As usual, Apple will announce they’ve made metric buttloads of money.

This video was way more interesting than it had any right to be.

I’ve read various versions of this story for years. It’s always fascinating and an instructive lesson that everyone can be fooled if they want to be.

The optimism for self-driving cars is great. It will drive innovation and excitement. But it must be tempered with reality.

I agree that Time Machine is the easiest backup to do and the one I recommend to people who don’t do other backups but I’ve been burned a couple of times with it so I also do backups with SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner – both great apps.

If you or someone you know is a gadget geek, these would make really interesting gifts.

This feels like it might go beyond just the usual corporate lawsuits.

I’ve always been fascinated by Air Force One, not only as a symbol of America but for its incredible (and mostly secret) technology and amenities.

I wasn’t going to download it regardless because it creates some truly awful photos but the security implications mean you shouldn’t download/use it either.

This is a very detailed data dump you can use to compare elements of two American cities. Everything from population to education to commuting income. I would have killed to have this kind of data easily available to me when I was in school.

While this probably isn’t much of a threat to most of us, the article is an interesting look into how Malwarebytes goes about investigating malware.

I’ve seen several stories about this over the years and it always fascinates me.

I don’t use WhatsApp but if you do, Fleishman does a good job of explaining the false headlines and how you can keep yourself secure on the platform.

Interesting list. There aren’t many places in the bottom half I’d actually want to live in though.

From a music industry perspective, what Apple is attempting to do is extraordinarily messy and difficult and mostly out of their control.

Apple: “Feel the magic of AirPods on iPhone 7”

This makes the kid in me very sad (I still remember the first circus I ever saw as a little kid in Nova Scotia) but the adult is happy the animals will no longer be forced to perform.

I watched some of this yesterday and it’s very cool.

Not “potentially”. Definitely. It’s just a matter of when. I predict at/by WWDC 2017.

I didn’t see the dramatized version of the O.J. story but I really enjoyed this documentary about it.

I agree with Fleishman. When CR found its results to be so out of whack with what would be expected, they should have held off publishing their results until they figured out the issue.

We’ve all seen that video so it’s great to hear from someone involved as to the story behind it and the early iPhone development.

I’ve known Sal for years and there is no better person in the Mac Community. I wish I could go to this event.

Today, it seems like anything that can be imagined can be done through CGI but in the days of silent films, they had to use old school technology to create the “special” effects.

This is an oddly specific job posting.

This video, even with its annoying as hell music, shows what truckers go through trying to drive in winter conditions. I don’t envy them. This road is the Trans-Canada Highway about 30 miles east of where I live. I love riding that road in the spring in summer (it’s one of the prettiest in British Columbia) but you couldn’t pay me enough to drive it in the winter.

As a Nova Scotianer, I’d never seen an Amish buggy until, while riding my motorcycle through Pennsylvania, I came through a curve and saw a large pile of “dirt” in the middle of my line. Rear tire hit the dirt and squirted out from under me. Freaked me out. I looked behind me and realized it wasn’t dirt but horse manure. As I got ready for the next curve, I thought, “Where the hell did that come from?” Looking through the curve ahead, I saw the buggy in the road and literally laughed out loud. I slowed and came up behind the buggy and saw two small children in the back, facing rearward. It was a “buggy station wagon”! The kids waved to me, I waved back and then passed the buggy, still laughing inside my helmet.

As a motorcyclist, this is really interesting and I desperately want more information. This is not a production bike though. It’s very much just a proof of concept at this point. But, if it does come to market, it might help riders, especially beginners, deal with those low speed manoeuvres that can be so difficult.

I love this ad if only because they do it in Greek with English subtitles. I think that’s kind of cool of Apple.

There are a lot of articles you can read today about the launch of the iPhone ten years ago but very few of them will be with one of the principles involved.