Serenity Caldwell at iMore with the complete low down on what you can and cannot play through the Apple iPod.
Test posts flushed - it’s what you do.
It's People That Make A Company.
Got to tell you … @Manton at 🔗 Micro Blog rocks.
For a variety of reasons I have posted trouble tickets to 4 different companies today (Is it me? Really? Say It Ain’t So!)
Pretty sure that Manton is the smallest of the four operations … but that didn’t stop him from being not just the first to respond, but the only one thus far that has even offered me a solution to fix the problems described. (Manton actually fixed it.) In fact two of them have yet to respond.
If you are reading this … and wondering what the hell Micro.Blog is … well ping me and let me know. I have some spare invite codes that will get you in. You won’t regret it.
🎵 9/10 Not Your Grandma’s Communion
Sunlit - Straight Out Of The Box Observations And Comments
I am running the beta of Sunlit (thankyou @manton).
I have done two posts so far ….
… Which is pretty simple really - adding a picture, dropping in some text - it’s like a post - which I can already do in the core app.
BUT
I think what Sunlit is really about is ‘telling visual stories’ - in fact in the interface, it actually uses that term, so I took three pictures out of my library and wrote a story … (don’t worry - I am not expecting an award!)
So far so good - but here are the issues
- That layout doesn’t naturally come out of Sunlit - I had to come back to my post once published and edit to get the order of the photos organized - and then move my text around to relate the text to the story.
- This might be ‘operator error’ … So just recording this thought for now.
- Also - on the single post - I have a big picture, but with multiple pictures, the app forces the images to something smaller - and in fact - notice how the portrait is smaller than the two landscapes …
This is what I Think Sunlit should be able to as an MVP for visual story telling …
- Load multiple pictures
- Reorder the pictures that make sense for my story
- Let me control how big those pictures are
- Let me inject copy throughout the pictures
To be clear … Sunlit is a beta app - so I am sure that this is all taken on board … certainly will continue to use it - high hopes - might even get me to think about posts using images more than I do.
Just for kicks (that aren’t always on route 66) two screen captures of what the posts look like after I di the editing in the micro.blog - ‘visual’ view and ‘text’ view
🎵 8/10 Art, An Album, A Scrap Book
Kicks
Riding The Road. Living The Dream.
No … that isn’t me - I’m the dude on the other side of the camera!
Get Your Fix On Route 66
Just passing through Oatman on Route 66
… and found a gunfight in process.
It was unclear if the burro was relaxing or part of the performance
… that said I was assured that no animals were hurt in the making of this particular epic.
Editorial and IAWriter
So playing around with both Editorial and IA Writer - both have their ‘bennies’ and I can see a role for both in my world as a staging post for thoughts before they end up here.
That means I would mainly be using them on phone / pad - since on the Mac I have Mars Edit. IAWriter has a Mac Client - which I like - so I can do some ‘tuning’ before publishing. I’m kinda old school like that. On Editorial - not possible, other than using a text editor … which is ok but not exactly a markdown expert. So I thought … maybe I could use either to write on the phone and then use IAWriter to edit on the Mac … BUT …
IAWriter ONLY uses iCloud to synch and Editorial ONLY Dropbox … apparently recent changes in Drobbox caused IAWriter to drop Dropbox - so to speak.
Wondering how Editorial makes Dropbox work if IAWriter can’t …. anyone know?
More importantly - any ideas how I could make this setup work?
I am now official …. and Micro.Blog is now my ‘go to’ place for posting in Mars Edit. Great work by
#Later And through the power of the interwebs - this post was dispatched into my twitter stream where it was picked up by @danielpunkass - he of Red Sweater - and thus Mars Edit
Call out to him for ongoing delivery and support of Software that I have been using for years … which made me go check … looks like my first engagement was back in 2009 … can that be right?
#Even Later
… and yes Daniel - appended to - not edited - integrity maintained.
🎵 7/10 Still contains one of my favourite instrumentals.
Let The Speaker Wars Begin
HomePod can play purchased iTunes music, podcasts and stream Beats 1 without Apple Music subscription
BUT
If you add music to your home iTunes library that was not acquired through a purchase, HomePod will not be able to access it. It appears HomePod doesn’t have Home Sharing, which would enable that kind of feature.
For me - that right there is a non starter.
Farrago is a new app from Rogue Amoeba … the video sold me … and I don’t even need it … well, at least that is what I thought!
I had an idea to add 🎬 to the discover thread maybe also 👩🏽 to help us find more diverse people to follow?
Feature Request
Would a reply all function end up being too hard or result in unintended consequences ? Or do we feel that the conversation link by itself is sufficient.
I just heard @kentwada say that ‘data about who I am’ and ‘who I am’ … are one and the same. (I paraphrase)
It reminded me of Poetical Big Data
If we really are only our data then we are doomed. #dataprivacyday
Apparently drugs are arriving in America through the USPS … who knew?
Apparently, not the #whitehouse .. but then unclear what they do know.
thinking #wall #fail
🎵 6/10 Each Letter Has Meaning
