This morning, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro begin to much enthusiast fanfare and confusion. While the premise is exciting, there’s little to go off about how good it is in day-to-day usage. But will all the talk that will come about the idea of “spatial computing,” as a
Beth Allison Barr’s “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” is a detailed and approachable study of an idea that has plagued American Christianity: Biblical Patriarchy. While many may not know what the exact term “Biblical Womanhood” means, we are familiar with its basic teaching: God has ordained men/husbands to
Breaking up is hard, but there's someone who makes it more difficult: Siri. The digital assistant has actually become more useful in recent years, understanding more and more about our lives, schedules and habits. But it's lacking one feature that any friend or acquaintance has: Don&
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I take a lot of photos. Currently in my iCloud Photo Library, there are 236,167 images, 6,429 videos and 8 items. And I’m running out of cloud storage. While Apple has made major improvements in Photos and the iCloud Photo Library in recent years, such a large
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The organizational overhaul still focuses on the overall timeline of when photos were taken but curates them in a new and smart manner based on days, months, and years. Using machine learning, Photos can pick images and videos that are relevant to your location and time of year. Also improved
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Lightning can be one of the most difficult and time consuming things to photograph. It's hard to predict when it will hit and there's usually adverse conditions that make it potentially dangerous. But the results can be, well, striking. With DSLR cameras, the standard way of
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There's a really cool feature in iOS 13 that allows you to watch a series of concurrently taken Live Photo's simultaneously as one long video. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I was watching a Live Photo and it kept on going through the
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Summer is one of my favorite times to take photos. The weather is nice, the light is good and everything seems in motion. For editing, I’ve continued to explore the app Darkroom. One of my favorite features is applying frames. They make photos stand out on Instagram and help,
I was excited when it was announced that Kurt Vile was going to play at Bell’s Eccentric Café. I had listened to some of his music over the years and enjoyed it, but never spent the time listening to it. In the age of streaming services, it’s easy
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The days are getting longer and the temperature is rising, it’s summer in Michigan. Here are some of my favorite photos I’ve taken in the past month. Lots of beautiful sunsets and some quality time with my family’s dogs.
iOS 13 offers a whole bunch of new features, but some of my favorite additions are in the Shortcuts app. Note: I am currently using the developer beta on a secondary device for testing purposes — do not install on your main device or wait for the public beta this July.
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Apple announced a whole bunch of new software on Monday during its WWDC keynote, and Camera and Photos were well represented. While many of the big new features come with the release of new iPhones in the fall, there was a good amount announced for I played around with the