New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

that's funny.

I'm happy with this. The new pro is probably gonna be sooo expensive that I'll just get an updated iMac and get rid of one of my monitors, but we'll see I guess.

With regards to the Mac Pro, we are in the process of what we call "completely rethinking the Mac Pro." We’re working on it. We have a team working hard on it right now, and we want to architect it so that we can keep it fresh with regular improvements, and we’re committed to making it our highest-end, high-throughput desktop system, designed for our demanding pro customers.

https://i.imgur.com/lZQuY1b.jpg

i guess apple thinks daring fireball is the voice into the pro community?

― 龜, Tuesday, April 4, 2017 9:34 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck, we're doomed

As a professional software developer what I want most is a worse computer.

Switched recently from an iMac to a desktop PC at home - Windows still has its problems but it's awfully nice to not need an external HD, USB hub, etc. just to be able to hook up my peripherals.

The last regular desktop Mac Pro was great - easy to access for changing/adding HDs, it wasn't unsightly (if you give a shit about that), over two versions and six years I don't think I ran into a single hardware problem. It was huge but maybe just get your industrial designers to make one half as tall (don't need the SuperDrive bay, cut it down to two HD slots). Done.

i have a 2007 macbook pro that is still running like a dream. I do want one of those 4K ipad pros though but i dont have $1K to throw at it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/10/student-reimagines-apple-music/

college student makes font smaller - everybody goes bananas

https://i.imgur.com/agXfrW0.jpg

"eliminated beats 1"

*applause*

i had completely forgotten about beats 1 until this thread bump

Does anyone have a good method for archiving a webpage? Say I read an article that’s only available in HTML, and I want a copy of it in my Dropbox. What would you do? I know you can create a PDF of a webpage in Safari, but is that usually of good quality? Is there another method? Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks dudes.

you could use instapaper or pocket or a similar tool that allows for permanently saving web articles for offline reading probably

Most of my text reading goes to Pocket - everything else goes to .webarchive files generated out of Safari. I suppose there's some sort of IFFT recipe that could send anything to Dropbox.

instapaper/pocket just create a copy on your device iirc

i'll poke around a little later, but I think there are some options?

you can access your instapaper articles from anywhere you have an internet connection

pinboard. it's not free but it works well.

instapaper re-downloads the article to each device, though. they're not keeping a copy afaik

instapaper sucks, ever since it was bought or Marco left or whatever happened. Half the time it won't even save articles. I just switched to Pocket. It's a bit annoying but has many more features and actually seems to work.

I think what markers is talking about isn't bookmarking or a reader view but actual archiving -- instapaper and pocket grab the page on demand, typically when you load the app or a link's pushed to it, pinboard does bookmarking, but if the site dumps the content or goes out of business none of those are doing archiving (which, legally, is a grey area)

I think saving a pdf out of safari still sucks since it gives you a printer view. The best way to capture a page exactly as originally shown was a WebKit-based app that just made a really long image (this one, I believe: https://derailer.org/paparazzi/), but if you want text that's far from ideal.

yeah don't bank on instapaper being around for much longer

(or pocket for that matter, getting bought by mozilla is not a good sign)

Huh. I have never had a prob with it! xposts.

Instapaper works offline, weeks later, so I am thinking it is actually archived on the device? But yes you do have to load it up at least once.

i guess it depends if the use case is archive for posterity or keep around in case i have time for a longread on a flight

I don't actually organize stuff on Instapaper though, it's really just a "read later" mechanism for me. I have resigned myself to never actually having usable offline archives of anything since I barely have time to read stuff in real-time much less a year later. I occasionally fantasize about being the kind of person who has meticulously catalogued history of all the pertinent articles I've ever read, or plan to read, organized around projects or subject matter. I wanted to buy Ulysses once. Like tears in the rain.

i used a thing called devonthink for that for a couple of years. it was a tremendous amount of work. now i just save to pinboard, put a search-friendly quote as the description, and accept the autosuggested tags, and hope the wget command he runs to archive actually saves the page (it often doesn't fully capture styling, but it's usually fine for the text)

I forgot pinboard actually does some lightweight archiving!

