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Back when I used to actually answer my iPhone (many moons ago), I set up a custom ringtone for my wife: Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries.
It was my little joke, and I still find it amusing. But when she found out, she didn’t find it quite as funny as I did, so I changed it.
If you want to set up a customer ringtone for someone special in your life, or for telemarketers or your boss, it’s pretty easy to make your own from an MP3 file or YouTube video. Here’s how.
Also in today’s newsletter:
If you somehow have a locked iPhone but not the passcode/password, it’s pretty easy to unlock it using UnlockGo.
New iPads are coming, but if you want to snag a great bargain now, the M1 iPad Air is at the lowest price it’s ever been.
The upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max may get even more max, if these dummy units prove correct.
The European Union just labeled the iPad as a “gatekeeper” device, making big changes to the tablet inevitable.
This cool 4K webcam uses AI smarts to bring the iPad’s Center Stage to your desktop Mac or MacBook.
Don’t miss the comments on the first tweet below. (It’s from a guy who says he met Tim Cook on the street. We’re assuming it’s not an AI shot.)
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
A message from the Cult of Mac Deals team
A message from UnlockGo
Tweetz o’ the day
Met one of my heroes today @tim_cook
— Jakub Smékal (@jakub_smekal)
Apr 28, 2024
my record is 38 safari windows open at the same time before the M2 in my Apple Vision Pro hit its limit
it’s ridiculously beautiful
— Justin Ryan ᯅ (@justinryanio)
Apr 29, 2024
This cat KNOWS the multitasking gestures on iPad
— icon (EN/ZH/DE) (@iconredesign)
Apr 29, 2024
You're gonna get X, maybe buy the check mark, then you start following VCs and new tech startups. You might start reading Zero to One and start calling yourself a contrarian. You’ll then start to see some of Augustus’ tweets, start posting about American dynamism, and maybe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Red Bull Futurist (@redbullfuturist)
Apr 29, 2024
One more thing ...
People say sometimes, 'You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world.' I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done. All of the graphical-user interface stuff that we did with the Macintosh was pioneered at Xerox PARC [the company's legendary Palo Alto Research Center] and with Doug Engelbart at SRI [a future-oriented think tank at Stanford] in the mid-'70s. And here we are, just about the mid-'90s, and it's kind of commonplace now. But it's about a 10-to-20-year lag. That's a long time.
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