So, at this time June 2018, what is your opinion of FCP X 10.4, are you still using it? Or you moved to other software? hen I read this kind of news that some “Hollywood” company used FCPX for a feaured film, I wonder if Apple gave them some license with support to use the FCPX in order to test the software in the real life and to get a testimonial (from the Hollywood!) that FCP X is the best.

Of course the software doesn’t make more or less creative. However, there technical facilities that we can not control. I care a lot for chromakeying. which one offers better performance and “natural” look, FCPX or Premiere?

And now that these softwares (even Premiere Pro CC) are becoming more optimized for laptops. Sometimes, I feel that FCPX is made more for domestic users. when you see the Compressor and those options like “Compress for youtube, compress for facebook..” why? just to make easy? A professional editor should know the settings for youtube or facebook combined with his own preferences regarding bit rate, frame size, format, etc.

Mr Bill

I think it’s working now. Have you tried again lately?

As for Apple Pay.. I hardly use it, because there are so few opportunities. Take the example from the article — Starbucks in the US doesn’t accept Apple Pay at the register. But I always use the app to order anyway (even if I’ve already walked into the store). The only places I go with any frequency that accept it are Duane Reade and McDonald’s, and perhaps the occasional vending machine. So many places just don’t accept contactless payments.

Hi Warren,
Sorry, I am late to this discussion. You state “…follow the 20 steps and viola…”. In the past three years nobody brought the following to your attention:
Viola is a string instrument that is bowed or played with varying techniques.
The word you wanted is voilà, it is used to call attention, to express satisfaction or approval, or to suggest an appearance as if by magic.

Thank you for the link – had to go to a new 15″ MBP earlier this year – lovely computer except my hands/wrists on the extra wide trackpad when typing keep getting me into trouble – had hi-res monitors on all of my old 17″ MBPs – I really do MISS the screen-space – even with my 28″ external monitor attached – especially when visiting clients with it.

Sure, it will work. It may speed up the charging a bit on them, but nothing as dramatic as the change on the iPad Pro 12.9. The other devices just can’t make use of the higher current.

slightly off topic here. Is your 2011 17inch macbook pro still working?

It may not be apparent to all the eyes out there, but the typeface is still considered fairly new in contrast to Helvetica’s decades-long proven track-record with historical conditioning to back it up. 

Sorry, San Francisco, you haven’t even reached puberty yet, let alone should you be headlining daddy’s company all-of-a-sudden. Like fine wine, a good typeface needs precious time to properly age in the psyche of its designers. The new typeface was pushed out way too soon. Might look pretty good today, but wait a few seasons, it’s going need tweaks here and there, and before you know it, it’ll already be time to change typefaces again in keeping up with fashion. 

It’s a shame the typographers couldn’t see how awkward WATCH looks by itself. Now when we are presented with new Apple ads, they just aren’t feeling at all like Apple. The red lipstick sexiness is nowhere to be found. Instead, we’ve been duped by its slightly handicapped doppelgänger donning black Velcro sneakers. 

For example, let’s take the all caps, ‘WATCH’ and look at it next to Helvetica Neue. There’s no comparison, to the trained and conditioned eye of the professional typographer, Helvetica clearly wins. WATCH written in San Francisco looks “immature and awkward”. It does look like what’s been said of a “Chinese knock-off” which is a hilarious but sad reality—it’s been an incredibly short-sighted move on Apple’s part to mess with the fine nuances of type, adopting an unfamiliar shape and sound for the company’s communication during a pivotal, ‘whole world is watching’ product release as the WATCH. Whatever happened to Steve Jobs’ once exalted praise for the knowledge of typography? Didn’t his designers get the memo?

I totally understand that the layperson will not have the eye of sophistication to pick up nuances of typeface design, but their consciousness will feel it. I will tell you that type is a dedicated and learned art and those with eyes for typography are the visual musicians of our era, for each successful typeface designed, they enter the public psyche and create emotionally and visually harmonic associations to the heart. Helvetica has always been a visually sound typeface that moves billions of us every day. We are conditioned to it, subliminally and appreciatively, our eye and brain take it in easily, invisibly, and quickly. 

It should be Apple’s smart move to realize that San Francisco is still not ready to be served to the masses because it doesn’t look perfect in a plethora of situations and arrangements. ‘WATCH’ being a prime example of it looking just bad from the get-go. Especially in all caps. An unsightly n00b move. 

Helvetica is sexy and Apple is sexy. That’s why Apple stores are in fashion malls. That’s why Helvetica has been used by almost every high-end fashion label at some time. Typeface for a brand is everything. I hope Apple will see a proper typeface tailor next time to avoid any sartorial lettering problems that will subliminally affect the way each of their hundreds of millions of users will feel in their heart if not seen by their eyes.

