Capturing food is a way to teleport myself to specific, rich moments in time. What did the air feel like on my face that night in that city? Why did that bread taste so good? Who was I with at that restaurant, and what did we talk about? Where was I living at the time? As a storyteller, I will always feel compelled to document and share some of these experiences within my small sphere of influence. But lately I’ve begun saving more of life’s pure pleasures for myself too — deliciously here and then gone, sometimes to be forgotten, other times to be revisited in my album in all their grotesque, pixelated, unimaginative glory.
Apple is fairly consistent in rolling out new security and privacy options for its users, and one of the latest to be pushed to the public at large is Advanced Data Protection. As the name suggests, it gives you more protection for your data—and it's something that the majority of iPhone owners should be enabling.
“The impulse to take out your phone and just flick is so strong. I’ve tried to quit various social media apps at various times, and it’s never worked, so I thought: why not just embrace the urge to scroll, and redirect it to something valuable? I wanted a news feed for myself, on my own terms,” he said.
“The whole idea of a news feed for yourself, on your own terms is still key to understanding the app, I think. You pick what’s important and Feeeed reminds you about it. You can pick the icon, the tabs, the algorithm, the layout.”
As long as your target device is switched on, you can access it from anywhere, even on the other side of the globe. It’s especially helpful if you know your target device will always be on, such as if you want to grab a file off of a home server. In that case, as long as you’ve got Screens 5 installed everywhere, you’re never far away from your other devices.
There haven't been many times in my life where I've wondered if this feeling I have is something that oil barons must have felt at the height of their Gilded Age powers.
But Sixty Four got me there. I'm still not sure I've ever played a $6 game that had me so fully engaged while also deeply disquieted about the nature of humanity.
Streamers narrowly avoided getting shut out at the 2024 Oscars: Netflix came away with just one trophy and Apple left empty-handed, after they garnered a total of 32 nominations.
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Apple is estimated to have spent $215 million on Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. It also shelled out some $200 million on Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, which was nominated for production design, costume design and visual effects and came away with zero wins.
I am not a food person. Many-a-times, I don't actually remember what I ate in the last visit to a restaurant. What stays in my memory is the company I had, or the audiobook in my ears if I were dining alone.
But I am going to follow, somewhat, Maggie Hennessy's advice, and take more awful food photos -- or awful photos in general. As my memories start to fade away, maybe it is worthwhile to have a little reminder just for myself.
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