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Apple Music-free Mac
Media ecologist Marshall McLuhan once said, ‘We walk backwards into the future’. He was referring to the human tendency to feel nostalgic in the face of new things—to focus on what has already passed us by. I find myself frequently in conflict about the devices that I use: their usefulness, balancing necessity with desire and
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Rumination 74: Replies
One of my favourite things about Micro.blog is that whether you’re using the default app or third-party options like Gluon for Micro.blog, you can adjust a setting that stops any replies from appearing in your feed. With this preference enabled, only original blog posts, articles and photos are displayed. To be clear, I’m not saying
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Winking Face with Stuck-out Tongue
Every day, I rely entirely on digital devices to produce, consume and manage information for myself and others. I edit podcasts with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil; I listen to music on my iPhone; I take photos on my Olympus camera; I import and edit photos on my iPad mini; I watch YouTube on
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Shaping Your Thoughts
For our November 2022 issue of Hemispheric News, Jason prescribed me the following topic to discuss: I absolutely love this topic, as it aligns with concepts and themes in the discipline of media ecology, which forms the major theoretical basis for my research project about tech podcasting. I will avoid being too academic and using jargon or direct
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Stage-managed Severance
By now, many people have already written about Stage Manager, which is the new window-management tool that Apple introduced in iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura (13.0). If you aren’t familiar with the feature, it is intended to provide a new way of navigating between active app windows and focusing on your task at hand, with
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Rejoining Glass
Listeners of our members’ show, Hemispheric Views One Prime Plus, may recall that we spoke about the ad-free photo-sharing service Glass in episode 012, ‘TumblrJimbo!’. Quite amusingly, I was the only one left on the network after both Andrew and Jason decided to leave. I loved using the app, which felt right at home on the
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71. Unintended Hiatus
After a long break, the Lounge Ruminator podcast returns! (Thanks for sticking around.) I discuss the ethical review behind my research interview show, Really Specific Stories, and reflect on the challenges of balancing family, work and academic commitments. Read a transcript of the episode. Links and Show Notes
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Presenting…
Although I often use Pages to refine shared documents and MarsEdit to publish posts on Lounge Ruminator, my main writing app (particularly for university) is iA Writer. It feels like a rethought TextEdit on Markdown steroids: it’s minimalistic, focused and includes a restricted set of beautiful fonts, which are named Mono, Duo and Quattro. When
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by Martin Feld
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