Notes Plus is covered in this article.

Agreed on OneNote. If your notes are captive to one proprietary format and one app, it’s close to being useless.

It’s very limited if you only have the free version. It cannot export and does not support cloud storage other than OneDrive. It may be cross-platform but you are stuck with OneNote due to lack of export and cloud storage options, unless you also have the desktop version.

OneNote may be a good option if you’re already in the Microsoft ecosystem. OneNote for iOS cannot export notes into another (industry standard) format. Also, it does not support cloud storage other than OneDrive. So unless you also have OneNote for the desktop, your notes are not portable if you use OneNote for iOS – your notes are captive to OneNote and OneDrive.

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sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.apsd.plist

Look carefully at that command. See the thing right before the word “background?” As it is rendered here and in most applications, it is what is called a “dash.” Some publications call it an “en-dash,” and some an “em-dash.” Doesn’t matter–Terminal doesn’t like any kind of dash. The command as rendered brought up a list of permitted commands to use with “sudo softwareupdate.” Terminal wants two hyphens, – not a dash –. If you type two hyphens into most applications, OS X “helpfully” converts them to the dash, and Terminal refuses to work. You can launch TextEdit, go to Preferences, and stop this behavior–in TextEdit. Find a way to type two -s, and the command will work

NFC chips are not just little radios that allow your phones and tablets to communicate wirelessly to tap to pay compatible payment terminals, I mean yes they do, do that, but that’s not all they can do… an NFC chip is basically a miniature computer inside your handheld computer that can run independently and thus if your phone or tablet (regardless of OS or brand) is compromised in any way, that doe not affect the NFC chip, cuz it is it’s own little computer all by itself. It can store data, do encryption, create tables of tokens, talk to your device’s OS send and receive wireless data, and much more, so in the case of in-app purchasing its the computer that gives the app a token or basically a code that can be used to represent your payment card for one transaction… in short an NFC chip is ‘needed’ for in-app purchases for security purposes. so yes it’s like a volt for your credit card info … it’s just also capable of slipping a vendor $23.47… provided it has its antennae that is.

Any luck? Mine just went out as well.

Were you able to get yours fixed, mine died a week ago? If so how did you convince them to fix it? Thanks

Inquiring minds would like to know.

Any luck mine just died? I had know idea what so ever this was even an issue until now
Seriously it’s just my luck mine would last until the replacement period was up:(

not only did they supply them late,
they have quietly attempted to flat out NOT SEND parts of the campaign promised
when they finally deliver, the goods are not built to the specifications detailed (reporting as little as HALF the wattage of what was promised)
or they come with no specification sheets/details because the specifications stated where a lie
and even after all that, the products die extremely quickly

A word of warning to all, never purchase from charge tech, their products are not reliable, chargetech is a scam
for more information see the comments on this page:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plug-the-world-s-most-powerful-battery-pack-powerbank-solar–2/x/14545148#/comments

Apple has total control on journalists because Jobs have sold to the media owners the idea that it could be possible to have total mind control over everybody througt a tight control of information and communication technologies. That’s why the media big bosses want you to use only Apple devices and are making massive free advertisement and blantant propaganda for Apple, so they are sure that you won’t escape from their propaganda. And it’s working. Internet was a free space to counter the mainstream propaganda on the same foot of equality. Apple Google and app-centered internet (so-called Web 2.0) is the contrary, you’re not on the same foot but you are totaly enslaved to the device maker who can censor you at will. The purpose of Apple is to “Jail” Internet in tightly controlled apps trough tightly controled devices.

Apple is a totalitarism. Steve Jobs and his successor Tim Cook are the most EVIL people on Earth. Tim Cook is liying as he is breathing. Being fan of them is like being fan of Goebbels according to me. How can be “fan” of the way someone is liying, at least you are a dishonest liar too. Is it a “talent” to lie to people and constantly distort the facts to spin failures as “success”? 90% of Apple fanboys beliefs about computing are false and propaganda from Apple. Some of them still believe that there’s no viruses on Macs, until now.

Apple’s propaganda is a poison that kills people’s brains. It’s pure brainwashing. They believe S. Jobs has invented all computing on Earth. They believe in lies and propaganda, and they seem to love it, they say “it’s bad, but brillantly done”. I can “brillantly” rob your wallet but would you appreciate it? But when it’s come to Apple fanatics have no brain anymore. Some of them are really “in touch” with Apple’s philosophy because they like the way Apple is liying and they want to be part of the dominant liars club. They are like the early nazis, and their high tech medias for the time (radio, theatre movies, high circulation newspappers, this was brand new tech in the 30s like smartphones and internet now). I hate Apple because it’s not a tech company, it’s a sect seeking for power and total control over the media, since the begining.

hi christopher! have you figured out how to do this? I have the same problem, i have several synths and i want them to communicate with logic via midi, but i don’t want to trigger one synth via the other.

