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The Interactive-Aid Edition Sunday, April 13, 2025

Apple News+ Food Made Love Cooking Again (And Turned Me Into A Subscriber), by Christian Zibreg, How-To Geek

Instead of browsing ad-laden recipe websites full of distractions like an animal, Apple News+ Food gives me clear step-by-step instructions with ingredients, images, videos, and more. Best of all, Apple News+ Food uses interactivity to aid your cooking so you're not left clueless at any step of meal preparation.

I Boosted My Productivity On Mac With SelfControl, Because I Doin't Have Any, by oão Carrasqueira, XDA

SelfControl is about as simple as you can get for an app, but it does its job perfectly fine. Launch it, and you'll immediately see the option to start a block timer, with a slider to adjust how long the block to last, from one minute up to a full 24 hours. You can also go to your blocklist, which is empty by default.

Notes

Trump Exempts Smartphones And Computers From New Tariffs, by Madeline Halpert, BBC

US Customs and Border Patrol published a notice late on Friday explaining the goods would be excluded from Trump's 10% global tariff on most countries and the much larger Chinese import tax.

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The US is a major market for iPhones, while Apple accounted for more than half of its smartphones sales last year, according to Counterpoint Research.

Democrats Rail Against Apple After Trump Unveils Electronic Tariff Exemption, by Ashleigh Fields, The Hill

Democrats slammed the Trump administration for allegedly favoring sector-specific companies by giving them the ability to bypass the fallout from new trade policy with a Saturday exemption of electronics from “reciprocal” tariffs imposed on countries across the globe, including China.

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“Apple CEO Tim Cook donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Looks like he’s getting a big return on his investment,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote in a Saturday post after learning of the news.

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Alas, Apple News+ is not available at where I am, so I can't try out the new Food section. And no daily puzzles for me either.

Of course, for the latter, I do have a lot of other fine options.

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Thanks for reading.