Patrick Rhone’s great post meditates on the role tools should play in our lives—spoiler alert, he’s talking about our smartphones. What do we use our smartphones for? Everything, right? But all that choice can be paralyzing. When the same device handles work messages, family photos, and games,
Here’s something surprising: there’s Amazon Kindle news! This past week, Amazon announced four new Kindles. This is the first sign of life in the Kindle line for a long time. In fact, I feel, this is one of the largest announcements in the history of the Kindle. While
I’m getting back after two weeks off to celebrate my wedding. It was a perfect time that was also timeless. I’m excited to start this next chapter with my wife.
Sometimes, we have to travel far and wide to experience natural wonders, but other times we’re lucky to experience them in our backyard
Jerry Seinfeld recently had interesting things to say about the virtues of writing by hand versus typing: I think pens are a very important creative tool. Keyboards really crush your freedom. And it's too corporate to be creative. You wanna feel like you're getting away with
The only calculator app I use is finally on iOS. I used version 2 for as long as I could while the Mac and iPadOS got the update. It’s polished, snappy, and lives on my home screen. The only way working with numbers has made sense to me. Check
Last week, a total eclipse took half the country by storm and most of the bandwidth on traditional and social media. (Here in Michigan, it was only 94%). Folks across platforms discussed the "best way" to experience it. There was lots of conversation about how to protect your
Life was abundant today during my usual lunchtime walk. The weather is pleasant, about 56 degrees, with the sun shining and only a few clouds scattered across the sky. I took a longer route, The world seems to be in progress; the bees are active, and the butterflies are freely
For years, I’ve wanted to read Jaroslav Pelikan’s five volume series “The Christian Tradition.” I’ve owned the first volume but never got around to read it. With it being Lent, I wanted to start. As I went onto Amazon to look at the other four volumes, I
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This morning, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro begin to much enthusiast fanfare and confusion. While the premise is exciting, there’s little to go off about how good it is in day-to-day usage. But will all the talk that will come about the idea of “spatial computing,” as a
Beth Allison Barr’s “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” is a detailed and approachable study of an idea that has plagued American Christianity: Biblical Patriarchy. While many may not know what the exact term “Biblical Womanhood” means, we are familiar with its basic teaching: God has ordained men/husbands to
Breaking up is hard, but there's someone who makes it more difficult: Siri. The digital assistant has actually become more useful in recent years, understanding more and more about our lives, schedules and habits. But it's lacking one feature that any friend or acquaintance has: Don&
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I take a lot of photos. Currently in my iCloud Photo Library, there are 236,167 images, 6,429 videos and 8 items. And I’m running out of cloud storage. While Apple has made major improvements in Photos and the iCloud Photo Library in recent years, such a large
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The organizational overhaul still focuses on the overall timeline of when photos were taken but curates them in a new and smart manner based on days, months, and years. Using machine learning, Photos can pick images and videos that are relevant to your location and time of year. Also improved
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Lightning can be one of the most difficult and time consuming things to photograph. It's hard to predict when it will hit and there's usually adverse conditions that make it potentially dangerous. But the results can be, well, striking. With DSLR cameras, the standard way of
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There's a really cool feature in iOS 13 that allows you to watch a series of concurrently taken Live Photo's simultaneously as one long video. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I was watching a Live Photo and it kept on going through the
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Summer is one of my favorite times to take photos. The weather is nice, the light is good and everything seems in motion. For editing, I’ve continued to explore the app Darkroom. One of my favorite features is applying frames. They make photos stand out on Instagram and help,
I was excited when it was announced that Kurt Vile was going to play at Bell’s Eccentric Café. I had listened to some of his music over the years and enjoyed it, but never spent the time listening to it. In the age of streaming services, it’s easy
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The days are getting longer and the temperature is rising, it’s summer in Michigan. Here are some of my favorite photos I’ve taken in the past month. Lots of beautiful sunsets and some quality time with my family’s dogs.
iOS 13 offers a whole bunch of new features, but some of my favorite additions are in the Shortcuts app. Note: I am currently using the developer beta on a secondary device for testing purposes — do not install on your main device or wait for the public beta this July.
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Apple announced a whole bunch of new software on Monday during its WWDC keynote, and Camera and Photos were well represented. While many of the big new features come with the release of new iPhones in the fall, there was a good amount announced for I played around with the