “I guess I just wanted to try something different,” she says when asked why she left Valve. “I had wanted to be a game developer since I was 10.

Procreate for iOS was updated to version 4 this week and it’s a biggie. Besides a nice update to the interface, version 4 adds layer masks and new brush settings across all brush types. Procreate is such a great app for amateurish noodling and pro-level creation. The app is one of my top picks for use with the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro. Here’s a nice tutorial by Brad Colbow: