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Gruber on Beats Management Not sure why anyone is surprised by this arrangement. Cue has long run Apple’s entertainment/iTunes stuff, and that’s where Beats Music clearly fits. As for the hardware reporting to Phil Schiller, that’s a little less obvious, but makes sense: what Beats needs as an Apple subsidiary is product marketing, a replacement […]

Meet the New Apple and What Steve Jobs Wouldn't Have Done are both two good articles that look at the changes in Apple since the passing of Steve Jobs. But the big story — and the big picture — is that Apple seems to have come out of deep freeze. It feels light, like it’s […]

Setting a Contact’s Default Address in Apple Mail. It shouldn't be this hard.

I probably use about 10% of LaunchBar, but I'm bookmarking these here to read up on how I can do more: Take Control of LaunchBar Mac Gems: Veteran Gem LaunchBar gets better and better Be more productive with LaunchBar, Part 1 Be more productive with LaunchBar, Part 2 A Review of LaunchBar and a History […]

You know what it is? That the damn Siri realizes my name is spelled "Erik" - not only on my iPhone, but on the friends who iMessage me or who say my name in other contexts. Perhaps the type-ahead stuff will help with that. I've always found it ridiculous that my iPhone couldn't be trained […]

A video about Bentleys (the cars) shot entirely on an iPhone 5S:

Legal Process Guidelines for U.S. Law Enforcement is an interesting read. And not too long. FaceTime and iMessages are end-to-end encrypted. Third-party apps are safe. Your email, call history, SMS messages, camera rolls (photos/videos), and a few other things are not.

The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung | Vanity Fair One day in March 2011, cars carrying investigators from Korea’s anti-trust regulator pulled up outside a Samsung facility in Suwon, about 25 miles south of Seoul. They were there ready to raid the building, looking for evidence of possible collusion between the company and wireless […]

Apple - Press Info - Apple Leadership - Angela Ahrendts. She can't do worse than the last guy… Also, this is cool: Parallax Scrolling.

PulpFiction was great. Cyndicate was even better. But now neither are really no more, and it's only a matter of time before Cyndicate stops working. That will be a sad day for at least two or three people. Namely myself, Brad, and one other person I know who loves Cyndicate. I love how feeds are […]

Apple and Nike are gearing up for a big announcement this fall? I dunno. Tempted to say "I'll pass."

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Memories of Steve, by Don Melton. I'm not going to quote anything. Just go read it.

The Second iWork ’13 Update introduces a lot of nice things. Hopefully, this indicates that iWork is not languishing as it did for many years.

Michael Tsai shares a tip about searching the iTunes store via Alex Heath. A LaunchBar shortcut for it is: https://fnd.io/#/search?mediaType=all&term=*.