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    Apple Bernie Sanders Says Apple's $2.5 Billion Home Loan Program a Distraction From Hundreds of Billions in Tax Avoidance That Created California Housing Crisis - "We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California's housing crisis."

    November 05, 2019

    Apple Bernie Sanders Says Apple's $2.5 Billion Home Loan Program a Distraction From Hundreds of Billions in Tax Avoidance That Created California Housing Crisis - "We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California's housing crisis."

    Bernie Sanders Says Apple's $2.5 Billion Home Loan Program a Distraction From Hundreds of Billions in Tax Avoidance That Created California Housing Crisis - "We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California's housing crisis."

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 07:33 PM PST

    Apple commits $2.5 billion to combat housing crisis in California

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 03:19 AM PST

    This is quite possibly the single biggest software UI design problem affecting the tech world today. It's everywhere from Netflix to YouTube to Apple Music to the new Apple TV app.

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 10:59 AM PST

    The overuse of curation, where the entire interface is built around suggestions and recommendations - to the point that the entire UI feels like one big advertisement.

    This is something that has been bugging me for some time and I think a lot of people can relate. The tech world has become far too obsessed with curation and that has really harmed the end user experience. Curation (for TV shows, movies, music, etc...) is an important feature to suggest new content to check out, but it should be a feature, NOT the foundation of the user interface. That just makes for a bad UX because it makes the entire interface feel like one giant advertisement.

    We see this problem across the tech world - from YouTube to Netflix to Apple Music and now the Apple TV app - and I think we need to see a shift in focus. Curation should be a feature, not the entire paradigm around which an app is built.

    Here's what I mean: Curation Should Be A Feature, Not A User Interface

    This has been terrible for several years now with regards to Apple Music, and now the same issue is popping up with the emergence of Apple TV.

    Here's how Apple TV should work:

    Apple: Hey, we've got this great new TV app that functions as a repository for all your content. You pick and choose what 'Channels' you want, you order them within the TV app, and the TV app functions as a central repository for all your content, all organized in one unified UI that's accessible via any of your Apple devices and controllable via Siri. You sign up for Channels, those media companies get paid, and we get a cut of that for providing the unified service, just like with our App Store model. Oh, and we'll throw in our own TV+ channel for free, as a perk to entice you into this TV ecosystem!

    Users: Awesome! Here are the 15 shows I want to watch! I'll order all the services I need in order to get those 15 shows, and then you'll provide a UI where I can track and watch those 15 shows!

    Apple: Will do!

    But that's not how it works. The "Watch Now" tab is a complete mess, with everything from every streaming service (including TV+) being thrown at you like a series of ads. I think what SHOULD happen is the "Up Next" functionality should be dramatically expanded and given its own tab, so that it functions like I highlighted above - you add the shows you're watching and it functions like one of those TV show tracker apps, to keep track of everything you've watched, allowing you to rate each episode, telling you when the next episode airs, and of course, allowing you to watch it.

    The "Watch Now" tab will continue to exist, but maybe it can be renamed "Browse" or "Recommendations" so that it continues to curate and recommend content for you. But once you see things that interest you, you'd add them to the new tab, which can be called "Collection", or maybe even the "Library" tab could be converted into this.

    tl;dr - The Apple TV app should add a new tab in which you can add all the shows across all streaming services/'Channels' you want, and you'd have a UI that functions like one of those TV tracker apps, listing all the shows you're currently following, your progress, your ratings for each episode, the next air dates, and of course, allowing you to watch the next episode.

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    Airpods Pro (Dark Green) ANC test vs reference (red), Libratone Track Air+ (green), Sony WF-1000Xm3 (Blue), Sony WH-1000Xm3 (Orange). Basically equal or better than WF's under 1.5KHz, worse above due to subpar passive isolation (probably due to the vent). Very impressive bass isolation

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 04:35 PM PST

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    Researchers hack Siri, Alexa, and Google Home by shining lasers at them: MEMS mics respond to light as if it were sound. No one knows precisely why.

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 12:47 PM PST

    Apple and TikTok refuse to testify to US Congress about their business in China

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 05:39 AM PST

    Microsoft’s new Office app for iOS combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 06:45 AM PST

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    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 07:26 AM PST

    Anyone else feel like the Airpods are MORE comfortable than the Airpods PRO?

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 03:54 PM PST

    Just got the airpods pro over the weekend and after sometime in the ear, it hurts.

    I want to love the pro but the regular ones are so much more comfortable.

    anyone else feel that?

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    How to clean your AirPods and EarPods (updated for AirPods Pro)

    Posted: 04 Nov 2019 09:45 AM PST

    Outlook for Mac gets a new design and big performance improvements

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    Posted: 05 Nov 2019 02:12 AM PST

    Tutorial - How to customize the accent colors in macOS Mojave and Catalina to whatever color you want

    Posted: 03 Nov 2019 06:39 PM PST

    I've been trying to figure this out for a while now, but a few Reddit posts and a useful website tipped me in the right direction.

    You'll need:

    • macOS Mojave (10.14) or Catalina (10.15)
    • ThemeEngine - use 1.0.0 (111)
    • Rootless/SIP temporarily disabled - you're gonna have to modify things in the System folder. If you don't have a good reason for keeping this off, turn it back on once you're done
    • Your favorite color
    • Your least favorite of the 7 built-in colors (Graphite isn't an option), as you're going to be replacing one of them

    Here goes!

    1. Open ThemeEngine at least once, to associate it with .car files which we'll be opening later on.

    2. Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/.

    3. Drag DarkAquaAppearance.car and SystemAppearance.car to a safe place, to back up the original files.

    4. Drag a second copy of those files to some other folder, or the desktop - these are the ones you'll be editing.

    5. Double-click on DarkAquaAppearance.car and SystemAppearance.car to open them up in ThemeEngine.

    6. To edit a color, first click the eyedropper icon at the bottom left to switch to the color resources. Then select a key on the left pane (e.g. controlAccentPinkColor), the color icon from the middle pane (named "normal"), and finally in the right pane, click the color button to change the color. Replace "X" with blue, purple, pink, red, yellow, or green (don't use graphite, it's special). Here's the colors of interest:

    • DarkAquaAppearance.car/controlAccentXColor: dark mode button outline color, dark mode list view selection color
    • DarkAquaAppearance.car/privateControlAccentXColor: dark mode main button/control color
    • DarkAquaAppearance.car/systemXColor: dark mode color of radio button in System Preferences
    • SystemAppearance.car/controlAccentXColor: menu bars and context menu in both modes, button outline color in light mode, and list view selection color in light mode
    • SystemAppearance.car/privateControlAccentXColor: light mode main button/control color
    • SystemAppearance.car/systemXColor: light mode color of radio button in System Preferences

    (Note: it typically helps to set the colors darker than what you would expect them to come out as, particularly the button color. You can make all of these different colors if you so choose.)

    8. Save the files. Then, drag them back to the Resources folder. Choose to replace the files, then enter your password (or that of an admin user).

    9. Open System Preferences to General and select the color you just replaced.

    10. Verify that the colors are what you intended them to be. For testing the list view selection, open the System Information app.

    11. If you need to tweak the colors, repeat steps 6-10. You will have to relaunch System Preferences/System Information to reflect the updated colors.

    12. Log out and back in to fully apply the color changes!

    Once you're fully satisfied, don't forget to re-enable SIP.

    I haven't explored the full possiblities of these files, but with ThemeEngine and the SystemAppearance.bundle resources, you can probably theme any colors/UI elements in macOS. Post your findings below if you want to peek around (I will too).

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