![]() ![]() Now you don’t have wads of paper clogging up your pockets and the floor of your car. You scan the barcode at checkout, and those three or four coupons that usually appear with your extra-long receipt detailing your purchase, your savings with your card, and a link to a survey to win a $1000 shopping spree are all automatically sent to PassBook. Think about it this way: Let’s say in the future, you have a grocery store rewards card loaded up in PassBook. “Wallet” symbol shown above is by Hakan Yalcin, from The Noun Project collection and can be found at ![]() On the Keynote, Accessibility, and Apple's Commitment to the Future I imagine that within two years all of Apple's computers will have retina displays and we will all wonder how we spent countless hours staring at the inferior screens on our current computers. I have no plans to purchase the new MacBook Pro with a retina display because it's very expensive and way too much computer for what I do on a day to day basis, but I am very excited about the direction Apple is taking computers. I have been using the new iPad for the past three months which has a retina display and now when I use a client's iPad 2 it it amazing how poor the screen looks. I think John Gruber nailed it when he said that after using a retina display for a few minutes, non-retina displays look bad. It’s not just pixel size, either - color, brightness, viewing angles - everything about it is amazing. Much like with the iPhone and iPad, it’s not so much that the retina display looks good as that, after you’ve used it for even just a few minutes, non-retina display MacBooks look bad. I have a review unit from Apple, and after just 15 minutes or so trying it out, it’s damn impressive. Three Takeaways From Today’s WWDC Keynote Unless you are going to actually call me, text me, or say something a little bit more than Happy Birthday on Facebook please don't waste your time and don't waste mine. I summed up my thoughts at the very end of the conversation by saying this: You can listen to our conversations below. It takes fewer than ten seconds to type out a salutation and hit enter.ĭuring the February 9th episode of Football & French Toast (podcast that I host with my brother Chris and cousin Bobbie which is on hiatus until the late summer) we discussed wishing people Happy Birthday on Facbook. They're only doing it because Facebook stuck the event in their face like any other after-work drink, house party, or going-away party. When the clock hits midnight on the anniversary of your womb escape, people you haven't seen or spoken to in years, maybe, trickle in to leave a perfunctory "happy birthday!" Maybe you won't even get an exclamation point. Facebook became too helpful, and in the process, completely cheapened the occurrence it was trying to make easy. Thanks to Zuck & Co, nobody has to make any effort to remember it. ![]() Your birthday used to be an event-now it's a notification. Anything highlighted in blue is a link to an article, an app, or another section of my website. Each week I will share a combination of technology articles and apps that I have discovered and liked in the past week. This is the 12th post in a series called 5 Things. ![]()
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