I've mentioned the Steve Jobs Archive in the past. It's an organization started by close friends of Jobs, including his widow Laurene Powell Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and former Apple design chief Jony Ive. This week, the organization released an ebook called Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his Own Words. It is a collection of speeches, interviews, and correspondence by Jobs, presented with lots of great photographs. And it is quite good, with lots of interesting stories and inspiring words of wisdom. I'm not finished reading it yet, but based on what I've read so far, I definitely recommend it. And specifically, I recommend reading it in a web browser to appreciate the great layout, which you can do by using this link. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Brett Burney and I are not recording an episode of the In the News podcast today, but we plan to be back next week.
- Lots of folks have been talking about the warning by the FBI this week that if you charge an iPhone or Android phone at a public charging station, your device might possibly be hacked. As Jason Cross of Macworld notes, you can likely bypass the risk identified by the FBI by tapping "no" if you use a public charging device and you see a prompt asking if you trust this computer. (You can still charge even after tapping "no," but you cannot send data, which protects you.) Or, if you see an "accessory not supported" message, that could be a sign of something suspicious. The safest approach is to always use your own cord and your own charger. (There is no risk plugging your own charger into a public outlet.) That's also probably the fastest approach for charging your device because most of the free public charging options are only 5W.
- Joe Fedewa of How-To Geek came up with a good list of features in the Photos app for the iPhone that you might want to start using.
- Rob Dubbin of The Verge provides some of the story behind Ivory, the excellent Mastodon app created by the team behind the former Twitter app Tweetbot, and explains why Ivory is so good. I love using Ivory.
- Apple updates the firmware on AirPods models from time to time, but the process typically doesn't involve you doing anything. At some point when your AirPods connect to your iPhone, they are updated. But what if you don't use an iPhone or other Apple device, for example if you just use AirPods with a PC? Chance Miller of 9to5Mac notes that for these folks, one solution offered by Apple is to set up an appointment at an Apple Store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider to update your firmware. Interesting that this is the solution offered by Apple.
- Lauren Leffer of Gizmodo explains why a bizarre error in Apple's Find My service is sending many people to a single house in Texas, thinking that their missing iPhone is there.
- Jason Snell of Six Colors notes that Apple TV+ is doing a good job with the Friday Night Baseball feature that allows you to select local announcers instead of the national announcers. I with there was something like this for NFL football. I vastly prefer listening to the local announcers at WWL when I watch a Saints football game, but getting the radio in sync with the TV image is sometimes difficult.
- And finally, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the movie Tetris on Apple TV+. As a lawyer, I find it amusing that the central tension in this movie is not something inherently dramatic like a car chase but instead is essentially just contract negotiations, and yet the movie makes this suspenseful. It gets a little silly at times, but it was fun to watch. here is the trailer:
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