Game 7, here we come. #BeRoyalKC
2014
Unbelievable. #BlueOctober #BeRoyalKC
ESPN Radio is blacking out the Royals game via their app?!
SiriusXM to the rescue.
Seems a little tone deaf to be highlighting their militarization at a kids event.
Watched a 65+ struggle to comprehend a restaurant loyalty program that uses an iPad camera and QR codes.
Windows 10: OneGet, a Linux-style package management framework neowin.net/news/windows-1…
If you were a retailer, why would you not embrace every possible way to take someone’s money?
I really don’t like watching local TV news.
Imagine my disappointment when I showed up at Panera Bread to get the only cashier who didn’t have an Apple Pay pad at her terminal.
Microsoft’s next version of Outlook for Mac appears in leaked screenshots theverge.com/2014/10/27/707…
So I cannot get instant personal hotspot to function from my Mac to either LTE iOS device. Works fine between iPad and iPhone.
Who knew the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer would sync up so well to ‘My Heart Will Go On’? fark.com/go/8466955
In other news, I finally got my flu shot and TDAP booster. Gotta protect the little. #HerdImmunity
Wife’s car just had new battery, alignment and water pump replaced. Now, new tires. When it rains, it pours.
On the bright side, this guarantees the World Series will be back in Kansas City next week! #BeRoyalKC #BlueOctober
What if Apple just decided to pull CurrentC from the App Store?
Twitter has taken control of Twitpic to preserve the 800m photos there blog.twitpic.com/2014/10/twitpi…
Merchants who are mad they can’t track me and store my personal data, after highlighting their inept security practices? Too bad.
My frustration with retailers isn’t a pro-Apple one. It’s pro-secure and modern payment solution. Tokenization and biometrics vs QR codes.
Merchants who are indifferent to Apple Pay, that’s fine. Those openly hostile to it will lose my business. Simple as that.
CVS disabling ApplePay? Just lost me to Walgreens. macrumors.com/2014/10/25/cvs…
Royals either will come back champions or get a chance to play at home again. Either way, good times. #BlueOctober #BeRoyal
Still Migrating
Friday, October 24, 2014
My second day transferring my iPhoto library to iCloud Photo Library seems to be going very well. The “optimize storage” feature on the iOS devices is going to save users a ton of space. Yesterday when I posted my last entry I had a 16GB iPad completely full (which was roughly 7GB of photos.) When I returned, all the photos had been uploaded to iCloud, and returned 5GB of space. No matter what I throw at this (and I have about 19GB of images in iCloud now) the devices sit around 2GB utilized for photo storage.
Major League Baseball, powered by Cisco UCS blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cis…
Ubuntu Utopix Unicorn. Wow.
Amazon Rewards Visa card now ready to load in Apple Pay 9to5mac.com/2014/10/24/ama…
Being able to AirDrop between Mac and iOS is really freaking handy.
Migrating Photos
Thursday, October 23, 2014
When I saw the new iCloud Photo Sync demo at WWDC, I was in love. Photo storage and syncing has been a struggle of mine for a while. I’ve bounced between external drives (which makes accessibility when I’m not at home difficult) and using local storage (which wastes expensive MacBook SSD space) … but never been happy. I’ve switched between Lightroom and Aperture for my “professional” images (AKA those taken when my Nikon DSLR) and mostly used iPhoto for my iPhone captured images.
Pixelmator team choose to design iPad app to look almost identical to the official iLife/iWork suite refresh. It’s looks great.
$5 for an iPad image editor that rivals Photoshop in almost every way, Desktop version is only $30.