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gruber, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Your favorite iPhone Mastodon client (wish I could list more than 4 options in a poll, feel free to reply if your favorite isn't listed, e.g. the official Mastodon client):

gruber, 4 months ago to random

The alt text for this image was created by AI. Amazing feature in Ice Cubes.

gruber, 1 year ago to random

Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.

gruber, 8 months ago to random

This ad poster for the iMac is utterly perfect. Perfect photo, perfect slogan (the period at the end is key — “Yum” without the period wouldn’t quite play the same way), perfect relative scale and placement of the elements. Even the kerning is perfect — Apple Garamond never looked better or more timeless.

gruber, 6 months ago to random

Spitball idea for iOS: When doing a screen recording, automatically turn on Do Not Disturb for the duration of the recording.

So many times when I’m recording my screen, say, to have a video to send a developer with a bug report, the recording gets ruined by an incoming notification.

gruber, 10 months ago to random

The proof that System 7.0 was rock solid was that the Read Me file told us so, on a skeuomorphic dithered rock:

gruber, 6 months ago to random

I’m seriously trying not to dunk on Humane, but this screen capture is gold.

gruber, 1 month ago to random

Kubrick predicting iPad-like tablets and vertical video in 1968.
https://botsin.space/@2001faster/112168316108705131

gruber, 4 months ago to random

Had another, more wide-ranging, demo with Apple Vision Pro today. Ask me anything.

Me, sitting on a couch, wearing an Apple Vision Pro, making a pinch gesture with my right hand.

gruber, 1 year ago to random

Perfect example of one of the dozen or so reasons why Mastodon is doomed to relative obscurity and Bluesky is going to thrive: petulant nannyism:

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

gruber, 2 months ago to random

Merrick Garland has bungled the January 6 insurrection case against Trump so badly that Trump’s likely not to face trial before the election, which, if he wins, will render everything moot and put the very idea of American democracy at the gravest risk it's ever faced.

But he's got the green bubbles thing covered.

gruber, 7 months ago to random

The ads in Apple News are both high-class and high-resolution.

gruber, 8 months ago to random

Always in flux, our language is:

gruber, 8 months ago to random

Assuming this is technically possible, it’s a great idea.

From: @sidb
https://mastodon.cloud/@sidb/110990404214818497

gruber, 1 year ago to random

This is an A+ video: https://www.tiktok.com/@sk_griffith/video/7228747766829305130

gruber, 11 months ago to random

I spent about 30 minutes using/touring Vision Pro yesterday. Ask me anything.

gruber, 5 months ago to random

I find it fun and very useful to connect my iPhone to a Bluetooth keyboard. Makes for an amazing portable travel setup. But it drives me batty that Cmd-Tab doesn’t work in the iPhone variant of iOS. Feels downright spiteful, to be honest.

(Would be really cool to add iPadOS’s trackpad cursor support to iPhoneOS too. Why not?)

gruber, 9 months ago to random

Someone tell the people at Google Drive that you don't include punctuation characters like “+” or “-" when showing keyboard shortcuts. Just ⌘V, not ⌘+V. You know, like every menu in every Mac or Windows apps for the last 39 years.

gruber, 5 months ago to random

My prediction is that Apple will make changes—fixing bugs and/or closing loopholes—that break Beeper Mini. It’s untenable that there’s unsanctioned client software for a messaging platform for which privacy and security are a primary feature.

It’s a very nice app, remarkably clever, and for now works like a charm, but if Apple wanted an iMessage client for Android they’d release an iMessage client for Android. Seems irresponsible for Beeper to charge a subscription for an unsupported service.

gruber, 4 months ago to random

Whenever I log into LinkedIn I feel like I’m under attack.

gruber, 3 months ago to random

What are the best / most popular PWAs for phones? Bonus points for ones that work better on Android, double bonus if they only work on Android.

First two on my list (neither of which seem to work any better on Android/Chrome than iOS/WebKit):

https://phanpy.social/

https://app.color.io/

gruber, 3 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

If you own an Apple FineWoven iPhone case and have used it regularly for the last few months:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/02/24/finewoven-joanna-stern

gruber, 10 months ago to random

Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.

Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.

gruber, 6 months ago to random

This sort of hyperbole furthers the notion that Nvidia : today :: Cisco : dot-com rush.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23962497/nvidia-says-generative-ai-will-be-bigger-than-the-internet

gruber, 1 month ago to random

Electron.