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Jul 9

What goes around…

If you look at your iPhone when its face-down you’ll notice that the camera and the flash face “up.” Fortunately, Apple thought through how to use the flash to alert the user when a message has been received. You’ll find this brilliant feature under Settings > General > Accessibility. Scroll down to “LED Flash for Alerts” and turn it “on.” The camera flash will now blink when a message comes through but no where near as bright as when the flash is used while taking a photo.

What’s great about this “brilliant feature” is that it is completely stolen from RIM, and it’s something that Blackberries used to get made fun of for having.

Back in 2010, Gruber posted a link to this story which said that the “blinking red light” was one of three reasons why people stuck with their Blackberries. Gruber said this was “just nutty.” I disagreed. The red light was about the only thing I missed from my Blackberry — I found it a very useful notification option. And saying so got me linked on Daring Fireball, which was pretty alright.

Thing is, now I’d never turn on this feature. Now it seems like it’d be annoying. Moreover, I never go more than 15 seconds without checking my iPhone anyway.

(via thisistheverge)

Jul 3

conscientia-vita:

Use plastic bottles to completely and safely seal food bags.

This is one of those things where part of me is like “Uh, are twist ties causing that much landfill waste?,” but a bigger part of me wants to run downstairs and DO THIS RIGHT NOW.

There is an even bigger part of me, however, that knows that if I did it, my wife would give me one of those looks, you know, one of those looks that says not only, “You are the biggest fucking idiot I’ve ever met,” but also, “You are turning into your father, you know that guy that trims his bread bags so that he doesn’t have this large tail of plastic as the loaf gets smaller and who folds his stash of plastic grocery bags into neat little triangles.”

So.