I’ve been talking about iPad keyboards this week, and I see that Apple just announced that there are now international versions of its Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro, with localized keyboards including British English, French, Spanish, Korean, Italian and Arabic. Jordan Kahn of 9to5Mac has details. Apple also released a new commercial this week touting the iPad Pro as a replacement for a computer, thanks to the ability to use an external keyboard and Apple Pencil and the ability to multi-task. I’ve always thought as my iPad as a suitable PC replacement when I travel, and it is interesting to see Apple explicitly acknowledge this. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- If you are in the New Orleans area and want to hear me share some tips for using an iPad in a law practice, I’m teaching a one hour CLE on Friday, August 26, 2016 at Noon for the New Orleans Bar Association. The CLE is free for NOBA members. You can get more information and sign up here.
- California attorney David Sparks discusses the new 1Password subscription plans. I like the idea of the subscription, and I plan to do it once their Windows 7 client is out of beta. (I use Windows 7 on my work computer.)
- Florida attorney Katie Floyd encourages attorneys to sign up for MacTrack Legal, a conference previously known as MILOfest for attorneys who use Macs, iPhones and iPads. The conference is held at Disney World in Orlando every Fall, and this year is October 6-8, 2016. I use a PC in my law office so I’ve never attended the conference, but everyone I know who has attended in the past has raved about how informative and fun the conference is.
- Which iPad Pro is best — the 9.7″ or the 12.9″? It’s a tough question for most folks. Julio Ojeda-Zapata runs through the pros and cons of each iPad Pro in an article for TidBITS.
- Once you get your iPad Pro, which accessories should you get? Jason Snell examines that question in an article for iMore.
- Dan Frakes reviews iPad Pro keyboard cases in a post for The Wirecutter.
- Hey-Siri.io is a great website that lists every single command that you can give to Siri. There is a ton in here that I didn’t know about. Well worth checking out.
- Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal wrote a great article about the transition from paying with credits card by swiping to paying with credit cards using the chip, and compared all of this to using Apple Pay (which is much faster).
- Ben Petterson has advice for using the iOS 9 notification center in an article for Macworld.
- Leander Kahney of Cult of Mac reviews the Zens Power Bank, a portable charger for the Apple Watch.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that July was a record-breaker for the App Store, with the highest-ever monthly billings and money paid to developers, and with over $50 billion paid to developers to date.
- Apple released a new Remote app for the Apple TV. Serenity Caldwell of iMore has advice for using the app.
- And finally, Apple created a new ad to run during the Olympics. It features pictures and short videos taken with iPhones, with a voice-over by Mayo Angelou reading an abbreviated version of her beautiful poem Human Family. I really like the last part, which is as timely as ever given the prejudice in our world: “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” It’s a great video: