Steve Sande

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding a Mac developer who has stuck it out with the platform for a quarter-century or more is rare. For the longevity award, there's <a href="https://www.provue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Panorama</a>, which has actually been around longer than the Mac itself, but today marks the 25th birthday of another classic piece of Mac software history -- <a href="https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BBEdit</a>. The venerable text editor is used by writers and developers for a variety of use cases, and it's now in the 12th major release in a version that is compatible with macOS 10.13 High Sierra.</p>

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<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It's a rather slow news day in the world of Apple, but we have a real estate story, some info about a new app that does something pretty amazing, and a rumor about the next-generation iPhone SE:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple VP Eddy Cue is putting his vacation home near Lake Tahoe up for sale. Anyone with $11.9 million can get a nice home, and it's only three years old</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Lost the prescription for your eyeglasses? If you have a pretty simple prescription, you can use a new app that will determine that prescription and help you buy new glasses online</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">More rumors are coming out about the iPhone SE 2, with an iPhone case maker saying it will resemble a small iPhone X complete with a notch at the top</p></li></ul>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Marked 2 is a macOS app that does one thing very, very well -- it previews Markdown and other text markup languages like HTML and OPML so that writers see rendered and styled versions before publishing them. Make a change in your favorite text editor, and Marked 2 changes the preview instantly. After a year of hard work, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marked-2/id890031187?mt=12" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marked 2</a> developer Brett Terpstra is releasing Marked 2.5.11 (943) today with a number of new features, improvements and fixes.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">You probably know I am a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts. I love using them when I'm typing, and I love saving time by not having to remove one hand from the keyboard.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Although Apple’s HomeKit home automation framework is supposed to make it easier for people to control their homes from an iOS device with a tap of a button or a chat with Siri, the reality is that it can still be difficult for many people to use. Fibaro’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BGJXJLS/appwortod01-20/">The Button</a> ($59.99) is a HomeKit enabled multi-controller that is simply a big (1.81 inches / 4.6 cm diameter) button that can perform home automation functions when pushed.</p>

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<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a short podcast for you today, with a heartwarming FaceTime story, news from Google's tech conference this week, and an upcoming security update in iOS 11.4 that will make it even more difficult for law enforcement officers to get personal data off of iOS devices:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A soldier thought he was going to miss out on the birth of his daughter due to an early delivery and a flight delay. FaceTime saved the day</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Google announces ML Kit, a machine learning software development kit that allows developers for iOS and Android to build machine learning enabled apps</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">iOS 11.4 will apparently have a new feature called USB Restricted Mode that will disable data transfer over USB if a device isn't unlocked after a week</p></li></ul>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Another manic Monday, with AAPL zipping to a new high close. We have info about that and a lot more for you in today's Apple World Today News Update Podcast:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple is soliciting Apple Watch owners to join in on the Apple Heart Study being done in partnership with Stanford Medicine</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The iMac turned 20 yesterday. The all-in-one is credited with beginning the turnaround in Apple's fortunes</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">iOS 13 rumors are beginning to seep out, and we haven't yet heard what's going to be in iOS 12</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">During trading today, Apple hit $187.67 per share. Warren Buffett would love to own all of Apple's stock...</p></li></ul>

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<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">May the Fourth Be With You! Today we've got four short news items to make your day:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple informs Windows users that the Texture app -- which it recently purchased -- will be retired on that platform on June 30</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Shares in Apple almost made it to $184 per share today, reaching an all-time high of $183.99 at one point (this was before the close of the market...) and a market cap of about $932 billion</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Spanish-language People magazine's latest issue features 50 portraits and a cover photo, all done with the iPhone X</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook is looking into a subscription-based ad-free feed</p></li></ul>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We missed yesterday's podcast due to a conflict, but we're back today with all sorts of great news for you:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Yet another person can thank the Apple Watch for saving his life, after a New York man followed his Watch's advice to seek medical attention immediately after suffering from a ruptured ulcer</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a reminder: your Mom wants flowers for Mother's Day on May 13th, and you can get some nice deals by using Apple Pay to pay for them</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The big beneficiary of all of the negative news about Apple from Wall Street analysts during the past few months was Apple, which was able to buy up a record amount of its shares at a discount price</p></li><li><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple's iPads are bucking the trend of shrinking tablet market share</p></li></ul>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">You have probably been seeing a lot of this type of post over the past couple of weeks. This post pertains to a new regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), created by the EU Parliament to ensure that users’ electronic data across all organizations is protected and those organizations will be more transparent with how that data is used. This new regulation takes effect May 26th 2018.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you didn't have a chance to join us Tuesday night at 6:30 PM PT for our live episode of AWT TV, that's not a problem, because we have the video right here for you to watch:</p>

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