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Bands I’ve sold, every flat color sport band except black and my silver and black Milanese loops.

Added the Nike volt sport band and tan alpine loop as well as titanium Milanese to the collection.

Eight days without Apple Watch. I really missed it. Ultra 2 in Black is the only DLC watch available and I feel "home" being back in DLC mode after taking 2 years off. Ultra Milanese loop is fantastic and definitely worth the $100 premium over Apple's stainless steel / magnetic …

@sdw that’s the band I ordered. Saw green and blue in store. Tan is a good look.

It appears beta5 of 18.1 does fix my iPhone 16 camera issues. It was making the camera unusable for the first 3 days of ownership

I'm hoping iOS 18.1 Developer Beta 5 solves my issues only on iPhone 16 where the camera app crashes constantly. 3rd part photo apps work fine but opening the camera and clicking the shutter (screen shutter / camera capture shutter) leads to a crash and the image is not saved to the camera roll. …

I think this is going to be the homescreen for a while.

Yum!

Chicken & Biscuits for breakfast.

Since iOS 17 (iPad/iPhone), search in mail has been utter shite. I have it set to download all mail this is my iPad that’s been setup since August and is running iOS 18.1 but the issue is not new. The only reason I keep Outlook on my iPhone and iPad is to search my Inbox. It sucks running 2 mail …

@sdw Which style is that? Amber? Band is olive Alpine?

Apple Store is LIT! Heather got a new watch band, I’m digging the entire line of ultra marine colors (bands cases, etc)

iPhone 14 Pro to iPhone 16 Pro and I can really feel the performance. This phone is restoring a 3.6 terabyte iCloud Photo library and 60,000 songs along with many other background tasks. it's warm but has zero "sluggish" / UI Slowness at all. Kind of amazing. I think mobile CPUs are …

First time having an Apple Store near me on iPhone day. Glad I went by to check out cases / straps. Tan Alpine > Green Alpine Ultra Marine > Star Fruit (for iPhone 16 Pro Cases) There were some Ultra 2s available for purchase but Titanium MIlanese Black is sold out completely everywhere and …

I will say, as someone managing a Program Management Organization for a FinTech with 142 million members who is also a newborn dad, I am good with hanging it up for a few years after I pass these 3 exams. I'd love to expand to Six Sigma Lean Black Belt and Prince2 but those are going to be …

Since August of 2023, I've passed: PMI-PMP PMI-PGMP PMI-ACP PMI-AHPP CSM PSM --- I've been approved for and have purchased: PMI-RMP PMI-PBA PMI-PMO-CP I want to knock out those three exams by December then (honestly) I'm done with certifications for quite some time with nothing else on …

For quite literally 14 months, I've been studying for various certifications. Tonight is no different. I don't know what the end goal is but I have to be insane to be reading this boring-ass-shit at midnight but I have an exam in 6 days (the PMI-RMP) and would really like to pass it the …

@gruber I thoroughly loved the campout experience and faithfully did it from 2003 (Panther) until around 2018 but with day-one delivery being so reliable now across dozens of channels, it honestly doesn't make logical sense anymore. The last 2 years, I was all alone until a minute or two before …

@jtylko Holy crap! That’s awesome. Damn, that was a LONG time ago.

I think if you want an Apple Watch that will last many years of abuse, a DLC coated Ultra is exactly what you want. You’re hedging your bets against beating the crap out of it and the higher capacity battery will continue to perform well after 3-5 years of charging cycles at only $110 more than the …

I think reviewers are underselling the Black Ultra 2 just as they usually undersell the Hermes Edition watches. The Ultra 2 (2024) is the only DLC treated Apple Watch available. DLC has been a staple of Apple Watch since the Series 0 in 2014 then becoming exclusive to Hermes for the last 2 …

Just adding that Mann is not saying this is an SLR replacement. I just know that if I went to Kenya, I'd be using a real camera and using the iPhone to take photos of the menu at a restaurant I was eating to send to my friend or a photo of my breakfast for a FourSquare check-in.

I'm seriously NOT pixel peeping here - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e97bf37b5f38a138db297b3/75d9b076-2b56-4a5a-9d1c-80a82d95ad0e/IMG_4889-2.jpg?format=2500w (Hoping this isn't copyright infringement. I'm sorry if so) but it's just a blurry photo. 90% of my work is …

Austin Mann's iPhone Review has a section, "Buying Advice for Photographers" and I agree with everything written. But as usual and this is NOT a dig on Mann, "copy image URL" and opening this images in Safari on my 32" display shows just how far iPhone has to go to …

Well crap. I listed my Apple Watch Ultra on Swappa and set it to the highest price compared to all others. It just sold for $560 or at least that’s the net to me. Wish I had ordered a new watch last week but I guess it’s time to package it up and sell it.