There’s huge news in the TidBITS universe today: Adam and Tonya have sold Take Control Books to Joe Kissell in order to focus more on TidBITS, the TidBITS Content Network, and new projects. Don’t worry, Adam and Tonya will still be involved with Take Control, and no one is more qualified to captain the Take Control ship than Joe. In other news, Julio Ojeda-Zapata reviews Apple’s Clips, a new social-focused video creation app for iOS, and Josh Centers suggests three reasons why you should give the Opera Web browser a look. Finally, in a new entry in his A Prairie HomeKit Companion series, Josh compares two HomeKit-compatible smart outlets, Elgato’s Eve Energy and iHome’s iSP5. Notable software releases this week include Tweetbot 2.5, 1Password 6.7.1, ChronoSync 4.7.6 and ChronoAgent 1.6.2, Typinator 7.2, and Pages 6.1.1, Numbers 4.1.1, and Keynote 7.1.1 for Mac.
No joke — we have sold the Take Control Books part of our business to our most prolific author, Joe Kissell. It’s an entirely positive move that lets all of us get out of our respective ruts and take on new challenges. Read on for Adam’s tale of how we came to this momentous decision.
Amidst the chaos of a house move, Josh Centers takes a break to tell you about two HomeKit-compatible smart outlets that are easy to take with you wherever you may go.
After writing about the death of Obama-era FCC privacy rules, Josh Centers took another look at the Opera Web browser, which includes a built-in VPN, and found that there was much more to like about the oft-forgotten browser.
Apple’s new Clips app for iOS is a video-editing app like iMovie, but it’s loaded with emojis and other zany features like those in Snapchat and other social video apps. Clips is fun, but limited and opaque in some ways.
In ExtraBITS this week, Rogue Amoeba has a preliminary fix for tvOS 10.2 breaking their Airfoil app, it has been revealed that email cleansing service Unroll.me sold user data to Uber, and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has released a proposal that would reverse most Obama-era net neutrality regulations.
Notable software releases this week include Tweetbot 2.5, 1Password 6.7.1, ChronoSync 4.7.6 and ChronoAgent 1.6.2, Typinator 7.2, and Pages 6.1.1, Numbers 4.1.1, and Keynote 7.1.1 for Mac.