I love the idea of Pinboard but I care more about reading saved articles offline than ... all the other stuff. (I already have a solution for notes/links I want to save forever.) And none of the Android apps I looked at were good replacements for Instapaper.

what is the save links forever solution? (I use a text file)

i have a bunch of text files in notational velocity / dropbox

if it's something that i _really_ want to remember i put it on my blog, not because anyone reads it but because writing about stuff helps me think/remember

i have been meaning to unify the two systems for about ten years now

so a "read offline" browser option would be enough, or do you want to be able to read them later 10 years from now, (like a mini personal archive.org)?

instapaper is working ok for me. (i was actually under the impression that pinterest quickly fixed several issues with best beloved marco's abandonware but guess i must be mistaken)

he kind of let it sit there without any changes for several years, it got an influx of capital after the majority was purchased by some venture capital thing and they released the mobile apps, then it kind of plateaued again until that recent pinterest acquisition

I think the only issue was it wasn't saving new links for a couple days because the server admin alerts weren't properly transferred over and the database ran out of space

so a "read offline" browser option would be enough, or do you want to be able to read them later 10 years from now, (like a mini personal archive.org)?

yeah i just need good read offline functionality. the pinboard apps i looked at were all weirdly bad at that.

tbh I use services like ifttt to pipe stuff from pinboard to instapaper, or files to dropbox

little workflows

I've had issues with instapaper not saving links for months. I'm done with it.

fair enough

the software developer in me wants to plead for you to officially report the bug though

Does anyone have a good method for archiving a webpage? Say I read an article that’s only available in HTML, and I want a copy of it in my Dropbox. What would you do? I know you can create a PDF of a webpage in Safari, but is that usually of good quality? Is there another method? Anyone have any experience with this?

Are you all missing the obvious? In Safari you can just go File – Save As and it'll save it in web archive format, with images etc embedded, for offline viewing. It works pretty well.

But yeah, if you just want the bare bones then Pocket works a lot better than Instapaper these days. Evernote can do it too.

Hi all. Thanks for the responses.

I am not talking about read it later stuff like Instapaper and Pocket. I’ve used both of those, and now I use Reading List, which is built in to Safari. That stuff is fine for its intended purpose.

What I am looking at doing is creating a permanent copy of a webpage that I can store in Dropbox for later reference. I think mh was the one who brought up using a service to create an image of a webpage. That’s a possibility, although probably not ideal. (Perhaps I could do that in addition to something else.)

I could also create a pdf of a page, which might be the way to go. Unfortunately, Safari’s “Export as PDF...” kind of sucks ass. Is there a better tool that gives you an accurate pdf copy of a webpage?

Finally, I guess I could just download the webpage as a webpage and all of the included files too. (Someone might’ve mentioned some webarchive shit, whatever that is? Perhaps I should look into that.)

Here are some pages I might want to archive:

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in

Yeah. In Safari it's literally as simple as File – Save As.

It'll bundle up all the related images it needs into the one web archive file.

yeah, Safari's webarchive is pretty good compared to older options, Chrome seems ok. If you want to evaluate how well it does, you can always try saving a page then killing your network connection to make sure you're seeing what's archived and not some trickery that's still pulling stuff from the web

Alba-- Interesting. Thank you.

mh-- Not sure I’ve ever done the webarchive thing, at least on purpose. Might have to try it out.

Found this last night too: http://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html

american iphones have google assistant now

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2017/02/05/12/apple-tcs.jpg

Someone has illustrated all 96 pages of Apple's T&Cs in the style of famous cartoons

R Sikoryak. I've been a fan of his since reading his The Metamorphosis in the style of Peanuts and Dante's Inferno in the style of Bazooka Joe. He does a lot of stuff like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Masterpiece-Comics-R-Sikoryak/dp/1897299842/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252881734&sr=8-1

iCloud Photo Library issue: Photo Library seems to work fine between the iOS Photos app running on my iPhone 6 and the Photos app on icloud.com. The Photos app on my iMac, however, is stuck on “Updating...” and no new photos are showing up. This has been going on for a while, and I haven’t been able to figure out how to fix it. It sort of resolved itself at one point, but now it’s still fucked up. Thoughts? Do I need to go to the Apple Store?

Make a new smart album on your Mac called "Not on iCloud" and assign it this condition:
Photo - is - unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library

My guess is that a photo(s) somewhere on your Mac library is horking things up. Creating this album makes it easy to ID which one. Usually an export, delete, reimport the export does the trick.

ugh I'm overdue for an iPhone upgrade but all these iPhone 8 rumors make it look like something that you can't put in a case (possible home button/fingerprint sensor on the back, edge-to-edge display, etc)