May 2021

by Jeff McKamey

AirTags

Apple introduced the AirTags:

https://www.apple.com/airtag/

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/30/airtags-hands-on/

If you want a way to hang them on a keychain, you can drill a small hole:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/30/its-possible-to-drill-a-hole-through-an-airtag/

Apple will let other people use Find My app for location

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/07/apple-announces-find-my-network-third-party-devices/

How to free up some room on your iPhone or iPad

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/clear-storage-space-iphone-ipad/

Video of the week:

Someone flew a drone into a volcano and you can watch it melt:

https://petapixel.com/2021/05/03/this-guy-flew-a-drone-into-a-volcano-crater-and-it-shot-its-own-demise/?fbclid=IwAR2Q_HEOdIqPrcd_9Et79WLVY7QN6RifFauuHrQhgxIIlgnJC5jZJ-6RlWQ

Nightshift doesn’t help you sleep at night:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/iphones-night-shift-feature-doesnt-help-you-sleep-better-study-finds/

Twitter is trying to make people nicer by default:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-begins-show-prompts-people-send-mean-replies-rcna839

Jobs didn’t like facebook

https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/04/steve-jobs-facebook-emails-app-store/

Frontier went bankrupt laying fiber, so it’s doubling down on that

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/05/frontier-exits-bankruptcy-claims-it-will-double-fiber-to-the-home-footprint/

Over a million people still pay for AOL

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/05/03/2150238/about-15-million-people-still-pay-for-aol

Apple watch new biometric tricks

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/03/apple-watch-blood-pressure-glucose-alcohol/