iOS is due out later today and apps are releasing new versions to add compatibility. Just a few that look good to me: 1Password now provides Drag and Drop of user credentials out of the app plus Drag and Drop almost anything into the app. Annotable gets Drag and Drop of images and text in and annotated image out Dropbox adds support for the new Files app integration. Notability with Drag and Drop of a large variety of object types PDF Expert gets Drag and Drop of images from the usual places plus drag and drop emails from Spark if that’s your thing.

The horn has sounded. It’s time to get on board or be left at the station holding an iPhone 8. The iPhone X’s missing home button is a high-end feature for 2018 but FaceID, rounded corners, and screen gestures are the future of Apple’s iPhone. If you plan to cling to the iPhone 8 because you hate the new iPhone X design, I totally understand and empathize with you. But, I’m getting on the this train so that I can adjust now.

CARROT Weather for iOS was updated today with a marvelous new feature: Time Travel. I can now look back or forward to either see historic weather or to plan my holiday adventures. Carrot Weather also received a facelift that seems squarely aimed at the new iPhone X, eliminating some of the chrome but adding new controls to access the settings and the new Time Travel feature. I don’t usually like snarky apps because I’m already all the snark I can take.

I feel uncomfortable relying on one technology that has no alternative. This discomfort might come from the fact that I don’t have a lot of time to solve the same problems again. But, maybe there’s more to it. I simply don’t enjoy reinventing the wheel just because the wheel didn’t have a stable revenue model. I felt even more passionate about this when TextTool was withdrawn from the App Store recently.

Equifax has ruined us all. It’s not just that it’s 143 MILLION accounts it’s the nature of what Equifax holds. Because they trade in financial identity data, it’s an obvious target. I think we are approaching a point where credit and identity management needs to fundamentally change because hacking is increasingly more sophisticated and less detectable.

Yesterday a few major Apple news sites reported that the Apple developer system had been hacked. MacRumors: Apple Developer Site Down as Developers Report Possible Hack Daring Fireball: Apple Developer Site Down, Perhaps Due to Accounts Being Hacked by Russians Engadget: Apple Developer Site Hacked. Names and Addresses Possibly Compromised Loop Insight: Apple developer site may have been hacked IDownload: Apple Developer Site Hacked, Some Info May Have Been Exposed

I’ve written about how much I like TextTool, just like David Sparks. Now it looks like it’s going on the pyre along with so many other full-blown iOS apps that dfon’t sell coins. David is looking at Clean Text now. I already own Clean Text and it’s nice enough but not nearly as nice as TextTool 2. I’m also guessing they haven’t made much more than TextTool has so I’m not overly optimistic that it’s here for the long haul.

I like that Macsparky guy so I shared my home screens with him. I also share the coolest T-Shirt that’s ever been screen printed. And I wore it completely un-ironically because we didn’t invent irony until the 90’s.

These people are gone. The voices of reasoning that stood witness to our most terrible decisions as a country are rapidly vanishing. Now we, as a country, seem to have developed selective amnesia about where we come from. The following videos on YouTube are from a series of lectures and discussions with several WWII veterans of moderate fame. I watched every minute attentively and without distraction. It was depressing and it was important at a time when our president thinks the threat of nuclear annihilation is a publicity event.

The best TaskPaper app for iOS was updated several times this summer and continues to improve and squash bugs. For the unfamiliar, Taskmator came out shortly after the death of the official TaskPaper iOS app. It steadily fixed long-standing bugs in the original app but then expanded with features like saved queries. The big update (3.5) in July brought tag coloring, link detection, and a large variety of formatting options. Update 3.