I am not the only one who took his time to publicly lament Edge’s move to Chromium. Check out this (more thought out and generally better) piece by Peter Bright over at Ars Technica. I find this anecdote particularly worrying: A person claiming to be a former Edge developer has today described one such action. […]
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Over a week ago, Microsoft announced that its Edge Browser will migrate from EdgeHTML to open source Chromium. Corporate Vice President for their rendering engine. Windows Joe Belfiore, writes: Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge… As part of this, we intend to […]
Guilherme Rambo at 9to5mac writes: We believe, from looking at some information found on the latest watchOS 5 beta, that the resolution will be 384×480. For comparison, the resolution on the current 42mm Apple Watch Series 3 is 312×390. If true, these new Apple Watches will have more pixels than the original iPhone.
Adam Fischer provided a bunch of excerpted quotes from his lengthily titled book Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) to NYMag. The article features a generous amount of quotes from the likes of Andy Hertzfeld, Tony Fadell, and even John […]
Mike Wuerthele, writing for AppleInsider: After several back-to-back tests, keeping the processors warm and the fans running, we were able to regularly get impressive scores of up to 916. Using Intel Power Gadget, we clocked the processor speed averaging around 2.3Ghz and 2.6GHz, almost exactly what we were getting with the i9. Regardless of whether […]
From Jonathan S. Geller at bgr.com: Apple is planning an interesting partnership and a potential acquisition of AgileBits, maker of the popular password manager 1Password… According to our source, after many months of planning, Apple plans to deploy 1Password internally to all 123,000 employees. While the details seem somewhat suspect (overheard conversations), this makes total […]
From Peter Bright at Ars Technica: Compared to the Surface Pro, it has a smaller screen (10in, 1800×1200) And Even with the reduced price, it retains all the major Surface design elements: a variable position kickstand, 8MP rear/5MP front cameras with Windows Hello facial recognition, the Surface Connect magnetic charging and dock port, and a […]
Just over two years after my snippet renaissance, I’ve finally put some time into working together a hack to address one of my biggest wants — snippet variables. As someone who heavily uses TextExpander’s Script Snippets feature, the benefit of being able to pass a variable to a snippet has long seemed obvious. Nothing illustrates […]
While originally posted here, I decided my other blog was better suited to my non-technology ramblings. If you like my writing here and/or are also a listener to the fantastic Reconcilable Differences, feel free to check it this post.
Juli Clover over at MacRumors has an interesting comparison between the flagship laptops from Apple and Microsoft. Like many of Microsoft’s computers1 as of recent, the Surface Book 2 looks like a good machine that I am sure many will find compelling and seeing the laptops stacked on top of each other really illustrates the […]