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The Selling-Other-Computers Edition Saturday, November 28, 2020

On The Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro, by Nadim Kobeissi

I love what Apple is doing here. I’m selling all my other computers. This is the computing experience I’ve been waiting for my whole life, and I’m satisfied.

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Shazam Promotion Offers Users Up To Five Free Months Of Apple Music, by Tim Hardwick, MacRumors

Apple is offering up to a five-month free trial of Apple Music to new users of the streaming service, with the promotion appearing in the company’s Shazam music identification app.

Apple’s Health Strategic Team Creates A Cool Video Ad Campaign For Lumipoints, by Niel S, MyHealthyApple.com

We have learned that Apple’s strategic health content team has been helping with designing the ad campaign for the roll-out of Lumipoints.

Coppice Is A New App For Cultivating Your Thoughts, by Oliver Haslam, iMore

Coppice is a difficult one to describe, but the gist is that the app wants you to fill it with your thoughts – no matter what they're about, it doesn't really matter – and then use the ability to link them together as a mechanism for finding commonalities and connections.

Neatsy App Aims To Solve Online Footwear Fit Problem, by Michelle Russell, Just-Style

Start-up Neatsy AI is tackling the problem of online footwear fit with an app that makes an accurate 3D foot scan using only an iPhone.

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I’m In Bed With A Stranger – And Finally Getting Some Sleep, by Hadley Freeman, The Guardian

My extremely longsuffering partner finally broke my well-established ban on solutions and suggested one. Once I stopped raging at him, I tried it and – extremely Chandler Bing voice here – OH. MY. GOD. I always sneered at sleep apps because staring at your phone is so clearly self-defeating if you want to sleep. But out of deranged desperation, I downloaded Calm. If you’ve heard of Calm, it’s probably because there are a lot of celebrities on it. But if the weirdness of modern life is stopping me from sleeping, it seems unlikely that Harry Styles reading me a story is going to help. So, in a very un-me way, I swiped past the celebs and listened to someone called Tamara Levitt.

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The key to me getting to sleep on insomniac nights is to listen to my Go-to-sleep playlist on the podcast app. Set a sleep timer to have it stop at the end of a podcast episode, and hope for the best. On particular bad nights, I will have 'listened' to quite a few episodes, usually spaced-out throughout the night because I keep waking up and failing to fall back to sleep.

Some podcasts are quite effective to shut down the voices in my brain.

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I don't think I've ever had the dream where you are wandering around in the public before you realize you are naked.

But I've just had the dream where I was wandering around in the public before I realize I was not wearing my mask.

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