Amazon Prime Day Sale on iPads and more

Amazon started its Prime Day Sale yesterday and it runs through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, July 16. If you have been thinking about getting a new iPad Pro, you can save some money if you do so before...

Microsoft Word Passes 1 Billion Installs on Google Play Store

Peter Thiel Says FBI and CIA Should Probe Google

Washington Post: ‘Apple Preaches Privacy. Lawmakers Want the Talk to Turn to Action.’

Airmail Adds Subscription for Push Notifications

Joe Rossignol (tweet, Reddit): Airmail for iOS is now free to download on the App Store, but push notifications and multi-account support have become premium features priced at $2.99 per month or $9.99 per year in the United States. The app was prev…

Fernando Corbató, RIP

Katie Hafner (via Rodney Brooks): Dr. Corbató, who spent his entire career at M.I.T., oversaw a project in the early 1960s called the Compatible Time-Sharing System, or C.T.S.S., which allowed multiple users in different locations to access a single…

Shape Up

Ryan Singer (Ryan Singer): This book is a guide to how we do product development at Basecamp. It’s also a toolbox full of techniques that you can apply in your own way to your own process. […] First, we work in six-week cycles. Six weeks is long eno…

Infinite Night Shift

Austin Johnsen (via Ashley Bischoff): TIL that if you go North of the Arctic Circle in the summer and bring a MacBook with Night Shift set to be triggered by sunrise/sunset, the process will go into an infinite loop because the sun never sets... I n…

Firefox 70 to add Social Tracking Protection features

If you’re concerned about your online privacy in the social sphere, Mozilla’s Firefox 70 browser may be what you’re looking for. The company has stated that it will be adding a dedicated social tracking protection component to its Firefox 70.0 updat…

Square Jellyfish Car Vent Phone Mount and Wireless Phone Charger – Review

Square JellyfishWireless Phone ChargerCar Vent Phone Mount $35.95 US Wireless Phone Charger $17.95 US Car Vent Phone Mount Square Jellyfish Car Vent Phone Mount The post Square Jellyfish Car Vent Phone Mount and Wireless Phone Charger – Review appea…

TechFan Episode 404 – Blockbusters of 1986

The summer movie blockbuster season is in full swing and David and Tim take the time to look at the biggest movie from 1986!  The post TechFan Episode 404 – Blockbusters of 1986 appeared first on MyMac.com.

Nilay Patel: ‘Facebook’s $5 Billion FTC Fine Is an Embarrassing Joke’

Apple Brings Back Texas Hold’em

FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement

Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings?

‘Robot Umpires’ Debuted in the Atlantic League All-Star Game

Former Tesla Employee Admits Uploading Autopilot Source Code to iCloud

Apple Disables Walkie Talkie App Due to Vulnerability That Could Allow iPhone Eavesdropping

SFUniversalLink

Jonathan Grynspan: As promised, API for macOS browsers to adopt universal links! Please review the header for details on how to adopt—ADC hasn’t got them yet. 🤐 Universal Links let certain HTTP links (e.g. Dropbox and Twitter, or hypothetically Zoom…

Mac Marketshare in Q2 2019

Eric Slivka: If accurate, Gartner’s estimates would put Apple with its lowest share of the U.S. PC market since the first quarter of 2014 and the lowest recorded on a global basis since Gartner started including Apple as a top global vendor in the t…

Local 1Password iOS Vaults No Longer Free

gross (via Hacker News): I have a workflow where I use 1Password on my phone - locally, no sync, do not want sync, can not use sync. Obviously this is not my main way of using 1Password, which I have been using now since 2011, mostly on Mac and iOS.…