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  • Emergency SOS available on iPhone 14

    If you have an iPhone 14, you now have the ability to use satellites to message emergency services outside of cell coverage. The feature was introduced at WWDC and hopefully wonโ€™t need to be used but is great to know it is there if needed. From Apple Newsroom: Every model…

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  • Facades App

    Facades by Michael Steeber is a retail store field guide that takes an interesting approach to what an app can do in 2022. The app started off as an Apple Note on Michaelโ€™s Mac as a central location of information about Apple Retail stores. As we have all created notes…

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  • WindowSwap lets you get a view from around the world

    Lockdown measures are being eased all across the globe, but I think that this site will hold its quartine hype once we are all back to normal. WindowSwap is a simple site that opens your browser window to a window from a random site around the world. There is nothing…

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  • Mac Widgets

    Stephen Hacket at 512px wrote about Appleโ€™s now-defunct Dashboard for Mac. His post inspired me to complain about the Mac desktop and how it could be improved. I never owned a Mac during the time of the Mac Dashboard but I have been very frustrated with the lack of widgets…

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  • Massive asteroid bigger than the biggest thing you can think of is going to skim by Earth

    I love headlines like this. If someone were to just read the headline, you would think that you could stand in your backyard and watch the asteroid pass by Earth. In reality it is only going to pass within 1,231,184 miles of Earth. Close yes, but it is no threat…

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  • Always look for the people doing good

    I came across this story and was intrigued by how helpful people can be at any time. During the interstate lockdown in Virginia, a truck driver fixed for a neighboring vehicle. I never would have thought that a truck driver would have a microwave in his truck and then to…

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  • Eye Twitching

    I found this NY Times article about eye twitching to be very informational. My eye twitches occasionally, but I just figure it is because I am looking at a screen ten hours a day. I also am drinking caffeinated drinks all day and that might be the cause of it…

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  • Nonstandard McDonaldโ€™s

    I discovered an amazing Twitter account that documents McDonaldโ€™s that arenโ€™t the cookie cutter type business. From weird statues to fancy arches, this account is a great follow! https://twitter.com/nonstandardmcd?s=11

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  • Burberry commercial

    This commercial for Burberry is so odd and somehow riveting. When I think of having the superhuman ability to fly, I have always had this in mind more so than the way Superman does. This feels so organic, like the wind is actually carrying the people like they are weightless.…

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  • How finger counting gives away your nationality

    > Many people around the world learn to count on their fingers, but we don’t all do it in the same way. Could there be a better method? I was turned onto this article by Kottke, and it is a very fascinating read. I had no idea that people had…

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