Isabella Kwai writing for the New York Times:
In video of the incident taken from the drone, it can be seen releasing a yellow “rescue pod” that inflates in the water. The two swimmers grabbed the pod, and with its support they made their way to shore. They were fatigued, but not hurt, Surf Life Saving New South Wales, a volunteer organization, said in a statement.
In the future, our robot overlords may make even lifeguards obsolete.
Marius Masalar for the Sweet Setup:
To be practical, an iPad photography workflow has to encompass everything from shooting, importing, culling, editing, and the final export. The ideal scenario is to be able to trust the iPad to replace a laptop as my daily photography companion. It needn’t do so entirely — I’m happy to continue using my desktop-based collection of apps when I’m at home and need their specific capabilities — but I should feel confident taking nothing but an iPad with me when I head out on a shoot or take my next trip.
If you’ve been looking for a comprehensive iPad photograph workflow, this is about as thorough as you’ll find, from apps to help plan photos, to software and accessories to streamline the process.
Federico Viticci, writing for MacStories:
But this isn’t a post-mortem for Transmit on iOS, which, according to Panic, may even relaunch as a new app on the Store someday. Instead, I’d like to take a quick tour of some of the alternatives for Transmit available on iPad today. In case Panic decides to pull Transmit from the App Store, or if the app stops working in a future release of iOS, these FTP clients and file managers should compensate for the features of Panic’s app. Most of them don’t offer the same sophisticated and polished UI design, but some of them may even turn out to be more flexible and better integrated with iOS than Transmit.
Panic announced two weeks ago it would be removing Transmit from the iOS App Store soon, since it wasn’t profitable for the company. If you’ve been wondering how you might replace Transmit, Federico Viticci’s article should get you started. I hadn’t heard of two of the three apps in his story. I’ll most likely stick with Transmit until a clearly better alternative comes along, or it stops working. If you know of a great iOS FTP client not mentioned in Viticci’s story, please let me know.
Matt Birchler, writing at BirchTree:
Beyond calendars, the Siri watch face taps into a bunch of Apple’s own services like Reminders, Apple News, Weather, and more. This is nice, and I find these other apps to work well with the face in general, but I don’t use Apple’s own apps for a bunch of these things. I use Remember the Milk for my task management, not Reminders, so I never see my tasks on the Siri watch face. Likewise, the Weather app does an okay job of showing me the weather when the conditions are about to change, but I’d prefer a third party app to be able to pop up a card on the watch face when it’s about to rain, complete with a graph showing how much and for how long.
Essentially, Apple should be making the Siri watch face the smartest, most useful watch face someone can choose. It already is the smartest, but to be useful to everyone, they need to make the apps people are actually using work with it.
That is but one of several great suggestions for the next version of WatchOS. Some are pie in the sky, but Bircher acknowledges that. Check out the full story for the rest.
Joe Rossignol speaking for MacRumors,
Toyota and Lexus plan to expand CarPlay compatibility to other 2019 model year and beyond vehicles with its Entune 3.0 and Enform 2.0 multimedia systems respectively, according to company spokesperson Brian Lyons. Toyota and Lexus vehicles with CarPlay will initially be sold in the United States only.
Finally. I bought a Lexus in January of 2016, very reluctantly because of the lack of CarPlay. Never again. I never use the car navigation, instead mounting my iPhone on the dash. I assume it is technologically impossible to retrofit the old system to be CarPlay compatible.
