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The Guts-and-Determination Edition Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Meet Four Emerging Filmmakers Bending Cultural And Creative Lines With iPhone 16 Pro Max, by Apple

“With iPhone, there’s so much power contained in such a compact package that you can bypass the conventions of mainstream filmmaking,” says Sen Sharma, a two-time winner of India’s National Film Awards. “All you need is a great idea, and the guts and determination to follow through with it.”

Alongside fellow Indian film industry icons Vikramaditya Motwane, Lijo Jose Pellissery, and Vetri Maaran, Sen Sharma is mentoring four emerging filmmakers selected by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) to create short films for the 2025 MAMI Select: Filmed on iPhone program.

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Beats Launches New Collection Of Charging Cables, by Eric Slivka, MacRumors

Apple's Beats brand is launching its first-ever set of charging cables today. Available in up to four color options, the new cables include USB-C to USB-C, USB-A to USB-C, and USB-C to Lightning options.

Apple Celebrating Earth Day With Apple Watch Activity Challenge, by Juli Clover, MacRumors

To complete the challenge, Apple Watch owners will be required to complete a workout that lasts for 30 minutes or longer, with the activity recorded through the Workout app or an app that adds information to the Health app.

Notion Mail Is A Minimalist But Powerful Take On Email, by David Pierce, The Verge

The idea, Milich says, was to “reinvent the core idea of the inbox. It’s not this never-ending list. It’s a database you can filter, sort, organize, in the Notion building-block model. It’s like an app you can customize.” It’s not a complete reinvention of the whole email system, just a bunch of new ways to interact with and make sense of everything in that system. That idea has worked awfully well for Notion as a whole, and works for my inbox so far too.

MindMeister Is An Easy To Use Mind Mapping App For Visual Learners, by Lindsey Ellefson, Lifehacker

Mindmeister creates quick, colorful mind maps and comes preloaded with enough templates to make studying a lot easier and faster.

This App Can Change Where Your macOS Notifications Pop Up, by Justin Pot, Lifehacker

PingPlace is a free Mac application that will move your notifications to other corners or even the top center of your screen.

GamePal Helps You Keep Keep Track Of Your Game Collection, by Filipe Espósito, 9to5Mac

Every gaming platform has its own app for managing games, such as Apple’s Game Center, for example. But for those who have multiple consoles, GamePal is a great companion app that helps players keep track of their entire game library.

Looking For Aliens Is An Out-of-This-World Hidden Object Game, by Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Featuring more than 25 hand-drawn locations, you’ll be able to see how aliens view our world. All of the colorful scenes are packed with surprises, humor, easy puzzles, and unique objects to find.

Nanoleaf Launches Multi-Functional Desk Lights For Your Mac, by Juli Clover, MacRumors

Nanoleaf today announced the launch of the Pegboard Desk Dock, a desktop light that's also able to hold accessories and serve as a dock for peripherals like a keyboard and a mouse thanks to added USB-A and USB-C ports.

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I Swapped Multitasking For “Monotasking”—and It Changed My Brain, by Saikat Basu, MakeUseOf

For years, I multitasked like a circus juggler on a tightrope. I thought I was getting a lot done till a strange mental fog made me rethink my methods. I experimented with monotasking—focusing on one thing at a time—and everything changed.

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Apple Airlifted iPhones Worth A Record $2 Billion From India In March As Trump Tariffs Loomed, by Aditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil, Reuters

Apple's main India suppliers Foxconn and Tata shipped nearly $2 billion worth of iPhones to the United States in March, an all-time high, as the U.S. company airlifted devices to bypass President Donald Trump's impending tariffs, customs data shows.

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To expedite shipments, Apple lobbied Indian airport authorities to cut the time needed to clear customs at Chennai airport in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, to six hours down from 30 hours.

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There are little things inside a lot of apps that annoys me -- and that I think I can fix with just editing a few lines of codes.

For example, a podcast client recently updated with per-podcast notification settings that I wish I can go in and change the default from "true" to "false". Just one line of code, and I will be happier.

No, I don't think open-source will help. Can AI?

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