I take lots of photographs, both with my iPhone and with my Nikon DSLR camera. It used to be that I edited all of my photos using the Photos app (and before that iPhoto) or Photoshop Elements on my Mac. However, in recent years I've started to do more photo editing on my iPad. This week, an app called Pixelmator Photo was released, and it does a very nice job of improving photographs. There are lots of things that you can tweak for fine control, plus there are buttons with an "ML" on them, indicating that the app will use Machine Learning to try to make intelligent choices about the best edits for your photo, allowing you to try to improve your photo with just one tap. Illinois attorney John Voorhees wrote a helpful review of Pixelmator Photo for MacStories. The app is fairly powerful and only costs $4.99. If you are looking for a good way to use your iPad to improve your photos you should check out Pixelmator Photo. And now, the news of note from this past week:
- Lit Software, maker of TrialPad, TranscriptPad, and DocReviewPad, posted an update on its website about its progress on the next generation of its apps. One of the new features will be better collaboration between users and between the apps themselves.
- New York attorney Nicole Black discusses a State Bar of Texas ethics opinion from September 2018, Opinion 680, which concludes that lawyers can store confidential information on cloud services in most situations. You can read Opinion 680 at this link, and the conclusion of the opinion is: "Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, a lawyer may use a cloud-based electronic data storage system or cloud-based software document preparation system to store client confidential information or prepare legal documents. However, lawyers must remain alert to the possibility of data breaches, unauthorized access, or disclosure of client confidential information and undertake reasonable precautions in using those cloud-based systems."
- Rene Ritchie of iMore reviews the second-generation AirPods, which I reviewed earlier this month.
- David Pogue of the New York Times has tips for being more efficient with your iPhone by reducing the number of taps it takes to get things done.
- Josh Ginter of The Sweet Setup discusses all of the ways to add tasks to the Things app.
- Leif Johnson of Macworld offers tips for using an Apple HomePod.
- Christopher Null of TechHive has recommendations for selecting smart plugs, including devices compatible with Apple's HomeKit technology.
- And finally, here is an amusing video released on April 1, 2019, by Funny Or Die called The Sound Gardner, which purports to show where AirPods come from:
