Gruber on Apples company acquisitions

I’m less sure if Apple has the appetite to keep Photomator going, to compete directly against Lightroom — a market Apple simply walked away from when they discontinued Aperture 10 years ago. But perhaps they now regret walking away from Aperture. I’m just not sure how close Photomator is to being a credible alternative to Lightroom.

This would be a worst case scenario for me. I have been all in with Photomator since day 1. I don’t think I’m ready to give Adobe £120 a year in perpetuity to edit my photos… 😕

As Storm Burt is set to wind down later this evening, we still have a rather wet and windy week ahead! 🌬️🏡

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Whoever’s decision it was at YouTube to make the Apple TV client display your subscriptions in an apparently random non a-z order should be put on a list and never allowed to make a UX decision ever, ever again….

This little Casio Smart Ring is just too cute ☺️

I have access to the Apple image playground beta stuff. Dear reader it is hot garbo but has been making me belly laugh all afternoon 😂

This is me in the winter at night… apparently…

Adding to the funny Apple Intelligence summaries. My friend went to an artisinal bakery and put something like “Jesus Christ they only had one loaf left. You would have to get hear early to have a choice”

AI made it sound like the second coming had happened.

Well I finally got the YouTube Post from this weeks Stuff post to be 4K at 60FPS 😅 What a faff to sort out!

Apparently HDR on YouTube just takes hours to process and you’re given no sort of notification… 🤷‍♂️ So…..it’ll be HDR at some point when it clears I guess….

I cannot believe just how crappy Stage Manager still acts on occasion. Especially when connected to an external display. Keyboard shortcuts just randomly stop working until you unplug and re-plug. And springboard crashes!

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Well….fuck….. 😕

Just sat down to do my hearing test on my AirPod Pro 2’s. Unfortunately… it’s not available in the UK! 😢

Apple continues to be extremely confused about how committed it wants to be to games… 🤷‍♂️ They’ve let some absolute belters fall to Netflix and their relationship with games developers is strained…but then they’ve enticed Ubisoft and Capcom…then are doing this. it’s so weird.

Washin’ my keyboard keys as you do 🧼⌨️

Doing the old dip into the beta just for the RC, then immediately dipping out to get the main release earlier 😎👌

👽 Spookied up my wallpaper for spooky season. One of the best parts of the Project Tapestry kickstarter has turned out to be the years free sub to Wallaroo that came with it! 🦘

🔗 Travelling with Apple Vision Pro

As a travel device, it’s a fantastic platform for watching movies and expanding my MacBook workspace. It has many flaws, which power users (like myself) who are motivated enough to make the most out of their device will find ways of alleviating.

I won’t yuck anyone’s yum. Glad this dude is enjoying it. But to me personally, the juice is very much not worth the squeeze in this situation…

Ok, Photomator have done this really sensibly.

The ratings flow nicely in the app, but most importantly they also just appear as folders in a primary “Photomator” folder in photos.app

This is going to be really handy to curate

My library! 😎

Wow, Photomator has apparently added Aperture Style star ratings and rejecting shots! 😮

Let’s see if it’s any good. Hope it had more thought put into it than how their HDR editing turned out 😵‍💫

I’ve been chasing the productivity dragon for years. I started off with a little G.T.D. man. What’s the harm? All the cool kids are doing it!

That path lead to OmniFocus, dalliances with online tools such as Asana, several open source things I can’t even remember the names of and most recently for years Things 3.

Alongside these sorts of productivity apps are also your notes or “second brain” apps. I’ve been a digital note-taker first for years at this stage. Paper notes to me are transitionary, not permanent.

What do I store? How to’s, Configuration snippets for techy devices, lists of holiday plans and packing lists, learning notes on different subjects and hobbies, blogging ideas, how to clean the coffee maker, Quotes, How to use the sterilisation tablets that clean my water bottle. A random assortment of varying importance. I have been through many different apps and methodologies over time.

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Internet Archive Hacked ☹️

Goddamit….

This is how change control meetings feel when you are doing a large change and they ask you how safe it is going to be when you perform it.

Amongst my close techy friends “That’s my safety sir” and the👆motion has become our shorthand for when we’re going to do a complex change that we have planned and prepped for. It always makes me smile.