7 Things This Week [#153]
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not.
I’m off to Ohio for a wedding this weekend, so (perhaps for the first time ever) you’re getting an issue of 7 Things early!
1️⃣ MereCivilian turned a 13-year-old iPad 2 into $1000 toward a brand-new Pixel 9 Pro Fold. Wow! [🔗 merecivilian.com]
2️⃣ Nick Heer makes the case that iOS has gotten a bit harder to use with a handful of examples related to the Dynamic Island, Lock Screen, and gestures. [🔗 pxlnv.com]
3️⃣ I wholeheartedly agree with this short post from Manu Moreale. Having links to your social profiles on your website is great, but you really really should have an email address there. It’s the most universal way of sending a message to someone. [🔗 manuelmoreale.com]
4️⃣ Can you believe that it’s been 15 whole years since the greatest software update of all time was released? 😏 I kid, but it really has been that long since Mac OS X Snow Leopard came out, and BasicAppleGuy has a short retrospective and fantastic up-res’ed versions of its iconic desktop wallpapers. [🔗 basicappleguy.com]
5️⃣ Remember that One Million Checkboxes website that was up for a couple of weeks? Its author just wrote up this wild story about how teens worked out how to coordinate to send secret messages, draw, and even make animations with it. So cool! [🔗 eieio.games]
6️⃣ This OP3 thing that helps you track downloads on your podcast even if the host doesn’t have it built in (like Micro.blog) seems pretty neat! If I ever start a show, I’ll have to remember it. [🔗 chrisenns.com]
7️⃣ Jonathan Ruiz took an idea shared by Federico Viticci on Connected and ran with it to develop a fully-fledged app that he just released on the App Store. It’s, fittingly, called Ticci Tabs and is a way to easily browse your favorite 6 or 7 websites. I’m planning on using it for the publications I subscribe to, and a few other sites that I just really like their designs. 🔗 thermalcorner.net
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.
This is post #27/31 for Blaugust 2024.