∞ Cross-app Drag and Drop in Smartisan OS
The animated demo of the One Step feature (cross-app drag and drop) looks OK, not sure how well it works in practice.
∞ Apple plans to launch new Macs at an October 27 event
Guess how many will turn green on Macrumors Buyer's Guide?
Out of Sight
Love this animated short from NTUA students.
VR Planet Defense is One Year Old
Today marks the one year anniversary of VR Planet Defense! I'm really glad that it has acquired many great reviews over this year. Here are some example from App Store.
From TexanReviewrr:
Probably the best VR game out there
It has amazing Graffics and awesome gameplay even my grandpa plays this game!
From Corndogl337:
Great little game. And works awesome for cardboard
This is a must download for people just getting into VR and Google cardboard. It's simple, fun, intuitive. Most other 3rd party VR apps are not as put together.
From Schickmeister:
Intuitive game play prefect for the medium, cute graphics and music. This could be a VR classic.
You can download the game either on App Store or Play Store, and enjoy some short and simple VR experience :)
Tweetbot 4.5 Adds Private Profile Notes
User profile notes. These are private notes you can add to any user's profile. Can't remember why you followed someone? This feature is for you. Requires iCloud and is accessible from the gear menu on a profile.
I really need some way to remember why I followed people. Although I didn't know what feature I really wanted out of Twitter, profile notes seems to solve it really well.
The Marvel Symphonic Universe
That can totally explain why I always think the marvel movies are so boring.
Trails near Denali National Park Visitor Center
Summary
Among the many trails near the Denali visitor center, we chose the direction to the horseshoe lake. There are MANY MANY MUSHROOMS out there (follow the album link below), and I fucking love them.
Numbers
Time: 2016.08.07, 2.4 hours
Distance: 5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Route
See this Google Map for more details.
Photos
Savage River Loop Trail in Denali National Park
Summary
A loop trail along the savage river, there are wild cute Pikas!
The 6km-one-way-500m-elevation Savage Alpine trail also starts there, but we didn't have the time to explore it.
Numbers
Time: 2016.08.06, 1.7 hours
Distance: 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Route
See this Google Map for more details.
Photos
∞ Vesper, Adieu
John Gruber's postmortem on Vesper:
If I could do it all over again, here is what I would do differently. I would start the exact same way, with Dave and me designing Vesper for iPhone. But then, before Brent wrote a single line of code, we would immediately design Vesper for Mac. And that’s the product we’d have built and shipped first. There is downward pressure on pricing for Mac apps, but the market is still there for quality apps that cost $20–100 (or more). The plan would have looked like this:
- Build Vesper for Mac. Sell it for around $20.
- Build a sync system.
- Build Vesper for iPhone.
- Build Vesper for iPad.
- Maybe build a web version.
I think this plan would have worked. For productivity apps, I always want a Mac app first. Otherwise I am not going to invest with a premium price.
∞ It’s time to publicly shame United Airlines’ so-called online security
So, just to summarize, United has:
- Compromised its users’ security by adopting a terminally stupid threat model (keystroke loggers), and …
- in response to that threat model, implemented infuriatingly counterintuitive, hard-to-use security questions, rather than…
- something which actually would address that threat; two-factor authentication! Instead they…
- …doubled down on their stupid security questions and called that two-factor authentication.
United has always been very bad at software systems. Now they just reached their lowest point.