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  • Wemo Smart Video Doorbell review: The new HomeKit doorbell of choice

    george kaplangeorge kaplan
    So the Wemo has a wider viewing angle than the Logitech, and the Logitech provides color night vision, excellent HDR (more important than many realize until it’s installed and being used), costs $50 less, and looks less like something you’d have an oncologist look at.
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  • Smaller Mac Pro with Apple Silicon to join Mac mini refresh in 2022

    george kaplangeorge kaplan
    Seeing the reference to the G4 Cube made me feel both old and sad. 

    I loved my Cube; I had no need to expand it, but the fanless design meant it was quiet as a tomb. My office was in my bedroom then, but I could have the Cube on all night and it never made a peep. Back then, Windows desktop units often used cheap fans built with even cheaper bearings, and some fans could be heard in the background of a phone call. But the Cube made no noise at all, and the G4 chip in its day was pretty frisky. 
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  • Apple execs explain why you should use Apple Maps over competitors

    george kaplangeorge kaplan
    jingo said:
    Apple Maps has some really big UX fails which mean Imalways go back to Google Maps. In particular it is close to useless if you are the “navigator” while someone eslse is driving. A vast part of the screen is taken up with a panel showing details of the place when you search for a destination, and there are only two ways of seeing the map full screen (that I have found). Firstly you can click the X to close the panel, but then you lose the route. Secondly you can start the route, but there is no way of switching to a mode where you control what you are looking at, or lose the directions. 

    It surely should be possible to use it like a map book, but with the route displayed on it? This seems really fundamental to me but the UX designers seem to have almost wilfully stopped you from using it that way.

    Other things that bug me in CarPlay is that you can only have the display in dark mode or “automatic” when it seems to always be in dark mode as well. Why can’t you set it to always be in light mode? This doesn’t make any sense to me. The ideal scenario would be a quick and easy way to manually change it to the mode you want, not the mode that Apple seems to think you should want.

    Another failing is the difficulty in CarPlay of seeing what is coming up on the map a little bit further ahead than what is immediately in front of you. Viewing of the map is extremely limited.

    Finally another annoyance is that the warnings for speed cameras are only given when you are using it in routing mode. Why can’t you switch on the warnings even when you are not following a route?
    You may want to revisit your Settings. You should have a choice of Light, Dark, or Automatic. 
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  • 30 states working on digital drivers licenses, TSA will allow them soon

    george kaplangeorge kaplan
    JinTech said:
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    imwishing said:
    Would be awesome if you included the list of 30 states actively considering. It’s not like this is a print piece restricted by column inches and the information couldn’t fit. ☹️
    That is a quote from the press release from this trade group. There is a link to it in the article. It doesn’t list the 30 states. 
    So? AppleInsider is still misleading people with the title of this article and it's still clickbait.
    What is misleading exactly? 
    Uh the fact that they do not have a list of the 30 states?
    If you click the link at the bottom, you can request a full refund of the money you paid to access this site. 

    What a nation of whiny, entitled bastards we have become…
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  • The best weather apps for iPhone and iPad

    george kaplangeorge kaplan
    Fred257 said:
    I wish I could get weather on the Lock Screen. I’m tired of trying to get it there unsuccessfully. Apple wants you to buy their watch (which you can put the weather on the face of it). I’m tired of these products all different across the board. Dumping my iPhone for android..
    Hmmm…I have 6 different weather widgets on the info screen, accessed with a single swipe right from the home screen, and never felt disadvantaged by the 5 seconds needed for FaceID to unlock and make the one swipe. 

    I guess one really needs to know the weather constantly to feel a need to change OS as a result. 
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