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• Mosquitoes, Get Ready for Your Close-Up

  By Shaun on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  How does one art direct a mosquito photoshoot? James Gathany has some tricks (warm blood, etc). As a photographer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he has spent 30 years shooting microbes, disease-carrying insects, and the occasional celebrity… Read More ›

• A Computer for Everything

  By Shaun on March 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  After years spent adapting what I learned from the Mac to bring it to iOS, what I found on the other side was a more focused, efficient way of working and communicating with people. The iPad Pro accelerated my move… Read More ›

• QOTD: would you use a pencil on your iPhone?

  By Shaun on March 25, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  Definitely nervous about trying the plus size, if I end up not liking it. Almost want to experiment, like get a cheap(?) 6plus from somewhere when the 8 comes out, and use it for a few weeks. But if the… Read More ›

• Banning earphones

  By Shaun on March 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  2 senators wore earphones while debating ban on earphone wearing on streets, didn’t pass, only 8 votes in it! (1983) via Pessimists Archive. Probably a good thing the vote didn’t pass.

• Touch ID and Siri helped a boy save his mother’s life

  By Shaun on March 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  While much of the credit here goes to the parents who presumably taught the boy what to do in an emergency, and to the child for remaining calm and calling for help, it’s likely that the two iPhone features played… Read More ›

• Inside The Hunt For Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker

  By Shaun on March 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The case also expanded beyond the virtual world. In New York one day in 2009, three young women from Kazakhstan walked into the FBI field office there with a strange story. The women had come to the States to look… Read More ›

• Amazing photo-realistic drawings

  By Shaun on March 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley, realizes ultra-realistic portraits in monochrome pencil. The artist’s three words are “practical, patience and perseverance” which is understandable because each of his works require about 100 hours of work. Exposed several times in galleries in particular… Read More ›

• The Seiko 62Mas Reedition SLA017 Prospex

  By Shaun on March 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Then, the dial and the bezel of this Seiko 62Mas Reedition SLA017 are also extremely faithful to the 1965 version: same 3D embossed rectangular indexes (made in the same way as the old version), with large dimensions and a lot… Read More ›

• From the 6S to the SE to the 7

  By Shaun on March 24, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  One thing I raved about when I moved to the iPhone SE was the added convenience and the extra practicality that it offered. It felt right and in many ways is the perfect size married to a stunning design. It… Read More ›

• Apple buys Workflow

  By Shaun on March 24, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a while but were able… Read More ›