MyAppleMenu - Wed, Apr 29, 2015

Wed, Apr 29, 2015The Arm-Sleeve-Tattoo Edition

Will we see glances on the next iOS? You know, like little square tiles arranged on the Today’s View?

— HC (@myapplemenu) April 28, 2015

Nothing Between You And Your Watch

Will an arm sleeve tattoo prevent you from wearing the Apple Watch? If it's a solid color, perhaps.

More Than Music On Your Watch

Like all workarounds, it’s not very straightforward, and to be honest, a bit cumbersome, but if you want to listen to podcasts on your Apple Watch without an iPhone, this is currently your only option. In this post, we’ll show you how to sync podcasts with your Apple Watch.

It's not exactly the same, but it reminded me of the days of downloading podcasts episodes and syncing them to my iPod mini in the days before Apple added support for podcasting.

Stuff.

If you’re looking to quickly build a standalone webpage for a school report, newsletter, holiday highlights journal, or almost anything else, Slate is a terrific option. There are some hard limits to what Slate can achieve today, but for many projects it’ll be the easiest and best tool to use, and the result you get with very little effort is truly impressive.

TaskInsight features task list and timeline management with iCloud support on Mac OS X.

In order to make this work, I use Audio Hijack’s Time Shift block, which lets me pause and rewind the audio I’m capturing—TiVo style!—as I listen.

Develop.

More importantly, however, passing is not a good strategy for the organization as a whole: not only does it involve an element of deception between colleagues, bosses, and subordinates, it also perpetuates the myth that those who are successful are also all wholly devoted to work. Yet, a critical implication of this research is that working long hours is not necessary for high quality work. The experiences of those men who passed show clearly that, even in a client service setting, it is possible to reorganize work such that it is more predictable and consumes fewer hours.

This rule that Watch apps that only tell time will be rejected has actually been enforced since Apple started accepting WatchKit submissions as many developers complained to find their apps had been rejected for this reason. The documentation change now formalizes this rule into an official policy.

Notes.

“Some flights are experiencing an issue with a software application on pilot iPads,” American Airlines wrote on Twitter. According to various user reports, iPads went blank for both captains and copilots.

When One Model Arrives Before The Other

My husband stole my Apple Watch. @pennjillette

— Emily Jillette (@EmilyJillette) April 29, 2015

Remember

But I do think Cerf has a point, that we should take long-term data persistence more seriously. And persistence of access, not just shoving a tape in the attic to gather dust. Will anyone in the future much care? I’d like to think so. Even if we continue to screw things up, hopefully there will be someone left to be interested in what went wrong.

Parting Words

When people are nice in real life, but mean & insulting online, it is the real life persona that is fake.

— John Robinson (@johnrobinson) April 28, 2015

Thanks for reading.