I’ve been testing Apple’s new HomePod for the last week or so, and this is the first product review I’ve written that could be accurately summarized in the length of a tweet, and an old-school 140-character tweet at that: HomePod does exactly what Apple says it does, doesn’t do anything more than…

Apple’s HomePod is easily the best sounding mainstream smart speaker ever. It’s got better separation and bass response than anything else in its size and boasts a nuance and subtlety of sound that pays off the 7 years Apple has been working on it. As a smart speaker, it offers best-in-class voice…

Tim Cook Apple chief talks about tax affairs and overuse of tech at launch of school coding initiative Samuel Gibbs Last modified on Fri 19 Jan 2018 13.43 EST Tim Cook visits Harlow college in Essex, which will use a new Apple coding initiative.Photograph: Brooks Kraft/Apple T he head of Apple, Tim…

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When the iPhone X launched, a lot of designers were put off about the screen shape. Those complaints have mostly died down, but I haven’t seen much design-nerd talk about cool corner treatment details. Fortunately, deep nerd shit is my specialty. iPhone X screen shape What’s Your Angle? When you’re…

The following are seven things I say repeatedly to our adoptive child. Recently, I began to notice how much I could probably use hearing some of them said to me: Don’t be afraid—there will be enough. This is something we say to our son throughout the day every day. “Buddy, you don’t need to be…

One thing that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, especially today on Veterans Day, is what it means to have a platform. I guess it’s tempting, sometimes, to think that it doesn’t mean anything. With everyone out there on Twitter, and Facebook, and IG and all of that … with all of the opinions…

For a decade the Home button was the center of iPhone navigation. No matter where you were or what you were doing, clicking Home once or twice would bring you exactly where it says it will — Home. Depending on how often or how long you clicked it, the Home button would also do a number of other…

Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive said that constant use of an iPhone is "misuse." Getty Apple's two most senior executives have answered questions about people overusing smartphones by suggesting they get an Apple Watch. Studies show that college students who don't bring their smartphone to class…

The question of "which platform to build an app for first" has been a popular one for the past five years . Often ideological or headline-focused, the platform wars may be over for now but the need to answer this particular question remains. Similar to guidance about the costs of apps , the answer…

When we published our massive review on how much an app costs back in 2015, we had no idea it would become the top resource on the web. Two years later, that piece is still considered the definitive resource in our industry. It’s because of its popularity that I feel compelled to revisit this…

You can have the best pencils in the world, but unless you know how to draw with them, they're pretty useless. You're fairly sure you know how to hold a pencil, right? Well of course you do... but are you holding it correctly to draw? The grip we use for day-to-day writing is very inefficient and…

Our family just returned from a wonderful vacation to the mountains of British Columbia. It was stunningly beautiful! We spent our first day there relaxing at this picture-perfect lake: My husband and kids had a blast swimming out to a wooden platform in the middle of the lake and taking turns…

Suppose you were the CEO of Apple in 2005 when a couple of intergalactic visitors with time-warping technology offered you this bet: Design and manufacture a small mobile device that seamlessly combines the functionalities of a cellular phone, a web surfer, an audio/video player and a small PC, and…

iOS 11 introduces a huge number of major changes to the operating system, ranging from a redesigned Control Center experience to a host of new features specific to the iPad, but along with all of these major changes, outlined in our iOS 11 announcement post, there are also dozens of smaller changes…

As I write this, it has been one year since Smile introduced TextExpander 6 for Mac and TextExpander 4 for iPhone and iPad, along with the bombshell news that the new versions would be free but require a paid subscription at textexpander.com (see “ TextExpander 6 Adds Teams and Subscription Billing…

The real push towards subscription based apps started in June 2016 when Apple announced that subscription pricing was available for regular apps . I'm noticing more and more indie developers considering the move, and some have already made the jump to this new pricing model. Some apps are perfect…

Hot on the heels of Sketch 43, we've used this release to focus on one of Sketch's most fundamental features — Artboards. We've also added better support for missing fonts, dramatically improved resizing controls and added a…

83.7K 312 1281 126 86.5K Family Mummy Aug 19 2013 Filling Your Child's "Attachment Tank" Tips to building a strong connection with your child by: Stumble Most people have heard of the term "attachment" through the phrase "attachment parenting." Separate of that parenting style, the word attachment ,…

Last November, my mother me called around 10 p.m. My boyfriend and I were in the middle of dinner — we eat late because of his work schedule — and I squinted at my phone before answering. I’d been trying to spend less time messing around with my phone, especially during meals, but my mother had…

Hathway is pleased to announce Alexander Mahernia as its newly assigned Chief Creative Officer. In addition to several other recent key hires, Mahernia’s entry to the executive team reflects the company’s commitment to broadening its omnichannel customer experience capabilities to include DAOR and…

Feature Image: Screengrab from the hilarious satire YouTube video by SAIH Norway I’d like to add that this is not a new idea. The problems associated with voluntourism are well known among the professionals who work in international development. I have added many links at the end of this post to…

Time to travel Puerto Rico like a local. After spending the past 31 years in Puerto Rico, it’s unbelievable that I still discover new beautiful places to explore. This island is truly an adventurer’s paradise, and I can tell you how to get straight to its heart when you visit. Last year, I…

Share on Facebook Christian subcultures are an entertaining phenomenon. Multiple brands of Christianity claim the same Lord and read the same Bible, and yet they promote a set of values sometimes as different as apples and orangutans. I once heard a story about a Christian woman from the East Coast…

Eddy Cue , Apple's SVP of Internet Services, spoke at Code Conference tonight alongside Planet of the Apps producer Ben Silverman to preview the show and debut the first trailer from the program. Cue and Silverman also teased several unique aspects of the show, including a dedicated app that allows…

Q: How can I find more opportunities to find clients? A: Rumor has it that there was once a time, centuries and centuries ago, where precious stones like rubies and sapphires lay strewn about on the surface of the Earth, free for anyone who came along to pick up and keep. But, as time passed, these…

For the last few years Christians have been singing worship songs that include lyrics like “ keep my eyes above the waves, when oceans rise …” and yet have rejected refugees who’ve seen loved ones die beneath waves, who themselves have literally struggled to keep from drowning in oceans. Those…

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Basecamp is a web-based project management tool, and like so many other software tools and startups before it, the creators of Basecamp made it for themselves. They just needed a decent way to manage projects and collaborations. It just happens that other people want to use it too. The company now…

To die-hard fans, Apple Inc.'s Macintosh sometimes seems like an afterthought these days. Mac upgrades, once a frequent ritual, are few and far between. The Mac Pro, Apple's marquee computer, hasn't been refreshed since 2013. The affordable and flexible Mac mini was last upgraded in 2014. And when a…

Brand apps can be great, but they aren't worth the development and marketing costs for many. Credit: tomeng/iStock App-install ads are a major success story in marketing these days. Facebook claims it will be responsible for 4 billion app downloads by 2017, representing up to 20% of its ad revenue.…

One of the most important decisions to make about your mobile photography is which mobile editing software to use. There are several major contenders, and they all have different features. Priime , a San Francisco based company, developed their app in collaboration with some of the world’s top…

After only a few days with Apple’s wireless AirPod headphones, it’s clear that there will be a huge platform business based on the reliable, persistent availability of a contextual artificial intelligence that can talk to you and receive commands. That platform will benefit Apple first, but it will…