New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

PISS TAPE

what is the app with the series of color blobs at the top of their iPad marketing page?

Tried to find this out and failed

Pals, what do you use for downloading YouTube videos? Option to d/l in full quality would be nice.

Is there a gold standard?

We need to get back to the rose gold standard

youtube-dl on the command line should be tolerably easy to use

An interesting read

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt

Ned, how did I not know about this book??? Thanking u.

Silby: thanks dude!

So, the Dropbox iOS app can now edit text files according to the release notes!

Also, I have that iPhone book coming in tomorrow. :-)

Forstall’s been out & about a bit too. Computer History Museum(?) and WSJ, I think. Dunno if elsewhere too.

Fadell on that Wired magazine cover, baby

is there anything more boring than wired magazine in 2017 though

Thanks for the heads up re: Fadell/Wired.

(I totes bought the Apple Park issue btw and might now get this one too. Hehe.)

Actually, I think that might be an old issue of Wired UK? Hm.

Pulled the trigger on a Kaby Lake MBP 15", LG 4K monitor, and $pent my way into USB-C. Easily converted to the new keyboard and am justifying all the expense because my eyes are so much more happier now with the new monitor.

I've had my new imac i7 27" 512 ssd beast sitting here to my left as I've been reinstalling all software and not pulling the trigger on switching over until I finish a few projects on my current computer (2008 mac pro) while being a bit terrified of the daunting task of moving iTunes and Lightroom catalogs over and maintaining the libraries/catalogs. It looks nice but haven't used it yet! Got the numeric version of the keyboard, I like it.

The one they just stopped selling?

(The keyboard.)

no the wireless version that's an option when buying the new computer. I already have 2 of the wired versions.

Ah, cool.

So: putting all my files in Dropbox, signing up for Dropbox Plus, then using Time Machine to create a local backup of all my files a good way to have all my stuff everywhere and also have a backup that I control? Good idea?

Maybe something like Backblaze instead of a local backup?

No local backup means waiting like a day to restore your system if something happens

I've heard a lot of "Dropbox is not a backup" talk but as long as you're making a local backup too..? Seems like it could work. That said afaik Dropbox's "memory" only goes back 30 days so it's only useful as a snapshot of what you've got right now. Backup plans like Crashplan etc give you Time-Machine-like monthly snapshots reaching back as far into the past as you want to go.

You might want to think about whether you need to access, say, all your OS X apps and system files "anywhere"..

i don't trust time machine tbh. too many times it's said "sorry your backup disk is fucked i have to start again". and presumably it's going to be rewritten from the ground up for APFS.

a good minimal strategy is a complete local _clone_ of your entire drive + something in the cloud that you can set and forget for historical archives of your home folder, e.g. backblaze or crashplan.

the clone allows you to get back up and running quickly in the event of drive failure. the archives are archives.

in my old mac pro I had a system where the system disk cloned daily to a second drive and all my other disks backed up via Time Machine. I didn't have anything offline though.

Right now I have a 4 drive owc thunderbay attached to this fancy new iMac and currently everything it backing up to Time Machine and I'm trying Backblaze as well, which should take a million years.

I've also transitioned a lot of work into dropbox so I have that layer of security.

I think what I'll do eventually is get another giant external drive and clone the first one. Then I'll feel kinda secure.

I've done the full drive backup thing but tbh Time Machine has never failed me. maybe I'm lucky! I've done the clean OS install -> restore from Time Machine thing probably a half dozen times

I can't believe all you guys are putting your trust in the cloud with these different companies. Very brave!

do you mean brave as in data integrity (losing data, reliable backup) or as in data privacy? the latter is a little bit of a concern, the former less so

tbh dropbox is more of a mirroring service than a full backup. I've thrown parts of my home directory on it (documents, config files, text files, things I want to share between computers) but it's more of an availability mechanism than a backup

my workplace now has the full Microsoft Office cloud subscription and we're approved to use OneDrive for saving corporate files, so I'd assume it's passed a zillion auditing checklists. if corporate thinks it's ok for somewhat sensitive data, and they're still as slow-moving as ever, it's pretty much status quo

our corporate IT overlords have been begging us to move to OneDrive and I've tested it, and maybe would switch if Dropbox wasn't a million times easier. Though I think OneDrive JUST added the ability to use a contextual menu to share a link, as opposed to open the directory up in a browser.

for sure, even dropbox is changing as they become more corporate. they're dropping the ability to use their service as a generic file share to make it more palatable to copyright/corporate use as it is

I have a local clone of my mbp and a separate time machine backup. And use backblaze to back up the clone and other separate drives of archive data. I decided a couple of years ago I didn't want to worry about data loss any more.

Any random cloud company is more trustworthy than time machine.

I used a combo of time machine, dropbox, crashplan.

assuming money and bandwidth aren't concerns i would go with local backups + offsite. you never know when a freak fire/electrical incident will fry your hardware

it's going to take a year to backup everything, but I'm liking Backblaze.

So anyway

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/12/live-coverage-iphone-x-event/

i want some new stuff

I'm in the market for a new iPhone for the first time since I got my 5 in 2012, so I'm eagerly paying attention to whether the X is worth the bother.

a little creeped out by facial recognition

He's watching you

“His vision for Apple Park was to create an incredible workplace of the future, where engineers and designers could all be together.” pic.twitter.com/bhGSf9jv23

— MacRumorsLive (@macrumorslive) September 12, 2017

Still puzzled by the safe choice of Cook as CEO. He doesn't seem like a "visionary"

"They're not stores, they're town squares" little presumptuous there no?

"Boardrooms for entrepreneurs " lol

New Apple Watch has stand-alone cell access.

might think about getting one now

a little creeped out by facial recognition

they've already got yr fingerprints tbf

I don't recognize my own reflection some days, I could use this validation

hate the dumb red button

cover it in wite-out imo

im down w the new apple tv