This works for me:

“You can safely delete the Keychains folder in your home directory

eg. /Users/yourusername/Library/Keychains

VERY happy and impressed!

Hi Arthur…I am facing the same issue…were you able to fix it?

Any luck? Mine just died yesterday and Apple is refusing everything.

I know this comment is a year old, but you are quite the liar.

Hello,

As a woman that started using an ATARI, then onto Apple computers such as a Lombard bought on ebay for heotel email, G3’s, G4’s, Powermacs (still own them – collecting dust), imac, mini mac and all the zip drives, big floppy disks, little floppies – you get the picture . . .

I have 10 year lovely, dented, duck taped battery door, beat up physically, still working Macbook Pro that has seen me through endless jobs and trips – getting heavy though!!!! I have seen more backup drives burn out over the years than this gal!

I am now on Sierra with my desktop mac, run Adobe CS and know my lovely older laptop can not really profit by any more upgrades. I have gone through 2 Apple batteries, 1 generic (only spent roughly $300 in 10 years) and I have been running it without a battery for 2+ years, so constantly plugged in.

It is time to make my oldie but goodie a kitchen clock screensaver, with no FEAR that any guest will damage it while it creeps towards its use of only searching for recipes, checking emails, playing my music collection (2500 songs of choice) and watching youtube and netflix, with NO FEAR of spills bangs.

This has been the best MAC ever, dear APPLE!!!!

It has always been there for me, so darn reliable day and night for my work, family vacations, night lights, music, dance parties, photo slideshows, presentations at work and home. My macbook pro ($2100 CDN back then) topped my first ebay laptop purchase, still owned – the Lombard with 4MB ram LOL. Used for checking emails in hotels while travelling. Smiles!

I am a slight nerd that was able to stick a screwdriver into the crushed ethernet port, after I dropped and crushed it, and it still worked, 6 years ago. I have banged it, dropped it, duck taped it and plugged it into many locations and it still wants to work!

What I know it can no longer do is have the latest OS (Yet maybe someone wants to ry to convince me about upgrades. . . ). I can still run ADOBE CS, but GOOGLE has retired us, and I feel “she” is too old now after 10 years to squeeze her, $2400 back then is now $3600 that I don’t really want to spend . . .

There’s my laptops story and I have the need of speed to make it to an early retirement.

Any tips are welcome in what to buy. I feel resolution is first, speed next and of course screen size, track pad, backlit keyboard, usb drives, hdmi, firewire, scsi (kiddin’), cd drive (LOL), headphone jack . . . and I do like the gold colour . . . actually with my name engraved next to the apple logo, and a photo op next to my old Macbook Pro, I will be a tester of whatever you suggest! And tell you what I think! I started on an Atari . . . with a 1MB hard drive, a HP printer, that took, due to lack of memory 1/2 hour to print a beautiful 1/2 pager, letter size.

I have used BIG floppies, many zip drives, disks, and watched APPLE grow towards the global cellular world.

I used to drive a 68 Chevy Chevelle because I like solid machines, so from my solid Lombard, to ipad, iphone (3, 3s, 4, 4s, 5, ^s and now what – – – agh 7) . . . et al, nothing seems to have to endured like my Macbook Pro. I used to love you Apple (well except when you first switched to making product overseas that caused my tower to last as long as a year!). But you fixed that many years ago. I am however worried about the weighlessness and marketing that has happened over the years. My mind feels, I need to know that a bounce, bang and checked in macbook pro, while travelling, may stand up to my dear oldie.

Done rambling, please respond if you have an oldie macbook pro as sweet as mine with any tips of buying a new one – why do I crincge?

What can I look forward to . . .whatever will last 10+years.

Mrs – happy to think I can review a new Macbook Pro (Just asking – be nice APPLE), or check out refurbished with confidence, or lend mine out to you one day to try to see why mine stills works?

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– for the people who can’t figure out the “use case”, don’t worry you don’t have to. Apple already has, and thats why they are a billion dollar company and you are , well not. i’m guessing you are not into your own health & fitness, b/c Apple Watch , now with gps and water proof is a very viable option for those “in motion” .

Mr Bill

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@devika girish, what do you mean by “Currently only the iOS browser app”? AFAIK iOS cannot receive Eddystone URL packet UNLESS chrome is installed

This is why bloggers are not journalists. They just swallow that this was done to improve the customer experience. This is probably what the corporate memo said. These “writers” never question anything (companies rarely if ever do *anything* to improve the customer experience; they do it to improve the bottom line. But unless the tech writers go kissy-kissy to all things tech, they won’t get previews to the next kewel gadget.