Google Photos' free compressed unlimited cloud storage is no more. Maybe I should use Plex for my mobile photo management instead? Let's see how that turns out.
With Android 12, we’re finally seeing some resemblance of system-wide theming… Finally! Being able to customize the look of a computing operating system has long been one of my favorite things to do. Windows 95 was great at this as its appearance customizations would apply to all of the applications installed thus making for a beautifully or hideously consistent user experience throughout the whole system. That’s how things should be! Google never got the importance of really being able to personalize their Android smartphones on a system-wide basis.
I know, people say that Android is the most customizable smartphone operating system, and that’s true if you only compare it to Apple’s iOS… but there are still so many inconsistencies in Android. Sure you can change the launcher and the background picture and the icons in a launcher, but what about the apps themselves? Can I fix Facebook’s poorly designed user interface? Only if you build a completely diff
I have no interest in the new iPad Pro, iMac, or AirTags
Here are my thoughts on everything Apple announced at its Spring event, and I have no interest in the iPad Pro, iMac, or AirTags.
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Earlier this week, Apple announced a bunch of new stuff on a video live stream. We’ve got new commercials for Apple TV shows, a purple iPhone, Podcast stuff, an Apple TV remote that actually makes sense, some AirTags, new iMacs, and a new iPad Pro.
AirTags
The first really new Apple product for 2021 was the AirTags, and I immediately said, “Welcome to 2013!” AirTags are little battery-powered Bluetooth things that connect to your iPhone and help the iPhone’s “Find My” software keep track of the locations of the tags. Sounds familiar because these kinds of things have been around for many years. A company called Tile was one of the first to release this type of gadget back in 2013.
I hear some graphic designers have started using an iPad for creative work. But why? I guess it might be okay for drawing since it’s thin and light and you can buy a stylus for it, but there are so many other pen-computing options available, and there are so many other aspects of graphic design that software available for the iPad seriously fails at.
1. Photoshop on iPad isn’t real Photoshop
A couple of years ago, there was a lot of hype about Adobe bringing the real Adobe Photoshop to the iPad. When it was released every article about it had the “Adobe brings real Photoshop to iPad” headline, and then in the first paragraph explained that it was not the real Photoshop and only had a limited subset of features compared to the Photoshop version that one would normally use on macOS and Windows. There are so many features missing! It doesn’t even have the same menus. Forget about anything advanced like channel operations or custom plug-ins.