Pixelmator is an extremely impressive application and it’s probably much cheaper than anyone would believe. Check out their demo of the repair tool functionality on their blog. It’s pretty mind blowing as part of a $30 Mac app.
Pixelmator | Mac | $30
Apple now details the requirements for third party bands. I doubt officially licensed bands will be all that much cheaper, given this:
Apple Watch lugs will be available soon through the Made for Apple Watch program.
The license terms seem relatively unencumbered though (minus the usual boilerplate about sublicensing).
From Lisa Vaas over on NakedSecurity:
That means that everybody who succumbed to the viral spread of the tool gave up metadata that included not only age and gender, the writers said, but also geolocation data
I’m assuming that some sort of authentication was required to get accurate geo location information beyond what is available from an incoming IP address.
I did think this was interesting though:
Not coincidentally, Microsoft was also busy at Build touting its new “Hello” authentication protocol, which supports three types of biometric authentication: fingerprint, iris and yes, facial recognition.
Plex ended April with a rather significant update for music libraries. The latest update makes it easier to edit the music library and provides long awaited features like multi-disc support. But if you are a Plex Plus subscriber you also get enhanced meta data through Gracenote.
I gave up on using Plex for music because I didn’t like the experience as well as my Synology Audio or iTunes Match. This update has prompted me to import my copious music collection back into Plex.
I’m not a designer. My taste is objectively bad and I actually like socks with sandals. I’m also not part of any clique that I am aware. But I do think I have a keen sense of authenticity.
The Layers Conference looks like one of three conferences I actually ever wanted to attend. Awesome people talking about the stuff that makes them excited is my favorite thing. Go ahead. Go read those bios and tell me that doesn’t sound great.
Nearly an hour and half about iOS Automation and one of the best Saisons around? What’s not to like about the latest Nerds on Draft? iOS 8.3 has really improved the toolchain for many people, but the quality of the apps are still what keeps me enthralled with the platform. More than ever before, there are terrific ways to automate even the most rudimentary tasks on iOS. Except, listening to this podcast.
No offense, because I can understand why someone may want to do this, but I don’t care if this site dissapears when I do. If you care about your site beyond the 80 year lifespan we are alotted, this is a detailed discussion of the pitfalls.
For example, a friend of mine once purchased lifetime hosting for $199 from a company called TextDrive which was later acquired by Joyent, and somewhere along the way the companies decided to shut down their service, then restart it, then shut it down again.
From Fraser Spiers:
I was initially confused about this as it’s not obvious what puts it into each mode but here’s the rule: if you have a Keynote presentation open in Keynote on your iPhone when you launch the Watch app, it will control that presentation. If you’re looking at the Keynote file picker when you launch the Watch app, it will go into Keynote Remote Remote mode and start trying to connect to Keynote on your Mac or iPad.
There’s a new app that uses Watson to scour social media time-lines and identify potentially racist, sexist or just general douche-baggery and flag it for you to delete. From ThinkProgress:
So maybe it’s good that Noah didn’t delete those tweets, and that there wasn’t an app like Clear to make it easier to erase them from the record. Maybe it was important for us to see Noah’s unflattering past, considering he is inheriting a position of tremendous influence, if not technical “news” authority (though to suggest The Daily Show is “just” a comedy show is to be willfully ignorant of what that institution has become under Stewart’s leadership).
Electron looks like a good option and I love the naming scheme (of course).
Electron is the cross-platform application shell we originally built for the Atom editor to handle the Chromium/Node.js event loop integration and native APIs.
Of note: Slack is listed as being built with Electron and the snazzy open source project Menubar is too.
