Apple
You come here for the intermittent Apple punditry and the Doctor Who reviews, and since Who doesn’t return until Sunday, I guess we’re doing Apple. iOS 9 and watchOS 2 come out on Thursday morning if you’re in Australian time, but I’ve got them already because
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This is the ‘upcoming temperatures’ view in the Apple Watch weather app. * Which numbers are times? The ones where clock numbers normally go? No. * Which numbers are temperatures? The ones next to “ºC”? No! * Can I see from a glance whether the temperature is going up and down, and how
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General use As someone who hasn’t used a watch in at least a decade, it’s hard to ignore a nagging feeling of “what’s this for?”–despite the fact that a watch, in and of itself, is a pretty established device for a lot of people. So at
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iOS 8 [http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/design/] There’s a lot of nice stuff here; much of it feels like finally catching up to Android and Windows Phone, but hey, I’ll take it. What pleases me the most is that the iPad apps are taking inspiration from
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I’ve been using iOS 7 for a while now. Here are some thoughts, in no particularly good order. I’ve probably forgotten something. Background and Battery When I got my iPhone 5, I found myself significantly underwhelmed by its battery life. I’d rather assumed that the overall battery
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Someone at Apple knows how to design a list of TV episodes, showing helpful metadata and avoiding needless repetition of elements. They work on the App Store app. Unfortunately, this person has apparently been strictly forbidden from visiting the Videos.app team. The whole state of affairs causes me much
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Back in primary school, I used to take a bus to school. There were four buses that did the rounds to and from St Leonard’s; I was on bus number four. Once, while waiting for the bus home, kids started talking about which the best bus was. “Four’s
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If there's one thing I hate, it's when video stutters. It provokes in me an indescribable rage, and frankly I'm not entirely sure why. It used to mean I'd get tremendously angry when the microwave between my room and the PS3 got
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So, I got me an iPad. More out of curiosity than need. But so far it’s pretty impressive. The oddest thing was when the extended family came over and used it to look up places, browse the net, and look at photos while having coffee. I have a few
You can’t have everything. Nowhere is this clearer than in web based email apps, where try as I might I can’t quite get what I want. It’s been forced home to me again with the new MobileMe beta. This is a whole lot of whinging, but I’