As we continue Star Wars week here on iPhone J.D., I'll start with a link to a post by Florida attorney Rick Georges who noted that Google came out with a fun game this week called Lightsaber Escape. You hold your iPhone (or Android phone) in your hand like a lightsaber and you fight your way through some storm troopers on your computer screen in the Chrome browser. To begin, go to g.co/lightsaber on your iPhone or computer and follow the directions from there. Meanwhile, Florida attorney David Sparks created 56-song Star Wars playlist on Apple Music to listen to as he waited in line for six hours to see the new movie last night. (Read about it in this post that he wrote; click here for his Apple Music playlist.) I'm very jealous of my friends who saw the movie last night — and I hope that they forgive me for avoiding them until Saturday afternoon when I see the movie. (Need to avoid any risk of spoilers!) And now, the news of note from this past week ... including a few more Star Wars items:
- Houston attorney Brian Beckcom reviews the iPad Pro.
- California attorney David Sparks provides some additional thoughts on the iPad Pro.
- Sparks also discusses the Dragon Anywhere iOS app, an app that you can use to take dictations on the iPhone/iPad which is more powerful than the Siri built-in dictation.
- Massachusetts attorney Bob Ambrogi reports that WestlawNext will change its name to Westlaw in February, 2016.
- New Orleans attorney Ernie Svenson discusses the ethical considerations of online file storage.
- New York attorney Neil Squillante of TechnoLawyer announced the TL NewsWire Top 25 products of 2015. The iPad Pro and the Spark email app made the list.
- In 2014, Apple and IBM announced a partnership whereby IBM would develop iOS apps for vertical markets. Dennis Sellers of Apple World Today reports that IBM has now shipped its 100th app. I doubt that IBM will develop an app for the legal market, but I suppose they could.
- Dan Moren of Six Colors explains why he likes occasionally using the Photo Album face on his Apple Watch. I haven't used that face much because you cannot use complications with it, but Moren makes a good point that it could be appropriate on the weekends when we don't have meetings throughout the day. After reading his article, I'm going to give that watch face another chance. Let's see, what would be a good photo for my Apple Watch right now? Hmm...
- Cartoonist Rich Stevens of Diesel Sweeties shows why the iPhone is like the Star Wars movies.
- Cody Lee of iDownloadBlog reports that Apple Music launched a Star Wars radio station. I have been listening to it while I write this post ... it's great!
- Nick Guy of The Wirecutter updated that site's post on the best styluses. The best overall pick was the Apple Pencil, and for non-iPad Pro users he likes the Adonit Jot Pro. I agree with both selections.
- John Gruber of Daring Fireball wrote an interesting review of Apple's new Smart Battery Case.
- AppleInsider reports that Apple will offer free overnight shipping for orders placed on Dec. 23.
- If you want to get a look inside of Apple, Charlie Rose will go behind the scenes with Apple's John Ive and others on 60 Minutes this Sunday night.
- And finally, the New York-based band Airplane Mode created a music video for its song Between the Stars and You. What is interesting to me is that the video was created using the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. As reported by Joseph Keller of iMore, artist Kaitlin Large (who runs the Etsy store Gingerly Noted, and is also an actress) drew the graphics by hand using the Procreate app. Very creative video: