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On Wednesday I went to the SoHo Apple Store in NYC for an Apple Watch try-on appointment. I signed up two days in advance, but showed up fifteen minutes early to find the try-on area almost empty—I got to start looking at Watches right away. Let me say upfront: the try-on service at the SoHo…

Apple Watch pricing, expressed in terms of upgrades relative to other models: Sport models only come with Sport Bands, and both the space gray and silver cost the same. The 42mm cases are always more expensive, but for us mere mortals, it’s always just a $50 premium. (Not only is the 42mm bigger, for bigger-handed…

Now I have two laptops. My MacBook Pro is relatively huge, but not that big, and it does absolutely everything I could want it to do, in style. My Surface Pro is smaller, thinner, and lighter. It does virtually everything—certainly anything involving documents or that can be done in a web browser—plus a couple of…

And I’m surprised to say I really like it. Granted, it’s a second computer—I feel permission to like it, because if the going gets rough I can always retreat to the safety of my fully loaded MacBook Pro. But as a lightweight, powerful second computer that happens to have all my Dropbox files, a desktop-class version…

Something a lot of people don’t know about iOS is that, since the release of iOS 7 last year, it’s finally possible to install third-party fonts and use them in apps. The catch is that fonts can only be installed via a configuration profile, a janky bit of XML designed to allow companies to load…

Having laid the philosophical groundwork for how I want to blog, let’s talk tools. I wrote the last post in Drafts. I’ve done all my recent writing in Drafts; it’s good and, more importantly, conveniently available in my pocket. Writing on a small mobile device is a good encouragement to keep things nice and short;…

Last week, Microsoft released a major update to Office for iOS, adding support for iPhones (including the new large-screen models) and, even more importantly, adding support for Dropbox as a place to open and save documents in the Office apps. Perhaps the craziest news was this: while at first requiring a paid Office 365 subscription…

Marco Arment and Andy Baio and Jason Snell and Gina Trapani have all written about returning to “middle-form” blogging—blogging that’s longer than a tweet but shorter and more casual, like it was back in the day. Sentences, not paragraphs; dozens or low hundreds of words, not thousands. (Worth noting that some, like Frank Chimero—who wrote…